Changes Since the Last Alpha
- Translations - tons of translated strings have been merged - check out https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/mypaint/mypaint/ if you want to help out by contributing to your own language's missing or outdated translations.
- Language selection - you can now select the language you want to use from the preferences window under the "View" tab. The alpha releases ship with all translations, so beware that a lot of them are incomplete.
- Floodfill - some bug fixes, ability to use arbitrary blend modes, adjustable opacity, colorize mode
- Layer blink option - showing layers in isolation for a brief time period, when changing or selecting them, is now optional.
- AppImage improvements - the appimages will now work out of the box on Ubuntu 14.04 and later. If they don't work on your distro (preferably not-too-obscure or older than 2015), create an issue in the tracker (after a quick search in it for your problem). The issues with themes and icons should also be resolved, and gtk localizations are now fully supported.
The latest appimage builds (based on the latest error-free commit) can always be found here. - 32bit builds for Windows are back (though the demand is probably not that high).
- Some crash fixes in both MyPaint and libmypaint
- Fixes for some cosmetic bugs (frame window outline, some text formatting glitches)
- Wayland GUI freeze workaround added (MyPaint will just try to use XWayland for now).
- Fixes for a bunch of Gtk deprecations (should not make any difference for users).
- ...and a fair amount of administrative and build-related stuff that should improve the dev experience.
Attention Windows Users!
We've switched the standalone archives from ordinary zip to 7z, so you'll need some archiving program to decompress them (I would recommend https://www.7-zip.org/).
If you really want to use the installers instead, you can download them here:
These links are only valid for six months, but the full release should be out by then anyway.
Also, if you are a developer who likes MyPaint and also happens to like and work on Windows, your help with some of our windows-only bugs (and there are quite a few) would be most welcome! There are also Windows-only issues related to the external-edit functionality that could be improved with input from an expert on how Windows handles default applications, application candidates and similar. These problems will unfortunately not fix themselves.