What's new in this version

Version 4.2.15 includes some quality-of-life improvements and important bug fixes. Version 4.2.14 adds full AV1 (*.avif) support, lots of CPU and memory usage optimizations, and bug fixes. Version 4.2.13 adds more low-bit depth saving support for PNG, BMP, and TIFF, and fixes some bugs. Version 4.2.11 adds XMP metadata support, 3 new translations, some UI improvements, and some important bug fixes. Version 4.2.6 has some important fixes, big performance improvements, and native support for pointer devices (pens, tablets, touch screens). Support for pressure sensitivity will be coming in a future release (4.3). Version 4.2.5 added WebP (*.webp) support. Version 4.2.2 added AV1 (*.avif) support (loading only), greatly improves DirectDraw Surface (DDS) support, adds 4-bit saving for PNG, BMP, and TIFF, fixes a bunch of bugs, and improves startup performance. Version 4.2 was a big update that focused on adding HEIC file format support, fixing performance with very large images, and upgrading and modernizing the functionality of many existing file types (JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF). Many other quality of life issues have also been addressed or fixed. Plugins are supported! Instead of putting them in the installation directory, go to your Documents folder and create a new folder called "paint.net App Files" (without the quotes). Then, create the usual subfolders (Effects, FileTypes, and Shapes) and place the relevant plugins into each of them.