digiKam Changelog

What's new in digiKam 8.0.0

Apr 13, 2023

Some of the new features in this release of digiKam include (compared to digiKam 6.x):
More than 400 user-reports closed on bugzilla.
Port code to Qt6 framework (code still compatible with Qt5 API).
Add JPEG-XL, WEBP, and AVIF export settings everywhere.
Add convert to lossless JPEG-XL, WEBP, and AVIF while importing from camera.
Add JPEG-XL; WEBP, and AVIF converters in Batch Queue Manager.
Versionning: add support of JPEG-XL, HEIF, WEBP, and AVIF as lossless image format to store versionned images in editor.
Usability: add hamburger menu to tool-bar if main menu is hidden.
Metadata: add new option to write metadata to files with ExifTool backend.
Metadata: optional write metadata operations to DNG and RAW files are now always delegated to ExifTool Backend.
Metadata: optimize layout of Metadata Edit plugin for a better usability.
Metadata: add new options to save and load configuration profiles in Avanced Metadata Settings Pannel.
Advanced Rename: add increment file counter to sequence numbering from with option [c] or [c,step].
Advanced Rename: add random text sequence numbering with option [r].
Advanced Rename: add configurable first character for the unique modifier with {unique:n,c}.
Advanced Search: add search for items by number of face regions.
Advanced Search: add search for items without face regions.
Collections: add support for cross-platform network paths.
Database: add support for SQLite WAL (Write-Ahead-Logging) mode.
Add spell-checking support in caption text widget using KF5::Sonnet component.
Add Spellcheck config panel in Settings/Miscellaneous for digiKam and Showfoto.
Add online translations support to Alternative Language text editor widget.
Add Localize config panel in Settings/Miscellaneous for digiKam and Showfoto.
Add settings to list preferred alternative/translated languages in text edit widget.
Allow to use Global or Customized Image Quality Sorting settings everywhere.
Add Icon-View settings to customize Labels visibility over thumbnails.
Add support for float16 (half float) images in the TIFF Loader.
Add new maintenance tool to perform Aesthetic Detection to classify images using deep learning model.
Add new tool to perform OCR over scanned text.
Queue Manager: add new tool to assign pick label automatically by parsing image quality.
Queue Manager: add new tool to assign rating, pick, and color labels in batch.
Queue Manager: add new tool to assign titles and captions in batch.
Documentation: Rewrite handbook from DocBook to Sphinx/ReStructuredText framework.
Update G'MIC-Qt tool to last version 3.2.2 and finalize MacOS port and improve stability of plugin.
Update internal RAW engine to last Libraw snapshot 20230403.
New RAW features: Phase One/Leaf IIQ-S v2 support Canon CR3 filmrolls/RawBurst Canon CRM (movie) files Tiled bit-packed (and 16-bit unpacked) DNGs (non-standard) Deflate-compressed integer DNG files are allowed Canon EOS R3, R7 and R10 Fujifilm X-H2S, X-T30 II OM System OM-1 Leica M11 Sony A7-IV (ILCE-7M4) DJI Mavic 3
...and much more.

New in digiKam 7.4.0 (Dec 11, 2021)

