digiKam and kipi-plugins release for KDE3…

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

Before to close this year, a new digiKam beta release and a new stable kipi-plugins release have be done for KDE3, especially as bug fix and translations updates. Also, shared libraries libkexiv2 and libkdcraw have been updated.

digiKam 0.9.5-beta2 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Kipi-plugins 0.1.7, libkdcraw 0.1.7, and libkexiv2 0.1.8 can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Closed files and new features are listed below:

digiKam 0.9.5-beta2 - Release date: 2008-12-14

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 164573 : Better support for small screens.
002 ==> 175970 : digitaglinktree merges tags with same name in different subfolders.
003 ==> 108760 : Use collection image (or part of) as Tag/Album icon.
004 ==> 144078 : very slow avi startup.

005 ==> 146258 : Moving an album into waste basket didn’t remove.
006 ==> 149165 : cannot edit anymore - sqlite lock?

007 ==> 146025 : Wrong image name when using info from EXIF.
008 ==> 167056 : Updating tags is slow when thumbnails are visible.
009 ==> 141960 : Problems with photos without EXIV data when updating me.

010 ==> 129379 : Renamed Album is shown multiple times although there is only on related picture directory.
011 ==> 171247 : Album creation error when name start by a number.
012 ==> 150906 : digiKam unable to connect to Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TZ3.
013 ==> 148812 : “Auto Rotate/Flip &Using Exif Orientation” fails with some images.
014 ==> 150342 : Camera image window keeps scrolling to the currently downloaded picture.
015 ==> 147475 : digiKam Slideshow - Pause button does not stay sticky / work.
016 ==> 148899 : Image Editor does not get the focus after clicking on an image.
017 ==> 148596 : Empty entries in the “back” drop-down when changing month (date view).
018 ==> 161387 : Unable to import photos with digiKam even though it’s detected.
019 ==> 165229 : Thumbnail complete update does not work reliably, even for jpgs.

Kipi-plugins 0.1.7 - Release date: 2008-12-14

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 175033 : GPSSync : GPSSync does not get any map just a grey square.
002 ==> 175304 : MetadataEdit : db does replicate to iptc or exif.

003 ==> 137359 : MetadataEdit : Unclear wording in kipiplugin_metadataedit.
004 ==> 146381 : JPEGLossLess : Image rotation splits the image with a small strip appearing on the wrong side.
005 ==> 155023 : SendImages : Crashes when trying to send images via digiKam.
006 ==> 170272 : FlickrExport : Undefined signature problem prevents uploading to flickr.
007 ==> 161114 : SendImages : Resizing and emailing from digikam results in no-more readable files.
008 ==> 147685 : General : Errors in error and “what’s this” messages – No way to select text in an error box.
009 ==> 146293 : MetadataEdit : Plugins/Images/metadata: untranslated.
010 ==> 140345 : BatchProcess : kipiplugins do not work due to trying to save the result into the root directory.
011 ==> 163395 : SendImages : digiKam and encoding errors in flickr export and mail attachments.
012 ==> 136941 : BatchProcess : Graphical picture ordering and renaming.
013 ==> 149394 : General : Recover lost/deleted images from flash memory/camera.
014 ==> 162441 : PicasaWebExport : Unable to create an album.
015 ==> 162993 : PicasaWebExport : Picasa album list not refreshed.
016 ==> 162994 : PicasaWebExport : Picasa album list does not contain “not listed” albums, contains only “public” albums.
017 ==> 174353 : GPSSync : Kipi-plugin geolocation does not work anymore.
018 ==> 132982 : BatchProcess : Batch rename limited, should allow renaming by patterns.

libkdcraw-0.1.7 - Release date: 2008-12-14

NEW FEATURES:

Updated to LibRaw to 0.6.3 : NEF processing code changed (some overflow control added).
Updated to LibRaw to 0.6.2.

New cameras: Canon G10 & 5D Mk2, Leaf AFi 7, Leica D-LUX4, Panasonic FX150 & G 1, Fujifilm IS Pro.

libkexiv2-0.1.8 - Release date: 2008-12-14

NEW FEATURES:

• API changed: Move all Exiv2 classes access methods to internal private container. ABI number set to 5.0.0.
  
• Fix broken compilation with Exiv2 0.18.
  
• Support TIFF metadata writing mode (require Exiv2 >= 0.18).
  
• Added new methods canWriteComment(), canWriteExif(), canWriteIptc().
  
• Added new method supportMetadataWritting().
  
• Do not change file time-stamp when metadata are changed.
  

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 158989 : digiKam won’t start: MakerTagInfo registry full.
002 ==> 157173 : Crash by adding gps data to pictures.

All digiKam and Kipi-plugins teams wish you a merry Christmas and an happy new year.