Dear digiKam fans and users, following the long stage of integrating a lots of work from students during the Summer of Code we are proud to announce the first beta of digiKam 6.0.0.
Improvements and Fixes
The next major version 6.0.0 looks promising, and will introduce new features as:
- Full support of video files management working as photos.
- An integration of all import/export web-service tools in LightTable, Image editor and Showfoto.
- Raw file decoding engine supporting new cameras.
- Similarity data is now stored in a separate file.
- Simplified web-service authentication using OAuth protocol.
- New tools to export to Pinterest, OneDrive and Box web-services.
- The capability to re-organize the icon-view contents manually.
A huge factoring of source code has been done to reduce external dependencies again with the goal to simplify application compilation, packaging and maintenance for the next years.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-08-19-6.0.0-beta1_release_announcement/