Krita Monthly Update - Edition 23
Welcome to the @Krita-promo team's January 2025 development and community update.
Development Report
Krita 5.2.9 Released
A new bugfix release is out! Check out the Krita 5.2.9 release post and keep up-to-date with the latest version.
Qt6 Port Progress
Krita can now be compiled (MR!2306) and run (Mastodon post) with Qt6 on Linux, a major milestone on the long road of porting from the outdated Qt5 framework. However, it's still a long way to go to get things working correctly, and it will be some time before any pre-alpha builds are available for the far-off Krita 6.0.
Community Report
January 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results
For the "Magical Adventure" theme, 14 members submitted 20 original artworks. And the winner is… Magical Adventure by @Mythmaker
The February Art Challenge is Open Now
For the February Art Challenge, @Mythmaker has chosen "Fabulous Flora" as the theme, with the optional challenge of using natural texture. See the full brief for more details, and bring some color into bloom.
Featured Artwork
Best of Krita-Artists - December 2024/January 2025
Nine images were submitted to the Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread, which was open from December 14th to January 11th. When the poll closed on January 14th, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:
Coven Camille | League Of Legends Fan Art by @Dehaf
Still Evening by @MangooSalade
Flying Pig Squadron by @Yaroslavus_Artem
Oniwakamaru and the giant carp by @GioArtworks
Best of Krita-Artists - January/February 2025
Voting is open until February 15th!
Ways to Help Krita
Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors.
Visit Krita's funding page to see how user donations keep development going, and explore a one-time or monthly contribution. Or check out more ways to Get Involved, from testing, coding, translating, and documentation writing, to just sharing your artwork made with Krita.
The Krita-promo team has put out a call for volunteers, come join us and help keep these monthly updates going.
Notable Changes
Notable changes in Krita's development builds from Jan. 16 - Feb. 12, 2025.
Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
Bug fixes:
- Blending Modes: Rewrite blending modes to properly support float and HDR colorspaces. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
- Brush Engines: Fix Filter Brush engine to work with per- and cross-channel filters. (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
- Filters: Screentone: Change default screentone interpolation type to Linear. (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
- Scripting: Fix Node.paint script functions to use the given node instead of active node. (Change, by Freya Lupen)
Features:
- Text: Load font families as resources and display a preview in the font chooser. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
- Filters: Random Noise: Add grayscale noise option and improve performance. (Change, by Maciej Jesionowski)
- Blending Modes: Add a new HSY blending mode, "Tint", which colorizes and slightly lightens. It's suggested to be used with the Fast Color Overlay filter. (Change 1, Change 2 by Maciej Jesionowski)
Nightly Builds
Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.
Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.10-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64
Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64