Krita

Krita 5.3.1.1 Released (Android-only)

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Krita 5.3.1.1 is an Android-only fix for 5.3.1. It is exactly the same as Krita 5.3.1, but with two fixes:

fixed a crash on Android 12 and older when trying to access any text controls
fix stylus workarounds for Xiaomi and OnePlus to work properly

Check out the release notes for a full overview of all the new features in Krita 5.3 and 6.0.

Note: this release is only relevant for Android, so only Android APK's and source archives are available. You only need the source archive when building for Android yourself.

[!WARNING] One again, we consider Krita 5.3.1 suitable for productive work; 6.0.1 is, because of the many changes from Qt5 to Qt6 more experimental.

5.3.1.1 Download

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; and is meant to run on chromebooks and tablets only.

Source code

[!NOTE] Note for distributions: if you package both PyQt5 and PyQt6, you will want to patch our source code with this patch: Disallow importing conflicting version of PyQt

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.3.1/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Krita 5.3.1 Released!

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.1 and 6.0.1.

This release mainly fixes an issue for Windows users: some applications, like Microsoft Windows Powertoys' Fancy Zones or the Google Drive plugin cause problems for Krita. These applications query all running applications for their accessibility abilities.

Until Qt6, Qt's QML module, which is used extensively in the new text tool, would then recursively query all active screen objects, like comboboxes or buttons, and up and down the entire class hierarchy for accessibility features. This slowed down Krita to the point where even menus would be slow to open.

It was extremely tricky to figure this out, since none of the Krita developers actually use these external applications... But it should be fixed now!

There are more fixes in this release:

The mutator shortcut is now Ctrl-alt-shift-m instead of Z in accordance with the plugin's manual.
On Android, the canvas will not pan up when you use the text tool
On Android, the OnePlus stylus middle click button works
Animation Key Frame copy pasting now works in Krita 6
On Wayland, drag and drop is fixed (Wayland clears the clipboard when a new window is opened, so now we have to cache the data.)
The canvas resize dialog now works correctly when changing units (bug: 517857)
The Incremental Backup/Version saving function now works in Krita 6.
On Android, text fields should no longer block stylus movements, pressing spacebar should work as a shortcut and the view should no longer turn blue when pressing a keyboard key. These issues only occurred on some devices.

Check out the release notes for a full overview of all the new features in Krita 5.3 and 6.0.

[!WARNING] One again, we consider Krita 5.3.1 suitable for productive work; 6.0.1 is, because of the many changes from Qt5 to Qt6 more experimental.

5.3.1 Download

Windows

If you're using the portable zip files, just open the zip file in Explorer and drag the folder somewhere convenient, then double-click on the Krita icon in the folder. This will not impact an installed version of Krita, though it will share your settings and custom resources with your regular installed version of Krita. For reporting crashes, also get the debug symbols folder.

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.3.1-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.3.1.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.1-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.3.1-signed.dmg

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; and is meant to run on chromebooks and tablets only.

Source code

For source archives, please download one of the 6.0.1 archives and build with Qt5.

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.3.1/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

6.0.1 Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-6.0.1-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-6.0.1.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-6.0.1-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-6.0.1-signed.dmg

Android

Krita 6.0.1 is not yet functional on Android, so we are not making APK's available for sideloading.

Source code

[!NOTE] Note for distributions: if you package both PyQt5 and PyQt6, you will want to patch our source code with this patch: Disallow importing conflicting version of PyQt

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/6.0.1/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Krita 5.3.0 Released!

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today is the simultaneous release of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0!

Depending which version of Qt and KDE Frameworks you build, the same source will result in one of the other. Both versions are almost functionally identical, with 6.0.0 having more Wayland functionality.

But note that since Krita 6 is still considered rather experimental, since it's our first release based on Qt 6, and there were many complicated changes between 5 and 6.

For real work, please use 5.3.0! We expect 6.0 to become the main version of Krita before the end of the year, though.

What's New

There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it. Video courtesy of David Revoy.

Krita 5.3/6.0 is the result of many years of work by the Krita developers. Some features have been rewritten from the ground up, others make their first appearance.

Enjoy the completely new text feature: on canvas editing, full opentype support, text flowing into shapes. It is now easier than ever to create vector-based panels for comic pages. Tools got extended: for instance, the fill tool now can close gaps. The liquify mode of the transform tool is much faster. There are new filters: a propagate colors filter and a reset transparent filter. Support for HDR painting has been improved. The recorder docker can now work in real time. There is improved support for file formats, like support for text objects in PSD files. And much, much, much more!

For a complete overview of everything, check out our extensive release notes!

5.3.0 Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.3.0-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.3.0.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.0-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.3.0-signed.dmg

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; tablets only.

Source code

For source archives, please download the 6.0.0 archives and build with Qt5.

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.3.0/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and is signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

6.0.0 Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-6.0.0-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-6.0.0.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-6.0.0-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-6.0.0-signed.dmg

Android

Krita 6.0.0 is not yet functional on Android, so we are not making APK's available for sideloading.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/6.0.0/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Monthly Report - March 2026

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The second and third betas for Krita 5.3.0/6.0.0 have been released, with the final release drawing near. There was also a hotfix stable release, 5.2.16, to fix a regression causing problems with HEIF files.

Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.

Development Report

5.2.16 Hotfix Release

This release contains exactly two regression fixes: some HEIF files not loading properly (bug), and the Move Tool movement shortcuts not working until clicking the canvas (bug).

If you're encountering either issue, update to 5.2.16.

Manual Updated Ahead of Release

The Krita Manual has been updated with all the new features in 5.3.0, thanks to the efforts of manual writer Wolthera and others.

Having trouble figuring something out? The friendly documentation is there to guide you in multiple languages, thanks to the ongoing work of all the translators!

Second and Third Betas for 5.3.0/6.0.0 Released

The second beta and third beta for 5.3.0/6.0.0 were released, with many bug-fixes and a look at the new splash screen artwork by Tyson Tan.

Thanks to everyone who tested! The beta period is at an end with the final release right around the corner, but you can keep testing the latest nightly builds (found at the bottom of this post), and keep reporting bugs!

Fixes in Beta 2

Zoom In/Out to Cursor is the default canvas input zoom again, and Zoom In/Out to Center is the alternatively configurable action. (bug; change by Carsten)

Qt6 Fixes

Some Krita 6 bugs were caused using an outdated version of Qt6. As updating Qt would cause too many issues before the final release, Dmitry backported the fixes to our version.

On Windows, Krita won't crash when news is enabled (bug; change) and menus won't instantly close when using a stylus with WinTab (bug 1, bug 2; change).

On Linux with Wayland, issues with incorrect stylus cursor position (bug 1, bug 2; change 1, change 2), wrong cursor shape (change), and shortcut keys being auto-repeated (bug; change) are fixed.

The Help menu's Report Bug item is back, so don't be shy to report bugs! (bug; change by Luna)

Fixes in Beta 3

File Layers now allow Inherit Alpha and Layer Styles (change), .kra files used as File Layers now use their color profiles (bug; change), and renaming File, Filter, and Generator Layers is now undoable (bug; change), all thanks to Dmitry.

