Krita Monthly Update – Edition 12

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Welcome back! This monthly ‘zine is curated for you by the @Krita-promo team.

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Development report

Merged changes

Merge requests

  • Gap closing fill by @YRH. It’s quite complicated, but there is active technical discussion going on about how to make this happen.
  • Dockers in Popup Palette by @freyalupen. It hasn’t had any review yet, but users are enjoying the test builds. This video demonstrates some of the ideas that have been applied. You can see all the ideas in this feature request initiated by @abhifx.

Technical

  • Behind the scenes, the ‘Split Deps Project’ is now usable on Linux and Windows thanks to @dkazakov and Simon Ra. (This project is to make it easier for developers to work with Krita’s dependencies.)
  • On macOS: @IvanYossi has fixed dependencies to be buildable with XCode 15. However Krita is currently unbuildable (on multiarch) for unrelated reasons (MR!2018’s merge).

Other

Community report

Monthly Art Challenge

January’s “icy isolation” challenge theme was designed by @YRH and attracted a fair amount of friendly competition. When the voting concluded, @Elixiah was declared the winner with these three images:

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The challenge for February is to create an Architectural / Urban scene. @Elixiah has provided an additional, optional challenge to use the freehand selection tool (lasso tool) to create most of the painting. Read more about it here.

Featured artwork

Enjoy a random selection of recently featured artwork. These pieces were nominated by forum members and put to a vote.

Mushroom Girl by @Cyborgnekosica.

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Mecha Sketch by @scytales.

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Noteworthy plugin

Windowed New View

Created last year and updated within the last month, this plugin creates a new view of the current document when clicked, automatically windowed, and set ‘Always on top.’ This plugin was created by @Cliscylla.

Tutorial of the month

Krita 5.2.2 New Features by @RamonM.

Ways to help Krita

Krita is a Free and Open Source application, mainly developed by an international team of enthusiastic volunteers. Donations from Krita users to support maintenance and development is appreciated.

Join the Development Fund with a monthly donation. Or make a one-time donation here.

Notable changes in code

This section has been compiled by @freyalupen.

(Jan 1 - Feb 5, 2024)

Stable branch (5.2.2+):
Bugfixes:

Features:

  • [General] In About Krita, replace the old Backers tab with a current corporate Sponsors tab. (merge request, Halla Rempt)
  • [General] When opening multiple files via the Open File dialog, sort them alphabetically. (merge request, Ken Lo)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):
Features:

Bugfixes:

The latest changes are made available for testing daily in the following development builds:

Note: The above Nightly Builds will become unavailable with the decommissioning of the Binary-Factory, currently scheduled for around February 17. They are to be migrated to GitLab CI. At the time of writing, only Linux and Windows builds of Krita are available on GitLab CI.

The latest changes are made available for testing as they are made, in the following Linux and Windows development builds (macOS and Android builds will be available in the future):

(Use the :arrow_down:’Download Artifacts’ button to the right of the pipeline and select your platform.)

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Hi,

in Stable “Krita Plus” (5.2.2+): [Successful 5.2 branch Pipelines] there are no artifacts to download and the latest change is quite old (2024-02-06).

Addendum: beyond this small report, as always thank you very much for your wonderful work, you guys are fantastic. :slight_smile:

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@Skess01 This topic/reply might explain what’s happening:
Kde binary factory website seems to be down - #5 by freyalupen

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Thank you, so unfortunately this means that since the Stable “Krita Plus” (5.2.2+) artifacts are more than 10 days older, now there are no 5.2.2+ versions available to download.

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I don’t know the details of what’s happening but somebody may be able to share the most recently available Plus version if you say which OS you have, maybe.

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Thank you, you are very kind, but my downloaded Windows versions seems to be after 2024-02-06.

I have:

  • krita-nightly-x64-5.2.2-2051b482f7.zip (2024-02-09)
  • krita-nightly-x64-5.2.2-6978ea5197.zip (2024-02-11)

I thought there were other versions with small changes to download at the old address, but I didn’t and now I can’t check since it’s down.

Anyway I think that for the future if possible would be nice to keep one or some of the latest versions downloadable, otherwise they will be lost if there will be few updates and you don’t check often.

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The nightly build server is decommissioned. Soon there will be alternative links, the developers are aware of this and they will provide the links soon.

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@Skess01 The developers are aware that ideally the latest build should be kept, but nothing has been decided about how to do that yet.
The 6978ea51 build was only ten days ago, if there had been any changes since then aside from translations (which don’t trigger a build), their artifacts would still be around for now.

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@freyalupen, do you know if 2024-02-06 was really the latest change of 5.2.2+?

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You can check the list of commits here: Commits · krita/5.2 · Graphics / Krita · GitLab (And you’ll see there were some commits just now)

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I can offer krita-5.3.0-prealpha-8af28c5a from 2024.02.14 and krita-5.2.2-1ea765e5 from 2024.02.21 for Windows:

BTW, I would scan them for viruses!
Even if I think they’re not infected, I can’t guarantee that my PC is clean, because it’s my daily and universal workhorse connected to the WWW, and even though I use a constantly updated antivirus solution, that doesn’t make the situation any better, because the AV vendors are always running after the malware to detect what’s out there, and they don’t know the thousands of new threats that are spread over the WWW every day until they detect them once in their misdeeds after the malware has run into a glue line set up by the AV vendors on the WWW. So, even if they are probably safe, you should scan them.

Michelist

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