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Kipi-plugins 0.1.3-beta1 released

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The kipi-plugins team is proud to announce the first beta release of kipi-plugins 0.1.3 and libkipi 0.1.5.

The kipi-plugins 0.1.3 series has been under heavy development since November 2005 and offers you the opportunity to test and enjoy a variety of new features, additions and improvements.

The source for kipi-plugins and libkipi is available at this url

New features and bug fixes since kipi-plugins 0.1.2 are listed below:

Kipi-plugins NEW FEATURES

New Plugin : MetadataEdit : New kipi plugin to edit EXIF and IPTC pictures metadata.
New Plugin : GPSSync : New kipi plugin to sync photo metadata with a GPS device.
New Plugin : IpodExport : New kipi plugin to export pictures to an ipod device (by Seb Ruiz).

GalleryExport : Support for multiple galleries.

HTMLExport : New "s0" theme from Petr Vanek

JPEGLossLess : Removed libmagic++ depency.
JPEGLossLess : Removed libkexif depency. Using Exiv2 instead.

RAWConverter : New core to be compatible with recent dcraw release. A lot
of RAW decoding settings have been added.
RAWConverter : Embedding ouput color space in target image (JPEG/PNG/TIFF).
RAWConverter : Metadata preservation in target image during Raw conversion (JPEG/PNG).
RAWConverter : Removing external dcraw depency. Now plugin include a full supported version of
dcraw program in core.
RAWConverter : updated dcraw.c implementation to version 8.41.

SendImages : Added image size limit x mail (Michael H�hstetter)

TimeAdjust : Removed libkexif depency. Using Exiv2 instead.
TimeAdjust : New option to customize Date and Time to a specific timestamp.
TimeAdjust : New options sync EXIF/IPTC Creation Date with timestamp.

Kipi-plugins BUGFIX from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 127101 : BatchProcess : expand sequence number start value in batch rename images.
002 ==> 94494 : GalleryExport: support for multiple galleries.
003 ==> 128394 : RAWCanverter : convertion of RAW files fails with dcraw 8.21
004 ==> 132659 : FlickrExport : "Missing signature" - Flickr API changed and upload of
images is no longer possible.
005 ==> 107905 : RAWConverter : copy exif data from raw to converted images.
006 ==> 119537 : JPEGLossLess : Exif width and height are not corrected after lossless rotation.
007 ==> 91545 : Slideshow : plugin does nothing if an album only contains subalbums, but no
images directly or is empty.
008 ==> 134749 : GPS Sync : altitude shown is wrong.
009 ==> 134298 : SimpleViewer : save settings / keep settings missing!
010 ==> 134747 : GPS Sync : not optimal correlation.
011 ==> 135157 : GPS Sync : warning about changes not applied always appear even when already applied.
012 ==> 135237 : GPS Sync : filenames with multiple periods in them do not show up in the file
listing (incorrect extension identification).
013 ==> 135484 : GPS Sync : thumbnail generation for multible images can cause severe overload.
014 ==> 135353 : GPS Sync : the name of the plugin is missleading.
015 ==> 136257 : MetadataEdit : Editing the EXIF-data overwrites all the data for selected files.
016 ==> 128341 : HTMLExport : kipi html export should not resize images if "resize target images"
is not checked.
017 ==> 127476 : PrintWizzard : Printing as very very slow (added a workaround running kjobviewer)
018 ==> 136941 : BatchProcess : graphical picture ordering and renaming.
019 ==> 136855 : MetadataEdit : Editing metadata on a few selected imagefiles and clicking forward
or apply crashes digiKam.
020 ==> 135408 : BatchProcess : Window does not fit on screen.
021 ==> 117399 : BatchProcess : Usability of Target folder.
022 ==> 137921 : MetadataEdit : wrong country code in IPTC.