Dear all digiKam fans and users!<br>
<br>
The digiKam development team is happy to start a new serie of KDE3 releases. The<br>
digiKam 0.9.5-beta1 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.<br>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641</a><br>
<br>This new version is fully compatible with libkdcraw 0.1.6 (based on LibRaw <a href="http://www.libraw.org">http://www.libraw.org</a>)<br><br>Some new features for Image Editor have been backported from KDE4 as RawImport tool and all image plug-ins ported to Editor Tool API.<br>
With this last one, all plug-in dialogs has been removed. Plugins are now embedded in editor window.<br><br>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>NEW FEATURES:<br><br>General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6<br><br>Image Editor : All image plug-in 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 plug-in dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window.<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<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>
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<br>Best Regards<br>
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Gilles Caulier<br>
digiKam project<br>
<a href="http://www.digikam.org/" target="_blank">http://www.digikam.org</a></font><br>