Agata fixed some regressions. Tools that auto-scroll when dragged to the edge of the canvas, such as the Selection tools, no longer scroll too much when zoomed in (bug change); Liquify Transform Masks no longer appear different than before (bug; change), plus the new Comics Panel Editing Tool no longer affects text (rather than turning characters into blocks) (bug; change)

On Android, a saving issue where the file is claimed to be unwritable was fixed by Carsten (change).

On Linux with X11/XWayland, there have been reports of Krita 6 running at a low framerate. The fix for this is to switch the OpenGL interface from GLX to EGL. This switch needs testing, so please read the EGL backend testing thread on how to do that and leave some feedback on whether it works or not.

Fixes in the Upcoming Final Release

Crashes were fixed when making a new vector layer after switching to a session (bug; change by Wolthera), converting the only layer of a group into a selection mask (bug; change by Dmitry), or on startup after removing a bundle containing tags. (change by Carsten)

More issues loading and saving HEIF images were fixed (bug; change 1, change 2 by Dmitry).

The Selection Actions Bar was fixed by Luna and Carsten to work with stylus or touch again, and have the right colors. (change 1, change 2; change 3)

More fixes to the Comic Panel Editing Tool by Agata (change): Only cut shapes the cut goes all the way through. Remove shapes that are small enough to be inside the cut gap. Work properly when using Shift for a straight line and putting the cursor on the end of the line. Don't add to the undo stack when nothing happened. The buttons and options have explanatory tooltips now (CCbug; change 1, change 2).

Krita 6 no longer crashes when loading window layouts. (bug; change by Gregg Jansen van Vuren)

On Linux with Wayland, pasting images with multiple sources in the clipboard no longer crashes. (bug; change by Luna)

Krita 6 on Windows no longer crashes when trying to open the background color selector. (bug; change by Dmitry)

A regression in beta 3 that broke translations on Android and Krita 6 has been fixed by Carsten and Freya (bug; change 1, change 2). Missing translations in Krita 6 were fixed by Dmitry and Ivan (change 1, change 2). Translations for some standard menu items such as 'New File' or 'About Krita' were also fixed for all versions. (bug; change by Dmitry)

The G'MIC plugin has been updated by Ivan to version 3.7.2 (change) and a crash when using the 'Layers Blend [Seamless]' filter was also fixed by Carsten (bug, change).

Text

The usual plethora of text fixes by Wolthera:

In the Text Properties Docker, Line Height property is now visible by default (change) and the dropdowns are touch-scrollable (change by Carsten). The Style Presets preview now shows properly in paragraph mode (bug; change).

The Text Tool won't modify hidden or locked layers (bug; change). Rendering issues when undoing/redoing text modifications have been fixed (bug; change 1, change 2).

Text-on-path now works properly with RTL and end-anchors (change). Gradients are properly positioned on text-in-shape (change), and flow-text-in-shape only happens for filled shapes (change). Text-on-path can't also be inside a shape (bug; change).

Instead of crashing when loading a font on startup fails, a fallback font is loaded (bug; change). Try harder to load some fonts (CCbug; change 1, change 2).

And Even More!

If that wasn't enough bugfixes for you, there's even more listed in the "Additional Changes" section near the bottom of this post.

Roadmap Revealed

The next major release is almost here! But the work to improve Krita never ends, so the development team got together to decide their next priorities.

Read the 2026 Krita Roadmap post to find out what problems the team wants to address after 5.3/6.0.

Community Report

February 2026 Monthly Art Challenge Results

The winner of the "Alien World Building" challenge is…

Birth in the Depths by Rhea_Asma

Join This Month's Art Challenge!

For March's theme, last month's winner has chosen "An unforgettable scene – 5 seconds before". Maybe you've got an artwork just waiting to happen?

Featured Artwork

This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the Best of Krita-Artists - January/February 2026:

Skeleton and Cat by ShangZhou0

Pennywise Fan-art by Devin_Lopez

We are going to have to defend it with machete by Joseiby_Tapia

Why.. So.. Serious? by TBs_thename

Bad opal by Sineater

Nominate and Vote For Next Month's Featured Artwork!

Participate in next month's nominations and voting to voice your opinion on the Best of Krita-Artists - February/March 2026.

Krita is Free - But You Can Contribute!

Krita is free to use and modify, but it can only exist with the contributions of the community. A small sponsored team alongside volunteer programmers, artists, writers, testers, translators, and more from across the world keep development going.

If this software has value to you, consider donating to the Krita Development Fund. Or Get Involved and put your skills to use making Krita and its community better!

Additional Changes

5.3.0/6.0.0 Beta 2 (Stable pre-release):

Freehand Brush Tool: Properly remember Stabilizer sample count values. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Dockers: Palette: Don't scroll the palette view when the foreground color changes with select nearest palette color on. (change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Android: Fix the UI font being too big with the Enable HiDPI setting disabled. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Android: Fix the Add Style Preset dialog being a white box. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Android: Go back to the previous way of working around the window not updating when first opening an image. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Linux Wayland: Fix a crash when running with --nosplash. (change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Python Plugins: Batch Exporter: Fix script error when exporting. (bug; change by Freya Lupen)
Qt6: Fix line-edits having an unreadable placeholder text color. (bug; change by Freya Lupen)
Qt6 macOS: Fix the SVG Text Editor's background always using macOS style. (change by Freya Lupen)

5.3.0/6.0.0 Beta 3 (Stable pre-release):

Selection Tools: Improve Selection Actions Bar. Switch between light and dark icons. Show the cursor when hovering over it. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
Text Tool: Make sure text selection highlight is synced to changes. (bug; change by Wolthera van Hövell)
Text Tool: Fix double ends being drawn in type setting mode. (change by Wolthera van Hövell)
Text: Avoid crash by testing bounds for cursor pos. (change by Wolthera van Hövell)
Type Setting Mode: Don't maintain pos when there's no selection. (change by Wolthera van Hövell)
File Formats: PNG: Fix the 'Assume sRGB' setting to actually use sRGB for PNG images without a color profile. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Input Profiles: Bind mouse button 6 to Eraser Mode in the Krita Default input profile and Eraser Preset in the other default profiles. Bind middle-click on Android to mouse button 6. (change 1 change 2 by Carsten Hartenfels)
Bundle Creator: Fix thumbnails of selected resources to not be blank in thumbnails view mode. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Plugins: Workflow Buttons: Fix settings button not being visible. (bug; change by Timothée Giet)
Scripting: Avoid crashing if another version of PyQt is on Python's search path, by removing its containing folder (which may contain other modules) from the search path. This also adds a new script function, 'pykrita.qt_major_version()'. (bug; change by Freya Lupen)
Qt6 Dockers: Specific Color Selector: Fix saturation and value/lightness not updating in HSV/HSL mode. (bug; change by Freya Lupen)
Linux Wayland: Fix deploying Wayland client-side-decoration (change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Linux Wayland: Fix error when opening Settings on compositors without the 'wp_color_manager_v1' extension. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
Linux: Make sure Dr.Konqi has a bugreport address (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Linux Wayland: Fix the Pop-up Palette's docker config dialog not appearing. (bug; change by Luna Lovecraft)

Krita Plus (Stable, 5.3.0/6.0.0):

