Krita Weekly Update – January 2023 – week 4

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Welcome to the Weekly Development Update, brought to you by the @Krita-promo team. This meeting was led by @amyspark.

Statistics

  • Downloads (kde.org) 93,073 unique downloads last week (79,388)
  • Web traffic: 176,125 visits (184,871), 385,652 (408,467) unique page views last week
  • Donations: 8048 euros (7792) in the past month
  • Fund.krita.org: 185 subscribers (peak was 202, last week 190)
  • Krita-artists.org: Krita-artists.org: Pageviews last week - 238K (266k last week)
    • Active Users Last week - 844 (793)
    • Total Posts Last Week - 1.9k (2.8k)
    • Sign-ups - 19.6k (19.4k)
  • Twitter: 63,087 (63,014)
  • Mastodon: 7.1k (6.9k
  • Peertube: 762 (763)
  • Krita subreddit: 70,974 (70.7k) members
  • YouTube: 63,000 (62,700) subscribers

Overview of ongoing work

  • Bugs caused by recent dependency upgrades are still being sorted out, so the nightly builds continue to be highly unstable.
  • The team spent most of the week fixing bugs and triaging bugs. The majority of the work is also on updating dependent libraries and programs to newer versions. Updating the dependencies sometimes results in a new set of bugs and it takes time to stabilize everything.
  • @dkazakov wrote developer documentation on XSIMD, a library that is used to run a single instruction on multiple data at once (SIMD). The goal is for developers to use this guide to improve performance of image calculations in certain parts of Krita. Then he spent some time on bug reports, fixing some crashes related to layers.
  • @wolthera researched more about the text saved in PSD and right now she has recorded her findings here - PSD Text support (#25) · Issues · Wolthera van Hövell / Krita · GitLab
  • @Tiar worked on the drawing ellipse in perspective assistant and also porting the spray brush engine to Lager.
  • @emmetpdx solved the FFmpeg dependency building problem on Linux.
  • @sh-zam and @IvanYossi worked on fixing bugs on Android and macOS respectively.
  • The team discussed a set of rules while dealing with contributions of other team members and how to mitigate a situation when someone else’s change breaks a Krita build.

Ways to help Krita

Krita is built by the community and we appreciate your help. Here are some ways you can contribute:

  • Participate in (and share!) the monthly art challenge
  • Report bugs on bugs.kde.org. It is really important to file a ticket so that it is known to the developers.
  • You can contribute to the Krita Development Fund
  • Contribute code
  • Volunteer to help us maintain the website
  • Write manuals
  • Or just answer questions and help other users here

If you have any feedback for this report, please do leave us a comment.

Commit report

This is compiled by @freyalupen.

Commits (Click to expand and read)

What follows is a list of changes made to Krita’s code over the last week (January 16 - January 23, 2023). These changes are available in the latest nightly builds:

Major changes (new features, major bugfixes):

5.2.x branch (Krita Next):

** Linux crashfix:

** Windows bugfixes:

** Layers crashfixes:

** Shortcuts:

Minor changes (small bugfixes, small tweaks to features):

5.2.x branch (Krita Next):

** Tools:

** File formats:

** Brushes:

** Colorspaces:

Technical changes (mostly invisible to users; code refactors, build fixes, tests, logging):

5.2.x branch (Krita Next):

** Build:

** Logging:

** Tests:

** Dependencies:

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