Krita Monthly Update - Edition 29
Welcome to the July 2025 development and community update.
Development Report
Text Tool Rework Progress
Another important piece of the Text Tool update has made it into the unstable nightly builds: Style Presets.
For making text bold, or a certain font at a certain size, or a huge list of settings tweaked just right, you can easily apply your favorite properties without having to remember them all. (MR!2403)
The QML Text Properties docker now uses the same custom slider-spinbox widgets as the rest of Krita, thanks to Wolthera and Deif Lou. (MR!2428)
Community Report
July 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results
16 forum members took on the challenge of the "Cool Rides" theme. And the winner is… Cool Rides by @edgarej
The August Art Challenge is Open Now
In the spirit of August's monthly challenge being unofficially dedicated to Krita's cybersquirrel mascot, winner @edgarej has chosen "Kiki's Summer Activities" as the theme. The optional challenge as chosen by runners-up @npc and @Mythmaker is to give Kiki a pet companion. What does Kiki like to do to beat the heat? You decide!
Featured Artwork
Best of Krita-Artists - June/July 2025
This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 13 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, the moderators broke a five-way tie for second place, and these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:
On the Road Again by @Yaroslavus_Artem
Lucy CyberPunk Edgerunner Fanart - P.2025058 by @ynr_nohara
Summer Retreat by @Gurkirat_Singh
Mountain Sunset - Master Study Bohdan Saliy with Memileo Impasto Brushes by @TaleOfACat
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 July 16, 2025 - August 18, 2025.
Stable branch (5.2.12-prealpha):
- Palette Docker: Fix crash with add swatch dialog. (bug report) (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
- Fill Tools: Add option to Include Current Layer in color labels reference mode. (Change, by runch r.)
- Symbol Libraries Docker: Fix symbol thumbnails being pixelated, and add a thumbnail-only view mode. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
- Freehand Path Tool: Remember Tool Options. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
- Animation: Switch to active keyframe when inserting/removing hold frames. (CCbug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
- Animation: Fix rendering GIFs that don't have the .gif file suffix. (bug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
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