Some of the new features in this release of digiKam include (compared to digiKam 6.x)
More than 1300 user-reports closed on bugzilla.
New Neural Network engine based on OpenCV Deep Learning module to detect and recognize faces.
Update Slideshow to plugin with new shuffle mode.
Add new theme Html5Responsive for HtmlGallery plugin.
New plugin ImageMosaicWall to create an image based on a bunch of other photos.
add new batch queue manager tool to fix hot pixels from images.
add new batch queue manager tool to apply texture over images.
Face Scan dialog contents is now simplified and embedded into left sidebar.
Add support for Gimp XCF files >= 2.10.
Add Flatpak bundle support for Linux platforms.
Table-view is now able to show digiKam Tag-Paths properties.
Add option to write geolocation information in file metadata.
Add color label support for advanced metadata settings.
Add Exif, Iptc, and Xmp read support for HEIF images.
Improved support for UNC network paths under Windows.
Improved support for Unicode paths under Windows.
Apple bundle is now relocatable and compatible with macOS BigSur.
New online version checker and downloader to automatize upgrade under Windows and macOS.
Better support of astro FITS image format including metadata extraction support to populate the database.
Use last Exiv2 0.27.4 in all bundles with Base Media File metadata read and write support (HEIF, AVIF).
Find duplicates items is now process in parallel using multi-cores.
New tool to export items to iNaturatist web service.
New metadata viewer based on ExifTool.
Integration of Google Summer of Code project 2021 Image Quality Sorter.
New tool to share items on the network with a Motion JPEG stream server.
Showfoto has a new left sidebar hosting a folder-view to quickly explore images from local file system.
Update internal RAW engine to last Libraw 0.20.2 (snapshot 20210827) including Canon CR3 and Sony A7R4 support.
New camera supported Canon CR3, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, G7 X Mark III, SX70 HS, EOS R, EOS RP, EOS 90D, EOS 250D, EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M50, EOS M200, EOS 1DX Mark III (lossless files only) DJI Mavic Air, Air2, Osmo Action, FujiFilm Fujifilm compressed/16bit, GFX 100, X-A7, X-Pro3, X100V, X-T4, X-T200, GoPro Fusion, HERO5, HERO6, HERO7, HERO8, Hasselblad L1D-20c, X1D II 50C, Leica D-LUX7, Q-P, Q2, V-LUX5, C-Lux / CAM-DC25, SL2, M10 Monochrom, Nikon D780, Z50, P950, Olympus TG-6, E-M5 Mark III, E-PL10, E-M1 Mark III, Panasonic Panasonic 14-bit, DC-FZ1000 II, DC-G90, DC-S1, DC-S1R, DC-S1H, DC-TZ95, PhaseOne IQ4 150MP, Rapsberry Pi RAW+JPEG format, Ricoh GR III, Sony A7R IV, A9 II, ILCE-6100, ILCE-6600, RX0 II, RX100 VII, Zenit M, also multiple modern smartphones.
...and much more.

New in digiKam 7.2.0 (Apr 2, 2021)

