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The primary goal of this update is preparing for the v4.0 release: previous versions of Paint.NET will not be able to offer the v4.0 update. Also included are some small fixes and performance improvements that have been ported over from the v4.0 codebase.

    Fixed: The Gaussian Blur effect was incorrectly calculating alpha values for non-opaque pixels.
    Improved performance of the Sharpen effect by about 25%
    Improved performance of the Median effect by about 30%
    Improved performance of the Fragment effect by about 40%
    Improved performance of the Unfocus effect by about 100%
    Reduced memory usage when many selection manipulation operations are in the history/undo stack (the undo data is now saved to disk)
    The built-in updater now supports upgrading to paint.net 4.0 (when it's available)

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The first alpha for paint.net 4.0 is now available! To download it, please head over to the forum: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/27227-paintnet-40-alpha-build-5034/

Please note that this is an alpha! It is mostly complete but there are bugs, both known and unknown. DO NOT install this if you depend on Paint.NET for your livelihood, for instance, as it might crash at seemingly random times or even corrupt your data (that’s actually very unlikely but, still, use caution). After alpha comes beta, and then final (general availability) or "RTW" (release to web) (also sometimes called RTM).

NOTE: The alpha is not available via the updater in v3.5.11, even if you have “Also check for pre-release (beta) versions” enabled. The beta for 4.0, however, will be made available through that update channel (from v3.5.11, I mean). I’m deliberately doing this in order to keep the audience size smaller for now so that my inbox doesn’t get flooded (I’m also not advertising it on the paint.net website just yet). Newer 4.0 alpha builds will, of course, be automatically offered to you once you have any 4.0 alpha installed.

Here is a list of the most prominent changes between v3.5.11 and 4.0:

    System requirements
        Windows 7 SP1 or newer is now required.
        Windows XP and Windows Vista are no longer supported (paint.net will not install).
        .NET Framework 4.5 is now required, and will be installed if needed.
        A dual-core (or more!) CPU is highly recommended. (I no longer test on single core systems, btw.)
    A brand new, asynchronous, fully multithreaded rendering engine
        Performance scales very well with respect to the number of CPU cores, whether you have 2, 4, 6, or even 16 of them.
        Performance scales much better with large, or even huge, images. Rendering will slow down and you will see tiles “trickling” in as they are completed, but the UI will still be responsive to your changes and clicks.
        The canvas now uses hardware acceleration via Direct2D, which also improves performance.
        Memory usage is lower.
    Selections have been improved in many ways
        Antialiased selections. You may turn this on/off at any time from the toolbar.
        Selection outlines are now rendered with the “dancing ants” animation.
        Performance of selection rendering and manipulation (Move Selection tool) have been fantastically improved.
    General UI
        The functionality previously provided by the Utilities, Window, and Help menus has been simplified, consolidated, and moved to the top-right corner of the main window.
        A brand new Settings dialog makes it much easier to configure all the tool and toolbar defaults, among other things.
        The zoom slider and units selector have been moved from the toolbar to the bottom right corner of the window (into the status bar).
        The image thumbnail list is now left-aligned and does not move around when you switch between certain tools.
        The image thumbnail list can now be reordered with drag-and-drop.
        Updated theming to a white, blue, flat motif.
    Tools
        Tools may now draw directly with a blending mode, configurable from the toolbar. All of the layer blending modes are supported, as well as “Overwrite.”
        Drawing tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Eraser, Clone Stamp, Recolor) now have much smoother mouse input handling via GetMouseMovePointsEx.
        Brush tools (Paintbrush, Eraser, Clone Stamp, Recolor) now have soft brushes support via a “Hardness” setting in the toolbar.
        The Move tools (Move Selected Pixels, Move Selection) have a much better UI for scaling, moving, and (especially) rotation.
        Color Picker has a configurable sampling radius, and can sample from either the current layer or the whole image.
        Gradient tool now supports a new “Spiral” gradient type, and allows configuration of the repeat mode (none, repeat, wrapped).
        Magic Wand and Paint Bucket now allow live adjustment of Tolerance and the Origin (click location) after clicking (press Enter to commit/finish).
        Magic Wand and Paint Bucket can now sample from either the current layer or the whole image.
        The Paint Bucket now supports anti-aliasing.
        The Recolor tool can now use the color of the pixel where you click as the color to be replaced. Or, as usual, it can use the secondary color.
        The new Shapes tool replaces the Line/Curve, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, and Freeform shape tools. 29 shapes are currently available. You may move, resize, and rotate a shape, as well as reconfigure any other properties from the toolbar (color, outline size, etc.) before committing it to the layer.
    Miscellaneous
        Layers can now be reordered with drag-and-drop
        Edit –> Copy Merged
        Shift+Backspace will now fill the selection with the secondary color (Backspace fills with primary color, as usual)
        Ctrl+Click on the Move Layer Up/Down buttons will now move a layer to the top/bottom
        New exception/error dialog
        Improved battery life impact due to fixing the way the floating windows manage their transparency
        paint.net now shows up in the “Default Programs” control panel so you can configure its file type associations
        Improved performance of saving .PDN images
        Image->Resize has improved super sampling quality
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"Auto-hide taskbar" was not working while paint.net was maximized and the foreground application
Arrow keys were not working with the Move tools until after you had used the mouse
Drawing on an invisible layer was visible while drawing
The bracket keys [ and ] were not working to adjust the brush size
Save Configuration was not remembering what settings were used for saving
The Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tool’s handling of transparent pixels was broken
Clicking on taskbar image thumbnails did not work to activate the application if you clicked on the image that was already active within paint.net
Some translations were crashing (e.g. Russian)

