digiKam 8.6.0 is released

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Dear digiKam fans and users,

After four months of active maintenance and many weeks triaging bugs, the digiKam team is proud to present version 8.6.0 of its open source digital photo manager.

• New Features and Major Changes
  • Face Management Updates and Improvements
  • Auto-Tags Management
  • Image Quality Management
  • Red Eye Correction
• Internal Components Update
• Notable Bug Fixes
• Generalities
• Future Plans
• Final Words

The digiKam team has continued to work on a better Artificial Intelligence integration in digiKam, and many parts have been improved with the 8.6.0 release.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0_release_announcement/

[scopelma (Matteo Scopel)]

This release is awesome, thank you.

I’m in the process of abandoning Google Photos and moving to keeping all my pictures locally. I have more than a decade of pictures, and the new autotagging and face recognition features are amazing. Having all this running locally is really useful. Thank you for the hard work!

[Michmill (Michael Miller)]

Thank you for the kind words. The digiKam team worked hard to improve the AI features in this release.

Cheers,
Mike