Monthly Report - August 2026
By Steven Van ·
Animation on Android and new Transform Tool and Color Sampler features?
Krita announced Monthly Report - August 2026 on August 20, 2026.
What changed
Animation on Android and new Transform Tool and Color Sampler features? Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month. Development Report Krita 5.3.3 Released Krita 5.3.3 was released with various fixes as well as revamped Android supporter donations. Developments in Krita Plus Animation rendering on Android is now possible, via MediaEncoder and LibAV. (change by Carsten Hartenfels) Support for the XCF file format native to GIMP has been removed, as the xcftools library that was used is long outdated and unmaintained. It's recommended to instead use GIMP to load XCF, and use the OpenRaster (.ora) interchange format for exchanging files between programs. (change) Some font-related crashes at startup have been fixed. (bug; change 1, change 2 by Wolthera van Hövell) The new menu options on Android for interface scaling and supporter options not appearing if toolbars had previously been customized has been fixed. (change by Carsten Hartenfels) A crash when redoing joining and then deleting paths with the Edit Shapes tool has been fixed (bug; change by Elena Sagalaeva), as well as deleting subpaths deleting the wrong ones due to sh