Krita/Krita3dot1releasenotes
< Krita
We will be releasing 2.9.x versions of Krita until 3.1 is ready for end users. Every month a new 2.9.x is expected.
This page is for documenting the new features and bugs that get fixed from 1st of july 2015 till whenever the 3.1 release is.
Features
- [FEATURE] Added ability to merge down Selection Masks
- Improve loading of PSDs of any colour space big time. 16bit CMYK psd files can now be loaded.
- [FEATURE] Implement loading for ZIP compressed PSD files
- add a couple smaller toolbox icon sizes. The 14 size seems closer to how it was previously
- BUG:348742 Add three shortcuts to fill with opacity
- BUG:336686 Make icon size of the toolbox configurable
- New Icons!
- XCF: load group layers from XCF files v3 or higher
- Add Tangent Normal Brush Engine: https://userbase.kde.org/Krita/Manual/BrushEngines/TangentNormalBrush and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiX60EWyMF8 for more info.
- Add mathematically robust normal map combination blending mode.
- Slow down updates for randomized brushes.
- added convert to shape for selections
- Added Trim to Image Size action
- Optimie dodge and burn filter.
- [FEATURE] Multiple layers merge with layer styles on Ctrl+E. (1) "Merge selected layers" is now deprecated and you can use usual Ctrl+E to merge multiple selection 2) Mass-merging of layers with layer styles works correctly now 3) Merging of clone layers together with their sources will not break Krita now.)
- Make color to alpha work with 16f channel depths
- Add new shortcuts (Scale Image to new size = CTRL+ALT+I, Resize Canvas = CTRL+ALT+C, Create Group, Layer = CTRL+G, Merge Selected Layers = CTRL+ALT+E, Feather Selection = SHIFT+F6 )
2.9.6 (9th of July)
- [FEATURE] Add possibility to continue a Crop Tool action
- Speed up of color balance, desaturate, dodge, hsv adjustment, index color and posterize filters.
- Activate Cut/Copy Sharp actions in the menu
- Optimize per channel filter.
- Implemented continuation of the transform with clicking on canvas
- new default workspace
- Add new shortcuts('\' opens the tool options, f5 opens the brush editor, f7 opens the preset selector.)
- FEATURE: Show the tool options in a popup(toggle this on or off in the general preferences)
- Add three new default shortcuts (Create group layer = Ctrl+G, Merge Selected layer = Ctrl+Alt+E, Scale image to new size = Alt+Ctrl+I )
- Add an 'hide pop-up on mouseclick option' to advanced color selector.
- [FEATURE] Make brush 'speed' sensor work
- Allow preview for "Image Background Color and Transparency" dialog.
- [FEATURE] Selection modifier patch is finally in! (shift=add, alt=subtract, shift+alt=intersect, ctrl=replace. Path tool doesn't work yet, and they can't be configured yet)
2.9.5.1 (19th of June)
- [FEATURE] Implemented a composite RGB curve for Curves filter
- Adding a Fish Eye Vanishing Point assistant.
- Added concentric ellipse assistant.
- Have the colour selector pages' 'defaults' button only set the current page's defaults.
- Added memory locating configuration to Krita, as well as putting the profiler option into the UI: (https://userbase.kde.org/Krita/Manual/Preferences/Performance)
- Create a copy of a currently open image (filling wish 348256)
- Add a one way pressure sensor(in the sensors) (filling wish 344753 )
- Added a reporting functional for memory consumption in Krita
Fixed Bugs
- [FEATURE] Keep Selection Masks while merging layers
- BUG:345560 Added optional flags to KisDocument::openUrl() and made "File Layer" not add its file to the recent files list.
- BUG:351224 Fix crash when activating Passthrough mode for a group with transparency mask
- BUG:347798 Don't truncate fractional brush sizes on eraser switch (Patch by Alexey Elnatanov. Thanks! )
- BUG:351271 Fix layout of the color options page
- Don't add new layers to the group if it is locked
- Transform invisible layers if they are part of the group
- BUG:345619 All Drag & Drop of masks
- optimisize advanced color selector.
- Select the right list item in the fill layer dialog
- BUG:349871 Remove excessive qDebug statements.
- BUG:349514 Remove the non-working fast grid settings
- BUG:344490 Make the luma inputboxes aware of locale
- BUG:348940 Don't crash if there isn't a pattern
- BUG:350128 Fix location of colon in color management settings
- BUG:351193 Don't hang when isolating a layer during a stroke
- BUG:349621 Palette docker: Avoid showing a horizontal scrollbar
- Stamp and Clipboard brush fixes
- Sort the dockers alphabetically
- BUG:349732 Add the toolbox to the docker menu
- BUG:351185 Make it possible to R-select layers in a pass-through group
- BUG:350298 Set a minimum width for the tool option popup
- BUG:351164 Fix build on ARM
- Fixing pattern png loading on bundles
- Don't stop loading a bundle when a wrong manifest entry is found
- BUG:349333 fix inherit alpha on fill layers
- Fix to resource md5 generation
- BUG:348981 Fix full-screen/canvas-only state confusion (Patch by Alexey Elnatanov, Thanks! )
- BUG: 345195 Brush editor Stamp and Clipboard refactoring
- BUG:351005 Don't crash on closing krita if the filter manager is open
- Fix a memory leak in KisWeakSharedPtr
- BUG:350803: Re-enable antialias for selection tools.
