Final DigiKam 0.9.2 Release available

Dear digiKam users,

the digiKam team is happy to announce a new release of the
advanced digital photo management application for linux.

In addition to various bug-fixes and improvements,
several new features have been added.

Some important improvements/changes are:

  • A light-table to quickly compare similar images side by side.
  • Thumbnail size in the album view can be adjusted continuously.
  • Image Editor: reorganized menu structure.
  • Image Editor: new pan tool.
  • Image Editor: new Sharpness Editor (replacing Unsharp Mask, Refocus, Sharpen).
  • DigikamImagePlugins have been merged into digiKam.
  • Image Plugins: completely rewritten Red Eyes Correction.
  • Image Plugins: Color Effects pack: solarize, velvia (new!), neon, edge.
  • Image Plugins: improved Black & White converter.
  • Image Plugins : Speed improvements for Restoration, Inpainting and
    Blowup (update of the CImg library to 1.1.9).
  • several keyboard shortcuts have changed to comply with KDE guidelines.
  • New dependency to libkdcraw to decode RAW file (uses dcraw 8.60 inside).

For more information and resolved issues
please consult NEWS.0.9.2 and the Changelog.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2007-06-20_final_digikam_0.9.2_release_available/