Tools: Make non-mouse multi-clicks in tools such as Crop and Polyline work. (bug 1, bug 2; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Freehand Brush Tool: Improve Pixel Smoothing mode and fix it to work with sensor dynamics. (change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Brush Engines: Fix brush speed lurching. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Crop Tool: Show negative coordinates in grow mode, snap to the canvas bounds when not in grow mode. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
Comics Panel Editing Tool: Fix the last edge being missing when merging shapes by removing a gutter. (change, by Agata Cacko)
Pasting: Fix missing colorspace with Paste into New Image with a selection. (bug; change by Luna Lovecraft)
Layer Stack: When switching to a mask with a shortcut, show its name in the floating message instead of its parent layer's. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Resources: Fix being able to save resources that are inside a subfolder into a document. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Palettes: Save modifications to palettes saved in documents. (change by Mike Will)
Palettes: Make the 'Default' palette the default in the FG/BG color selector. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Touch Input: Don't touch paint when multiple fingers were down. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Touch Input: Disable pointless long-press on the FG/BG color selector. (change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Text Properties Docker: Fix right-clicking slider-spinboxes selecting the text label instead of only the value. (bug; change by Luna Lovecraft)
General: Speed up start-up by making the Text Properties Docker load color theme faster. (change by Carsten Hartenfels)

Krita Next (Unstable, 5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha):

Pop-up Palette: Add option to not rotate the triangular color selector; 'Settings->Pop-up Palette->Fix sRGB Triangle Selector Rotation'. (change by Dat Le)
Scripting: Add brushFade get/set to the View class. (change by Aqaao Aqaao)
Toolbox Docker: Add horizontal layout and compact mode (remove separators) options to the context menu. (change by Mike Will)

Nightly Builds

These pre-release versions of Krita are built every day.

Note that there are currently no Qt6 builds for Android.

Test out the upcoming Stable release in Krita Plus (5.3.0/6.0.0-prealpha): Linux Qt6 Qt5 — Windows Qt6 Qt5 — macOS Qt6 Qt5 — Android arm64 Qt5 – Android arm32 Qt5 – Android x86_64 Qt5

Or test out the latest Experimental features in Krita Next (5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux Qt6 Qt5 — Windows Qt6 Qt5 — macOS Qt6 Qt5 — Android arm64 Qt5 – Android arm32 Qt5 – Android x86_64 Qt5

2026 Krita Roadmap

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In two sessions, the Krita developers discussed what they want to work on in 2026, after Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 are released. That is, actually, one release, but one version is built with Qt5 and one with Qt6. The release is planned for March 24.

Krita Sketch User Interface

Last year, Timotheé created a prototype for a mobile user interface for Krita (there is an APK you can install to play with). At the same time Wolthera finished her work on the new text shape and text tools. Both projects use the QML and QtQuick features of Qt to implement the user interface.

This year, we intend to work on replacing the tool option dockers with QML so we can use those both in the mobile and in the desktop version of Krita.

Alvin Wong experimented in 2025 with embedding an OpenGL based canvas inside a QML application. Dmitry and Carsten will continue that work and see whether we can use Krita's canvas to show an image inside Timotheé's prototype.

Agata has already started work to make the current user interface more suitable for tablet use.

Working with Files

There are a couple of plans we have with regards to file handling. On Android, working with the file sandboxing is seriously complicated, and we're looking into a solution for that.

The Krita .kra file format is pretty old by now (not 25 years, since it came into being a few years after Krita started being developed). It can, obviously, load and save everything Krita can handle, but it is not a particular fast file format. Carsten proposed to look into an SQLlite based file format. This could potentially mean that we could save the image after every change without the user noticing, making saving completely transparent.

Agata is already working on improving the autosave dialog. There is already a mockup for this.

Ivan is looking into sharing settings and resources across a user's devices, ideally in a cross-platform way.

Color Management

While Krita supports HDR displays, there are issues with the user interface. Wolthera wants to start improving there.

Now that Qt 6 includes support for color management, CMYK and higher-bit depth images, it should be possible to add color management to Krita's vector layers, and that's something we are eager to implement.

We also discussed Wayland. We now support color management on Wayland on Linux, but there are plenty of problems there. We decided to only support the KWin Wayland compositor that comes with KDE Plasma for now.

Performance

Dmitry wants to work on "region based updates", and has already started on that: this will make working with large images faster.

Ivan and Wolthera are interested in using vectorization in filters, possibly replacing the use of LittleCMS for color transformations.

Continuous integration

Continuous integration is how we build Krita: after changes, Krita is built automatically for every platform. Now that we've access to Windows ARM hardware, we need to find a way to extend our builds to Windows ARM, but the CI factory doesn't have an ARM builder, so we'd need to cross build.

We also intend to update all Krita's dependencies to the latest version, but only after we release Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0. And of course, we intend to keep releasing bugfix and feature releases this year! For now, Krita 5.3 is the standard release, and 6.0 is considered experimental, but that should have changed by the end of the year.

Third beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today we're releasing the third beta of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0.

The bug-squashing continues, We received 63 bug reports in total, of which we managed to resolve 8 for this release, making a total of 22 fixed bugs. Beyond that, the manual has been updated for 5.3 and 6.0, complete with dark theme!

Please keep testing and reporting!

Note that 6.0.0-beta3 has more issues, especially on Linux and Wayland, than 5.3.0-beta3. If you want to combine beta testing with actual productive work, it's best to test 5.3.0-beta3, since 5.3.0 will remain the recommended version of Krita for now.

To learn about everything that has changed, check the release notes!

5.3.0-beta3 Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.3.0-beta3-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.3.0-beta3.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.0-beta3-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.3.0-beta3-signed.dmg

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; tablets only.

Source code

See the source code for 6.0.0-beta3

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/unstable/krita/5.3.0-beta3/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

6.0.0-beta2 Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-6.0.0-beta3-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-6.0.0-beta3.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-6.0.0-beta3-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-6.0.0-beta3-signed.dmg

Android

No Krita 6.0.0 for Android for now. Please use the 5.3.0-beta3 APKs.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/unstable/krita/6.0.0-beta3/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Krita 5.2.16 bugfix release!

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.16. The previous version of 5.2 had issues with saving heif, heic and avif files, and while we are busy preparing 5.3, we decided this was worth it to make another release over.

Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.2.16-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.2.16.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.2.16-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.2.16-signed.dmg

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; tablets only.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.2.16/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Second beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today we're releasing the second beta of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0. Our thanks to all the people who have tested the first beta. We received 49 bug reports in total, of which we managed to resolve 14 for this release.

Note that 6.0.0-beta2 has more issues, especially on Linux and Wayland, than 5.3.0-beta2. If you want to combine beta testing with actual productive work, it's best to test 5.3.0-beta2, since 5.3.0 will remain the recommended version of Krita for now.

This release also has the new splash screen by Tyson Tan - "Kiki Paints Over the Waves"!

To learn about everything that has changed, check the release notes!

5.3.0-beta2 Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.3.0-beta2-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.3.0-beta2.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.0-beta2-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.3.0-beta2-signed.dmg

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; tablets only.

Source code

You can build Krita 5.3 using the Krita 6.0.0.source archives. The difference is which version of Qt you build against.

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/unstable/krita/5.3.0-beta2/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

6.0.0-beta2 Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-6.0.0-beta2-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-6.0.0-beta2.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

[!WARNING] Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

64 bits Linux: krita-6.0.0-beta2-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

MacOS disk image: krita-6.0.0-beta2-signed.dmg

Android

Due to issues with Qt6 and Android, we cannot make APK builds for Android of Krita 6.0.0-beta2.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/unstable/krita/6.0.0-beta2/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Monthly Report - February 2026

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The final final 5.2.x release has been made, and the first beta for 5.3.0/6.0.0 is out!

Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.

Development Report

5.2.15 Released

5.2.15, another bugfix release, is out, featuring a few more Android, touch input, and general bug fixes. This is really the last 5.2.x release this time.

Check out the 5.2.15 release post and stay up-to-date!

First Beta for 5.3.0/6.0.0 Released

The next major release will be a dual release; 5.3.0 is built on the familiar Qt5 framework, while 6.0.0 is ported to the newer Qt6 framework. Qt6 allows for better Wayland compositor support on Linux among other things, but unfamiliarity and lack of testing means Krita 6.0.0 will be less stable than 5.3.0. Krita 6 is also not yet available on Android.

The first betas for this release are out. Help out by testing the two years' worth of changes since 5.2 and the Qt6 porting work, and report any bugs you find so they can be fixed before the final release! Learn more in the beta1 release post.

Some of Last Month's Bugfixes

The team has been busy polishing new features and fixing old bugs for the beta release.

Many issues with gradients, layer styles, and resource loading were fixed by Dmitry.

Layer Styles now use their own copy of gradients, preventing the gradients from unexpectedly changing when the global version is modified, as well as related crashes. (bug 1, bug 2, bug 3, bug 4; change)
The Bevel-and-Emboss Layer Style now saves patterns correctly. (bug; change)
Brush presets with embedded resources sharing a name with a different resource are now loaded correctly. (CCbug; change)
Fixed editing or removing resource bundles causing a database error on startup. (bug; change)

More text fixes by Wolthera:

Made sure new texts are made with the current foreground color. (change)
Fixed an issue where light-colored text made Krita stall and then the text disappeared (caused by reading uninitialized data as font metrics). (bug; change)
Fixed selecting fonts whose full name is the same as their family name. (bug; change)
Fixed freeze when editing text contour while bound rect snapping is enabled. (change)
Fixed setting subscript and superscript on the entire paragraph. (bug; change)

The G'MIC filter plugin has been updated by Ivan to version 3.6.6. (change)

On macOS, Krita's G'MIC is now faster, being built with OpenMP's multithreading as was already the case on other platforms. (change)

Community Report

January 2026 Monthly Art Challenge Results

The winner of the "Vintage Travel Poster" challenge is…

Titan by Elixiah

Join This Month's Art Challenge!

For February's theme, last month's winner Elixiah passed the choice of topic to runner-up MossGreenEddie, who has chosen "Alien World Building", with the optional challenge of including food in some way. How might members of an extra-terrestrial society interact? Cook up something out of this world!

Featured Artwork

This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the Best of Krita-Artists - December 2025/January 2026:

Aging by ShangZhou0

Cat's Eye by _CR

Digital Watercolor Landscapes by daroart37

Photo drawing study: hands by pavuk0.2

Rooster 2025 by z586t

Nominate and Vote For Next Month's Featured Artwork!

Participate in next month's nominations and voting to voice your opinion on the Best of Krita-Artists - January/February 2026.

Krita is Free - But You Can Contribute!

If this software has value to you, consider donating to the Krita Development Fund. Or Get Involved and put your skills to use making Krita and its community better!

Additional Changes

Krita Plus (Stable, 5.2.15):

Gradients: Fix an issue where reloading a gradient removes the transparency, by using premultipled alpha in SVG gradients. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Shortcuts: Prevent Transform/Move Tool move shortcuts from triggering when the tools aren't active, which could override other shortcuts (such as next/previous frame). (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Overview Docker: Fix touch-dragging to pan, by disabling the non-existent context menu. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Tablets: Add workarounds for Xiaomi devices, which can be toggled in Configure Krita -> Tablet Settings: Translate the stylus's Page Up and Page Down buttons into right mouse and middle mouse buttons. Ignore jagged tablet stylus position history. Use a steeper default pressure curve so that it's possible to reach 100% pressure. (change by Carsten Hartenfels)

Krita Plus (Stable pre-release, 5.3.0/6.0.0-beta1):

Comics Panel Editing Tool: Fix crash and other issues with remove gutter mode. (bug; change by Agata Cacko)
Transform Tool: Liquify: Fix broken 'Accurate with Instant Preview' when zoomed out, and issues when liquifying on the edge of a selection. (bug 1, bug 2; change by Agata Cacko)
Transform Tool: Show feedback that hidden or locked layers cannot be transformed, when attempted. (change by Agata Cacko)
Move Tool: Disallow moving layers hidden by isolation mode. (change by Ricky Ringler)
Freehand Path Tool: Fix preview not updating when changing color. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
General: Fix crash when closing image after deleting a vector layer under some circumstances. (bug; change by Luna Lovecraft)
General: Avoid Krita becoming unresponsive due to slow layer thumbnail generation. When thumbnail generation is slow, a warning in the statusbar mentions that the thumbnails have been switched to low quality mode and suggests using the new Image->Purge Unused Image Data action to clean up empty spaces of the image. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
Layers Docker: Prevent Ctrl+drag-and-drop from selecting the layer. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
Layers Docker: Fixes for selecting layers with Shift or Ctrl. (bug 1, bug 2; change by Luna Lovecraft)
Touch Input: Prevent touch scrolling from triggering context menus. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
Brush Editor: Fix Texture Options' offset sliders not working after enabling Pattern. (bug; change by Luna Lovecraft)
Android: Recorder Docker: Remove the default recording folder path to avoid saving to a user-inaccessible appdata directory. The path can be set manually, which will move any existing recordings from the old default folder. (Note that rendering timelapse videos is not possible on Android Krita, but the frames and their document can be copied to another OS and rendered there.) (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)
macOS: Fix lack of standard Qt text translations such as Yes/No buttons and the macOS application menu. (bug 1, bug 2; change by Ivan Yossi)

Krita Plus (Stable pre-release, 5.3.0/6.0.0-beta1+):

File Formats: HEIF: Fix crash when opening HEIF/AVIF images in YCrBr. (bug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)

Krita Next (Unstable, 5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha):

General: Show hi-dpi versions of the recent file thumbnails on the welcome page. (change by Agata Cacko)

Nightly Builds

These pre-release versions of Krita are built every day.

Note that there are currently no Qt6 builds for Android.

Test out the upcoming Stable release in Krita Plus (5.3.0/6.0.0-prealpha): Linux Qt6 Qt5 — Windows Qt6 Qt5 — macOS Qt6 Qt5 — Android arm64 Qt5 – Android arm32 Qt5 – Android x86_64 Qt5

First beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We have started the release process for the next feature release of Krita today! This release is the culmination of years of hard work. From the same codebase, we're building both Krita 5.3, based on Qt5, and Krita 6.0.0. based on Qt6. Krita 6 is not yet available for Android or ChromeOS because Qt6 is unstable on those platforms.

Highlights

To learn about everything that has changed, check the release notes!

Text Object

The text object has been completely rewritten, as have all the tools to handle text. You can now edit text on the canvas, make text wrap inside vector shapes and put text on a vector path. We support most if not all scripts fully as well.

A variety of technical blog posts were written on the topic: Fonts, Open Type, Font Metrics, various other properties, Text in Shape and Type Setting Mode.

