darktable Changelog

What's new in darktable 3.0.0

Dec 30, 2019
  • The Big Ones:
  • A full rework of the GUI. The whole GUI is now fully controlled by GTK+ CSS rules. There is no more size, color, position in Gtk C code, which makes the whole GUI themable. This version comes with several themes:
  • darktable : the default theme
  • darktable-icons : the default theme with icons
  • darktable-elegant-darker : more condensed fonts best experience with Roboto font installed
  • darktable-icons-darker : as elegant, with module icons best experience with Roboto font installed
  • darktable-elegant-dark : lighter version
  • darktable-elegant-grey : even lighter version
  • darktable-icons-dark : lighter version. with module icons
  • darktable-icons-grey : even lighter version, with module icons
  • New shortcuts have been introduced to quickly collapse borders, sidebars, histogram and navigation modules, allowing a new borderless editing experience.
  • Note that the new GUI requires Gtk+ 3.22 or higher to work properly.
  • It’s now possible to associate dynamic key shortcuts to sliders, then use them with the mouse wheel or arrow keys to move the value up and down. For example, associating the E key to the exposure slider, you can press it and scroll to increase the exposure without having to open the module. You get fast heads-up access to all your favorite settings, as if you were using a dedicated multimedia console.
  • The color picker on the ‘tone curve’, ‘color zones’ and ‘fill light’ modules, as well as the parametric mask controls, now allows you to select an area when enabled by using Ctrl+click on the button.
  • Added undo/redo support in lighttable for tags, color labels, ratings, metadata, deleted history stack, pasted history stack and applied styles.
  • IMPORTANT: The ‘preview’ and ‘preview with focus detection’ actions (previously Z and Ctrl+Z respectively) are now assigned to W and Ctrl+W in order to follow the convention of using Ctrl+Z for the “undo” function (Ctrl+Y for redo).
  • A new timeline view has been introduced in the lighttable.
  • A new ‘culling’ mode has been added to the lightable view. It displays a fixed number of consecutive images starting from the first selected, and allows you to pan & zoom them. The number of displayed images can be set by the user, and they can be navigated with the mouse wheel and keyboard.
  • A quite extensive rewrite of the lighttable view (including the filmstrip in darkroom view) has been made to greatly improve the overall performance. The lighttable is now usable on 4K and 5K monitors.
  • Added support for the new ‘raster mask’, a copy of a parametric mask which is stable during the whole pixel-pipe.
  • The processing order of the pixel-pipe can now be changed by using Ctrl+Shift+drag on the module headers to arrange them relative to each other. It is VERY IMPORTANT to understand that this feature is NOT for creating a more convenient GUI layout, but for changing the actual processing of the image. DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE unless you understand the reason behind the default ordering, and have a specific reason for changing it. The default order is still the correct order for most purposes. Also note that styles will always apply the default ordering; creating a style based on modules which have had their order changed will NOT recreate this changed order when applied, and therefore may not give the expected result.
  • The history stack will now always show mandatory modules which were previously hidden. They are always active as necessary for processing images, and are not removed by compressing history or by selecting one as a stating point for editing. These seven modules (some are RAW-only) have a specific icon to identify them easily:
  • - raw black/white point
  • - white balance
  • - highlight reconstruction
  • - demosaic
  • - input color profile
  • - output color profile
  • - gamma
  • The ‘color zones’ module now shows a histogram based on the chosen ‘select by’ channel, and if the color picker is in ‘select area’ mode, the range within the selected area will also be shown. By default, the spline adjustment is now similar to the curve controls, allowing you to add and delete nodes, but these nodes can still be moved with the old-style size control by selecting the ‘edit by area’ checkbox. There is also a new ‘strong’ processing option, and a new color picker which creates a curve based on selected image area.
  • A new module ‘filmic RGB’ which, like the previous ‘filmic’, is designed to replace ‘base curve’, ‘shadows and highlights’ and other global tone-mapping modules. This new version replaces the one introduced in 2.6.2; it should be easier to use, and it will reduce color casts. The old ‘filmic’ module is now deprecated and is only available on images where it was already used for editing.
  • A new module ‘tone equalizer’ is designed to merge the features of ‘zone system’, ‘shadows and highlights’, and (local) ‘tone mapping’ modules in a scene-referred RGB space. It brings an easy and safe way to remap tones locally, performing a quick zone-based dodging and burning using Ansel Adam’s zone system logic. The module provides an interface similar to audio graphic equalizers, with 9 bands (available as fixed sliders or nodes on a spline view), allowing you to selectively push or pull the exposure for each band in the range from blacks to specular highlights. It also features an interactive cursor that allows to push or pull the exposure gains directly from the image preview by simply hovering over an area and scrolling. It uses a guided filter internally to refine the dodging and burning mask, which preserves local contrast without producing halos along edges.
  • New Features And Changes:
  • A new module for handling 3D RGB Lut transformations (PNG Hald-CLUT and Cube files are supported).
  • Many improvements to the ‘denoise (profiled)’ module. The degree of shadow denoising can be controlled, including the correction of color casts (mainly improves high-ISO images). “Auto” modes which infer some parameters from the profile are available, allowing users to create presets which are adaptive to various ISO values. The default values of the sliders are also adapted dynamically on module activation, giving a good trade-off between noise smoothing and detail preservation. The non-local means mode has 2 new options: one to coarse-grain denoising, and one to control the amount of fine detail to preserve. The controls now have soft boundaries, which means that users can use the keyboard to enter values outside the range of the sliders if they need to.
  • Along with selecting the ‘soft proof’ color profile, users can now select an additional profile for the color space of the histogram, color picker and overexposed checker. When gamut or softproof checks are active the histogram and color picker use the softproof profile, otherwise they use the new histogram profile (which is always used for overexposure checking).
  • A new setting for ‘working profile’ has been added to the input color profile module. This color space will be used by RGB modules between the input and output color profile modules.
  • A new color picker has been added to the parametric masking controls which adjusts the range sliders based on the selected area from the image. Click the picker button to adjust the input image slider, Ctrl+click the button to adjust the output image slider.
  • The ‘picasa’ target storage in the export module has been completely rewritten to support the new Google Photo API, and renamed ‘google photos’. It is again possible to create albums directly from the export module.
  • A new single-line image information display can be positioned at the top (left, right, or center) or bottom (center) of the darkroom view to replace the information previously overlaid on the histogram. The specific information shown can be configured in preferences.
  • The ‘tagging’ module is faster, and can now display hierarchical tags in a tree view. Tags can now be designated as ‘private’ (not exported by default), ‘synonym’ (to help search engines), and ‘category’ (not exported, for organizing the tag library). The metadata exported with images can now be configured in the ‘export selected’ module, allowing you to choose which main types are exported, as well as define values for specific tags based on formulas.
  • Many code optimizations for CPU and SSE paths. The tone equalizer module introduces a new optimization paradigm (GCC target clones), aimed toward users of pre-built Linux packages. The image-processing code will be cloned for several CPU generations (SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, AVX, AVX2) at compilation time, and the best-suited version of the code will be chosen by the system at run time. This experiment is to be generalized to other modules if proven successful, and will allow users of pre-built packages to get the same performance as if the program was specifically compiled for their computer. It needs GCC 9 compiler and does not yet work on Windows due to the lack of support of target clones on the OS side.
  • A new preference to expand/collapse a darkroom module when it is activated/deactivated.
  • The ‘collect images’ module has a new single-click option featuring range selection for date-time and numeric values.
  • The orientation of drawn masks using the ‘gradient’ shape is now clearly displayed with an arrow.
  • The ‘graduated density’ module has better accuracy when computing the rotation to avoid sporadic flipping of the gradient.
  • Make sure the OpenCL kernel code is recompiled when the driver version is updated.
  • Add color pickers for ‘split toning’, ‘graduated density’ and ‘watermark’ modules.
  • The color picker positions are kept during editing within a module.
  • The map view can zoom on the images of the selected collection.
  • The slideshow will now start at the selected images if any, and supports changing the delay between images. It will also now be more responsive when manually moving backward and forward through the images.
  • A new ‘basic adjustments’ module has been added. It allows to adjust the black level, exposure, highlight compression, contrast, middle grey, brightness and saturation. It also has an auto feature based on Rawtherapee’s auto levels that can work on the entire image or a user selected area.
  • A new ‘rgb curve’ module has been added. It has modes for linked and independent RGB channels. The curves and histogram can be displayed using the working profile or can be scaled to be 50% grey. A secondary color picker will add 4 nodes to the curve based on the area selected in the image: min, average, middle, and max.
  • A new ‘rgb levels’ module has been added. It has linked and independent channels, preserve colors option and is native RGB.
  • A new search box has been added to the module groups in the darkroom view, with configuration options to show only the module groups, only the search box, or both. Modules are searched for by (localized) name, and when displaying only the search box, the active modules are shown when the box is empty. A shortcut can be set for focusing the box.
  • A preview window has been added to the darkroom that displays the edited image on a separate window.
  • A new option ‘skip’ is added to the ‘on conflict’ setting on the export module which skips the exporting to existing destination files.
  • Allow to switch between clone/heal and blur/color modes in ‘retouch’ module after creating a shape using Ctrl+click on corresponding mode icon.
  • An accels window (H) has been added to summarize all available shortcuts and mouse actions available in the current context.
  • A zoom & pan feature has been added to lighttable full preview.
  • The base-curve module is now using luminance color preservation by default. This can give slightly less saturated pictures compared to the previous version where no color preservation was made. But it will generally avoid color shift.
  • Bug fixes:
  • The color picker support has been fixed by a complete rewrite. It should now give correct values in all cases.
  • Fix overexposed display.
  • Do not disable SSL for storage modules.
  • A long standing bug on mask distort in Liquify module has been fixed. This was visible when a liquify mask was used together with the perspective correction module activated.
  • A bug on mask distort from crop & rotate when using flip and some angle has been fixed.
  • Fix manual crop in perspective correction module when not in default orientation.
  • The modification of date/time is now stored into the XMP. This ensures that removing the picture and reloading will keep the changes.
  • Fix orientation to support all cases as exposed in these examples: https://github.com/recurser/exif-orientation-examples
  • Store the panel states for each lighttable mode.
  • Fix crop&rotate and orientation in the lightroom importer.
  • Fix ProPhoto RGB profile.
  • Fix exif lens metadata parsing containing comma.
  • Lua:
  • The displayed image in darkroom view can now be changed.
  • GUI panel visibility can now be queried and changed.
  • Lighttable view toolbox (rating filter, rating comparator, sort field, and sort direction) can now be changed.
  • Lighttable layout and zoom level can now be changed.
  • All images containing a specific tag can be searched and returned.
  • Changed Dependencies:
  • CMake 3.10 is now required.
  • OpenMP 4.0 is now required (optional dependency).
  • RawSpeed changes:
  • Changed Dependencies:
  • CMake 3.10 is now required.
  • Pugixml 1.8 is now required.
  • OpenMP 4.0 is now required (optional dependency).
  • POSIX threads are no longer required.
  • zlib 1.2.11 is now required (optional dependency).
  • Changes:
  • Threading was migrated to OpenMP from POSIX threads.
  • Phase One IIQ decompressor fixes (quadrant scaling, bad column).
  • Large-scale code cleanup, hardening is ongoing still.
  • A CMake infrastructure was added to allow integration of RawSpeed into LLVM LNT / Test-Suite.
  • Widespread performance tuning, most affected decompressors:
  • Sony ARW2
  • Panasonic V5
  • Phase One
  • Nikon
  • Pentax
  • Canon
  • Samsung V1 (compression = ‘32772’)
  • Samsung V2 (compression = ‘32773’)
  • Continuation of collaboration with LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project.
  • Camera support, compared to 2.6.0:
  • Base Support:
  • Epson R-D1s
  • Epson R-D1x
  • Fujifilm FinePix F770EXR
  • Fujifilm FinePix S7000
  • Fujifilm GFX 50R (compressed)
  • Fujifilm X-A10
  • Fujifilm X-T30 (compressed)
  • Fujifilm XF10
  • Kodak DCS Pro 14N
  • Kodak EasyShare Z981
  • Kodak EasyShare Z990
  • Leica C (Typ 112) (4:3)
  • Leica CL (dng)
  • Leica Q (Typ 116) (dng)
  • Leica Q2 (dng)
  • Leica SL (Typ 601) (dng)
  • Leica V-LUX (Typ 114) (3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 1:1)
  • Nikon Z 6 (14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Z 7 (14bit-uncompressed)
  • Olympus E-M1X
  • Olympus E-M5 Mark III
  • Olympus TG-6
  • Panasonic DC-G90 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-G91 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-G95 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-G99 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-ZS200 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-TX1 (3:2)
  • Phase One P30
  • Sony DSC-RX0M2
  • Sony DSC-RX100M6
  • Sony DSC-RX100M7
  • Sony ILCE-6400
  • Sony ILCE-6600
  • Sony ILCE-7RM4
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Leica Q2
  • Nikon D500
  • Nikon Z 7
  • Olympus E-M5 Mark III
  • Panasonic DC-LX100M2
  • Sony ILCE-6400
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Leica Q2
  • Nikon D3
  • Nikon D3500
  • Nikon Z 6
  • Nikon Z 7
  • Olympus E-PL8
  • Olympus E-PL9
  • Panasonic DC-LX100M2
  • Sony DSC-RX100M5A
  • Sony ILCE-6400
  • Sony SLT-A35
  • Translations:
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • German
  • European Spanish
  • French
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Norwegian Bokmål
  • Dutch
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Slovenian

