we’re proud to announce the first release candidate for the upcoming 3.0 series of darktable, 3.0.0rc0!
the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.0.0rc0.
as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksums are:
$ sha256sum darktable-3.0.0rc0.tar.xz
272d813ee2ba6d34ec527b1650c04f657bce31bf4fe590e21ee6e8b6729f86a4 darktable-3.0.0rc0.tar.xz
$ sha256sum darktable-3.0.0.rc0.dmg
bd52ed13c8324f57d63dd2cd6f7ed03a9f719b8cb334dc5f4881c791f92c1eda darktable-3.0.0.rc0.dmg
$ sha256sum darktable-3.0.0rc0.exe
ef0692886f6c855308fc754d010745d8b4857e35a0b87daa1370afe1e9b1455a darktable-3.0.0rc0.exe
when updating from the currently stable 2.6.x series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but it will not be possible to downgrade from 3.0 to 2.6.x any more.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2019/11/darktable-3.0.0rc0-released/