Download Paint.NET 4.0 build 5268 beta 4

The fourth 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:

• The Line/Curve tool is now back, and the Line and Curve shapes have been removed from the Shapes tool
• Improved rendering quality of the Line/Curve tool, especially when antialiasing is disabled
• The rectangle shape now draws using an “inset” brush stroke. This helps prevents blurriness with odd-sized brush widths
• Shapes tool now lets you commit by clicking outside of the bounding box of the current shape. (you can also start drawing a new shape via clicking and dragging, of course)
• Improved rendering quality of brush tools when antialiasing is disabled
• Improved performance of Shapes and Line/Curve tools on most systems (eg, less than 8 CPU cores)
• Improved rendering quality of Image->Resize when using Nearest Neighbor
• Fixed the Palette chooser in the Colors window, which was going away when you tried to move the mouse to click on one of its items
• Fixed some broken clipping when using Paste and “Expand Canvas”
• Intel-based GPUs now default to having hardware acceleration disabled. You may still force it to be enabled from the Settings dialog.
• When pasting, the PNG format now has a higher priority than CF_DIB, which allows easier access to transparency (alpha) from other applications
• Tools no longer incorrectly commit when clicking on the currently active layer in the Layers window
• The layer’s opacity was being ignored while drawing if it was the lowest (index zero) layer
• You can now copy a file from File Explorer and Paste it into Paint.NET (regression from 3.5)
• Fixed the canvas scroll bars occasionally being incorrect after maximizing the main window and then restoring it
• Fixed radio button group tab processing
• Fixed many small miscellaneous crashes
• New language: Czech

I’m summarizing and consolidating the bug list here a little … there are 52 fixed bugs since the last public beta.