New in darktable 2.6.1 (Mar 19, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • export module to piwigo
  • color balance enhancements
  • color contrast enhancements
  • filmic enhancements (better auto-tuner)
  • add contextual help for filmic module
  • middle-click can be used to open the presets menu (this is consistent with the fact that middle-click can be used to create a new instance from a preset)
  • again, better CSS customization for lighttable, filmstrip and duplicates module
  • presets can now be imported/exported
  • all zoom levels can now be reached with a ctrl-scroll
  • the slideshow view will adjust automatically when darktable window is resized
  • add support for tiff CIELAB/ICCLAB 8/16 bits
  • add hierarchical view for styles (separated with |)
  • forms opacity is displayed in hint messages
  • add a color picker in the watermark module
  • Bugfixes:
  • fix collect module filters
  • fix retouch module, mask areas are properly taking into account the source and destination
  • fix navigation from darkroom when groups are present and collapsed
  • fix a rare issue where masks could "jump" to some random location
  • keep reference point (mouse position) when zooming above 200%
  • title and description filters are now properly working
  • minor UI fixes to gain some spaces in darktable modules
  • fix masks detection over the mouse in some complex cases
  • Base Support:
  • DSC-RX100M6
  • Phase One P30 (fixed)
  • Olympus OM-D E-M10 (enhanced)
  • Nikon D7500 (enhanced)
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Nikon D500
  • Olympus E-PL8
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Sony SLT-A35
  • Nikon Z6
  • Translations:
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Norwegian bokmål
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish

New in darktable 2.6.0 (Jan 8, 2019)

  • A new retouch module, similar to the spot removal module with smart cloning (“heal”) and ability to act on each level of detail individually.
  • A new filmic module, able to manage most aspects of the tone of an image in a single module.
  • A complete rework of the color balance module, which can now be seen as a color-aware variant of levels, and can do most adjustments automatically thanks to new color picker buttons.
  • The ability to guide the blurring of the blend mask, to select an object precisely with minimal effort.

