Dear all digiKam fans and users!
digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam and Kipi-plugins 1.9.0 release!
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
See below the list of bugs-fixes coming with this release.
Enjoy digiKam...
BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA:
001 ==> 264181 : png-1.5 compatibility fix.
002 ==> 263697 : digiKam 1.8.0 (svn) crashes on startup most times.
003 ==> 237492 : Grayscale TIFF display broken.
004 ==> 263786 : digikam 1.7.0 crashes on startup.
005 ==> 228531 : Inconsistant use of preview zoom-in function key-strokes.
006 ==> 233612 : The DocumentName tag is not added when importing.
007 ==> 246778 : Disable folder collapsing under certain circumstances.
008 ==> 264363 : Image editor always crashes when triggering Colour Auto-Correction.
009 ==> 234021 : digiKam crash on loading.
010 ==> 264999 : Exif-dates not recognices OK.
011 ==> 264745 : When adding new tag to multiple images, tags not in common are removed from metadata, though still present in database.
012 ==> 173901 : digiKam contains a convience copy of cimg code.
013 ==> 264208 : Underexposure indicator should always work in “pure color” mode.
014 ==> 264769 : digiKam crash on startup.
015 ==> 264830 : Raw importer broken. Not possible to revert changes.
016 ==> 103371 : Only one digikam instance should run on the same image library path.
017 ==> 265445 : digikam-1.8.0 fails to build against kde-4.6.x/gcc-4.6.
018 ==> 264631 : Deleteing last TAG on a picture does actually not remove the tag within the exif metadata.
019 ==> 195648 : Quickfilter by tags: Exclude tags.
020 ==> 265641 : digiKam crash at startup.
021 ==> 264184 : png-1.5 compatibility fix.
022 ==> 264655 : ksnapshot is crashing on “send to”.
023 ==> 243908 : Coordinates do not get retrieved.
024 ==> 181319 : Provide a batch tool to add geolocation coordinates to a complete album.
025 ==> 266771 : Unable to get GPS coordinates from map with Geolocation function of digiKam.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2011-03-02_digikam_and_kipi-plugins_1.9.0_released/