Krita 4.2.7 Released

Today, we’re releasing the sixth bug fix release of Krita 4.2. As discussed in our development update, we intend to release a few more monthly 4.2 bug fix releases before releasing Krita 4.3. There are a lot of bug fixes!

And to celebrate the release, we have a new video by Ramon Miranda which comes with a very nice present: a free new bundle of six sketching brush presets!

Bugs Fixed in 4.2.7

• Improve the layout and functionality of the color selector dialog and make it perform much better. (BUG:381529). Patches by Mathias Wein.
• Do not crash when trying to merge an invisible group layer (BUG:411124)
• Make it possible to save group layers to file layers even if they are empty (BUG:411101)
• Make the initial location of the OCIO profile selector sensible
• Fix possible crashes when a broken file ends up in the Recent Documents List (BUG:411416)
• Use locale-based formatting of numbers in the measure tool and other places. Patch by Karl Ove Lufthammer.
• Make HTML markup in the Search Field tooltips work. Patch by Karl Ove Lufthammer.
• Fix a crash when moving multiple vector shapes (BUG:409872)
• Fix the sort order of images imported as frames if they are not numbered with prefix 0’s (BUG:375885)
• Make it possible again to run the Python Scripting Debugger on Linux (BUG:410807) Patch by Rebecca Breu.
• Cache ICC profiles when loading layers: this speeds up loading images with thousands of layers (BUG:411532)
• Fix file layer and comics manager page updating on Windows (BUG:410409, BUG:389544)
• Use LittleCMS’ copy alpha channel flag to speed up color transformations
• Fix outline move mode (BUG:411057)
• Fix a hang in the text shape if an UTF-8 Line Break character is used (BUG:410402)
• Fix a random crash if there is not enough space in the swapfile location for AMD Ryzen 3500 CPU’s (BUG:411081)
• Fix checking whether the swapfile location is actually writable on Windows (BUG:411129, BUG:411081)
• Fix another random crash when painting (BUG:411280)
• Fix artifacts when moving control points of a path shape (BUG:411334)
• Fix a crash when cropping a particular image (BUG:411536)
• Fix move action in the bezier selection tool (BUG:398294)
• Fix artifacts in Gaussian Blur on transparent layers (BUG:411719)
• Fix a crash when the Liquify Transform is started too quickly (BUG:411703)
• Fix a bad memory leak in the jpeg converter (BUG:410864)
• Fix a crash when loading a JPEG image with a broken color profile (BUG:410864)
• Fix problems when zooming with a touchpad (BUG:410940)
• Fix issues when using the calculation capabilities of the specific color selector’s spin boxes (BUG:409818). Patch by Jasper Hartog
• Make sure all layers are shown in the animation timeline by default
• Fix a crash when the colorize tool is active on closing Krita
• Fix a crash when converting a colorspace with OCIO enabled (BUG:411045)
• Fix the Strength parameter not being used in Rotation – Fuzzy Dab (BUG:376179)
• Fix a crash when using the mouse wheel while an image is opening
• Re-add error messages lost when refactoring the error messages for loading images
• Do not crash if libjpeg encounters any kind of error (BUG:364350)
• Fix presets with random offset of texture being marked dirty all the time (BUG:406427)
• Fix curves changing randomly with sensors with Use Same Curve enabled (BUG:383909)
• Add a simple progress bar when saving .kra files
• Ensure that the temporary folder isn’t suggested as a save-location as this can result in lost work.
• Make sure toolbars don’t get enabled after editing the toolbar buttons (BUG:402679)
• Do not crash when loading a tiled TIFF file with planar color data. (BUG:407171)
• Fix freezes when changing some brush properties or curves (BUG:410158)
• Fix wrong borders in the Edge Detection and Height To Normal Map Filters (BUG:411922)
• Fix outline of Group Layers in Move Tool and Transform Tool (BUG:392717)
• Fix preview of shape layers in Transform Tool and Move Tool (BUG:392717)
• Raise the maximum FPS limit to 300 fps from 100 fps
• Do not allow clone layers from pass-through group layers (BUG:409949)
• Fix the color of a selected shape being synchronized with the color selectors (BUG:381784)
• Fix updating the current shape color when doing undo/redo (BUG:404975)
• Fix the broken TestKisSwatchGroup test (BUG:410387) Patch by Krysztof Kurek.
• Make the splash render pixel-perfect on fractionally scaled displays. Patch by Guo Yunhe.
• Fix a crash in Feather Selection, Wavelets, Blur and Edge Detection (BUG:412057)
• Include reference images in the screen color picker (BUG:411816) Patch by Matthias Wein.
• Clean up the SVG files used for icons and license the SVG files properly. Patch by Raghavendra Kamath.
• Fix updating the assistants when moving the handles. Patch by Matthias Wein.
• Fix a bad memory corruption error color handling. Patch by Matthias Wein.

Download

Windows

• 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-4.2.7.1-setup.exe
• Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-4.2.7.1.zip
• Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

• 32 bits Windows: krita-x86-4.2.7.1-setup.exe
• Portable 32 bits Windows: krita-x86-4.2.7.1.zip
• Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

• 64 bits Linux: krita-4.2.7.1-x86_64.appimage
• 64 bits Linux G’Mic-Qt plugin appimage.

(If, for some reason, Firefox thinks it needs to load this as text: to download, right-click on the link.)

OSX

• OSX disk image: krita-4.2.7.1.dmg

Note: the gmic-qt is not available on OSX.

Source code

Note: Linux distributions building Krita against Qt 5.13 have to be aware that a regression in Qt crashes Krita on exit. There’s a workaround for that, but that was not ready for this release.

• krita-4.2.7.1.tar.gz
• krita-4.2.7.1.tar.xz

md5sum

For all downloads:

• md5sum.txt