Wayland Color Management Support

A Krita 6-only feature, on Linux, we now support Wayland color management support when Krita runs in native Wayland mode. Note that the only officially supported wayland compositor is KWin. If you use another compositor and find an issue, test with kwin first whether that issue reproducible.

Tools

There is a completely new tool: a knife tool for vector objects, for merging and splitting vector objects. This is extremely handle when creating comic page layouts. Other tools have been extended or have improved performance. For instance, the freehand drawing tool has a pixel-art stabilizer and the liquify transform tool is much faster.

Assistants

Configuring assistants has become easier and there's a new curve-linear perspective assistant.

Filters

There are new filters: propagate colors and color overlay mask. All blending modes have been checked for correctness when working in HDR.

Dockers

The recorder docker now can capture in real time. Dockers can be added to the popup palette.

Brush Engines

Among other improvements, the pattern option has been extended with a soft texturing mode.

File Formats

There is support for a new file format, Radiance RGBE. Additionally, JPEG-XL support has been improved a lot, just in time for Googles volte-face on JPEG-XL support. And... Text objects in PhotoShop files now be loaded as text! You can save text to PSD as well, but only in a limited way.

Python Plugin API

The Python plugin API has been extended with an API for generating brush strokes, new user interface objects and new methods for existing classes. There are also new python plugins.

Krita 5.3 Downloads

Windows

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-5.3.0-beta1-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-5.3.0-beta1.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with 5.2.11, the minimum supported version of Ubuntu is 22.04.

64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.0-beta1-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

MacOS disk image: krita-5.3.0-beta1.dmg

Android

We consider Krita on ChromeOS as ready for production. Krita on Android is still beta. Krita is not available for Android phones, only for tablets, because the user interface requires a large screen.

Source code

You can build Krita 5.3 using the Krita 6.0.0.source archives. The difference is which version of Krita you build against.

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/unstable/krita/5.3.0-beta1/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Krita 6.0. Download

NOTE: The main feature of the 6.0 release is that it uses Qt6. This means it is buggier than 5.3, having both the 5.3 bugs and Qt6 related bugs. If you have no need for the Krita 6.0 features, we recommend you use 5.3 for testing.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/unstable/krita/6.0.0-beta1/. and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Krita 5.2.15 bugfix release!

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.15. This is a bug fix release with a number of crash fixes and workarounds to improve use with the Xiaomi Pad.

Changelog

Fix crash when using a smudge brush (Bug 512243)
Update GMic to 3.6.4.1 in krita/5.2 branch
Fix crash when undoing liquefy (Bug 498696)
Fix crash when an embedded profile is faulty (Bug 509875)
Fix loading of TIFF files with JPEG compression
Force SVG gradients to work in premultiplied alpha mode, counter to specification (Bug 502118, more info in commit)
Fix Transform and Move shortcuts conflicting Timeline arrow key actions (Bug 513855)
Don't compress touch events matched to shortcuts
Treat 3+-finger-touch cancels as ends (Bug 510993)
Prevent rotation notice jitter around zero
Allow combining zoom and rotation popup messages
Disable context menu on overview widget (Bug 514238)
Make touch scrolling not trigger menu (Bug 513413)
Xiaomi stylus button and curve fixes (handle pageup and down) (more info in commit )
Steeper tablet curve for Xiaomi devices (more info in commit)
Don't flicker window on Xiaomi devices
make xcodebuild an archival build to avoid unwanted debug entitlements.

Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-5.2.15-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-5.2.15.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with 5.2.11, the minimum supported version of Ubuntu is 22.04.

[!WARNING] Starting with 5.2.11 has updated the AppImage runtime, which is known to be incompatible with the old versions of AppImageLauncher. Developers of the AppImage runtime suggest to remove or update AppImageLauncher. See this report: Issue 121 More AppImage troubleshooting info is available here: FUSE

64 bits Linux: krita-5.2.15-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: We're not supporting MacOS 10.13 anymore, 10.14 is the minimum supported version.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.2.15.dmg

Android

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.2.15/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Monthly Report - January 2026

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

During the December holidays, the developers found time for a few bugfixes.

Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.

Development Report

Luna fixed two crashes in the Stable branch; when undoing the Transform Tool during another transformation (bug; change), and when an embedded color profile is invalid. (bug; change).

Dmitry fixed loading TIFF files with JPEG compression (change).

In the Unstable branch, a handful more bugfixes were made:

Wolthera fixed parsing white-space-only text elements (bug; change), and issues setting text color (bug; change).

Carsten worked around multitouch gestures being cancelled on Xiaomi Pad devices (bug; change), and combined simultaneous canvas rotation and zoom messages (change).

Community Report

December 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

The winner of the "Chiaroscuro" challenge is…

steve.improvthis's two entries.

Ginger's Gift by steve.improvthis

Join This Month's Art Challenge!

For January's theme, last month's winner has chosen "Vintage Travel Poster", with the optional challenge of using the Assistant Tool. What kind of fantastic destination could you illustrate an advertisement for? Show others new horizons in the new year!

Featured Artwork

This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the Best of Krita-Artists Nominations - November/December 2025:

Speedpaint 10. Apple by Tromplier

Barn at Sunset by Brian_Bigelow

"Save Me" Freddie Mercury and Brian May Artwork by deerblue

Charcoal head study by sognidigitali

Realistic pear oil painting by Younel0

Nominate and Vote For Next Month's Featured Artwork!

Participate in next month's nominations and voting to voice your opinion on the Best of Krita-Artists - December 2025/January 2026.

Krita is Free - But You Can Contribute!

If this software has value to you, consider donating to the Krita Development Fund. Or Get Involved and put your skills to use making Krita and its community better!

Nightly Builds

These pre-release versions of Krita are built every day.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable Krita Plus (5.2.15-prealpha): Linux — Windows — macOS (unsigned) — Android arm64 – Android arm32 – Android x86_64

Or test out the latest Experimental features in Krita Next (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux — Windows — macOS — Android arm64 – Android arm32 – Android x86_64

Krita Monthly Update - Edition 33

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the November 2025 development and community update.

Development Report

5.2.14 Released

One last bugfix release in the 5.2 series, 5.2.14 is out. This version once again features many fixes for Android and touch input, but that's not all! The Color Sampler's preview has a new round default look, and macOS users can now view .kra thumbnails in Finder again. Read more in the dedicated blogpost and stay up up-to-date.

Text Rework Progress

Development of 5.3.0 is now in feature freeze, meaning no more features will be added before release. This includes the Text Tool, marking the end of a long phase of development for Wolthera, code reviewer Dmitry, and everyone else who contributed.

Texts can now be created to fit within a shape or along a path, just by clicking the vector with the Text Tool. (MR!2432)

Animated image of creating text that fits itself within a speech balloon shape. cc-by D.Revoy

Text properties have been split into into Paragraph and Character tabs, making it clearer which level the properties are taking effect at. (MR!2470)

Carsten has also made sure the Text Tool works properly with touch input. (MR!2563)

But this journey's not over; if you use 5.3 pre-release builds, make sure to report bugs and leave feedback in the Text Tool Thread!

