Made the burnd, dodge and color burn blend modes compatible with Photoshop
Create an experimental multihand-tool which allows the user to paint with several brushes at the same time
Add a workspaces features: you can save named configurations of dockers for different purposes
Add symmetry, mirror and translate mode for painting
Add a channel selection docker
Add new sensors and make it possible to influence a brush parameter with more than one sensor (like pressure, random, tilt and so on)
improve canvas rotation
Fix embedding of icc profile data in JPG and PNG files
Fix brush preset data when editing a .kpp brush preset file in Krita
Add support for DNG and Panasonic RAW2 raw image files
Make it possible to select different layers in different views
Improve the tiles backend to make projection updating faster
Improve scaling gui when using the transform tool
Improve handling of layerbox when using a tablet
Add an opacity setting to brush presets
Improve smoothing of the freehand tool
Make it possible to remove painting assistants
Split an image in a set of rectangles
Make painting obey channel locks
Improve compatibility with GIMP’s XCF file format (import only)
Improve painting speed with the default autobrush
The sketch brush now supports density, line width and offset scale sensors.
Integrate Get Hot New Stuff with Krita’s resource management for brushes, presets, patterns and gradients
Add hexadecimal input to the specific color selector
Load blending modes defined in OpenRaster
Make it possible to load single-layer PSD images (may not be in the 2.4 release)
Add opacity, size and flow sliders to the toolbar
The line tool now supports pressure and tilt
Add keyboard shortcut for changing luminosity of the active color (darker: K, lighter: L)
Configurable “Show just the canvas” mode
Improved selected color preview in the advanced color selector
Add simple support for BMP, GIF, XPM and XBM formats.
Add preset management to the preset editor popup
Improve the preset editor in many ways
Fix margins in export to PDF
Add a “save incremental” option which saves your work with an auto-incrementing suffix
Use brush presets in the right-click popup palette
Add Nepomuk and GIMP-xml-based tagging to all Krita resources
Make it possible to disable and enable the on-canvas preview of filters
Make it possible to add a new ICC profile from Krita instead of copying it to certain directories
Fix a problem where switching tools would make Krita, especially selecting colors, slower and slower
Smooth out the canvas zooming in non-opengl mode
New mode for the Text brush: it now can spray the letters of the text, one letter per dab.
The Image Docker, which makes it easy to create and browse sets of reference images.
New color selector based on the color wheel. Picking the three color dimensions (hue, saturation, lightness) separated from each other with this color selector should be more convenient.
Implement drag & drop between Krita and other applications, like Dolphin, Gimp, Gwenview, Firefox and so on, and more advanded drag & drop between instances of Krita.
New Text Tool: this places the text tool that creates artistic text vector objecs where users who come from Photoshop expect it.
Improve brush outline mode.
Add a splash screen to Krita.
Make it possible to add, remove and hide resources.
New implementation for the curve brush with curvy, recurvy and smooth effects.
