Krita/Krita3dot1releasenotes

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.

Feature Template

[Short Feature Name]
- [Short explanation in 2-5 sentences]
- [Screenshot] Screenshot and/or video should small and catchy, so it would be possible to post it in social networks.

Example:

New Icons!
- All the icons are reworked to fit a single style and not distracting the user form his work
- http://vk.com/photo-38024296_377216662

Features

Allow 'shift'-modifer after dragging an assistant handle to snap lines.
Add snap-single checkbox under assistant snapping.
Update brushes with optimised versions.(Basic_tip_default.kpp, Basic_tip_soft.kpp, Basic_wet.kpp, Block_basic.kpp, Block_bristles.kpp, Block_tilt.kpp, Ink_brush_25.kpp, Ink_gpen_10.kpp, Ink_gpen_25.kpp)
New widget for picking the color profile! Works best with RGB profiles, but improvements are coming.
[FEATURE] Make color picking with shortcuts work in Wrap Around mode
[FEATURE] Make Fill Tool work in Wraparound mode!
[FEATURE] Implement 'Scalable smoothness' feature for Stabilizer smoother
update tooltips for toolbox icons
Port away from using KIO in our filters
Right click to undo last path point.
BUG: 348626 Update tooltips to include keyboard shortcut.
Make the default size of the toolbox buttons dependent on screen resolution.
[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
Right click on the toolbox to change the icon sizes
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: 351599 Fix abr brush loading
BUG:343615 Remember the toolbar visibility state
BUG:338839 Do not let the wheel zoom if there are modifiers pressed(Patch by [email protected]. Thanks!)
BUG:347500 Fix active layer activation mask
Remove misleading error message after saving fails
BUG 350289 : Prevent Krita from loading incomplete assistant.
BUG:350960 Add ctrl-shift-s as default shortcut for save as
fix Bristle brush presets
Fix use normal map checkbox in phongbumpmap filter UI.
Fix loading the system-set monitorprofile
Make cs-convert UI attempt to automatically determine when to uncheck optimise
CCBUG:351488 Do not share textures when that's not possible
Remove disabling of system profile checkbox
CCBUG:351488 Update the display profile when moving screens
Update the display profile after changing the settings
Fix crash due to calling a virtual method from c-tor of KisToolPaint
BUG:351664 Disable the layerbox if there's no open image
BUG:345285 Correctly install the xcf import plugin on Windows
Fix Fill with ... (Opacity) actions
BUG:351548 Make a transform tool work with Pass Through group layers
Fix parsing XML with MSVC 2012
Make all the lines of paintop options look the same
BUG:351560 Make sure a default KoColor is transparent
Lots of memory leak fixes (pointers that weren't deleted are now deleted)
BUG:351497 Blacklist "photoshop":DateCreated" when saving
Only add shortcuts for Krita...
Only ask for a profile for 16 bits png images, since there we assume linear by default, which is wrong for most png images.
Don't build the thumb creator on Windows or OSX
Revert "Revert "Use the KisColorTransformationConfiguration""
BUG:350498 Work around encoding issues in kzip
BUG:348099 Better error message in PNG export
Don't rename resources.
BUG:336693 Also change the color selector when selecting a vector layer
BUG:349554 Remove old compatibility code
BUG:349571 Disable the opacity setting for the shape brush
Initialize KoColor to black, as per apidox
CCBUG:351411 Add some explanation to the recovery dialog
BUG:321361 Load resources from subfolders
CCBUG:345619 Recreate a default bounds object on every KisMask::setImage() call
CCBUG:321361 Create subfolders for presets
BUG:349819 Fix a severe crash in Transformation Masks
BUG:349819 Add a barrier between sequentially undone commands with setIndex
Fixed API of KisPNGConverter to not acces the entire KisImage
BUG:351383 Check which color spaces PNG supports before passing the preview device to it
CCBUG:351298 Save CMYK JPEG's correctly
BUG:351298 Do not crash saving 16 bit CMYK to JPEG
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