darktable 2.4.0rc1 released

we’re proud to announce the second release candidate for the upcoming 2.4 series of darktable, 2.4.0rc1!

the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.4.0rc1.

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

$ sha256sum darktable-2.4.0rc1.tar.xz
2b38462584223a0f74f081dc025e1811b524f403d919734a1b8c15f7c87858ea darktable-2.4.0rc1.tar.xz
$ sha256sum darktable-2.4.0rc1.dmg
??? darktable-2.4.0rc1.dmg
$ sha256sum darktable-2.4.0rc1.exe
d576071f7052d61acf35d05184d5e12c2bdedcb1dce0159668022c2e46c6467d darktable-2.4.0rc1.exe

Important note: to make sure that darktable can keep on supporting the raw file format for your camera, please read this post on how/what raw samples you can contribute to ensure that we have the full raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license!

changes since rc0

  • noise profile for Nikon D4
  • Phase One IQ140 support
  • OSX packaging fixes
  • Lightroom 7 import fixes
  • Some fixes for sliders and comboboxen and grabbing the keyboard focus
  • No longer use colored sliders in the white balance module – they confused people
  • Update Catalan translation
  • Update Hungarian translation
  • Fix OpenCL on OSX
  • Bail out of darktable-cli when the XMP file is not readable
  • Fix timezone selection for geotagging on Windows
  • Canon EOS M100 supported
  • Show ratings on zoomable lighttable without a delay
  • Rely on CUPS color management when printing without configuring any color profile in darktable

and the changelog as compared to 2.2.0 can be found below. Some of the fixes might have been backported to the stable 2.2.x series already.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2017/12/darktable-2-4-0rc1-released/