Krita, a popular open-source, cross-platform digital painting app for artists, from beginners to professionals, has just released version 5.2.9. This latest update primarily focuses on bug fixes, improved stability, and refined features.
Below are just a few of the key enhancements you can look forward to:
- Clone-Layer Fixes and Crash Prevention: Clone layers have been fine-tuned to handle copy-pasting nodes across documents without causing infinite loops. Additionally, Krita is now less prone to crashes when merging recently created layers or working under certain complex workflows.
- Improved Opacity Handling: The refined opacity controls will delight artists using EXR formats or experimenting with extremely low alpha values. This ensures that color space profiles stay intact while saving or exporting projects.
- Newly Added Shortcuts and Tweaks: Shortcuts have been introduced for Bezier curves and freehand paths for those relying on precise drawing paths. Also, various selection-related fixes now bring raster and vector selections closer in behavior.
- Performance Gains and UI Refinements: Several improvements—from the text tool’s uninterrupted functionality to more intuitive snapping options—continue to make Krita’s interface friendlier. Notably, the color history in the popup palette now displays colors by last-used sorting.
In addition to these highlights, users should also notice improvements to mesh gradients, calligraphy tools, and recorder tool interactions. The G’Mic plugin has likewise been upgraded to version 3.5, removing the need for the separate gmic-qt AppImage on Linux.
Visit the release announcement for detailed information about all the novelties in Krita 5.2.9. The app is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android tablets. Please note that due to interface limitations, it is not available for Android phones.
The source tarballs are also available for those who prefer compiling Krita themselves.
