08.31
After 5 month’s of hard work, we finally got around to releasing Darktable version 0.6. The new version has boatloads of new features. For example we added a lot of new image processing plugins. Other notable features are Picasaweb export and we can now storage password (like your Picasaweb login) in GNOME Keyring or KWallet (as any decent application should). Beside the new bells and whistles a lot of crashes have been fixed in the last month. Hats off to Johannes, Henrik, Tobias and the other contributers.
That said, my personal contributions to the latest release are mainly related to the basecurves… The basecurves allow us to have decent default output of camera RAW files. With proper basecurves Darktable’s output is roughly similar to the camera JPEG output. We now have basecurves for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic and Leica. We have a basecurve for Kodak as well, though that didn’t make it into the 0.6 release.
With the new 0.6 release I also took the oppertunity to cleanup my PPAs. I now have two seperate PPAs exclusively for Darktable. For “stable” releases add this PPA to your sources:
https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/darktable-release
Or if you’re feeling adventurous, and don’t mind the occasional problem, you can use our regular development snapshots:
https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/darktable-unstable
We’re now working toward a 0.6.1 release with amongst other things some user interface improvements.
