Dear digiKam fans and users,
Just in time to get you into the holiday spirit, we are now proud to release digiKam 7.0.0-beta1 today. This first version start the test stages for next 7.x series planing while next year. Have a look at some of the highlights listed below, to discover all those changes in detail.
Deep-Learning Powered Faces Management While many years, digiKam has provided an important feature dedicated to detect and recognized faces in photo.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the 4th digiKam 6 release in September 2019. We are now proud to briefly announce the new digiKam 6.4.0, a maintenance version which consolidates this feedback and acts as an important phase of this 3-year-old project.
The Plugins Interface “DPlugins” Extended Again With 6.1.0, digiKam project has introduced the new DPlugins interface to customize and extend the application.
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Another month, another revision of the digiKam Recipes book. This version brings the following new content:
The How digiKam works chapter provides an overview of digiKam’s achitecture The Export and import keyboard shortcuts scheme section explains how to export and import customized keyboard shortcuts profiles. All digiKam Recipes readers will receive the updated version of the book automatically and free of charge. The digiKam Recipes book is available from Google Play Store and Gumroad.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the third digiKam 6 release in August 2019. We are now proud to briefly announce the new digiKam 6.3.0, a maintenance version which consolidates this feedback and acts as an important phase of this 3-year-old project.
New GMic-Qt plugin for Image Editor Since digiKam 6.1.0, we open digiKam to external contributions with a collection of new plugin interfaces, named “Generic” for album items processing and export to web-services, “Editor” to extend Image Editor and Showfoto post processing, and “Bqm” to add new tools in Batch Queue Manager.
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After a somewhat prolonged quiet period, a new revision of the digiKam Recipes book is ready. This version brings a refreshed book cover as well as new content:
Use Git to maintain multiple digiKam profiles and easily switch between them Back up all digiKam settings, so you don’t have to configure the application from scratch when you reinstall it Get the most out of the tagging functionality by customizing individual tags All digiKam Recipes readers will receive the updated version of the book automatically and free of charge.
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Dear digiKam fans and users,
We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the second digiKam 6 release in April 2019. We are now proud to briefly announce the new digiKam 6.2.0, a maintenance version which consolidates this feedback and acts as an important phase of this 2-year-old project.
New Cameras Supported by Raw Files Engine digiKam tries to fully support all digital camera formats. However, Raw file support is a big challenge.
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Dear digiKam fans and users, after the first digiKam 6 release published in February 2019, we received lots of user feedback to consolidate this important stage of this project started 2 years ago. We are proud to quickly announce the new digiKam 6.1.0, with plenty of new features and fixes.
The New Plugins Interface “DPlugins” With 6.0.0, digiKam project has already left the KIPI plugins support and embedded all tools as native solutions without easly permitting to customize and extend the application.
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Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code, and after 2 years of intensive development, we are proud to announce the new digiKam 6.0.0.
Improvements and Fixes The new major version 6.0.0 introduce these new features:
Full support of video files management working just like photos. An integration of all import/export web-service tools in LightTable, Image editor and Showfoto.
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Dear digiKam fans and users, following the first beta release published in October, we are proud to announce the third and last beta of digiKam 6.0.0, before the final release planed in February 2019.
Last main components updated With the new upcoming 6.0.0 final release, we updated the code and all bundles with last stable versions of Exiv2 0.27 and Libraw 0.19 shared libraries.
The first one is a main component of digiKam used to interact with file metadata, like populating database contents, updating item textual information, or handling XMP side-car for read only files.
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Dear digiKam fans and users, following the first beta release published in September, we are proud to announce the second beta of digiKam 6.0.0.
Exiv2 0.27 support With this new release we are following the Exiv2 project which is in release stage for their next stable release to 0.27 planed for December 2018. This library is a main component of digiKam used to interact with file metadata, like populating database contents, updating item textual information, or to handling XMP side-car for read only files.
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