Advanced Rename:
The tool to batch rename items in collections has received plenty of code review to fix older dysfunctions. This has improved stability and usability.
Batch processing - rename problems
Photo Tag’s & Comment’s are lost when ablum’s are rearranged or renamed.
rename image files: add the possibility of “Find and replace”
Rename collision dialog notifies that files aren’t on local computer
File rename using metadata fails when using file conversion tool in Batch queue manager
Crash when renaming files in batch process
digiKam crashed when rename files
digiKam custom file renaming options are ignored when importing from camera
Batch rename files caused crashed
Crash while renaming files using German Umlauts
Crash when renaming jpegs
Crash when leaving Rename dialog if several files selected
Crash when I renane files
Renaming multiple files crashes
digiKam crashes, related with the rename of several photographs
crash by multi rename
digiKam crashes after batch renaming more than two files
Bad performance of file renames (thumbnail recreation?)
Photos from Samsung S2 disappear after rename
Renaming not working as expected in digiKam 6.4
digiKam stopped responding and required new setup
Renaming with tags in subtree fails
Windows file rename change case only fails badly
Renaming mp4 files - metadata fields have no values
inconsistency between metadata displayed and metadata taken in account to rename
Albums:
Albums management have been improved with database fixes to support better items grouping with special use cases. Filtering engine have been fixed to speed-up user queries and with a better support of wildcard.
Albums management introduce also better homogeneous in views about items properties. We also improve the removable media support with this release.
photo stays in album when moved to another album
add an option where i can set the “picture create permissions”
Show warning message before album deletion when directories containing files which are not shown by digiKam
digiKam dies when “doing file -> new”
“New” problem
Wish: Support wildcards in text filter.
Assigning color labels from right side menu is different than over context menu
Some metadata (tags, captions) not applying to grouped images
Group of MP4 files that have disappeared from digiKam. Database problem?
Thumbnails sort order
Gone are the metadata embedded in the jpg file of some photos.
Lots of error messages from ItemAlbumModel
Wish - ‘copy to’ function with right click on thumbnail
Files do not disappear if cut
Display Thumbnails greater than 9080 missing with removable disk Off line (Ok On Line)
digiKam won’t work
Albums doesn’t show thumbnails; timeline only shows 1 folder
When clicking on the parent folder that has multiple subfolder with the images, nothing is shown.
digiKam does not remember sort direction in Date-View
Changing elements order takes near 5 minutes in a folder with 50 images
The album shows the contents of sub folders before the main folders
The filename extension is used for sorting the filename
.2.0 beta1: sorting of images in thumbnail view - german environment and UI
Duration Column not showing any value
Row height determined by number of tags even if they are not visible
Pressing the Supr button should display a warning message to prevent to delete photos
digiKam crashes after deleting a bunch of images
Deleting files in a folder being viewed by digiKam seemed to crash it
Next picture after delete
digiKam crashes if i click on a deleted file
digiKam crashed when changing selection while images are being deleted
digiKam crash when I delete a photograph
move gallery trash
digiKam git trash issue
Suggestion: Make Album TreeView more explorer like
Dragging a folder onto albums tree view sidebar will import with name of parent folder
Clarify parent when creating new album (UI shows a mismatch)
Batch Queue Manager:
Tool to batch items in queues comes with few improvements and fixes, especially when removable items are remaned while processing.
In Batch Queue Manager, the “Run” command, execute always the first queue.
Rename images without changing any properties
BQM stores output files one directory level above actual target
Batch Queue Manager does not use original album as target
Serious Problems while rotating multiple Images with Synch Services (QMAP, Synology, etc.)
BQM says there are unprocessed items even though it completed successfully and all images were processed
Batch deleting duplicates
Bundles for Linux, MacOS, and Windows:
Binary bundles are very important to provide a ready to use application on main supported plate-forms.
MacOS supports is now fully compliant with Apple rules, as bundles is completely relocatable with this release. Apple BigSur is now fully supported but not yet Apple Silicon architecture. Application work fine in Apple Rosetta 2 emulator. We plan to provide an universal package for MacOS later 7.4.0 release, as we needs new hardware to test the port to the new Apple ARM architecture.
All bundles introduce a new tool to check online releases, following stable or development workflows. An automatic download and installation are proposed to simplify users life. A release notes viewer is proposed to list last changes provided by new versions.
All bundles uses KF5 framework version 5.78 and OpenCV version 4.4. They are re-compiled automatically every days on the evening with the last changes done by developers for testing purpose. Of course this pre-release version must be installed with caution and not be used in production.
