Welcome to the 5th edition of Krita weekly brought to you by the @Krita-promo team.
The meeting was led by Halla and most of the developers are back from vacations except for developers in the US as they have a holiday on account of Labor Day.
Statistics
We have 626 open bugs.
We got 78,797 unique downloads last week.
Krita fund subscribers are 197 our peak was 202.
Donations are looking good this week due to the recent Clip Studio subscription episode.
What’s happening in Krita
- There were two notable regressions in the 5.1.0 release: one caused slower startup on Windows, and the other caused crashes on pasting vector layers. We will probably be having a 5.1.1 release next week, which is much awaited by people.
- On our social media side, Youtube and Twitter are inching closer to 60k subscribers/followers.
- @tiar fixed a bug where the release update notification on the welcome screen was not clickable. She also worked on the concentric ellipses in perspective feature.
- @IvanYossi gathered some detailed back-traces for G’MIC crashes and made a GSoC review.
- Xuche worked on filling options of the ellipse tool. Here is their latest blog post.
- @dkazakov is now back from vacation and going to review all the contributions for code this week.
- @sh-zam has fixed some bugs on Android and is looking into crashes occurring on Samsung tablets due to memory issues. He also fixed gesture related bugs on macOS. He also looked into a bug while importing svg images.
- @halla is back from vacation and did the much needed admin stuff like paying invoices etc. She triaged some bug reports too.
- @emmetpdx and @eoinoneill continued their work on the audio branch and related dependency cleaning. Some large back-end changes were made to help users build Krita on this branch even when they don’t meet the exact dependencies.
- @Reinold’s third GSoC blog post is here.
- @amyspark fixed some issues with supporting the JPEG-XL HDR format, continued preparing a “multi-arch refactor” (technical stuff that will let Krita run optimized on different hardware), worked on updating the code that handles user preferences, and investigated updates to G’MIC support on macOS.
Summary
Most of the developers are back from vacation and are slowly getting back into action. They aim to fix bugs and regression from the new 5.1 release and release a bug fix update over next week. Although there is a slight bump in the donation fund this month, we urge our users to subscribe to our fund so that the development goes on smoothly.
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