After a year of hard work, Krita 5.2 is finally here, bringing a variety of new features, ranging from fundamental changes in text and animation-audio handling to various smaller items like transforming all selected layers!



The following fixes were made in response to all your bug reports for the first release candidate:

• Set updateRect to widget rect on fractional hidpi screen (Bug 441216)
  
• Fix link to Scripting API in About splash (Thanks, Matt Alexander)
  
• Fix loading swatchbook CMYK palettes (Bug 474583)
  
• Remove a warning from KisTransactionData…possiblySwitchCurrentTime() (Bug 474123)
  
• Several QImage optimizations from Fushan Wen
  
• Fix crash when copy-pasting a transformation mask (Bug 474673)
  
• Make sure that saved encoder settings are supported by FFmpeg (Bug 474559)
  
• Fix external FFmpeg not working on Linux due to clash in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Bug 473603)
  
• Make sure that the splitter state is saved in Preset Chooser (Bug 474669)
  
• Update webp to the latest version
  
• Fix setting size of a text brush tip
  
• Fix removal of duplicated frames in “Only Unique Frames” mode (Bug 450449)
  
• Added openh264 presets to the recorder plugin (Bug 474803)
  
• Fix layer selection menus piling up until closing the canvas
  
• Fix a crash after removing a vector layer with an active selection of shapes (Bug 474476)
  
• Fix detection of FFmpeg in AppImages (Bug 474927)
  
• Fix misbehavior in the “grow until darkest pixel” selection filter (Bug 475014)
  
• Welcome Page: Added bare minimum close/hide button to the dev fund banner.
  
• Update libvpx to 1.13.1 that fixes 0-day vulnerability
  
• Fix brush rotation when using Airbrush mode (Bug 455627)