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digiKam 7.1.0 Released with Better Canon CR3 Metadata Support

Last updated: September 9, 2020 — Leave a comment

digiKam photo management software 7.1.0 was released a few days ago with some new features and plenty of bug-fixes.

digiKam 7.1.0 release highlights include:

Better Canon CR3 metadata support.
New Batch Queue Manager plugin to fix Hot Pixels automatically.
New Batch Queue Manager plugin to apply texture over images.
Improve the IPTC compatibility with UTF-8 characters encoding.

Download / Install digiKam:

Non-install single executable .appimage package is available in the download page.

digiKam is also available as Flatpak package, you can get it either from flathub repository, or by running following commands one by one in Ubuntu:

1. Open terminal from system application launcher. When it opens, run command to install flatpak framework:

sudo apt install flatpak

2. Then add Flathub repository which hosts a large list of flatpak packages:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

3. Finally run command to install digiKam flatpak package:

flatpak install flathub org.kde.digikam

Already installed the flatpak package? You may update the application via:

flatpak update org.kde.digikam

For any reason, you can remove the package via command:

flatpak uninstall org.kde.digikam

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digiKam 7.0 Released with Improved Face Detection

Last updated: July 25, 2020 — Leave a comment

digiKam photo management software 7.0 was released a few days ago with greatly improved face detection and recognition.

digiKam 7.0 was released after one year of development. It features new deep learning faces management. No learning stage is required to perform face detection and recognition. And face detection reaches 97% of true positives.

The improved face detection and recognition also supports non-human faces, blurred faces, covered faces, profiles of faces, printed faces, faces turned away, partial faces, etc.

And it supports multiple cores to speed-up computations.

Other changes include:

Improved HEIF image format support
A new tool Image Mosaic Wall.
The SlideShow tool ported as plugin.
New RAW files support including the famous Canon CR3, Sony A7R4, and more:
- Canon: PowerShot G5 X Mark II, G7 X Mark III, SX70 HS, EOS R, EOS RP, EOS 90D, EOS 250D, EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M50, EOS M200
- DJI Mavic Air, Osmo Action
- FujiFilm GFX 100, X-A7, X-Pro3
- GoPro Fusion, HERO5, HERO6, HERO7
- Hasselblad L1D-20c, X1D II 50C
- Leica D-LUX7, Q-P, Q2, V-LUX5, C-Lux / CAM-DC25
- Olympus TG-6, E-M5 Mark III.
- Panasonic DC-FZ1000 II, DC-G90, DC-S1, DC-S1R, DC-TZ95
- PhaseOne IQ4 150MP
- Ricoh GR III
- Sony A7R IV, ILCE-6100, ILCE-6600, RX0 II, RX100 VII
- Zenit M
- and multiple smartphones…

Download / Install digiKam:

1. Non-install single executable Linux Appimage is available in the official download page.

2. digiKam is also available as Flatpak package, you can get it from flathub repository.

3. For those prefer Ubuntu PPA, keep an eye on this launchpad page.

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digiKam Image Organizer 6.4.0 Released with 14 New Plugins

Last updated: November 12, 2019

The free and open-source digiKam image organizer and tag editor released version 6.4.0 a few days ago with extended DPlugins interface.

digiKam 6.4.0 release highlights:

14 new plugins.
support native image loader as plugins instead to use hard-coded loader.
support HEIF image format as native.
RAW import tool as plugin.
Image editor clone tool plugin
For more, see the release note.

Download DigiKam 6.4.0

There’s no PPA repository, snap package (in test stage), or flatpak package for the latest DigiKam.

So far there’s only Appimage available to make it easy to run DigiKam in Ubuntu.

Download Digikam (appimage)

Download the i386.appimage (for 32-bit) or x86_64.appimage (for 64-bit)
Right-click and go to file’s Properties dialog, and check the box says ‘allow executing file as program’ in Permissions tab.
Finally run the appimage to launch digiKam.

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DigiKam 6.0 Released with Support for Video Files Management

Last updated: February 20, 2019

DigiKam photo manager released new major version 6.0 recently with many great new feature including video files management support as photo.

DigiKam 6.0 release highlights:

Full support of video files management working just like photos.
An integration of all import/export web-service tools in LightTable, Image editor and Showfoto.
Raw file decoding engine supporting new cameras.
Similarity data is now stored in a separate database file.
Simplified web-service authentication using OAuth protocol.
New tools to export to Pinterest, OneDrive and Box web-services.
The capability to re-organize the icon-view contents manually.
See the release note for more details.

Download DigiKam 6.0

There’s no PPA repository, snap package, or flatpak package for the latest DigiKam.

So far there’s only Appimage available to make it easy to run DigiKam in Ubuntu.

Download Digikam (appimage)

Download the i386.appimage (for 32-bit) or x86_64.appimage (for 64-bit)
Right-click and go to file’s Properties dialog, and make it executable
Finally run the appimage to launch digiKam.

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digiKam 5.9.0 Released with Various Fixes (Appimage)

Last updated: March 25, 2018

Open source photo management software digikam 5.9.0 was released a day ago with lots of bug fixes and improvements.

“Following the release of 5.8.0 published in January, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.9.0 of the digiKam Software Collection. In this last version of 5.x, we has focused all developements to close bugs.”

Changes in digiKam 5.9.0 include:

Many small fixes has been commited over XMP sidecar support
Fixes to Mysql database schema migration which can introduce errors while converting old database files generated with digiKam 4.x.
Small fixes to group and ungroup operations done by end users in icon-view while cataloging items.