digiKam versions

v6.1
The New Plugins Interface “DPlugins”
With 6.0.0, digiKam project has already left the KIPI plugins support and embedded all tools as native solutions without easly permitting to customize and extend the application. digiKam 5.9.0 was the last version supporting KIPI after more than 15 years, and less and less support outside of the digiKam project. It’s time to turn the page now and to reload the story with a new plugin interface more powerful, more adjusted to all digiKam main tools, with an extended support to Showfoto, and without losing legacy features.
Don’t be afraid, you will loose nothing and gain more power with this new plugins interface, named “DPlugins” for… “digiKam Plugins” of course.
Where the KIPI tools were limited to the Main Album View in digiKam, DPlugins can be used everywhere, e.g. in Image Editor, Light Table, Showfoto, and of course the Album View. This include all Generic tools to import/export items or edit metadata, but wait a minute… more than that also Image Editor re-touch tools (colors editing, Transforms, Decorate, Effects, etc.), and wait a second… still more Batch Queue Manager tools to process many files at once. Now you will get a feeling of the huge difference to the older KIPI solution: digiKam becomes really open and extensible as it must do since a very long time, where KIPI never achieve this task.
The list of plugins is already very long, and we work hard to make all the features ready to use in only 2 months.

v4.9 [Apr 23, 2015]
May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

v4.5 [Nov 20, 2014]
Fixes:
- digiKam has a hard dependency on Jasper library
- Make face detection (kface) and geo tagging (kmap) optional features [patch]
- ICONVIEW : thumb focus is lost after renaming
- CORE : bad performance when Tag-related Sidebars (Tag management / Filter) are open [patch]
- When build digikam from git and package libpgf is installed, no way to use internal digikam libpgf
- EXIF thumbnail date information not updated when writing metadata to image
- MYSQL : settings and installation windows freeze when valid mariadb/mysql db connection is available [patch]
- Import not showing image thumbnails for certain Canon cameras [patch]
- digiKam goes into infinite loop when working with tags/captions information tab templates
- cmake and/or compiler pick up libkgeomap header files from previous version
- Identity class miss d private container to improve binary compatibility [patch]
- Compiler error: ambiguous reference to ratio variable
- Select 'recent' albums containing MOV or .xcf(Gimp) files. Immediate crash occurs.
- KIPI-plugins can not be deactivated on non-English locales [patch]
- White Balance: Unable to specify exposure compensation > x.5
- GROUP : Wallet icon for grouped photos is conceptually confusing
- make fails on imagedescedittab.cpp has no member named 'textEdit'
- No auto-rotation/flip Images after download [patch]
- Advanced slideshow shows not all pictures under certain conditions [patch]
- Add Album Category as a search criteria [patch]
- Ratings with rating == 0 cannot be selected on the left sidebar [patch]
- Floating Cards brings digiKam with non-English locales to crash and missing parameter text [patch]

