Download Krita 4.0.4

Version 4.0.4 of Krita has been released. Krita is a program for editing and creating digital drawings, and can handle both bitmap and vector graphics. The program was previously part of Calligra Suite and is being developed by the KDE team, but also works fine under Gnome or XFCE. In addition, there are downloads for Windows and macOS. The changelog for this release can be found below.

Krita 4.0.4 released!

Today the Krita team releases Krita 4.0.4, a bug fix release of Krita 4.0.0. This is the last bugfix release for Krita 4.0.

Here is the list of bug fixes in Krita 4.0.4

• OpenColorIO now works on macOS
• Fix artifacts when painting with a pixel brush on a transparency mask (BUG:394438)
• Fix a race condition when using generator layers
• Fix a crash when editing a transform mask (BUG:395224)
• Add preset memory to the Ten Brushes Script, to make switching back and forward between brush presets more smooth.
• Improve the performance of the stroke layer style (BUG:361130, BUG:390985)
• Do not allow nesting of .kra files: using a .kra file with embedded file layers as a file layer would break on loading.
• Keep the alpha channel when applying the threshold filter (BUG:394235)
• do not use the name of the bundle file as a tag automatically (BUG:394345)
• Fix selecting colors when using the python palette docker script (BUG:394705)
• Restore the last used colors on starting Krita, not when creating a new view (BUG:394816)
• Allow creating a layer group if the currently selected node is a mask (BUG:394832)
• Show the correct opacity in the segment gradient editor (BUG:394887)
• Remove the obsolete shortcuts for the old text and artistic text tool (BUG:393508)
• Allow setting the multibrush angle in fractions
• Improve performance of the OpenGL canvas, especially on macOS
• Fix painting of pass-through group layers in isolated mode (BUG:394437)
• Improve performance of loading OpenEXR files (patch by Jeroen Hoolmans)
• Autosaving will now happen even if Krita is kept very busy
• Improve loading of the default language
• Fix color picking when double clicking (BUG:394396)
• Fix inconsistent frame numbering when calling FFMPeg(BUG:389045)
• Fix channel swizzling problem on macOS, where in 16 and 32 bits floating point channel depths red and blue would be swapped
• Fix accepting touch events with recent Qt versions
• Fix integration with the Breeze theme: Krita no longer tries to create widgets in threads (BUG:392190)
• Fix the batch mode flag when loading images from Python
• Load the system color profiles on Windows and macOS.
• Fix a crash on macOS (BUG:394068)