Krita 5.0 Beta is out and comes with a new splash screen painted by concept artist Tyson Tan.
While we review Krita 4 in this very issue, the beta for Krita 5.0 has been released, bringing some big changes to the opensource digital painting application. As the release announcement (https://bit.ly/lxf281krita5beta) explains, this version has a new resource system which no longer loads all the tools on each startup. Instead, it caches them after startup, which means that first launch will take longer, but subsequent start-ups will be faster. There’s also a new MyPaint brush engine, which does mean some compatibility issues when opening art created in earlier versions of the program.