Software Update: Paint.NET 4.0.9

Version 4.0.9 of Paint.NET has been released. As the name suggests, this program needs the .Net framework to do its job. It started as a study assignment for Washington State University to replace the Paint included with Windows, but now contains a lot of functionality that we also see in more extensive, commercial packages. Since version 4.0, the program performs a lot faster, especially on multicore processors, but has at least Windows 7 as a system requirement. Version 4.0.9 has been released to fix some bugs discovered in versions 4.0.7 and 4.0.8 released last week.

Paint.NET 4.0.9 is now available.

There were still a few nasty bugs that were found in 4.0.8, so here’s an update that squashes them. The selection and Line/Curve tools should now be trouble-free for everyone!

Here are the fixes:

• Selection tools would sometimes crash
• Line/Curve tool would draw nothing if the Shapes tool was configured for “Draw Filled Shape”
• Thumbnails for .PDN files were not working on some systems
• The “Finish” button in the toolbar would not update its enable/disable state when switching between images