digiKam 8.8.0 is released

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Jan,

Download the "-debug" suffixed appimage bundle that we provide and run
it in GDB as explained here :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#linux-host-using-gdb

At end, list the GDB backtrace here for investigation.

Note : the both awk error at startup are suspect:

awk: read error (Is a directory)
awk: read error (Is a directory)

AppImage start through a bash script internally which can be viewed here :

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blob/master/project/bundles/appimage/data/AppRun?ref_type=heads

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 25 oct. 2025 à 13:22, Jan Wolter <jan at wolter.re> a écrit :
>
> Hello Gilles and Team,
>
> I tested digiKam 8.8.0 on Linux Mint 22 (Wilma) and got following Segmentation Fault (DK 8.7.0 works fine before):
>
> $ ./digiKam-8.8.0-Qt6-x86-64.appimage
> -- digiKam Linux AppImage Bundle
> -- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam application.
> -- Notes: to integrate this bundle to your desktop, use AppImageLauncher.
> --        to enable all debug messages on the console, use 'export QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"'.
> --        to extract the bundle contents locally, use option '--appimage-extract' on the command line.
> awk: read error (Is a directory)
> awk: read error (Is a directory)
> -- Detected host Linux LinuxMint-64-22
> -- AppImage mounted directory: /tmp/.mount_digiKa6qQ3nb
> Preloading skipped for libudev.so.0
> Preloading             /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0
> Preloading skipped for libcrypto.so.1.1
> Preloading skipped for libssl.so.1.1
> Preloading             /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so
> Preloading             /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so
> Preloading             /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so
> Preloading             /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
> Preloading skipped for libgnutls.so.30
> Preloading             /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnettle.so.8
> -- Preloading shared libs: :/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnettle.so.8
> unknown: fromIccProfile: failed size sanity 2
> unknown: fromIccProfile: failed size sanity 2
> unknown: QSvgHandler: Image filename is empty
> unknown: QSvgHandler: Image filename is empty
> /tmp/.mount_digiKa6qQ3nb/AppRun: line 263:  6612 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) digikam $@
>
>
> Could you please give me advice how to fix that problem?
>
> Best regards,
> Jan
>
>
> On 10/19/25 12:36, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
> The digiKam development team is proud to release digiKam 8.8.0. For
> more details, see announcement on digikam.org:
>
> https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-10-19-8.8.0_release_announcement/
>
> Best regards
> digiKam team
>
>