RawTherapee 5.12 Release Candidate 2

Software RawTherapee
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Thanks to everyone who tested Release Candidate 1! We have made some bug fixes and updated some translations. These are now ready as Release Candidate 2.

As I mentioned on the post for the previous release candidate, if you encounter a bug or some other issue that we are not aware of, please let us know. Refer to RawPedia for instructions on how to write detailed bug reports. The preferred place to submit bug reports is on our GitHub page, but for this release candidate, you may report them here if you do not want to create a GitHub account.

Downloads for Windows and Linux are available on GitHub: Release 5.12-rc2 · RawTherapee/RawTherapee · GitHub. You can also use these direct download links.

Bugs fixed:

  • Wrong colors and brightness for some raw images (Samsung GX20 for example) when using LibRaw.
  • Selective Editing Retinex producing different results in global mode.

Translation updates:

  • Italian (Italiano)
  • Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
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I downloaded the zip file this morning and unpacked it, and Windows immediately intercepted what it said was a virus:

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It’s most likely a false positive from windows. Works fine here.

Small bug, when setting amount to zero in a sharpening spot, the image turns black. Also it would be great to have the amount slider in all modes and not only the advanced one.

Also the gamma slider is buggy in inverse mode.

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@fasteddie Interesting. I usually only see false positives from third party anti-malware programs. It should be ok to run since you downloaded from one of the links I posted.

@jonathanBieler Thanks for reporting these problems! I created issues for them (#7383 and #7384). They also affect 5.11 and maybe even earlier. They are not critical, but if we find a fix, we’ll try to include it in 5.12.

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@Lawrence37 @jonathanBieler
I have open a pull request which avoid these malfunctions

SE sharpening

You can see my comments in the 2 issues

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7383

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Windows apparently doesn’t like sophisticated photo processing programs. Back in February it made false reports of a Trojan in several releases of Ansel.

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I’ve not been doing any specific testing as such, but I’ve been exclusively using RC2, now (and before that RC1), since it became available.

I guess you could just call me impatient, :laughing: but I’ve certainly put it through it’s paces, and I’m pleased to say I’ve not encountered any issues as yet.

Eagerly awaiting the official release. :hatching_chick:

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HI there! Thanks for this release. Sadly, still no support for canon r5 mk2 – it looks like there is a patch but some egos are preventing it from getting used. Perhaps someone on this team could help get this patched merged?
Add support for Canon R5 Mark II and R1 by piratenpanda · Pull Request #667 · LibRaw/LibRaw · GitHub

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Don’t hold your breath, they won’t be adding this support to the public libraw code for a really long time. It’s not ego, it’s their way of making money.

If memory serves me right, RawTherapee includes the Libraw code in their source tree. So they can incorporate the changes from piratenpanda themselves without having to wait many months for Libraw to do it officially.

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You might want to try, how ART handles photos from this camera. The basic support is there, the colours are slightly off, at least in shadows, but in general it is usable and good enough for me (and Bobby McGee).

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They already have their own code which they are using for fastrawviewer so they have 0 incentive to merge my PR.

I would really appreciate it, if they’d be a better freesoftware citizen aligning releases at least a bit to other software. At least provide current snapshots before darktable/other software have their scheduled releases.