Krita 5.1 Beta 2

Previous Post | Friday, 15 July 2022 | Reading time: 5 minutes | Next Post

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

Like what we are doing? Help support us

Krita is a free and open source project. Please consider supporting the project with donations or by buying training videos or the artbook! With your support, we can keep the core team working on Krita full-time.

Donate Buy something

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 first beta, the following bugs have been fixed:

Fix changing workspaces selecting different palettes. BUG:446634
Fix loading templates if the resource folder is in a non standard location. BUG:452706
Fix occasional crash selecting a preset when a tag is removed. BUG:454052
Clear the name of a workspace after saving it. BUG:446652
Fix cycling updates in the color smudge brush configuration page. BUG:455244
Make it possible to save and load resources with dots in the name to bundles. BUG:453702
Make it possible to use the G'Mic curves filter more than once. BUG:455891
Fix an assert when trying to export a palette. BUG:454949
Fix crash when saving an image with text to PSD. BUG:455988
Fix infinite recursions in the layer color label selector. BUG:456201
Set the size of the selection's marching ants based on the screen's dpi. BUG:456364
Reduce idle cpu usage when a selection is active in an image that is not currently shown. BUG:432284
Fix crash when closing the settings dialog window under some circumstances. BUG:445329
Fix issues with Grid settings becoming invalid when cropping. BUG:447588
Fix random artefacts in the image projection when undoing brush strokes. BUG:453243
Increase the maximum pattern scaling to 10000%.
Fix an assert when a grayscale file layer fails to load the image. BUG:456201
Fix layer order when using multiple layer inputs for G'Mic filters. BUG:456463
Fix drag and drop of shape layers when the source and destination images have a different resolution. BUG:456450
Fix a crash when trying to remove multiple layers at once.
Fix a crash when dragging and dropping a vector layer from one image to another. BUG:456450
Fix an assert in on document saving that caused freezes on autosaving. BUG:456404
Make the enclose and fill tool take into account image limits. BUG:456299
Fix rotating rectangles.
Fix dropping reference images not working at all. BUG:456382
Improve the performance of the brush outline cursor. BUG:456080
Fix the layer name for layers added through drag and drop. BUG:455671
Fix positioning of pasted images. BUG:453247
Fix fast mode when blending mode, opacity or eraser is used in the fill tool.
Fix a crash when trying to filter an active selection. BUG:455844
Improve undo of opacity animation keyframe changes. BUG:454547
Fix a crash when setting an opacity keyframe on a copied layer. BUG:454547
Fix an assert when moving an animated transform mask
Fix brush outlines of predefined brushes. BUG:455912
Update the meshgradient properly if the stop color is changed.
Fix editing the stops of a vector shape gradient. BUG:455794, BUG:447464, BUG:449606
Fix issues when exporting an animation to JPEG-XL. BUG:455597, BUG:455598
Support YCbCr and JPEG compression in TIFF files.
Make it possible to load krita files with 1ppi resolution. BUG:444291
Improve the refresh rate of the overview docker. BUG:443674
Android: use the correct full-screen icon in the statusbar. BUG:456065
Python: set the image modified when changing an annotation. BUG:441704
Fix copy/pasting of reference images. BUG:454515
Fix crash on undo after importing an assistant set. BUG:455584
Fix slowdowns when using OpenColorIO.
Fix visibility for Vanishing Point Assistant and Ellipse Assistant.
Python: make Node::setColorSpace return false if the specified profile couln't be retrieved. BUG:454812
Fix a crash after assigning "one finger drag" to zoom and rotate canvas. BUG:455241
Fix a crash when opening G'Mic when the image is busy.
Optimzie all svg icons.

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-beta2-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.1.0-beta2.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

64 bits Linux: krita-5.1.0-beta2-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-beta2.dmg

Android

The Android releases are made from the release tarball, so there are translations. We consider Krita on ChromeOS and Android still beta.