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Here’s a list of the changes between the previous alpha build (5064) and this one (5086):

    Text tool
        Colored fonts are now supported in Windows 8.1 (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji).
        You can now choose between Smooth, Sharp (Modern), and Sharp (Classic) rendering. These correspond to the DirectWrite’s rendering modes of Outline, Natural Symmetric, and GDI Classic.
        OpenType/Adobe fonts are now included in the list of fonts.
        Fixed some layout glitches that caused text to be incorrectly clipped and/or the cursor to appear in the wrong location.
    Selections
        Drawing a rectangle selection with a fixed ratio followed by a Crop operation was often resulting in an extra row or column of partially transparent pixels.
        When using aliased selection clipping while zoomed in, the selection was often rendered in the wrong location and/or at the wrong angle.
        When drawing a rectangle selection, the status bar would always say it had zero area.
        Selection adjustments would sometimes result in half-pixel alignment of the selection outline.
        Deselecting via pressing Enter or Escape was not working consistently.
        Fixed some rendering artifacts when scaling the selection to a small size.
        Fixed some rendering glitches after pasting when a selection was already active.
    You can now use the middle mouse button for panning at any time.
    Panning via spacebar while a selection tool was active didn’t always show the correct mouse cursor.
    UI text now honors the user’s control panel settings for ClearType and antialiasing of text.
    Edit->Copy now includes the PNG format when initializing the clipboard data, which allows applications like Office to paste with full transparency information.
    The Diagnostics page in the Settings dialog now includes a “Copy to Clipboard” button and a “Open crash log folder” link.
    The Eraser tool now uses the alpha value of the current color.
    Double-clicking the “roll ball” in Rotate/Zoom was not resetting all the values to their defaults.
    Fixed some visual artifacts when using the Line or Curve shape along with certain arrow end caps.
    Ctrl+[ was not reducing the brush size by 5.
    Fixed a crash in the Move and Shape tools when adjusting the rotation anchor while using the Classic theme on Windows 7.
    Some of the new toolbar items didn’t have tooltips.
    When hovering the mouse over a taskbar image, the main window was always showing a blank image for the corresponding tab.
    Fixed a bug in the Colors window where it would incorrectly switch to the Primary color when you clicked on the Hue slider.
    Removed the legacy Ctrl+Alt+0 keyboard shortcut for View->Zoom to Actual Size, which was preventing some characters from working in the Text tool.
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Added Bezier curve to the Shapes tool
Line/Curve shapes weren’t working with the rounded line cap styles
When opening an image (e.g. JPEG), the EXIF orientation/rotation metadata is now applied
Fixed: If you change the resolution from Image->Resolution, the selection measurement info in the status bar will now update
Fixed the selection tools not always showing the selection measurement info in the status bar
Text Tool: fixed Strikethrough being incorrectly rendered as Underline
Text Tool no longer interprets something like Alt+9 as the Home key
Fixed some effects leaving an empty progress bar in the status bar
Fixed the Magic Wand tool sometimes leaving an animated progress bar in the status bar
Move tool no longer resets the "angle" displayed in the status bar when you let go of the mouse, and it’s now an absolute angle versus relative to the beginning of the drag operation.
Move tools now let you use arrow keys while the mouse button is down. This allows fine precision control over rotations and moves and scales
Setup will now install .NET 4.5.1 instead of .NET 4.5
Reduced download size by 116KB
Fixed the update and language settings not carrying forward from the installer to the application
Main window now works in High Contrast mode on Windows 8/8.1
Settings dialog can now be accessed with Alt+X
Fixed a cosmetic blemish in the Updater dialog (it had a black "footer")
Fixed the Language dropdown in Settings sometimes showing up "blank"
Fixed a pseudo-crash when using Edit->Paste followed immediately by clicking and dragging
Fixed a crash on exit related to Direct2D and WARP

