New template “Stuffed Canvas”! 
Sorry! I’ve just uploaded the template with the wrong transparency mask!
I’ll fix it tomorrow! 
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New fixed template in your download area!
Have fun with “Stuffed Canvas RC3”! 
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Do you always dream of painting under plastic? 
Now you can with the new “Plastic Wrench RC3” template! 
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Sounds interesting.
And also a little strange, when I think of literally doing it, painting under plastic, I probably would feel as oppressed as I felt as a fish under the plastic carpets in our oceans. Maybe trying to transport this feeling into a painting?
Michelist
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Your words remind me of Pollock working shots from a worm’s eye view… Really, a painting under plastic… Very unpleasant feeling, indeed… 
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I’ve just receive this unhappy review on Gumroad… What you think about that? Do you confirm his own observations? I’m curious… 
"As a lurker reading the krita forum post, I understand the pack is in development, so I hope feedback is ultimately helpful. I’m only referencing the actual bundle, as I don’t use templates etc. Had got the impression from illustrations on the forum that it was a painterly pack, but am finding that most are textured marker-type brushes, sometimes with some impasto, but not colour-mixing. Only liked a few brushes … flowerblend brush; also, 2 pencils, a marker, a ‘fur’, and a chalk, but no paintbrushes. Great pack for anyone wanting to do a lot of non-mixing texturing and effects, but I think overall it would be helpful to customers to advertise the kind of brushes included (clearer explanation + video?), as they’re not tailored to mixing colours, and naming them ‘blend’ and ‘oil’ had given the impression they would mix. Very big bundle to load, although it did so without any delay, but the brushes are unfortunately lagging on basic A4 at 300dpi, very recent nightly appimage, 32 ram. Also the bundle didn’t have a tag, so it meant finding them via the ‘all’ section. Again, hope feedback is helpful, particularly regarding clarifying the type of art/customer the brushes are best for. "
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I just bought your pack but had no time to explore it. There is one point I agree with, it’s the tag thing. I had to assign a tag to the brushes to find them in the brush selection tool – and it’s something quite boring.
I am not used to oil brushes so I cannot comment. But I like the water brushes. I find them very interesting in textures and rendering.
I did not look at templates for the moment.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I’ll add tags in the next release for sure!
I am amazed. What a “critique”.
I just picked out the Ico) Oil) Smudge Touch to show that your smudge brushes do what they are supposed to do. And Ico) Oil) Flat Bump Details, Ico) Oil) Grotty Brush and Ico) Oil) Impression don’t seem to be markers, at least to me…
So this shouldn’t be smudging:
And these should be markers:
I admit that it is possible someone expected something different, but I do not understand that critique.
Michelist
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Well, that’s reassuring… 
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At least he took the time to explain that he didn’t like it. I received a comment that simply said that they didn’t like them…
Regarding what he say, I think that from the point of view of painting that a brush is “oil” does not necessarily mean that it must smudge and smear the colors, I think for example of the case of wet brushstrokes on dry or on a clean canvas
Thank you, guys! I’m starting to understand much better the review!
What about the performance problems?
Anyway, the RC8.5 Pack, with the TAGS embedded and the latest mini bundles merged together, is available to download!
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How to update ? Do I need to delete previous Pack before installing last one ?
The previous bundle deletion is the most secure method from experience.
Please, restart Krita BEFORE installing the new pack so the cache will be correctly updated. 
(In this case Krita doesn’t ask to rewrite cause of different packages name…)
OK, thank you. The problem with this method is that I loose all my custom tags on the brushes.
It could work to swap the bundles with the file manager while Krita is not running, then only the tag assigned by @Ico-dY should be added¹. This is because the unchanged brushes in the bundle are given an identical hash value again when it is created, and so the database could retain the tag when it reads in the new bundle (theoretically, if the database does not make an additional link to the bundle, as a further condition). And if the brushes in the mini-bundles are also transferred unchanged to the new, larger bundle, so that their hash remains the same, then they also retain their tags (which was the case for the presets I checked, the hashes were identical).
Because the tags are bound to the individual resources (presets, patterns, gradients, …), even in the bundle, they are included as metadata via the “manifest.xml” file, if this were different I would not know how else to avoid this with bundles.
If you replace the bundles from within Krita, then Krita will drop their data including all associated tags after deleting the bundles, because you have to restart Krita after deleting the bundle to avoid getting into trouble as this topic shows, and then they would be gone when importing the new bundle.
But here you could also just add the mini bundles.
But if you don’t want to miss the brushes that are still added between the latest mini bundle and the next big bundle, so you want to import the new big bundle, and you do this all from Krita, then the tags are probably gone, because Krita is very likely to delete the tags after you remove the old bundle and then import the new one via the resource manager.
Michelist
¹So, end Krita, open the resource folder with your file manager, delete the bundle and possible mini-bundles and then copy the new bundle into place.
If you don’t know where to find your resource-folder, using Windows, you enter your resource-folder entering %APPDATA%\krita\ into the address-bar of Explorer and hit enter (unless you have moved the folder, but then you would know where to find it. For all other operating systems (including Windows), the easiest way to find the resource folder is to look in Krita under ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘General’’ in the ‘‘Resources’’ tab and copy the path displayed there, then paste this path into the address bar in your file manager and confirm by pressing the Enter key), the bundles can be found in two possible locations (depending on how long you use Krita with your configuration (when you last made a total Krita clean-up)), first possible location is the folder bundles, if they are not there or the folder does not even exist, the bundles are at the very end of your resource-folder (although I think newer version of Krita copy any bundle to the second location).
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Before uninstalling you could try to open the Krita Manage Resources window, select your custom tags from the drop-down menu and click on the “save tags to folder” button…
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@Michelist : thanks for the very complete information
@Ico-dY : I will test that