Release Plan

digiKam 8.x Release Plan

Date Version Comments
2024.11.16 8.5.0 First native Apple Silicon arm64 package based on Qt and KDE version 6 frameworks. New default YuNet face detection DNN model. New default SFace face recognition DNN model.
2024.07.14 8.4.0 GMic-Qt tool for the Batch Queue Manager. Auto-Tags online translations support. DNG JPEG-XL compression support. Qt 6.7.2 used with Windows and Linux bundles.
2024.03.17 8.3.0 New Auto-Tags tool based of deep-learning to identify and mark image contents automatically. Video SlideShow tool improvements to support Time-lapse, frames equalization, OSD, and audio track.
2023.12.03 8.2.0 Windows version compiled natively with Microsoft VCPKG tool-chain. Huge bug-fixes release.
2023.07.06 8.1.0 Huge bugs triaging release.
2023.04.16 8.0.0 Qt6 and KF6 frameworks port with Qt5 backward compatibility. New Image Quality Sorting based on deep-learning engine.


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