[digiKam-users] 7.9.0 release : when ?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

I'm back to this thread. It still few points to fix before to release 7.9.0.

- The windows restoration between sessions under Windows, which is problematic.
- The Suse startup of AppImage with XCB support.

Best

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