Krita 2.9 Beta 2 released, you can install on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Mac OS X, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Gentoo

Krita 2.9 Beta 2 released, you can install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2, Mac OS X, openSUSE 13.2, openSUSE 13.1, openSUSE 12.3/12.2/12.1, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Fedora 19, Fedora 18 and Gentoo
 
Krita is an open source application that provides users with a sophisticated graphical software for creating amazing paintings, drawings, sketches, and any other type of artwork. It was previously distributed as part of the deprecated KOffice office suite for the KDE desktop environment.

What's New in version 2.9 Beta 2  :

• Fixes and improvements with how actions and shortcuts are managed. This will help fix a lot of shortcut conflicts that existed in the past. Actions and functionality are smarter now as well. This means that buttons and menu items will be disabled/enabled when they are not available. (eg. You cannot change the canvas size if there is no documents open).
• add drag and drop when there are no documents open
• make the background configurable with a color or image (located in Settings > Configure Krita)
• fixed a lot of multiple document bugs
• rename “hairy” brush engine to “bristle” brush engine
• add “flatten” action to layer context menu
• PDF export – landscape and portrait now work correctly
• initial tool when loaded is freehand brush
• don’t show menu icons unless you are using KDE
• added a lot of presets for color profiles from Elle Stone
• fix handling of locked dockers behaves better when changing workspaces
• make it possible to convert images using ‘krita –export bla.png –export-filename bla.jpg’
• fix crash when mergine a multi-selection of layers that includes a group layer
• Removed the selection brush; use the global selection mask and the regular brush tools instead
• Make krita open new images in the current window
• On Linux: use colord to get the system monitor profile, and make the system monitor profiles work in a multi-monitor setup
• Fix the layout of the filter and filter layer dialogs.
• Make it possible to use different OpenColorIO settings for each canvas
• Improve startup speed on all platforms
• Mirror axis tools now follow the rotation of the canvas
• fix rotation in brush preview
• fixed loading assistants
• fixed toggling of painting assistants
• improve how the color slider widget is used
• resource bundle fixes with paint operations, loading tags, and double loading resources
• prevent loading corrupt resource bundles (added MD5 Checksums)
• fix lockup with perspective assistants
• improve the color smudge brush engine so it doesn’t darken too much
• lots of fixes for working with resource bundles
• bug fixes when selecting shapes
• fixed some computer systems that weren’t loading preset bundles correctly
• fixed color selector crashes when no document open
• fix switching between landscape and portrait orientation
• lots of fixes with handling multiple open images and the dockers
• update gmic to version 1.6.0.3
• enable interactive filters like colorize [interactive]
• implement progress reporting when applying filter
• if gmic script fails, inform user about the error message
• fixed lost filtering when you select filter and click ok
• fixed a bunch of multi-document specific issues
• fixes when selecting colors with the advanced color selector
• brush sizes are back to having 2 decimals to prevent issues
• fixed a few bugs related to the crop tool with properties and resetting
• fixed saving split alpha mask
• fixed a lot of bugs in the dirty presets feature
• fixed mirror tool working with shapes like circles and rectangles
• fix shaky lines on 32-bit systems when using canvas rotation
• fixes to the cage transform tool
• Improve handles for the transform tool
• fixes to the opacity slider
• fixes to the tablet handling (make working with vector shapes with the tablet possible again)
• make the liquify tool handle build-up/wash mode properly
• new color smudge presets
• Fix a bunch memory leaks and double deletions
• Fix crash when adding drop shadow effect
• Fix crash when closing a document while moving the stylus
• Fix the opengl canvas for some (notably AMD drivers). More fixes coming up!
• updated layout for resource manager
• mirror tools have updated UI
• G’MIC has been moved to filters in the menu
• Resource manager has moved to settings
• “Size Canvas to Size of Current Layer” is renamed to “Trim to Current Layer” and “Size Canvas to Size of Selection” is renamed to “Trim to Selection”
• Lots of warnings fixed that only show up with clang, quite a few of which unconvered real bugs.
• Fix thumbnailing for .kra and .ora files
• Add a shortcut to toggle the assistants on and off
• Fix pasting text in a multi-line text shape

 

To install Krita 2.9 Beta 2 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint :

To get the last stable version use the following PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita
sudo apt-get install kritasketch (otherwise you won't have the sketch brush in 2.8.0)
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If you have any type of *Buntu system, you can also get the bleeding edge build from Dmitry's Krita Lime PPA. It will be right off the master branch, so be prepared if it might have some kinks. Also check out Dmitry's Kria Lime post about installing and getting things set up.

 

Install Krita 2.9 Beta 2 on OpenSUSE

Visit KDE_repositories to find which repository fits your needs.

 

Install Krita 2.9 Beta 2 on Fedora

Fedora packages are available in the unstable repository of the KDE Packaging Project.

 

Install Krita 2.9 Beta 2 on Gentoo

The e-build for Calligra Suite is in the portage tree as: app-office/calligra-2.7.00. You can use this to install Krita as well; there might be newer versions as well.

For Mac OSX 10.9

Mac OSX is very experimental right now and unstable. You can download the latest binary if you want. It has only been reported to work with Mac OSX 10.9.