Release Plan
Contents
digiKam Version 8 [2023-202x]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2025.10.19 | 8.8.0 | New tool to import/export tags hierarchy from text file. New focus points camera supported. Windows/macOS/Wayland screen color profiles supported. New Editor tool to blur the subject background. |
| 2025.06.30 | 8.7.0 | New AI based auto-rotation tool. Better OpenCV/OpenCL/Cuda support with deep-learning engine. Background face recognition at new face tag assigned. New G’Mic generic plugin working in layer mode. |
| 2025.03.16 | 8.6.0 | Classiffiers and Model Pipelines complete rewrite with better performances and FIQA used by Face Management and Auto-tags. Auto-tags and Image Quality Sorting scan options integrated in left sidebar. |
| 2024.11.16 | 8.5.0 | First native Apple Silicon arm64 package based on Qt and KDE version 6 frameworks. New default YuNet face detection DNN model. New default SFace face recognition DNN model. |
| 2024.07.14 | 8.4.0 | GMic-Qt tool for the Batch Queue Manager. Auto-Tags online translations support. DNG JPEG-XL compression support. Qt 6.7.2 used with Windows and Linux bundles. |
| 2024.03.17 | 8.3.0 | New Auto-Tags tool based of deep-learning to identify and mark image contents automatically. Video SlideShow tool improvements to support Time-lapse, frames equalization, OSD, and audio track. |
| 2023.12.03 | 8.2.0 | Windows version compiled natively with Microsoft VCPKG tool-chain. Huge bug-fixes release. |
| 2023.07.06 | 8.1.0 | Huge bugs triaging release. |
| 2023.04.16 | 8.0.0 | Qt6 and KF6 frameworks port with Qt5 backward compatibility. New Image Quality Sorting based on deep-learning engine. Huge online documentation update migrated from Docbook to Sphinx/Restructured Text with translations supports. |
digiKam Version 7 [2020-2022]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2023.03.12 | 7.10.0 | Libraw 0.21.1 support. KDE framework 5.102 support. Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2022.12.05 | 7.9.0 | Exiftool 12.51 support. Frameworks Qt 5.15.7 and KDE 5.99 support. Linux Ubuntu 18.04 used to compile AppImage with a Glibc >= 2.27 binary compatibility. |
| 2022.09.04 | 7.8.0 | HIF files recognized as HEIF images. Add support of GrayScale and 16 bits PSD images. Camera support: Canon EOS R3, R7, R10 Fujifilm X-H2S, X-T30 II, OM System OM-1, Leica M11, Sony A7-IV, DJI Mavic 3, Nikon Z9 standard compression only. GmicQt 3.1. |
| 2022.06.24 | 7.7.0 | Uses system libheif and libde265. Add Olympus OM-1 support. Add JpegXL support. Add AVIF/AOM support. All bundles uses KDE frameworks version 5.95 and Qt 5.15. |
| 2022.03.06 | 7.6.0 | Qt5 LTS maintenance release. Add ICU support to perform search with UTF-8 characters in all text fields. New FlowView generic plugin. |
| 2022.01.16 | 7.5.0 | Contextual Open-With support under macOS. RTL support improvements. GUI internationalization and localization updates with more than 50 languages. Add Platform Input Context Support in AppImage bundle. |
| 2021.12.18 | 7.4.0 | Celebrate 20 years of the project. Showfoto folder-view and stack-view. MJPEG server plugin. Separate local thumbnails Sqlite database with remote Mysql database. Image Quality Sorter improvements. |
| 2021.07.12 | 7.3.0 | ExifTool metadata viewer, iNaturalist export tool. Base Media Format metadata support. Better support of FITS astro-photo. Huge improvements of DNG Converter. Batch RAW to DNG converter in Showfoto. |
| 2021.03.22 | 7.2.0 | Online Version Downloader. macOS bundle relocatable and compatible with BigSur. Face engine data models downloadable in demand. Include faces workflow and face engine improvements from GSoC 2020 projects. |
| 2020.09.06 | 7.1.0 | Summer maintenance release. Add UTF-8 support for IPTC metadata. |
| 2020.07.19 | 7.0.0 | Add Qt 5.15 support. Migration from QtWebkit to QtWebEngine. Face Scan UI improvements and simplifications. Re-written Face detection and recognition based on OpenCV deep learning engine (GoSC 2019 project). LibRaw 0.20 support. |
digiKam Version 6 [2018-2019]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2019.11.09 | 6.4.0 | New Clone tool for Image Editor. New DPlugins interface for native image loaders and Raw Import tools. Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2019.09.08 | 6.3.0 | Libraw 0.19.5 support. First version of exported DPlugin API. GMic-Qt ported as external plugin for Image Editor. |