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- Cropping after several simple selection manipulations (e.g. move, scale) would often result in an extra row or column of blank pixels in the cropped image
- Move Layer Up/Down would often result in the wrong scroll location in the Layers window
- Panning the canvas via holding the spacebar and click-and-drag of the left mouse button was still panning even after the mouse button was released, but before the spacebar was
- Clone Stamp tool now uses the Primary color's alpha value (or Secondary if you use the right mouse button)
- Fixed a crash that would happen if you clicked on the image list dropdown button (to the right of the image thumbnail list) too quickly after opening a large image
- The Move tools would revert changes made with the keyboard if the Enter or Esc keys were pressed too quickly afterwards
- Using the "Check Now" (for Updates) button in the Settings dialog did not close the application if you had any images open which had unsaved changes
- Fixed some issues with the Colors window whereby left clicking would reset the Primary/Secondary choice to Primary
- The floating window positions (Tools, History, Layers, Colors) were not being persisted across sessions
- Plugins can now retrieve the correct value for CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture from any thread
- Fixed some rather pernicious crash bugs in several tools related to a "Committing changes" dialog popping up during click-and-drag operations
- Clicking and dragging on handles in the Gradient tool was lagging behind by 1 frame of mouse movement
- Fixed a focus bug on startup whereby you couldn't use keyboard commands until you clicked on the canvas
- Fixed a crash on Win7 when switching from Aero to Classic theme
- Settings dialog now works correctly in High Contrast mode
- Fixed the pixel grid being off by 1 screen pixel (it didn't line up with the ruler)
- Fixed a CPU usage issue with the Move and Shape tools. They were running the animations and UI code even if the UI wasn't visible yet (e.g. no selection / no shape)
- The "OK" button wasn't working in the New Image, Resize, and Canvas Size dialogs when the rest of the application's CPU usage was very high (e.g. slow CPU, slow GPU, disabled hardware acceleration)
- Reduced CPU usage of animated UI elements, especially when not the active application or when the user has disconnected (locked workstation, Remote Desktop)

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Here are the changes since the last alpha build (5143):

    Added a "Finish" (aka commit) button in the toolbar. It looks like a green check mark. This makes it much easier to discover how you finish a shape and then draw another one, for instance. Most of the non-brush tools support this (e.g. Move, Gradient, Magic Wand, Paint Bucket, Text).
    Added a choice between Light and Blue color schemes to Settings. The default on Windows 8/8.1 is Light, and the default on Windows 7 is Blue.
    Fixed some artifacts in the Magic Wand when making a "Global" selection
    Fixed a crash in the Magic Wand tool that was causing people a lot of grief ("this.baseGeometry == null")
    Fixed a crash in various tools (crash in ClickDragBehavior.cs line 270)
    Fixed brush strokes being completely erratic over Remote Desktop
    Fixed some very broken UI rendering over Remote Desktop with Windows 8
    The icons in the top-right of the main window are now scaled correctly for high-DPI
    Fixed a crash if you clicked to undo multiple actions after committing a shape
    Fixed some performance issues whereby non-active images were still rendering stuff in the background
    Fixed many tools emitting a history item even if the image was unaffected (e.g. drawing a brush stroke outside of the canvas)
    Fixed a leftover progress bar in the status bar after loading an image
    Fixed Ctrl+Arrow keys not moving the selection by 10 pixels (it only moved by 1 px) if you didn’t first release the Ctrl key after you pasted with Ctrl+V
    Removed the dangling "Tool:" tooltip on the Tool selection button in the toolbar
    Fixed a crash when the language was changed if the new language’s localized "paint.net User Files" folder already existed
    Fixed the dash style button in the toolbar being too skinny at 96 DPI (it worked fine at >96 DPI)
    Fixed the main window’s application icon being off by 2 pixels
    Fixed Ctrl+D reverting selection movement if it was pressed too quickly after using the arrow keys
    Fixed some missed thumbnail updates, especially for the Layers window
    Fixed the Width/Height text boxes in the toolbar for Fixed Selection not having an outline around them
    Fixed a visual styles related crash on some buttons in some cases
    Fixed the main installer not running after the .NET 4.5.1 installer if it required a reboot
    Fixed the installer seeming to disappear if there wasn’t enough disk space to install .NET 4.5.1
    Shapes no longer finish/commit if you press the delete key
    Non-active images no longer update their thumbnails when you make changes in another image which affect them (e.g. if you leave an uncommited shape on image 1, then switch to image 2 and change the color)
    Fixed a crash in the Text tool if you try to use a "bad" font (one which shows up in the font list as a yellow exclamation mark)
NOTE: 4.0 requires Windows 7 SP1 or newer (including 8/8.1, but excluding XP and Vista), and uses .NET Framework 4.5.1 (it will be installed automatically if needed).

