| 2009.05.30 | 0.10.0 | 255 | - CImg 1.3.0 support.
- Introduced a new “DarkRoom” colors theme.
- Sidebar type is configurable with the title visible for only active tab or for all tabs.
- Thumbbar item can be rated on the fly.
- Introduced a new settings to fix file timestamp when metadata are saved.
- All batch tools uses modeless dialogs.
- Icon-View and Thumbbar items uses a smart 3D decorative border.
- Fonts used by Icon-View, Folder-View, and Tooltip can be customized.
- Usability improvements to be able to run digiKam on small screen.
- Introduced a new option to enable RAW metadata writing.
- Libgphoto2 dependency optional.
- Raw metadata can be edited, changed, added to TIFF/EP like RAW file formats.
- Introduced a new option in Help menu to list all main components/libraries used by digiKam.
- Ported to CMake/Qt4.
- KIO-Slave removed in favor of multi-threading to generate thumbnails.
- Support of XMP metadata.
- Hardware handling using Solid interface.
- Preview of Video and Audio files using Phonon interface.
- Database file can be stored on a customized place to support remote album library path.
- Introduced a new database schema to host more photo and collection information.
- Database interface fully re-written using QtSQL module.
- Support of multiple roots album paths.
- Physical root albums are managed as real album.
- Introduced a new option in Help menu to list all RAW file formats supported.
- Geolocation of pictures from sidebars delegate to Marble widget.
- Import Tool: new design ; new Capture tool ; new bargraph to display camera media free-space ; add Icon-View items tooltip ; list camera item in more suitable order ; animation over camera icon view during camera download.
- Album View: added Thumbbar with Preview mode to easy navigate between pictures ; integration of Simple Text Search tool to left sidebar ; new advanced Search tools ; re-design of Search backend based on XML ; re-design of search dialog for a better usability ; searches based on metadata and image properties ; new fuzzy Search tools based on sketch drawing template ; new Search tools to find pictures over a map ; new Search tools to find similar images against a reference image ; new Search tools to find duplicates images.
- Added Tooltips to display Physical albums properties ; icon view item can be rated on the fly.
- Image Editor: added Thumbbar to easy navigate between pictures ; new tool based on LensFun library to correct automatically lens aberrations, Distortion, and Anti Vignetting ; all image tool tool settings provide default buttons to reset values ; new RAW import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized demosaicing settings ; all image tool dialogs are removed ; all tools are embedded in editor window ; ported print management to Qt4 ; new ratio crop composition guide based on Diagonal Rules.
Decision to name next release as the first stable 1.0.0.
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| 2009.03.15 | 0.9.5 | 053 | - TIFF / PNG / JPEG2000 metadata can be edited or changed.
- Image Editor: new composition guide based on Diagonal Rules, all image tool settings provide default buttons to reset values, new Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings, all image tool dialogs are removed.
- All tools are embedded in editor window.
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| 2008.07.16 | 0.9.4 | 109 | - CImg 1.2.9 support.
- English words review in whole GUI.
- Introduced a new search text filter for all metadata sidebar tabs.
- Introduced a new dialog to list all RAW camera supported.
- Creation of tags simplified everywhere.
- Multiple Tags hierarchy can be created at the same time.
- Tags creation dialog re-designed.
- Color theme scheme are now supported everywhere in graphical interfaces.
- Added capability to display count of items in all Album, Date, Tags, and Tags Filter Folder View.
- Album View: Added a new tool named Time-Line to perform Date search around whole albums collection, in Calendar View, selecting Year album show all pictures relevant, add a new status-bar indicator to report album icon view filtering status, auto-completion in all search text filter.
- Showfoto: new open image file dialog with photo thumbnail/information, added support of color theme schemes, added 2 options to setup images ordering with “File/Open Folder” action.
- Image Editor: new saveas image file dialog with photo thumbnail/information, Raw files can be decoded in 16 bits color depth without to use Color Management.
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| 2007.12.23 | 0.9.3 | 060 | - CImg 1.2.3 support.
- Color scheme theme XML based.
- Camera interface is now used to import new pictures in collection.
- Import Tool: new options to Download pictures and Delete it from camera at the same time, support of Drag & Drop to download files from camera gui to album gui, add new Bargarph to indicate statistics about free space available on Album Library Path.
