Five years after the debut of its award-winning Open Source drawing program for children, New Breed Software is happy to announce the release of Tux Paint 0.9.17.

Among numerous other updates and improvements, Tux Paint's well-loved Stamp tool is now cleaner, more flexible, and easier to use than ever. The addition of a smoothing filter minimizes pixelation when photographic stamps are scaled up, while newly added support for the Scalable Vector Graphics file format allows for byte-thrifty stamps that can scale up without any pixelation or blurring at all. Lastly, the constantly growing collection of stamps is now separated into categories (plants, animals, holidays, and so forth) for easier navigation.

For a complete list of changes, see the Tux Paint change log and Tux Paint Stamps change log.

Tux Paint 0.9.17 is available immediately for Microsoft Windows and Linux, with a Mac OS X version coming soon. It is available for download free of charge from the Tux Paint website.