AppImage with QWebEngine does not start
Empty secondary window sometimes appear when using digiKam
The digiKam appimage crashes on starting
digiKam 7.0 crash when opening geolocation tool
digiKam-7.1.0-x86-64.appimage fails to start on CentOS 8
Appimage fails to launch
digiKam’s appimage failed to launch on ArchLinux
Poor video performance in Flatpak images
Color management profile path uses previous appimage mount point
Select other Languages is out
digiKam not entirely behaving as app on macos
Automatic upgrading
digiKam 7.1.0 does not start up, when using macos big sur
Running status of digiKam not reflected in MacOS task bar
hang / crash when program is loading
digiKam does not open
Error in SDL2.dll
digiKam does not remember last window position and size on startup
The file digiKam.exe contains no icons
Icons Not Set for digiKam and Showfoto
digiKam.exe & showfoto.exe: no application-specific icons shown on Windows 10 after upgrade to 7.1.0
Windows digiKam.exe application icon missing
Windows install does not have an icon for digiKam
digiKam 7.2.0-rc (14.01.2021) crashes while getting “Help > List of Detected Hardware”
Program icon not visible
Database:
The database is the main application component which is used by all photo management features, as search tools, metadata engine, face engines, similairies tool, etc. We improve stability and speed of scan collection stages at startup, the Plasma/Baloo supports, and the maintenance operations.
The database scheme have been upgraded to a new version with a change of internal tags-tree representation, migrated from VIEW to TABLE type, including triggers for better performance.
We recommend to backup your database files before to upgrate on this new release, else you will not able to go back to previous application version. The Mysql/Mariadb support have been also fixed for the better supports of NAS servers.
Can’t login because I have no rights to access the Database
How to access a database and files from another computer in LAN
New beta release doesn´t start
After running DB maintenance digiKam won’t start can’t connect to DB then crashes
Please Add xattr support for metadata
digiKam doesn’t read extended (xattr) attributes
digiKam does not save tags as hierarchical tags in Extended Attributes
digiKam doesn’t drop deleted tags from Extended Attributes
Change icon size for people keywords
Pictures from old collection still in database after removing it
Not all databases will be saved when using the –database-directory option
SQLITE : when moving an album to another location tags are lost (NFS storage)
Migrate from “MySQL Server” database corrupts face/people metadata.
Beta3 / beta2 launches but hangs… Now fear for DB!
Error “internal server is not used and is not active”
digiKam-7.2.0-beta2 (macOS (DMG)) breaks existing local MySQL/MariaDB instances on upgrade
digiKam 7.2.0-b2 on macOS 11 with remote mysql - failed to update DB schema
Remove unused lenses from database
Many Tags Stored in Photos are not Inserted into digiKam’s tag list When Photos are Read.
Face tags lost and captions mis-transferred after digiKam automatically renames a conflicting filename
crashes without notification
Make “scan for new items” collection sensitive
‘reread metadata from file’ don’t clean up ImageProperties table if the related fields don’t exist anymore in the file
digiKam doesn’t come up as it can’t update db schema from 9 to 10
Building Fingerprint abruptly stops
digiKam-7.2.0-20210320T221224 breaks digiKam launch on macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
UI lockup for upwards of 15 seconds while just scrolling album views and selecting images
digiKam Crash
Faces Detection, Faces Recognition, and Faces Workflow:
The neural network to process face detection have been a huge effort with this release.
We use a new data model named Yolo. More faces on same images can be detected with complex shot conditions. The processing speed have been reduced and the older bugs about the wrong memory allocation definitively fixed. The algorithm to detect red eyes gain to use Yolo data model from face engine. Red eyes detection is now better especially when eyes are not tainted in pure red.
To optimize application size, as face data models are huge files, they have been removed from application and are downloadable on demand instead. The neural network used to process automatic recognition of faces supports clustering to increase performances with group of faces.
Recognition efficiency is now better than expected, but of course you need to teach a little bit the engine with manual assignments before. Another part where a lots of works have been done is the faces workflow, and especially the graphical interface and widgets. We follow the users feedbacks to simplify experience while using face tags everywhere. We review the ergonomy and add guidance for new users while tagging and manage faces.
Facetags are not well displayed in the facetag list for one person
Standard Face Detection does not work on LowRes pictures
Poor result of face detection (7.0.0. beta2)
digiKam Crash on detect faces 7.0.0 beta3 debug build
Faces Detection crashes digiKam
Segment fault after first ‘scan collection for faces’
Unconfirmed face detections treated as confirmed
Segfault when scanning faces
Detect Faces crashes the App
Crash Unsupported JPEG process: SOF type 0xc8
Crash when scanning for faces
digiKam face detection crash under Linux
digiKam crashes under Linux when detecting faces
