posted on Tue 24 April 2018

we’re proud to announce the third bugfix release for the 2.4 series of darktable, 2.4.3!

the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.4.3.

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

$ sha256sum darktable-2.4.3.tar.xz 1dc5fc7bd142f4c74a5dd4706ac1dad772dfc7cd5538f033e60e3a08cfed03d3 darktable-2.4.3.tar.xz $ sha256sum darktable-2.4.3.dmg 290ed5473e3125a9630a235a4a33ad9c9f3718f4a10332fe4fe7ae9f735c7fa9 darktable-2.4.3.1.dmg $ sha256sum darktable-2.4.3-win64.exe a34361924b4d7d3aa9cb4ba7e5aeef928c674822c1ea36603b4ce5993678b2fa darktable-2.4.3-win64.exe $ sha256sum darktable-2.4.3-win64.zip 3e14579ab0da011a422cd6b95ec409565d34dd8f7084902af2af28496aead5af darktable-2.4.3-win64.zip

when updating from the currently stable 2.2.x series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but it will not be possible to downgrade from 2.4 to 2.2.x any more.

Important note: to make sure that darktable can keep on supporting the raw file format for your camera, please read this post on how/what raw samples you can contribute to ensure that we have the full raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license!

and the changelog as compared to 2.4.2 can be found below.

New Features

Support for tags and ratings in the watermark module

Read Xmp.exif.DateTimeOriginal from XMP sidecars

sidecars Build and install noise tools

Add a script for converting .dtyle to an .xmp

Bugfixes

Don’t create unneeded folders during export in some cases

When collecting by tags, don’t select subtags

Fix language selection on OSX

Fix a crash while tethering

Camera support, compared to 2.4.2

Warning: support for Nikon NEF ‘lossy after split’ raws was unintentionally broken due to the lack of such samples. Please see this post for more details. If you have affected raws, please contribute samples!

Base Support

Fujifilm X-H1 (compressed)

Kodak EOS DCS 3

3 Olympus E- PL9

Panasonic DC - GX9 (4:3)

- (4:3) Sony DSC - RX1RM2

- Sony ILCE -7M3

White Balance Presets

Sony ILCE -7M3

Noise Profiles