Dear digiKam fans and users, following the first beta release published in September, we are proud to announce the second beta of digiKam 6.0.0.
Exiv2 0.27 support With this new release we are following the Exiv2 project which is in release stage for their next stable release to 0.27 planed for December 2018. This library is a main component of digiKam used to interact with file metadata, like populating database contents, updating item textual information, or to handling XMP side-car for read only files.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2018-10-31-6.0.0-beta2_release_announcement/
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Congratulations on the release you wonderful digiKam folks! 
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I’ll be able to scan Pentax K10D files w/o crash now, thanks to the updated Exiv2 lib. I’m so happy to be able to use DigiKam now.
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