Krita 5.0 boosts performance, overhauls resource management

Open-source painting app Krita 5.0 has been released, almost four years since the 4.x branch first saw the light of day. The cross-platform app, available for Windows, macOS and Linux, promises vastly improved performance, better gradients, a rewritten smudge brush engine and an overhauled animation system among other things. Krita’s performance improvements are largely down to a complete rewrite of its resource handling of items like brush presets, gradients and more. Powered by an SQLite database, Krita claims the update fixes many resource-loading and tagging-related bugs. Crucially, the rewrite uses fewer system resources resulting in memory savings of up to… [Continue Reading]