Download Krita 2.9.8

Version 2.9.8 of Krita has been released. Krita is a program for editing and creating digital drawings, and can handle both bitmap and verctor images. The program is part of Calligra Suite and is developed by the KDE team, but also works fine under Gnome or XFCE. In addition, downloads for Windows and OS X are in development. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Krita 2.9.8
The eighth bug fix release of Krita 2.9! We’re still fixing bugs and adding improvements, but a lot of work has gone into the kickstarter goals and the Krita 3.0 porting work, too. Ubuntu Linux users can use the ” krita-lod-unstable” packages from the Krita Lime repository to test-drive the first version of the animation support and the “LOD” performance improvements. Check the LOD option in the View menu, and many brushes and other features will be perform much better on large images!

• Improve performance when adding new layers. (A blank new layer doesn’t need to make Krita update the entire image)
• Fix the pass-through icons so there’s dark and light variants and make some other icons smaller
• BUG:353261: Make rotation terminology consistent in the rotate image and rotate layer plugin
• BUG:353248: Prevent a crash when using some types of graphics tablets
• BUG:352916: Fix a crash in the cage transform worker
• Improve rendering speed when some layers are invisible
• Fix a crash when using shape/vector layers
• BUG:352734: Fix saving single-layer EXR files
• BUG:352983: Load the layers in a multi-layer EXR file in the right order
• BUG:352734: Support loading and saving EXR files that have both layers and top-level channgels
• BUG:310359: Fix loading and saving of L*a*b TIFF images
• Add a Save Profile checkbox to the TIFF and JPG export filters: you can now save TIFF, JPG and PNG images without an embedded profile.
• BUG:352845: Store the smoothing options only once
• Fix Photoshop-style layer styles that use the random noise
• Improve the performance of Photoshop-style Layer styles.