- Drag and Drop from anywhere into album tree.
- Added new quick navigation in context menu to go to any other view with pertinent context.
- Album View: Added Rating filter widget on status bar, add MimeType filter widget on status bar, add tool to navigate from album, tag and date view to any other view, always force to show mediaplayer widget to preview video in embedded mode, add new Filter Bar on bottom of Albums/Tags/Searches/TagsFilter view filter contents based on string, add Text pattern widget on status bar to filter Album contents based on items name, comments, and tags strings.
- Image Editor: new black & white green color tone filter.
- Light Table: Several usability improvements.
- Remove dcraw support in favor of LibRaw to process RAW files democaicing.
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| 2007.06.13 | 0.9.2 | 059 | - Light Table and Preview Mode can work with full image size instead a reduced one.
- Light Table: a new powerful tool to compare similar images side by side.
- Editor Tools have been merged into digiKam.
- It more simple to release on package for all.
- Image tools translations are hosted to digikam.po file instead a .po file for each tool.
- dcraw 8.60 support.
- Make size of icons used in sidebars configurable in order to allow more entries to be presented.
- Make size of icons used in album icon view more configurable using a slider in status bar.
- Exiv2 based MetadataEngine interface used everywhere.
- Album View: add Zoom/Scrolling functions with preview mode.
- Image Editor: usability improvement using a new pan tool available on the right bottom corner of canvas to naviguate over large pictures, Resize tools merged ; Unsharp Mask, Refocus, and Sharpen tools merged to a new Sharpness Editor ; reorganize menu structure ; persistent selection in all zoom mode ; add new option to fit on current selection ; Red Eyes Correction tool re-writen ; Solarize, Velvia, Neon, and Edge effects factorized ; Black and White converter now support a lots of analog camera film types (Agfa, Ilford, Kodak) with a setting to simulate the amount of Lens effect, CImg 1.1.9 support.
- Showfoto: the thumbbar is now resizable.
- The thumbnails contents can be redimensionned in live, the thumbbar items can show a full configurable tool tip like digiKam album icon items tool tip.
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| 2007.03.04 | 0.9.1 | 057 | - Introduced a new JPEG2000 image loader using Jasper library witch can support 16 bits color depth pictures.
- Introduced a new optimized layout to show Comments and Tags side bar contents.
- Tags View from Comments and Tags side bar support drag & drop.
- Introduced a new Batch tool to sync all images metadata with digiKam database content.
- Added a status bar to Album View with a progress bar, text bar, and navigate bar.
- Introduced a new SlideShow tool based on Image Preview features, RAW files supported quickly, option to slide an album tree in recursive mode, add capability to show photograph information, preparing slideshow is cancelable.
- Album View: improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment and Tags about auto selection/deselection of parents/children tags in Tags treeview ; main Root album show a Welcome page for new users ; video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of default media player ; preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading ; preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu ; Comments and Tags now support multiple selection of items to apply properties ; new option to setup the action to perform when user right click on thumbnail as load on Image Editor or show as preview ; prefer EXIF DateTimeOriginal for sorting images (DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback); improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment and Tags about auto selection/deselection of parents/children tags in Tags treeview.
- Image Editor: all tools remember settings between sessions ; all tools render properly a preview of image using Color Managed View ; all tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop ; new option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed and over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections ; Brightness/Contrast/Gamma: settings value excursion are the same than Photoshop ; add Border Tool: add new option to preserve aspect ratio ; Perspective Tool: add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines ; Ratio Crop Tool: usability improvements ; Auto Color Correction Tool: add new filter to perform auto-exposure corrections ; all tools: capability to remember settings between tool sessions to store configuration in a settings file ; add options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures : add 2 options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels ; remove View->Histogram menu option as We have a better histogram available in sidebar ; color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files ; JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 files save settings are now available in File Save dialog ; JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy compression image format with a link to wikipedia to aware users.
- Import Tool: new option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright tags on the fly ; JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation ; color theme support.
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| 2006.12.18 | 0.9.0 | 248 | Celebrate 5 years of the project.- Sidebars are used at all to display metadata, comments & tags, and file properties.
- Removed imlib2 and libkexif dependencies. Add Exiv2 and LCMS dependencies.
- New API in digiKam core named DImg to manage image data in 8 and 16 bits colors depth.
- New API in digiKam core named DMetadata to manage image metadata.
- Ported all image filter algorithms to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images.
- New metadata viewers based on Exiv2 including Exif viewer, MakerNote viewer, IPTC viewer, and GPS locator.
- New ICC profiles profile viewer based on LCMS.
- New powerful widget to display CIE color space used by ICC profiles.
- New implementation to load/save images file using a separate thread.
- Tags/Rating/DateTime/Comments/PhotographersID/Copyrights are now stored in Exif and/or IPTC metadata tags.
- digiKam comments are now store in JPEG file to JFIF section, Exif UserComments tags and Caption Iptc tags.
- New fast preview pictures mode embedded into main interface.
- New dcraw version detection at startup.
- New option to force the refresh of Album contents.
- Usability improvements of albums/pictures deletion.
- New option to process a batch creation of all albums items thumbnails.
- New option to “Select All”, “Deselect”, or “Invert Selection” of Tags in Tags Filter View and Comments and Tags side bar tabs.
- New option to set image as tag thumbnail on Tag Filters View using drag and drop.
- New option to set a matching condition to use between tags in Tag Filters View (OR or AND condition).
- Automatic image Tags creation/set using IPTC Keywords contents.
- New tool to set pictures GPS information using a GPS device.
- Removing external dcraw dependency. Now digiKam include a full supported version of dcraw program in core.
- dcraw 8.41 support.
- New tool to edit EXIF and IPTC metadata.
- Exiv2 0.12 support.
- Fix broken compilation using “./configure -enable-final” option.
- About final release packaging, improve support of “./configure –enable-final” option everywhere.
- Image Editor: support of 16 bits color depth images (RAW, TIFF, PNG, PNM) ; Complete rewrite of image editor/showfoto gui implementation. Implementation is now common and is more easy to maintain! ; Add a progress bar to Image editor/showfoto about IO image files access ; Support of ICC color profiles management using LCMS into Image editor/showfoto ; digiKam setup is now available from Image Editor menu ; TIFF and JPEG Exif thumbnail are recomputed at saving pictures ; Iptc preview image are recomputed at saving pictures ; New powerful Noise Reduction algorithm based on dcamnoise2 implementation ; New powerful Black & White converter tool using curves adjustments ; New tool to experiment ICC profiles to perform color corrections into images ; New preview rendering modes in all color correction image tools dialogs ; Redesign/polishing of all image tools dialogs. Histogram are available at all when it’s necessary. All dialogs used in editor tools are common in digiKam core now ; New zooming capabilities in image tools dialogs ; Ported all core image tools to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images ; Ported all editor tools to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images ; Add Border tool now respect aspect ratio of original image to render the decorative border ; Add Border tool now use a border size depending of a percent value of original image size ; Fixed and improved Color Management View workflow.
- Setup: Advanced settings to load RAW files in Image Editor using external dcraw instance ; Setup implementation are now common between Showfoto and digiKam ; New Identity setup page to set default strings information about Photographer and copyright used when IPTC tags are updated ; The new batch thumbnail generator can be started when the Exif Auto-rotate option has been changed ; New Album Items Tool Tip setup tab to set witch information to show over the images using the pop-up window ; New color scheme theme ‘Digikasa’ from Sergio Di Rio Mare ; New dcraw options set compatible with dcraw release >= 8.16.
- Showfoto: Image properties sidebar support ; All images from a folder can be loaded at the same time ; Add 16 bits/color/pixel support (DImg API) ; Thumbbar moved to the left by default in vertical mode. Image properties side bar to the right to make a consistent GUI with digiKam main interface ; Thumbbar can be used to the bottom in horizontal mode ; New Exif Auto-rotate option like in digiKam Image Editor ; New Set Orientation Exif flag to normal after Rotate/Flip like in digiKam Image Editor.
