Dear all digiKam fans and users!
Just in time for this new year 2011, digiKam team is proud to announce the first digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta release!
With 2.x, digiKam include now all shared libraries maintained by digiKam team plus kipi-plugins source code, as a software collection. The goal is to simplify packaging to reduce external dependencies.
digiKam software collection 2.0.0 include all Google Summer of Code 2010 projects, as XMP sidecar support, Face Recognition, Image Versioning, and Reverse Geocoding.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://digikam.org/news/2011-01-05_digikam_software_collection_2.0.0_beta1_is_out/