Beta 2 has been released this week! According to Halla it includes over 700 bug fixes which sounds about right looking at how many bugs are closed and changes made every week. Check out the official post if you haven’t already as it shows all the changes that have been made.
This week continues the trend with tons of bugs and crashes fixed. There were 30 new bugs opened and 32 closed so seeing the downward trend again is really good! Eventually with enough bug fixing Krita 5 will be nice and stable for a full release. If you want to help get it out the door, do check out the structured beta testing topic. Even retesting things is very helpful so the devs know that portion is nice and stable.
New Features
Much better performance when using Perspective Assistants (Tiar)
The Recorder Docker now has a “Hold last Frame” option in the exporter that will show your finished artwork for a few seconds at the end of the video (Reinold)
Improved Screentone Generator templates (KA topic) (Deif Lou)
Crashes
Fixed creating layers from clipboard crashing Krita (Dmitry Kazakov)
Fixed a crash when using custom brush tips (Dmitry Kazakov)
Fixed a crash when closing a file while having the popup palette open (Sharaf Zaman)
Fixed a crash when having a url in your clipboard and pasting to Krita (Dmitry Kazakov)
Fixed a crash on exporting an animation (Eoin O’Neill)
Bug Fixes
Fixed the wrap around mode not always updating the whole canvas (Dmitry Kazakov)
Fixed smudge brushes sometimes having blue streaks (Dmitry Kazakov)
The Crop Tool can now grow the canvas by default (Tiar)
When creating bundles resources are now listed alphabetically (Reinold)
Fixed smudge brushes causing artifacts on transparency mask (Dmitry Kazakov)
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