Paste into a layer instead of pasting the clip as a new layerĪnd a host of smaller improvements, smaller features and lots of performance improvements!.

A new 2-point perspective assistant and a limit area feature for assistants.

Support for HEIF, AVIF, WebP file formats.A completely rewritten color smudge brush engine.Performance improvements, thanks to the LittleCMS fastfloat plugin.Gradient dithering and wide-gamut gradients.The new resource system that we have worked on for five years.Now, what’s in it? The answer is a lot! Check out the full release notes for all the detail, but here’s short list of highlights:

Known issue with this beta: If you run a G’Mic filter, Krita’s settings are temporary reset to default: the settings will be the customized once again after restarting Krita.

However, opening files created with earlier versions of Krita may require changing a setting to get the originally expected text size.

Krita 5.0 fixed an issue with text size in documents.

Krita files (.kra) and krita brush preset files (.kpp) created with Krita 5.0 are not guaranteed to be compatible with Krita 4!.

Krita 5 can no longer load vector layers created in Krita 3 and older.

After using Krita 5, going back to Krita 4 might cause Krita 4 to show duplicate resources.

The way Krita 5 keeps a version history for resources that are edited by the user is not compatible with Krita 4.

Krita 5 will be slower starting on the first run, quicker on subsequent runs. Krita no longer loads all brushes, patterns, gradients and so on start-up, but caches the information during the first run.

Krita 5 has a completely new resource system.