Monthly Report - July 2026

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

Development Report

Developments in Krita Plus

Dependencies have been updated in the Qt5 builds (Krita 5.3.x). This updates many libraries Krita depends on for things like file format support. (change)

Luna and Agata have continued improving the Selection Actions Bar. Now it remembers the distance from the selection on restart, and there's a button to pin it to the bottom of the canvas widget instead of next to the selection. (change)

In the Python scripting API, the View class now has signals for 'currentToolChanged', 'currentBrushPresetChanged', 'foregroundColorChanged', and 'backgroundColorChanged'. (change by Moritz Staudinger)

Developments in Krita Next

Wolthera and Dmitry continued working on HDR improvements. CICP values can now be read from and written to ICC profiles, and a "Krita Rec. 2100 Perceptual Quantizer (80cd/m²)" profile has been added (change). PQ reference white can now be read from ICC profile (change).

The Line Tool nows show the angle alongside the length in the floating message popup. (change by Moritz Staudinger)

Future Developments

Testing Needed: Android Animation Export

Last month's new feature of rendering timelapses using Android's built-in MediaEncoder is now being brought to animation export. But it needs testing before it can be merged to the main builds, so so check out the animation export on Android forum topic for test packages if you want to help!

Community Report

June 2026 Monthly Art Challenge Results

The winner of the "Something Unexpected" challenge is…

Join This Month's Art Challenge!

For July's theme, last month's winner passed the choice of topic to runner-up Paint4Thought, who has chosen "An Imaginary Friend". The optional challenge is to place the character(s) in a well-developed environment that contributes to telling the story. Show us what lurks in the depths of your imagination!

Featured Artwork

This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the Best of Krita-Artists - May/June 2026:

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 - June/July 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, 5.3.3/6.0.3-prealpha):

• Text: Fix various font loading issues. Use default vertical caret in non-variable fonts. Fix Regular font style not showing and defaulting to Italic. Fix duplicate fonts causing fonts not to load. (bug 1, bug 2, bug 3; change by Wolthera van Hövell)
• Animation Timeline: Switching between frames should always complete, rather than sometimes showing the new frame while leaving the old frame active. (bug; change by Elena Sagalaeva)
• Edit Shapes Tool: After splitting a path, allow moving the new point immediately instead of needing to move the cursor to change state. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
• Toolbars: Add icons for 'Quick Group', 'Quick Clipping Group', and 'Quick Ungroup' actions. (change by Arkady Flury)
• Qt6: Transform Tool: Fix perspective transform getting stuck waiting to complete when the transform became concave. (bug; change by Luna Lovecraft)
• Qt6: Windows: Fix the canvas widget being transparent and letting other open documents show through. (bug; change 1, change 2 by Dmitry Kazakov)

Krita Next (Unstable, 5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha):

• Toolbars: Add widgets for the 'Choose Foreground Color', 'Choose Background Color', 'Swap Foreground and Background Colors', and 'Reset Foreground and Background Colors' actions. (change by Arkady Flury)
• General: Allow choosing any installed application style instead of only Fusion, macOS (on macOS), Haiku (on Haiku), and Breeze (on Linux distribution builds). This unrestricts using Windows style (not just on Windows), windowsvista/windows11 (on Windows), and styles available on Linux distro builds. (change by Halla Rempt)

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