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A new version of Tux Paint will be released later this year. In the meantime, if you're using Windows 8, 7 or Vista, or an RPM-based Linux distro (like RedHat or Fedora), or you're comfortable building software from its source-code, you can download a beta version NOW!

All we ask in return is that you give us your feedback. You'll help us ensure that the next release of Tux Paint is as close to perfect and bug-free as we can make it.

Windows:
ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/ ... .9.22-pre/

Linux (RPM):
ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/ ... .9.22-pre/

Source (from the repository):
http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/source/cvs/


New features to try out:
* The "Label" tool, for adding text to a picture that can be altered
after the fact.
* New "Magic" tools:
* Blinds
* Mosaic Hexagon, Mosaic Irregular, and Mosaic Square
* Pattern
* Perspective
* Puzzle
* ROYGBIV Rainbow
* Symmetry Left/Right, and Symmetry Up/Down
* Tiles
* Wet Paint
* XOR Colors
* Zoom
* Templates -- similar to Starters, but with no immutable top layer.
* Starters (and Templates) can be in Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)
or KidPix Templat (PKX) formats.

Accessibility Improvements:
* "Mouse accessibility" option, to allow clicking once to act as
a click-and-drag action
* On screen keyboard, for Text and Label tools
* Keyboard-based mouse controls (arrow keys to move)
* Joystick-based mouse controls

Other changes:
* Deleting files from Tux Paint's "Open Dialog" moves them to the
desktop's trashcan (Linux only)
* Tux Paint remains responsive when FontConfig is busy generating
a cache (e.g., the first time you run Tux Paint)
(This was already included in a later version of 0.9.21 for Windows)
* Thumbnails for "Starter" images are cached, to speed up opening the
"New" dialog.
* All thumbnails are gamma-corrected.
* SVG-based stamps don't default to a huge size.
* Tux Paint drawing metadata is now stored within PNGs, rather than
as separate files.
* Various bug fixes
* ...and more!

New content:
* Nearly 2 dozen new Starters
* Templates! Nearly 20 of them.
* 2 new brushes.
* Over 30 new translations/localizations:
Acholi, Akan, Amharic, Aragones, Armenian, Assamese,
Bambara, Bosnian, Kiga, Fula, Inuktitut, Kannada, Konkani,
Luganda, Luxembourgish, Maithili, Malayalam, Maipuri,
Marathi, Nepali, Northern Sotho, Odia, Punjabi, Persian,
Sanskrit, Santali, Serbia, Venetian, Zulu
* Numerous updates to existing translations

For the complete list of changes (so far!), see:
http://tuxpaint.cvs.sourceforge.net/vie ... HANGES.txt

And, of course, try out all of your favorite, tried-and-true features of Tux Paint, to make sure they still work the way you expect them!


If you're counting on Tux Paint being stable, and keeping younger users happy, you should stick to the latest official release, of course.

Thanks in advance!


And thanks to all of the contributors to Tux Paint over the years (especially the last 5 years, since we last made an official release). Special thanks to TOYAMA Shin-Ichi for producing the beta builds.