14 DAY TRIAL // The digiKam development team has announced a few hours ago, on April 7, the immediate availability for download of the digiKam Software Collection 4.9.0 image viewer and organizer application for the KDE desktop environment.
digiKam 4.9.0 is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs discovered or reported since the previous release of the software. While this version is designed for KDE4, the team is working hard these days on the port of digiKam for KDE Frameworks 5, due for release in July 2015.
"Dear digiKam fans and users, the digiKam Team is proud to announce the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.9.0," was stated in today's announcement. "This release includes a new sets of bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who maintain KDE4 version while KF5 port is under progress. "
According to the appended shortlog, 33 bugs were fixed in digiKam 4.9.0. Among the most important ones, we can mention several crashes on the OpenSuSE 13.1 operating system, a 100% CPU issue that kept the system hanged for very long periods, and a crash that occurred when applying lensfun distortion correction.
In addition, an issue with the Canon 700D camera and the Canon 18-135mm lens was fixed, a compilation error in digiKam 4.8.0 was addressed, and thumbnail-preview has been repaired to work for both the timeline and the tags. Download digiKam Software Collection 4.9.0 right now from Softpedia.