darktable 5.2.0 released

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We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.2.0!

The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.2.0.

To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release page, download our tar.xz file instead. If you’re just building for yourself without creating a package for some distribution, then using source code cloning in git is an even more convenient way.

The checksums are:

$ sha256sum darktable-5.2.0.tar.xz
53a46cd46ef7118485c4abf4ab407c181639bb8634243ec0ed1f7c1e8299bec6  darktable-5.2.0.tar.xz

$ sha256sum darktable-5.2.0-x86_64.dmg
bdffebcf758cd1ec6d4ee26eb031d52b1d7e4fe8fe000e728edb14bec91f3a35  darktable-5.2.0-x86_64.dmg

$ sha256sum darktable-5.2.0-arm64.dmg
8dabf58b6d76c04800be8ab540d3c2f1e772123279e22629a7396fe3e26273de  darktable-5.2.0-arm64.dmg

$ sha256sum darktable-5.2.0-arm64-13.5.dmg
8b35cff9d926bc4ae08ea88a09a2a45082756548c9f641afad0d785371dcf384  darktable-5.2.0-arm64-13.5.dmg

$ sha256sum darktable-5.2.0-win64.exe
4c1499e9d137efcd87e8b70fb6a0374f7139f1d0f0c49baeac9923ef7df7bdaa  darktable-5.2.0-win64.exe

$ sha256sum Darktable-5.2.0-x86_64.AppImage
294eff1d74d322cc5459221361ac7bdcdf0dc41529a02c165d0861e085978d58  Darktable-5.2.0-x86_64.AppImage

When updating from the stable 5.0 series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but the new library and configuration will no longer be usable with 5.0.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2025/06/darktable-5.2.0-released/
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Many thanks to the development team!

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Many thanks!

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As always a big thanks to the development team. Such a great achievement.

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Thanks to our dev team! I cant wait for this to hit my distributions repo!

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Thank you

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You can simply download and run the official AppImage right now, without waiting for your distribution to catch up.

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When we moved to dt 5.0 I tried using the AppImage but remember having lots of issues. I also tried building dt, but there was some dependency I couldnt get (or was having issues) because my distro is based on Debian Stable. I forget exactly what the issues were.

I will try grabbing the AppImage again though!

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Flatpak will run if you don’t need openCL or have nVidia.

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Does the flatpak not Support OpenCL/Nvidia? I was under the impression, that my flatpak install did both?

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It does. A bit of formatting to resolve the ambiguity:

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DT flatpak runs perfectly with OpenCL, and with nvidia proprietary driver.

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A big thanks and shout out to all developers, maintainers, (in any way) contributers, supporters and everyone involved in releasing this next charming step of a software masterpiece. Thanks so much for your never ending efforts :pray: :sunglasses:

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Thanks, folks, much appreciated!

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I think even the open source driver is okay. At least appears okay for me.

Thank you developers!

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I don’t think the FOSS nVidia driver works.

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Once more, I’m just very grateful to have the result of all developers’ efforts put at my disposal, Thanks a lot!

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