Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit.

Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 are functionally identical for this prominent open-source digital painting program but with the latter being on Qt6 and featuring improved Wayland functionality too.

Various features have been rewritten for Krita 5.3/6.0 including a completely new text feature, full OpenType support, on canvas editing, vector improvements, better HDR painting support, better Adobe PSD file handling, and a lot more.

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Krita 6.0 boasts a full-featured implementation of the Wayland color management protocol for nice HDR support to the Linux version of Krita. There are also various other Wayland support improvements too with Krita 6.0.

Downloads and more details on Krita 6.0 at [2]Krita.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=krita_6_lrg

[2] https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.0-released/