digiKam crashes (again) under Linux while detecting faces
digiKam crashes after a while when detecting faces using multiple CPU cores
Scan for face: crash under Windows during Album scan with multicore
Segmentation fault while Faces detection
Crashed when running face detection
Support face detection back ends that require larger data sets
Face detection crashes due to pure virtual method call in LoadingCache
Crashes when running face detection
person name appears in tool tip and also search and also people listing but is shown as unknown in the photo
provide filetype-based filter for running face detection
Detect Faces crashes when .xcf file encountered
Face detection (!) with few results
Allow building without FacesEngine
When face tag scanning, digiKam exhausts all memory on computer.
Name not applied to RegionInfo when the region was added by iOS
Ability to Ignore a face region
digiKam crash while scanning faces
Lost the UI while process is still working.
Exif data is completely lost for some pictures after detect faces / recognize faces
Rebuild all thumbnails misses people (faces) thumbnails
App crashes during the maintenance process with face recognition. stacktrace and log included
XMP People/Face tags with no associated regions are ignored (patch)
red eyes doesn’t work here
digiKam crash at startup with “signal: Illegal instruction” (SIGILL)
Crashes on Remove Red Eyes
digiKam redeye does not work on some images
ranking option in people recognition
Face recognition “favors” people with few images: missing faces clustering
Face recognition -> after manual tagging -> no detection
Sort “Unconfirmed” images by face name / or group them
DNN Face recognition not working well on a picture
Use N nearest neighbor search
Difficult to use face recognition
digiKam starts more slowly than previous versions
Face recognition feels like a regression from 6.4
digiKam crashes shortly after I attempt to start it
Wrong image rotation when extracting face thumbs
Crash with face detection under Windows
Yolo v3 causes application to crash with 32 bits version
How much data gets sent to digiKam.org for face recognition
Crashes when try to correct red eye
Face thumbnails from people tags does not support drag and drop
Display faces sorted by similarity (pre-grouped) instead of album/time/..
Face Regions are deleted when unconfirmed face suggestion is rejected by user
Face tags and regular tags are mixed together and cannot be told apart.
Add “Ignored” group of faces
Feature request: group similar faces in “Unknown” faces
UI problems making face management very hard
Sort-by/group by detected person (in Unconfirmed-View)
Show face as icon for each person in the People panel.
Allow changing a face tag from a person to another
option to ignore group of images from face detection
In “unconfirmed” and “unknown” can be grouped by similar faces
Wishlist: button to hide confirmed faces for a person
Closing Face Tag Delete Dialog Box still ends up deleting face tag
Deleted Faces don’t re-appear in Face Scan with “Skip Images already Scanned”
Add Button to instanlty set face tag as Unknown
Thumbnails not showing for face tags (patch)
Confirmed Face Tags Turned To Unconfirmed
People display is garbled.
thumbnails for tagged faces not useful
“Ignored” faces category should not be positioned alphabetically, but on top of the list
digiKam 7.2.0-beta2 (18.11.2020) crashes after assigning name to unknown face
User is prompted to remove face tags from images when image count is zero 0.
Face tag name completion with arrow keys fails
Rotating a photo confirms its unconfirmed face tags
Want to disable face detection extra download on Mac version
Add a Face Tag: default action for Enter key should be the highlighted tag
Thumbs for faces created from .DNG images are not shown
Add a Face Tag: Keyboard navigation to select from autocomplete dropdown doesn’t work
Face attribution doesn’t get the name selected in the contextual menu
Wrong keystroke behavior while editing face tag
Face detection scan all album, not only the selected ones
New items for people entries without seeing the mentioned photos
Some tags appear beneath “People” parent tag in People view/panel
Geolocation:
The main improvement with map view is the capability to save GPS information in metadata, with relevant options in setup dialog page. GPX files support have been also consolidated.
Geolocation information not being saved to the metadata
Geolocation data not written in jpeg files in v7.1.0
Please make qtwebengine dependency optional
geolocation information lost on export and no EXIF tags generated in .JPG
GPX file without time stamps reports no datapoints
Imported GPX Files generate an error when GPX-File contains ‘unusual’ tags
Selected GPX File Colour Is Grayed Out When Selected
Move Map To First Point In Selected GPX Track
Geolocation Editor discards changes without warning
Write geolocation to EXIF
Modify the geolocation : Legends of the screen menus incorrect
Preview does not update when changing the photo using the keyboard in geolocation editor
Image Editor, Light Table and Import Tool:
Some maintenance entries have been processed with this release about Light Table and Image Editor, as we are mostly busy with the faces engine for this release. But we take time to upgrade internal Raw engine (libraw) to last 0.21.0 with new features:
Camera format support:
Lossy compressed CR3 files
Lossy compressed RAF files
Uncompressed floating point DNG files (16-24-32 bit)
Deflate compressed striped DNG files
