We are happy to announce that almost after one year darktable 1.6 has just 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-1.6.0

Please only use our provided packages (green buttons tar.xz and dmg) not the auto-created tarballs from github (grey buttons, zip and tar.gz). The latter are just git snapshots and will not work! Here’s the direct link to tar.xz:

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.0/darktable-1.6.0.tar.xz

**Update: **the git repository officially resides in github now.

Today we are moving our git repo from sf.net to github, as it was agreed in the developer meeting that took place yesterday. This will happen today 22:00 – 23:00 CEST

What should I do now?

Depends on the role you play in the project.

1. You have commit rights into current sf.net repository: please open an account in github if you don’t have any and make me know it. I will give you those permits there, but do not push there for now, your changed will be lost.
2. You don’t have commit rights but regularly contribute back patches to darktable: please consider doing a fork of our repo in github and make a branch there for your patches. Later on make a pull request to let us know that we should pull from your branch.
3. If you make some patches, but not in a regular way, you can also benefit of having your own fork … it will allow to publish your changes, access them from remote places, and have a backup place for your repo in case of disaster.
4. You only track the repo. Wait until the switch is made and follow the instructions in this post.

What is going to happen just before the switch?

It is done, 1.0 is out. I sent out most of the new features with the announcement for 1.0rc2 a few weeks ago already, but for completeness, here it is again:

• New cameras supported
  • Leica M9
  • NX100/NX5/NX10/NX11
  • Panasonic DMC-GX1
  • Pentax K-r
  • Canon Powershot S100
  • Olympus XZ-1
  • Olympus E-P3
  • Sony DSLR A330
  • Sony NEX-5N
  • Canon EOS 1000D
  • Canon EOS 600D
  • Sony Alpha 390
  • Fuji Finepix HS20EXR
• New and updated translations (we now have chinese!)
• New modules:
  • shadows & highlights
  • enhanced tone curve. now operates in a and b channels as well
• Refactored modules:
  • import
  • snapshots (enable sliding separation line between before/after images)
  • metadata
• New image cache
  • faster concurrent access and insertion
  • reduces needed memory
  • more thumbnails stored on disk
  • read embedded jpegs for creating thumbnails (faster folder import)
• Increased general speed on sqlite3 (journaled, pagesize optimizations)
• Reworked, modular UI
• Keyboard shortcuts support – key accelerators (GSoC)
• Unity launcher support (Ubuntu)
• Quicktool bar: exposure, presets and styles
• New color picker
• Web gallery export now with next/prev buttons per image
• Removed gconf: not used anymore, we have our own backend
• Bugfixes

Also, a couple of caveats to keep in mind this time: