After five months of active maintenance and many weeks triaging bugs, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.5.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
More than 160 bugs have been fixed and we spent a lot of time contacting users to validate changes in pre-release versions to confirm fixes before deploying the program to production.
Thanks to the team for this great job. I was yearning for a version for Apple Silicon without Rosetta 2! 
Interestingly, after trying to install the package digiKam-8.5.0-Qt6-MacOS-arm64.pkg it requires to download Rosetta 2. If you don’t agree, it will not be installed. 
Strange, maybe still a bug? 
Awesome, works like a charm on my Mac Air M1! I’ve gotten so used to it, I don’t want to go back to any other DAM. However, finding a raw editor only w/o some kind of organization is mission impossible…
RawTherapee or ART.
ART is only experiemental on Mac, Rawtherapee has never grown on my. Darktable is my current choice and I just ignore the file management there…
I really enjoy using digikam, but version 8.5 has been crashing relentlessly (Macbook pro M1 32gb), often every 3 to 5 minutes during use. 
It seems to occur whenever I attempt an action in the Tag Manager, such as deleting existing tags. Im trying to figure out what might be causing the issue…
Can you generate a crash report and file a bug please?
Hello, @paperdigits
I’ve taken screenshots of the actions that led to the crash and used the share button to copy the crash report from the console into Notes/Notepad. (I hope this is the correct way to document crash reports.) However, I’m not sure what to do with this information.
I tried reporting the issue through bugs dot kde, but the process feels too complicated for me. As a photographer, phrases like “attach a backtrace with debug symbols” are as confusing to me as advanced chemistry.
I would greatly appreciate your guidance on where to send this information.