Howdy! A new version of paint.net has been released recently by their crew. For those who are not acquainted with it, paint.net is a free and open-source image and photo editing software for Windows with a quite rich set of features. Here are the changes and the fun stuff from paint.net 4.3.7:

Changes for 4.3.7:

This is a hotfix for a myriad of major issues when "Translucent windows" is disabled. This was caused by a bug introduced in .NET 6.0.1.


Changes for 4.3.6:

This is a hotfix for a crash in the box filter rendering kernel, which is used to generate mipmaps for the canvas when zoomed out.


Changes for 4.3.5:

• Improved rendering performance for most tools, which are now up to 100% faster (see discussion here: https://twitter.com/rickbrewPDN/status/1477344632404996101)  
  
  
• Fixed an issue with the Save Configuration dialog where the OK and Cancel buttons were overlapping on Windows 7 (thanks @toe_head2001 for the fix!)
  
  
• Fixed an issue when saving an image with 257 unique colors at 8-bit color depth when the 257th unique color was the last (bottom-right) pixel. https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/119047-error-saving-a-file-seems-related-to-bit-depth-being-at-auto-detect/
  
  
• Fixed an issue where the Layers window buttons were not correctly enabling/disabling after an undo/redo operation. https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/119120-with-only-one-layer-create-layer-and-use-ctrlz-to-undo-delete-layer-button-is-still-enabled/
  
  
• Fixed an issue that was preventing the VTF Plugin from saving multi-layer images correctly, as reported at https://www.reddit.com/r/paintdotnet/comments/rnx11j/help_with_vtf_editing_blend_saving/
  
  
• Fixed an issue when saving images at 1-bit or 2-bit color depth, where sometimes not all colors would be included. https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/119082-saving-png-rounds-a-pixel-with-a-value-of-010101-down-to-000000/
  
  
• Fixed an issue with some IndirectUI plugins that were using customized colors for their sliders
  
  
• Fixed a compatibility issue with TR’s Morpher plugin https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/107499-trs-morpher-v1110-march-14th-2016/?do=findComment&comment=589420
  
  
• Fixed a compatibility issue with some of @Ego Eram Reputo‘s older plugins that were unable to launch help links due to a change in .NET 6
  

NOTE for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and 32-bit/x86 users: Paint.NET v4.3.x will be the last release(s) that work on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or on any 32-bit/x86 version of Windows. According to the author, it has become significantly more difficult and time-consuming to support these lately, not very many people are using them, and he can no longer justify the cost and frustration of keeping support for these afloat. Starting with Paint.NET v4.4, only Windows 10 and 11+ will be supported, and only on 64-bit (x64 and ARM64). The author has already started working on v4.4 and will only release v4.3.x updates on an as-needed basis and only until v4.4 is completed.


For further information about paint.net, visit their Official Website. paint.net is available for download Here. The complete changelog for paint.net 4.3.7 is available Here. That's all folks! Stay tuned at PPG for more news coverage on paint.net!