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digiKam 8.x Release Plan (2023 - )

DateVersionComments
2025.10.198.8.0New tool to import/export tags hierarchy from text file. New focus points camera supported. Windows/macOS/Wayland screen color profiles supported. New Editor tool to blur the subject background.
2025.06.308.7.0New AI based auto-rotation tool. Better OpenCV/OpenCL/Cuda support with deep-learning engine. Background face recognition at new face tag assigned. New G’Mic generic plugin working in layer mode.
2025.03.168.6.0Classiffiers and Model Pipelines complete rewrite with better performances and FIQA used by Face Management and Auto-tags. Auto-tags and Image Quality Sorting scan options integrated in left sidebar.
2024.11.168.5.0First native Apple Silicon arm64 package based on Qt and KDE version 6 frameworks. New default YuNet face detection DNN model. New default SFace face recognition DNN model.
2024.07.148.4.0GMic-Qt tool for the Batch Queue Manager. Auto-Tags online translations support. DNG JPEG-XL compression support. Qt 6.7.2 used with Windows and Linux bundles.
2024.03.178.3.0New Auto-Tags tool based of deep-learning to identify and mark image contents automatically. Video SlideShow tool improvements to support Time-lapse, frames equalization, OSD, and audio track.
2023.12.038.2.0Windows version compiled natively with Microsoft VCPKG tool-chain. Huge bug-fixes release.
2023.07.068.1.0Huge bugs triaging release.
2023.04.168.0.0Qt6 and KF6 frameworks port with Qt5 backward compatibility. New Image Quality Sorting based on deep-learning engine.

Native Apple Silicon Version of digiKam 8.5.0

digiKam 7.x Release Plan (2020 - 2022)

DateVersionComments
2023.03.127.10.0
2022.12.057.9.0
2022.09.047.8.0
2022.06.247.7.0
2022.03.067.6.0Qt5 LTS maintenance release.
2022.01.167.5.0Contextual Open-With support under macOS. RTL support improvements. GUI internationalization and localization updates with more than 50 languages. Add Platform Input Context Support in AppImage bundle.
2021.12.187.4.0Showfoto folder-view and stack-view. MJPEG server plugin. Separate local thumbnails Sqlite database with remote Mysql database. Image Quality Sorter improvements.
2021.07.127.3.0ExifTool metadata viewer, iNaturalist export tool. Base Media Format metadata support. Better support of FITS astro-photo. Huge improvements of DNG Converter. Batch RAW to DNG converter in Showfoto.
2021.03.227.2.0
2021.02.077.2.0-rcIncluding Online Version Downloader.
2020.12.277.2.0-beta2macOS bundle relocatable and compatible with BigSur. Face engine data models downloadable in demand.
2020.10.307.2.0-beta1Include faces workflow and face engine improvements from GSoC 2020 projects.
2020.09.067.1.0Summer maintenance release. Add UTF-8 support for IPTC metadata.
2020.07.197.0.0
2020.06.077.0.0-rcAdd Qt 5.15 support.
2020.04.247.0.0-beta3
2020.02.027.0.0-beta2Add Qt 5.14 support. Switch AppImage and macOS package from QtWebkit to QtWebEngine. Face Scan UI improvements and simplifications.
2019.12.227.0.0-beta1Re-written Face detection and recognition based on OpenCV deep learning engine (GoSC 2019 project). LibRaw 0.20 support.

digiKam version 7.0.0

digiKam 6.x Release Plan (2018 - 2019)

DateVersionComments
2019.11.096.4.0New Clone tool for Image Editor. New DPlugins interface for native image loaders and Raw Import tools.
2019.09.086.3.0Libraw 0.19.5 support. First version of exported DPlugin API. GMic-Qt ported as external plugin for Image Editor.
2019.08.046.2.0Exiv2 0.27.2 and Libraw 0.19.3 support.
2019.04.146.1.0New plugins interface named “DPlugins” for Generic, Editor, and BQM tools.
2019.02.106.0.0
2018.12.106.0.0-beta3Libraw 0.19 support. New grouping items options.
2018.10.316.0.0-beta2Exiv2 0.27 support. Time-Adjust tool. DrMinGw support under Windows. New separate album contents options.
2018.08.196.0.0-beta1Refactored version with less dependencies and with video management support. This version will include also GoSC 2017/2018 projects.

