Software Update: Krita 2.8.2

Version 2.8.2 of Krita has been released. Krita is a program for editing and creating digital drawings, and can handle both bitmap and verctor images. The program is part of Calligra Suite and is developed by the KDE team, but also works fine under Gnome or XFCE. There is also a download for Windows and a version for OS X is in development. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Krita 2.8.2 Released

Most of the development work at the moment is going into some big issues for 2.9, like the resources manager, MVC refactoring and HDR color selectors, but there are some nice improvements

• Add support for reading PSD layer groups
• New splash screen with recent files and links to the Krita website
• Save tags with special characters properly (bug 332708)
• Fix removing tags
• Restore native file dialogs on Windows
• Fix a bunch of memory leaks

And expect more bug fixes for 2.8.3!

Download Krita 2.8.1 for Windows from the Krita Studio website, or update on Linux using your package manager.