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Darktable 5.6.2 Fixed OpenCL Support for Intel Compute Runtime 26.35

Published: October 5, 2026 — Last updated: October 5, 2026 — Leave a comment

Darktable, the popular photography workflow and raw developer software, released new 5.6.2 version today.

The new version is a maintenance release that mainly includes bug fixes covering OpenCL support, crashes, and memory leaks.

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How to Install Darktable 5.6.1 via DEB in Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04, 22.04

Published: August 31, 2026 — Last updated: September 1, 2026 — Leave a comment

This tutorial shows how to install the last version of Darktable (5.6.1 so far) via native DEB package in Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and their based distributions such as Linux Mint 22.x.

Darktable is a popular free open-source photography and raw developer application, which is so far at version 5.6.1. It provides official Linux package as non-install AppImage.

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Darktable Tagged 5.6.1 with Numerous Bug-fixes & Improvements

Published: August 26, 2026 — Last updated: October 4, 2026 — Leave a comment

Darktable, the open-source photography and raw developer application, tagged 5.6.1 version today.

The new version is a maintenance release that improved the AI support, fixed numerous issues, and updated translations.

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Darktable Released 5.6.0 with Optional AI Support & HEIF Export

Published: June 21, 2026 — Last updated: June 22, 2026 — 1 Comment

Darktable, the popular free open-source photography and raw developer application, released new major 5.6.0 version today!

The new version introduced optional AI sub-system, UI/UX and performance improvements, as well as many fixes and other changes.

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Darktable, the free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 5.4.1 version one day ago.

This is a minor release that focuses on bug-fixes, stability improvements, as well as camera support changes and translation updates, but no new features.

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Darktable 5.4.0 Released with Multi-Workspaces & Better Wayland Support

Published: December 22, 2025 — Last updated: February 6, 2026 — Leave a comment

Darktable, the free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new major 5.4.0 version yesterday.

The new release of this GTK software introduced multiple workspace support. Like “user profile” feature for Firefox, user can now add custom workspaces at app start for Darktable. And, each workspace has it’s own database and configuration file.

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Darktable 5.2.0 Released with Raster Mask Import [Ubuntu PPA]

Published: June 23, 2025 — Last updated: June 23, 2025 — 1 Comment

Darktable, the popular free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 5.2.0 version few days ago!

The new release introduced side-by-side view (aka split view) to preview the different between snapshot and current images. And, it can be enabled by clicking on the “X|Y” icon next to “take snapshot” button.

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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.

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Darktable, the popular free open-source photography and RAW developer, released new 5.0.0 version yesterday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.

Darktable 5.0.0 is a new major feature release. It now shows a splash screen at startup, including app loading process bar, which is useful for the user who has a large library. For choice, it can be disabled in the Preferences dialog, under miscellaneous tab.

Darktable startup splash screen

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Darktable photography workflow application and RAW developer released new stable 4.6.1 yesterday!

The release finished the documentation for the new 4.6 release series, include translations to Ukrainian, Polish and Dutch.

And, it now performs image discovery asynchronously in the import dialog. Meaning that long parsing due to huge number of sub-directories and
files can be easily interrupted by selecting another place or un-checking recursive mode.

The release now drops support for macOS versions older than 12.5. Other changes are mostly bug-fixes. They include:

  • Fix memory and resource leaks in the QOI image loader.
  • Fix RGBE image loader.
  • Fix crashes when running low on GPU or system memory.
  • Fix OpenCL startup for various cards.
  • Fix compatibility issues with HDR created DNG files.

For more, see the github releases page for details.

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