darktable 2.2.4 released

we’re proud to announce the fourth bugfix release for the 2.2 series of darktable, 2.2.4!

the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.2.4.

as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksum is:

$ sha256sum darktable-2.2.4.tar.xz
bd5445d6b81fc3288fb07362870e24bb0b5378cacad2c6e6602e32de676bf9d8  darktable-2.2.4.tar.xz
$ sha256sum darktable-2.2.4.6.dmg
b7e4aeaa4b275083fa98b2a20e77ceb3ee48af3f7cc48a89f41a035d699bd71c  darktable-2.2.4.6.dmg

Important note: to make sure that darktable can keep on supporting the raw file format for your camera, please help us by visiting https://raw.pixls.us/ and making sure that we have the full raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license!

and the changelog as compared to 2.2.3 can be found below.

New features:

Better brush trace handing of opacity to get better control.
tools: Add script to purge stale thumbnails
tools: A script to watch a folder for new images

Bugfixes:

DNG: fix camera name demangling. It used to report some wrong name for some cameras.
When using wayland, prefer XWayland, because native Wayland support is not fully functional yet
EXIF: properly handle image orientation ‘2’ and ‘4’ (swap them)
OpenCL: a few fixes in profiled denoise, demosaic and colormapping
tiling: do not process uselessly small end tiles
masks: avoid assertion failure in early phase of path generation,
masks: reduce risk of unwanted self-finalization of small path shapes
Fix rare issue when expanding $() variables in import/export string
Camera import: fix ignore_jpg setting not having an effect
Picasa web exporter: unbreak after upstream API change
collection: fix query string for folders ( ‘a’ should match ‘a/b’ and ‘a/c’, but not ‘ac/’ )

Base Support:

Fujifilm X-T20 (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
Fujifilm X100F (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
Nikon COOLPIX B700 (12bit-uncompressed)
Olympus E-M1MarkII
Panasonic DMC-TZ61 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
Panasonic DMC-ZS40 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
Sony ILCE-6500

Noise Profiles:

Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
Olympus E-M1MarkII
Lge Nexus 5X

These are comments from the old website, archived as static HTML

Gregor Kofler on Thu Apr 06 19:35:46 2017:

Most welcome, as always. Thanks for all your effort. How do the scripts work? Are they invoked seperately or configured from within darktable?

Cheers, Gregor
pixdja on Fri Apr 07 07:40:35 2017:

Many thanks for this golden piece of software ! My only tool for my RAWs on my multiple digital bodies. Congratulations
Ben on Fri Apr 07 08:22:27 2017:

I guess the noise profile for the Lge Nexus 5X should be the same for the Huawei Nexus 6P as both are using the same chip?
Francisco Cribari on Fri Apr 07 15:53:58 2017:

Thank you for the hard and competent work.