{"id":51936,"date":"2026-08-26T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=51936"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:25:43","slug":"darktable-tagged-5-6-1-with-numerous-bug-fixes-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/darktable-tagged-5-6-1-with-numerous-bug-fixes-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Darktable Tagged 5.6.1 with Numerous Bug-fixes &#038; Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-36501\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/darktable-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Darktable, the open-source photography and raw developer application, tagged 5.6.1 version today.<\/p>\n<p>The new version is a maintenance release that improved the AI support, fixed numerous issues, and updated translations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The last Darktable 5.6.0 introduced AI sub-system and a preference dialog to download AI models. The new version updated the download manager, so it will resume after an interruption and retry on transient network errors instead of starting over.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51429\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/darktale-aidownload.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51429\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51429\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/darktale-aidownload-700x466.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/darktale-aidownload-700x466.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/darktale-aidownload-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/darktale-aidownload-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/darktale-aidownload.webp 1465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darktable AI preferences<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The AI-based noise reduction will no longer try to process photos from older Fujifilm cameras that use Super CCD sensors, because this sensor format isn&#8217;t supported by the AI model.<\/p>\n<p>And when the AI denoise or AI upscale creates a new image file, it now carries more of the original photo&#8217;s metadata, including color labels, ratings and manually applied geotags, in addition to EXIF data and tags.<\/p>\n<p>Besides AI related updates, it fixed AMD OpenCL issues on Windows and Rusticl\/Mesa issues, reduced excessive OpenCL memory usage, and improved stability on low-memory GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>It also fixed incorrect colors in 16-bit PNGs, demosaic problems, highlight segmentation issues, JPEG 2000 corruption, and subtle color errors after history changes.<\/p>\n<p>It as well reduced excessive preview\/mipmap and pixelpipe memory usage to prevent OOM crashes and restore better performance on small systems.<\/p>\n<p>The AppImage package for Linux now supports Wayland natively, and, it will fallback to x11 if no Wayland compositor is available.<\/p>\n<p>For Windows, it now enforces darktable loading screen to avoid darkroom refreshing issues. And, it does no longer crash when auto-detecting an incompatible ONNX Runtime library, or when reopening preferences after configuring one.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in Darktable 5.6.1 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix tether mode connection issue for non-English UI.<\/li>\n<li>Fix crash applying <code>.cube<\/code>, <code>.3dl<\/code>, or compressed GMIC 3D LUTs.<\/li>\n<li>Fix corrupted pixels on some AMD GPUs using the Mesa rusticl OpenCL driver.<\/li>\n<li>Reverted increased preview pipe dimension for UI performance.<\/li>\n<li>Preserve Sony&#8217;s built-in lens-correction information when exporting TIFF\/DNG.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Get Darktable 5.6.1<\/h3>\n<p>The official release note as well as the installer packages will be soon available in Github releases page via the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/darktable-org\/darktable\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Darktable Releases<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Besides the packages under Assets section, Debian\/Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE users may keep an eye on this <a href=\"https:\/\/software.opensuse.org\/download.html?project=graphics:darktable&amp;package=darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OBS page<\/a> for the native <code>.deb<\/code>\/<code>.rpm<\/code> packages.<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;ll update <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/darktable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this PPA<\/a> once the source tarball (not the one auto-generated by Github) is available.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darktable, the open-source photography and raw developer application, tagged 5.6.1 version today. 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