First Release Candidate of Krita 5.1.0 is out

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Today we're releasing the first release candidate for Krita 5.1! For the full list, check out the work-in-progress full release notes! Or check out Wojtek Trybus' release video:

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Warning: beta 1 had a bug where brush presets were saved incorrectly, leading to crashes when trying to load those presets in other versions of Krita. Here is a Python script that can fix those presets.

Since the second beta, the following bugs have been fixed:

Several issues with renaming existing and system tags for resources have resolved. BUG:453831
Python: make it possible to get all pattern resources.
Fix a slowdown when attaching a dynamic sensor to the ration option in the brush preset editor. BUG:456668
Fix scaling of the colorspace selector when display scaling. BUG:456929
Fix a memory leak in the storyboard docker. BUG:456998
Fix a memory leak in the tile engine. BUG:456998
Make the Alpha mode the default generator for the Halftone filter.
Improve handling of switching between exporting just the frames or just the video for an animation. BUG:443105
Clean up files when exporting an animation to frames is canceled. BUG:443105
Fix the Elliptic are to Bezier curve function in SVG so certain files can be loaded without Krita running out of memory. BUG:456922, BUG:439145
Fix issues handling gradient fills for vector objects. BUG:456807
Make sure the mimetype selector Ok and Cancel buttons can be translated. BUG:448343
Fix a crash when cloning a document through the scripting API. BUG:457080
Reset the file path when creating a copy of an existing image. BUG:457081
Fix a crash when copy-pasting a group with vector layers. BUG:457154
Fix saving a image with a text object to PSD. BUG:455988
Fix a crash when undoing creating a text shape. BUG:457125
Fix a crash when loading a thumbnail for a PSD file with embedded resources. BUG:457123
Improve the performance of creating a thumbnail from a PSD file for the recent files list. BUG:456907
Fix loading PSD files with embedded patterns.
Fix undeleting tags that have been removed. BUG:440337
Make it possible to open some invalid PSD files. BUG:444844
Fix positioning of layers returned from the G'Mic plugin. BUG:456950
Fix loading JPEG-XL images created by Substance Designer. BUG:456738
Fix showing the alpha channel in the color picker tool options widget.
Fix a crash when there is a corrupt in image on the clipboard. BUG:456778
Fix the positioning when pasting multiple reference images. BUG:456382
Fix Krita hanging when double-clicking too fast with the contiguous selection tool. BUG:450577
Fix updating the current palette when selecting a color with the color picker. BUG:455203
Improve the calculation of the brush speed sensor. BUG:453401

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.

Note that we are not making 32 bits Windows builds anymore.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.1.0-RC1-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.1.0-RC1.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

64 bits Linux: krita-5.1.0-RC1-x86_64.appimage

The separate gmic-qt appimage is no longer needed.

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

macOS

Note: if you use macOS Sierra or High Sierra, please check this video to learn how to enable starting developer-signed binaries, instead of just Apple Store binaries.

macOS disk image: krita-5.1.0-RC1.dmg

Android

Due to changes in Google's SDK requirements, we could not make 5.1.0-RC1 APK's this time. They will return in the final release.