# Krita changelog > A free and open-source digital painting application. - Vendor: KDE - Category: Design Tools - Official site: https://krita.org - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita) - Harvested from: Blog (https://krita.org/en/feed/) - Entries below: 11 (newest first) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. ## Releases ### 5.3.3 — Krita 5.3.3 Released! - Date: 2026-07-29 - Version: 5.3.3 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.3-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3.3 Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.3 and 6.0.3, containing many bugfixes and improvements across the board. Android Donations and Supporter benefits On Android, version 5.3.3 lets you support Krita's dev… ### 5.3.2.1 — Krita 5.3.2.1 Released! - Date: 2026-06-02 - Version: 5.3.2.1 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.2.1-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3.2.1 Hot on the heels of Krita 5.3.2, we're releasing Krita 5.3.2.1. 5.3.2 had a bug with the layer docker that was very pervasive, and could cause anything from unsynced layers to crashes to groups not be… - **fixed** — Fixed a bug with the layer docker that could cause unsynced layers, crashes, and groups not functioning properly ### 5.3.2 — Krita 5.3.2 Released! - Date: 2026-05-27 - Version: 5.3.2 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.2-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3.2 Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.2 and 6.0.2. This release fixes a number of issues with the text tool, and improves the Selection Action Panel significantly. Furthermore, Android now handles resource… - **fixed** — Fix a number of issues with the text tool - **changed** — Improve the Selection Action Panel significantly - **changed** — Improve Android resource handling ### 5.3.1.1 — Krita 5.3.1.1 Released (Android-only) - Date: 2026-04-08 - Version: 5.3.1.1 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.1.1-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3.1.1 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 work… - **fixed** — fixed a crash on Android 12 and older when trying to access any text controls - **fixed** — fixed stylus work ### 5.3.1 — Krita 5.3.1 Released! - Date: 2026-03-31 - Version: 5.3.1 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.1-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3.1 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 pro… ### 5.3.0 — Krita 5.3.0 Released! - Date: 2026-03-24 - Version: 5.3.0 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.0-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3.0 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… ### 5.3 — Third beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 - Date: 2026-03-05 - Version: 5.3 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta3-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3-1455f6e4 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 tota… ### 5.2.16 — Krita 5.2.16 bugfix release! - Date: 2026-02-25 - Version: 5.2.16 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.2.16-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.2.16 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 rele… - **fixed** — Fix issues with saving heif, heic and avif files ### 5.3 — Second beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 - Date: 2026-02-20 - Version: 5.3 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta2-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3-61d92fc5 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… ### 5.3 — First beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 - Date: 2026-02-05 - Version: 5.3 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta1-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.3 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… ### 5.2.15 — Krita 5.2.15 bugfix release! - Date: 2026-01-28 - Version: 5.2.15 - Original notes: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.2.15-released/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/krita/releases/5.2.15 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 51224… - **fixed** — Fix crash when using a smudge brush