New in darktable 2.4.4 (Jun 6, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • Added 50% zoom option in darkroom mode to the navigation dropdown
  • perspective correction: usability improvement – allow setting the radius when (de)selecting lines
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix selecting drives in the import dialog on Windows by bundling a patched glib
  • Add some space between checkbox and label in color picker
  • OpenCL: better readability of debug output on memory usage
  • Levels: catch an edge case where float != int
  • Fix the alignment in a tooltip in lens correction
  • Local contrast: Reset strength slider to 120% when double clicked
  • Drop unused clone masks when loading xmp files
  • Remove all sub masks when clearing cloning masks
  • darktable-cltest: do not print summary statistics on OpenCL usage
  • Perspective correction: take aspect parameter into account when judging on neutral settings
  • Haze removal: fix tiled processing
  • Fix install on Windows due to GraphicsMagick’s versioned filenames
  • PPM: Handle byte order when loading files
  • Fix #12165: Don’t try to show dialog without gui
  • Fix an out-of-bounds memory access
  • Tools: Fix typo in darktable-gen-noiseprofile that made it unusable
  • MacOS package: point gettext to correct localedir
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Sony ILCE-6500
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS 800D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X9i
  • Canon EOS Rebel T7i
  • Nikon COOLPIX B700
  • Nikon D5600
  • Olympus TG-5
  • Updated translations:
  • German
  • Russian

New in darktable 2.4.3 (Apr 24, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • Support for tags and ratings in the watermark module
  • Read Xmp.exif.DateTimeOriginal from XMP sidecars
  • Build and install noise tools
  • Add a script for converting .dtyle to an .xmp
  • Bugfixes:
  • Don’t create unneeded folders during export in some cases
  • When collecting by tags, don’t select subtags
  • Fix language selection on OSX
  • Fix a crash while tethering
  • Camera support, compared to 2.4.2
  • Base Support:
  • Fujifilm X-H1 (compressed)
  • Kodak EOS DCS 3
  • Olympus E-PL9
  • Panasonic DC-GX9 (4:3)
  • Sony DSC-RX1RM2
  • Sony ILCE-7M3
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Sony ILCE-7M3
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III
  • Nikon D7500
  • Sony ILCE-7M3

New in darktable 2.4.2 (Mar 26, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • Add presets to location search in map mode
  • Add timestamps to the output of -d command line switches
  • Add a compression level slider to the TIFF export module
  • Add native binary NetPNM loading, without using GraphicsMagick
  • Add a battery indicator for people running darktable on a laptop. This is not very portable code and disabled by default
  • Allow to use /? to show the help message on Windows
  • Bugfixes:
  • Turn off smooth scrolling for X11/Quartz. That might help with oversensitive scrolling
  • Fix reading and writing of TIFFs with non-ASCII filenames on Windows
  • Ellipsize background job labels when too long
  • Hard code D50 white point when exporting to OpenEXR
  • Add tootips to the haze removal module
  • Fix a crash when changing lenses while tethering
  • Fix incorrect Atom CPU detection on Windows
  • Revised performance configuration
  • Don't overlay the colorbalance sliders on the left for a cleaner look
  • Honor local copy in copy export format
  • Make trashing of files on Windows silent
  • Fix string termination override on memmove
  • Fix a use after free and some memleaks
  • Fix a crash in PDF export
  • Fix the min color picker
  • Don't hardcode '/' in OpenCL paths on Windows
  • Camera support, compared to 2.4.1:
  • Warning: support for Nikon NEF 'lossy after split' raws was unintentionally broken due to the lack of such samples. Please see this post for more details. If you have affected raws, please contribute samples!
  • Base Support:
  • Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ2000 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ2500 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS100 (3:2)
  • Sony DSC-RX0
  • Sony DSC-RX10M4
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS 200D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X9
  • Canon EOS Rebel SL2
  • Canon EOS 760D
  • Canon EOS 8000D
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6s
  • Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G9 X
  • Fujifilm X100F
  • Nikon D850
  • Panasonic DC-G9
  • Panasonic DMC-GF6
  • Panasonic DMC-LX10
  • Panasonic DMC-LX15
  • Panasonic DMC-LX9
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ70
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ71
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS50
  • Translations:
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Italian

New in darktable 2.4.1 (Jan 22, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • Allow to select the GUI language in the preferences
  • Add a filter rule to the collect module to find locally copied images
  • Add favourite toggle to darkroom modules’ right click popup
  • Allow blending/masking in the hot pixels module
  • Add keyboard shortcuts to zoom and pan an image in darkroom. Panning uses the arrow keys, zooming defaults to ctrl- and ctrl+. Use alt and ctrlto change the step size of panning.
  • Some minor speedups in the grain module
  • Handling stdout on Windows: do not redirect stdout for simple command line arguments (--help and --version)
  • On Windows, show the location of the log file in the help message
  • Enable searching in the more modules list – click into the list to give focus to it, then start typing. The default GTK shortcut ctrl-f doesn’t work as it’s used for filmstrip already
  • Add a debug print when compiling OpenCL kernels
  • Bugfixes:
  • Use the configured overwrite color profile when exporting from Lua – this broke GIMP integration
  • Support presets with < in their name
  • Fix export to non-existing path with as the path separator on Windows
  • Don’t insist on the db being locked when it doesn’t even exist
  • Don’t touch the mix slider when resetting the curve in color zones
  • Fix a bug in the exposure module that would only allow corrections of up to 10 stops
  • Fix custom shortcuts with shift modifier
  • Properly ellipsize text in the recently used collections list
  • Fix exported galeries with filenames containing a '
  • Fix finding mipmaps cache folder in purge_from_cache.sh script
  • Fix a crash in the recently used collections list due to a broken config file
  • Set the sqlite threading mode to Serialized
  • Fix old export presets using OpenEXR
  • Fix building with clang on Windows
  • Changed Dependencies:
  • iso-codes version 3.66 or newer is suggested for a nicer list of translations in the preferences.
  • The Windows installer comes with an updated libexiv2 so TIFF exports should be much faster now
  • Camera support, compared to 2.4.0
  • Warning: support for Nikon NEF ‘lossy after split’ raws was unintentionally broken due to the lack of such samples. Please see this post for more details. If you have affected raws, please contribute samples!
  • Base Support:
  • Panasonic DC-G9 (4:3)
  • Paralenz Dive Camera (chdk)
  • Pentax KP
  • Sjcam SJ6 LEGEND (chdk-b, chdk-c)
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Leaf Credo 40
  • Nikon D3400
  • Olympus E-M1MarkII
  • Panasonic DC-G9
  • Sony ILCE-7RM3
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS 750D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X8i
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6i
  • Canon EOS 77D
  • Canon EOS 9000D
  • Canon EOS M100
  • Canon EOS M6
  • Sony DSC-RX100M4
  • YI TECHNOLOGY M1
  • Translations:
  • Czech
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Slovenian

New in darktable 2.4.0 (Dec 24, 2017)

