Having tried 5.4, I now find the need to revert back to v5.2. The latest version has changed considerably and affects my current styles which I apply to the majority of my images. It would be a painstaking exercise to redo the styles, which I just don’t have the time for atm. If I’m not wrong, modules I found very effective have been removed in this release, notably curves and levels. I’m happy to be corrected if they are still there, but I can’t see them.
I’m not usually an early adopter of software, prefering to wait until the first set of bug fixes come through in point releases. I think I was taken by the awesome feedback on YT, but no one indicated the latest update depreciates modules like levels and curves, or one might have to redo styles. I would have stuck to 5.2 had I’d known.
Can someone please show me where to find the appropriate deb, or flatpak?
I’m using Debian13. I think it’s in the repo’s but it’s quite old, v5.0.1.
Also, modules are never removed from darktable, precisely to maintain compatibility with old edits and styles.
However, a few modules have been “deprecated” (and are marked as such in the manual. Those modules won’t show up in the right sidebar, unless activated through a style.
If you still feel a need to downgrade: you may run into issues with the database format (it can change between versions). There’s no way to undo such changes, but on first run of a new version, darktable should have made a backup of the database, with names like “data.db-pre<version>” and “library.db-pre<version>”. A bit of removing and copying should get you the database corresponding to the version you want to downgrade to. (If you can’t figure out what to do exactly, you should perhaps think twice about trying it…)
