Update on February 19, 2025: you can now host personal sessions on the public Drawpile server using the web browser version of Drawpile. Previously it only allowed you to join sessions.

Update on February 15, 2025: there's a bug in Safari 18 that prevented the web version of Drawpile from working on iPads. That's been worked around now and it should run again. Thanks grimsley and lunashadowbane for reporting and testing.

The third and, if everything goes to plan, final 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.

Everything in this beta is compatible. You can update to it and still draw with everyone that's on older versions, you'll just get to use all the new features and fixes. For example:

• Multi-layer selection, letting you rearrange, group, merge etc. many layers at once.
• New color cicle and reference image docks.
• A sketch mode for layers, letting you change the opacity and tint of a layer. This is only visible to you, so you can use it even on shared layers.
• Quick drag for selections, letting you move stuff quickly without entering into a full transform.
• A much expanded host session page, with more sensible defaults and more options that previously you had to change in the session settings after hosting.
• Better tablet support, especially for Huion and Gaomon tablets.
• And much more, see below the fold for a full list. And of course everything that was introduced in previous betas, like reworked selections and transforms, getting rid of session autoresets and more.

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

Changes in this Release

Drawpile 2.2.2-beta.5 represents about three months of development since Drawpile 2.2.2-beta.4. Numerous new features and fixes have been added during that time and, unless any issues are found, the next version should be the final 2.2.2.

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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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