New Comic Panel Editing Tool

There's a new tool in the Toolbox: the Comic Panel Editing Tool. Agata designed this for creating comic panel gutters by cutting gaps in vector shapes. (MR!2331)

It can be set to cut different gap widths depending on whether the cut is horizontal, vertical, or diagonal past a certain angle. A second mode in Tool Options removes the gaps for easy re-adjustment.

Liquify Transform Speedup

The Transform Tool's Liquify mode has had some optimizations done by Agata. It's especially faster on large canvases, because it now avoids calculating outside the affected area. (MR!4261)

Before:

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Video of using Liquify to make adjustments on a 3520x1978px canvas on Krita 5.2.9. It's not very responsive. cc-by D.Revoy

After:

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Video of using Liquify to make adjustments on the same canvas on Krita 5.3.0-pre-alpha. It's smooth and easy to use. cc-by D.Revoy

Python Updated to 3.13

Krita's unstable builds have been updated from Python 3.10 to Python 3.13 (MR!2466). This has the potential to break plugins and scripts, so users of Krita Next should report any such issues to the developers of those plugins before 5.3.0's release.

If you're a plugin developer, check out the release notes for Python 3.11, Python 3.12, and Python 3.13 for information on the changes.

Community Report

Plans for 5.3.0's Upcoming Release

Krita's developers have put out a call for banner and icon artwork to promote the upcoming 5.3 release. This artwork must fit certain sizes and be licensed appropriately, so please read the rules before contributing!

November 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

17 forum members took on the challenge of the "Civilization Engulfed by Nature" theme. And the winner is… @Elixiah's two entries:

Time Keeper by @Elixiah

And Sunlit Silence

The December Art Challenge is Open Now

For this month's theme, winner @Elixiah has chosen Chiaroscuro, the strong contrast of light and dark, with runner-up @edgarej adding the optional challenge of a Christmas/holiday theme. Check out the topic for more details, and make some art that stands out like holiday lights on a dark night!

Featured Artwork

Best of Krita-Artists - October/November 2025

This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 17 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:

Weird meeting by @Sad_Tea

Melon Soda city by @800000000W

Winter in the village by @Yarikart

Flower by @yuheng_zhang

Female head study by @netizenses

Best of Krita-Artists - November/December 2025

Take a look at the nominations for next month.

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!

Support Krita financially by making a one-time or monthly monetary donation. Or donate your time and Get Involved with testing, development, translation, documentation, and more. Last but not least, you can spread the word! Share your Krita artworks, resources, and tips with others, and show the world what Krita can do.

Other Notable Changes

Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from November 11, 2025 - December 14, 2025.

Stable branch (5.2.14):

Canvas Input: Add a One Finger Hold gesture and set it by default to Sample Foreground Color From Merged Image. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Color Sampler: The Color Sampler preview now defaults to a circle to be more visible when using touch input. The size of the circle can be adjusted under Settings->General->Cursor, or changed back to rectangles. (bug report) (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Layers Docker: Dragging-and-dropping a layer onto its own canvas now pastes a copy only if Ctrl is held, to prevent duplicating it by accident. Dropping a layer onto a different canvas still copy-pastes it as before, without holding Ctrl. (bug report Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Filter Layers: Fix empty histogram when adding a new Levels, Threshold, Color Adjustment, or Cross-channel Filter Layer. (bug report) (Change, by Stuffins)
Scripting: Fix Node.setChildNodes function to remove existing child nodes. (Change, by Stuffins)
Android: Lessen the chance for saving corrupt files, by using a temporary file. (bug report Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Android: Fix modifier keys getting stuck when inputting new custom shortcuts with a hardware keyboard. (bug report Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
macOS: Add support for QuickLook and Preview thumbnails for .kra, .krz, and .ora files on macOS Sequoia and later. (bug report (Change, by Ivan Yossi)
macOS: Update app icon to support macOS Tahoe appearance settings. (Change, by Ivan Yossi)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

Export: Don't show an error when cancelling an export. (bug report) Change, by Joshua Goins)

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.15-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Krita 5.2.14 bugfix release!

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.14. This is going to be the last bug fix release for 5.2. This release in particular contains many bug and usability fixes for Android.

Touch-and-Hold Color Picker

The color picker has been improved to make it look, feel and function better. The most important change is for touchscreens: you can now press the screen with one finger and hold it in the same spot to bring up the color picker. This is enabled by default in all input profiles. If it doesn't happen for you, either reset your canvas input settings to the defaults or manually assign the One Finger Hold gesture like this:

New Color Picker Preview

Aside from that, the preview has also been changed from the rectangles side by side to a circle around the cursor. This gives better visibility to the colors you are picking and also means that your right hand won't obscure the preview if you're drawing on a screen tablet. If you don't like the way this looks, you can change the appearance of the circle in the settings or go back to a two-rectangles style preview instead. Except now you can choose whether you want them on the right like before, on the left or on top of the cursor. Additionally, the long-standing issue of the preview getting rotated and mirrored along with the canvas has been fixed. It will now show up in the same spot no matter how you spin it.

Changelog:

Beyond that, we have a ton of smaller usability fixes for touch, a new icon on MacOS and much more.

Special thanks to Freya Lupen, Stuffins, Joshua Goins in addition to the sponsored developers.

Fix brush preview outlines being aligned based on incorrect bounding box. (Bug 477164)
Don't require restart for touch painting change and Automatically detect touch painting
[android] Fix main window not showing document (Bug 488606)
Fix off-by-1 in BrushHud Deform Modes combobox (Bug 509741)
Double-click slider spin boxes to edit
[android] Disable long-press right-click emulation
Allow long-pressing to open context menus
Various error handling fixes on android so it tries to recover instead of asserting.
[android] Make IAP and supporter badge work again
Make curve autosmooth work with touch drawing (Bug 510363)
Make multi-clicking work with touch painting
Disable left-click kinetic scrolling on timeline (CCBug 474975)
Enable double and triple click with stylus when using vector tools.
Check whether the splash is valid (Bug 491279)
[android] Make main window fullscreen by default
[android] Don't exit fullscreen when pressing back
[android] Remove fullscreen toggle in status bar
Fix hidden brush editor titlebar (Windows + Android) (Bug 452804)
Add toggle eraser preset touch canvas input
Make sliders not show selection handles on Android
Properly calculate long-press slop distance
Make long-press context menus behave more cleanly
Make kinetic scrolling not delay long presses
Disable long-press on widgets they interfere with
Make popup menus appear at touch position
Make edit shapes tool work with touch drawing (Bug 511594)
[android] Enter fullscreen early to avoid flicker
fix Node::setChildNodes
fix histograms when adding a new filter layer
Fix various touch shortcuts with wrong actions (Bug 485161)
Make sampler preview not rotate/mirror with canvas (Bug 347799)
Implement one-finger touch and hold gesture
PythonPluginManager: Fix crash on Python 3.14
macos: update krita app icon to display in respect to system appearance
macos : make thumbnails of kra, krz and ora (Bug 493474)
Don't allow dragging layers onto their own canvas (Bug 512771)
Allow holding Ctrl to override drag on canvas
[android] Write to temporary file when saving (Bug 498257)
[android] Make shortcut input work properly
Fix crash when using a smudge brush (Bug 512243)

Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-5.2.14-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-5.2.14.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with 5.2.11, the minimum supported version of Ubuntu is 22.04.