  • The Big Ones
  • A new module for haze removal
  • The local contrast module can now be pushed much further, it also got a new local laplacian mode
  • Add undo support for masks and more intelligent grouping of undo steps
  • Blending now allows to display individual channels using false colors
  • darktable now supports loading Fujifilm compressed RAFs
  • darktable now supports loading floating point HDR DNGs as written by HDRMERGE
  • We also added channel specific blend modes for Lab and RGB color spaces
  • The base curve module allows for more control of the exposure fusion feature using the newly added bias slider
  • The tonecurve module now supports auto colour adjustment in RGB
  • Add absolute color input as an option to the color look up table module
  • A new X-Trans demosaicing algorithm, Frequency Domain Chroma, was implemented.
  • You can now choose from pre-defined scheduling profiles for OpenCL
  • Speaking of OpenCL, darktable now allows to force-use OpenCL for a specific pixelpipe
  • XMP sidecar files are no longer written to disk when the content didn’t actually change. That mostly helps with network storage and backup systems that use files’ time stamps
  • 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
  • darktable got two new helper scripts (those are not installed by default, grab them from the sources)
  • One to purge thumbnails that no longer have an associated image in the database,
  • and a second script that uses inotify to watch a folder for new files to open them in a running darktable instance.
  • In the curve editors of base curve and tone curve you can now delete nodes with a right click and see coordinates of nodes while editing. Note that you can use keyboard modifiers ctrl and shift to change the precision of your changes
  • Creating a new instance of a module can now be done with a quick click of the middle mouse button on the multi-instance icon
  • New darktable installations on computers with more than 8 Gb of memory will now by default use half of that per module
  • Several background colors and the brush color are now configurable in the CSS
  • Some new cameras can bump the ISO level to insane highs. We try to follow as good as we can by no longer limiting it to 51200 in the GUI
  • Base curve and the highlights module now support multiple instances and use blending and masks
  • Having the 1 key toggle between 1 and 0 stars wasn’t very popular with many people. You can disable that extra feature and have it behave like the other rating shortcuts now
  • You can decide if you want to be asked before resetting the history stacks of images from the lighttable
  • The grain module was slightly changed to have a more pleasing, photographic-paper like appearance
  • Using the color look up table module you can now convert your images to monochrome, honoring the Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect
  • 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
  • Properly read Lightroom XMPs on systems with , as the decimal separator
  • Fix setting the PNG bit depth from the gui
  • Many more bugs got fixed
  • Lua
  • darktable now uses Lua 5.3. The bundled copy got updated accordingly
  • Add dt.print_log. It’s like print_error but without the ERROR prefix
  • Reorder callback parameters for intermediate export image: add the actual image to the parameters of the event
  • Call lua post-import-image event synchronously
  • Add darktable.configuration.running_os to detect the OS darktable is running on
  • New widget type: section_label, adds a label which looks like a section change
  • Changed Dependencies
  • CMake 3.1 is now required
  • In order to compile darktable you now need at least gcc-5.0+/clang-3.4+
  • ZLIB is now required for the DNG Deflate compressed raw support
  • darktable now uses Lua 5.3
  • Camera support, compared to 2.2.0
  • Warning: support for Nikon NEF ‘lossy after split’ raws was unintentionally broken due to the lack of such samples. Please see this post for more details. If you have affected raws, please contribute samples!
  • Base Support
  • Canon EOS 200D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X9
  • Canon EOS Rebel SL2
  • Canon EOS 6D Mark II (sRaw1, sRaw2)
  • Canon EOS 77D
  • Canon EOS 9000D
  • Canon EOS 800D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X9i
  • Canon EOS Rebel T7i
  • Canon EOS M100
  • Canon EOS M5
  • Canon EOS M6
  • Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot SX40 HS (dng)
  • Fujifilm GFX 50S (compressed)
  • Fujifilm X-A3
  • Fujifilm X-E2S
  • Fujifilm X-E3 (compressed)
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2 (compressed)
  • Fujifilm X-T2 (compressed)
  • Fujifilm X-T20 (compressed)
  • Fujifilm X100F (compressed)
  • GITUP GIT2P (chdk-a, chdk-b)
  • Kodak EasyShare Z980
  • LG D855 (dng)
  • LG H815 (dng)
  • LG Nexus 5X (dng)
  • LG US996 (dng)
  • LG VS995 (dng)
  • Leica D-LUX (Typ 109) (4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1:1)
  • Leica X2 (dng)
  • Nikon COOLPIX B700 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D500 (14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5600 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D7500 (12bit-compressed, 14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D850 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon LS-5000 (dng)
  • Nokia Lumia 1020 (dng)
  • Olympus E-M10 Mark III
  • Olympus E-M1MarkII
  • Olympus TG-5
  • Panasonic DC-FZ82 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ85 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-GH5 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-FZ91 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-FZ92 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-FZ93 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-TZ90 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-ZS70 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ330 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-GF6 (16:9, 3:2, 1:1)
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ61 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS40 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ81 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ85 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS60 (4:3)
  • Pentax K-5 (dng)
  • Pentax K-r (dng)
  • Pentax K10D (dng)
  • Phase One IQ140
  • Samsung G920F
  • Samsung G935F
  • Samsung GX10
  • Sony ILCE-6500
  • Sony ILCE-7RM3
  • Sony ILCE-9
  • White Balance Presets
  • Canon EOS 6D Mark II
  • Fujifilm X-T20
  • Fujifilm X100F
  • Nikon 1 AW1
  • Nikon Coolpix A
  • Panasonic DMC-GX80
  • Panasonic DMC-GX85
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ100
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ101
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ110
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS110
  • Pentax K-3 II
  • Noise Profiles
  • Canon EOS 1300D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X80
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
  • Canon EOS 6D Mark II
  • Canon EOS M5
  • Canon PowerShot G16
  • Canon PowerShot G3 X
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II
  • Fujifilm X-M1
  • Fujifilm X-Pro1
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2
  • Fujifilm X-T20
  • Leica X2
  • Nikon Coolpix A
  • Nikon D2X
  • Nikon D3000
  • Nikon D3400
  • Nikon D4
  • Nikon D500
  • Olympus E-M1MarkII
  • Olympus E-P5
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ200
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ300
  • Panasonic DMC-G7
  • Panasonic DMC-G70
  • Panasonic DMC-G8
  • Panasonic DMC-G80
  • Panasonic DMC-G81
  • Panasonic DMC-G85
  • Panasonic DMC-GX80
  • Panasonic DMC-GX85
  • Panasonic DMC-LX100
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ100
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ101
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ110
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS110
  • Pentax K-70
  • Sony DSC-RX100M5
  • Sony ILCA-68
  • Sony ILCE-5000
  • Sony ILCE-6500
  • Sony ILCE-7RM3

New in darktable 2.2.5 (Jun 12, 2017)

  • New features:
  • When appending EXIF data to an exported image, do not fail if reading of EXIF from the original file fails
  • Support XYZ as proofing profile
  • Clear DerivedFrom from XMP before writing it
  • bauhaus: when using soft bounds, keep slider step constant
  • Bugfixes:
  • Some GCC7 build fixes
  • cmstest: fix crash when missing XRandR extension.
  • Fix crash in Lua libs when collapsing libs
  • Mac packaging: some fixes
  • RawSpeed: TiffIFD: avoid double-free
  • Fix a few alloc-dealloc mismatches
  • Base Support:
  • Canon EOS 77D
  • Canon EOS 9000D
  • Nikon D500 (14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5600 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Panasonic DC-FZ82 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ85 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DC-GH5 (4:3)
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Pentax K-3 II
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Nikon D500
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ300
  • Panasonic DMC-LX100
  • Pentax K-70
  • Sony ILCE-5000

New in darktable 2.2.4 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Better brush trace handing of opacity to get better control.
  • tools: Add script to purge stale thumbnails
  • tools: A script to watch a folder for new images
  • Bugfixes:
  • DNG: fix camera name demangling. It used to report some wrong name for some cameras.
  • When using wayland, prefer XWayland, because native Wayland support is not fully functional yet
  • EXIF: properly handle image orientation '2' and '4' (swap them)
  • OpenCL: a few fixes in profiled denoise, demosaic and colormapping
  • tiling: do not process uselessly small end tiles
  • masks: avoid assertion failure in early phase of path generation,
  • masks: reduce risk of unwanted self-finalization of small path shapes
  • Fix rare issue when expanding $() variables in import/export string
  • Camera import: fix ignore_jpg setting not having an effect
  • Picasa web exporter: unbreak after upstream API change
  • collection: fix query string for folders ( 'a' should match 'a/b' and 'a/c', but not 'ac/' )
  • Base Support:
  • Fujifilm X-T20 (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
  • Fujifilm X100F (only uncompressed raw, at the moment)
  • Nikon COOLPIX B700 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Olympus E-M1MarkII
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ61 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS40 (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9)
  • Sony ILCE-6500
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Olympus E-M1MarkII
  • Lge Nexus 5X

New in darktable 2.2.3 (Feb 2, 2017)

  • Fix fatal crash when generating preview for medium megapixel count (~16MP) Bayer images
  • Properly subtract black levels: respect the even/odd -ness of the raw crop origin point
  • Collection module: fix a few UI quirks

New in darktable 2.2.1 (Jan 4, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Show a dialog window that tells when locking the database/library failed
  • Ask before deleting history stack from lightable.
  • preferences: make features that are not available (greyed out) more obvious
  • Bugfixes:
  • Always cleanup undo list before entering darkroom view. Fixes crash when using undo after re-entering darkroom
  • Darkroom: properly delete module instances. Fixes rare crashes after deleting second instance of module.
  • Levels and tonecurve modules now also use 256 bins.
  • Rawoverexposed module: fix visualization when a camera custom white balance preset is used
  • Base Support:
  • Canon EOS M5

New in darktable 2.2.0 (Dec 27, 2016)

