Software Update: DarkTable 2.2.2

Version 2.2.2 of the open source raw photo editing program Darktable has been released. Darktable is a virtual light box and darkroom for photo editing. It manages digital negatives through a database. The raw photo files are developed by means of so-called sidecar files, where the photos are processed in a non-destructive manner. Since version 2.2.0, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Darktable 2.2.2

New features:

• color look up table module: include preset for helmholtz/kohlrausch monochrome
• Lens module: re-enable tiling
• Darkroom: fix some artifacts in the preview image (not the main view!)
• DNG decoder: support reading one more white balance encoding method
• Mac: display an error when too old OS version is detected
• Some documentation and tooltips updates

Bug fixes:

• Main view no longer grabs focus when mouse enters it. Prevents accidental catastrophic image rating loss.
• OSX: fix bauhaus slider popup keyboard input
• Don’t write all XMP when detaching tag
• OSX: don’t do PPD autodetection, gtk did their thing again.
• Don’t show database lock popup when DBUS is used to start darktable
• Actually delete duplicate’s XMP when deleting duplicated image
• Ignore UTF-8 BOM in GPX files
• Fix import or LR custom tone curve
• Overwrite Xmp rating from raw when exporting
• Some memory leak fixes
• Lua: sync XMPs after some tag manipulations
• Explicitly link against math library

Base Support:

• Canon PowerShot SX40 HS (dng)
• Fujifilm X-E2S
• Leica D-LUX (Typ 109) (4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1:1)
• Leica X2 (dng)
• Nikon LS-5000 (dng)
• Nokia Lumia 1020 (dng)
• Panasonic DMC-GF6 (16:9, 3:2, 1:1)
• Pentax K-5 (dng)
• Pentax Kr (dng)
• Pentax K10D (dng)
• Sony ILCE-6500

Noise Profile:

• Fujifilm X-M1
• Leica X2
• Nikon Coolpix A
• Panasonic DMC-G8
• Panasonic DMC-G80
• Panasonic DMC-G81
• Panasonic DMC-G85

Dark Table 2.2.1

New features:

• Show a dialog window that tells when locking the database/library failed
• Ask before deleting history stack from lightable.
• preferences: make features that are not available (greyed out) more obvious

Bug fixes:

• Always cleanup undo list before entering darkroom view. Fixes crash when using undo after re-entering darkroom
• Darkroom: properly delete module instances. Fixes rare crashes after deleting second instance of module.
• Levels and tonecurve modules now also use 256 bins.
• Rawoverexposed module: fix visualization when a camera custom white balance preset is used

Base Support:

• Canon EOS M5