Krita 5.2.14 released
Krita 5.2.14 has been released and arrives as the final fix release for that series. The new update introduces several significant improvements, particularly for users drawing on touchscreens or utilizing other platforms.
One thing you'll likely find useful is a reimagined color picker built with touch in mind from the start. By default, just tapping and holding one spot summons it, hopefully making quick color grabs smoother. If that feels off, though, tweaking your input settings might help get things back to familiar ground, or assigning the single-tap gesture manually could be an option.
Elsewhere, look at the preview display too; it's been given a refresh. Those old side-by-side rectangles are gone for good now (assuming you liked them). Instead of two small boxes forcing the view into corners, there’s just one circle surrounding your cursor that keeps showing what color you're picking, which feels cleaner and less cluttered on screens.
For folks using touchpads or pens still feeling sticky about changes, it's got a lot going for it right now. Beyond the obvious improvements, this version addresses several minor usability issues, such as preventing touch devices' previews from flipping with the canvas and eliminating unnecessary brush selection handles on Android.
The team also spent time digging into bugs that might have been annoying certain users or applications, particularly regarding stylus input interactions. Performance got a boost too; fixes related to brush rendering speed and touch painting detection should feel faster in action now. Error handling on the Android side improved as well, resulting in smoother operation when things go wrong.
Notable technical improvements include sorting out how popup menus appear precisely at touch points and getting one-finger hold gestures properly registered, especially with vector tools active. Additionally, it has resolved issues related to Python 3.14 compatibility, which previously caused crashes.
Other tweaks, like disabling left-click kinetic scrolling on the timeline (probably for those using trackpads or mice), were also handled to dial back some odd behaviors. Although not directly mentioned as an Android-specific correction, a long-standing issue with selection handles appearing on sliders has also been addressed.
Crash fixes related to Python 3.14 help overall stability when working. Plus, the app icon update makes sense for those using Macs too, where it now respects system appearance settings.
And remember, thumbnails are back again across multiple file types, including .kra files, so navigating projects might feel somewhat less confusing than before.
For Android users specifically, though, there's more relief coming: long-hidden title bars within the brush editor have been made visible again. Hopefully that makes navigation easier for some.
All told, version 5.2.14 feels like a solid step forward right now, particularly smoothing things out for touch artists while boosting performance across platforms and ironing out other rough spots too.
Krita 5.2.14 bugfix release!
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.