| 2019.08.04 | 6.2.0 | Exiv2 0.27.2 and Libraw 0.19.3 support. Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2019.04.14 | 6.1.0 | New plugins interface named “DPlugins” for Generic, Editor, and BQM tools. |
| 2019.02.10 | 6.0.0 | Libraw 0.19 support. New grouping items options. Exiv2 0.27 support. Time-Adjust tool. DrMinGw support under Windows. New separate album contents options. Refactored with less dependencies. Add video management support. GoSC 2017/2018 integration. |
digiKam Version 5 [2016-2018]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2018.03.25 | 5.9.0 | Libraw 0.18.8 support. Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2018.01.12 | 5.8.0 | Including new UPNP/DLNA export tool. OpenCV 3.4.x support. Libraw 0.18.6 support. Port to OAuth2. |
| 2017.08.27 | 5.7.0 | Including new Print Creator, Send by Email tool, many bugs fixed and triaged. Improvements of duplicates search. Hugin 2017.0 support. New tool to export geolocation to KML. |
| 2017.06.11 | 5.6.0 | Including new HTML Gallery and Video SlideShow tool, Items Grouping improvements, Mysql garbage collector, GPS Bookmarks improvements. Maintenance of MySQL shrinking database. Fuzzy search tool improvements. Generalize generic plugins everywhere. |
| 2017.03.12 | 5.5.0 | Including database garbage collector and scan improvements. Face engine improvements. Maintenance tools based on a queue processing. Search engine usability fixes and performances improvements. |
| 2017.01.08 | 5.4.0 | Duplicates search improvement. Add support of video media everywhere. Rename, copying, and metadata actions improvements on grouped items. Libraw 0.18 support. |
| 2016.11.06 | 5.3.0 | Add Linux AppImage deployment. 78 new RAW camera supported. Floating point DNG support with metadata and color profile. |
| 2016.09.18 | 5.2.0 | Editor interface factoring for performance. Auto red-eyes tool. Gphoto2 PTP/IP camera support. Tabs usability fixes and factoring. Docbook Documentation re-written. |
| 2016.08.07 | 5.1.0 | New ImgUr tool based on AuthO2. Windows installer 64 bits fixes. New Raw camera supported with Libraw 0.18.0. Database scan performance and fixes. |
| 2016.07.03 | 5.0.0 | Database KIOSlaves dropped using multi-threading and multi-core instead. Qt5 port. Add collection trashes. Sqlite 2 dropped. Mysql: Face recognition and internal server. New tools: convert RAW to DNG, adjust date, edit metadata and geolocation, import from scanner, presentation tool. |
digiKam Version 4 [2014-2015]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2015.10.11 | 4.14.0 | OpenCV 3.x support. Overlay icons improvements. Exiv2 0.25 support. |
| 2015.08.30 | 4.13.0 | Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2015.07.26 | 4.12.0 | PicasaWeb and Google Drive tools merged into a common Google services module. |
| 2015.06.14 | 4.11.0 | Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2015.05.10 | 4.10.0 | Add support of ACDSee and MediaPro metadata for interroperability purpose. |
| 2015.04.05 | 4.9.0 | Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2015.02.22 | 4.8.0 | Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2015.01.25 | 4.7.0 | Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2014.12.14 | 4.6.0 | Editor canvas port to Qt4 model/view. Better support of removable media and unavailable items. Import: auto creation of sub-folders. BQM: add workflow support. |
| 2014.11.09 | 4.5.0 | Libpgf 6.12.24 support. Optional extra tools dependency. Geolocation optional. FaceEngine optional. libjasper optional. |
| 2014.10.06 | 4.4.0 | Items naviguation with editing properties. New keyboard shortcuts to improve photo review. Color management controllable through the keyboard. Album preview tooltip. Tags shortcuts in Slideshow. Multi-screens support. PiwigoExport tool improvements. |
| 2014.09.08 | 4.3.0 | Nepomuk replaced by Baloo. New option to show non geolocated items. Notification at KIOSlaves errors. macOS event notifications support. New option to exclude items without rating. Remove OpenMP in favor of QtConcurrent. Hugin 2014.0 support. |
