Krita Monthly Update - Edition 31
Welcome to the September 2025 development and community update.
Community Report
September 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results
17 forum members took on the challenge of the "A Breezy Day" theme. And the winner is… The Autumn Walk by @Mariusz_Galaj
The October Art Challenge is Open Now
For this month's theme, winner @Mariusz_Galaj has chosen "The Burden of Power".
With great power comes great responsibility, and your task is to depict an object to be worn by those with authority to physically or mentally remind them of that burden. Read the topic for further explanation, and find out how much you're power willing to take on.
Featured Artwork
Best of Krita-Artists - August/September 2025
This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 19 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:
The Resilence of Memory by @Suzuka

Santa Elena Canyon by @Elixiah

Secretary bird study by @allenarak


Long between Posts by @BHiggins

Best of Krita-Artists - September/October 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 September 24, 2025 - October 20, 2025.
Stable branch (5.2.14-prealpha):
- Touch Input: Improve the behavior of long-presses. Sliders now enter edit mode when double-clicking, not long-pressing (bug 471473). Long-press now summons context menus instead of making a right-click (bug 506042, bug 510229), which can be toggled in settings under General->Miscellaneous. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Touch Input: Make the Bezier Curve Tool's autosmoothing and double-clicking work with touch drawing. (bug report) (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Android: Fix showing the Android supporter badge on the welcome page if previously purchased. Purchasing is still disabled pending replacement. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Android: Fix a crash when failing to save a document. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
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