Download Paint.NET 2.1 beta 3

Yesterday the third beta release of version 2.1 of Paint.NET came out. This program is intended as a replacement for the MS Paint included with Windows and is being developed in C# by some people from Washington State University in collaboration with Microsoft. The software only works under Windows XP or 2000 and of course the .NET FrameWork will have to be installed. Here are the changes in this release:

Changes in Paint.NET 2.1 beta 3

• Installation via Group Policy now works
• New Bitmap images made via Explorer now open correctly as blank 800×600 images
• Fixed the infamous paintbrush rendering bug
• Lasso selection does not “close” the outline until the user releases the mouse button
• Unchecking the current layer’s visibility deselects it
• Floating forms remember opened/closed state between sessions
• Saving/loading of .PDN images is much faster, especially on dual/multiprocessor systems
• Upgraded file format to accommodate very large images (prerequisite for later 64-bit support)
• PaintDotNet.exe is now down to 544KB (version 2.0 was about 1100KB)
• Many miscellaneous performance and stability fixes

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