darktable 5.0.0 released

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Great news and thanks for all the hard work

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A fabulous feature!
Another great release, thanks to all the people who put in the hard work.

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FYI, the link to https://raw.pixls.us/ appears to be dead.

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That’s a known issue, that site unfortunately has been down a while. As it’s a volunteer effort, resolution depends on the time available to the volunteers involved.

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Thanks for this nice Christmas present.
GL Wolf

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Excellent as usual! Thank you all! :christmas_tree:

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Thanks! Was looking in the dev module :wink:

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Lovely work, this is great to see and shoutout to all contributors. Making Darktable a joy to use every day

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Thank you dev’s, testers and documenters.

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Today I pulled the 5.0.0 branch and built it. I noticed that when I started the new install I got a window post startup listing stuff being compiled with OpenCL support specifically for my graphics card. I haven’t seen this dialog before, is it a new thing?

In any case either being the 5.0 release itself of if there was stuff optimized for the graphics card, version 5 feels very snappy and nice!

Big ups to all the devs!

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Thanks to everybody that works on this great project, always a joy to use. Wishing you all an enjoyable break.

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Thanks everyone. Downloaded and first edit done.

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The dialog may be new (haven’t switched to 5.0.0 yet), the “stuff being compiled” are the OpenCL kernels, which are indeed compiled for each user (as they depend on both the card and the driver version). But once compiled, they are cached for future runs and reused until something relevant changes.

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Thanks everyone!

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Yes the dialog is new, and can be disabled in preferences if you prefer

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First of all, thanks to the entire Darktable team for such wonderful software.

I have started using it recently, for the last 3 months, and I am loving it. I have a few queries as below:

  1. Right now, I am on version 4.8.1. What is the proper way to update to 5.0.0?
  2. In the above article, it is advised to take a backup first. How do I take this backup?

Thanks again and waiting for your reply. :slight_smile:

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Hi and welcome

Depends on what OS you’re using, but you haven’t specified.

Make a copy of the databases to a different location.

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That may be kinda important to write somewhere. I have replaced the graphics cars twice under 4.8 and if the code has been cached and not rebuilt for each card, that may explain why the second card upgrade caused some funky behaviour.
The fresh 5.0 install is verrrry snappy. :slight_smile:

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At any time you can delete those and DT will update and rebuild the next time it runs. In the past doing that did resolve a couple of weird things that people experienced so it’s always something that you can try in a pinch to troubleshoot

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Darktable actually makes a backup of the database automatically. It’s placed next to the database files, which are located inside the configuration directory. Where that is depends on your operating system (Linux, MacOS, Windows).

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