Dear all digiKam fans and users!<br>
<br>A new digiKam beta release is out. for KDE3, It's a bug
fix and translations updates.<br>
<br>digiKam <span class="nfakPe">0</span>.9.5-beta3 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" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4264<span class="nfakPe">1</span>&package_id=34800</a><br>
<br>Compared to digiKam 0.9.4, closed files and new features are listed below :<br><br>NEW FEATURES: <br><br>General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.5<br>
General : TIFF/PNG/JPEG2000 metadata can be edited or added (require Exiv2 >= 0.18).<br><br>Image Editor : All image plugin tool settings provide default buttons to reset values.<br>Image Editor : New Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings.<br>
Image Editor : All image plugin dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window.<br>Image Editor : New composition guide based on Diagonal Rules.<br>
<br>BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">http://bugs.kde.org</a>):<br><br>001 ==> 166867 : digiKam crashes when starting.<br>002 ==> 167026 : Crash on startup Directory ImageSubIfd0 not valid.<br>
003 ==> 146870 : Don't reduce size of image when rotating.<br>004 ==> 167528 : Remove hotlinking URL from tips.<br>005 ==> 167343 : Albums view corrupted and unusable.<br>006 ==> 146033 : When switching with Page* image jumps.<br>
007 ==> 127242 : Flashing 'histogram calculation in progress' is a bit annoying.<br>008 ==> 150457 : More RAW controls in color management pop-up please.<br>009 ==> 155074 : Edit Image should allow chance to adjust RAW conversion parameters.<br>
010 ==> 155076 : RAW Conversion UI Needs to be more generic.<br>011 ==> 142975 : Better support for RAW photo handling.<br>012 ==> 147136 : When selecting pictures from folder showfoto got closed.<br>013 ==> 168780 : Loose the raw import.<br>
014 ==> 160564 : No refresh of the number of pictures assigned to a tag after removing the tag from some pictures.<br>015 ==> 158144 : Showfoto crashes in settings window.<br>016 ==> 162845 : 'Ctrl+F6' Conflict with KDE global shortcut.<br>
017 ==> 159523 : digiKam crashes while downloading images from Olympus MJU 810/Stylus 810 camera no xD card.<br>018 ==> 161369 : Quick filter indicator lamp is not working properly in recursive image folder view mode.<br>
019 ==> 147314 : Renaming like crazy with F2 slows down my system.<br>020 ==> 164622 : Crash using timeline when switching from month to week to month view.<br>021 ==> 141951 : Blank empty context right-click menus.<br>
022 ==> 116886 : Proposal for adding a new destripe/denoise technique.<br>023 ==> 163602 : Race condition during image download from Camera/ USB device: image corruption and/or loss.<br>024 ==> 165857 : Unreliable import when photo root is on network share.<br>
025 ==> 147435 : Resize slider in sharpness dialog doesn't work correct.<br>026 ==> 168844 : Make the selection rectangle draggable over the image (not only resizable).<br>027 ==> 147151 : Compile error: multiple definition of `jpeg_suppress_tables'.<br>
028 ==> 170758 : High load when tagging.<br>029 ==> 168003 : Drag&dropping a photo to a folder in Dolphin begins copying the whole system:/media.<br>030 ==> 142457 : Temp files not cleaned up after crashes.<br>
031 ==> 164573 : Better support for small screens.<br>032 ==> 175970 : digitaglinktree merges tags with same name in different subfolders.<br>033 ==> 108760 : Use collection image (or part of) as Tag/Album icon.<br>
034 ==> 144078 : very slow avi startup.<br>035 ==> 146258 : Moving an album into waste basket didn't remove.<br>036 ==> 149165 : cannot edit anymore - sqlite lock?<br>037 ==> 146025 : Wrong image name when using info from EXIF.<br>
038 ==> 167056 : Updating tags is slow when thumbnails are visible.<br>039 ==> 141960 : Problems with photos without EXIV data when updating me.<br>040 ==> 129379 : Renamed Album is shown multiple times although there is only on related picture directory.<br>
041 ==> 171247 : Album creation error when name start by a number.<br>042 ==> 150906 : digiKam unable to connect to Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TZ3.<br>043 ==> 148812 : "Auto Rotate/Flip &Using Exif Orientation" fails with some images.<br>
044 ==> 150342 : Camera image window keeps scrolling to the currently downloaded picture.<br>045 ==> 147475 : digiKam Slideshow - Pause button does not stay sticky / work.<br>046 ==> 148899 : Image Editor does not get the focus after clicking on an image.<br>
047 ==> 148596 : Empty entries in the "back" drop-down when changing month (date view).<br>048 ==> 161387 : Unable to import photos with digiKam even though it's detected.<br>049 ==> 165229 : Thumbnail complete update does not work reliably, even for jpgs.<br>
050 ==> 176477 : Files disappear while importing.<br>051 ==> 179134 : Compile-error with libkdcraw > 0.1.5.<br>052 ==> 162535 : Startup is extremely slow when famd is running.<br>053 ==> 179413 : Support restoring blown out highlights.<br>
054 ==> 157313 : Option to reposition lighttable slide-list.<br>055 ==> 180671 : Scanner import does not work.<br>056 ==> 175387 : digikam-doc 0.9.4 <a href="http://sf.net">sf.net</a> tarball is outdated.<br>057 ==> 181712 : Ubuntu 8.10 - digiKam finds not the correct images.<br>
<br>Happy digiKam<br><br>Caulier Gilles<br>digiKam project<br><a href="http://www.digikam.org">http://www.digikam.org</a><br>