Ok, I’ll reword a bit to remove 5.6 (avoid maintenance) and also talk about package manager which has the same “issue”.
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Cheers!
Thanks to everyone who worked on DT 5.6. I really like the split vectorscope/waveform tool. Nice!
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Thanks to everyone involved in working on darktable 5.6. I like very much the color harmonizer module.
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hey, the appimage worked without fuse version errors. I’m back in business, yay!
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Now live : install | darktable
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Thanks Pascal. I imagine all sorts of people would squabble over the exact wording but hopefully that is clearer. And it does have the benefit that it makes clear that darktable and package managers are different things so there is no point asking the devs!
An alternative way to install darktable on Ubuntu systems is using a PPA (Personal Package Archive)…
PPA’s can be dangerous if you don’t know who provides it.
The owner of this website https://ubuntuhandbook.org/ has a PPA for darktable for years. (UbuntuHandbook | Ubuntu PPAs)
I used it years ago when I was on Lubuntu.
After using Linux Manjaro for a few years I’m on Linux Mint and was pleased that I could use his PPA’s for darktable and Gimp.
I got the update to darktable 5.6 yesterday.
darktable release : Panda Jim
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@D_M I don’t know about empathy but I do sympathise 
I used the OBS for quite a while, first for release, and then for “master” branch to get the new toys. And it worked well until OBS got broken.
By broken, I mean that when stuff happens like new dependencies, OBS might fail, as its configuration has not been updated.
It has a maintainer. I guess he has a busy life, and does not check out OBS very often. it is a fact that it occasionally gets stuck on an older version for some time.
I do, now, compile my own. I use git commands that I have picked up from this forum, and I confess that I don’t understand them. Even though I was a Unix techie (but not a programmer) I do find it a scary space to get into. I understand that you might want not to go there.
This post is not at all a you should! It is an encouragement to consider the possibility.
Building a package from code usually never involves even looking at that code. It is a bit like cleaning a camera sensor: only scary the first couple of times
Crossposted…
Thanks for that! I would immediately use that information but now want to stick with the nightly git stuff.
For those who do not want to build, there’s an alternative to OBS, right there 
I just upgraded and kind of regret it. I’m having the same issue as above. The main window is not showing any changes when I make an edit, only the thumbnails in the filmstrip. Obviously this is a dealbreaker.
It was a nervy install because it was a different process to all other times. After installation, Darktable wouldn’t run for some reason. So I ran it directly from the exe, and it opened, but it said OpenCL was disabled, so I had to go to the thread where someone else was having the same issue (something to do with AMD GPUs). I managed to get OpenCL working again, but then noticed that the main window was not showing edits at all.
I’m thinking I need to downgrade but I’m nervous about that too now since I’m on my production database. Do I uninstall darktable first before trying again with 5.4.1 or if I just run 5.4.1 will it automatically overwrite?
The Windows version seems very buggy this time, which is a shame and a real surprise because I have had no problems with nightly builds over the last 6 months. This is not a criticism in any way. I’m very appreciative of all the work done by the dev team.
If anyone has any ideas for fixes before I downgrade, I’d appreciate it.
Look in your config Dir and there should be a preupgrade database backup in there.
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There is a GitHub issue for this, the fix is to set in darktablerc:
darkroom/ui/loading_screen=TRUE
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I’m having an issue on MacOS, (arm M1). Everything works, but downloading the ai models fails. Is there another way to download them and do a manual install? I previously had a nightly 5.5.0. Maybe that interferes
I tried 5.6.0 dmg and the 5.7.0 14 nightly
Since you have used 5.5, you probably want to delete from darktablerc the following key:
plugins/ai/repository
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I am using 5.6.0 in Windows 11. I see a lot of terminals flashing with probably some commands being executed. The screen flickers because of that. Not a good experience for startup.
Is this expected or is there some setting that I can tweak?
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That’s usually git updating the Lua scripts. At least in the past I had that, but I don’t use darktable on Windows, so cannot check.
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Thanks very much for your help Pascal. That worked with the main window not showing edits. I have no idea how a loading screen setting was the culprit, but it certainly seemed to fix that major issue!
Thanks very much Mica. I guess it’s the ones called “library.db-pre-5.6.0” and “data.db-pre-5.6.0”? I’ve never had to restore from backup before.
Given the fix for the big issue above, I may wait before downgrading and see how stable it all is now.
I am seeing this issue too. It’s a bit annoying but doesn’t seem to cause any more harm than that.
I’ve also found that alt-tab doesn’t work in the Lighttable if your mouse is hovering over any thumbnail. Darktable constantly steals back focus. I think this is changed behaviour from previous builds. It doesn’t matter whether you have selected “Prioritize the hovered image…” or not in Settings.
I will submit any other bugs I find that haven’t been reported already.
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Disabling the ‘Lua scripts’ seem to do the trick.
Just disabling check for updates alone isn’t enough. I had to disable Lua scripts totally to have a flash free startup.
Thanks
Correct.
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OSB release was updated today. Fedora and OpenSuse are working. Debían and Ubuntu still have an issue.
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