For the next digiKam releases, the digiKam team needs photographs for digiKam and Showfoto splash-screens. Proposing photo samples as splash-screens is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed/composed, and the subject must be chosen from a real photographer’s inspiration. Note that we will add a horizontal frame to the bottom of the image as in the current splashes.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After four months of active maintenance and long bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.3.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
This version arrives with the internal RAW decoder Libraw updated to the rolling-release snapshot 2024-02-02. Long time bugs present in older versions have been fixed and we spare a lot of time to contact users to validate changes in pre-release to confirm fixes before deploying the program in production.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After five months of active maintenance and long bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.2.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
This version arrives with a long review of bugzilla entries. Long time bugs present in older versions have been fixed and we spare a lots of time to contact users to validate changes in pre-release to confirm fixes before to deploy the program in production.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After five months of active maintenance and long bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.1.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
This version arrives with a long review of bugzilla entries. Long time bugs present in older version have been fixed and we spare a lots of time to contact users to validate changes in pre-release to confirm fixes before to deploy the program in production.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After two years of development and bugs triage, and tests, the digiKam team is proud to present the new major version 8.0.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
A huge Application as digiKam needs good documentation for end users, and is well written with plenty of screen-shots and screen-casts. We have been working many months to migrate and proof-read the old digiKam documentation based on DocBook format to a new architecture, more simple, easy to maintain, and translatable. After 20 years, we left the DocBook manual for the modern Sphinx/ReStructuredText framework. This one is really a pleasure to use by documentation writers.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After three months of active maintenance and other bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.10.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
As with the previous releases, we take care about upgrading the internal components from the Bundles. Microsoft Windows Installer, Apple macOS Package, and Linux AppImage binaries now hosts:
Read more →New year, new digiKam Recipes book release. The new version features the completely rewritten Tag faces with the Face Recognition feature chapter and an all-new example workflow section in the Batch process photos and RAW files chapter. Several chapters have been revised and improved, including Edit tags with Tag Manager, Color management in digiKam, and Move digiKam library and databases. All screenshots have been refreshed, too. As always, the new revision includes plenty of tweaks and fixes.
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Dear digiKam Fans and Users,
A new year brings new goals—and this year, we’re taking on a significant challenge: migrating the old digiKam documentation from the DocBook format to a modern, easier-to-maintain architecture.
After 20 years of using DocBook, we have transitioned to the Sphinx/ReStructuredText framework. This new system is not only more intuitive for documentation writers but also streamlines the entire process of creating and updating content.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
After four months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.9.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
As with the previous releases, we take care about upgrading the internal components from the Bundles. Microsoft Windows Installer, Apple macOs Package, and Linux AppImage binaries now hosts:
Read more →Time for another revision of the digiKam Recipes book. This update features a completely revised chapter covering the versioning functionality in digiKam. It now offers a clear explanation of how versioning works in digiKam, which can help you to get the most out of this versatile feature. The Add shell scripts to the Import module chapter has also been revised to include a better practical example of how to use shell scripts with the Import tool. The new Enable and configure tooltips chapter describes how to put the handy tooltip tool to practical use, while the Travel in time using advanced search tip demonstrates how you can use the advanced search feature to find photos from the past.
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