Krita 3.1 Beta 4 is now ready for public testing

Nov 16, 2016 23:00 GMT  ·  By

Today, November 16, 2016, Krita Foundation announced the availability of the fourth and probably the last Beta snapshot of the upcoming major Krita 3.1 release of the cross-platform and open-source digital painting app.

Krita 3.1 Beta 4 is here approximately one week after the third Beta development milestone, which we hoped would be the last for this release cycle, but it looks like a few more bugs needed attention. Therefore, the new release improves stabilizer's framerate and addresses crashes that occur when attempting to draw on the scratch pad.

Moreover, the fourth Beta of Krita 3.1 attempts to patch a regression from the previous Beta release that would not allow users to properly save animations. Other than that, it improves the color selector from the Color-to-Alpha filter, which should now work as advertised. For Mac users, it looks like Krita 3.1 will officially support Mac OS X.

"From the Krita 3.1 on, Krita will officially support OSX. All OSX users are urged to use this version instead of earlier “stable” versions for OSX. We’re releasing the fourth beta because of more changes to the code that actually saves your images," reads today's announcement. "We’ve tried to make it much safer, but please do test this!"

The colorize mask/lazy brush plugin is still included

As noted in our previous report for Krita 3.1 Beta 3, the colorize mask/lazy brush plugin is still included, even in this fourth Beta build, but it looks like the development team plans to remove it in the final release of the application, which should be out before the end of the month, because the current algorithm is too slow for production use.

That being said, it appears that Krita 3.1 Beta 4 is much more stable than previous builds, but testing is still needed before it hits the streets, so go out and test. You can download the Krita 3.1 Beta 4 binaries for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version and it may contain bugs.