Software Update: Paint.NET 4.3.8

Version 4.3.8 of Paint.NET has been released. This drawing and image editing program bridges the gap between the Paint supplied with Windows and expensive but very extensive programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint. Today, the program is also offered via the Windows Store offered, although a small fee is charged for that version. Version 4.3 includes the switch to .Net 6. This has greatly improved performance, but it also heralds the end of support for Windows 7 and 8, which will expire from version 4.4. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this release:

Changes since v4.3.7:

• New: Layers -> Toggle Layer Visibility menu command (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+,)
• Greatly improved performance for the Line/Curve and Shapes tools
• Improved performance for the Move Selected Pixels tool when using Bicubic resampling
• Fixed tooltips not going away when menu items are activated by the keyboard (Effects, Adjustments, and File -> Open Recent)
• Added a FolderChooser control type for IndirectUI-based plugins
• Fixed compatibility for Ed Harvey’s FastFX PencilSketch effect plugin
• Fixed a performance bug in the canvas renderer that was causing tiles to be copied to the GPU more often than necessary. This mostly affected performance when drawing or modifying selections, and when scrolling or zooming.
• Fixed a small memory leak with the allocations made for Win32 synchronization primitives (critical sections and condition variables)
• Updated the bundled AvifFileType plugin to verison 1.1.18.0, which fixes some issues with EXIF ​​metadata handling.
• Updated the bundled WebPFileType plugin to version 1.3.11.0, which fixes some issues with EXIF ​​metadata handling.
• Updated the bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to version 1.10.11.0, which adds support for DXGI_FORMAT_R32_FLOAT. This is used by Bethesda’s Creation Kit for Fallout 4.