[digiKam-users] 7.9.0 release : when ?

[Frédéric Da Vitoria]

Hello,

FWIW, I installed 7.9.0 on my Windows 11. Indeed, the installer 
overwrote the previous version without asking me any questions. Maybe I 
have a few crumbs left in the installation folder, if I sort by date, I 
see only 8 older files.

Apart from this, nothing to report, DK seems to work as before.

Le 16/11/2022 à 16:10, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I just tested the Windows install, with a previous version already
> installed : installer does not ask to uninstall previous one, as
> before.
>
> So, there is a regression introduced by these changes in
> reboot_required.nsh NSIS script:
>
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/0feb9d4ddc7960e3a9ee7b7eb801bf2f64dc94e5#57bcdbd675c06e74b85b908b3e80e318296be12f
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mer. 16 nov. 2022 à 08:04, Gilles Caulier
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The whole infrastructure to recompile the bundles 7.x and 8.x (beta)
>> is now ported to Ubuntu 18.04 (used for AppImage and Windows
>> installer). The workflow is to publish at the same time 7.x and 8.x
>> versions.
>>
>> I would like to publish a 7.9.0 official release for the first week of
>> december. For that i need the maximum feedback from AppImage and
>> Windows users to see if nothing is broken with the migration.
>> Especially :
>>
>> - AppImage needs (or not) the preloading of shared libraries at
>> startup. Mostly, we inherit of the legacy rules used with the Mageia7
>> system used to build the bundle. Probably these rules must be
>> simplified or adjusted for Ubuntu 18.04 as the dependencies are not
>> the same at run time with the host system running application. This
>> point need to be checked with all Linux host where the bundle can be
>> used (typically, all redhat and debian based systems for ex).
>>
>> - Windows installer introduced a few simplifications with the NSIS
>> packager included in my pending todo list since a very long time. I
>> removed an extra dll used to deal with the registration database to
>> see if the application is already installed on the system or not, and
>> to decide if it needs to be uninstalled before to process installation
>> of the new version. I don't check the regression of this feature with
>> all Windows versions supported.
>>
>> For next 7.9.0, we have also a set of important bugfixes introduced
>> where we want to see if no regression have been introduced. In other
>> words, please test as you can, all feedback are welcome.
>>
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/qt5-maintenance/NEWS
>>
>> Remember : 7.9.0 can be considered as stable and can be used in production:
>>
>> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
>>
>> 8.0.0 is unstable as not all features have been completely tested and
>> finalized. Use it with test collections/user accounts only.
>>
>> https://files.kde.org/digikam/unstable/
>>
>> Thanks in advance to contribute and support digiKam project
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Gilles Caulier


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Frédéric Da Vitoria