  • The Big Ones:
  • Add new automatic perspective correction module (https://www.darktable.org/2016/03/a-new-module-for-automatic-perspective-correction/)
  • Liquify tool for all your fancy pixel moving (https://www.darktable.org/2016/04/liquify-liquify/)
  • A new image module to use a Color Look Up Table (CLUT) to change colors in the image (https://www.darktable.org/2016/05/colour-manipulation-with-the-colour-checker-lut-module/)
  • In Highlight reconstruction module, the mode LCh reconstruction was completely rewritten, and is no longer useless!
  • A new tool, darktable-chart, that goes along with the CLUT module, to create styles for the latter
  • Exposure fusion in the basecurve module to lower the dynamic range of images (https://www.darktable.org/2016/08/compressing-dynamic-range-with-exposure-fusion/)
  • Add new raw overexposure indication (https://www.darktable.org/2016/10/raw-overexposed/)
  • Darkroom: the preview (in top-left corner) is now no longer pre-demosaiced (but just downscaled without demosaicing it at the same time), thus the preview, color picker, histogram show the proper results, especially when there is highlight clipping.
  • Quite Interesting Changes:
  • Split the database into a library containing images and a general one with styles, presets and tags. That allows having access to those when for example running with a :memory: library
  • Support running on platforms other than x86 (64bit little-endian, currently ARM64 only) (https://www.darktable.org/2016/04/running-on-non-x86-platforms/)
  • darktable is now happy to use smaller stack sizes (no less than 256Kb). That should allow using musl libc
  • Allow darktable-cli to work on directories
  • Allow to import/export tags from Lightroom keyword files
  • Allow using modifier keys to modify the step for sliders and curves. Defaults: Ctrl - x0.1; Shift - x10
  • Allow using the [keyboard] cursor keys to interact with sliders, comboboxes and curves; modifiers apply too
  • Support presets in “more modules” so you can quickly switch between your favorite sets of modules shown in the GUI
  • Add range operator and date compare to the collection module
  • Add basic undo/redo support for the darkroom (masks are not accounted !)
  • Support the Exif date and time when importing photos from camera
  • Input color profile module, when profile is just matrix (and linear curve), is 1/3 faster now.
  • Rudimentary CYGM and RGBE color filter array support
  • Nicer web gallery exporter -- now touch friendly!
  • OpenCL implementation of VNG/VNG4 demosaicing methods
  • OpenCL implementation of Markesteijn demosaicing method for X-Trans sensors
  • Filter-out some useless EXIF tags when exporting, helps keep EXIF size under ~64Kb
  • OpenCL: properly discard CPU-based OpenCL devices. Fixes crashes on startup with some partially-working OpenCL implementations like pocl.
  • darktable-cli: do not even try to open display, we don't need it.
  • Hotpixels module: make it actually work for X-Trans
  • Cmstest tool should now produce correct output in more cases, especially in multi-monitor setups.
  • Darkroom histogram now uses more bins: use all 8-bit of the output, not just 6.
  • Some More Changes, Probably Not Complete:
  • Drop darktable-viewer tool in favor of slideshow view
  • Remove gnome keyring password backend, use libsecret instead
  • When using libsecret to store passwords then put them into the correct collection
  • Hint via window manager when import/export is done
  • Quick tagging searches anywhere, not just at the start of tags
  • The sidecar XMP schema for history entries is now more consistent and less error prone
  • Rawspeed: fixes for building with libjpeg (as opposed to libjpeg-turbo)
  • Give the choice of equidistant and proportional feathering when using elliptical masks (shift+click)
  • Add geolocation to watermark variables
  • Fix some crashes with missing configured ICC profiles
  • Support greyscale color profiles
  • Lens correction module: switched back to normal Lensfun search mode for lens lookups.
  • Make sure that proper signal handlers are still set after GM initialization...
  • OSX: add trash support (thanks to Michael Kefeder for initial patch)
  • Attach Xmp data to EXR files
  • Several fixes for HighDPI displays
  • Use Pango for text layout, thus supporting RTL languages
  • Feathering size in some mask shapes can be set with shift+scroll
  • Many bugs got fixed and some memory leaks plugged
  • The usermanual was updated to reflect the changes in the 2.2 series
  • Tone curve: mode “automatic in XYZ” mode for “scale chroma”
  • Some compilation fixes
  • Lua specific changes:
  • All asynchronous calls have been rewritten
  • the darktable-specific implementation of yield was removed
  • darktable.control.execute allows to execute some shell commands without blocking Lua
  • darktable.control.read allows to wait for a file to be readable without blocking Lua
  • darktable.control.sleep allows to pause the Lua execution without blocking other Lua threads
  • darktable.gui.libs.metadata_view.register_info allows to add new field to the metadata widget in the darkroom view
  • The TextView widget can now be created in Lua, allowing input of large chunks of text
  • It is now possible to use a custom widget in the Lua preference window to configure a preference
  • It is now possible to set the precision and step on slider widgets
  • Changed Dependencies:
  • CMake 3.0 is now required.
  • In order to compile darktable you now need at least gcc-4.7+/clang-3.3+, but better use gcc-5.0+
  • Drop support for OS X 10.6
  • Bump required libexiv2 version up to 0.24
  • Bump GTK+ requirement to gtk-3.14. (because even Debian/stable has it)
  • Bump GLib requirement to glib-2.40.
  • Port to OpenJPEG2
  • SDL is no longer needed.
  • Remove gnome keyring password backend
  • Base Support:
  • Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Canon EOS 1300D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X80
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6
  • Canon EOS M10
  • Canon PowerShot A720 IS (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G9 X
  • Canon PowerShot SD450 (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot SX130 IS (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot SX260 HS (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot SX510 HS (dng)
  • Fujifilm FinePix S100FS
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2
  • Fujifilm X-T2
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Fujifilm XQ2
  • GITUP GIT2 (chdk-a, chdk-b)
  • (most nikon cameras here are just fixes, and they were supported before already)
  • Nikon 1 AW1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J2 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J3 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J4 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J5 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon 1 S1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 S2 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 V1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 V2 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 V3 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix A (14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P330 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P340 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P6000 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7000 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7100 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7700 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7800 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D1 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D100 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D1H (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D1X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D200 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D2H (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D2Hs (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D2X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D300 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3000 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D300S (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3100 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3200 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3300 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3400 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3S (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3X (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D4 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D40 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D40X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D4S (14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D5 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D50 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D500 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D5000 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5100 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5200 (14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D5300 (12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5500 (12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D60 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D600 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D610 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D70 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D700 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D7000 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D70s (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D7100 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D80 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D800 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D800E (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D90 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Df (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon E5400 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon E5700 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • OnePlus One (dng)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ150 (1:1, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ18 (16:9, 3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ300 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ50 (16:9, 3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-G8 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-G80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-G81 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-G85 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-GX80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-GX85 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-LX3 (1:1)
  • Panasonic DMC-LX10 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-LX15 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-LX9 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ100 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ101 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-TZ110 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-ZS110 (3:2)
  • Pentax K-1
  • Pentax K-70
  • Samsung GX20 (dng)
  • Sony DSC-F828
  • Sony DSC-RX100M5
  • Sony DSC-RX10M3
  • Sony DSLR-A380
  • Sony ILCA-68
  • Sony ILCA-99M2
  • Sony ILCE-6300
  • We were unable to bring back these 2 cameras, because we have no samples.
  • If anyone reading this owns such a camera, please do consider providing samples.
  • Nikon E8400
  • Nikon E8800
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Canon EOS 1200D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X70
  • Canon EOS Rebel T5
  • Canon EOS 1300D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X80
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
  • Canon EOS 5DS
  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • Canon EOS 750D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X8i
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6i
  • Canon EOS 760D
  • Canon EOS 8000D
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6s
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Canon EOS M10
  • Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2
  • Fujifilm X-T2
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Fujifilm X100T
  • Fujifilm X20
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Nikon 1 V3
  • Nikon D5500
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • Pentax K-1
  • Pentax K-70
  • Pentax K-S1
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Sony ILCA-68
  • Sony ILCE-6300
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Canon PowerShot G15
  • Canon PowerShot S100
  • Canon PowerShot SX100 IS
  • Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Fujifilm X-T2
  • Fujifilm X100T
  • Fujifilm X20
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Nikon 1 V3
  • Nikon D5
  • Nikon D5500
  • Olympus E-PL6
  • Olympus E-PM2
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ1000
  • Panasonic DMC-GF7
  • Pentax K-1
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Ricoh GR
  • Sony DSLR-A900
  • Sony DSC-RX10
  • Sony ILCE-6300
  • Sony NEX-5
  • Sony SLT-A37
  • New Translations:
  • Hebrew
  • Slovenian
  • Updated Translations:
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Ukrainian

New in darktable 2.2.0 RC1 (Nov 25, 2016)

  • We're proud to announce the second release candidate of darktable 2.2.0, with some fixes over the previous release candidate. the most important one might be bringing back read support for very old xmp files (~4 years).

