[Digikam-users] digiKam 0.8.1

[Tom Albers]

Hi,

We are pleased to announce digiKam 0.8.1.  This version brings raw support, 
new icons, image rating, printing enhancements and in the meanwhile we also  
fixed some bugs.

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

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The noteworthy features in this release:

- You are now able to rate your images from 1 start to 5 stars. In the search 
part of digiKam, you can search for images with a certain rating.

- A new theme has been added, the 'Dessert' theme.

- 8 bit raw support has been added, you can now view those images in the 
imageviewer. In digiKam version 0.9.0 there will be 16 bit raw support.

- copy & paste support has been added, you can copy between albums and from 
konqueror to digiKam.

- dcop functions have been added to open the camera dialog at a certain path 
or start the autodetect function similar to the command line option

- a command line option has been added to open the camera dialog at a certain 
path. This feature and the previous are preparations for full media kio 
support.

- showfoto can now open a directory with images in there

- automatically adjust orientation of printing depending on the image

- new icons!

- kipi plugins now work on search or date folders

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Some of the bugs we squashed since 0.8.0:

- the configure option --enable-nfs-hack did not work, now it does work again.

- the configure option --enable-final did not work, now it does work again.

- showfoto's open dialog now opens in the location you used the last time.

- a bunch of memory leaks are now fixed.

- printing did not really work. Now it does work again.

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Downloading:

The source tarball is available from:
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641

kubuntu breezy:
    deb  http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/breezy ./
    deb-src http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/breezy ./

kubuntu dapper:
    the package is already available in dapper

Ark Linux (http://www.arklinux.org/) already includes digikam 0.8.1 in its 
"dockyard-devel" development tree. Users of the stable tree can upgrade the 
package without upgrading to the development tree using "apt-get -t 
dockyard-devel install digikam".

Tom Albers
digiKam team
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