XMP and HEIF-preview extraction from CR3 files
Camera model support:
Apple iPhone 12 Max, iPhone 12 Max Pro
Canon EOS R5, EOS R6, EOS 850D, EOS-1D X Mark III (lossy compressed files)
FujiFilm X-S10
Hasselblad CFV II 50C",
Leica M10-R, Q2 Monochrom, S3, SL2-S
Nikon Z 5, Z 6 II, Z 7 II
Olympus E-M10 Mark IV
Panasonic DC-G100 / G110, DC-S5
Sony ILCE-7C (A7C), ILCE-7SM3 (A7S III)
Zeiss ZX1
Plus multiple DNG-recording cameraphones/drones/etc.
Camera import tool gain some improvements with auto-naming albums and renaming items while downloading to computer.
Entire program closes unexpectedly
“Set point” shortcut removed in ImageEditor in digiKam version 6.4.0
Allow selecting single picture, which fills complete screen which can be panned and zoomed
can’t import a video file in an album
Duplicate subalbums on Windows 10 (format YYYYMM)
“Failed to connect to camera” error with iPhone 6s
No thumbnails when importing photos from camera
import window always keeps last image
Grammatical error in auto-rotate info message
When importing with the rename function, ‘import selected’ does not import files
Under Import, Add images and Add Folders options are not available
Metadata and Tags:
Metadata support is another critical component. It link the file information with the database contents. Plenty of bugs have been fixed, and the next Exiv2 0.24 (planed later in spring 2021) is already supported with a full support of Base Media Files (aka HEIF and AVIF images).
Later than 7.4.0 release, we plan to add:
Native AVIF container support.
Apple Live Photo support.
Crash with segmentation fault when writing a large amount of metadata to images
digiKam crash when making a maintenance
Sub-folders not selected when parent folder is selected
digiKam crash, maintenance related?
Crash in metadata engine when search faces
digiKam.metaengine: Cannot load metadata from file Error # 11: The file contains data of an unknown image type
Tags are not synced
changing the keywords of DNG files do not really change the file - the changes are not saved in the DNG
Malformed characters in EXIF Artist field
EXIF viewer settings not updating EXIF Metadata view
digiKam displaying incorrect lens info in ‘Properties - Photograph Properties’
Storing tags to files does not work
Does not show exif info from Panasonic FZ30 RAW file, inspite on Editor mode it’s ok
copy of jpeg file with empty caption (but caption in sidecar) shows caption
tagging regression with last digiKam git versions
Some XMP Namespaces missing from Configure/Metadata/Views dialog (patch)
Face tags are not read correctly on certain images with more than one Microsoft People Tags XMP metadata
Metadata Panel does not display XMP structs instead displays type=“Bag”
‘byline’ into xmp panel editor is called ‘creator’ into Advanced Search
In Caption/Tags sidebar, new Tags inherit the image of their parents
Not able to delete any tags
Tags are not written to secondary pictures if grouped by name
Provisional tags are not displayed until another change is made
Delete Unassigned Tags: show list of the unassigned tags before deleting them
Plugins:
Plugins in digiKam exists since the first application version. Plugins are small implementations which extent core application with powerful features. It’s generally the best place for students to propose small improvements without to touch complex implementations.
We receive patches for a lots of tools concerning older files from bugzilla especially with Slideshow and Presentation plugins.
With batch workflow lens correction doesn’t use metadata
Do not enlarge smaller photos
Can’t get Adjust Date & Time to work
digiKam crashes when opening preview of items from a specific album
No entries in Imagemagick Loader when in Appimage
digiKam seg faults building thumbnail from gigabyte PNG
Application crashes C:Program FilesdigiKampluginsdigiKamdimgDImg_QImage_Plugin.dll
stack underflow crash in digiKam::DImg::load()
Healing Clone Tool missing from (Image Editor) Enhance Menu
Change Name of Auto Correction to “Lens Auto-Correction”
Lens search uses only exact match (as I see)
Rotating and cropping: Concentration of the cropping frame on the real image area.
digiKam Editor White Balance Effect Shadows Slider Not Working
Unexpected Media Server listening on *:8200 - Should have been informed / given the option during 1st run setup.
advancedslideshow : option to pause, go back or forward, and quit/resume
slide show fills both screens in dual head setup
In Dates view and Searches view, advancedslideshow does not work when the option “Show all images in current album” is checked.
Add xscreensaver-style panning-zooming crossfade effect
Allow to turn off Presentation tool delay (patch)
User comments should appear in the slideshow.
wish: I don’t want to use timer functionality for slideshow, change to next picture when key/mouse is pressed
Allow to change Presentation tool delay on the fly (patch)
Add a new option to use a constant scrolling speed with Kenburns effect (patch)
Irritating behavior of list when moving images
Setting up Eudora email app
Slideshow: Show lens name in properties overlay
Cannot found Slideshow settings dialog page
for each access to a google service we must have a distinct authorization
Authentication to Google fails with “This browser or app may not be secure.”
Crash when trying to Import from Google Photos
Support for MediaWiki tool ?
Make DK_PLUGIN_PATH allow multiple paths
Setup, Portability, and Code Maintenance:
