Monthly Report - May 2026
Krita 5.3.2/6.0.2 is here. Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.
Development Report
Krita 5.3.2/6.0.2 Released
Krita 5.3.2/6.0.2 was released, containing various bugfixes and improvements from the nearly two months since 5.3.1/6.0.1.
Fixes Since Last Month
In the Text Properties docker there are now buttons to toggle Bold and Italic next to the Font Style chooser, toggling italics with Ctrl+I works properly the first time, and an issue where some fonts wouldn't allow choosing Regular style was fixed (bug; CCbug; change).
A freeze on opening a high PPI image with a vector layer was fixed, as well as the image progress bar getting stuck (bug; change 1, change 2).
Developments in the Unstable Builds
In Krita Next, the Selection Tools now have a tool option to Move Selected Content by dragging the inside of a selection. (wishbug; change by Ricky Ringler)
Wolthera has made some improvements to the Wide Gamut Color Selector. L*a*b* and YCbCr are converted to LCh (lightness, chroma, hue) instead of directly using their channels, meaning they are now able to map properly to the HSV-based selector layouts (change). Additionally, the static hue edge option is now implemented for when hue is shown in a bar instead of a ring (change).
Community Report
April 2026 Monthly Art Challenge Results
The winner of the "Microadventure" challenge is…
Bumblebee hug by npc
Join This Month's Art Challenge!
For May's theme, last month's winner has chosen "Animals and Patterns"
Featured Artwork
This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the Best of Krita-Artists - March/April 2026:
Recharge by zegalur
One Heartbeat by Rhea_Asma
Resilience Amidst the Chaos by Valquer
Fungal Paradise by RoamingOwl
Siamese Cat by Xaphyrx
Nominate and Vote For Next Month's Featured Artwork!
Participate in next month's nominations and voting to voice your opinion on the Best of Krita-Artists - April/May 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!
Additional Changes
Krita Plus (Stable, 5.3.2/6.0.2):
- Preset Image Sizes: Correct the A1 at 300ppi preset to be 7016x9933px instead of 7008x9933, and the A1 600ppi preset to be 14031x19866px instead of 7008x11811. (change by Ming-Chuan Lin)
- File Formats: PSD: Fix a crash in text parsing. (change by Arimil)
- Text: Fix detection of hard breaks as a word boundary when selecting words. (bug; change by Wolthera van Hövell)
- SVG: Fix symbol libraries with title elements being mis-positioned when drag-and-dropped. (bug; change by Wolthera van Hövell)
- Transform Tool: Fix Warp transform preview being empty until modifying the transform. (bug, bug; change by Ivan Valenzuela)
- Line Tool: Don't move line origin when Alt is held at start of a line, only afterward. If the Activate Line Tool canvas input was assigned to Alt+Left Click, it would start off moving an empty line. (change by Carsten Hartenfels)
- Selection Actions Bar: Add actions to disable or configure the Selection Actions Bar to the Select menu and a right-click context menu on the bar itself. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
- General: Add icons for the Python plugin import, show log, and calligraphy increase/decrease angle/width actions. (change 1, change 2, change 3 by Arkady Flury)
- Android: Fix startup crash on Android 7. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Krita Plus (Stable, 5.3.3/6.0.3-prealpha):
- File Formats: Avoid crash when export ICC profile has no TRC present, but colorants are. (bug; change by Wolthera van Hövell)
Krita Next (Unstable, 5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha):
- File Formats: PNG: Use 72ppi when a PNG file has undefined resolution, instead of ending up with an undefined number around 60million that crashes Krita when attempting to adjust it. (bug; change by Ivan Yossi)
- General: Skip adding empty image updates into the updates queue, to prevent getting stuck if an update area is hugely miscalculated. (CCbug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
- Linux Wayland: Color Management: Add a CIE color diagram to the OS-managed display color management settings. (change by Wolthera van Hövell)
- Windows: Fix file type names displayed in File Explorer. (bug; change by Elena Sagalaeva)
Nightly Builds
These pre-release versions of Krita are built every day.
Note that there are currently no Qt6 builds for Android.
Get the latest bugfixes in Stable Krita Plus (5.3.3/6.0.3 prealpha): Linux Qt6 Qt5 — Windows Qt6 Qt5 — macOS Qt6 Qt5 — Android arm64 Qt5 – Android arm32 Qt5 – Android x86_64 Qt5
Or test out the latest Experimental features in Krita Next (5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux Qt6 Qt5 — Windows Qt6 Qt5 — macOS Qt6 Qt5 — Android arm64 Qt5 – Android arm32 Qt5 – Android x86_64 Qt5