digiKam 1.4.0 released…

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.4.0 release!

digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

See the list of new features below and bug-fixes coming with this release since 1.3.0

Enjoy digiKam.

NEW FEATURES:

AdvancedRename : New modifier “Remove Doubles”.

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA:

001 ==> 238285 : Nikkor 18-200mm not detected by lens autocorrection.
002 ==> 232233 : Databaseext-branch does not compile on Windows with mingw4.
003 ==> 241782 : Tags, comments, author, etc. not written to metadata.
004 ==> 232792 : digiKam crash when opening configuration.
005 ==> 242863 : Caption field layout can be confused by pasted text.
006 ==> 242937 : When using raw import tool, showfoto cannot export the processed image.
007 ==> 243696 : digiKam didn’t detect my local collection anymore after replacing internal harddisk.
008 ==> 243747 : Comment which is stored in database can’t be accessed via digiKam.
009 ==> 216273 : digiKam exif gps not in xmp.
010 ==> 244114 : “Find similar” works for a single image, but “Find duplicates” doesn’t work for a directory.
011 ==> 244151 : Renaming image files causes them to vanish from an album.
012 ==> 241418 : LZW compressed TIFFs from RawTherapee are won’t display.
013 ==> 212848 : Crashed in slideshow while viewing.
014 ==> 245061 : [patch] “Restore Tag Filters” is broken, works only for top level nodes.
015 ==> 245336 : Image editor does not remember camera profile under Custom.
016 ==> 243692 : digiKam uses all memory with thumbnails.
017 ==> 226544 : Suspicious QModelIndex messages at startup.
018 ==> 240945 : Picture size does not report correctly after gimp.
019 ==> 245380 : Improve the ergonomics of the bwsepia filter ui.
020 ==> 204568 : Metadata not being written to files.
021 ==> 246938 : Extension aware rename (maintain raw file and jpg association by basename).
022 ==> 247850 : digiKam 1.3.0 crashes.
023 ==> 247590 : digiKam not checking if libexiv2 was compiled with xmp support.
024 ==> 246774 : Create New Tag vs Create New Tag in.
025 ==> 246675 : Crash on startup/scanning folders.
026 ==> 225471 : Change digiKam to follow usability guidelines.
027 ==> 248549 : digiKam crash at startup (suse’s backport repo).