Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to start a new series of KDE3 releases. The digiKam 0.9.5-beta1 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Noteworthy features added since the last stable release include a new RAWImport tool, embedding all image plugin dialogs in editor window, as usual a lot of bug fixes - see below for a complete list of new features and fixed bugs.

NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.4):
General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6.
Image Editor : All image plug-in tool settings provide default buttons to reset values.
Image Editor : New Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings.
Image Editor : All image plug-in dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2008-11-10_digikam_0.9.5-beta1_release/