Software Update: Krita 2.9.11

Version 2.9.11 of Krita has been released. Krita is a program for editing and creating digital drawings, and can handle both bitmap and vector graphics. The program is part of Calligra Suite and is developed by the KDE team, but also works fine under Gnome or XFCE. In addition, there are downloads for Windows and OS X. Meanwhile, version 3.0 is already being worked on and at the same time as version 2.9.11, the second alpha release of version 3.0 has also appeared. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Krita 2.9.11

Today, we’re releasing the eleventh bugfix release for Krita 2.9 and the second development preview release of Krita 3.0! We are not planning more bug fix releases for 2.9, though it is possible that we’ll collect enough fixes to warrant one release more, because there are some problems with Windows 10 that we might be able to work around. So, please check closely if you use Krita on Windows 10:

• You get a black screen: please go to settings/configure krita/display and disable opengl. It turns out that recent Windows updates install new Intel GPU drivers that do not implement all the functionality Krita need.
• Pressure sensitivity stops working: a recent update of Windows 10 breaks pressure sensitivity for some people. Please check whether reinstalling the tablet drivers fixes the issue. If not, please close Krita, navigate to your user’s AppData\Roaming folder and rename the krita folder to krita_old. If Krita now shows pressure sensitivity again, please zip up your krita_old folder and send to [email protected].

2.9.11 Changelog

• Fix a memory leak when images are copied to the clipboard
• Ask the user to wait or break off a long-running operation before saving a document
• Update to G’Mic 1.6.9 pre
• Fix rendering or layer styles
• Fix a possible issue when loading files with clone layers
• Don’t crash if there are monitors with negative numbers
• Make sure the crop tool always uses the correct image size
• Fix a crash on closing images while a long-running operation is still working
• Link to the right JPEG library
• Fix the application icon
• Fix switching colors with X after using V to temporarily enable the line tool
• Fix the unreadable close button on the splash screen when using a light theme
• Fix the Pencil 2B preset
• Fix the 16f grayscale colorspace to use the right channel positions
• Add shortcuts to lower/raise the current layer