Krita Monthly Update - Edition 30
Welcome to the August 2025 development and community update.
Development Report
5.2.13 Released
A new bugfix release, Krita 5.2.13, is out. (5.2.12 was an Android-only release skipped in favor of making a release on all platforms.)
It mainly fixes a crash on Android when Krita is in the background, and makes the Transform Tool respond correctly to touch input, both thanks to our new Android maintainer Carsten Hartenfels.
But there are some important fixes for all platforms, so check out the release notes and make sure to update!
Text Tool Rework Progress
The UI for text properties continues to get polished. There's a new in-depth post about text language selection and style preset work, and Wolthera has put out a call for testing and feedback about the way paragraph and character property setting is handled.
Wayland Port Progress
After months of work, Dmitry has implemented initial color management support on Wayland. This is necessary for artists whose work requires color accuracy such as for printing to be able to view their colors accurately on modern Linux compositors.
Google Summer of Code
Krita's Google Summer of Code student for this year, Ross Rosales, successfully completed a project creating a Selection Actions Bar. This feature, which can be toggled in settings under General->Tools, give quick access to various ways to interact with a selection: Select All, Invert Selection, Deselect All, Fill Selection with Color, Clear Selection, Copy Selection to New Layer, Crop to Selection.
Community Report
August 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results
13 forum members took on the challenge of the "Kiki's Summer Activities" theme. And the winner is… Kiki's Beach Fun by @Lynx3d
The September Art Challenge is Open Now
For this month's theme, winner @Lynx3d has chosen "A Breezy Day". The optional challenge is to depict a fleeting moment that would be gone in seconds. Brave the winds and don't get blown away!
Featured Artwork
Best of Krita-Artists - July/August 2025
This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 9 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:
Rest during the journey by @JayWong
Cara Dune (The Mandalorian - Ch 16) by @FireShepherd
Best of Krita-Artists - August/September 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 August 16, 2025 - September 24, 2025.
Stable branch (5.2.13):
- Android: Fix a crash when Krita is in the background. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Touch Input: Properly handle taps when touch painting. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Canvas Input: By default, auto-disable Touch Painting if stylus input is used in a session, to avoid conflicting with touch gestures. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Brush Engines: Fix the Speed input being incorrect at the start of a touch drawing brushstroke. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Brush Engines: Fix brush preview outline centering to account for transparent edges. (bug report) (Change, by Jeff Witthuhn)
- File Formats: TGA: Fix a crash when importing bad TGA files. (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
Stable branch (5.2.14-prealpha):
- Android: Fix an issue where the canvas wouldn't show when loading a document until reloading the window. (bug report) (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
- General: Add two empty custom toolbars for users to configure, bringing the total number of toolbars to five. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
- Text Tool: Add buttons to switch between Preformatted, Inline-wrapped, and Prepositioned text wrapping types. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
- Assistant Tool: Don't place duplicated control widgets directly on top of each other, and bring them forward when clicked on. (Change, by Aries Moczar)
- Transform Tool: Add Keep Aspect Ratio action to Transform Tool right-click context menu. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
- Zoom Tool: Fix regression in zoom target position. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Brush Engines: Switch the default brush outline color from green to magenta. (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
- Color Themes: Make some tweaks and updates to the default color themes. Update the Krita Blender theme to match Blender 4 (instead of 2.5). (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
- Python Plugins: Batch Export: Allow specifying an export color profile. (Change, by Kitlith)
Nightly Builds
Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.
Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.14-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