Darktable 2.4.0 released. Here’s how to install Darktable 2.4.0 in Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives.
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
Darktable 2.4.0 New Features And Changes
- Show a dialog window that tells when locking the database/library failed
- Don’t shade the whole region on the map when searching for a location. Instead just draw a border around it.
- Also in map mode: Clear the search list and map indicators when resetting the search module.
- With OsmGPSMap newer than version 1.1.0 (i.e., anything released after that OsmGPSMap version) the map will show copyright info.
- Running jobs with a progressbar (mostly import and export) will show that progress bar ontop the window entry in your task bar – if the system supports it. It should work on GNOME, KDE and Windows at least.
- Add bash like string replacement for variables (export, watermark, session settings)
- Add a preferences option to ask before removing empty dirs
- The “colorbalance” module got a lot faster, thanks to SSE optimized code
- Make gradient sliders a little more colorful
- Make PNG compression level used for exporting configurable
- On OSX, load single images from command line or via drag&drop in darkroom mode
- Add an option to omit the intermediate tag hierarchy in exported files and only add the last level
- In the watermark module, sort the list of SVG files and omit the file extension
- Support XYZ as a proofing profile
- Local contrast now got a new slider to set the midtone range
- Support basic import of Lightroom 7 settings
- Change the styling of insensitive bauhaus widgets
- Don’t hide the mode combobox in the exposure module, just disable it
- Read primaries and whitepoint from .hdr files and default to those as the input color profile
- Some more small improvements were made
Bugfixes
- Fix the problem with rating images by accident when moving the mouse while typing an image size in the export module
- Fix several oddities in folder and tag mode of the collect module
- Print mode’s color profile settings no longer interact with the export module
- Update the style lists when importing a style
- Fix some bugs with multiple module instances used in a style
- On OSX only the main window should be fullscreen, not the popups
- Some speedups with VERY big libraries or having A LOT OF tags
- Significantly speed up tagging many images
- Fix searching locations using OpenStreetMap
- Fix partial copies of large files in “import from camera”
- Fix a crash in the import dialog when using Lua to add widgets there
- Fix some false-positive warnings about another running darktable instance and it having locked the databases
- No longer switch to the favourite modules group when duplicating one of its modules
- Fix loading of XYZ files
- Fix Lab export when the profile was set from the lighttable
- Create temporary snapshot files with mode 0600 to stop other people looking at them
- Fix several bugs with Wayland. However, there are still issues, so darktable will prefer XWayland
- Google deprecated the Picasa Web API so it’s no longer possible to create G+ albums
- Fix the default for sliders with target not being “red” in the channel mixer
- Fix the removal of directories
- Make the escape key cancel history dialogs
- Block keyboard accels when editing camera controls
- Properly delete XMP sidecars
- Make sure that the rating set in darktable is used for the exported file, not something set inside the raw file
- Don’t re-write all XMP files when detaching a tag
- Sync XMPs when a tag is removed from the database
- Sync XMPs after a tag is attached/detached via the Lua API
- Bail out of darktable-cli when the XMP file is not readable
- Show ratings on zoomable lighttable without a delay
- Rely on CUPS color management when printing without configuring any color profile in darktable
- Fix spurious segfault in local contrast
- Make calls to exiv2’s readMetadata thread safe to not crash randomly
Darktable 2.4.0 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install darktable