Paint.Net 4.0.6 is available for download

Paint.Net has been updated to version 4.0.6. This new version comes with a number of new features includes the ability to install custom shapes. It also includes a number of bug fixes.

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.x 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.x available here.

Install Paint.Net
To install Paint.Net 4.0.6, you can either:

• Download directly at getpaint.net site
• If you’re using Paint.Net v3.5.x, go to the Utilities menu and click on "Check for Updates." If you’re using a Paint.Net v4.0.x, go to the Settings dialog, then to the Updates section, and then click "Check Now."

What's new in Paint.Net 4.0.6
This release contains a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Here’s the full change log:

• New: You can now create and install custom shapes for the Shapes tool.
• New: Updated to work better with Windows 10.
• New: Increased the maximum brush size to 2000.
• New: IndirectUI-based effect plugins can now provide help text, accessible via the question mark button.
• New: Effect plugins may now access the current palette via IPalettesService.
• Improved: Reduced memory usage of brush tools when using large brush sizes.
• Fixed: Holding shift to constrain the angle of the roll control (Layers -> Rotate/Zoom) wasn’t working correctly.
• Fixed: Various shapes (hexagon, pentagon, triangle, etc.) are now symmetric when holding the shift key.
• Fixed: Multiple high-dpi blemishes in the main window and many dialog boxes (Settings, Save Configuration, all effect dialogs, etc.)
• Fixed: Various minor/rare crashes.

Source:
Paint.Net v4.0.6 is now available