Krita 5.2.10

What's new in this version:

Animation:
- We're happy to share that two major pain points for animation got tackled: synchronized playback of audio
- In order to fix various audio-visual sync issues when playing animations with attached audio, Emmet and Eoin reworked much of the animation playback to use the MLT framework behind the scenes. MLT is a proven and flexible framework used by video editing programs like Kdenlive and designed with frame-by-frame synchronization in mind, and should help Krita animators feel confident that their key frames will stay lined up with their voice work or background music, both inside of the program and in their exported animation videos.
- Speaking of the video export option, FFmpeg is a massively important program that manages

Text:
- Because our original one didn't give artists enough control over the underlying text
- Demonstration of some new text layout features include
- With the new layout engine, we can handle everything the old engine could, as well as text-on-path, vertical text, and wrapped text and text in shape. We can now also access OpenType features as well as render emoji
- This was no small feat and is only just laying the foundation for more improvements to come! For Krita 5.2, you’ll still have to use the SVG code editor to access these new features, but for Krita 5.3 we’ll be working on the text tool proper, making it on-canvas and allowing you to configure the new features with menus and presets.

Tools:
- Dmitry Kazakov overhauled the cumulative undo feature
- The ability to anti-alias the results of the Sketch Brush Engine has been added by Przemyslaw Golab
- Freya Lupen added the ability to transform all selected layers at once with the transform tool

Fill Tool:
- Deif Lou has added a new mode to the fill tool: Fill areas of similar color
- From the manual, filling the example in image A at the red dot will result in B for regular fill, in C with expanding the fill with a number of pixels and in D with the 'fill to boundary color' enabled.

Selection Tool:
- The Contiguous Selection Tool also received the same selection extending option as the Fill tool

Shortcuts:
- Several new actions have been added:
- Demonstrating the “Select Layers Menu” option, this menu shows the layers under the cursor.
- Toggle Eraser Preset by Freya Lupen,
- Sample Screen Color by killy |0veufOrever,
- Select Layers From Menu canvas input setting by killy |0veufOrever,
- Krita now have a Clip Studio Paint compatible shortcut scheme, courtesy of Freya Lupen,
- Krita can now detect conflicts in the canvas input setting shortcuts thanks to Sharaf Zaman,
- We have no shortage of plans for how to make things better, but only with stable community contributions can we keep a core team of professional developers working on Krita.
- Dockers:
- Mathias Wein brought us a ‘Wide Gamut Color Selector’. This selector almost the same as the advanced color selector, except it’s capable of selecting colors in wide-gamuts instead of just sRGB. We eventually want to remove the Advanced Color Selector in favor of this one, when we’re sure we haven’t lost any functionality
- Wide gamut color selector is shown here as a gradient-square with a rainbow colored circle around it

The Layers docker got some extra display options:
- On Android, selecting multiple layers is tricky, therefore Sharaf implemented extra checkboxes on the side of the layers
- Freya Lupen added the ability to see extra information about the layer opacity and blending modes
- Macelaru Tiberiu has ensured the brush preset docker looks good in horizontal mode: MR 1670
- Brush Preset History is now configurable
- Undo, Redo and more for the palette docker

File Formats:
- We changed how CMYK blending modes work
- Rasyuqa A. H. has been improving the JPEG-XL saving and loading code, implementing CMYK for JPEG-XL, improving compression by giving the JXL library more color space information, better metadata handling and support for saving and loading raster layers to JPEG-XL,
- By using JPEG's XYB color space instead of the original profile, the JPEG-XL encoder is able to give much better results both in terms of artifacts and compression on images with extreme highlights, like those that are 40 times as bright as regular white.
- Cedric Ressler has improved EXR multi-layer handling
- Amyspark has improved the RAW import, both the UI
- Amyspark has also improved the webP exporter by adding better metadata handling and animation support

Other:
- One of the other big technical updates we did was to rewrite the brush settings code to work with the library Lager. Our old code had the brush presets and the widgets entangled in increasingly convoluted ways, which made it hard to extend the settings. We hope to use this work as a basis to redesign the brush settings widget
- Wrap around mode can now be limited to vertical or Horizontal direction, making it simpler to creating looping backgrounds.
- Freya Lupen has added wrap-around directions for the wraparound mode
- Freya Lupen has also added ability to remove single Recent Document entries
- Joshua Goins has improved the tablet tester, so it now has access to tilt data
- Sharaf Zaman implemented easier resource location selection for android
- Stephen Wilson has made sure that Krita resets document metadata when using a template
- Agata Cacko has spent a significant amount of time on getting better display names of color profiles
- Amyspark has been cleaning up the UI left and right
- Shuqi Xiu has added a Lambert shading blending mode