Krita 2.9.7 is now available for download

Sep 2, 2015 21:00 GMT  ·  By

The development team of the popular, open-source, and cross-platform digital painting software Krita, acclaimed by numerous artists from all over the world, have announced the release of the last maintenance version of the 2.9 branch.

Krita 2.9.7 has been made available for download a few minutes ago and adds numerous new features, such as Wolthera’s Tangent Normal Brush engine (see the video at the end of the article for details), fresh new icons for high-dpi screens, improvements to the Wrap-around mode, a new color space selector, and updated brushes for improved performance.

There are also memory handling enhancements, OpenEXR 2.2 support in the Windows build of Krita, better Photoshop PSD support, improved compatibility with GIMP, the ability to right-click to undo the last path point, the ability to merge down Selection Masks, and a new "Scalable smoothness" feature in the freehand tools' Stabilizer mode.

"Two months of bug fixing, feature implementing, Google-Summer-of-Code-sweating, it’s time for a new release! Krita 2.9.7 is special, because it’s the last 2.9 release that will have new features. We’ll be releasing regular bug fix releases, but from now on, all feature development focuses on Krita 3.0. But 2.9.7 is packed," reads the announcement.

Over 150 bugs have been fixed

In addition to the great new features mentioned above, Krita 2.9.7 improves the assistants, introduces a brand-new mathematically robust normal map combination blending mode, adds the ability to convert any selection into a vector shape, optimizes the burn and dodge filters, and adds several new keyboard shortcuts.

Last but not least, over 150 bugs have been fixed in Krita 2.9.7, which we remind you that is the last point release for the 2.9 branch of the software, as the developers will now concentrate their efforts on the next major version, Krita 3.0.

Download Krita 2.9.7 right now from Softpedia.

Krita 2.9.7 (8 Images)

Krita 2.9.7 released
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