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Added new languages: Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal)
Fixed many typos and clumsy translations in various languages
Fixed the main window growing taller and flashing black after being minimized and then restored
Fixed the tools committing their changes to the image when trying to exit the application (waste of CPU/disk)
Fixed the current layer not being preserved when using one of the Image -> Rotate commands
Fixed keyboard shortcuts not working in some cases if the mouse was positioned over the toolbar
Fixed some inappropriate text wrapping in drop down boxes in German (the text is now clipped with "..." instead)
Fixed the Recolor tool's shortcut mistakenly being 'e' instead of 'r'
Pressing 'A' now cycles through the shapes when the Shapes tool is active (Shift+A cycles backward)
Fixed mouse input centering for the brush tools when antialiasing was disabled
Re-enabled Ctrl+D as a "commit" button
Moved the "Finish" button (green checkmark) to the end of the toolbar and included the "Finish" text so that it is easier to aim at
Fixed some font previews rendering as gray instead of black
Fixed a crash that was most easily reproducible by copying an image from IE11 and then clicking on File->New Image
Image close buttons are now appropriately styled on Windows 7
Fixed a dangling progress bar after running some effects
Fixed some drifting color value problems in the Colors window when changing Hue, Saturation, and/or Value
Fixed a crash caused by 3rd-party visual themes that try to use fonts that don't exist
Fixed a crash when toggling a layer's visibility while using the Move Selected Pixels tool and then undoing
Fixed a crash when opening an image due to not being able to create the thumbnail for the File -> Open Recent list
Fixed a crash on startup due to the user's My Documents folder not existing
Changed the canvas background color to gray when using the Blue theme
Fixed an error whereby committing an action, changing the active layer, undoing, and then redoing would cause the action to be redone on the new layer instead of the one it was originally drawn on
Fixed shortcut keys not working for toggling line styles and caps for the Shapes tool
Fixed some styling issues in the Settings dialog in the Tools section
Fixed some delayed crashes with some effect plugins which would happen when trying to do an action afterward
Fixed a crash caused by pressing Escape while drawing a shape
Fixed many plugin compatibility and crash issues
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Rotation (Move, Shapes) now allows you to use the right mouse button to rotate, no matter where the mouse cursor is
The hit-zone for rotation no longer extends inside the object's (e.g. selection, shape) bounding box
New languages: Hungarian, Lithuanian
Fixed some mouse input glitches when using Paint.NET inside of VMWare
Fixed all sorts of issues with Paste
Fixed blending modes sometimes getting saved incorrectly
Fixed an infinite loop with the crash dialog handling
Fixed constrained rotation (e.g. Move, Shapes) using a relative instead of absolute offset
Fixed a rendering issue with the Move Selected Pixels tool caused by a flawed implementation of coverage sampling
Fixed an issue in the Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools when using a Tolerance value of 0 whereby it would sometimes include colors that weren't exactly the same as what you clicked on
Fixed a crash when using horizontal scroll wheels
Fixed the Settings dialog showing the wrong language
Fixed the increment for Pan/Zoom in the Rotate/Zoom dialog (it was 1.0, it is now 0.01)
Fixed the Rotate/Zoom dialog not always reloading the values that were used previously
Fixed the Pixel Grid indicators (View menu, toolbar) being out of sync
Fixed various plugin compatibility issues
Fixed various crashes

