digiKam 7.0.0-beta3 is released

Dear digiKam fans and users,

Just few words to inform the community that 7.0.0-beta3 is out and ready to test two month later the  second beta release published in February.

After a long test stage while this Covid-19 containment, this new version come with  more than 670 bug-fixes since last stable release 6.4.0 and look very promising. Nothing is completed yet, as we plan one release candidate version before next summer, when we will publish officially the  stable version. It still few bugs to fix while this pre-release campain and all help will be welcome from the community to stabilize codes.

Thanks to all users for  your support and donations, and to all contributors, students, testers who allowed us to improve this release.

digiKam 7.0.0 source code tarball, Linux 32/64 bits AppImage bundles, MacOS package and Windows 32/64 bits installers can be downloaded from  this repository. Don’t forget to not use this beta in production yet and thanks in advance for your feedback in Bugzilla.

Rendez-vous in few weeks for the next stage.

Thanks in advance for your help and take a care…