A new version of Calligra is now available for download

Apr 22, 2014 13:37 GMT  ·  By

Calligra 2.8.2, an integrated suite of applications for office, creative, and management needs, is now available for download and features a wealth of fixes.

This version of Calligra, 2.8.2, is just a maintenance release, but the number of fixes and changes has been decreasing since the huge update that was the 2.8.0 version.

The Calligra suite is actually made of three major components: office applications (Words, Stage, Sheets, Flow, and Kexi), graphics applications, (Krita, Karbon), and project management (Plan).

"The Calligra team has released a bugfix version 2.8.2 of the Calligra Suite, and Calligra Active. This release contains a few important bug fixes to 2.8.0 and we recommend everybody to update," reads the official announcement.

Kexi, the database creator from the Calligra suite only received a single fix, which is an improvement, because the previous update had several. According to the changelog, the Rich Text property is now made false by default for the Text Editor form widget.

Krita, an application that is used to make digital painting files from scratch, received the most attention in this version and that usually garners the most changes. For example, resetting the slider spin box when double clicking on it has been fixed, the tablet press/release events that did not produce any sane buttons are now ignored, support for "evdev" tablets has been added, and line smoothing options are now saved between runs of Krita.

Also, the size of predefined images has been fixed, the splash screen has been improved, loading plugins for Krita Gemini has been corrected, an import option has been added for PSD layer groups, Krita now auto-recognizes axes labels of "evdev tablets," the default gradient has been set to Alpha, the layout of the Transform tool has been cleaned, unused settings for Stroke in the Path tool are now hidden, and memory leaks in brush handling have been corrected,

Also, the application no longer crashes when it's creating a file layer in Krita Gemini, the tags with special characters are now saved properly, and the startup of Krita Sketch and Gemini has been fixed.

A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official changelog. Download Calligra 2.8.2 right now from Softpedia.

The current version of the software also runs on mobile platforms, namely Calligra Mobile and Calligra Active. Users of any previous iterations have been asked to update as soon as possible, either by compiling the new build or by using the provided methods.