Download Paint.NET 4.0 Build 5226 Beta 3

The third beta of Paint.NET version 4.0 has been released. As the name suggests, this program needs the .Net framework to do its job. It started out as a study assignment for Washington State University, to replace the Paint supplied with Windows, but now contains a lot of functionality that we also see in more extensive commercial packages. Version 4.0 works a lot faster, especially on multicore processors, but does have at least Windows 7 as a system requirement. The changelog for this version looks like this:

Here are the changes and fixes since the last beta:

• Rotation (Move, Shapes) now allows you to use the right mouse button to rotate, no matter where the mouse cursor is
• The hit-zone for rotation no longer extends inside the object’s (eg selection, shape) bounding box
• New languages: Hungarian, Lithuanian
• Fixed some mouse input glitches when using Paint.NET inside of VMWare
• Fixed all sorts of issues with Paste
• Fixed blending modes sometimes getting saved incorrectly
• Fixed an infinite loop with the crash dialog handling
• Fixed constrained rotation (eg Move, Shapes) using a relative instead of absolute offset
• Fixed a rendering issue with the Move Selected Pixels tool caused by a flawed implementation of coverage sampling
• Fixed an issue in the Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools when using a Tolerance value of 0 whereby it would sometimes include colors that weren’t exactly the same as what you clicked on
• Fixed a crash when using horizontal scroll wheels
• Fixed the Settings dialog showing the wrong language
• Fixed the increment for Pan/Zoom in the Rotate/Zoom dialog (it was 1.0, it is now 0.01)
• Fixed the Rotate/Zoom dialog not always reloading the values ​​that were used previously
• Fixed the Pixel Grid indicators (View menu, toolbar) being out of sync
• Fixed various plugin compatibility issues
• Fixed various crashes