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- The Line/Curve tool is now back, and the Line and Curve shapes have been removed from the Shapes tool

- Improved rendering quality of the Line/Curve tool, especially when antialiasing is disabled

- Rectangle and Rounded Rectangles shapes now draw using an "inset" brush stroke. This helps prevents blurriness with odd-sized brush widths

- Shapes tool now lets you commit by clicking outside of the bounding box of the current shape. (you can also start drawing a new shape via clicking and dragging, of course)

- Improved rendering quality of brush tools when antialiasing is disabled

- Improved performance of Shapes and Line/Curve tools on most systems (e.g., less than 8 CPU cores)

- Improved rendering quality of Image->Resize when using Nearest Neighbor

- Fixed the Palette chooser in the Colors window, which was going away when you tried to move the mouse to click on one of its items

- Fixed some broken clipping when using Paste and "Expand Canvas"

- Intel-based GPUs now default to having hardware acceleration disabled. You may still force it to be enabled from the Settings dialog

- When pasting, the PNG format now has a higher priority than CF_DIB, which allows easier access to transparency (alpha) from other applications

- Tools no longer incorrectly commit when clicking on the currently active layer in the Layers window

- The layer's opacity was being ignored while drawing if it was the lowest (index zero) layer

- You can now copy a file from File Explorer and Paste it into Paint.NET (regression from 3.5)

- Fixed the canvas scroll bars occasionally being incorrect after maximizing the main window and then restoring it

- Fixed radio button group tab processing

- Fixed many small miscellaneous crashes

- New language: Czech

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Changes since the last beta build:

    Significantly improved performance of the Ellipse shape
    Fixed the selection outline being drawn in the wrong location when zoomed in
    Fixed a glitch in the Line/Curve tool
    Fixed a rendering glitch and crash in the Move Selected Pixels tool
    Fixed a crash when attempting to draw a shape with zero width and/or zero height
    Updated installer to use .NET 4.5.2
    Fixed a problem that was preventing the installer from working with certain McAfee antivirus configurations (MsiOpenDatabaseW error 110)
    New language: Persian
    New language: Danish

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Pasting with the Text tool should no longer hide the move handle
The rotation anchor (Move, Shapes) is now less intrusive
Fixed focus rectangles in some controls that effects use (check boxes, radio buttons, sliders)
Fixed a layout issue with the ruler in some very specific scenarios
Hardware acceleration is now enabled by default for some Intel GPUs (e.g. Intel HD 4000 series)

