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. |
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/documentation/releaseplan/