After a long test stage while this Covid-19 containment, this new version come with
more than 670 bug-fixes since last stable release 6.4.0
and look very promising. Nothing is completed yet, as we plan one release candidate version before next summer, when we will publish officially the stable version.
It still few bugs to fix while this pre-release campain and all help will be welcome from the community to stabilize codes.
After a long triaging stage, this new version come with
more than 600 bug-fixes since last stable release 6.4.0
and look very promising. Nothing is completed yet, as we plan one beta version before next spring, when we will publish officially the stable version.
It still bugs to fix while this beta campain and all help will be welcome from the community to stabilize codes.
The first revision of the digiKam Recipes book in 2020 is here, and it packs new content.
The latest version of digiKam features the Healing Clone tool, and the Remove dust spots and imperfections with the Healing Clone tool part explains how to use this supremely useful feature. Starting with digiKam 6.4, you can use external RAW processing engines, and the Process RAW files with UFRaw part provides information on how to work with RAW photos using the UFRaw tool. Finally, Access digiKam remotely via SSH shows you how to access and use digiKam running on a remote machine.
Just in time to get you into the holiday spirit, we are now proud to release digiKam 7.0.0-beta1 today.
This first version start the test stages for next 7.x series planing while next year.
Have a look at some of the highlights listed below, to discover all those changes in detail.
Deep-Learning Powered Faces Management
While many years, digiKam has provided an important feature dedicated to detect and recognized faces in photo.
The algorithms used in background (not based on deep learning) was older and unchanged since the first revision
including this feature (digiKam 2.0.0). It was not enough powerful to facilitate the faces management workflow automatically.
We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the 4th
digiKam 6 release in September 2019. We are now proud to briefly announce the
new digiKam 6.4.0, a maintenance version which consolidates this feedback
and acts as an important phase of this 3-year-old project.
The Plugins Interface “DPlugins” Extended Again
With 6.1.0, digiKam project has introduced the new DPlugins interface to customize and extend the application.
This powerful interface, available in digiKam and Showfoto, already manage all Generic tools to import/export
items or edit metadata, Image Editor re-touch tools (colors editing, Transforms, Decorate, Effects, etc.),
Batch Queue Manager tools to process many files at once.
Another month, another revision of the digiKam Recipes book. This version brings the following new content:
The How digiKam works chapter provides an overview of digiKam’s achitecture
The Export and import keyboard shortcuts scheme section explains how to export and import customized keyboard shortcuts profiles.
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 third
digiKam 6 release in August 2019. We are now proud to briefly announce the
new digiKam 6.3.0, a maintenance version which consolidates this feedback
and acts as an important phase of this 3-year-old project.
New GMic-Qt plugin for Image Editor
Since digiKam 6.1.0, we open digiKam to external contributions with a collection
of new plugin interfaces,
named “Generic” for album items processing and export to web-services, “Editor” to extend
Image Editor and Showfoto post processing, and “Bqm” to add new tools in Batch Queue Manager.
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.
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.
