Download Krita 5.1.1

Version 5.1.1 of Krita has been released. Krita is a program for editing and creating digital drawings and 2D animations, and can handle both bitmap and vector images. The program was previously part of Calligra Suite and is being developed by the KDE team, but also works well under Gnome or XFCE. Downloads are available for Windows, Linux and macOS. More information about version 5.1 can be found here this page are found, this is the announcement for this release:

Krita 5.1.1 released

This is strictly a bug fix release. Two serious problems are fixed in this release: a slowdown in start-up time experienced by some people, and a crash when copying a vector layer.

Other fixes are:

• Native macOS touchpad gestures should now work properly. BUG:456446
• On Android, the application size no longer increases because swap files did not get deleted.
• On Android, a possible crash on startup is fixed. BUG:458907
• Several issues with the MyPaint brush engine were fixed. The MyPaint eraser now uses the proper brush settings, and the unusable blend mode selector is now disabled if a MyPaint brush has been selected. . BUG:453054, BUG:445206
• For Animation, the “start numbering at” when exporting an image sequence has been fixed. BUG:458997
• Krita no longer crashes if the user has removed the kritadefault.profile canvas input profile from both the installation as the runtime folder
• On reading ACO palettes, the color swatch name is now read and set on the swatch. BUG:458209
• Fix a crash when selecting a layer in the layerbox. BUG:458546
• Inprove slider steps for the fade, ratio and similar color selection threshold
• When moving paintable nodes, the canvas is updated only once.
• Provide the workaround for OpenGL canvas showing black rectangles if there’s more than one assistant visible to all platforms. BUG:401940
• Improve the performance of working with ZIP files, like .kra and .ora files.
• Fix opening single-layer PSD files. BUG:458556
• Make the Update link in the welcome widget clickable. BUG:458034
• JPEG-XL: Fix linear HDR export and float 16 import. BUG:458054