posted on Sun 06 November 2016

we’re proud to announce the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.2 series of darktable, 2.2.0rc0!

the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.2.0rc0.

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

a084ef367b1a1b189ad11a6300f7e0cadb36354d11bf0368de7048c6a0732229 darktable-2.2.0~rc0.tar.xz

and the changelog as compared to 2.0.0 can be found below.

Well over 2 thousand commits since 2.0.0

The Big Ones:

Add new automatic perspective correction module (“ A new module for automatic perspective correction “)

“) Liquify tool for all your fancy pixel moving (“ Liquify, liquify? “)

“) A new image module to use a Color Look Up Table ( CLUT ) to change colors in the image (“ colour manipulation with the colour checker lut module “)

) to change colors in the image (“ “) In Highlight reconstruction module, the mode LCh reconstruction was completedy rewritten, and is no longer useless!

A new tool, darktable-chart, that goes along with the CLUT module, to create styles for the corresponding module

module, to create styles for the corresponding module Exposure fusion in the basecurve module to lower the dynamic range of images (“ compressing dynamic range with exposure fusion “)

“) Add new raw overexposure indication (“ Visualizing the raw (sensor) highlight clipping “)

“) Darkroom: the preview (in top-left corner) is now no longer pre-demosaiced, thus the preview, color picker, histogram show the proper results when there is highlight clipping.

Add undo/redo support for the darkroom

Quite Interesting Changes:

Split the database into a library containing images and a general one with styles, presets and tags. That allows having access to those when for example running with a :memory: library

Support running on platforms other than x86 (64bit little-endian, currently ARM64 only) (“ Running on non-x86 platforms “)

only) (“ “) darktable is now happy to use smaller stack sizes. That should allow using musl libc

Allow darktable-cli to work on directories

Allow to import/export tags from Lightroom keyword files

Allow using modifier keys to modify the step for sliders and curves. Defaults: Ctrl – x0.1; Shift – x10

Allow using the [keyboard] cursor keys to interact with sliders, comboboxes and curves; modifiers apply too

Support presets in “more modules” so you can quickly switch between your favorite sets of modules shown in the GUI

Add range operator and date compare to the collection module

Support the Exif date and time when importing photos from camera

Rudimentary CYGM and RGBE color filter array support

and color filter array support Preview pipe now does run demosaic module too, and its input is no longer pre-demosaiced, but is just downscaled without demosaicing it at the same time.

Nicer web gallery exporter – now touch friendly!

OpenCL implementation of VNG / VNG4 demosaicing methods

/ demosaicing methods OpenCL implementation of Markesteijn demosaicing method for X-Trans sensors

Filter-out some useless EXIF tags when exporting, helps keep EXIF size under ~64Kb

tags when exporting, helps keep size under ~64Kb OpenCL: properly discard CPU -based OpenCL devices. Fixes crashes on startup with some partially-working OpenCL implementations like pocl.

-based OpenCL devices. Fixes crashes on startup with some partially-working OpenCL implementations like pocl. darktable-cli: do not even try to open display, we don’t need it.

Hotpixels module: make it actually work for X-Trans

Some More Changes, Probably Not Complete:

Drop darktable-viewer tool in favor of slideshow view

Remove gnome keyring password backend, use libsecret instead

When using libsecret to store passwords then put them into the correct collection

Hint via window manager when import/export is done

Quick tagging searches anywhere, not just at the start of tags

The sidecar Xmp schema for history entries is now more consistent and less error prone

Rawspeed: fixes for building with libjpeg (as opposed to libjpeg-turbo)

Give the choice of equidistant and proportional feathering when using elliptical masks

Add geolocation to watermark variables

Fix some crashes with missing configured ICC profiles

profiles Support greyscale color profiles

OSX : add trash support (thanks to Michael Kefeder for initial patch)

: add trash support (thanks to Michael Kefeder for initial patch) Attach Xmp data to EXR files

files Several fixes for HighDPI displays

Use Pango for text layout, thus supporting RTL languages

languages Many bugs got fixed and some memory leaks plugged

The usermanual was updated to reflect the changes in the 2.2 series

Changed Dependencies:

CMake 3.0 is now required.

In order to compile darktable you now need at least gcc-4.7+/clang-3.3+, but better use gcc-5.0+

Drop support for OS X 10.6

X 10.6 Bump required libexiv2 version up to 0.24

Bump GTK + requirement to gtk-3.14. (because even Debian/stable has it)

+ requirement to gtk-3.14. (because even Debian/stable has it) Bump GLib requirement to glib-2.40.

Port to OpenJPEG2

SDL is no longer needed.

A special note to all the darktable Fedora users: Fedora-provided darktable packages are intentionally built with Lua disabled. Thus, Lua scripting will not work. This breaks e.g. darktable-gimp integration. Please bug Fedora. In the mean time you could fix that by self-compiling darktable (pass -DDONT_USE_INTERNAL_LUA=OFF to cmake in order to enable use of bundled Lua5.2.4).

