Release Candidate for darktable 1.6 | Darktable
We are happy to announce the first release candidate for the upcoming darktable 1.6. In case you are wondering about the versioning scheme: we use odd numbers as development versions and even numbers for stable releases. This means the release candidate, tagged as „darktable-1.5.1“, is an unstable development version – the final stable version will bear the tag „darktable-1.6.0“. Grab the tarballs from the github release page:
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-1.5.1
Concerning Pascal’s Unstable PPA: only Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) is supported, and there will be no support for future non-LTS releases. Of course the stable PPA will still serve all active Ubuntu versions starting at the most recent LTS. And here are the preliminary release candidate release notes:
New features:
- initial support for x-trans sensors
- input colour gamut mapping
- slideshow
- better basecurve tool to create basecurves from raw/jpg pairs
- soft boundaries in sliders (right click and type 8 in exposure compensation for example0
- support huge images (> 32 bit pixel index)
- pwstorage libsecret
- new defringe image operation
- automatic levels
- big exr export speedup (multicore support)
- color conversion speedup (openmp for lcms2 case)
- tiff read/write rewritten, works on 32-bit float now
- embedded icc profile support for png/tiff (read/write) ……
Source: www.darktable.org