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System Requirements:
Windows 7 SP1 or newer is now required.
.NET Framework 4.5 is now required, and will be installed if needed.
A dual-core (or more!) processor is highly recommended.
Hardware acceleration (GPU) via Direct2D is now supported (Please disable this in the Settings dialog if you experience visual artifacts).
Performance:
A brand new, asynchronous, fully multithreaded rendering engine allows performance to scale very well with respect to the number of CPU cores whether you have 2, 4, 6, or even 16 of them.
The responsiveness of the user interface has been greatly improved, especially when working with large images.
Memory usage is lower.
Improved battery life impact due to fixing the way the floating windows manage their transparency.
Startup performance when many plugins are installed is improved, thanks to the Multicore JIT feature introduced in .NET 4.5.
Selections:
Selections are now antialiased, which greatly improves the quality around the edges of selected content. You can turn this on and off at any time from the toolbar.
Everything related to selections now has much higher performance and greatly reduced CPU usage, especially if hardware acceleration (GPU) is enabled.
The selection outline is now rendered using the “dancing ants” animation, which greatly improves the contrast between it and the image itself.
General:
The functionality previously provided by the Utilities, Window, and Help menus has been simplified, consolidated, and moved to the top-right corner of the main window.
The image thumbnail list has been moved up 1 row so that it no longer intrudes into the current Tool’s toolbar space. This means it will no longer “jump around” when you switch between tools. This also means that it is aligned to the top of the monitor when the main window is maximized, making it easier to click on images (Fitt’s law).
The image thumbnail list can now be reordered with drag-and-drop.
A brand new Settings dialog makes it much easier to configure all the tool and toolbar defaults, among other things.
The zoom slider and units selector have been moved from the toolbar to the bottom right corner of the window (into the status bar).
Each image now shows up as its own taskbar item. This can be disabled in the Settings dialog with “Show image previews in the Windows taskbar.”
Layers can now be reordered with drag-and-drop.
Ctrl+Click on the Move Layer Up/Down buttons will now move a layer to the top/bottom, respectively.
Improved quality of Image->Resize.
Edit –> Copy Merged will copy all layers to the clipboard without having to use Image->Flatten first.
Copying to the clipboard now includes the “PNG” format, which allows transparency to survive from many popular applications (e.g. Office)
You can now use the middle mouse button to scroll/pan the image at any time (same functionality as holding down the spacebar along with clicking and dragging the mouse).
Shift+Backspace will now fill the selection with the secondary color (Backspace, the shortcut key for Edit -> Fill Selection, still fills with primary color as usual).
paint.net now shows up in Windows’ “Default Programs” control panel so you can configure its file type associations without reinstalling.
EXIF rotation metadata is now applied when opening images (e.g. JPG taken with a rotated camera).
Eleven (11) new languages, bringing the total to 21: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, and Spanish.
Crash logs are now stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\paint.net\CrashLogs (e.g. C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\paint.net\CrashLogs) instead of on the desktop.
Effects:
New effect: Photo -> Vignette.
Improved the quality of the Photo -> Red Eye Removal effect.
Improved UI for Layers -> Rotate/Zoom.
Effect plugins now show up with a jigsaw puzzle icon next to them in the menus. You can hover over the effect to see information about it, including the author and location of its DLL.
Errors while loading effect plugins are now displayed in the Settings dialog.
Tools:
Most Tools now support “fine-grained history.” You may adjust the properties of what you’ve drawn (e.g. colors, toolbar settings) before committing to the layer (use the “Finish” button or press Enter), and each change is tracked in the history.
Tools may now draw directly with a blending mode, configurable from the toolbar. All of the layer blending modes are supported, as well as “Overwrite.”
Drawing tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Eraser, Clone Stamp, Recolor) now have much smoother mouse input handling via GetMouseMovePointsEx.
Brush tools (Paintbrush, Eraser, Clone Stamp, Recolor) now have soft brushes support via a “Hardness” setting in the toolbar.
The Move tools (Move Selected Pixels, Move Selection) have a much better UI for scaling, moving, and (especially) rotation.
The Move tools now support moving the rotation anchor, which changes the center of rotation.
The new Shapes tool replaces the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, and Freeform shape tools. 27 shapes are currently available. You may move, resize, and rotate a shape, as well as reconfigure any other properties from the toolbar (color, outline size, etc.) before committing it to the layer.
Color Picker has a configurable sampling radius, and can sample from either the current layer or the whole image.
Gradient tool now supports a new Spiral gradient type and allows configuration of the repeat mode (none, repeat, wrapped).
Gradient tool has improved rendering quality via dithering and antialiasing. You can control both of these with the standard antialiasing toggle in the toolbar.
Magic Wand and Paint Bucket now allow live adjustment of Tolerance and the Origin (click location) after clicking (press Enter to commit/finish).
Magic Wand and Paint Bucket can now sample from either the current layer or the whole image.
Paint Bucket tool now supports anti-aliasing.
Recolor tool can now use the color of the pixel where you click as the color to be replaced. Or, as usual, it can use the secondary color.
Text tool now supports multiple rendering modes: Smooth, Sharp (Modern), and Sharp (Classic). These correspond to DirectWrite rendering modes of Outline, ClearType Natural Symmetric, and GDI Classic, respectively.
Text tool now supports colored fonts on Windows 8.1.