Base Support

Canon EOS -1D X Mark II

-1D X Mark Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

5D Mark Canon EOS 80D

80D Canon EOS 1300D

1300D Canon EOS Kiss X80

Kiss X80 Canon EOS Rebel T6

Rebel T6 Canon EOS M10

M10 Canon PowerShot A720 IS (dng)

(dng) Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II

Canon PowerShot G9 X

Canon PowerShot SD450 (dng)

(dng) Canon PowerShot SX130 IS (dng)

(dng) Canon PowerShot SX260 HS (dng)

(dng) Canon PowerShot SX510 HS (dng)

(dng) Fujifilm FinePix S100FS

Fujifilm X-Pro2

Fujifilm X-T2

Fujifilm X70

Fujifilm XQ2

GITUP GIT2 (chdk-a, chdk-b)

(chdk-a, chdk-b) (most nikon cameras here are just fixes, and they were supported before already)

Nikon 1 AW1 (12bit-compressed)

(12bit-compressed) Nikon 1 J1 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 J2 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 J3 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 J4 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 J5 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon 1 S1 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 S2 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 V1 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 V2 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon 1 V3 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon Coolpix A (14bit-compressed)

Nikon Coolpix P330 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon Coolpix P340 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon Coolpix P6000 (12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon Coolpix P7000 (12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon Coolpix P7100 (12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon Coolpix P7700 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon Coolpix P7800 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D1 (12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D100 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D1H (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D1X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D200 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D2H (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D2Hs (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D2X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D3 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D300 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D3000 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D300S (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D3100 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D3200 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D3300 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D3400 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D3S (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D3X (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)

(14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed) Nikon D4 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D40 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D40X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D4S (14bit-compressed)

(14bit-compressed) Nikon D5 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D50 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D500 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)

Nikon D5000 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D5100 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D5200 (14bit-compressed)

Nikon D5300 (12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D5500 (12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D60 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D600 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)

Nikon D610 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)

Nikon D70 (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D700 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed)

Nikon D7000 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)

Nikon D70s (12bit-compressed)

Nikon D7100 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)

Nikon D80 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D800 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon D800E (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

(14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed) Nikon D90 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon Df (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon E5400 (12bit-uncompressed)

Nikon E5700 (12bit-uncompressed)

Olympus PEN -F

-F OnePlus One (dng)

Panasonic DMC - FZ150 (1:1, 16:9)

- (1:1, 16:9) Panasonic DMC - FZ18 (16:9, 3:2)

- (16:9, 3:2) Panasonic DMC - FZ300 (4:3)

- (4:3) Panasonic DMC - FZ50 (16:9, 3:2)

- (16:9, 3:2) Panasonic DMC -G8 (4:3)

-G8 (4:3) Panasonic DMC -G80 (4:3)

-G80 (4:3) Panasonic DMC - GX80 (4:3)

- (4:3) Panasonic DMC - GX85 (4:3)

- (4:3) Panasonic DMC - LX3 (1:1)

- (1:1) Pentax K-1

Pentax K-70

Samsung GX20 (dng)

(dng) Sony DSC -F828

-F828 Sony DSC - RX10M3

- Sony DSLR -A380

-A380 Sony ILCA -68

-68 Sony ILCE -6300

White Balance Presets

Canon EOS 1200D

1200D Canon EOS Kiss X70

Kiss X70 Canon EOS Rebel T5

Rebel T5 Canon EOS 1300D

1300D Canon EOS Kiss X80

Kiss X80 Canon EOS Rebel T6

Rebel T6 Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

5D Mark Canon EOS 5DS

Canon EOS 5DS R

R Canon EOS 750D

750D Canon EOS Kiss X8i

Kiss X8i Canon EOS Rebel T6i

Rebel T6i Canon EOS 760D

760D Canon EOS 8000D

8000D Canon EOS Rebel T6s

Rebel T6s Canon EOS 80D

80D Canon EOS M10

M10 Canon EOS -1D X Mark II

-1D X Mark Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II

Fujifilm X-Pro2

Fujifilm X-T10

Fujifilm X100T

Fujifilm X20

Fujifilm X70

Nikon 1 V3

Nikon D5500

Olympus PEN -F

-F Pentax K-70

Pentax K-S1

Pentax K-S2

Sony ILCA -68

-68 Sony ILCE -6300

Noise Profiles

Canon EOS 5DS R

R Canon EOS 80D

80D Canon PowerShot G15

Canon PowerShot S100

Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

Fujifilm X-T10

Fujifilm X-T2

Fujifilm X100T

Fujifilm X20

Fujifilm X70

Nikon 1 V3

Nikon D5500

Olympus E- PL6

Olympus PEN -F

-F Panasonic DMC - FZ1000

- Panasonic DMC - GF7

- Pentax K-S2

Ricoh GR

Sony DSC - RX10

- Sony SLT -A37

New Translations

Hebrew

Slovenian

Updated Translations