- BUG:347285: Open the Krita Manual on F1 on all platforms
- Update all the action icons when the theme is changed
- BUG: 341899 Workaround for Surface Pro 3 Eraser
- Fix an issue with mimetype detection
- BUG:350588 Fix a crash when PSD file type is not magic-recognized by the system
- BUG:350280 Fix a hangup when pressing 'v' and 'b' in the brush tool simultaneously
- BUG:350280 Fix crash in the line tool.
- BUG:350507 Fix crash when loading a transform mask with a non-affine transform
- BUG:349479 Fixed Flatten Layer and Merge Down actions for layer with layer styles
2.9.6.3 (14th of July)
- BUG: 349770 fix .desktop validation, MimeTypes= key needs trailing ;
- Check for absolute paths in the layer's filename
- (g'mic) Fix viewport preview generation
- Fix loading png brushes on CentOS
- KRA: Check whether writing out data succeeds
- BUG:350043 Don't crash when saving lab kra files
2.9.6.1 (9th of July)
- BUG 350031 Fix a bug in Transform Tool with applied a bogus transformation when continued.
- BUG:347851 Use name filters instead of mimetypes(GMIC)
- Fix linking of crashreporter on Windows
- BUG:349988 Fix GMIC filters that are added by update definitions
- Fix for slider not setting the value
- BUG:344012 Fix trimming of canvas by fixing exactBounds().
2.9.6 (7th of July)
- BUG:346932 Fix crash when saving a pattern to a *.kra
- Make Group Layer return correct extent and exact bounds when in pass-through mode
- Make fixes to pass-through mode.
- Added an optional optimization to slider spin box
- BUG:348599 Fix node activating on the wrong image
- Fix a misprint in psd_pattern.cpp
- BUG:349792 Fix deleting a color in the palette docker
- BUG:349823 Fix scale to image size while adding a file layer
- Fixed wrapping issue for all dial widgets in Layer Styles dialog
- Fix calculuation of y-res
- BUG:349598 Prevent a divide by zero
- BUG:347800 Reset cursor when canvas is extended to avoid cursor getting stuck in "pointing hand" mode
- BUG:348730 Fix tool options visibility by default
- BUG:349446 Fix issue where changing theme doesn't update user config
- BUG:348451 Fix internal brush name of LJF smoke.
- BUG:349424 Set documents created from clipboard to modified
- BUG:349451 Make more robust: check pointers before use
- Use our own code to save the mergedimage for kra and ora (is faster)
- BUG:313296 Fix Hairy brush not to paint black over transparent pixels in Soak Ink mode
- Fix PVS warning in hairy brush
- (gmic) Try to workaround the problem with busy cursor
- BUG:348750 Don't limit the allowed dock areas
- BUG:348795 Fix uninitialized m_maxPresets
- BUG:349346 (gmic) If there is selection, do not synchronize image size
- BUG:348887 Disable autoscroll for the fill-tool as well.
- BUG:348914 Rename the fill layers
2.9.5.2 (20th of June)
- BUG:349026 Do not localize 'All' resource tag(this prevented resources showing up when localised)
- BUG:348997 Don't crash when saving after saving failed (this would sometimes cause crashes on autosave)
- BUG: 344968 Fix preset docker flickering and slowdown
- BUG:349394 Disable autoscroll for the contiguous selection tool
- Don't hangup when changing background color in the properties dialog
- BUG:349374 Don't assert but warn when we don't have enough score values
- Initialize current colorspace correctly in the Convert Color Space dialog
- Fix Ctrl+ and Ctrl- standard zoom shortcuts in multiview mode
- BUG:349292 Don't try to allocate an entire image worth of bytes in one go.
2.9.5.1 (19th of June)
- Only set the resolution using tiff tags if they exist, this caused issues with Krita saving JPEG files.
- BUG:349078 Fix trimming an image under Filter Layers
- BUG:324505,294122 Fix Adjustment layers composition
- Bug 349185 Fix explicitly showing the cursor when the Stabilizer is active
- Fix showing a floating message when switching MDI subwindows
- BUG:348533 Fixed a bug when the tools became disabled after new document creation
- BUG:331708,349108 Fix a crash when redoing actions
- BUG:348737 Fix copy/pasto: fade isn't speed
- BUG:345762 Mirror View now correctly remembers which subwindow is mirrored.
- BUG:349058 Fixed bug where rulers were only visible on the canvas that was active when the option was first toggled. Fixed similar bugs with Mirror View and Wrap Around Mode.
- BUG:331708 Fix a crash when trying to redo after canceling a stroke
- Fixes an issue where some config files may not be picked up by the config system.
- BUG:299555 Change cursor to "forbidden" when active layer is locked or can't be edited with the active tool.
- BUG:345564 Don't warn about image file being invalid after user cancels "Background Image (overrides color)" dialog while configuring Krita
- BUG: 348886:Don't scroll up the list while adding or removing resources to the bundle
- fix default presets for bristle engine, restoring scale value to 1
- fixed a small bug in wdglayerproperties.ui that made the color profile not show up properly in the layer properties dialog. Patch by Amadiro, thanks!
- BUG: 348507 Fix issue with import PDF dialog resolution
- BUG:347004 Filter preview button difficult to see state
- BUG:345754 Fixes perspective assistant lockup
- Remember current meta-data author.
- BUG:348726 Be more careful when 'smart' merging metadata
- BUG:348652 Correctly initialize the temporary swap file
- Fix loading PSD files saved in OpenCanvas