released darktable 1.6.9

We are happy to announce that darktable 1.6.9 has been released.

The release notes and relevant downloads can be found attached to this git tag: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-1.6.9 Please only use our provided packages (“darktable-1.6.9.*” tar.xz and dmg) not the auto-created tarballs from github (“Source code”, zip and tar.gz). The latter are just git snapshots and will not work! Here are the direct links to tar.xz and dmg: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.9/darktable-1.6.9.tar.xz https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.9/darktable-1.6.9.dmg

this will likely be the last maintenance release in our 1.6 major release series

$ sha256sum darktable-1.6.9.tar.xz
0f721e9d298a9407f6c0325d9c95b9dc37fa60f3b6a2f2e3b5675ff97c423173
darktable-1.6.9.tar.xz
$ sha256sum darktable-1.6.9.dmg
f79b0c4f317f87aab353c25216f2a3628efa2a072b1ce64c21d075a3dda54e9e
darktable-1.6.9.dmg

general

• don’t build with external lua 5.3 or higher (darktable MUST be built with lua 5.2)
• format datetime locale dependant (and try to handle timezones better)
• fix various minor memory leaks
• use sRGB as display profile on all versions of OS X, fixes monitor profile being applied twice

rawspeed

(newly added camera support should be considered experimental for the time being):

• Olympus E-M10 Mk2
• Canon G3 X
• Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
• Sony A7R II
• Fuji X-A2
• Panasonic FZ1000 bad pixel detection
• alias Panasonic TZ70/ZS50 to the TZ71
• improve Samsung NX1/NX500 support (handle 12bit modes)
• don’t load broken Kodak kdc files

white balance presets

• Olympus E-M10 Mk2
• Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
• Canon PowerShot G7 X
• Sony A7R II
• Sony A7 II
• Sony RX100M4
• Sony RX10
• Nikon 1 J5

noiseprofiles

• Nikon D3300
• Canon PowerShot S120

translations

• Swedish (small updates)