Krita News

[p]Hi all! [/p][p]Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.10! This is a bug fix release. After this release we will focus on releasing Krita 5.3.0, the next feature release, and Krita 6.0.0, the first release based on Qt6. [/p]

[p]\[!NOTE] Note for users of keyboards with more than 12 function keys. Programs like WeChat regularly inject a spurious F22 keypress to get focus. From 5.2.10, Krita will by default ignore any function key higher than F12. If you have a keyboard or other device sending such keypresses, you can enable them by adding the following line to your kritarc file: ... ignoreHighFunctionKeys=false ...[/p]

[p]We'll spare you all the details for now right now, but you can find the full list of changes and fixes over on the official Krita website. [/p][p]And finally, as always, we'd like to thank all of you here on Steam who have supported the Krita project over the years, allowing us to make great and accessible digital painting and animation tools for human artists all over the world.[/p][p]Thank you![/p]

Hi all!

We're back once again to announce the release of Krita 5.2.9, a bugfix release which should greatly improve Krita's stability and functionality in various ways.

As always you can read all about what has changes in our full release notes here on our official website.

Thanks again for supporting Krita, and happy drawing!

Hey all, super quick update!

Some Krita 5.2.5 users were running into a bad crash, and this bug was occurring enough that we decided it would be best to do a hotfix release with the appropriate fix.

As such, we're releasing Krita 5.2.6 as a hotfix patch for 5.2.5's crashing problem, and we're publishing it here on Steam even before the official update so that those of you who get automatic updates are not inadvertently exposed to crashes when working.

That's all for now, thanks again for your support and please feel free to reach out to us (via a bug report on bugs.kde.org, on #krita on @ irc.libera.chat on IRC, on the Krita-Artists community forum, or elsewhere) to let us know if you run into any problems with the latest version of Krita.

Emmet, on behalf of the Krita Development Team

Krita 5.2.5 is here, bringing over 50 bugfixes since 5.2.3 (5.2.4 was a Windows-specific hotfix). Major fixes have been done to audio playback, transform mask calculation and more!

In addition to the core team, special thanks to Maciej Jesionowski, Ralek Kolemios, Freya Lupen, Michael Genda, Rasyuqa A. H., Simon Ra and Sam James for a variety of fixes!

As always, here's a link to the full patch notes over on the official Krita website.

And finally, a major shout out and a big thank you to all of our users here on Steam for your support! This project relies heavily on funding through Steam in order to hire developers to write features, fix bugs, and handle reports and submissions from our wonderful community, and so we really, truly couldn't do it without you!

Thanks.
The Krita Development Team.

Hey Krita community!

I'm glad to announce to you all today that Krita 5.2.3 (or 5.2.4 on Windows) is finally here for all of our Steam users after an unfortunate, but necessary, delay.

Before I get into the details surrounding the brief delay, please check out our official 5.2.3 patch notes over on the Krita website.

As some of you may know, Krita 5.2.3 was meant to come out for all of our users a couple of weeks ago, and for a short amount of time it did, including right here on Steam. However, during the weekend just after release we started to get a deluge of helpful bug reports from community members letting us know that something was wrong as they were experiencing frequent crashes during normal use on Windows. These crashes were partly the result of our new developer "CI"--a system which automates building new versions for us--and have now been fixed.

But, to put the bottom line on top, we don't ever want users facing frequent crashes with a stable release version. We genuinely try to care about your artwork almost as much as you do, and part of that means creating a good and stable tool that won't crash and won't cause you to lose work.

And so the best course of action as I saw it was to roll the entire update back to the previous stable version 5.2.2 for all of our Steam users, while setting 5.2.3 to be active on our beta branch where some of you who weren't running into problems may have continued to use it. As GabeN once said "Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever", right?

Anyway, long story short, these crashes should be fixed and the latest stable Krita release should now really be equally stable across Linux, Mac, and Windows. The version numbers are slightly different (Windows is 5.2.4, while Linux and MacOS are 5.2.3), but I promise you they are effectively the same in terms of features and performance!

Finally, as you might have known from our recent promotions here on Steam and elsewhere, this summer marked the 25th anniversary of the Krita project! Thank you so much to all of you who have enjoyed and supported Krita in various ways over the years.

Krita is, at its core, a community-driven open source project, and none of this would have been even remotely possible had it not been for all of the people who have put something into it, from code, to money, to constructive feedback and interesting new ideas.

Sorry again for the short delay and thank you for all your support!
Emmet, on behalf of the whole Krita Dev Team.