darktable 2.6.0rc1 released

we’re proud to announce the second release candidate for the upcoming 2.6 series of darktable, 2.6.0rc1! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.6.0rc1. as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksums are: $ sha256sum darktable-2.6.0~rc1.tar.xz 202bb53e924429aec74cd0a864b3d6a5c4d57b54547ef858bbd253116b909d22 darktable-2.6.0rc1.tar.xz $ sha256sum darktable-2.6.0.rc1.dmg c4ba0b929ae66904ae4e9fb97e67607bf1cf97f36a17c58e4b20624795c5e759 darktable-2.6.0.rc1.dmg $ sha256sum darktable-2.6.0rc1.exe 808196a826eafe6ce2d913482ec4f60de60a4b061d934ee9e810e5bd8e602456 darktable-2.6.0rc1.exe when updating from the currently stable 2.4.x series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but it will not be possible to downgrade from 2.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2018/12/darktable-2.6.0rc1-released/