Dear all digiKam fans and users!
3rd beta release of digiKam 1.0.0 is out...
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
digiKam will be also available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
NEW FEATURES (since 0.10.x series):
General : Exif, Makernotes, Iptc, and Xmp metadata tags filtering can be customized in setup config dialog.
General : Metadata Template: add support of Contact, Location, and Subjects IPTC information.
General : Add support of Author properties to multi-language Captions. User can set an author name for each caption value.
General : Add new Batch Queue Manager.
General : New tool bar animation banner.
General : Fix compilation under MSVC 9.
General : New first run assistant.
General : New dialog to show Database statistics.
General : Add support of wavelets image file format PGF.
General : Added support of Metadata Template to set easily image copyright.
General : Added support of LightRoom keywords path for interoperability purpose.
General : Added Multi-languages support to Caption and Tags right side-bar.
General : digiKam use a new database to cache thumbnails instead ~./thumbnails.
File format used to store image is PGF (http://www.libpgf.org).
PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-07-24_digikam_1.0.0-beta3_released/