Krita 2.9.5 Released

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.