Krita Monthly Update - Edition 26
Welcome to the April 2025 development and community update.
Development Report
Text Tool Rework Progress
Read Wolthera's new post about font metrics handling for an explanation of recent improvements in 5.3.0-prealpha regarding font size, line height, baseline alignment, and text decoration.
Community Report
April 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results
11 forum members took on the challenge of the "Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories" theme. And the winner is… Jack and the Beanstalk by @Elixiah
The May Art Challenge is Open Now
For the May Art Challenge, @Elixiah has passed choice of the topic to runner-up @Mythmaker, who has chosen "Humongous Hats" as the theme. Illustrate an elaborate hat, and optionally a matching accessory. See the full brief for more details, and throw your hat in the ring.
Featured Artwork
Best of Krita-Artists - March/April 2025
This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 8 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, the moderators had to break a four-way tie for fourth place before these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:
Winter castle by @sinisa_ercegovac
Plucky Puffin by @SylviaRitter
The Last City on Earth by @Valquer
Japanese girl paint by @Joao_Batista
Best of Krita-Artists - April/May 2025
Take a look at the nominations for next month's featured artwork. If you don’t see your favorite artwork there, make a nomination. Or five! The amount of nominations allowed per forum member has risen to encourage more participation. And don't forget to vote when the poll opens on May 11th!
Ways to Help Krita
Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!
Support Krita financially by making a one-time or monthly monetary donation. Or donate your time and Get Involved with testing, development, translation, documentation, and more. Last but not least, you can spread the word! Share your Krita artworks, resources, and tips with others, and show the world what Krita can do.
Other Notable Changes
Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from Apr. 17 - May 8, 2025, not covered by the Development Report.
Stable branch (5.2.10-prealpha):
- File Formats: ORA: Default groups to non-passthrough mode. (Change, by wareya)
- Transform Tool: When transforming multiple layers in Fast mode, show them in proper stack order instead of selected order. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
- General: Speed up canvas rotation when the status bar is visible, by only updating it when necessary. (Change, by Maciej Jesionowski)
Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
Bug fixes:
- Android: Fix crash on startup with recent nightly builds. (bug report) (Change, by Freya Lupen)
- Resources: Fix a slowdown regression when scrolling through or searching resources, caused by the new font resources, by cleaning up resource cache handling. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
- Pop-Up Palette: Fix showing brushes in tags containing '&' (ampersand). (Change, by Stuffins)
- Animation: Add an option to disable timeline autozoom, and move animation settings into their own tab under General Preferences. (bug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
Nightly Builds
Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.
Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.10-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64
Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64