Drawpile version 2.3.0 is out! It brings many new features and numerous fixes. Thanks to everyone who participated in its design and testing during the beta phases.

If you want to support Drawpile's continued development, consider donating to the project! Drawpile is developed mostly by just one person, donations help spend more time on it and with the cost of keeping the servers running.

• Click here to and install the new version. To update, simply install it over the previous one.

To find out what changed, take a look at this illustrated guide. It has many pictures and videos to show off the new stuff.

If you have questions, feedback or trouble using the new version, take a look at the help page on how to get in contact.

Update on November 22 2025: The macOS version has been revised. If Drawpile's window was updating very slowly or not at all for you, try getting this version. Thanks A Scanner Sparkly, nycnouu and Pupuptea for reporting this.

Updating

You can download Drawpile from here and simply install it over the current version. This will update it. The new version is backward-compatible, so you can still join sessions hosted with the previous version.

F-Droid on Android and Flatpak/Software Center on Linux had the new version has been submitted to them. They will make the update available on their own time, usually that takes a few days or so.

Server owners are encouraged to update, since it's required for fast reconnects. If you're using the all-in-one Docker setup, see the update instructions here. It's not strictly necessary though, servers are both backward- and forward compatible.

If you have a session that was hosted with the previous version, you have to rehost it to make it update to the new version. You can still join it though, Drawpile 2.3 is backward-compatible (you won't be able to use all the new features though.)

Changes in this Release

There's many new features in this version, such as:

• Fast reconnects that make it so that you no longer have to wait through the catchup sequence again and more stable socket connections by default.
• Clipping layers, also known as clipping groups or clip to layer below.
• Alpha locking of layers, rather than only being able to do it on your tool.
• A gradient tool tool and a lasso fill tool.
• Marker brush mode, which makes the brush not compound opacity across multiple strokes.
• OKLAB and Pigment blend modes, for more realistic color blending.
• Anti-overflow filling, to avoid your brush spilling out of the lines.
• Selections now mask your brush, meaning the brush draws only inside of the selection.
• More pixel and binary art features: pixel-perfect mode that prevents doubled-up pixels, pixel art input that lets you poke at individual pixels directly and a binary transform mode that does a better job at scaling binary artwork.
• And yet even more, take a look at the full list here.

A full list of changes since the last beta release follows below. The final release of Drawpile 2.3.0 represents about a month of development since that beta.

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