Software Update: Krita 4.4.1

Version 4.4.1 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. In version 4.4.1 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Krita 4.4.1 Released

Despite an extra-long beta period during which we got awesome feedback from our community, 4.4.0 was released with several regressions, that is, bugs that weren’t present in 4.3.0. So today we’re releasing Krita 4.4.1 with the following fixes:

• Android and Chrome OS:
  • Use SDK version 29, which means Krita doesn’t need permissions to run anymore and can access external files more easily. Krita is also updated to use NDK 20 or better
  • Fix the color picker (BUG:423254†
  • Fix problems with events reaching the canvas if a popup message was shown
  • Use the device’s locale, so the translations can be used (BUG:427692†
  • Fix copy and paste on Android (BUG:423199†
• Fix a crash when loading a file with a pattern fill layer (BUG:427866†
• Fix loading masks with vector selections (BUG:428332†
• Fix a crash in the text tool when opening the editor by double-clicking the text (BUG:427858†
• Fix a crash when using the move tool on a pixel selection (BUG:428260†