Software update: digiKam 7.9

Version 7.9 of digiKam has been released. This photo management and image editing application has downloads for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows. DigiKam supports various file formats and can also be provided with more options via plug-ins, such as exporting an album to Facebook or Flickr. More about the possibilities of this program can be found here this page to find. The release notes for this release can be found below.

digiKam 7.9.0 has been released

After four months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.9.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release.

Bundles Internal Component Updates

As with the previous releases, we take care about upgrading the internal components from the Bundles. Microsoft Windows Installer, Apple macOs Package, and Linux AppImage binaries now hosts:

• Qt frameworks 5.15.7 LTS.
• KDE frameworks 5.99.0.
• Libraw snapshot 20221123.
• ExifTool 12.51.
• GMicQt 3.1.6.

All of these components include important stability improvements and fixes. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is now used to compile the AppImage for a better backward binary compatibility with the Linux distributions.

Maintenance and Improvements

This new version arrives with 97 triaged and closed files in bugzilla. See below a list of major improvements included in this release:

• Fix of Google photo login and remote album management.
• Better management of faces location from metadata.
• Database schema migration backward compatibility.
• Better support of coordinates import from metadata.
• Better ISO date format support from metadata.
• Better performance with album management from a remote database.
• Fix application window positions under Microsoft Windows.
• Better Tags import and merge with items metadata.

The application internationalization has also been updated. digiKam and Showfoto are proposed with 57 different languages ​​for the graphical interface. Go to Settings/Configure Languages ​​dialog and change the localization as you want. Applications need to be restarted to apply changes. If you want to contribute to the internationalization of digiKam, please contact the translator teamsfollowing the translation how-to. The statistics about translation states are available here.