posted on Wed 08 April 2015

We are happy to announce that darktable 1.6.4 has 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-1.6.4 Please only use our provided packages (“darktable-1.6.4.*” tar.xz and dmg) not the auto-created tarballs from github (“Source code”, zip and tar.gz). The latter are just git snapshots and will not work! Here’s the direct link to tar.xz and dmg: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.4/darktable-1.6.4.tar.xz https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.4/darktable-1.6.4.dmg

this is another point release in the stable 1.6.x series.

sha256sum darktable-1.6.4.tar.xz c5f705e8164c014acf0dac2ffc5b730362068c2864622121ca6fa9f330368d2a sha256sum darktable-1.6.4.dmg e5bbf00fefcf116aec0e66d1d0cf2e2396cb0b19107402d2ef70d1fa0ab375f6

General improvements:

major rawspeed update

facebook exporter update (first authentication usability should be much better now)

first run opencl benchmark to prevent opencl auto-activation if GPU is obviously slower than CPU

is obviously slower than lensfun cornercase fixes

some mask cornercase fixes

zonesystem now updates it’s gui when number of zones changes

spots iop updates

ui_last/gui_language should work more reliably now

internal lua updated from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4 (distro typically use their own version of lua)

gcc 5 should build now

Camera support:

Canon Digital Rebel (non-european 300D)

Nikon D5500 (experimental)

Olympus E-M5 Mark II (experimental)

(experimental) Samsung NX500 (experimental)

White balance presets:

Sony A77 II

Fujifilm X-E2

Olympus E-M5 Mark II

Noise profiles:

Canon 7D Mark II

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