The digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release of
digiKam 0.9.0 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.0.
The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November and this beta
release offers you the opportunity to test and enjoy a variety of new
features, additions and improvements.
The source for digikam and digikamimageplugins 0.9.0-beta1 is available from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641
A choice from the list of new features
the sidebar is now used to display image file properties, metadata, comments, tags and color information full support for 16bit images in the image editor, all image plugins have been ported to make use of the new 16 bit infrastructure full support for color management, reading and storing color profiles greatly improved support for image metadata such as EXIF and IPTC (based on libexiv2) the main view provides a fast preview mode most useful for RAW images more than 100 bug fixes A comprehensive list of new features and fixed bugs can be found in the NEWS file.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-07-21_digikam_0.9.0-beta1_and_digikamimageplugins_0.9.0-beta1_released/