Monthly Report - January 2026

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During the December holidays, the developers found time for a few bugfixes.

Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.

Development Report

Luna fixed two crashes in the Stable branch; when undoing the Transform Tool during another transformation (bug; change), and when an embedded color profile is invalid. (bug; change).

Dmitry fixed loading TIFF files with JPEG compression (change).

In the Unstable branch, a handful more bugfixes were made:

Wolthera fixed parsing white-space-only text elements (bug; change), and issues setting text color (bug; change).

Carsten worked around multitouch gestures being cancelled on Xiaomi Pad devices (bug; change), and combined simultaneous canvas rotation and zoom messages (change).

Community Report

December 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

The winner of the "Chiaroscuro" challenge is…

steve.improvthis's two entries.

Ginger's Gift by steve.improvthis

Ginger's Gift by steve.improvthis

Join This Month's Art Challenge!

For January's theme, last month's winner has chosen "Vintage Travel Poster", with the optional challenge of using the Assistant Tool. What kind of fantastic destination could you illustrate an advertisement for? Show others new horizons in the new year!

This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the Best of Krita-Artists Nominations - November/December 2025:

Speedpaint 10. Apple by Tromplier

Speedpaint 10. Apple by Tromplier

Barn at Sunset by Brian_Bigelow

Barn at Sunset by Brian_Bigelow

"Save Me" Freddie Mercury and Brian May Artwork by deerblue

Charcoal head study by sognidigitali

Charcoal head study by sognidigitali

Realistic pear oil painting by Younel0

Realistic pear oil painting by Younel0

Participate in next month's nominations and voting to voice your opinion on the Best of Krita-Artists - December 2025/January 2026.

Krita is Free - But You Can Contribute!

Krita is free to use and modify, but it can only exist with the contributions of the community. A small sponsored team alongside volunteer programmers, artists, writers, testers, translators, and more from across the world keep development going.

If this software has value to you, consider donating to the Krita Development Fund. Or Get Involved and put your skills to use making Krita and its community better!

Nightly Builds

These pre-release versions of Krita are built every day.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable Krita Plus (5.2.15-prealpha): Linux — Windows — macOS (unsigned) — Android arm64 – Android arm32 – 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 — Android arm64 – Android arm32 – Android x86_64