digiKam 6.4.0 is released

system · November 9, 2019, 9:26pm

![](https://i.imgur.com/UK3LZp2.png “digiKam 6.4.0-01) Dear digiKam fans and users, We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the 4th digiKam 6 release in September 2019. We are now proud to briefly announce the new digiKam 6.4.0, a maintenance version which consolidates this feedback and acts as an important phase of this 3-year-old project. The Plugins Interface “DPlugins” Extended Again With 6.1.0, digiKam project has introduced the new DPlugins interface to customize and extend the application.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2019-11-09-6.4.0_release_announcement/

Andrius · November 10, 2019, 1:32am

Yet another great digiKam release. Thank you developers !

PanoMeister · November 11, 2019, 2:58pm

Thank you for this update!

Small cosmetic remark; the Windows Defender SmartScreen blocks the installer:

Windows Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.

|App:|digiKam-6.4.0-Win64.exe|
| — | — |
|Publisher:|Unknown publisher|

Probably because the ‘publisher’ info is missing?

Emanuele_Colo · November 11, 2019, 9:19pm

Thank you for this wonderful release! Finally I can use my Galaxy A40 to shoot in the HEIF format! This saves me from 40% to 50% file size!!! Thank you!

gentoo_user · November 11, 2019, 10:26pm

There is obviously a packaging error of the file digikam-6.4.0.tar.xz, this file has ~3x the filesize of the previous versions:
ls digikam* -l
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 339472960 1. Aug 08:52 digikam-6.2.0.tar.xz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 335641824 5. Sep 20:44 digikam-6.3.0.tar.xz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 994894156 2. Nov 20:42 digikam-6.4.0.tar.xz

There is a new folder in ./project/scripts/ named site which contains a complete(?) git checkout of digikam with 835MB of data.

PanoMeister · November 12, 2019, 7:31am

Minor typing error:

A new image format is now support as native: HEIF. This container is used by Apple to store photo in iOS devices. HIEF is a file format

It’s HEIF, not HIEF…

sovereign · November 14, 2019, 10:39pm

Does anyone know if Raw Import is supposed to work with Windows 10 ?
I tried it with Raw Therapee: the editor is not loaded, like if it is not installed or found on the system.

Andrius · November 15, 2019, 2:35pm

It should work. I will try it later today.

rdburket · November 16, 2019, 9:20pm

I’m glad to see digikam has HEIF support now! I just upgraded and for the most part it’s working. However, digikam is not reading/displaying any of the HEIF metadata. Is this expected?

Andrius · November 18, 2019, 1:13pm

It is expected at this stage. I already asked on digikam users mailing list. Digikam relies on exiv2 for metadata handling and exiv2 isn’t supporting HEIF format yet. They are working on it though.

sovereign · November 20, 2019, 5:55pm

… did you try ?

Andrius · November 20, 2019, 7:09pm

It did not work.

[1089332] digikam.geoiface: ----
[1089332] digikam.general: RawTherapee arguments: ("-gimp", “C:/Users/wca0272/Desktop/New import/2019-08/IMGP6784.DNG”, “C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/digikam.DqzhxW”)
[1089332] digikam.general: RawTherapee :: Process has failed to start

darktable did not work either.

I guess we should file a bug report

Andrius · November 20, 2019, 7:14pm

I created a bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414340

sovereign · November 20, 2019, 9:02pm

I added RT’s path to the local environment variable and now it launches.
But it does return an error when the editor is closed:
“Error to import RAW image with RawTherapee.
Close this dialog to load RAW image with native import tool.”
I guess the mutual integration is not yet very mature.

Andrius · November 20, 2019, 9:17pm

How do you do that on Windows?

sovereign · November 21, 2019, 4:52pm

It is a bit long to describe. It’s inside the advanced system settings:

you need to add the the path to where RT is installed to the “Path” system variables.

Hearts_Peace · December 9, 2019, 3:03pm

Cant get a multi hundred thousand image library set up - digikam keeps crashing on a fresh copy of the latest Windows 10 release. It run’s for a bit, using sql-lite setup as others are experimental, and then the app just disappears without any warning or information after it gets so far… can’t keep track of exactly where - because the software doesn’t provide such feedback… it just says its creating the catalog. Sadly it never says where it is at in the process.

Here is one such crash - but this happened as rotating 3 files - coincidence? Dont know.

System
- Provider
[ Name] Windows Error Reporting
- EventID 1001
[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 4

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2019-12-09T15:16:19.295397600Z

EventRecordID 6928

Channel Application

Computer xx

Security
EventData

1467832621908378008
4
APPCRASH
Not available
0
digikam.exe
0.0.0.0
5db9dcc2
libdigikamcore.dll
0.0.0.0
5db9d801
c0000005
0000000000133330

\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER5239.tmp.dmp \?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER549B.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml \?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER54AC.tmp.xml \?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER54AA.tmp.csv \?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER54DA.tmp.txt
\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_digikam.exe_bb7b6fac9598be2b26d065d73b54cae3a6e98c7a_c7f11afd_dcee96ce-5629-426e-b055-74cc62249d47

0
5e716d5c-61a4-46e2-859c-e99481039e1f
268435456
1e5723dff56b788d645ec9fe22944198
0

and an earlier crash from 6.4.0

- System

|||- Provider

[ Name ] Application Error

|||- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers ] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

|||- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime ] 2019-12-09T14:49:45.643601300Z

EventRecordID 6922

Channel Application

Computer xx

Security

- EventData

digikam.exe

0.0.0.0

5db9dcc2

libdigikamcore.dll

0.0.0.0

5db9d801

c0000005

0000000000133330

51fc

01d5ae9db5784547

C:\Program Files\digiKam\digikam.exe

C:\Program Files\digiKam\libdigikamcore.dll

c42aa29e-a90f-4230-8c08-3f71b4e0a2b2

and…

====

- System

|||+ Provider

[ Name ] Application Error

|||- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers ] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

|||- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime ] 2019-12-09T15:16:17.895903100Z

EventRecordID 6927

Channel Application

Computer PenguinMainX570

Security

- EventData

digikam.exe

0.0.0.0

5db9dcc2

libdigikamcore.dll

0.0.0.0

5db9d801

c0000005

0000000000133330

2d44

01d5aea1cbe46bd1

C:\Program Files\digiKam\digikam.exe

C:\Program Files\digiKam\libdigikamcore.dll

5e716d5c-61a4-46e2-859c-e99481039e1f

Is this no where ready for prime time?

paperdigits · December 9, 2019, 4:00pm

You’ve probably hit the limits of sqlite with that many images. Try MySQL.

dajomu · December 22, 2019, 3:36pm

Hi. Not sure where I should post requests for additional features, but i’ll try here in case someone might know how to solve it.
i would like to add the “auto-correction”-tool to the main tool bar so that i do not have to open every photo in photo editor to use this feature. i tried to add it in Settings>Configure toolbars, but it is not possible from there.
Anyone know how to?

paperdigits · December 22, 2019, 4:28pm

If you want to request a feature, you need to do it in KDE’s phabricator instance.