I can see the light: digiKam-0.9.0-beta3 and DigikamImagePlugins-0.9.0-beta3 have been released.

Following the policy of the digiKam community to offer a high quality product to everybody, we are proud to present the new digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0-beta3 release. As usual, these news packages have a lot of bugs fixed and improved features. Here's the summary of fixes: 134013 : Tag menu extremely slow. 122653 : File-dialog claims that pictures are not on the local-storage, yet they are. 134091 : dcraw -n option not valid for version > 8.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2006-10-20_i_can_see_the_light_digikam-0.9.0-beta3_and_digikamimageplugins-0.9.0-beta3_have_been_released/