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. The digiKam Recipes book is available from Google Play Store and Gumroad.
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. This complexity, and the associated difficulty
and commitment required to continue full support over time, has led to the
development of applications specifically created only to support Raw files.
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 easily permitting to customize and extend the
application. digiKam 5.9.0 was the last version supporting KIPI after more than 15 years, and less and less support outside of the digiKam project.
It’s time to turn the page now and to reload the story with a new plugin interface more powerful, more adjusted to all digiKam main tools, with an extended support to Showfoto,
and without losing legacy features.
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.
Raw file decoding engine supporting new cameras.
Similarity data is now stored in a separate database file.
Simplified web-service authentication using OAuth protocol.
New tools to export to Pinterest, OneDrive and Box web-services.
The capability to re-organize the icon-view contents manually.
A huge factoring of source code has been done to reduce external dependencies again with the goal
to simplify application compilation, packaging and maintenance for the future.
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 planned 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.
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 planned 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.
It’s time for another digiKam Recipes update. The most visible change in the latest revision is the new book cover. All screenshots were also updated to reflect changes in the current version of digiKam. In addition to the visual tweaks, the latest revision features new content. Continue reading…
Got a NAS? Still store your photo library and digiKam databases on a local machine? It’s time to take your digiKam setup to the next level by moving your photo library to the NAS and switching to the MariaDB (or MySQL) database backend. This allows you to access your photo library from any machine on the same network as well as keep your photo library safe thanks to the fact that storage on most NAS appliances is usually configured as RAID. Continue reading…
Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code
we are proud to announce the first beta of digiKam 6.0.0.
Improvements and Fixes
The next major version 6.0.0 looks promising, and will introduce new features as:
Full support of video files management working as photos.
An integration of all import/export web-service tools in LightTable, Image editor and Showfoto.
Raw file decoding engine supporting new cameras.
Similarity data is now stored in a separate file.
Simplified web-service authentication using OAuth protocol.
New tools to export to Pinterest, OneDrive and Box web-services.
The capability to re-organize the icon-view contents manually.
A huge factoring of source code has been done to reduce external dependencies again with the goal
to simplify application compilation, packaging and maintenance for the next years.
Following the release of 5.8.0 published in January,
the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.9.0 of the digiKam Software Collection. In this last version of 5.x, we has focused all developments to close bugs.
Improvements and Fixes
Many small fixes has been committed over XMP sidecar support in this release but the most important works will be tested with next main release has these requires regression tests.
Mysql support has also receive fixes about database schema migration which can introduce errors while converting old database files generated with digiKam 4.x.
