This is a hotfix for 4.1.2 that fixes the crash that people were seeing on old DirectX 9 era GPUs like the NVIDIA GeForce 7000 series (not to be confused with the much newer GeForce 700 series).
This release will fall back to software rendering for affected GPUs, although I’m hoping to reinstate hardware acceleration in the next update.
As a reminder, 4.1.2 (and 4.1.3 of course) addresses two security vulnerabilities. As such, administrators who managed deployments of Paint.NET are urged to begin the update process immediately. Everyone else is also urged to update as soon as possible, of course.
If you’re using the Windows Store release, you should get the update automatically within the next 24 hours. You can also force an update check by following these instructions.
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it.
Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.
Performance in many areas has been substantially improved, and overall memory usage has also been greatly reduced (especially when more than 1 image is open).
The user interface has been refreshed with new icons, and visual styling has been enhanced for Aero Glass (Windows 7 / Vista only).
Upgraded to use the latest .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which has many built-in performance improvements.
New effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur, by Ed Harvey
New effect: Distort -> Dents, by Ed Harvey
New effect: Distort -> Crystalize, by Ed Harvey
The font manager for the Text Tool has been completely rewritten, resulting in increased performance and better reliability. On Windows 7, the quality of text is much better as a result of using DirectWrite (this also works on Windows Vista if you have installed DirectX 11).
The built-in updater now has the ability to download updates in the background, and will wait until you exit Paint.NET to install them. In previous versions, the download happened in the foreground, and you had to wait for the entire process to complete before you could use Paint.NET again.
Now includes a Russian translation.
Added download link for beta version.
Improved: Massive startup performance improvement when lots of effect plugins are installed
Fixed a crash that would happen when closing an image, exiting the app, or sometimes just at random. This was happening due to a bug in Direct2D where ID2D1EffectContext does not honor the multithreaded initialization flag from its ID2D1Factory, and was thus corrupting its own internal data structures when released on the finalizer thread.
Fixed: DirectX 9 GPUs can now utilize hardware acceleration again (in 4.1.3 they were forced to use software rendering)
Fixed: The Black & White and Invert Colors adjustments no longer display an OK/Cancel dialog
For the Classic release, you can use the built-in updater by going to Settings → Updates → Check Now.
You can also download and install it directly from the website.
This release will fall back to software rendering for affected GPUs, although I’m hoping to reinstate hardware acceleration in the next update.
As a reminder, 4.1.2 (and 4.1.3 of course) addresses two security vulnerabilities. As such, administrators who managed deployments of Paint.NET are urged to begin the update process immediately. Everyone else is also urged to update as soon as possible, of course.
If you’re using the Windows Store release, you should get the update automatically within the next 24 hours. You can also force an update check by following these instructions.
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| If you’re using the Windows Store release, you should get the update automatically within the next 24 hours. |
Paint.NET 4.1.4 is now available.
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it.
Features.
Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.
Performance in many areas has been substantially improved, and overall memory usage has also been greatly reduced (especially when more than 1 image is open).
The user interface has been refreshed with new icons, and visual styling has been enhanced for Aero Glass (Windows 7 / Vista only).
Upgraded to use the latest .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which has many built-in performance improvements.
New effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur, by Ed Harvey
New effect: Distort -> Dents, by Ed Harvey
New effect: Distort -> Crystalize, by Ed Harvey
The font manager for the Text Tool has been completely rewritten, resulting in increased performance and better reliability. On Windows 7, the quality of text is much better as a result of using DirectWrite (this also works on Windows Vista if you have installed DirectX 11).
The built-in updater now has the ability to download updates in the background, and will wait until you exit Paint.NET to install them. In previous versions, the download happened in the foreground, and you had to wait for the entire process to complete before you could use Paint.NET again.
Now includes a Russian translation.
Available for download the latest version of Paint.net 4.1.4.Click to Tweet
What's New.
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| Performance in many areas has been substantially improved, and overall memory usage has also been greatly reduced. |
Added download link for beta version.
Improved: Massive startup performance improvement when lots of effect plugins are installed
Fixed a crash that would happen when closing an image, exiting the app, or sometimes just at random. This was happening due to a bug in Direct2D where ID2D1EffectContext does not honor the multithreaded initialization flag from its ID2D1Factory, and was thus corrupting its own internal data structures when released on the finalizer thread.
Fixed: DirectX 9 GPUs can now utilize hardware acceleration again (in 4.1.3 they were forced to use software rendering)
Fixed: The Black & White and Invert Colors adjustments no longer display an OK/Cancel dialog
For the Classic release, you can use the built-in updater by going to Settings → Updates → Check Now.
You can also download and install it directly from the website.
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Pros: I love software that never crashes. With the latest versions 100s of filters are built in. It does what some of the most expensive software does only much easier. Works with Win10.
ReplyDeleteCons: I cannot think of anything.
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