Of course, we take a care about the portability of code everywhere. As digiKam is more than 1.5 millions of C++ code lines, maintaining these implementations can take a while. We are helped in this task by static analyzers to raise code quality to an high level between versions.
The new Clang based Clazy static analyzer is now used to check code. More than 2000 fixes have been applied to fix translations or to add context helper for translators.
CCache support have been add to decrease compilation times.
A new helper dialog is now available to list all devices detected from your computer to check hardware compatibilities with the software.
Remove DATE and TIME from code
digiKam git build fail
Compiling with ccache issue
Patch for missing QPainterPath in qtavcodecs.cpp
Crash when opening configure dialog
New or modified root album folders are always placed into local collections (= Type No 1 in table album roots)
SETUP : Individual databases for each “collection”
digiKam Does not open - Happens also on a fresh Manjaro Linux install with BTRFS as file system.
digiKam-7.2* crashes at first start after install while starting main view
Preview and Thumbnails:
Previewing items is an harder task, depending of file formats to support. Remember that more than 1000 different RAW files can be post-processed in digiKam.
In the same way, the complex and modern container HEIF used by recent cellulars is natively supported. We always try to render the items on screen with the best performances, depending of available resources and materials.
picture zoomed in “full screen modus”
embed view does not work; I can not see an image
Preview only, but no photo details shown at all
view photo displays blank image
picture not shown, digiKam, error displaying pictures, just thumbails
The application suddenly crashes when I try to open a preview of a photo
digicam crashes when opening the full size preview with a very large panorama picture
Crash in previewer
digiKam crash
Another crash while navigating/deleting photos quickly
digiKam crashed while browsing Photos
Selecting a range of photos when in preview mode is buggy
just a random crash, just browsing photos
digiKam crashed while changing to the next photo in photo preview view
digiKam crashed whilst advancing from one photo to the next in preview
Crash when switching from camera preview to folder on system
PSD files cannot be viewed. Thumbnails are OK.
faulty logic in “updateZoomAndSize”, zoom level changed after preview image changed [patch]
Imported Pictures (RAW, CR3, Canon M6 Mark II) doesn´t have the rigth Rotation.
Some vertical videos are rotated sideways in preview player
No video preview or thumbnails for any video content
F4 to play video on external VLC player crashes VLC.
Thumbnails constantly refreshing on Mac version
Spinning Pinwheel Scrolling through Thumbnails
Continuously face thumbnails flicker/update
Improve Thumbnail transparency
Filetype .wmf can’t be displayed
Searches:
The search tools are easy to use helpers to query the database with complex criteria combinations. As usual, we trying to provide the most faster solutions to return the wanted items from your collections.
With this version you can search for empty title, caption, author or creator fields. The advanced search tool add new options to for a month or the day of a month and search tags in tree from your collection.
Search (and Timeline, and …) should offer a way to go to the album of the currently selected image
Quick search by image name in current album
digiKam becomes unusable with many Metatags
Please add search for images without captions
Search and escaping of database wildcard characters in filenames
Advanced search album does not search subfolders nothing
View - Separate Item - By Month : View by month only (not month year)
Feature Request: Search by month/day independent of year
Reverse image search
“Find duplicates” Without Selecting An Album Locks Up Duplicates Feature.
Cannot Drag and Drop When Using Similarity
Usability:
Application usability issues have been review while this long development stage and we trying to take a care of the most important reports from end-users.
digiKam does not restore main window size
Window location is not restored correctly after restart
never import current collection
Open in File Manager function enhancement
Abnormally large icons
HiDPI Settings Not Working in digiKam 7.1.0
There is no button to add Tag to picture
Window position on startup
Main window got stuck in Full Screen mode - Cinnamon DE
digiKam Full screen restart with top left corner in the middle screen
Translation incomplete, conversion to DE not possible. Language selection is missing.
The string “Filters” needs to be disambiguated between image/search context.
Rendering Intents options cannot be translated in Color Management Configuration page
Allow to quick edit metadata using keyboard shortcuts
Apply ratings with keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcut “delete” not working
System crash under macOS 11 install. Does not load.
Checkboxes should be radio buttons in Tags Matching Condition “OR/AND” chooser
Cannot add Edit Metadata filter to toolbar digiKam 7.1.0
Inconsistent behavior when adding Tags/Keywords
Pls add the map settings also to the menu
disappeared for some time file menu, changes etc.
digiKam dark designs are not redable
After choosing a dark theme the album view still with a white background and unreadable yellow or white font.
Missing icons in the map view
digiKam 7.2.0-rc crashes on startup (beta2 didn’t)