- Import Tool: New option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif and/or IPTC tags on the fly ; JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation ; digiKam theme support ; Custom prefix index depend of current images selection in the camera icon items ; New option to show camera summary and documentations of Gphoto2 drivers ; Option to upload pictures to camera using copy&paste or drag and drop ; New option to start number sequence index with a custom value ; New option to add postfix string to target download file name ; New option to add camera name to target download file name ; New option to increase/decrease the thumbnails size ; New option to lock/unlock pictures from camera to prevent unwanted deletion ; New option to convert JPEG files to lossless file format during download ; New option to set date format of auto-created albums ; New option to auto-create files extension-based sub-albums ; New advanced config dialog to set date/time format used to rename camera pictures file name during download.
- Geolocation: Bookmark locations
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| 2006.07.10 | 0.8.0 | 024 | - All tools ported to Qt4. Qt3 transition class support is now dropped.
- File Transfer: New tool to import or export images via FTP, Samba, Fish (SSH) and many more using KIO slaves.
- Acquire Images: Under windows, use Twain interface from libksane to factorize code.
- Shwup: New tool to export images to Shwup web service.
- Print Creator: New templates management ; Icon preview for photo size choice ; Caption per photo management ; Added new templates for passport photos (6 photos 3.5x4cm and 4 photos 4.5x5cm).
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| 2005.05.21 | 0.7.0 | 026 | - Flickr Export: Tool is now able to export to Zooomr web service ; User can set photo visibility one by one if necessary (public, friends, family).
- Time Adjust: A dedicated photo time-stamp can be used to adjust difference of camera clock.
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| 2003.12.08 | 0.6.0 | 015 | - Advanced Slideshow: Soundtracks can be loaded and saved.
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| 2002.10.03 | 0.5.0 | 022 | - DNG Writer: Update internal XMP sdk from Adobe to version 4.4.
- Print Creator: Added support for 2-1/3" x 3-1/3" pictures ; Added multiple pages printing ; Page layout into template.xml file, custom templates can be added now.
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| 2002.05.10 | 0.4.0 | 029 | - Piwigo Export: Raw images can be uploaded directly to remote server.
- DNG Writer: Fix compilation under macOS.
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| 2002.06.07 | 0.3.0 | 014 | - Fix compilation under MSVC 9.
- Google Services: Support protected albums (sign-in required to view).
- Print Creator: Added per photo print management ; Added Atkins page layout printing.
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| 2002.03.03 | 0.2.0 | 051 | - New icons for all Export/import tools.
- All import/export tools now have keyboard shortcuts.
- Tools now use metadata settings shared with host application.
- All tools can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows.
- Port to CMake/Qt4.
- Flickr Export: Add support for 23hq.com service which uses Flickr API ; Add support of Photosets.
- Print Creator: Ported to Qt4 ; Added a new option to skip cropping, the image is scaled automatically ; New tool that allow to choose old print assistant or to print all the selected photos directly
- Facebook: Facebook tool now support also import (download) of photos ; New tool to export images to a remote Facebook web service.
- Smug Export: Import (download) of images from SmugMug web service ; Add support for Album Templates ; New tool to export images to a remote SmugMug web service
- Remove Red Eyes: Added an option to preview the correction of the currently selected image ; New tool to remove red eyes in batch. Tool is based on OpenCV library.
- Calendar: Ported to Qt4 ; Support RAW images.
- Acquire Images: Under Windows, TWAIN interface is used to scan image using flat scanner.
- SlideShow: Normal effects are back ; New effect “Cubism” ; Added support for RAW images ; Now you can play your favourite music during slideshow ; Now filenames, captions and progress indicators can have transparent backgrounds with OpenGL SlideShow as well ; Added thumbnails into image list ; New effect “Mosaic”.
- DNG Writer: tool is now available as a stand alone application ; New tool to convert RAW camera image to Digital NeGative (DNG).
- JPEG Engine: XMP metadata support.
- Time Adjust: XMP metadata support.
- Metadata Edit: XMP metadata support with EXIF, IPTC, and Comments editor to sync XMP tags ; IPTC Editor dialog is more compliant with IPTC.org recommendations ; IPTC Editor add the capability to set multiple values for a tag.
- Send By Mail: Complete re-write of emailing tool.
- Geolocation: New tool to edit GPS track list using googlemaps.
- RAW Engine: Raw files are decoded in 16 bits color depth using same auto-gamma and auto-white methods provided by dcraw with 8 bits color depth RAW image decoding.
