Software Update: Darktable 2.4.1

Darktable has released version 2.4.1 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

• Allow to select the GUI language in the preferences
• Add a filter rule to the collect module to find locally copied images
• Add favorite toggle to darkroom modules’ right click popup
• Allow blending/masking in the hot pixels module
• Add keyboard shortcuts to zoom and pan an image in darkroom. Panning uses the arrow keys, zooming defaults to ctrl- and ctrl+. Use alt and ctrl to change the step size of panning.
• Some minor speedups in the grain module
• Handling stdout on Windows: do not redirect stdout for simple command line arguments (–help and –version)
• On Windows, show the location of the log file in the help message
• Enable searching in the more modules list – click into the list to give focus to it, then start typing. The default GTK shortcut ctrl-f doesn’t work as it’s used for filmstrip already
• Add a debug print when compiling OpenCL kernels

Bug fixes

• Use the configured overwrite color profile when exporting from Lua – this broke GIMP integration
• Support presets with < in their name
• Fix export to non-existing path with \ as the path separator on Windows
• Don’t insist on the db being locked when it doesn’t even exist
• Don’t touch the mix slider when resetting the curve in color zones
• Fix a bug in the exposure module that would only allow corrections of up to 10 stops
• Fix custom shortcuts with shift modifier
• Properly ellipsize text in the recently used collections list
• Fix exported galleries with filenames containing a ‘
• Fix finding mipmaps cache folder in purge_from_cache.sh script
• Fix a crash in the recently used collections list due to a broken config file
• Set the sqlite threading mode to Serialized
• Fix old export presets using OpenEXR
• Fix building with clan on Windows

Changed Dependencies

• iso-codes version 3.66 or newer is suggested for a nicer list of translations in the preferences.
• The Windows installer comes with an updated libexiv2 so TIFF exports should be much faster now

Camera support, compared to 2.4.0
Warning: support for Nikon NEF ‘lossy after split’ raws was unintentionally broken due to the lack of such samples. please see this post for more details. If you have affected raws, please contribute samples!

Base Support

• Panasonic DC-G9 (4:3)
• Paralenz Dive Camera (chdk)
• Pentax KP
• Sjcam SJ6 LEGEND (chdk-b, chdk-c)

White Balance Presets

• Leaf Creed 40
• Nikon D3400
• Olympus E-M1MarkII
• Panasonic DC-G9
• Sony ILCE-7RM3

Noise Profiles

• Canon EOS 750D
• Canon EOS Kiss X8i
• Canon EOS Rebel T6i
• Canon EOS 77D
• Canon EOS 9000D
• Canon EOS M100
• Canon EOS M6
• Sony DSC-RX100M4
• YI TECHNOLOGY M1

translations

• Czech
• English
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Slovenian