Krita 5.2.11 Released with Fixes & Removed Ubuntu 20.04 Support

Krita, the free open-source KDE graphics editor, release new 5.2.10 few weeks ago, then 5.2.11 with quick fixes few days ago.

Since initial version that was released on 21 June 2005, Krita is now 20 years old. And, the new 5.2.11 release is perhaps the last bug-fixes, as the developer team is now focusing on the next Krita 5.3.0 feature release and Krita 6.0.0 for Qt6 port.

Changes in the Krita 5.2.11 & 5.2.10 are mainly bug-fixes and improvements. It now properly clears the animation cache after layer opacity change, allows resetting onion skins to default values, and defaults group layers to non-passthrough mode, following the specitication.

It fixed brush preview when creating new preset with canvas mirroring enabled, reversed layer order during transforming multiple layers, incorrect scaling of animated transform mask values, as well as crashes in clipboard handling and when autosaving extremely big files.

It also fixed incorrect TIFF image file size, handling of groups in palette files, and improved performance of the status bar, panning, and ruler updating. And, it now uses the title field for the palette name for Adobe Color Book palettes, resets reset the canvas size when toggling the “preserve aspect ratio” button.

For Linux, the official AppImage has updated the run-time, thus the minimum supported version of Ubuntu is 22.04. For Ubuntu 20.04 (it’s still alive via ESM support), it’s still available through the community maintained Snap and Flatpak packages.

Download & Install Krita 5.2.11

The Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android packages are available to download along with source tarball via the link below:

For Linux, it’s non-install AppImage that can be run directly to launch the graphics editor, though you need to enable executable permission first from its properties dialog.

NOTE: Ubuntu since 22.04 does not support AppImage out-of-the-box. You need to open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the required fuse runtime:

sudo apt install libfuse2

As mentioned, the AppImage does NO longer work in Ubuntu 20.04. In the case, you may launch Ubuntu Software (or App Center for 24.04 +) and search & install the community maintained Snap package:

While, there are also community maintained Flatpak package (though verified) available for choice.

To install the Flatpak package, run commands below one by one:

sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.kde.krita.flatpakref

And, for those who prefer the native .deb package, I’ve made the new release package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04 on amd64, arm64/armhf platforms.

To add the PPA & install Krita 5.2.11, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/krita
sudo apt update
sudo apt install krita

Uninstall Krita

To uninstall Krita flatpak package, use command:

flatpak uninstall org.kde.krita

Also run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless run-times.

To remove Krita .deb package, use command:

sudo apt remove krita krita-data

And remove the PPA by running command:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/krita

And for the AppImage, just delete the file.

Source: UbuntuHandbook