Krita 5.3.1 Released!

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Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.1 and 6.0.1.

This release mainly fixes an issue for Windows users: some applications, like Microsoft Windows Powertoys' Fancy Zones or the Google Drive plugin cause problems for Krita. These applications query all running applications for their accessibility abilities.

Until Qt6, Qt's QML module, which is used extensively in the new text tool, would then recursively query all active screen objects, like comboboxes or buttons, and up and down the entire class hierarchy for accessibility features. This slowed down Krita to the point where even menus would be slow to open.

It was extremely tricky to figure this out, since none of the Krita developers actually use these external applications... But it should be fixed now!

There are more fixes in this release:

The mutator shortcut is now Ctrl-alt-shift-m instead of Z in accordance with the plugin's manual.
On Android, the canvas will not pan up when you use the text tool
On Android, the OnePlus stylus middle click button works
Animation Key Frame copy pasting now works in Krita 6
On Wayland, drag and drop is fixed (Wayland clears the clipboard when a new window is opened, so now we have to cache the data.)
The canvas resize dialog now works correctly when changing units (bug: 517857)
The Incremental Backup/Version saving function now works in Krita 6.
On Android, text fields should no longer block stylus movements, pressing spacebar should work as a shortcut and the view should no longer turn blue when pressing a keyboard key. These issues only occurred on some devices.

Check out the release notes for a full overview of all the new features in Krita 5.3 and 6.0.

[!WARNING] One again, we consider Krita 5.3.1 suitable for productive work; 6.0.1 is, because of the many changes from Qt5 to Qt6 more experimental.

5.3.1 Download

Windows

If you're using the portable zip files, just open the zip file in Explorer and drag the folder somewhere convenient, then double-click on the Krita icon in the folder. This will not impact an installed version of Krita, though it will share your settings and custom resources with your regular installed version of Krita. For reporting crashes, also get the debug symbols folder.

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.3.1-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.3.1.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.1-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.3.1-signed.dmg

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; and is meant to run on chromebooks and tablets only.

Source code

For source archives, please download one of the 6.0.1 archives and build with Qt5.

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.3.1/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

6.0.1 Download