The second public beta of Drawpile 2.2.2 is out. You can download it in the Beta section on the downloads page. If you're updating from an earlier version, simply install the new one over it.

This beta is fully compatible. You can update to it and still draw with everyone on the main version and the previous beta, you'll just have more features than them, such as:

• Brushes now remember changes, your current brush shows up in the tool dock and you can make shortcuts to brushes directly.
• More touch gestures: two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo, holding down with one finger for a color picker.
• Faster fill and magic wand tool. They also no longer require a second click to confirm.
• Better tablet support, particularly for Huion tablets.
• If you're drawing on an updated server and your operator(s) are using this version, you will no longer get session autoresets interrupting the drawing. The canvas is compressed on the fly instead.

And many more fixes and features. See below the fold for a full list!

If you find any issues, have questions or suggestions or need any help, take a look at the help page on how to get in contact.

Changes in this Release

Drawpile 2.2.2-beta.4 represents about three months of development since Drawpile 2.2.2-beta.4. Many features were added and bugs fixed.

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The first public beta of Drawpile 2.2.2 is out. You can download it in the Beta section on the downloads page. If you're updating from an earlier version, simply install the new one over it.

This beta is fully compatible with the previous version. You can update to it and still draw with people that are using the main version, you'll just have more features than them. For example, better selections, the ability to transform multiple layers and groups simultaneously, better tablet support and more. Here's some illustrations and videos about what's new.

If you find any issues, have questions or suggestions or need any help, take a look at the help page on how to get in contact.

Also, if you're wondering, the version number is beta.3 because 1 and 2 were not announced publicly, they were used for preliminary testing. So you didn't miss anything in that regard.

Changes in this Release

Drawpile 2.2.2-beta.3 represents about six months of development since Drawpile 2.2.1. There's been lots of new features added and bugs fixed.

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Drawpile 2.1 will now prompt you to update to 2.2. If you already updated to 2.2 manually, you don't need to do anything.

You can find a summary of what changed on this page explaining how to update.

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Drawpile's web browser version is still in development, but it's working and usable at this point. It's been enabled on pub.drawpile.net for sessions with a password. Sessions without a password do not allow it at this time.

You can use it on just about any device. Chrome-based browsers work best, Firefox on Windows does too. It also works on Safari on iPad.

There's also other communities that let you host sessions accessible via the browser, take a look at the communities page the see which ones do!

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Drawpile 2.2.1 is out. You can download it here. If you're updating from an earlier version, simply install the new one over it.

If you're having trouble with it or otherwise need help, take a look at the help page. You can find ways to get in touch there, or maybe your question is already documented on a page there.

This release brings a fix to a performance issue that caused slowness for most macOS and some Windows systems with funky graphics drivers. So if 2.2.0 felt choppy for you, this likely fixes it.

There's also experimental support for high-DPI displays now. If you have a display with a very large resolution that causes Drawpile's interface to be way too tiny, you can turn it on in the User Interface tab of the Preferences.

Another significant addition is support for the web browser version of Drawpile. If you're drawing on a server that supports it and the server owner permits it, your session invite links will automatically include a button that lets people join through their browser. In that case, the session settings will also show the option to toggle if you want to allow joining from the browser or not.

Server owners have to set up their servers to enable browser access. How this works is documented on this help page.

Other documentation is still being worked on, like the stuff that changed between 2.1.20 and 2.2.0. Once that's done to a reasonable degree, the updater in 2.1 will start prompting for automatic updates too.

Changes in this Release

This release represents about a month of development since Drawpile 2.2.0, with some new features added, many bugs fixed and performance improved.

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