Yesterday, Marcel has moved digiKam 0.11 source code from a development branch to trunk in KDE subversion repository. 0.11 include now the famous Batch Queue Manager, and it will be ready to test soon in production...
So, it's time to start next 0.11 release plan... and of course the time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam!
digiKam 0.10.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
digiKam is also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.x series):
General : Ported to CMake/Qt4/KDE4. General : Thumbs KIO-Slave removed. digiKam now use multi-threading to generate thumbnails. General : Removed all X11 library dependencies. Code is now portable under MACOS-X and Win32. General : Support of XMP metadata (require Exiv2 library >= 0.16). General : Hardware handling using KDE4 Solid interface. General : Preview of Video and Audio files using KDE4 Phonon interface. General : Database file can be stored on a customized place to support remote album library path. General : New database schema to host more photo and collection information. General : Database interface fully re-written using Qt4 SQL plugin. General : Support of multiple roots album paths. General : Physical root albums are managed as real album. General : New option in Help menu to list all RAW file formats supported. General : Geolocation of pictures from sidebars is now delegate to KDE4 Marble widget. General : New option in Help menu to list all main components/libraries used by digiKam. General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.4.0. General : libkexiv2 dependency updated to 0.5.0. General : Raw metadata can be edited, changed, added to TIFF/EP like RAW file formats (require Exiv2 >= 0.18). Currently DNG, NEF, and PEF raw files are supported. More will be added in the future. General : digiKam can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows. General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.4.0. General : libgphoto2 dependency is now optional to be able to compile digiKam under operating systems not supported by GPhoto2. General : Usability improvements to be able to run digiKam on small screen (like EeePC). General : New option to enable RAW metadata writing. General : digiKamlinktree script updated to support new Database schema. General : All batch tools as rebuild all thumbs or sync metadata with database use modeless dialogs. General : Icon-View and Thumbbar items use a smart 3D decorative border. General : Fonts used by Icon-View, Folder-View, and Tooltip can be customized. General : Thumbbar item can be rated on the fly. General : New settings to fix file timestamp when metadata are saved. General : Sidebar type is configurable: title is visible for only active tab, or for all tabs. General : Internal CImg library updated to 1.3.0. General : New “DarkRoom” colors theme.
Official kipi-plugins 0.2.0 release for KDE4 is out.
kipi-plugins 0.2.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins is also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
General : Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4. General : all plugins can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows. General : Plugins now use metadata settings shared with kipi host application. General : All import/export plugins now have keyboard shortcuts. General : SimpleViewer plugin has been renamed to FlashExport. General : New icons for all Export/import plugins.
Official digiKam 0.9.5 release for KDE3 is out. It's a bug fix and translations updates.
digiKam 0.9.5 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Compared to digiKam 0.9.4, closed files and new features are listed below:
NEW FEATURES:
General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6. General : TIFF/PNG/JPEG2000 metadata can be edited or added (require Exiv2 >= 0.18). General : Internal CImg library updated to 1.3.0.
Updated to libraw 0.6.13: - Bugfixes in RIFF reading code. Updated to libraw 0.6.12: - Hasselblad V96C support. Updated to libraw 0.6.11: - Fixed serious bug in loading metadata from external JPG file. Updated to libraw 0.6.10: - Support for loading White Balance data from Sony ARW files edited with Sony IDC software. Updated to libraw 0.6.9: - Better support for Samsung S85. - Fixed possible integer overflow in wavelet denoising code. Updated to libraw 0.6.8: - Changes in QuickTake 100 files processing. Updated to libraw 0.6.7: -Added support for Samsung S85. -Changes in external jpeg (metadata) processing. Updated to libraw 0.6.6: -Changes in Panasonic FZ50 processing code. Updated to libraw 0.6.5: -Fixed file descriptor and buffer memory leak when thumbnail extractor is called, but library object is not properly initialized. -Fixes in Imacon files unpacking. -Fixes in Hasselblad .fff files unpacking.
Since first beta releases of digiKam and kipi-plugins for KDE4, i receive a lots of mails about to know where are all Batch kipi-plugins... as batch converter, batch resize, etc... In fact these tools will never ported to KDE4 ... by me...
KDE4 Port of kipi-plugins include only 3 batch tools: Raw converter, DNG converter, and Remove Red Eyes. Why not to port all others batch tools ? Because they are limited in usability: you can only process one action on images at the same time, and require a lots of interactions from user. We need something better where more than one action can be processed at the same time...
The last KDE4 release candidate of digiKam plugins box is out.
With this new release, Face tool is now able to import pictures from FaceBook web service to your computer.
Since rc1, a new plugin named Smug is dedicated to export/import images to/from SmugMug web service.
A plugin is available to batch convert RAW camera images to Adobe DNG container (see this Wikipedia entry for details). To be able to compile this plugin, you need last libkdcraw from svn trunk (will be released with KDE 4.2). To extract libraries source code from svn, look at this page for details.
After another bug triage where around 64 bug reports have been closed since 0.10.0-rc1 release, digiKam development team is happy to release the last release candidate dedicated to KDE4 desktop. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge.
Following release plan, digiKam will be released during march 2009. We need volunteers to test again and again this version to be able to provide the best release for KDE 4.2. Please time some minutes to test digiKam and report. Thanks in advance...
A new digiKam beta release is out. for KDE3, It's a bug fix and translations updates.
digiKam 0.9.5-beta3 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Compared to digiKam 0.9.4, closed files and new features are listed below:
NEW FEATURES:
General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6. General : TIFF/PNG/JPEG2000 metadata can be edited or added (require Exiv2 >= 0.18).
Image Editor : All image plugin tool settings provide default buttons to reset values. Image Editor : New Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings. Image Editor : All image plugin dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window. Image Editor : New composition guide based on Diagonal Rules.
After another bug triage where around 49 bug reports have been closed since 0.10.0-beta8 release, digiKam development team is happy to release the release candidate dedicated to KDE4 desktop. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge.
Following release plan, digiKam will be released during march 2009. We need volunteers to test again and again this version to be able to provide the best release for KDE 4.2. Please time some minutes to test digiKam and report. Thanks in advance...