[!WARNING] Starting with 5.2.11 has updated the AppImage runtime, which is known to be incompatible with the old versions of AppImageLauncher. Developers of the AppImage runtime suggest to remove or update AppImageLauncher. See this report: Issue 121 More AppImage troubleshooting info is available here: FUSE

64 bits Linux: krita-5.2.14-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: We're not supporting MacOS 10.13 anymore, 10.14 is the minimum supported version.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.2.14.dmg

Android

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.2.14/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Krita Monthly Update - Edition 32

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the October 2025 development and community update.

Development Report

Text Rework Progress

The Text Tool's Tool Options have been overhauled. There's now a button to access the Text Properties docker, along with an option to create new texts with current properties or with a style preset. Options to switch between using visual or logical cursor direction for bidirectional text, and pasting rich or plain text have also been added. (Change)

The other addition is Type Setting Mode, which shows transform handles for the font size and baseline-shift. With preformatted or pre-positioned text, character transforms are also possible. Holding Shift shows different baselines to switch to. (Change)

In the area of file formats, basic support has been added for PSD text layers, vector masks, vector strokes, vector parametric shapes, and guides. (Change)

Wolthera discusses these changes in the Text Tool thread and asks again for feedback on a proposal for splitting character and paragraph properties.

Touch Input Fixes

Carsten has continued to fix issues with touch input in the Stable branch.

Long-press handled has been further improved. Long-pressing a slider-spinbox no longer shows text selection handles when not in text edit mode. The long-press distance is now calculated correctly, so a slight movement won't cancel it. The kinetic scrolling timeout no longer adds onto the long-press timeout. (Change)

Kinetic scrolling by left-click has been disabled on the animation timeline to not interfere with dragging frames and other operations. (CCbug report) (Change)

Popup-at-cursor widgets such as the Selection Action Menu now appear at the touch location instead of cursor location. (Change)

The Edit Shapes Tool now works properly with touch, instead of only making selections. (bug report) (Change)

Wayland Support

Basic HDR support for the canvas on Wayland has been implemented by Dmitry. Testing instructions and discussion of issues can be found in the forum thread. (Change)

Plans for 5.3.0's Upcoming Release

Krita 5.3.0 is scheduled to enter feature freeze on November 21st. This means no new features will be accepted for the next version, and developer focus will shift to finishing features already in progress and fixing bugs.

After a bugfixing period of a few months, the first beta testing release is currently planned for February.

Community Report

October 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

14 forum members took on the challenge of the "The Burden of Power" theme. And the winner is… The Burden of Power by @Famouzy

Be sure to check out the second piece as well!

The October Art Challenge is Open Now

For this month's theme, winner @Famouzy has chosen "Civilization Engulfed by Nature".

Featured Artwork

Best of Krita-Artists - August/September 2025

This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 21 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:

Autumnal Street by @Paulo

Young Escherstein! by @jimplex

Bee Macro by @Brian_Bigelow

Interstellar Gura by @RavioliMavioli

Peaceful Stream by @CrazyCatbird

Best of Krita-Artists - October/November 2025

Take a look at the nominations for next month, and suggest your favorite latest artworks to be featured. Don't forget to vote when the poll opens on November 11th!

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!

Other Notable Changes

Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from October 20, 2025 - November 11, 2025.

Stable branch (5.2.14-prealpha):

Android: Make app fullscreen by default. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Canvas Input Shortcuts: Add Toggle Eraser Preset to canvas input shortcuts. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

Blending Modes: Add Marker blending mode. When used on a brush in Build up painting mode, it increases the layer's opacity only when the stroke's opacity is greater while mixing the colors. It's similar to Alpha Darken, but adheres to alpha lock/inherit alpha and interpolates between colors cleanly. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Shortcuts/Toolbars: Add actions for each Transform Tool mode. (Change, by Stuffins)
Toolbars: Toolbar actions' icons can now be custom-picked in Configure Toolbars, useful for actions that do not have icons by default. (Change, by Pavel shlop)
macOS: Sign and notarize nightly builds, allowing them to be run without workarounds. (Change, by Ivan Yossi)

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.14-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Floss.fund supports Krita

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Zerodha created FLOSS/fund to support free and open source software projects, and one of the projects FLOSS/fund supports is Krita! We were part of the first tranche: FLOSS/fund first tranche: $325k to 9 projects.

The $50,000 the Krita Foundation has received has been earmarked for improving Krita on Android. We've already started working on the project, in cooperation with Drawpile.

Thank you, FLOSS/fund!

Krita Monthly Update - Edition 31

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the September 2025 development and community update.

Community Report

September 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

17 forum members took on the challenge of the "A Breezy Day" theme. And the winner is… The Autumn Walk by @Mariusz_Galaj

The October Art Challenge is Open Now

For this month's theme, winner @Mariusz_Galaj has chosen "The Burden of Power".

With great power comes great responsibility, and your task is to depict an object to be worn by those with authority to physically or mentally remind them of that burden. Read the topic for further explanation, and find out how much you're power willing to take on.

Featured Artwork

Best of Krita-Artists - August/September 2025

This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 19 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:

The Resilence of Memory by @Suzuka

Santa Elena Canyon by @Elixiah

Secretary bird study by @allenarak

Brave Sheep by @HappyBuket

Long between Posts by @BHiggins

Best of Krita-Artists - September/October 2025

Take a look at the nominations for next month.

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!

Other Notable Changes

Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from September 24, 2025 - October 20, 2025.

Stable branch (5.2.14-prealpha):

Touch Input: Improve the behavior of long-presses. Sliders now enter edit mode when double-clicking, not long-pressing (bug 471473). Long-press now summons context menus instead of making a right-click (bug 506042, bug 510229), which can be toggled in settings under General->Miscellaneous. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Touch Input: Make the Bezier Curve Tool's autosmoothing and double-clicking work with touch drawing. (bug report) (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Android: Fix showing the Android supporter badge on the welcome page if previously purchased. Purchasing is still disabled pending replacement. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Android: Fix a crash when failing to save a document. (Change, by Agata Cacko)

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.14-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Krita 5.2.13 bugfix release!

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today we are releasing Krita 5.2.13! This is a bugfix release containing a number of important Android fixes, courtesy of Carsten Hartenfels, our new Android Maintainer. The release also includes a security fix that affected the work with TGA files.

16K Page Size support

Some devices running Android 15 have so much working memory that Android 15 increased the page size (the smallest unit the working memory is divided up in). To work with on these devices, programs like Krita need some adjustments, or else they won't even run! With Krita 5.2.13 you won't have to worry about this distinction anymore, as 16K page size support has been added.

Saving fixes

One of the most frequent crashes on Android was caused by background saving going wrong. We've overhauled the saving service, fixing crashes when Krita was being shut down or when it is inactive in the background.

Now, operating systems like Android make file system handling a little tricky because they would like to keep each file inside a so-called sandbox, so your program cannot do anything without your explicit permission. This is generally a good thing, but it is very different from how desktop operating systems work, and we're still working on figuring out how to make Krita work more pleasantly while staying inside the sandbox, so look out for that in the future!

Transform fixes

Previously, the transform tool would not work with touch, because it relied on mouse-press, instead of mouse-click, which is what touch events are. We've worked around this, and now you should be able to manipulate the transform widget with your fingers.