| 2014.08.03 | 4.2.0 | Tags view: add a new option to show items with no tag. New view on left sidebar to search quickly items with assigned Labels. Add Retina support under macOS. |
| 2014.06.22 | 4.1.0 | Add Gelocation indicator over thumbnails when image has GPS coordinateds. Thumbnails from icon-view now support large resolution monitor (WQHD or 4K). Thumbs size can be set until 512x512 px instead 256x256 px. |
| 2014.05.11 | 4.0.0 | Version including all GoSC 2013 and 2014 projects. New Tags Manager and Image Quality Sorter tools. Multiple selection and drag and drop support. Nepomuk fixes. Qt3 dropped. Windows Live Photo face area. Port to model/view and support multicore. Google Drive and DropBox tools. Mediawiki tool improvements. |
digiKam Version 3 [2012-2013]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2013.09.29 | 3.5.0 | New RAW camera supported: Richon GR, Panasonic LF1, Canon EOS 70D, Sony RX100II, Sony RX1R, Olympus E-P5. Cropping area to the maximum inner rectangle of a panorama. |
| 2013.09.01 | 3.4.0 | Add interroperabilty with Capture NX about Color Labels support. Add new options to select Albums and Tags to process. Add multi-threading and multi-core support for Metadata Synchronizer, Thumbs Generator, and Fingerprint Generator tools. |
| 2013.08.04 | 3.3.0 | Better management of Picasa Face Tags import/export through metadata. New Face Recognition engine based on OpenTLD. Including Face Recognition feature |
| 2013.05.12 | 3.2.0 | Replace Clapack by Eigen3. New Table-View Mode. New AutoCrop tool. Aspect-ratio: information stored in database, icon view filter, search engine. New search of video shot properties. Facebook tool: new option to create private album. New tool to export to JAlbum. |
| 2013.03.10 | 3.1.0 | Remove internal liblqr-1. Includes bugs-fixes detected by Coverity SCAN static analyzer. |
| 2013.02.06 | 3.0.0 | Version including all GoSC 2012 projects. All tool actions pluggable in tools-bar. Tools configuration usability fixes. Libraw 0.15.0. Noise estimation for the noise reduction tool. Lensfun as external dependency. Icon-view ported to Qt4 model/view. Labels/tags pre-assignation. Pipelined post download. Video metadata support. BQM: new tools and multi-core support. Export to DLNA devices and Video Slideshow tools. Panorama tool improvements. |
digiKam Version 2 [2011-2012]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2012.09.02 | 2.9.0 | Libgphoto 2.5 support. Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2012.08.05 | 2.8.0 | Add option to execute script during items to download from camera. MediaWiki: GUI improvements and new features to export items. |
| 2012.07.08 | 2.7.0 | Libraw 0.14.7 support. LensFun 0.2.6 support. Libpgf 6.12.24 support. |
| 2012.05.06 | 2.6.0 | Version including Color and Pick labels, Tags keyboard shortcuts, Group of items. |
| 2012.01.08 | 2.5.0 | Version including XMP Sidecar support, Face Recognition, Image Versioning, and Reverse Geo-location. |
| 2011.12.04 | 2.4.0 | Celebrate 10 years of the project. |
| 2011.11.06 | 2.3.0 | |
| 2011.10.02 | 2.2.0 | |
| 2011.09.04 | 2.1.0 | |
| 2011.07.24 | 2.0.0 |
digiKam Version 1 [2009-2010]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2011.02.19 | 1.9.0 | Bug fixes releases and triaging. |
| 2011.01.23 | 1.8.0 | |
| 2010.12.19 | 1.7.0 | |
| 2010.11.22 | 1.6.0 | |
| 2010.10.10 | 1.5.0 | |
| 2010.08.22 | 1.4.0 | |
| 2010.06.07 | 1.3.0 | |
| 2010.03.28 | 1.2.0 | |
| 2010.01.31 | 1.1.0 | |
| 2009.12.20 | 1.0.0 |
digiKam Former Versions [2001-2008]
| Date | Version | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2009.05.30 | 0.10.0 | Bug fixes releases and triaging. Decision to name next release as the first stable 1.0.0. |
| 2009.03.15 | 0.9.5 | |
| 2008.07.16 | 0.9.4 | |
| 2007.12.23 | 0.9.3 | |
| 2007.06.13 | 0.9.2 | |
| 2007.03.04 | 0.9.1 | |
| 2006.12.18 | 0.9.0 | |
| 2006.07.10 | 0.8.0 | |
| 2005.05.21 | 0.7.0 | |
| 2003.12.08 | 0.6.0 | |
| 2002.10.03 | 0.5.0 | |
| 2002.05.10 | 0.4.0 | |
| 2002.06.07 | 0.3.0 | |
| 2002.03.03 | 0.2.0 | |
| 2001.12.24 | 0.1.0 | Initial release published at Christmas time. |
| mid. 2001 | 0.0.0 | Proof of concept to only download files from a camera with libGphoto under Linux. Very simple GUI based on Qt version 2. No database support, no plugins, only basic file system support. Never released. |
