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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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Photoflare, the free open-source Qt-based image editor, released new major 1.7.0 version few days ago.

This is a much bigger release since the last 1.6.0 version that was released more than 6 years ago. New features include Qt6 port, GMIC integration dark mode improvements, and more.

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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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GIMP 3.2 RC1 Released with SVG Export and New Keyboard Shortcuts

Published: November 18, 2025 — Last updated: November 18, 2025 — Leave a comment

GIMP, the popular image editing software, announced the first release candidate for the next major 3.2 version yesterday.

This is the third development release for GIMP 3.2. It introduced some new keyboard shortcuts, new and improved image formats support, API changes and UI/UX improvements.

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Hugin 2025.0.0 Released with New GUI Tool (Ubuntu PPA Updated)

Published: November 17, 2025 — Last updated: November 19, 2025 — 2 Comments

Hugin, the free open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging program, release new 2025.0.0 version few days ago.

The new version of this yearly release software, introduced new GUI tool called Hugin Toolbox, which provides a graphical user interface forĀ enfuse and simple perspective correction.

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digiKam, the popular Qt-based photo management software, released new 8.8.0 version after 4 months of development.

This is probably the last release in 2025, as the developer team plans to add Qt 6.10 bundle and AI-power tools for image enhancement and management in next version for 2026.

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gThumb 3.12.8 added Viewing GPS Position Support

Published: September 22, 2025 — Last updated: September 23, 2025 — 1 Comment

gThumb, the Gnome image viewer, browser, and organizer application, released new 3.12.8 version in last week.

The new release of this application finally added support viewing the GPS metadata in your photo images. Meaning for photos taken by cameras or phones have location services enabled, the image viewer will show where they were taken with latitude and longitude location data.

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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 raw image processing software, released new 4.8.1 version few days ago.

This is the first minor release for the current 4.8 release series, which contains only bug-fixes. The release fixed the issue that export without high quality sampling but with up-scaling activated, crash when using the -d imageio option, and image jump if collection is empty.

There are as well fixes for importing/exporting issues, including large image exports due to a bug in finalscale module, JPEG2000 loading issue due to unspecified color space, and empty lighttable when importing from command-line. For more, see the official release note.

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