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Drawpile development update for the last two weeks: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2026/02/02/dev-update
There's now a project statistics dialog that tells you how long you've worked on a picture and a way to make timelapse from within Drawpile. These features both fall out of the new project file format, along with autosaving.
You can also now assign canvas shortcuts to arbitrary actions. For example, pressing themiddle mouse button to switch to the eraser or undo.
Drawpile development update for the last two weeks: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2026/01/18/dev-update.html
Mostly more work on the new project file format, which integrates with the new autosave/autorecord mechanism.
And also several workarounds for Xiaomi devices on Android that are shared with Krita again.
Drawpile development update for the last two weeks:
https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2026/01/04/dev-update
The main topic is autosaving (or really auto-recording), which is now available for testing in the alpha release. If you want to know more, there's also a talk from last year's Libre Graphics Meeting about where that's going: https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm25-upstream-2025-83662--3000-faster-file-saving-with-time-travel-
Otherwise, there's some Android fixes for devices that act weirdly there, which have been committed to Krita as well.
Drawpile development update for the last two weeks: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/12/21/dev-update.html
Topics are a rework of the settings interface speeding up build times by a whole 10% and progress on autosaving. Or really, autorecording, with every brush stroke saved immediately and possibilites for timelapses, tracking time spent actively drawing and a few different kinds of time-travel.
Drawpile development update for the past few weeks: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/12/09/dev-update.html
Topics are mostly "infrastructure" stuff: the project file format, the settings implementation and some minor fixes and additions along the way.
Drawpile 2.3.0 is out now!
Full announcement: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.3.0/
There's lots of new stuff: layer clipping, layer alpha locking, anti-overflow fills, gradient and lasso fill tools, spectral painting and OKLAB modes, pixel-perfect brushes, faster reconnects and more.
An illustrated guide to all the changes is here: https://docs.drawpile.net/help/common/update2x3x0
Consider donating to keep development going and the servers running! https://donate.drawpile.org/
Drawpile development update for the last few weeks: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/11/16/dev-update
Topics are new brushes, new layouts, color picker improvements and lots of bugfixes for the upcoming release.
On that note, unless anything happens, the release of Drawpile 2.3.0 will start tomorrow.
Drawpile development update for the last two weeks is out: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/10/26/dev-update
Topics include:
- A selection action bar, for quick access to e.g. deselection or inversion.
- Automatic switching to animation frame view mode.
- Stabilizer for lasso selections.
And other stuff, most of which is already in the beta released last week: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.3.0-beta.4/
Drawpile 2.3.0-beta.4 is out now. Unless major issues are found, this is expected to be the last release before the final version. Give feedback!
It's got many fixes and features, such as faster reconnects, anti-overflow brush mode, a selection action bar, animation timeline enhancements and more.
The full announcement is here: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.3.0-beta.4/
An illustrated guide to all the changes in 2.3.0 is here: https://docs.drawpile.net/help/common/update2x3x0
Drawpile dev update for the past two weeks: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/10/12/dev-update
Many changes, such as:
- User interface improvements, shared with Krita.
- Several quality of life improvements to the timeline to require less clicks and allowing fractional framerates.
- Preferring WebSocket connections by default, since they are more stable than raw TCP and give server owners the ability to use tunnels and proxies.
- Several bugfixes and smaller features.
Drawpile development blog for the last two weeks: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/09/14/dev-update.html
It contains some ideas for the ongoing work to add animation cameras, which would be nice to get feedback on or ideas for while it's still cooking.
Other things include:
- A better transform mode for hard-edge, binary brush art.
- Server management improvements, particularly for large sessions.
- Even faster reconnects that don't ask for credentials again
Krita 5.2.13 bugfix release!
From Krita.org: "Today we are releasing Krita 5.2.13! This is a bugfix release containing a number of important Android fixes, courtesy of Carsten Hartenfels, our new Android Maintainer. The release also includes a security fix that affected the work with TGA files."
Read more and download:
https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/krita-5.2.13-released/
Drawpile development update for weeks 36 and 37 of 2025 is out: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/09/14/dev-update
Only a relatively small update, but there is a major new feature, particularly for people not on the desktop application: fast reconnects, without having to sit through the entire catchup sequence repeatedly.
There's also some smaller fixes and macOS-specific things.
Drawpile development update for week 34 and 35 of 2025 is out: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/08/30/dev-update
Topics include:
- Upgrade to Android 15 and probably bugfixes from using Krita's Qt.
- Anti-overflow mode for brushes, making them stay within your lines.
- "Blocking" of layers, censoring their content for you locally.
- Making very large canvas sizes work properly in the software renderers and in ORA files.
- /roll command improvements.
- Other minor fixes.
Drawpile development update for week 32 and 33 of 2025 is out: https://docs.drawpile.net/devblog/2025/08/16/dev-update
Topics include:
- The audio oddyssey, a look at the journey of making some bloop noises for chat and the problems that came from it.
- An update on the Mac and registering the Drawpile organization into the Apple Developer program.
- Pixel art input, a new feature to let you do spritework in Drawpile without any stabilization or smoothing getting in the way.
Drawpile 2.3.0-beta.3 is out: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.3.0-beta.3/
This is mostly a bugfix release for a weird Windows-specific issue where playing a sound could cause drag and drop or file dialogs to stop working.
One small feature did make it in: pixel art input. It bypasses stabilization and smoothing to let you poke pixels directly.
Take a look at the guide on the new features in 2.3: https://docs.drawpile.net/help/common/update2x3x0
And consider donating: https://donate.drawpile.org/
Drawpile's donation website has been updated to make it clearer where the money goes and letting you clearly pick between recurring and one-time donations.
Take a look and consider donating to help keep the servers running and development going: https://donate.drawpile.org/
And of course shoot any feedback you have, especially if something isn't clear or doesn't work.
Another feature in the Drawpile 2.3 beta: a lasso fill tool.
It works similar to lasso selection, but for fills. Useful for quick coloring.
It even lets you use the stabilizer and smoothing options that you can use for brushes.
The feature is backward-compatible, so you can use it in sessions hosted with version 2.2.
The beta is available here: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.3.0-beta.2/
And here's an illustrated guide of the new features: https://docs.drawpile.net/help/common/update2x3x0
@the_dot_matrix Happy you enjoy it!
A new feature in the Drawpile 2.3 beta is "pixel-perfect" pixel brushes.
Normally, single-pixel brushes can end up with lines that are two pixels wide in some places, due to L-shaped connections being made.
With pixel-perfect turned on, those are eliminated those lines will always end up being one pixel wide.
The beta is available here: https://drawpile.net/news/release-2.3.0-beta.2/
And here's an illustrated guide of the new features: https://docs.drawpile.net/help/common/update2x3x0#pixel-perfect-22-compatible
