Software Update: Krita 4.0.1

Version 4.0.1 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 was previously part of Calligra Suite and is being developed by the KDE team, but also works fine under Gnome or XFCE. In addition, there are downloads for Windows and macOS. The changelog for this release can be found below.

Windows

• Patch QSaveFile so working on images stored in synchronized folders (dropbox, google drive) is safe

Shortcuts

• Fix duplicate shortcut on Photoshop scheme
• Alphabetize shortcut to make the diffs easier to read when doing changes

ONION

• Make the triangles larger on the categorized list view so they are more visible
• Disable the macro recorder and playback plugin
• Remove the docker titlebar lock and collapse buttons. BUG:385238 BUG:392235
• Set the pixel grid to show up at 2400% zoom by default. BUG:392161
• Improve the layout of the palette docker
• Disable drag and drop in the palette view: moving swatches around did not actually change the palette. BUG:392349
• Fix selecting the last used template in the new document dialog when using appimages. BUG:391973
• Fix canvas lockup when using Guides at the top of the image. BUG:391098
• Do not reset redo history when changing layer’s visibility. BUG:390581
• Fix shifting the pan position after using the popup widget rotation circle. BUG:391921
• Fix height map to normal map in wraparound mode. BUG:392191

text

• Make it possible to edit the font size in the svg text tool. BUG:392714
• Let Text Shape have empty lines. BUG:392471
• Fix updates or undo/redo actions. BUG:392257
• Implement “Convert text into path” function. BUG:391294
• Fix a crash in SvgTextTool when deleting hovered/selected shape. BUG:392128
• Make the text editor window application modal. BUG:392248
• Fix alignment of RTL text. BUG:392065 BUG:392064
• Fix painting parts of text outside the bounding box on the canvas. BUG:392068
• Fix rendering of the text with relative offsets. BUG:391160
• Fix crash when transforming text with Transform Tool twice. BUG:392127

animation

• Fix handling of keyframes when saving. BUG:392233 BUG:392559
• Keep show in timeline and onion skin options when merging layers. BUG:377358
• Keep keyframe color labels when merging layers. BUG:388913
• Fix exporting out audio with video formats MKV and OGV.

File handling

• Do not load/save layer channel flags anymore (channel flags were removed from the UI in Krita 2.9). BUG:392504
• Fix saving of Transform Mask into rendered formats. BUG:392229
• Fix reporting errors when loading fails. BUG:392413
• Fix a memory leak when loading file layers
• Fix loading a krita file with a loop in the clone layers setup. BUG:384587
• Fix showing a wait cursor after loading a PNG image. BUG:392249
• Make bundle loading feedback a bit clearer regarding the bundle.

vector bugs

• Fix crash when creating a vector selection. BUG:391292
• Fix crash when doing right-click on the gradient fill stop opacity input box of a vector BUG:392726
• Fix setting the aspect ratio of vector shapes. BUG:391911
• Fix a crash if a certain shape is not valid when writing SVG. BUG:392240
• Fix hidden stroke and fill widgets not to track current shape selectionBUG:391990

Painting and brush engines

• Fix crash when creating a new spray preset. BUG:392869
• Fix rounding of the pressure curve
• Fix painting with colorsmudge brushes on transparency masks. BUG:391268
• Fix uninitialized distance info for KisHairyPaintOp BUG:391940
• Fix rounding of intermediate pressure values
• Fix the colorsmudge brush when painting in wraparound mode. BUG:392312

Layers and masks

• Fix flattening of group layers with Inherit Alpha property set. BUG:390095
• Fix a crash when using a transformation mask on a file layer. BUG:391270
• Improve performance of the transformation mask