New in digiKam 5.7.0 (Aug 30, 2017)

New in digiKam 5.6.0 (Jun 21, 2017)

New in digiKam 5.5.0 (Apr 14, 2017)

New in digiKam 5.2.0 (Sep 26, 2016)

New in digiKam 5.1.0 (Aug 10, 2016)

New in digiKam 5.0.0 (Jul 15, 2016)

New in digiKam 4.12.0 (Aug 9, 2015)

New in digiKam 4.11.0 (Aug 9, 2015)

This release is the result of huge bugs triage on KDE bugzilla where more than 250 files have been closed as duplicate, invalid, or upstream states. Thanks to Maik Qualmann who maintain KDE4 version while KF5 port and GSoC 2015 projects are in progress. Both are planed to be completed before end of this year.
With this 4.11.0 version, we hacked packaging release scripts for OSX. PKG installers are now available officially for Mountain Lion, Maverick, and Yosemite. Each one require one day of tunes and compilations with virtual machines. We have tried with older OSX releases, as Lion, but due to the huge list of ports to compile, some dependencies are not compilable as well, and require a lots of manual adjustments. So, we have limited OSX versions to support voluntary.
Under OSX, digiKam bundle package built with Macports is installed in a dedicated place /opt/digikam to prevent all conflicts with a standard Macports install. It will be easy to uninstall too, but deleting this directory as well. Later we will add a simpler way to perform uninstall task, but it's not a priority for the moment. Note that if you have installed and older digiKam version, installing a new one will uninstall previous one safety.
digiKam4.11.0-OSX
Considerate digikam under OSX as beta stage, not stable as under Linux, but at least now, you can install it on your Apple computer in few seconds instead to wait some hours of compilation. The PKG prepare bundle background KDE used by digiKam to a suitable configuration and environment. Standard Macports install do not tune well all these points for digiKam. The OSX hack will continue with next KDE4 releases of digiKam. Some dysfunctions have been already identified and we will try to fix it step by step.
Outside the fact that main components under OSX are managed through Macports to build PKG, we have tune compilation of last Exiv2 0.25, LibRaw 0.16.2, and LensFun 0.3.1 which do not exist yet in Macports repository. Exiv2 includes huge fixes about video support which can crash digiKam, and Libraw/Lensfun add new recent camera supports. In the future, we plan to include Hugin CLI tools too required at run-time by Panorama and ExpoBlending tools.
The OSX digiKam PKG is not an Apple signed bundle installer. To do it we must pay 99$ by year which is very expensive for an Open Source project. If your computer is protected by Apple GateKeeper, you can bypass safety this protection at install time without to touch your computer settings. Just follow simple instructions given in this tutorial.
You can consult the huge list of the issues closed in digiKam 4.11.0 available through the KDE Bugs-tracking System.
The digiKam software collection tarball, OSX, and Windows installer can be downloaded from the KDE mirrors.

digiKam Changelog

What's new in digiKam 8.0.0

New in digiKam 7.4.0 (Dec 11, 2021)

New in digiKam 7.2.0 (Apr 2, 2021)

New in digiKam 5.7.0 (Aug 30, 2017)

New in digiKam 5.6.0 (Jun 21, 2017)

New in digiKam 5.5.0 (Apr 14, 2017)

New in digiKam 5.2.0 (Sep 26, 2016)

New in digiKam 5.1.0 (Aug 10, 2016)

New in digiKam 5.0.0 (Jul 15, 2016)

New in digiKam 4.12.0 (Aug 9, 2015)

New in digiKam 4.11.0 (Aug 9, 2015)

New in digiKam 4.10.0 (Aug 9, 2015)

New in digiKam 4.9.0 (May 13, 2015)

New in digiKam 3.2.0 (Aug 9, 2013)

New in digiKam 3.1.0 (Jul 10, 2013)

New in digiKam 3.0.0 (Jul 10, 2013)

New in digiKam 2.7.0 (Jul 18, 2012)