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+title: "Monthly Report - July 2026"
+date: "2026-07-20"
+---
+
+Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.
+
+## Development Report
+
+### Developments in Krita Plus
+
+Dependencies have been updated in the Qt5 builds (Krita 5.3.x). This updates many libraries Krita depends on for things like file format support. ([change](https://invent.kde.org/packaging/krita-deps-management/-/merge_requests/88))
+
+Luna and Agata have continued improving the Selection Actions Bar. Now it remembers the distance from the selection on restart, and there's a button to pin it to the bottom of the canvas widget instead of next to the selection. ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2778>}}))
+
+In the Python scripting API, the View class now has signals for 'currentToolChanged', 'currentBrushPresetChanged', 'foregroundColorChanged', and 'backgroundColorChanged'. ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2846>}}) by Moritz Staudinger)
+
+### Developments in Krita Next
+
+Wolthera and Dmitry continued working on HDR improvements. CICP values can now be read from and written to ICC profiles, and a "Krita Rec. 2100 Perceptual Quantizer (80cd/m²)" profile has been added ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2776>}})). PQ reference white can now be read from ICC profile ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2848>}})).
+
+The Line Tool nows show the angle alongside the length in the floating message popup. ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2864>}}) by Moritz Staudinger)
+
+### Future Developments
+
+#### Testing Needed: Android Animation Export
+
+Last month's new feature of rendering timelapses using Android's built-in MediaEncoder is now being brought to animation export. But it needs testing before it can be merged to the main builds, so so check out the [animation export on Android forum topic](https://krita-artists.org/t/testing-wanted-android-animation-export/186834/) for test packages if you want to help!
+
+## Community Report
+
+### June 2026 Monthly Art Challenge Results
+The winner of the ["Something Unexpected"](https://krita-artists.org/t/june-2026-art-challenge-something-unexpected/184626/) challenge is…
+
+{{< featured-artwork title="Something Unexpected 2" artist="Elixiah" link="https://krita-artists.org/t/something-unexpected-2-june-challenge/186168" image="/images/posts/2026/m2607_something_unexpected_2-elixiah_lq.webp" >}}
+
+### Join This Month's Art Challenge!
+For July's theme, last month's winner passed the choice of topic to runner-up Paint4Thought, who has chosen ["An Imaginary Friend"](https://krita-artists.org/t/july-2026-art-challenge-an-imaginary-friend/186203/). The optional challenge is to place the character(s) in a well-developed environment that contributes to telling the story. Show us what lurks in the depths of your imagination!
+
+## Featured Artwork
+This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the [Best of Krita-Artists - May/June 2026](https://krita-artists.org/t/nominate-your-favourite-artwork-here-may-june-2026/183576):
+
+{{< featured-artwork title="Dryad" artist="Deevad" link="https://krita-artists.org/t/dryad/184461" image="/images/posts/2026/m2607_dryad-deevad.jpeg" >}}
+
+{{< featured-artwork title="Gala dinner" artist="Ws_Ws" link="https://krita-artists.org/t/gala-dinner/183235" image="/images/posts/2026/m2607_gala_dinner-ws_ws_lq.webp" >}}
+
+{{< featured-artwork title="Halgardia, Aerial Paradise" artist="RoamingOwl" link="https://krita-artists.org/t/halgardia-aerial-paradise/183244" image="/images/posts/2026/m2607_halgardia_aerial_paradise-roamingowl_lq.webp" >}}
+
+{{< featured-artwork title="Ballerina" artist="sognidigitali" link="https://krita-artists.org/t/ballerina/185212" image="/images/posts/2026/m2607_ballerina-sognidigitali_lq.webp" >}}
+
+{{< featured-artwork title="Purrfect Lullaby" artist="Elixiah" link="https://krita-artists.org/t/purrfect-lullaby-finished/182323" image="/images/posts/2026/m2607_purrfect_lullaby-elixiah_lq.webp" >}}
+
+### Nominate and Vote For Next Month's Featured Artwork!
+Participate in next month's nominations and voting to voice your opinion on the [Best of Krita-Artists - June/July 2026](https://krita-artists.org/t/nominate-your-favourite-artwork-here-see-updated-how-to-june-july-2026/185444).
+
+## Krita is Free - But You Can Contribute!
+Krita is free to use and modify, but it can only exist with the contributions of the community. A small sponsored team alongside volunteer programmers, artists, writers, testers, translators, and more from across the world keep development going.
+
+If this software has value to you, consider donating to the [Krita Development Fund](https://krita.org/en/donations/). Or [Get Involved](https://krita.org/en/get-involved/) and put your skills to use making Krita and its community better!
+
+{{< figure src="/images/pages/2021-11-16_kiki-piggy-bank_krita5.png" alt="Krita's mascot Kiki putting money in a piggy bank" class="fit" >}}
+
+## Additional Changes
+
+### Krita Plus (Stable, 5.3.3/6.0.3-prealpha):
+- Text: Fix various font loading issues. Use default vertical caret in non-variable fonts. Fix Regular font style not showing and defaulting to Italic. Fix duplicate fonts causing fonts not to load. ([bug 1]({{<bug-url 518874>}}), [bug 2]({{<bug-url 517717>}}), [bug 3]({{<bug-url 517361>}}); [change]({{<merge-request-url 2842>}}) by Wolthera van Hövell)
+- Animation Timeline: Switching between frames should always complete, rather than sometimes showing the new frame while leaving the old frame active. ([bug]({{<bug-url 522430>}}); [change]({{<merge-request-url 2841>}}) by Elena Sagalaeva)
+- Edit Shapes Tool: After splitting a path, allow moving the new point immediately instead of needing to move the cursor to change state. ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2863>}}) by Luna Lovecraft)
+- Toolbars: Add icons for 'Quick Group', 'Quick Clipping Group', and 'Quick Ungroup' actions. ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2867>}}) by Arkady Flury)
+- Qt6: Transform Tool: Fix perspective transform getting stuck waiting to complete when the transform became concave. ([bug]({{<bug-url 520602>}}); [change]({{<merge-request-url 2839>}}) by Luna Lovecraft)
+- Qt6: Windows: Fix the canvas widget being transparent and letting other open documents show through. ([bug]({{<bug-url 517102>}}); [change 1]({{<commit-url 4e44f0958e>}}), [change 2](https://invent.kde.org/dkazakov/qtbase/-/commit/bfd0c8eaf4) by Dmitry Kazakov)
+
+### Krita Next (Unstable, 5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha):
+- Toolbars: Add widgets for the 'Choose Foreground Color', 'Choose Background Color', 'Swap Foreground and Background Colors', and 'Reset Foreground and Background Colors' actions. ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2824>}}) by Arkady Flury)
+- General: Allow choosing any installed application style instead of only Fusion, macOS (on macOS), Haiku (on Haiku), and Breeze (on Linux distribution builds). This unrestricts using Windows style (not just on Windows), windowsvista/windows11 (on Windows), and styles available on Linux distro builds. ([change]({{<merge-request-url 2861>}}) by Halla Rempt)
+
+## Nightly Builds
+These pre-release versions of Krita are built every day.
+
+Note that there are currently no Qt6 builds for Android.
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