New in darktable 2.2.0 RC0 (Nov 14, 2016)

  • The Big Ones:
  • Add new automatic perspective correction module (https://www.darktable.org/2016/03/a-new-module-for-automatic-perspective-correction/)
  • Liquify tool for all your fancy pixel moving (https://www.darktable.org/2016/04/liquify-liquify/)
  • A new image module to use a Color Look Up Table (CLUT) to change colors in the image (https://www.darktable.org/2016/05/colour-manipulation-with-the-colour-checker-lut-module/)
  • In Highlight reconstruction module, the mode LCh reconstruction was completedy rewritten, and is no longer useless!
  • A new tool, darktable-chart, that goes along with the CLUT module, to create styles for the corresponding module
  • Exposure fusion in the basecurve module to lower the dynamic range of images (https://www.darktable.org/2016/08/compressing-dynamic-range-with-exposure-fusion/)
  • Add new raw overexposure indication (https://www.darktable.org/2016/10/raw-overexposed/)
  • Darkroom: the preview (in top-left corner) is now no longer pre-demosaiced, thus the preview, color picker, histogram show the proper results when there is highlight clipping.
  • Add undo/redo support for the darkroom
  • Quite Interesting Changes:
  • Split the database into a library containing images and a general one with styles, presets and tags. That allows having access to those when for example running with a :memory: library
  • Support running on platforms other than x86 (64bit little-endian, currently ARM64 only) (https://www.darktable.org/2016/04/running-on-non-x86-platforms/)
  • darktable is now happy to use smaller stack sizes. That should allow using musl libc
  • Allow darktable-cli to work on directories
  • Allow to import/export tags from Lightroom keyword files
  • Allow using modifier keys to modify the step for sliders and curves. Defaults: Ctrl - x0.1; Shift - x10
  • Allow using the [keyboard] cursor keys to interact with sliders, comboboxes and curves; modifiers apply too
  • Support presets in “more modules” so you can quickly switch between your favorite sets of modules shown in the GUI
  • Add range operator and date compare to the collection module
  • Support the Exif date and time when importing photos from camera
  • Rudimentary CYGM and RGBE color filter array support
  • Preview pipe now does run demosaic module too, and its input is no longer pre-demosaiced, but is just downscaled without demosaicing it at the same time.
  • Nicer web gallery exporter – now touch friendly!
  • OpenCL implementation of VNG/VNG4 demosaicing methods
  • OpenCL implementation of Markesteijn demosaicing method for X-Trans sensors
  • Filter-out some useless EXIF tags when exporting, helps keep EXIF size under ~64Kb
  • OpenCL: properly discard CPU-based OpenCL devices. Fixes crashes on startup with some partially-working OpenCL implementations like pocl.
  • darktable-cli: do not even try to open display, we don’t need it.
  • Hotpixels module: make it actually work for X-Trans
  • Some More Changes, Probably Not Complete:
  • Drop darktable-viewer tool in favor of slideshow view
  • Remove gnome keyring password backend, use libsecret instead
  • When using libsecret to store passwords then put them into the correct collection
  • Hint via window manager when import/export is done
  • Quick tagging searches anywhere, not just at the start of tags
  • The sidecar Xmp schema for history entries is now more consistent and less error prone
  • Rawspeed: fixes for building with libjpeg (as opposed to libjpeg-turbo)
  • Give the choice of equidistant and proportional feathering when using elliptical masks
  • Add geolocation to watermark variables
  • Fix some crashes with missing configured ICC profiles
  • Support greyscale color profiles
  • OSX: add trash support (thanks to Michael Kefeder for initial patch)
  • Attach Xmp data to EXR files
  • Several fixes for HighDPI displays
  • Use Pango for text layout, thus supporting RTL languages
  • Many bugs got fixed and some memory leaks plugged
  • The usermanual was updated to reflect the changes in the 2.2 series
  • Changed Dependencies:
  • CMake 3.0 is now required.
  • In order to compile darktable you now need at least gcc-4.7+/clang-3.3+, but better use gcc-5.0+
  • Drop support for OS X 10.6
  • Bump required libexiv2 version up to 0.24
  • Bump GTK+ requirement to gtk-3.14. (because even Debian/stable has it)
  • Bump GLib requirement to glib-2.40.
  • Port to OpenJPEG2
  • SDL is no longer needed.
  • A special note to all the darktable Fedora users: Fedora-provided darktable packages are intentionally built with Lua disabled. Thus, Lua scripting will not work. This breaks e.g. darktable-gimp integration. Please bug Fedora. In the mean time you could fix that by self-compiling darktable (pass -DDONT_USE_INTERNAL_LUA=OFF to cmake in order to enable use of bundled Lua5.2.4).
  • Base Support:
  • Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Canon EOS 1300D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X80
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6
  • Canon EOS M10
  • Canon PowerShot A720 IS (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G9 X
  • Canon PowerShot SD450 (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot SX130 IS (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot SX260 HS (dng)
  • Canon PowerShot SX510 HS (dng)
  • Fujifilm FinePix S100FS
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2
  • Fujifilm X-T2
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Fujifilm XQ2
  • GITUP GIT2 (chdk-a, chdk-b)
  • (most nikon cameras here are just fixes, and they were supported before already)
  • Nikon 1 AW1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J2 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J3 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J4 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J5 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon 1 S1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 S2 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 V1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 V2 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 V3 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix A (14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P330 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P340 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P6000 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7000 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7100 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7700 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7800 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D1 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D100 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D1H (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D1X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D200 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D2H (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D2Hs (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D2X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D300 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3000 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D300S (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3100 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3200 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3300 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3400 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3S (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3X (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D4 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D40 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D40X (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D4S (14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D5 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D50 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D500 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D5000 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5100 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5200 (14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D5300 (12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5500 (12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D60 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D600 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D610 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D70 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D700 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed, 14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D7000 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D70s (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D7100 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D80 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D800 (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D800E (14bit-compressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D90 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon Df (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon E5400 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon E5700 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • OnePlus One (dng)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ150 (1:1, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ18 (16:9, 3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ300 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ50 (16:9, 3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-G8 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-G80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-GX80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-GX85 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-LX3 (1:1)
  • Pentax K-1
  • Pentax K-70
  • Samsung GX20 (dng)
  • Sony DSC-F828
  • Sony DSC-RX10M3
  • Sony DSLR-A380
  • Sony ILCA-68
  • Sony ILCE-6300
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Canon EOS 1200D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X70
  • Canon EOS Rebel T5
  • Canon EOS 1300D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X80
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
  • Canon EOS 5DS
  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • Canon EOS 750D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X8i
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6i
  • Canon EOS 760D
  • Canon EOS 8000D
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6s
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Canon EOS M10
  • Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Fujifilm X100T
  • Fujifilm X20
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Nikon 1 V3
  • Nikon D5500
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • Pentax K-70
  • Pentax K-S1
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Sony ILCA-68
  • Sony ILCE-6300
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Canon PowerShot G15
  • Canon PowerShot S100
  • Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Fujifilm X-T2
  • Fujifilm X100T
  • Fujifilm X20
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Nikon 1 V3
  • Nikon D5500
  • Olympus E-PL6
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ1000
  • Panasonic DMC-GF7
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Ricoh GR
  • Sony DSC-RX10
  • Sony SLT-A37
  • New Translations:
  • Hebrew
  • Slovenian
  • Updated Translations:
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

New in darktable 2.0.7 (Oct 25, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • Filter-out some EXIF tags when exporting. Helps keep metadata size below max limit of ~64Kb
  • Support the new Canon EOS 80D {m,s}RAW format
  • Always show rendering intent selector in lighttable view
  • Clear elevation when clearing geo data in map view
  • Temperature module, invert module: add SSE vectorization for X-Trans
  • Temperature module: add keyboard shortcuts for presets
  • Bugfixes:
  • Rawspeed: fixes for building with libjpeg (as opposed to libjpeg-turbo)
  • OpenCL: always use blocking memory transfer hostdevice
  • OpenCL: remove bogus static keyword in extended.cl
  • Fix crash with missing configured display profile
  • Histogram: always show aperture with one digit after dot
  • Show if OpenEXR is supported in --version
  • Rawspeed: use a non-deprecated way of getting OSX version
  • Don't show bogus message about local copy when trying to delete physically deleted image
  • Base Support (newly added or small fixes):
  • Canon EOS 100D
  • Canon EOS 300D
  • Canon EOS 6D
  • Canon EOS 700D
  • Canon EOS 80D (sRaw1, sRaw2)
  • Canon PowerShot A720 IS (dng)
  • Fujifilm FinePix S100FS
  • Nikon D3400 (12bit-compressed)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ300 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-G8 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-G80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-GX80 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-GX85 (4:3)
  • Pentax K-70
  • Base Support (fixes, was broken in 2.0.6, apologies for inconvenience):
  • Nikon 1 AW1
  • Nikon 1 J1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J2 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 J3
  • Nikon 1 J4
  • Nikon 1 S1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 S2
  • Nikon 1 V1 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon 1 V2
  • Nikon Coolpix A (14bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P330 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P6000
  • Nikon Coolpix P7000
  • Nikon Coolpix P7100
  • Nikon Coolpix P7700 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon Coolpix P7800 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D1
  • Nikon D3 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D3000 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3100
  • Nikon D3200 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D3S (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D4 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D5 (12bit-compressed, 12bit-uncompressed)
  • Nikon D50
  • Nikon D5100
  • Nikon D5200
  • Nikon D600 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D610 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon D70
  • Nikon D7000
  • Nikon D70s
  • Nikon D7100 (12bit-compressed)
  • Nikon E5400
  • Nikon E5700 (12bit-uncompressed)
  • We were unable to bring back these 4 cameras, because we have no samples.
  • If anyone reading this owns such a camera, please do consider providing samples.
  • Nikon E8400
  • Nikon E8800
  • Nikon D3X (12-bit)
  • Nikon Df (12-bit)
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Pentax K-70
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Sony DSC-RX10
  • Translations Updates:
  • Catalan
  • German

