Krita 4.2.9 Released

Published 3/26/2020

Today we’re finally releasing Krita 4.2.9! It’s been one of the most complicated releases we’ve ever attempted. When we updated the version of Python that’s embedded in Krita, scripting broke on Windows. When Apple updated its notarization protocol, building broke on macOS. And then we updated to a newer version of some of the libraries we build Krita on, and that broke all kinds of things. And then we needed to figure out a new way of packaging Krita for the Windows Store, which unfortunately broke our nice icons…

Krita 4.2.9 however is really stable after all the testing it had during the beta period. And there are even some new features to enjoy!

Dmitry improved the brush outline: it no longer flickers when you hover over the canvas:

https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-02-11_comparing-outline.mp4

He also added “Airbrush” and “Airbrush Rate” to the Color Smudge brush, and a new Ratio setting, also for the Color Smudge brush, which allows making the shape of the brush flatter using the different sensors. Ramón Miranda has even made a video demonstrating these features:

New contributor Saurabh Kumar added a “Split Layer into Selection Mask” feature:

As for the bugfixes… There are a lot of them, and this list isn’t even completely complete!

Download

Windows

If you’re using the portable zip files, just open the zip file in Explorer and drag the folder somewhere convenient, then double-click on the krita icon in the folder. This will not impact an installed version of Krita, though it will share your settings and custom resources with your regular installed version of Krita. For reporting crashes, also get the debug symbols folder.

Linux

64 bits Linux: krita-4.2.9-x86_64.appimage

64 bits Linux G’Mic-Qt plugin appimage

(If, for some reason, Firefox thinks it needs to load this as text: to download, right-click on the link.)

OSX

OSX disk image: krita-4.2.9.dmg

Note: the gmic-qt is not available on OSX.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads:

Key

The Linux appimage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key over https here: 0x58b9596c722ea3bd.asc. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

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