digiKam 7.0.0-beta1 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the first beta of digiKam 7.0.0. This first version start the test stages for next 7.x series planing while next year.
digiKam 7.0.0-beta1 Release Announcement
Deep-Learning Powered Faces Management
While many years, digiKam has provided an important feature dedicated to detect and recognized faces in photo. The algorithms used in background (not based on deep learning) was older and unchanged since the first revision including this feature (digiKam 2.0.0). It was not enough powerful to facilitate the faces management workflow automatically.
New RAW files Support Including Famous Canon CR3 and Sony A7R4
digiKam try to be the most powerful with all files provided by digital camera. Raw files support is a big challenge. Some applications have been especially created only to support RAW files from camera, as this kind of support is complex, long and hard to maintain in time.
On The Road To 7.0.0
Next major version 7.0.0 will look promising. The bugzilla entries closed for this release are already impressive and nothing is completed yet, as we plan few beta before next spring, when we publish officially the stable version. It still bugs to fix while this beta campain and all help will be welcome to stabilize codes.
The first beta of digiKam 7.0.0 with improved faces management and new RAW files support is now available.