New in darktable 2.0.6 (Sep 9, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • Jpeg format writer: use libexiv2 to write metadata, like with other formats
  • Accept non-mosaiced raw files with 4 channels, assume they are RGBA (alpha channel is ignored)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Once again, fix for yet another gtk theming regression...
  • OpenCL: properly discard CPU-based OpenCL devices. Fixes crashes on startup with some broken OpenCL implementations like pocl.
  • darktable-cli: do not even try to open display, we don't need it.
  • Rawspeed: NikonDecoder: stop accepting generic camera entries. Fixes multitude of Nikon raw loading issues.
  • OpenCL: fix border handling in crop&rotate module
  • Hotpixels iop: make it actually work for X-Trans
  • Clipping IOP: scale width of gray crop path with zoom level
  • One more fixup to canon lens name reading from exif
  • Fixup Bayer pattern for Olympus SP570UZ
  • Fix internal build issue: do not assume that Perl's @INC contains '.'
  • Base Support:
  • Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
  • Canon EOS 1300D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X80
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6
  • Canon EOS M10
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G9 X
  • Fujifilm X-T2
  • GITUP GIT2 action camera
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ18 (16:9, 3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ50 (16:9, 3:2)
  • Pentax K-1
  • Sony DSLR-A380
  • Sony ILCE-6300
  • Nikon D500
  • Some other whitelevel fixups for some other Nikon cameras (in particular, mostly for 12-bit and not compressed raws)
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
  • Canon EOS 1300D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X80
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6
  • Canon EOS M10
  • Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Sony ILCE-6300

New in darktable 2.0.5 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • Add geolocation to watermark variables
  • Bugfixes:
  • Mac: bugfix + build fix
  • Lua: fixed dt.collection not working
  • Fix softproofing with some internal profiles
  • Fix non-working libsecret pwstorage backend
  • Fixed a few issues within (rudimentary) lightroom import
  • Some fixes related to handling of duplicates and/or tags
  • Base Support:
  • Canon EOS 80D (no mRAW/sRAW support!)
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • Translations Updates:
  • Danish
  • German
  • Slovak

New in darktable 2.0.3 (Mar 29, 2016)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Actually allow printing with ctrl-p shortcut as advertised in the tooltip
  • Fix scrolling of the histogram to change the exposure
  • Fix the restricted histogram when color picking an area
  • Fix a bug in color reconstruction
  • Fix an OpenCL bug in tonecurve
  • Fix a small memory leak
  • Better error messages in darktable-cli
  • Fix params introspection for unsigned types
  • Only depend on glib 2.32
  • Base Support:
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • Panasonic DMC-LX3 (1:1)
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Canon EOS 1200D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X70
  • Canon EOS Rebel T5
  • Canon EOS 5DS
  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • Canon EOS 750D
  • Canon EOS Kiss X8i
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6i
  • Canon EOS 760D
  • Canon EOS 8000D
  • Canon EOS Rebel T6s
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2
  • Fujifilm X20
  • Fujifilm X70
  • Olympus PEN-F
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • Fujifilm X20
  • Olympus E-PL6
  • Translation updates:
  • Danish
  • German
  • Swedish

New in darktable 2.0.2 (Mar 8, 2016)

  • General:
  • Require glib of at least version 2.40
  • New features:
  • Add support for DNGs from x3f_extract
  • Support XMP files from Ramperpro timelapse controllers from ElysiaVisuals
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix some problems with sluggish GUI when Lua is compiled in
  • Some High DPI fixes
  • Small theming fixes
  • Fix some strings being too long in the GUI, especially when using localized versions
  • Fix a potential crash with malformed GPX files
  • Fix wrong zoom level of the map when searching for a location
  • Put XMP metadata into the right Exif fields
  • Fix a crash in masks.
  • Fix a crash in demosaicing
  • Fix Markesteijn demosaicing
  • Fix a crash when moving the mouse while going to darkroom when crop&rotate is active
  • Fix discrepancy between CPU and OpenCL codepath in invert
  • Fix some crashes with certain TIFF files
  • Fix build with GCC6
  • Fix build with osmgpsmap older than 1.1.0
  • Fix compilation when there are spaces in the path names
  • Camera support:
  • Fujifilm X-Pro2
  • White balance presets:
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Noise profiles:
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Translations:
  • new:
  • Hebrew
  • updated:
  • German
  • Slovak
  • Swedish

New in darktable 2.0.0 (Dec 24, 2015)

  • gui:
  • darktable has been ported to gtk-3.0
  • the viewport in darkroom mode is now dynamically sized, you specify the border width
  • side panels now default to a width of 350px in dt 2.0 instead of 300px in dt 1.6
  • further hidpi enhancements
  • navigating lighttable with arrow keys and space/enter
  • brush size/hardness/opacity have key accels
  • allow adding toneand basecurve nodes with ctrl-click
  • the facebook login procedure is a little different now
  • image information now supports gps altitude
  • features:
  • new print mode
  • reworked screen color management (softproof, gamut check etc.)
  • delete/trash feature
  • pdf export
  • export can upscale
  • new "mode" parameter in the export panel to fine tune application of styles upon export
  • core improvements:
  • new thumbnail cache replaces mipmap cache (much improved speed, stability and seamless support for even up to 4K/5K screens)
  • all thumbnails are now properly fully color-managed
  • it is now possible to generate thumbnails for all images in the library using new darktable-generate-cache tool
  • we no longer drop history entries above the selected one when leaving darkroom mode or switching images
  • high quality export now downsamples before watermark and framing to guarantee consistent results
  • optimizations to loading jpeg's when using libjpeg-turbo with its custom features
  • asynchronous camera and printer detection, prevents deadlocks in some cases
  • noiseprofiles are in external JSON file now
  • aspect ratios for crop&rotate can be added to config file
  • image operations:
  • color reconstruction module
  • magic lantern-style deflicker was added to the exposure module (extremely useful for timelapses)
  • text watermarks
  • shadows&highlights: add option for white point adjustment
  • more proper Kelvin temperature, fine-tuning preset interpolation in white balance iop
  • monochrome raw demosaicing (for cameras with color filter array physically removed)
  • raw black/white point module
  • packaging:
  • removed dependency on libraw
  • removed dependency on libsquish (solves patent issues as a side effect)
  • unbundled pugixml, osm-gps-map and colord-gtk
  • generic:
  • 32-bit support is soft-deprecated due to limited virtual address space
  • support for building with gcc earlier than 4.8 is soft-deprecated
  • numerous memory leaks were exterminated
  • overall stability enhancements
  • scripting:
  • lua scripts can now add UI elements to the lighttable view (buttons, sliders etc...)
  • a new repository for external lua scripts was started: https://github.com/darktable-org/lua-scripts
  • it is now possible to edit the collection filters via lua
  • it is now possible to add new cropping guides via lua
  • it is now possible to run background tasks in lua
  • a lua event is generated when the mouse under the cursor changes
  • User manual has been updated, and will be released shortly after.
  • New camera support, compared to 1.6.9:
  • Base Support:
  • Canon PowerShot G5 X
  • Olympus SP320
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ150 (3:2)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ70 (1:1, 3:2, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-FZ72 (1:1, 3:2, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-GF7 (1:1, 3:2, 16:9)
  • Panasonic DMC-GX8 (4:3)
  • Panasonic DMC-LF1 (3:2, 16:9, 1:1)
  • Sony DSC-RX10M2
  • White Balance Presets:
  • Canon EOS M3
  • Canon EOS-1D Mark III
  • Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
  • Canon PowerShot G1 X
  • Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II
  • Canon PowerShot G15
  • Canon PowerShot G16
  • Canon PowerShot G3 X
  • Canon PowerShot G5 X
  • Canon PowerShot S110
  • Panasonic DMC-GX8
  • Panasonic DMC-LF1
  • Pentax *ist DL2
  • Sony DSC-RX1
  • Sony DSC-RX10M2
  • Sony DSC-RX1R
  • Sony DSLR-A500
  • Sony DSLR-A580
  • Sony ILCE-3000
  • Sony ILCE-5000
  • Sony ILCE-5100
  • Sony ILCE-6000
  • Sony ILCE-7S
  • Sony ILCE-7SM2
  • Sony NEX-3N
  • Sony NEX-5T
  • Sony NEX-F3
  • Sony SLT-A33
  • Sony SLT-A35
  • Noise Profiles:
  • Canon EOS M3
  • Fujifilm X-E1
  • Fujifilm X30
  • Nikon Coolpix P7700
  • Olympus E-M10 Mark II
  • Olympus E-M5 Mark II
  • Olympus E-PL3
  • Panasonic DMC-GX8
  • Panasonic DMC-LF1
  • Pentax K-50
  • Sony DSC-RX1
  • Sony DSC-RX10M2
  • Sony ILCA-77M2
  • Sony ILCE-7M2
  • Sony ILCE-7RM2
  • Sony SLT-A58