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Move Selected Pixels tool performance has been significantly optimized.
Move Selected Pixels tool was always leaving transparent black behind instead of the secondary color with alpha removed.
Brush tools with odd-sized brushes and no antialiasing were drawing at 1 size smaller.
Fixed some apparent ‘lag’ in the brush tools due to an off-by-1 glitch in the stroke path calculation code.
The brush tool preview circle no longer scales by the system DPI setting, which made it too big.
Removed the momentary hourglass/wait cursor after drawing (e.g. pencil and brush tools).
Optimized performance of the Shapes tool, especially for the Ellipse shape.
Paint Bucket tool will now correctly treat the selection as a boundary contour.
Zoom tool no longer crashes sometimes when pressing the right mouse button while already holding the left mouse button.
The status bar now reports the correct selection location when it’s outside the image boundaries (e.g. negative values).
Auto-scrolling on the edge of the window now works correctly and doesn’t require you to "jiggle the mouse" for each scroll update.
Touch screens no longer scroll when swiping up/down with one finger.
Improved the pixel grid’s contrast so it’s not overwhelmingly bright.
The transparency "checkerboard" is now aligned to the top-left of the image, instead of the top-left of the canvas.
The cursor position reported in the status bar was off-by-1 when the value was supposed to be negative.
Some controls (e.g. units selection in the Image->Resize dialog) were not drawing focus rectangles when using the keyboard.
Fixed a crash (OutOfMemoryException) when using a selection tool when hardware acceleration is disabled.
Fixed a crash (TimeBeforeLastUpdateException) in the installer. This usually happens when running in a virtual machine, and only affects animations.
Fixed a crash (BadImageFormatException) at startup. This indicates an installation error, and will be automatically repaired.
Fixed various crashes caused by having the wrong (old) version of PaintDotNet.SystemLayer.Native.dll. This indicates an installation error, and will be automatically repaired.
Improved performance when hardware acceleration is disabled.
All 7th generation Intel GPUs now default to hardware rendering. All older Intel GPUs default to software rendering.
Fixed graphical artifacts (blackness, flickering, mouse trails) on certain GPUs (e.g. NVIDIA Optimus).
"NVIDIA ION" graphics cards now default to software rendering due to crashes.

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Release Notes

This update is focused on fixing some important crashes, bricks, and functionality issues, and also on a few key performance optimizations.

    Move Selected Pixels tool performance has been significantly optimized.
    Move Selected Pixels tool was always leaving transparent black behind instead of the secondary color with alpha removed.
    Brush tools with odd-sized brushes and no antialiasing were drawing at 1 size smaller.
    Fixed some apparent ‘lag’ in the brush tools due to an off-by-1 glitch in the stroke path calculation code.
    The brush tool preview circle no longer scales by the system DPI setting, which made it too big.
    Removed the momentary hourglass/wait cursor after drawing (e.g. pencil and brush tools).
    Optimized performance of the Shapes tool, especially for the Ellipse shape.
    Paint Bucket tool will now correctly treat the selection as a boundary contour.
    Zoom tool no longer crashes sometimes when pressing the right mouse button while already holding the left mouse button.
    The status bar now reports the correct selection location when it’s outside the image boundaries (e.g. negative values).
    Auto-scrolling on the edge of the window now works correctly and doesn’t require you to "jiggle the mouse" for each scroll update.
    Touch screens no longer scroll when swiping up/down with one finger.
    Improved the pixel grid’s contrast so it’s not overwhelmingly bright.
    The transparency "checkerboard" is now aligned to the top-left of the image, instead of the top-left of the canvas.
    The cursor position reported in the status bar was off-by-1 when the value was supposed to be negative.
    Some controls (e.g. units selection in the Image->Resize dialog) were not drawing focus rectangles when using the keyboard.
    Fixed a crash (OutOfMemoryException) when using a selection tool when hardware acceleration is disabled.
    Fixed a crash (TimeBeforeLastUpdateException) in the installer. This usually happens when running in a virtual machine, and only affects animations.
    Fixed a crash (BadImageFormatException) at startup. This indicates an installation error, and will be automatically repaired.
    Fixed various crashes caused by having the wrong (old) version of PaintDotNet.SystemLayer.Native.dll. This indicates an installation error, and will be automatically repaired.
    Improved performance when software rendering is used (e.g. when hardware accelerated rendering is disabled).
    All 7th generation Intel GPUs now default to hardware rendering. All older Intel GPUs default to software rendering.
    Fixed graphical artifacts (blackness, flickering, mouse trails) on certain GPUs (e.g. NVIDIA Optimus).
    NVIDIA ION graphics cards now default to software rendering due to crashes.
    Fixed an issue that was causing beta updates to be offered even if “Also check for pre-release (beta) versions of paint.net” was disabled in Settings

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