Krita/Krita3dot1releasenotes

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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

  • BUG:351195 Fix slowdown when activating "Isolate Layer" mode
  • Fix loading of selection masks
  • BUG:337187 Accept events so oxygen doesn't get them
  • [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