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digikam 0.9.0-rc2 and digikamimageplugins 0.9.0-rc2 has been released:

Announcing the second release candidate of digiKam 0.9.0 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.0.

The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November 2005. After having released three beta version and a first release candidate, we are now entering the last phase of fixing critical bugs and testing.

The source for digikam and digikamimageplugins 0.9.0-rc2 is available from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641



Features in digikam 0.9-rc2
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http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/features09x


New features and bug fixes since beta3
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115125 : White Balance tool: remaining endianess issue on PowerPC.
137495 : showfoto crashes when doing any modification to a loaded directory.
137845 : Album Header cut off (squeezed) when entering two or more lines in
Album comment.
137886 : When a tag is moved in the left panel it's position is not updated
in the right panel.
135834 : Lowercasing camera filenames only works for first imported file.
134391 : digiKam camera gui dialog crashes if there is a filename without
extension.
131947 : digiKam complains about invalid ICC profiles path.
130176 : Typos in digiKam.po and one plugin.
138252 : Display is not updates when switching color managed view on/off.
138253 : Keyboard shortcut for turning color managed display on/off.


Digikam Movie Tour
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There are four demonstration videos (Flash format) available highlighting some of the new features.

How to import a RAW file in 16 bits color depth into digiKam image editor using Color Management:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/124

On the usage of the camera interface and how to add IPTC information to an image file:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/125

On the new fast RAW file preview mode, the use of color profiles, image plugins supporting 16 bit and user interface improvements for all image plugins:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/126

How to use the black and white converter and the add border image plugin, again demonstrating user interface improvements and full 16 bit support:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/127

How to help us
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This release is a beta release, which means that we ask users to test this version of digiKam and report bugs. If you have found a bug, please report it to the bug tracking system at bugs.kde.org. In a first step, confirm that there is not already a bug report for your problem. A list of open bug reports for digikam can be found at

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

and for digikamimageplugins at

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikamimageplugins&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

General information on digikam and digikamimageplugins
=====================================================

digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE, focussed on importing, organizing and editing digital photos, aimed at all types of users.

digiKam imageplugins enhance digiKam's image editor with more than 2 dozen plugins that make correcting your photos easier.

WWW: www.digikam.org
IRC: irc.freenode.net - #digikam
MAIL: digikam-users@kde.org digikam-devel@kde.org


The digiKam team