Krita 2.9.5 Released

Published 6/10/2015

The Kickstarter was a success, but that didn’t keep us from adding new features and fixing bugs! We made quite a bit of progress including adding pass-through mode to group layers, allowing inherit alpha to be used on all layer types, better PSD support, and adding an on-canvas preview of the color being picked. We even added a new brush preset history docker! You can see the full release notes below.

Krita 2.9.5 also fixes a critical bug in 2.9.4.7. Please upgrade if you experience crashes after restarting Krita.

New Features:

Add a lightness curve to the per-channel filter (bug 324332)

Add a brush preset history docker (bug 322425)

Add an all-files option to the file-open dialog

Add global light to the layer styles functionality (bug 348178)

Allow the user to choose a profile for untagged PNG images (bug 345913, 348014)

Add a built-in performance logger

Added a default set of paintop preset tags (these are not deletable yet!)

Add support for author profiles (default, anonymous, custom) to .kra files

Add buttons and actions for layer styles to the Layer docker

Add ctrl-f shortcut for re-applying the previously used filter (bug 348119)

Warn Intel users that they might have to update their display driver

Implement loading/saving of layer styles to PSD files

Add support for loading/saving patterns used in layer styles

Allow inherit alpha on all types of layers

Add a pass-through switch for group layers (bug 347746, 185448)

Implement saving of group layers to PSD

Add support for WebP (on Linux)

Add a shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-N) for edit/paste into New Image (bug 344750)

Add on-canvas preview of the current color when picking colors (bug 338128)

Add a mypaint-style circle brush outline.

Split the cursor configuration into outline selection and cursor selection

Add loading and saving transparancy masks to PSD groups

Performance improvements:

Remove delay on stroke start when using Krita with a translation

Bug fixes:

Fix view rotation menu by adding rotation actions

Fix crash when duplicating a global selection mask (bug 348461)

Improve the GUI for the advanced color selector settings (wrench icon on Advanced color selector)

Fix resetting the number of favorite presets in the popup (bug 344610)

Set proper activation flags for the Clear action (bug 34838)

Fix several bugs handling multiple documents, views and windows (bug 348341, bug 348162)

Fix the limits for document resolution (bug 348339)

Fix saving multiple layers with layer styles to .kra files (bug 348178)

Fix display of 16 bit/channel RGB images (bug 343765)

Fix the P_Graphite_Pencil_grain.gih brush tip file

Fix updating the projection when undoing removing a layer (bug 345600)

Improve handling of command-line arguments

Fix the autosave recovery dialog on Windows

Fix creating templates from the current image (bug 348021)

Fix layer styles and inherit alpha (bug 347120)

Work around crash in the Oxygen widget style when animations are enabled (bug 347367)

When loading JPEG files saved by Photoshop, also check the metadata for resolution information (bug 347572)

Don’t crash when trying to isolate a transform mask (transform masks cannot be painted on) (bug 347622)

Correctly load Burn, Color Burn blending modes from PSD (bug 333454)

Allow select-opaque on group layers (bug 347500)

Fix clone brush to show the outline even if it’s globally hidden (bug 288194)

Fix saving of gradients to layer styles

Improve the layout of the sliders in the toolbar

Fix loading floating point TIFF files (bug 344334)

Downloads

Linux: Distributions are expected to create packages for their bleeding edge repositories. Ubuntu and derivatives can use Krita Lime, as usual: https://launchpad.net/~dimula73/+archive/ubuntu/krita. OpenSUSE users can the KDE:Extra repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/ or Leinir’s OBS repositories which have Krita built with support for Vc (which makes painting faster): http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/leinir:/calligragemini/openSUSE_13.1/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/leinir:/calligragemini/openSUSE_13.2/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/leinir:/calligragemini/openSUSE_Factory/

Windows and OSX The download page has been updated, so check out the new builds.

