darktable 5.6.0 released

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We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.6.0!

The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.6.0.

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-5.6.0.tar.xz
157d6d3847af8afcabe78944454786f73a886e08a504b4bd6114c2065fe006e4  darktable-5.6.0.tar.xz

$ sha256sum darktable-5.6.0-x86_64.AppImage
cbad7bf4be2607e1725db156d73c799d267a79fc29a572c3136a5deb9c9be948  Darktable-5.6.0-x86_64.AppImage

$ sha256sum darktable-5.6.0-aarch64.AppImage
147943bd2eedc33c8d31eb3e6b87b591ac9ca285d00282b2655d8d19caecfca0  Darktable-5.6.0-aarch64.AppImage

$ sha256sum darktable-5.6.0-x86_64.dmg
24c83655af0d81c2f8cb78b97531a03bb6a650349b7fd49c1679080db675cbcb  darktable-5.6.0-x86_64.dmg

$ sha256sum darktable-5.6.0-arm64.dmg
49aec447e891ab481e436b4c0231fc3c8d0001aad220762ae8e765d3bda5d102  darktable-5.6.0-arm64.dmg

$ sha256sum darktable-5.6.0-win64.exe
b42989195dfff44540c0b767b407987329ca99853612304cbbf14c48d1d3f803  darktable-5.6.0-win64.exe

$ sha256sum darktable-5.6.0-woa64.exe
b7737d54d6ee007816ae0a1fad3ca3677588735e1432887a917bc55f818f5268  darktable-5.6.0-woa64.exe

When updating from the stable 5.4 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 5.4.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2026/06/darktable-5.6.0-released/
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Many thanks for all those devs never getting tired of implementing new features.
This time I’m curious how those new machine learning algorithms turn out to make things easier for me.

As always a german language illustrated version of part of the release notes may be found here: darktable 5.6 erschienen - Maschinelles Lernen

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Congratulations and thank you from a grateful user. The development team is firing on all cylinders, as usual.

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Thanks a lot for the great work! The list of new features and enhancements is long! The AI masks are really helpful; I’ve already been able to use them.

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Great news, Thank you to everyone who made this milestone possible

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Disappointing, it has been 7 hours since the release, and it still isn’t in the OpenSUSE repositories. Anyone would think it is the weekend or Father’s Day or something :grin:

Seriously guys, thanks once again, I am really looking forward to trying this.

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Thanks everyone for all the hard work to get to this version. I really appreciate all the time and efforts that has gone into producing such a Fien piece of software

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I came to darktable a little over 2 years ago. The capabilities that have been added since then are absolutely amazing. My sincere thanks to all those involved.

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Has anyone on Windows (or other OS) noticed some really rough GUI behavior? Here’s what I found so far:

  • hovering over an image in lighttable makes DT steal window focus.
  • scrolling the sliders is really clumsy, it’s often not registered. It seems to be related to the switching of the direction of scrolling – after changing scrolling from up to down, the scroll is not registered. Alternating up/down produces no action.
  • DT always launched one or two CMD windows during startup, but now it continues even after loading the main window (3 to 5 more CMDs).

Can I downgrade to 5.4.1 safely for the time being? I haven’t edited or added anything yet, so could I perhaps roll back the database?

Does anyone else experience this? Would be worth to file a report if more people have it as well.

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The preview doesn’t update for me and the 3D Lut module has disappeared :disappointed:

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I don’t have either of those problems, preview updates for me and 3D lut module is still there

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Here it’s stealing the focus on, apparently, every update: after creating a thumbnail, after opening an image (which still doesn’t open it in darkroom if darkroom was already opened), after exporting an image, and indeed while hovering over an image in lighttable. Really unfortunate, but this is unworkable, so I’ll have to downgrade :frowning:

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Have you got the problems with module parameter scroll by any chance as well?

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I installed the 5.6.0 AppImage provided on the website, went into the “AI” tab of the preferences to download all AI models, but still can’t find any of the AI denoising modules… Where is my mistake?

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Not that I really noticed. I can’t test it out: I already downgraded :')

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It’s on the left side

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How about the database, everything went alright? Wasn’t there any complaint from DT or problems?

I may stay on this version for now, in case I get to writing a bug report :laughing:

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No problems here. In my experience Darktable always asks before updating the database, so I didn’t expect any problems.

Good idea about the bug report though! Unfortunately I have some photo’s to edit :slight_smile:

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Yes, I have experienced this. I have been running the latest master version, updating every couple of days.

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