[Digikam-devel] pre-announce for new beta2 release

[F.J.Cruz]

Please read:

Here we are again: another step beyond in the way to the first stable release 
of the 0.9 series for digiKam and digikamImagePlugins.

After a period of hard and intensive work, the digiKam comunity brings to you 
all the new digikam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0-beta2 releases, there are 
some new features, others have been improved:

- New option to start number sequence index with a custom value.
- New option to add camera name to target download file name.
- New option to set date format of auto-created albums.
- New option to process a batch creation of all albums items thumbnails.
- New option to set image as tag thumbnail on Tag Filters View using D&D.
- New option to set a matching condition to use between tags in Tag Filters 
View (OR or AND condition).
- New color scheme theme 'Digikasa' from Sergio Di Rio Mare

 And a lot of bugs have been fixed since the 0.9.0-beta1 release:

- 121691 : Problems with Downloading images from Camera.
- 131034 : Display a mini-review of the photo currently transfered, i.e better 
visual feedback.
- 131603 : Orientation of RAW-images (especially Canons *.cr2)
- 131532 : Minolta exception code can break EXIF rotation
- 131550 : digikam/showfoto can't show jpeg image under PowerPC
- 131549 : endianess problem under Linux-PowerPC (with png images at least)

Do you want to know more about all the changes?, Have a look to the NEWS 
[http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/NEWS?rev=582129&view=markup] 
file.

Are you interested in some of our plans for the future and in what is still 
missing for the final 0.9 release? have a look at the  
TODO[http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/TODO?rev=579142&view=markup] 
file.

As you know, this is not an stable release but a beta one, which means that we 
are asking users to test this version of digiKam and to report bugs. Now, you 
have the chance to help us, if you have found a bug, please report it to the 
bug tracking system at bugs.kde.org. In a first step, confirm that there is 
not already a bug report for your problem. A list of open bug reports for 
digikam can be found 
here[http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED], 
and for digikamimageplugins in this 
URL[http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikamimageplugins&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED].