There is now a new section on the website: the Gallery.

The gallery is a place for Drawpile users to showcase their work and find new groups to join. The gallery section is still a work in progress; there are many planned features that are not yet ready, but the basics work: you can upload pictures, leave comments and create and join groups.

Note that the gallery is still an experimental feature, so please keep backups of everything you upload.

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Version 2.0.9 is now out. The main focus of this release is improved graphics tablet support. If you've been having problems using a graphics tablet with Drawpile, there's a good change this version will fix them.

Drawpile now uses Krita's new Windows Ink support code (good news for all Surface Pro users!), as well as their improved Wintab and XInput2 tablet event handlers.

After updating, remember to try unchecking the "enable bug workarounds" setting. Chances are you won't need it anymore.

Other fixes in this release:

• Recordings are now prefiltered. This fixes various recording playback problems.
• Fixed random duplicate frames in exported animations
• Reverted the real time color history update feature
• Active color is now remembered independently of the color history when swapping with X

Notes:

• The macOS package appears to be broken. (Missing libraries?) I recommend skipping this release and using the previous 2.0.8 version until next release.

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If you're having tablet trouble with Drawpile under Windows 10, here's a new experimental version for you. Normally, Drawpile relies on Qt's built in graphics tablet event handler, which uses the old Wintab API. This experimental update replaces Qt's built-in Wintab support with Krita's new Windows Ink native event handler.

Try out Drawpile 2.0.8 with Windows Ink support

See also the GitHub issue for this feature. Currently, I intend to make this a standard feature in the next release (for the 64 bit version, the 32 bit version will continue to use Wintab,) so if this breaks something for you, please report it so I can hopefully fix it before the actual release.

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Version 2.0.8 is now out. This will likely be the last release of the 2.0.x branch, unless more severe bugs are found. The next big release will be version 2.1.0.

Important fixes in this version:

• Regression fix: autoreset no longer removes session permission settings
• Manual resets now also preserve permissions
• Fixed password remembering on Windows (also fixed in 2.0.7.1)
• Fixed that a server password would also get saved for ext-auth (also fixed in 2.0.7.1)
• Platform input method context plugins are now included in the AppImage

Other improvements:

• Server: added support for SSL certificate chains and certificate auto-reloading
• Server: web admin can now be used with socket activation
• Server: support ext-auth "did" field
• Better icons for authenticated users and mods
• New session option: allow only authenticated users to join (requires server version 2.0.8)
• Chatbox no longer shows "user joined" messages for users already in the session
• macOS: a new window is now opened when the application icon is clicked if none is currently open.

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Version 2.0.7 is now out, a bit earlier than intended. This release fixes a couple serious bugs introduced in the 2.0.6 release and adds some feature improvements too.

Regression fixes:

• Windows specific: Fixed a missing DLL that resulted in a Windows 95 UI style
• Fixed that you couldn't enter a password protected session after logging in with a registered user account
• Fixed duplicate colors in the color history palette
• Fixed flipbook downscaling

New features:

• Added a "remember my password" feature. Makes using registered accounts much easier!
• Flipbook now upscales if the canvas or cropped area is very small
• The "show password protected sessions" checkbox now retains its state

Other bug fixes:

• Fixed that paste & area fill could be done on a locked layer (locally, did not affect other users)
• Improved selection scaling behavior. Proportional scaling mode now maintains aspect ratio correctly.

Errata:

• Password file path was incorrect on Windows. Fixed in 2.0.7.1. Other platforms are not affected.
• Mac package didn't open in versions older than High Sierra. Fixed in 2.0.7.2.

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