14 DAY TRIAL // It seems to us that the developers of the darktable open-source and cross-platform RAW image editor are very active lately, and they now announced the availability of the third maintenance update to the major darktable 2.2 stable series of the application.
darktable 2.2.3 comes only two days after the second point release (darktable 2.2.2), which means that it's a very small update addressing only a handful of issues. For example, it improves subtraction of black levels by making sure the even- or oddness of the RAW crop origin point is respected.
The new darktable 2.2 update also fixes various user interface quirks for the Collection module and patches a fatal crash that occurred when attempting to generate previews for medium megapixel count of approximately 16MP on RAW Bayer images, so updating is recommended for all users.
Once again, we inform you that the darktable developers need your help to ensure the application can support the RAW file format for your digital camera. "Please help us by visiting https://raw.pixls.us/ and making sure that we have the full raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license," reads the release announcement.
You can download darktable 2.2.3 for GNU/Linux and macOS operating systems right now from our website, but please try to keep in mind not to use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub when attempting to compile the application on your favorite Linux-based OS. Only use the provided tarball from the downloads section.
If you don't fancy installing software from sources and you're using a rolling Linux distro, we recommend checking the stable software repositories in the coming days for the darktable 2.2.3 release. As usual, please update at your earliest convenience!