Darktable 2.2.4 released

we’re proud to announce the fourth bugfix release for the 2.2 series of darktable, 2.2.4!

the github release is here: Release darktable 2.2.4 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub.

as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksum is:

$ sha256sum darktable-2.2.4.tar.xz
bd5445d6b81fc3288fb07362870e24bb0b5378cacad2c6e6602e32de676bf9d8  darktable-2.2.4.tar.xz

Important note: to make sure that darktable can keep on supporting the raw file format for your camera, please help us by visiting https://raw.pixls.us/ and making sure that we have the full raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license!

and the changelog as compared to 2.2.3 can be found below.

New features:

  • Better brush trace handing of opacity to get better control.
  • tools: Add script to purge stale thumbnails
  • tools: A script to watch a folder for new images

Bugfixes:

  • DNG: fix camera name demangling. It used to report some wrong name for some cameras.
  • When using wayland, prefer XWayland, because native Wayland support is not fully functional yet
  • EXIF: properly handle image orientation ‘2’ and ‘4’ (swap them)
  • OpenCL: a few fixes in profiled denoise, demosaic and colormapping
  • tiling: do not process uselessly small end tiles
  • masks: avoid assertion failure in early phase of path generation,
  • masks: reduce risk of unwanted self-finalization of small path shapes
  • Fix rare issue when expanding $() variables in import/export string
  • Camera import: fix ignore_jpg setting not having an effect
  • Picasa web exporter: unbreak after upstream API change
  • collection: fix query string for folders ( ‘a’ should match ‘a/b’ and ‘a/c’, but not ‘ac/’ )

Base Support:

  • Fujifilm X-T20 (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
  • Fujifilm X100F (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
  • Nikon COOLPIX B700 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Olympus E-M1MarkII
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ61 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS40 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
  • Sony ILCE-6500

Noise Profiles:

  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Olympus E-M1MarkII
  • Lge Nexus 5X
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