[Digikam-devel] digikam 0.9.0-rc2 and digikamimageplugins 0.9.0-rc2 released

[Marcel Wiesweg]

Announcing the second release candidate of 
digiKam 0.9.0 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.0.

The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November 2005. After 
having released three beta version and a first release candidate, we are now 
entering the last phase of fixing critical bugs and testing.

The source for digikam and digikamimageplugins 0.9.0-rc2 is available from:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641


Features in digikam 0.9-rc2
===========================

	http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/features09x


New features and bug fixes since beta3
======================================

	115125 : White Balance tool: remaining endianess issue on PowerPC.
	137495 : showfoto crashes when doing any modification to a loaded directory.
	137845 : Album Header cut off (squeezed) when entering two or more lines in
			 Album comment.
	137886 : When a tag is moved in the left panel it's position is not updated
			 in the right panel.
	135834 : Lowercasing camera filenames only works for first imported file.
	134391 : digiKam camera gui dialog crashes if there is a filename without
			 extension.
	131947 : digiKam complains about invalid ICC profiles path.
	130176 : Typos in digiKam.po and one plugin.
	138252 : Display is not updates when switching color managed view on/off.
	138253 : Keyboard shortcut for turning color managed display on/off.


Digikam Movie Tour
==================

There are four demonstration videos (Flash format) available highlighting
 some of the new features.

How to import a RAW file in 16 bits color depth into digiKam image editor
using Color Management:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/124

On the usage of the camera interface and how to add IPTC information to an
image file:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/125

On the new fast RAW file preview mode, the use of color profiles, image
plugins supporting 16 bit and user interface improvements for all image
plugins:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/126

How to use the black and white converter and the add border image plugin,
again demonstrating user interface improvements and full 16 bit support:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/127

How to help us
==============

This release is a beta release, which means that we ask users to test this
version of digiKam and report bugs.
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 at

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_st
atus=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

and for digikamimageplugins at

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikamimageplugins&bug_status=UNCONF
IRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

General information on digikam and digikamimageplugins
======================================================

digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE,
focussed on importing, organizing and editing digital photos,
aimed at all types of users.

digiKam imageplugins enhance digiKam's image editor with
more than 2 dozen plugins that make correcting your photos easier.

WWW:  www.digikam.org
IRC:  irc.freenode.net - #digikam
MAIL: digikam-users at kde.org digikam-devel at kde.org


The digiKam team