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

Pascal de Bruijn did some good work backporting some of the progress from git master to the 1.0 release. We packed that into a tarball, here it is:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/darktable/files/darktable/1.0/darktable-1.0.1.tar.gz/download

https://sourceforge.net/projects/darktable/files/darktable/1.0/darktable-1.0.3.tar.gz/download

(We had a problem packaging sources, so 1.0.3 is now on air. Please use it instead of 1.0.1)

As usual we have Ubuntu Packages are readily available on Pascal’s PPA, for Lucid, Natty, Oneiric and Precise:

https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/darktable-release

https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/darktable-release-plus

And these are the major changes:

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:

There are still bug fixes coming, which is good. But nevertheless we just released a release candidate tarball, available for download from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/darktable/files/darktable/1.0/darktable-1.0~rc1.tar.gz/download

which will hopefully help us to get rid of the last couple of remaining bugs before 1.0. For install instructions have a look on how to compile from source.

This is a rough outline of the changes since 0.9.3 (quite sure we forgot something, it’s been > 1000 commits):

Stefano Fornari has just released a new version of the book Digital photo development with darktable.

Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance update. The release fixes a number of typos and other small editorial changes suggested by the community.

Check out the pdf or packaged version and, as usual, send your comments and feedback to the darktable user list.

As most of you probably noticed by now, we released 0.9.3. The tar file can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/darktable/files/darktable/0.9/darktable-0.9.3.tar.gz/download

Pascal updated his ppa for ubuntu here: https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/darktable-release or https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/darktable-release-plus (with Exiv2 0.22, and Lensfun 0.2.5 + lens data from svn).

and made great new screencasts explaining a couple of features and differences to 0.9.2. You can find them on our resources page or Pascal’s website

It is a comparatively minor update to our stable 0.9.x series. It does not contain many very cool new features and big changes we have in git, because we don’t consider them stable enough yet. Nontheless, it contains 272 commits over the previous release 0.9.2, mainly containing: