Krita 4.2.7 Released & Youtube & Linux Update
Hey! Today we've released another set of bugfixes for Krita. I could count them all but it's a rainy Thursday here in Portland so I'll just stick with dozens. Some big, some small, but all of them adding up to a Krita that's simply better.
Click here to read the full patch notes for Krita 4.2.7!
Also, did you know that Krita has a Youtube channel? The channel's content is being made by the great Ramon Miranda, with an emphasis on teaching us how to use Krita effectively to do, let's face it, what we all want to do the most, improve our art! He's got tips, tricks and fundamentals, and he's also been known to share some of his truly excellent custom brushes from time to time. It's pretty great, so please, check it out!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Finally, I know that some of our new Linux users are having issues getting Krita to run at all, I'm looking into the problem. We've tested on a few distros (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Linux Mint 19.1, Manjaro) without issue, but some users are definitely having problems on other/older distros. I've also reached out to Steam to see if they can help figure out what's going wrong here.
We have a Steam Community discussion here, where I'll be updating as I get more information. If you're affected by this issue, please subscribe to this thread.
There is a workaround: if you navigate to the Krita AppImage executable in your steamapps/krita/ directory you'll find that double clicking on it probably works fine. You can still use Steam to pull updates automatically, of course, and you may even be able to add that Krita appimage as an "external" application to launch through Steam. It's hacky and weird, I know, but it's an option.
Anyway I don't expect this latest bugfix version to fix this issue, as it likely has to do with runtime dependencies and not Krita's code. So I don't have any good news on this front just yet, sadly, and I'm sorry that this launch isn't as smooth as we would have all liked it to be.
Linux users, we care about this platform, we want give you guys a good experience too, and I want to reaffirm how much we value your support so far. Please bear with me as we figure out how to solve this issue.
Click here to read the full patch notes for Krita 4.2.7!
Also, did you know that Krita has a Youtube channel? The channel's content is being made by the great Ramon Miranda, with an emphasis on teaching us how to use Krita effectively to do, let's face it, what we all want to do the most, improve our art! He's got tips, tricks and fundamentals, and he's also been known to share some of his truly excellent custom brushes from time to time. It's pretty great, so please, check it out!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Finally, I know that some of our new Linux users are having issues getting Krita to run at all, I'm looking into the problem. We've tested on a few distros (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Linux Mint 19.1, Manjaro) without issue, but some users are definitely having problems on other/older distros. I've also reached out to Steam to see if they can help figure out what's going wrong here.
We have a Steam Community discussion here, where I'll be updating as I get more information. If you're affected by this issue, please subscribe to this thread.
There is a workaround: if you navigate to the Krita AppImage executable in your steamapps/krita/ directory you'll find that double clicking on it probably works fine. You can still use Steam to pull updates automatically, of course, and you may even be able to add that Krita appimage as an "external" application to launch through Steam. It's hacky and weird, I know, but it's an option.
Anyway I don't expect this latest bugfix version to fix this issue, as it likely has to do with runtime dependencies and not Krita's code. So I don't have any good news on this front just yet, sadly, and I'm sorry that this launch isn't as smooth as we would have all liked it to be.
Linux users, we care about this platform, we want give you guys a good experience too, and I want to reaffirm how much we value your support so far. Please bear with me as we figure out how to solve this issue.