I remember working with people who, hearing the name of this software, made them smile wryly. Of course, it was being used for image editing, and although it can also be used for this purpose, its strength is more that of being a drawing tool. It is not in vain that it is said that it is a program created by and for cartoonists. But strengths or weaknesses aside, today's news is that it has launched Krita 5.1.1.
As explained in the note of its release, is a strictly corrective one. Total 18 bugs have been fixed, two of them serious, according to its developers. One was a slowdown on startup that some users experienced, and the other was a crash that occurred when copying a vector layer.
All other bugs fixed in Krita 5.1.1
- Native macOS touchpad gestures should now work correctly.
- On Android, the app size no longer increases because swap files are not deleted.
- On Android, fixed a possible crash when launching the app.
- Fixed various issues with the MyPaint brush engine.
- MyPaint draft now uses the proper brush settings, and the unusable blend mode selector is now disabled if a MyPaint brush has been selected.
- For animation, "numbering start at" when exporting an image sequence has been fixed.
- Krita no longer crashes if the user has deleted the kritadefault.profile canvas entry profile from both the install and run folders.
- When reading ACO palettes, the color swatch name is now read and set to the swatch.
- Fixed a crash when selecting a layer in the layers box.
- Improved slider steps for fade color selection threshold, ratio, and the like.
- When moving paintable nodes, the canvas updates only once.
- Provides the fix for the OpenGL canvas to display black rectangles if more than one wizard is visible on all platforms.
- Improves the performance of working with ZIP files, such as .kra and .ora files.
- Fixed opening single layer PSD files.
- The welcome widget update link is now clickable.
- JPEG-XL: Fixed linear HDR export and float 16 import.
Now available
Krita 5.1.1, which succeeds the v5.1 from 4 weeks ago, It is now available from the official website of the project. From there, what Linux users can download is the AppImage. The flatpak and snap packages are not yet up to date.