[digiKam-users] 7.9.0 release : when ?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

All the bundles have been upgraded, and now, as i see fixed,
especially the AppImage (7.9.0 and 8.0.0)

For the Windows installer, the new version cross compiled under Ubuntu
18.04 still has a little bug : when it's installed to replace an older
one, it does not detect the previous install and does not start
uninstaller first. This happens only a first time, as next time that
you install a new version, the installer detects this time the
previous install.

Why ? No idea. I suspected a simplification of NSIS script that I
committed to reduce external dependencies with an extra plugin, but in
fact no. My fix sounds right. The other difference with the new
installer is the NSIS version used and cross compiled too with MXE
environnement (previous version of NSIS come from the Linux distro as
well and was a little bit older). Or, another hypothesis, is a bug
fixed in the NSIS application in the new version used now to compile
the installer.

There is no specific risk to not uninstall digiKam before an upgrade,
especially if the major version number is not bumped (7.7.0/7.8.0 =>
7.9.0 for ex). For the 7.x to 8.x it will be different.

Voilà, we are near a 7.9.0 release that I plan for the first weeks of
december if there is no objection in this room.

So, please test again if you can, and report dysfunctions on your host
system. Thanks in advance

Best regards

Gilles Caulier



Now I suspect a string encoding of the fingerprint saved in the
windows registration database to identify the digiKam already
installed.

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