NET 5, and performance has been greatly improved as a result. This is untested, so please report back with how well it works. For the portable ZIPs, use the architecture appropriate for your operating system: x86 for Win10, or 圆4 for Win11. If you have an ARM64 device such as the Surface Pro X, you may also install the app.

The downloads links for the portable ZIPs are available at the forum page about this release. The portable version of the app will save settings in a local JSON file instead of using the registry.

You may also download a portable version of the app, which is useful if you just want to try things out or are not yet ready to fully commit to the new version.NET 5 is built-in, so there is no need to install it (the app is “self-contained”). The download link for the installer is available at the forum page about this release. Just close the app, run the installer EXE inside the ZIP, and it will do everything for you (as usual): For now, I want to start with a smaller audience, so you must download and install it manually. I will be releasing this via the built-in updater sometime later this week.

Sometimes substantially! Sadly there are some plugins that will no longer work, although I may be able to find fixes for some of them. You should not really see any difference in the app’s features or the way it behaves, although performance has improved. The app itself required only minor changes to work on. NET 5 over the last 2 months! Most of that effort went towards rebuilding from scratch how Paint.NET is built and packaged (installer, MSI, APPX, portable ZIPs), because the old solutions were showing their age and were no longer serviceable. It was a very large effort to move Paint.NET over to. NET “Framework” (of which no more new versions will be made).

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