[digiKam-users] 7.9.0 release : when ?

[Frédéric Da Vitoria]

Le 22/11/2022 à 07:46, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> 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

New installation performed as advertised on Windows 11 :-)

-- 
Frédéric Da Vitoria