digiKam 8.0.0 is released (UPDATED)
After two years of development and bugs triage, and tests, the digiKam team is proud to present the new major version 8.0.0 of its open source digital photo manager.
See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
A huge Application as digiKam needs good documentation for end users, and is well written with plenty of screen-shots and screen-casts. We have been working many months to migrate and proof-read the old digiKam documentation based on DocBook format to a new architecture, more simple, easy to maintain, and translatable. After 20 years, we left the DocBook manual for the modern Sphinx/ReStructuredText framework. This one is really a pleasure to use by documentation writers.
UbuntuHandbook:
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digiKam 8.0.0 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04
digiKam, the popular KDE photo management software, released new major 8.0.0 version! Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users.
digiKam 8.0.0 is a big release after two year of development. It features new online documentation that is well written with plenty of screenshots and screencasts. An EPUB is also available for offline use.
UPDATE
LWN:
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New release: digiKam 8.0.0
The digiKam photo-management tool has announced its 8.0.0 release, after two years of development, bug fixing, and testing. Major new features include a documentation overhaul (with a new web site), support for more file formats, a new optical character recognition (OCR) tool, improved metadata handling, a neural-net-based image quality classifier, better integration with G'MIC-Qt, a Qt6-compatible code base, and lots more. See the announcement for all the details.
OMG Linux:
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digiKam 8.0 Released with OCR Tool, Better Format Support
When it comes open-source image organizers and photo tag editors open source app digiKam is the most well regarded...