Darktable, the popular free open-source photography software and RAW developer, released new 5.0.1 version one day ago.

This is a maintenance release that includes various bug-fixes, some performance improvements, and updates camera devices and profiles support.

According to the Github releases page, the new 5.0.1 release improved performance of discarding history of selected images, added support the correct orientation for JPEG-XL if it was specified in the format’s metadata but not in Exif (or Exif is missing).

Darktable 5.0.1 improved the stability by fixed various crash issues. They include:

• crash when attempting to move up the top or only shape in a group in the mask manager.
• crash in variable expansion for $(SEQUENCE[n,m]).
• crash when reimporting XMP having overlay images referenced.
• crash when using Ctrl+z reproduced on macOS.
• crash in enlarge-canvas module.
• crash using details mask due to bad tiling.
• crash on macOS when closing the darkroom’s second window.
• crash after deleting style or preset that was selected in shortcuts dialog.
• crash when the currently active module instance is being deleted.

It also harmonized style selection in print settings, added lensfun database into the AppImage, centered collapsible module section labels, and updated LUA API to v9.4.0

There are as well many other bug-fixes, as well as new/update cameras support, including:

• Base support for Leica SL3-S (DNG), Minolta DiMAGE 5, Panasonic DC-S5D (3:2).
• Noise Profiles for Fujifilm GFX100 II, Fujifilm X-S20, Fujifilm X100VI.

Support for some cameras is suspended because no samples are available on https://raw.pixls.us, and there are missing compression mode support. See the release page for more details.

How to Get Darktable 5.0.1

The official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS, as well as the source tarball are available to download in Darktable website:

For Linux, it’s AppImage for modern AMD/Intel CPUs. Just grab the package, add executable permission, finally click Run to launch the software.

NOTE: For Ubuntu 22.04 & higher need to run sudo apt install libfuse2 command in terminal to enable AppImage support.

For choice, there are also community maintained packages available:

• OBS repository, contains native packages for Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.
• Ubuntu PPA, contains native .deb package for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.
• Flatpak package runs in sandbox environment.