Software Update: Darktable 2.2.4

Darktable has released version 2.2.4 of the open source raw photo editing program of the same name. 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features:

• Better brush trace handing of opacity to get better control.
• tools: Add script to purge stale thumbnails
• tools: A script to watch a folder for new images

Bug fixes:

• DNG: fix camera name demangling. It used to report some wrong name for some cameras.
• When using wayland, prefer XWayland, because native Wayland support is not fully functional yet
• EXIF: properly handle image orientation ‘2’ and ‘4’ (swap them)
• OpenCL: a few fixes in profiled denoise, demosaic and colormapping
• tiling: do not process uselessly small end tiles
• masks: avoid assertion failure in early phase of path generation,
• masks: reduce risk of unwanted self-finalization of small path shapes
• Fix rare issue when expanding $() variables in import/export string
• Camera import: fix ignore_jpg setting not having an effect
• Picasa web exporter: unbreak after upstream API change
• collection: fix query string for folders ( ‘a’ should match ‘a/b’ and ‘a/c’, but not ‘ac/’ )

Base Support:

• Fujifilm X-T20 (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
• Fujifilm X100F (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
• Nikon COOLPIX B700 (12bit uncompressed)
• Olympus E-M1MarkII
• Panasonic DMC-TZ61 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
• Panasonic DMC-ZS40 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
• Sony ILCE-6500

Noise Profile:

• Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
• Olympus E-M1MarkII
• Lge Nexus 5X