First Beta for Krita 5.0 released
The Krita team releases the first beta for Krita 5.0. Krita 5.0 is a major release, with a lot of new features and a lot of changes.
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Published on Krita.org - 8/18/2021
Today, the Krita team releases the first beta for Krita 5.0. Krita 5.0 is a major release, with a lot of new features and a lot of changes.
The new splash screen, by Tyson Tan
First some warnings:
- Krita 5 has a completely new resource system. Krita no longer loads all brushes, patterns, gradients and so on start-up, but caches the information during the first run. Krita 5 will be slower starting on the first run, quicker on subsequent runs.
- The way Krita 5 keeps a version history for resources that are edited by the user is not compatible with Krita 4. After using Krita 5, going back to Krita 4 might cause Krita 4 to show duplicate resources.
- Krita 5 can no longer load vector layers created in Krita 3 and older.
- Krita files (.kra) and krita brush preset files (.kpp) created with Krita 5.0 are not guaranteed to be compatible with Krita 4!
- Krita 5.0 fixed an issue with text size in documents. However, opening files created with earlier versions of Krita may require changing a setting to get the originally expected text size.
- Known issue with this beta: If you run a GâMic filter, Kritaâs settings are temporary reset to default: the settings will be the customized ones again after restarting Krita.
Now, whatâs in it? The answer is a lot! Check out the full release notes for all the detail, but hereâs short list of highlights:
- The new resource system that we have worked on for five years
- Gradient dithering and wide-gamut gradients
- Performance improvements, thanks to the LittleCMS fastfloat plugin
- The all-new MyPaint brush engine
- A completely rewritten color smudge brush engine
- A redesigned animation timeline docker
- Clone frames for animation
- Updated animation curves docker
- Transform mask animation
- The new storyboarding feature
- Refreshed icons and UI polish
- Support for HEIF, AVIF, WebP file formats
- Improved TIFF support
- A new painting recorder
- A new 2-point perspective assistant and a limit area feature for assistants
- In-stack transform tool preview
- Paste into a layer instead of pasting the clip as a new layer
- GâMic for macOS
And a host of smaller improvements, smaller features and lots of performance improvements!
We intend to release the final version in September, but that is not a hard promise! We will continue fixing issues that come in from testing the beta and the nightly builds so we can release a solid Krita 5. Please consider supporting Kritaâs development through the development fund:
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Windows
If youâre using the portable zip files, just open the zip file in Explorer and drag the folder somewhere convenient, then double-click on the krita icon in the folder. This will not impact an installed version of Krita, though it will share your settings and custom resources with your regular installed version of Krita. For reporting crashes, also get the debug symbols folder.
Note that from this release on we are not making 32 bits Windows builds anymore.
- 64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.0.0-beta1-setup.exe
- Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.0.0-beta1.zip
- Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)
Linux
- 64 bits Linux: krita-5.0.0-beta1-x86_64.appimage
The separate gmic-qt appimage is no longer needed.
(If, for some reason, Firefox thinks it needs to load this as text: to download, right-click on the link.)
macOS
Note: if you use macOS Sierra or High Sierra, please check this video to learn how to enable starting developer-signed binaries, instead of just Apple Store binaries.
- macOS disk image: krita-5.0.0-beta1.dmg
Android
This time, the Android releases are made from the release tarball, so there are translations. We consider Krita on ChromeOS and Android still beta. There are many things that donât work and other things that are impossible without a real keyboard.
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The Krita 5.0 manual is also âfinishedâ, Iâve asked sysadmin to have the website builder use it, so that will happen later tonight.
(This will also be the cause of the broken links in the release notes, if any)
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Cool! On the final straight now! 
Is it safe to master brush presets now? - I mean; are all changes to brush engines, parameters and sensors frozen?
I really want to try out the new version, but I need to finish the hard work on the current stable version. Iâm torn in half) Patnouts on the âanimation panelâ promise a lot.
Yes, right now only fixes for serious regressions (bugs that were not present in 4.4.x) will be added to beta.
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Canât wait 
what a monumental effort from all devs! Hats off!
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Krita 5 looks awesome.
- I love the entrance aligned feels better.
- resource folder⌠is this what I think it is?
- Animation Timeline and Animation Curves, so compact and seems elegant, just looking at it feels more natural I gotta try it soon.
- the Recorder is able to compact the UI, thumbs up!
- Zoom, Exposure and Gamma changed for Python, seems promising. I was waiting for it for a while.
- QThread still seems to be having some issues or it is just me?
- the Styles option really makes it feel nicer. the window vista one seems to have some issues with rendering even after restarting maybe because I am on W10?
- I am really excited to test the Storyboard I have been coding idle to some degree waiting for this feature. I will use it a great deal for sure!
- the UI looks very nice everywhere. The menu organization also seems more tidy.
- Floating Brush Editor windowww!!! I need to make some new brushes to Test the manager too I have been hearing so much about it I am dying to try it out too.
This is really a big step up and I thought 4 was already awesome. Congrats on the hard work for this.
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@tiar: For bugs in the 5.0.0-beta1, should we post them here (or in a different topic) first or use the usual bug reporting forum?
If a bug is not a regression wrt 4.4.x, should it then be reported normally in the bug reporting forum (paying attention to whether itâs in the latest 5.0.0-prealpha nightly) ?
I think that is a theme supplied by Qt it is like windows 95 theme for me on Linux. Fusion is the official theme
bugs should now go to bugs.kde.org, though people can always discuss them in other places first. We do need a report before we can get to work though 
If I update to this version, will my plugins and settings be gone? I am on windows.
Since it is a beta release, it is better to use a separate user account or use portable version, or backup the current settings etc. Also donât use this for urgent projects.
I used the portable and it was good. even my plugins that were acting up in 4.4.7 acted as expected.
Well, I didnât notice that there are so many bundles and there are two folders at the same time.Some brushes show âxâ. Same as @fizzyflower encountered.
But there is also an abnormal brush in Ramonâs âmuseâ bundle but it has only one.
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Hello, those brushes are from the Environment 2.0 pack by IForce73. I remember it was needed to manually copy the Brushtips from a folder inside the Brush pack to Kritaâs own brush folder. Maybe you have to manually copy those brushtips to the right folder again?
I changed the description. I thought all its resources were in the bundle, but I forgot that there were two subfolders. After moving all patterns to brushes, the problem is solved. But there are still brush errors. So this should be a hidden danger
Will the new version have animation of layer movement with auto interpolation of keys in animation curves?
Kind of. I think that in Krita 4 the subfolders were ignored; and now in Krita 5 the subfolder is embedded into the path. So if you now create a brush preset with a brush tip from a subfolder, it will find it, because the preset will be looking for âbrushes/subfolder/brushtip.pngâ. But if you created it earlier, it might be that they wonât be found because the preset will be looking for âbrushes/brushtip.pngâ.