Dear all digiKam fans and users!<br>
<br>Before to close this year, a new digiKam beta release and a new stable kipi-plugins release have be done for KDE3, especially as bug fix and translations updates. Also, shared libraries libkexiv2 and libkdcraw have been updated.<br>
<br>digiKam 0.9.5-beta2 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url:<br><br><a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641&package_id=34800">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641&package_id=34800</a><br>
<br>Kipi-plugins 0.1.7, libkdcraw 0.1.7, and libkexiv2 0.1.8 can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url:<br><br>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641&package_id=34800" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=<span class="nfakPe">1</span>49779&package_id=<span class="nfakPe">1</span>6576<span class="nfakPe">1</span></a><br>
<br>Closed files and new features are listed below :<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>digiKam 0.9.5-beta2 - Release date: 2008-12-14 <br>
<br>BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">http://bugs.kde.org</a>):<br><br>001 ==> 164573 : Better support for small screens.<br>002 ==> 175970 : digitaglinktree merges tags with same name in different subfolders.<br>
003 ==> 108760 : Use collection image (or part of) as Tag/Album icon. <br>004 ==> 144078 : very slow avi startup. <br>005 ==> 146258 : Moving an album into waste basket didn't remove. <br>
006 ==> 149165 : cannot edit anymore - sqlite lock? <br>007 ==> 146025 : Wrong image name when using info from EXIF. <br>008 ==> 167056 : Updating tags is slow when thumbnails are visible. <br>
009 ==> 141960 : Problems with photos without EXIV data when updating me. <br>010 ==> 129379 : Renamed Album is shown multiple times although there is only on related picture directory.<br>011 ==> 171247 : Album creation error when name start by a number. <br>
012 ==> 150906 : digiKam unable to connect to Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TZ3. <br>013 ==> 148812 : "Auto Rotate/Flip &Using Exif Orientation" fails with some images. <br>
014 ==> 150342 : Camera image window keeps scrolling to the currently downloaded picture. <br>015 ==> 147475 : digiKam Slideshow - Pause button does not stay sticky / work. <br>
016 ==> 148899 : Image Editor does not get the focus after clicking on an image. <br>017 ==> 148596 : Empty entries in the "back" drop-down when changing month (date view). <br>
018 ==> 161387 : Unable to import photos with digiKam even though it's detected. <br>019 ==> 165229 : Thumbnail complete update does not work reliably, even for jpgs. <br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Kipi-plugins 0.1.7 - Release date: 2008-12-14<br><br>BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">http://bugs.kde.org</a>):<br><br>001 ==> 175033 : GPSSync : GPSSync does not get any map just a grey square.<br>
002 ==> 175304 : MetadataEdit : db does replicate to iptc or exif. <br>003 ==> 137359 : MetadataEdit : Unclear wording in kipiplugin_metadataedit. <br>004 ==> 146381 : JPEGLossLess : Image rotation splits the image with a small strip appearing on the wrong side.<br>
005 ==> 155023 : SendImages : Crashs when trying to send images via digiKam. <br>006 ==> 170272 : FlickrExport : Undefined signature problem prevents uploading to flickr. <br>
007 ==> 161114 : SendImages : Resizing and emailing from digikam results in no-more readable files. <br>008 ==> 147685 : General : Errors in error and "what's this" messages -- No way to select text in an error box.<br>
009 ==> 146293 : MetadataEdit : Plugins/Images/metadata: untranslated. <br>010 ==> 140345 : BatchProcess : kipiplugins do not work due to trying to save the result into the root directory. <br>
011 ==> 163395 : SendImages : digiKam and encoding errors in flickr export and mail attachments. <br>012 ==> 136941 : BatchProcess : Graphical picture ordering and renaming. <br>
013 ==> 149394 : General : Recover lost/deleted images from flash memory/camera. <br>014 ==> 162441 : PicasaWebExport : Unable to create an album. <br>
015 ==> 162993 : PicasaWebExport : Picasa album list not refreshed. <br>016 ==> 162994 : PicasaWebExport : Picasa album list does not contain "not listed" albums, contains only "public" albums.<br>
017 ==> 174353 : GPSSync : Kipi-plugin geolocation does not work anymore. <br>018 ==> 132982 : BatchProcess : Batch rename limited, should allow renaming by patterns.<br>
<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>libkdcraw-0.1.7 - Release date: 2008-12-14<br><br>NEW FEATURES:<br>
<br>Updated to LibRaw to 0.6.3 : NEF processing code changed (some overflow control added).<br>Updated to LibRaw to <a href="http://0.6.2.">0.6.2.</a> <br>New cameras: Canon G10 & 5D Mk2, Leaf AFi 7, Leica D-LUX4, <br>
Panasonic FX150 & G 1, Fujifilm IS Pro.<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
libkexiv2-0.1.8 - Release date: 2008-12-14<br><br>
NEW FEATURES:<br><br>- API changed: Move all Exiv2 classes acess methods to interanl provate container.<br> ABI number set to <a href="http://5.0.0.">5.0.0.</a> <br>
- Fix broken compilation with Exiv2 0.18. <br>- Support TIFF metadata writting mode (require Exiv2 >= 0.18). <br>- Added new methods canWriteComment(), canWriteExif(), canWriteIptc(). <br>
- Added new method supportMetadataWritting(). <br>- Do not change file time-stamp when metadata are changed. <br><br>BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">http://bugs.kde.org</a>):<br>
<br>001 ==> 158989 : digiKam won't start: MakerTagInfo registry full.<br>002 ==> 157173 : Crash by adding gps data to pictures. <br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>All digiKam and Kipi-plugins teams wish you a:merry Chrismast and an happy new year.<br><br>Gilles Caulier<br>digiKam project<br><a href="http://www.digikam.org">http://www.digikam.org</a><br><br>