[digiKam-users] 7.9.0 release : when ?

[Tom Cunningham]

When I try to use G'MIC, there are no filters.  This is on Windows 11 with digiKam 7.9.0.

Take care,

Tom


Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:04:17 +0100
From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
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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