Dear digiKam fans and users,
After five months of maintenance, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.4.0 of its open source digital photo manager. This new version arrives after 20 years of developement since the first public 0.1.0, released at Christmas 2001.
Here is the list of most important features coming with this release:
Showfoto Folder-View and Stack-View Showfoto, the stand alone version of digiKam image editor, comes with a new left sidebar including two tabs to navigate in your local file system and to manage your prefered stack of images to load in application.
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20 years ago we built digiKam to give you an open-source choice. This first version published on Christmas 2001 was a simple Gphoto2 graphic interface for Linux. 2 decades later, the application become a main Photo Management Program, working on Linux, Windows, and macOS with plenty of important features to view, edit, search, publish your image collections.
20 years in, you know where we stand. digiKam is a non-profit, global community, and our values are clear: choice and control for our users, openness and innovation for the Libre Photo that has become so central to our lives.
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It has been a while since the last update of digiKam Recipes. But that doesn’t mean I neglected the book. In the past few months, I’ve been doing a complete language review and adding new material. The new revision of digiKam Recipes features detailed information on how to move digiKam library and databases from one machine to another, how to access digiKam remotely from any machine, and how to import photos from an iOS device.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After four months of maintenance, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.3.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
Here is the list of most important features coming with this release:
ExifTool Support The famous ExifTool is now supported officially in parallel than the former Exiv2 shared library to handle file metadata. ExifTool is a powerful tool that we will use in special cases to fix metadata dysfunctions that we cannot solve using Exiv2.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After more than one year of development, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.2.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
Here is the list of more than 360 bug-fixes ordered by categories coming with this release:
Advanced Rename The tool to batch rename items in collections has received plenty of code review to fix older dysfunctions. This has improved stability and usability.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
Just a few words to inform the community that 7.2.0-rc is out and ready to test six month later the 7.2.0 beta1 release.
After integrating the student codes working on faces management while this summer, we have stabilized code about the usability and the performances improvements of faces tagging, faces detection, and faces recognition, already presented in July with 7.0.0 release announcement.
One very important point introduced with this release is the new Online Release Downloader to help users with stable and pre-release updates, fully automatized, providing a release notes, and with the options to use debug or optimized application versions.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
Just a few words to inform the community that 7.2.0-beta2 is out and ready to test four month late the 7.2.0 beta1 release.
After integrating the student codes working on faces management while this summer, we have worked to stabilize code and respond to many user feedbacks about the usability and the performances improvements of faces tagging, faces detection, and faces recognition, already presented in July with 7.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
Just a few words to inform the community that 7.2.0-beta1 is out and ready to test one month later the 7.1.0 stable release.
After a long time to integrate the student codes working on faces management while this summer, we are now ready to propose a first beta with the the new improvements planned since a very long time about the usability and the performances of faces tagging, faces detection, and faces recognition, already presented in July with 7.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After this long summer, we are now proud to release digiKam 7.1.0. This maintenance version is a result of a long period of bug-triaging on bugzilla. It introduces plenty of fixes and some features. Check out some of the highlights listed below and discover all the changes in detail.
Better Canon CR3 Metadata Support digiKam tries to support as many digital cameras’ file formats as possible, but support for RAW files is a big challenge.
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Hot on the heels of the digiKam 7.0.0 release comes a new revision of the digiKam Recipes book. The new version includes
Grouping RAW and JPEG files manually can be a real chore. Fortunately, a simple Python script can do this automatically, and the Group RAW and JPEG files with a script chapter provides instructions on using the script. The Disaster-proof digiKam setup chapter describes how to keep digiKam databases and configuration safe.
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