v2.1 [Sep 21, 2011]
The latest release offers new features and improvements, one of the most exciting tools in this release is the panorama tool. Which is simple and quite effective.
NEW FEATURES:
- CameraGUI : camera items thumbnails are processed on the fly. Connection to camera device is faster.
- CameraGUI : Sort of items by date is possible with photo taken quickly (less than 1s).
- CameraGUI : New option to setup a default target album to download items from camera device.
- CameraGUI : New option to download new items in just one click.
- CameraGUI : New option to filter icon-view by type mime.
- Preview : New option to show/hide information over preview canvas.
BUGFIXES:
- 001 ==> 218365 : Show icon thumbs when loaded and not only after all were read.
- 002 ==> 278526 : No picture is displayed in the Album View.
- 003 ==> 245079 : Let the user download all before thumbnails are generated.
- 004 ==> 278033 : Cannot set jpeg compression ratio (or any other save options) when exporting image.
- 005 ==> 278966 : Building the unittests fails when using external libpgf.
- 006 ==> 199985 : digiKam, import, writing to sd card, bad folders.
- 007 ==> 261627 : GNOME says "No applications found" ignoring digikam.
- 008 ==> 251900 : Preview of RAW images missing.
- 009 ==> 260669 : Images on camera always marked as new.
- 010 ==> 246336 : Ordering incorrect.
- 011 ==> 264123 : digiKam freezes when creating thumbnails in the import dialog (from a memory stick).
- 012 ==> 199197 : Can't import pictures from camera.
- 013 ==> 181521 : NEF's in descending order, AVI in ascending order in import from SD-card.
- 014 ==> 221457 : digiKam camera download - dates are not preserved.
- 015 ==> 229543 : Video exif info not found during import and renaming.
- 016 ==> 265243 : Series of AVIs imported with the same (incorrect) time.
- 017 ==> 199913 : Creation date is changed when converting to png.
- 018 ==> 190717 : Camera movie files dates not used for date based sub folder name.
- 019 ==> 246337 : Changing sort order forces thumbnail regeneration.
- 020 ==> 256776 : digiKam leaves ".digikam-exifrotate" files etc. on harddisk.
- 021 ==> 237810 : Wrong date when renaming downloaded pictures.
- 022 ==> 233621 : Importing from Nikon Coolpix P90 ignores date/time of the images and uses 31-12-1969 instead.
- 023 ==> 160496 : No disk space reported when importing pictures.
- 024 ==> 184439 : Closing the "USB DISK DOWNLOAD from DISK" window updates the digikam folder view.
- 025 ==> 253268 : digiKam crashes when starting to download pictures.
- 026 ==> 216492 : Camera interface upload can't select a movie only image.
- 027 ==> 274199 : digiKam crashed when using "inpainting" tool.
- 028 ==> 278320 : Crash with "-graphicssystem raster".
- 029 ==> 279551 : Wrong window title when deleting a search.
- 030 ==> 271030 : Windows Live Photo Gallery people tagging Compatibility.
- 031 ==> 279549 : Lighttable gets automatically filled on digiKam start.
- 032 ==> 279696 : Building the unittests of libkgeomap fails.
- 033 ==> 279713 : Libmediawiki tries to install test files (patch attached).
- 034 ==> 236394 : Import from camera using cable is slow and previously imported video files are not flagged.
- 035 ==> 261871 : digiKam import of Nikon D7000 images very slow.
- 036 ==> 243760 : Import *listing* from "Canon PowerShot G5 (normal mode)" takes very long.
- 037 ==> 246401 : Improve date based sort of camera interface: use more time precision from Exif when shots are taken with less than 1s.
- 038 ==> 266317 : Nepomuk Service Stub (nepomukservicestub) crashes in libdigikamdatabase.so.1 when syncing tags to nepomuk.
- 039 ==> 269373 : Adding face tag to large amount of pictures fails.
- 040 ==> 225759 : JPG image size = 0 byte, when transfer occurs from my camera to my NAS.
- 041 ==> 202641 : Import images - always increase renaming counter by number of images imported.
- 042 ==> 189903 : Allow default Target Album for Image Download.
- 043 ==> 259861 : One-click "Download New Items".
- 044 ==> 144227 : Allow for fully customized album names when importing.
- 045 ==> 279402 : Focus textbox for identifying faces gets lost too easily (and other issues).
- 046 ==> 277796 : Build failure in the dcraw_emu sample.
- 047 ==> 280240 : digiKam crash when attempting to view slideshow.
- 048 ==> 280517 : Moving photo from an album to another leads to loose face tags.
- 049 ==> 280101 : Patch: Add option to hide icons and text in preview.
- 050 ==> 279183 : Themes configuration dialogue does not open.
- 051 ==> 257806 : Images imported from backup card filtering icon-view [patch].
- 052 ==> 272143 : Remove the "a tool to" prefix in the BQM tools description.
- 053 ==> 281116 : Wish: Customisable date format in auto creation of albums.
- 054 ==> 277935 : Rename libkmap to libkgeomap and move it to extragear/libs.
- 055 ==> 264412 : Crash when opening a directory.
- 056 ==> 264638 : Stuck when cancelling rename/overwrite dialog in batch queue manager.
- 057 ==> 276061 : "Save (as new version)" is not enabled right after importing a RAW picture.