Bug 515920 - Opening .avif crashes Krita
Summary: Opening .avif crashes Krita
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: * Unknown (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.2.15
Platform: unspecified All
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Krita Bugs
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Reported: 2026-02-12 20:51 UTC by valtteri.nurmi
Modified: 2026-02-13 09:35 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description valtteri.nurmi 2026-02-12 20:51:52 UTC 
Created attachment 189499 [details]
the file

SUMMARY

Opening an animated avif seems to crash the program on both windows and my cachyos/arch laptop

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open krita
2. open the file (animated avif)

OBSERVED RESULT

crash

EXPECTED RESULT

no crash

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: Windows 11 Pro 25H2 26200.7840
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information from the "submit bug report" menu on Windows: https://pastebin.com/faCGyMVW

The backtrace (hopefully correctly done) from arch linux: https://pastebin.com/PWvwMGJu
Comment 1 Dmitry Kazakov 2026-02-13 09:35:39 UTC 
Hi, Valterri!

Thank you for the report! The issue should be fixed in this commit:

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/70631e374b032004921af6d834ae82434994a0b7

You can try the Krita Plus Nightlies, they should have a fix:

https://origin.cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/graphics/krita/krita-6.0/