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| 2001.12.24 | 0.1.0 | 142 | Initial release published at Christmas time.- Moved Exiv2Iface class to a new MetadataEngine used by digiKam.
- Added configure options to allow disabling tools.
- Added the availability to disable tools we don’t want to build.
- GL Viewer: new OpenGL based to preview images.
- Video Slideshow: Avoid to pass img2mpg script unmanaged file path.
- Geolocation: New tool to export GPS locations from pictures to Google Maps / Google Earth ; New tool to sync photo metadata with a GPS device.
- Metadata Edit: New tool to edit EXIF and IPTC pictures metadata.
- Ipod Export: New tool to export pictures to an ipod device.
- JPEG Engine: Removed libmagic++ dependency ; Removed libkexif dependency. Using Exiv2 instead ; Rotate or flip your images lossless, while preserving the timestamp.
- RAW Engine: Port tool to RawEngine shared library ; Supports of dcraw>=6.x ; New core to be compatible with recent dcraw release. A lot of RAW decoding settings have been added ; Embedding output color space in target image (JPEG/PNG/TIFF) ; Metadata preservation in target image during Raw conversion (JPEG/PNG) ; Removing external dcraw dependency. Now tool include a full supported version of dcraw program in core ; updated dcraw.c implementation to version 8.41.
- Calendar: The weekdays are now localized ; Fixed recurring events not showing (only first date was showed) ; Setting special events only once (before printing), instead of one for every page.
- Send by Mail: Added image size limit x mail ; Support for Thunderbird and GmailAgent.
- Time Adjust: Removed libkexif dependency. Using Exiv2 instead ; New option to customize Date and Time to a specific timestamp ; New options sync EXIF/IPTC Creation Date with timestamp.
- Print Creator: Caption can contain more exif info ; Added raw file management, now raw files can be printed ; PrintCreator can print 8 photos per page (A4) ; Wizard GUI review ; Added exif management ; Prints exif date-time info ; Font, color and size of captions ; Added an option to to print without margins (full-bleed) ; Added 10x13.33cm into a4 ; Added full size A4 printing (one photo per A4 page) ; Added A6 size to get the old configuration for 10x15cm page ; Changed page size to real 10x15cm instead of A6 (need to set up right page size on kprinter) ; Added a new page size 13x18cm (need to set up right page size on kprinter) ; Each photo can be printed more than once.
- Google Services: New tool to export pictures to Picasa web service ; Support RAW files format to upload as JPEG preview.
- Flickr Export: New tool to upload pictures on Flickr web service ; Dialog layout re-written to be more suitable ; List of item to upload is now display in dialog ; Support RAW files format to upload as JPEG preview.
- Flash Export: New tool to export to flash contents ; Tool is now compatible with SimpleViewer version 1.8.x ; Tool now support RAW files format.
- Piwigo Export: Added Gallery 2 version support ; Support for multiple galleries.
- HTML Gallery: New images gallery export supporting XHTML and CSS ; New “s0” theme ; Export multiple tags to an html-page ; Removed is removed and replaced by HTML export tool ; Option to specify whether the original images should be included ; Support for theme variants ; New theme “frames” ; New theme “cleanframes” ; New theme “classic”, simulating the output of the old HTML Gallery tool
- Slideshow: Show image comments (configurable) ; Solved minor issue in filename printing (2D slideshow) ; New caching mechanism ; Added Ken Burns effect ; Skip to next or previous image by a right or left click ; Skip to next or previous image by mouse wheel scrolling ; Images can be sorted/added/removed manually ; Progress indicator printing doesn’t depend on file name printing anymore ; Dropped imlib2 dependency.
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| mid. 2001 | 0.0.0 | | - Proof of concept to only download files from a camera with Libgphoto under Linux.
- Very simple GUI based on frameworks Qt version 2 and KDE version 2.
- No database support, no plugins, only basic file system support.
- Never released.
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Table of Contents
digiKam Version 8 [2023-202x]
digiKam Version 7 [2020-2022]
digiKam Version 6 [2018-2019]
digiKam Version 5 [2016-2018]
digiKam Version 4 [2014-2015]
digiKam Version 3 [2012-2013]
digiKam Version 2 [2011-2012]
digiKam Version 1 [2009-2010]
digiKam Former Versions [2001-2008]