digiKam 6.0.0 - Image Editor Raw Import Tools Using Last Libraw 0.19

digiKam 5.x Release Plan (2016 - 2018)

DateVersionComments
2018.03.255.9.0
2018.01.125.8.0Including new UPNP/DLNA export tool.
2017.08.275.7.0Including new Print Creator, Send by Email tool, many bugs fixed and triaged.
2017.06.115.6.0Including new HTML Gallery tool, new Video SlideShow tool, Items Grouping improvements, Mysql garbage collector, GPS Bookmarks improvements.
2017.03.125.5.0Including database garbage collector.
2017.01.085.4.0Ported to QtAv for Video Files support.
2016.11.065.3.0
2016.09.185.2.0
2016.08.075.1.0
2016.07.035.0.0
2016.05.295.0.0-beta7
2016.04.245.0.0-beta6
2016.03.275.0.0-beta5
2016.02.285.0.0-beta4
2016.01.175.0.0-beta3
2015.11.295.0.0-beta2
2015.10.185.0.0-beta1

digikam 5.9.0 - Time search and Lens correction tool digikam 5.9.0 - Albums View and Light Table

digiKam 4.x Release Plan (2014 - 2015)

DateVersionComments
2015.10.114.14.0
2015.08.304.13.0
2015.07.264.12.0
2015.06.144.11.0
2015.05.104.10.0
2015.04.054.9.0
2015.02.224.8.0
2015.01.254.7.0
2014.12.144.6.0
2014.11.094.5.0
2014.10.064.4.0
2014.09.084.3.0
2014.08.034.2.0
2014.06.224.1.0
2014.05.114.0.0Version including all GoSC 2013 and 2014 projects.
2014.04.134.0.0-rc
2014.03.304.0.0-beta4
2014.02.234.0.0-beta3
2014.01.124.0.0-beta2
2013.12.014.0.0-beta1

digikam 4.4.0 digikam 4.4.0

digiKam 3.x Release Plan (2012 - 2013)

DateVersionComments
2013.09.293.5.0
2013.09.013.4.0
2013.08.043.3.0Including Face Recognition feature
2013.07.033.3.0-beta3
2013.06.163.3.0-beta2
2013.06.023.3.0-beta1
2013.05.123.2.0
2013.04.283.2.0-beta2
2013.04.073.2.0-beta1Including new Table-View Mode.
2013.03.103.1.0Including bugs-fixes detected by Coverity SCAN
2013.02.063.0.0Version including all GoSC 2012 projects.

digikam 3.0.0 digikam 3.0.0 digikam 3.0.0

digiKam 2.x Release Plan (2011 - 2012)

DateVersionComments
2012.09.022.9.0
2012.08.052.8.0
2012.07.082.7.0
2012.05.062.6.0Version including Color and Pick labels, Tags keyboard shortcuts, Group of items.
2012.01.082.5.0Version including XMP Sidecar support, Face Recognition, Image Versioning, and Reverse Geo-location.
2011.12.042.4.0
2011.11.062.3.0
2011.10.022.2.0
2011.09.042.1.0
2011.07.242.0.0

digikam 2.0.0

digiKam 1.x Release Plan (2009 - 2010)

DateVersionComments
2011.02.191.9.0
2011.01.231.8.0
2010.12.191.7.0
2010.11.221.6.0
2010.10.101.5.0
2010.08.221.4.0
2010.06.071.3.0
2010.03.281.2.0
2010.01.311.1.0
2009.12.201.0.0

digikam 1.0.0

digiKam 0.x Release Plan (2001 - 2008)

DateVersionComments
2009.05.300.10.0
2009.03.150.9.5
2008.07.160.9.4
2007.12.230.9.3
2007.06.130.9.2
2007.03.040.9.1
2006.12.180.9.0
2006.07.100.8.0
2005.05.210.7.0
2003.12.080.6.0
2002.10.030.5.0
2002.05.100.4.0
2002.06.070.3.0
2002.03.030.2.0
2001.12.240.1.0

digikam 0.11.0 digikam 0.9.6

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