Krita Monthly Update - Edition 28
Welcome to the June 2025 development and community update.
Development Report
Krita 5.2.11 Released
A new bugfix release, Krita 5.2.11, is out. Check out the release notes for 5.2.10 and the release post for 5.2.11 and stay up to date.
Qt6 Port Progress
Dmitry spent time improving framerate of the canvas on Qt6, and implemented support for reading modifier keys while Krita is out of focus on Wayland (MR!2409, MR!2406).
Community Report
June 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results
23 forum members took on the challenge of the "Wrath of the Sun" theme. And the winner is… Summer Battle by @Katamaheen
The July Art Challenge is Open Now
For the July Art Challenge, winner @Katamaheen has chosen "Cool Rides" as the theme. Design a vehicle, optionally add fictional sponsorship logos as suggested by @Mythmaker, and let's race!
Featured Artwork
Best of Krita-Artists - May/June 2025
This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 22 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:
Color sketch practice by @JayWong
Solstice concept art by @MauFlores
Painting Animation Background by @Mahmoud_Jalaliye
Best of Krita-Artists - June/July 2025
Take a look at the nominations for next month.
Ways to Help Krita
Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!
Support Krita financially by making a one-time or monthly monetary donation. Or donate your time and Get Involved with testing, development, translation, documentation, and more. Last but not least, you can spread the word! Share your Krita artworks, resources, and tips with others, and show the world what Krita can do.
Other Notable Changes
Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from June 6, 2025 - July 16, 2025.
Stable branch (5.2.10):
- Animation: Static opacity changes now properly clear animation cache. (bug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
- Animation: Fix incorrect scaling of animated transform mask values. (bug report, CCbug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
- Keyboard Input: Implement option for ignoring of F13-F24 keys on Windows, to avoid problems with certain apps (such as WeeChat) sending unbalanced fake F22 keypresses that confuse the input system. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
- File Formats: WebP: Add options to force convert to sRGB embed ICC profile. (wish bug report) (Change, by Rasyuqa A H)
- File Formats: JPEG-XL: Improve image mode export options, import multi-page images as layers. (Change, by Rasyuqa A H)
Nightly Builds
Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.
Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.12-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