DigiKam 7.9.0: New version available for this December 2022
Today, we'll cover what's new in one of our favorite frequently reviewed apps. And this is none other than digikam. Which, has released in these first days of December 2022, a new version called "DigiKam 7.9.0".
It is worth noting once again that DigiKam It is considered one of the best image and photo managers for the KDE Community. And also, it is one of the best of its kind, both in the free and open environment, as well as private and closed. In addition, with this launch it will surely continue to consolidate itself as a useful, secure and stable cross-platform application.
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What's New in DigiKam 7.9.0
According to official statement of this December 5th, the version DigiKam 7.9.0 It has been released with the following new features:
- The installers (binaries) available for Microsoft, macOS, and Linux (in AppImage format) come with the following bundled and updated software with important fixes and stability improvements:
- Qt frameworks: 5.15.7 LTS.
- KDE frameworks: 5.99.0.
- Libraw snapshot: 20221123.
- Exif Tool: 12.51.
- GMicQt: 3.1.6.
- The Installer for Linux in AppImage format is now built on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In such a way, to achieve better binary backwards compatibility with Linux distributions.
- And among the almost 100 improvements added in general that it possesses, the following 10 stand out:
- Better ISO date format metadata support.
- Improvements in terms of facial recognition functions.
- Better support for importing coordinates from metadata.
- Improved management of the location of faces from metadata.
- Improved tag import and merging with item metadata.
- Fixed Google photo login and remote album management.
- Correction of the positions of the application window in Microsoft Windows.
- Increased compatibility with previous versions of the DB schema migration.
- Performance improvement regarding managing albums from a remote database.
- Update of the files related to the support of the internationalization of the application.
Summary
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