digiKam 7.10.0 is released

Dear digiKam fans and users,

After three months of active maintenance and other bugs triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.10.0 of its open source digital photo manager.

See below the list of most important features coming with this release.

Bundles Internal Component Updates

As with the previous releases, we take care about upgrading the internal components from the Bundles. Microsoft Windows Installer, Apple macOS Package, and Linux AppImage binaries now hosts:

• Qt frameworks 5.15.8 LTS.
• KDE frameworks 5.102.0.
• Libraw 0.21.1.
• Libjasper 4.0.0
• ExifTool 12.57.

All of these components include important stability improvements and fixes.

With the Libraw update, now digiKam supports:

- Phase One/Leaf IIQ-S v2 format.
- Canon CR3 filmrolls/RawBurst format.
- Canon CRM movie format.
- Canon EOS R3, R7 and R10 devices.
- Fujifilm X-H2S, X-T30 II devices.
- OM System OM-1 camera.
- Leica M11 camera.
- Sony A7-IV camera.

Maintenance and Improvements

This new version arrives with 50 triaged and closed files in bugzilla.

See below a list of major improvements included in this release:

• Enable copying file path to the clipboard in Windows.
• Improve support of DXO tags.
• Add support for the new online documentation.
• Fix remote Mariadb database connection under macOS.
• Fix the Cancel button in the Import Tool.
• Fix crashes with last OpenCV 4.7.0.
• Improve internal digiKam trash behavior.
• Fix similarity search settings management.

The application internationalization has also been updated. digiKam and Showfoto are proposed with 57 different languages for the graphical interface. Go to Settings/Configure Languages dialog and change the localization as you want. Applications need to be restarted to apply changes. If you want to contribute to the internationalization of digiKam, please contact the translator teams, following the translation how-to. The statistics about translation states are available here.

Future Plans

digiKam 7.10.0 will be the last maintenance version for this series. We will now focus on next 8.0.0 for a plan to target in April 2023. We have already published 8.0.0 pre-releases through a weekly publishing mechanism and receive good feedback from testers.

8.0.0 will arrives also with a huge new online documentation fully rewritten and improved.

Final Words

Thanks to all users for your support and donations, and to all contributors, students, testers who allowed us to improve this release.

digiKam 7.10.0 can be downloaded from this repository as:

• Source code tarball.
• Linux 64 bits AppImage bundles compatible with systems based on glibc >= 2.27.
• Windows 64 bits installers or bundle archives.
• macOS Intel packages compatible with Apple M1 and M2 CPU computers using Rosetta 2,

Rendez-vous in a few weeks for the next digiKam 8.0.0 release.

Happy digiKaming.