paint.net 4.0 Release Candidate (Build 5284) Now Available for Download

The paint.net 4.0 Release Candidate (RC) build 5284 is now available for download. This is the first RC build for paint.net 4.0 which improves stability and bug fixes. To install paint.net 4.0 RC, you can either:
  • Download directly at paint.net 4.0 Release Candidate (Build 5284)
  • For 4.0 beta 5 build or older user, you can use the built-in updater from a previous 4.0 beta build.
  • For version 3.5.11 user, you can use the built-in updater from v3.5.11 if you have "Also check for pre-release (beta) builds" enabled.


Please Do NOT use this paint.net 4.0 Release Candidate release on production machines. A paint.net 4.0 RC release should be considered for evaluation and testing purposes.

Overview
The paint.net is free image and photo editing software for Windows users. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It is very simple and easy to use, and specially designed to be learned through intuition without assistance or manuals. paint.net features the tabbed interface where the tabs show a live thumbnail in place of a text. These thumbnails make it easy for users to see which images they need to open when work with multiple images.

paint.net has been compared to some of the commercial digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

paint.net 4.0 comes with a brand new, asynchronous, fully multithreaded rendering engine. It also improvements to various tools and a tweaked user interface. More information about paint.net 4.0 Beta available here.

What's new in paint.net 4.0 Release Candidate (Build 5284)?
According to paint.net forum, the only changes that should occur between this build and the final release are the those related to the translations. The final release which is expected sometime next week. For a full description of the new features and improvements, and the system requirements, see: paint.net 4.0 RC Build 5284

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