Automatically disable touch-painting on devices with stylus present

Now, when Krita detects a stylus present in proximity of the tablet device it automatically disables touch painting for the rest of the session. It lets new users start painting with their stylus right away without visiting Krita's Preferences dialog. If you still want to be able to paint with your fingers and with your stylus at the same time, you can explicitly enable touch-painting in Configure Krita->General->Tools->Touch Painting->Enabled.

There was a theoretical security issue when loading TGA files, which could cause buffer overflow in Krita. This issue is now fixed in Krita 5.2.13. If you have not yet updated to 5.2.13 we highly recommend you to avoid opening TGA files from unknown sources.

Other

Beyond that, there are two crash fixes.

Index Colors: fix crash when filtering non-transparent layer
Fix crash in palette docker with add swatch dialog. (Bug 507601)

Download

Windows

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

64 bits Windows Installer: krita-5.2.13-setup.exe
Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-5.2.13.zip
Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with 5.2.11, the minimum supported version of Ubuntu is 22.04.

[!WARNING] Starting with 5.2.11 has updated the AppImage runtime, which is known to be incompatible with the old versions of AppImageLauncher. Developers of the AppImage runtime suggest to remove or update AppImageLauncher. See this report: Issue 121 More AppImage troubleshooting info is available here: FUSE

64 bits Linux: krita-5.2.13-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: We're not supporting MacOS 10.13 anymore, 10.14 is the minimum supported version.

MacOS disk image: krita-5.2.13.dmg

Android

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.2.13/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Krita Monthly Update - Edition 30

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the August 2025 development and community update.

Development Report

5.2.13 Released

A new bugfix release, Krita 5.2.13, is out. (5.2.12 was an Android-only release skipped in favor of making a release on all platforms.)

It mainly fixes a crash on Android when Krita is in the background, and makes the Transform Tool respond correctly to touch input, both thanks to our new Android maintainer Carsten Hartenfels.

But there are some important fixes for all platforms, so check out the release notes and make sure to update!

Text Tool Rework Progress

The UI for text properties continues to get polished. There's a new in-depth post about text language selection and style preset work, and Wolthera has put out a call for testing and feedback about the way paragraph and character property setting is handled.

Wayland Port Progress

After months of work, Dmitry has implemented initial color management support on Wayland. This is necessary for artists whose work requires color accuracy such as for printing to be able to view their colors accurately on modern Linux compositors.

Google Summer of Code

Krita's Google Summer of Code student for this year, Ross Rosales, successfully completed a project creating a Selection Actions Bar. This feature, which can be toggled in settings under General->Tools, give quick access to various ways to interact with a selection: Select All, Invert Selection, Deselect All, Fill Selection with Color, Clear Selection, Copy Selection to New Layer, Crop to Selection.

Community Report

August 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

13 forum members took on the challenge of the "Kiki's Summer Activities" theme. And the winner is… Kiki's Beach Fun by @Lynx3d

The September Art Challenge is Open Now

For this month's theme, winner @Lynx3d has chosen "A Breezy Day". The optional challenge is to depict a fleeting moment that would be gone in seconds. Brave the winds and don't get blown away!

Featured Artwork

Best of Krita-Artists - July/August 2025

This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 9 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:

Raccoon by @elvaira.gromova

Rest during the journey by @JayWong

A pirate by @p4to

Lion Statue by @z586t

Cara Dune (The Mandalorian - Ch 16) by @FireShepherd

Best of Krita-Artists - August/September 2025

Take a look at the nominations for next month.

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!

Other Notable Changes

Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from August 16, 2025 - September 24, 2025.

Stable branch (5.2.13):

Android: Fix a crash when Krita is in the background. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Touch Input: Properly handle taps when touch painting. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Canvas Input: By default, auto-disable Touch Painting if stylus input is used in a session, to avoid conflicting with touch gestures. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Brush Engines: Fix the Speed input being incorrect at the start of a touch drawing brushstroke. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Brush Engines: Fix brush preview outline centering to account for transparent edges. (bug report) (Change, by Jeff Witthuhn)
File Formats: TGA: Fix a crash when importing bad TGA files. (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)

Stable branch (5.2.14-prealpha):

Android: Fix an issue where the canvas wouldn't show when loading a document until reloading the window. (bug report) (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

General: Add two empty custom toolbars for users to configure, bringing the total number of toolbars to five. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
Text Tool: Add buttons to switch between Preformatted, Inline-wrapped, and Prepositioned text wrapping types. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
Assistant Tool: Don't place duplicated control widgets directly on top of each other, and bring them forward when clicked on. (Change, by Aries Moczar)
Transform Tool: Add Keep Aspect Ratio action to Transform Tool right-click context menu. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
Zoom Tool: Fix regression in zoom target position. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Brush Engines: Switch the default brush outline color from green to magenta. (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
Color Themes: Make some tweaks and updates to the default color themes. Update the Krita Blender theme to match Blender 4 (instead of 2.5). (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
Python Plugins: Batch Export: Allow specifying an export color profile. (Change, by Kitlith)

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.14-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Krita Monthly Update - Edition 29

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the July 2025 development and community update.

Development Report

Text Tool Rework Progress

Another important piece of the Text Tool update has made it into the unstable nightly builds: Style Presets.

Style Presets allow you to save font settings and apply them quickly.

For making text bold, or a certain font at a certain size, or a huge list of settings tweaked just right, you can easily apply your favorite properties without having to remember them all. (MR!2403)

The QML Text Properties docker now uses the same custom slider-spinbox widgets as the rest of Krita, thanks to Wolthera and Deif Lou. (MR!2428)

Community Report

July 2025 Monthly Art Challenge Results

16 forum members took on the challenge of the "Cool Rides" theme. And the winner is… Cool Rides by @edgarej

The August Art Challenge is Open Now

In the spirit of August's monthly challenge being unofficially dedicated to Krita's cybersquirrel mascot, winner @edgarej has chosen "Kiki's Summer Activities" as the theme. The optional challenge as chosen by runners-up @npc and @Mythmaker is to give Kiki a pet companion. What does Kiki like to do to beat the heat? You decide!

Featured Artwork

Best of Krita-Artists - June/July 2025

This month's Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread received 13 nominations of forum members' artwork. When the poll closed, the moderators broke a five-way tie for second place, and these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:

On the Road Again by @Yaroslavus_Artem

Lucy CyberPunk Edgerunner Fanart - P.2025058 by @ynr_nohara

Medieval Table by @Ape

Summer Retreat by @Gurkirat_Singh

Mountain Sunset - Master Study Bohdan Saliy with Memileo Impasto Brushes by @TaleOfACat

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors. That means anyone can help make Krita better!

Other Notable Changes

Other notable changes in Krita's development builds from July 16, 2025 - August 18, 2025.

Stable branch (5.2.12-prealpha):

Palette Docker: Fix crash with add swatch dialog. (bug report) (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

Fill Tools: Add option to Include Current Layer in color labels reference mode. (Change, by runch r.)
Symbol Libraries Docker: Fix symbol thumbnails being pixelated, and add a thumbnail-only view mode. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
Freehand Path Tool: Remember Tool Options. (Change, by Agata Cacko)
Animation: Switch to active keyframe when inserting/removing hold frames. (CCbug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)
Animation: Fix rendering GIFs that don't have the .gif file suffix. (bug report) (Change, by Emmet O'Neill)

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.12-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64