Software update: digiKam 1.0.0

The digiKam program is a photo management and image editing application for KDE and can therefore run on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It includes support for a variety of file formats and can also be provided with more options via plugins, such as exporting an album to Facebook or Flickr. The developers released version 1.0.0 of digiKam just before Christmas with the following announcement:

Merry Christmas : digiKam 1.0.0 is there…

Dear all digiKam fans and users! digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.0.0! digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url. digiKam will also be available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. see KDE-Windows project for details. See the list of new features below coming with this release (since 0.10.0):

General:

• Exif, Makernotes, Iptc, and Xmp metadata tags filtering can be customized in setup config dialog.
• Metadata Template: add support of Contact, Location, and Subjects IPTC information.
• Add support of Author properties to multi-language Captions. User can set an author name for each caption value.
• Add new Batch Queue Manager.
• New tool bar animation banner.
• Fix compilation under MSVC 9.
• New first run assistant.
• New dialog to show Database statistics.
• Add support of wavelets image file format PGF.
• Added support of Metadata Template to set easily image copyright.
• Added support of LightRoom keywords path for interoperability purpose.
• Added Multi-languages ​​support to Caption and Tags right side-bar.
• digiKam use a new database to cache thumbnails instead ~./thumbnails. File format used to store image is PGF (PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
• Add OpenStreetMap support in Geolocation panels.
• Showfoto, Editor, Preview, LightTable: Thumbbar is now dockable everywhere.
• Complete rewrite of Color Management code. Add support of thumbs and preview CM.
• AdvancedRename utility is used throughout digiKam now (AlbumUI, CameraUI and BQM).
• Updated internal LibPGF to 6.09.44.
• Syntax highlighting and history management for AdvancedRename utility.

albumgui:

• Icon view is now based on pure Qt4 model/view.
• New overlay button over icon view items to perform lossless rotations.
• Find Duplicates search can be limited to an album and tag range.

ImageEditor

• Close tools by pressing ESC.
• New Liquid Recovery tool.
• New menu option to switch image color space quickly.
• Black and White converter: add standard Blue and Yellow-Green color filters.
• New Local Contrast tool to simulate HDR images (Tone Mapping).
• New tool to remove noise using wavelets working in luminance (YCrCb color space).

CameraGUI:

• New history of camera actions processed.

BatchQueueMgr:

• New tool to remove noise using wavelets working in luminance (YCrCb color space).

Enjoy digiKam. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.