New in darktable 1.6.8 (Aug 6, 2015)

  • changes:
  • clipping, santiy check for custom aspect ratios
  • read lensmodel from xmp
  • handle canon lens recognition special case
  • general cleanups
  • rawspeed:
  • Canon EOS M3
  • Canon EOS 5Ds (R)
  • Nikon 1 J5
  • Panasonic DMC-G7 (4:3 aspect ratio only)
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Panasonic TZ71
  • Olympus TG-4
  • Leica VLUX1 4:3 aspect ratio mode
  • standard color matrices:
  • Canon EOS M3
  • Canon EOS 5Ds (R)
  • Nikon 1 J5
  • Panasonic DMC-G7
  • Fujifilm X-T10
  • Pentax K-S2
  • Olympus TG-4
  • white balance presets:
  • Samsung NX500
  • Panasonic TZ71
  • noise profiles:
  • Sony ILCE-5100
  • Fujifilm HS50EXR
  • Canon EOS 5Ds R

New in darktable 1.6.7 (Jun 10, 2015)

  • security:
  • libraw CVE-2015-3885: fix integer overflow in ljpeg_start()
  • miscellaneous:
  • improvements to facebook export
  • interpolation fixups
  • demosaic code cleanups
  • slideshow should handle very small images better
  • improve Olympus lens detection
  • various minor memory leak fixes
  • various other fixes
  • Pentax (K-x) DNG old embedded preview left over is now removed
  • modern OSX display profile handling
  • camera support:
  • Nikon D7200 (both 12bit and 14bit compressed NEFs)
  • Nikon Coolpix P340
  • Canon EOS 750D
  • Canon EOS 760D
  • Canon EOS M2
  • Panasonic DMC-CM1
  • Panasonic DMC-GF7 (4:3 only)
  • Olympus XZ-10
  • Olympus SP570UZ
  • Samsung NX500
  • Fuji F600EXR
  • aspect ratios:
  • Pansonic DMC-G5
  • Panasonic DMC-GM5
  • Panasonic FZ200
  • white balance presets:
  • Nikon D7200
  • Nikon Coolpix P340
  • Panasonic DMC-GM1
  • Panasonic DMC-GM5
  • Olympus E-M10 (updated)
  • Olympus E-PL7
  • Olympus XZ-10
  • noise profiles:
  • Canon Powershot G9
  • Sony A350
  • basecurves:
  • Nikon D7200
  • Nikon D7000
  • Nikon D750
  • Nikon D90
  • translations:
  • Catalan
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

New in darktable 1.6.6 (Apr 28, 2015)

  • fix the Olympus E330 support (which was accidentally broken in 1.6.4)
  • fix white balance reading for the Canon Powershot SX50 HS
  • white balance presets for RICOH GR
  • minor assorted bug fixes (masks, lens correction, profiled denoise, etc)

New in darktable 1.6.4 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • general improvements:
  • major rawspeed update
  • facebook exporter update (first authentication usability should be much better now)
  • first run opencl benchmark to prevent opencl autoactivation if gpu is obviously slower than cpu
  • lensfun cornercase fixes
  • some mask cornercase fixes
  • zonesystem now updates it's gui when number of zones changes
  • spots iop updates
  • ui_last/gui_language should work more reliably now
  • internal lua updated from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4 (distro's typically use their own version of lua)
  • gcc 5 should build now
  • new camera support:
  • canon digital rebel (non european 300d)
  • nikon d5500 (experimental)
  • olympus e-m5 mark ii (experimental)
  • Samsung NX500 (experimental)
  • white balance presets:
  • sony a77 ii
  • fujiflim x-e2
  • olympus e-m5 mark ii
  • noise profiles:
  • canon 7d mark ii
  • updated translations:
  • german
  • french
  • russian
  • danish
  • catalan
  • japanese
  • dutch

New in darktable 1.6.3 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Make camera import window transient
  • Allow soft limits on radius
  • Fix soft boundaries for black in exposure
  • Change order of the profile/intent combo in export dialog
  • Support read/write of chromaticities in EXR
  • Allow to default to :memory: db in config
  • Add mime handler for non-raw image file formats
  • Improved lens model name detection for Sony SAL lenses
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix buffer overrun in SSE clipping loop for highlight handling
  • Prevent exporting when an invalid export/storage is selected
  • Hopefully last fix for aspect ratios in crop and rotate (#9942)
  • No tooltip when dragging in monochrome (#10319)
  • RAW support:
  • Panasonic LX100 (missing non-standard aspect ratio modes)
  • Panasonic TZ60
  • Panasonic FZ1000
  • KODAK EASYSHARE Z1015 IS
  • Canon 1DX (missing sRAW modes)
  • Canon A630 and SX110IS (CHDK RAW)
  • white balance presets:
  • Panasonic FZ1000
  • Panasonic TZ60
  • Panasonic LX100
  • standard matrix:
  • Canon Rebel T3 (non-european 1100D)
  • enhanced matrix:
  • nikon d750
  • noise profiles:
  • Canon EOS 1DX

New in darktable 1.6.0 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • general/misc:
  • high DPI monitor support
  • signed OSX packages
  • map view now allows to only show images from the current collection on the map
  • slideshow
  • darktable-cli now works without a running X server for use on headless systems
  • support for audio notes playback
  • sticky preview
  • added the option to overwrite files when exporting to disk
  • crawler that syncs all xmp files on start
  • support huge images (> 32 bit pixel index). darktable can open 26770x13385 TIFFs and should in theory be able to process arbitrary sized images. don't try this on a 32 bit system though!
  • lens iop presets are copy/pastable between different images
  • output:
  • tiff read/write rewritten, works on 32-bit float now, supports compression
  • allow setting PPI for exported JPEGs, defaulting to 300
  • pwstorage libsecret
  • use HTTPS when exporting to flickr
  • darkroom:
  • new defringe image operation
  • automatic mode for levels module
  • allow to disable white balance
  • new colour reconstruction mode for highlight recovery that tries to add both colour and structure to clipped areas. thanks to a1ex from magic lantern!
  • better basecurve tool to create basecurves from raw/jpg pairs
  • soft boundaries in sliders (right click and type 8 in exposure compensation for example)
  • input colour gamut mapping to avoid problems with saturated blues causing purple artefacts
  • colour:
  • color conversion speedup (openmp for lcms2 case)
  • add linear Rec2020 as a build-in profile
  • embedded icc profile support for png/tiff (read/write)
  • lua scripting:
  • copy, move, reset and delete images via lua
  • handle progress bars via lua
  • limited manipulation of libs an views UI via lua
  • import and export styles via lua
  • trigger lua when the grouping mode changes
  • trigger lua when the overlay mode changes
  • trigger lua when the active view changes
  • manipulate snapshots via lua
  • handle more types of preferences, including enums, directories and file names
  • lua API is now versioned: use darktable.configuration.check_version to check
  • lua API incompatibilities: darktable.modules has been removed, use darktable.new_format and darktable.new_storage to access the constructors
  • performance improvements:
  • many speed improvements by adding sse code for image operations
  • make white balance work faster
  • make invert work faster
  • much faster exr export with optional compression (multicore support)
  • speedup of pfm writing
  • speedup of amaze. it is still slow but not as bad as it used to be
  • internal improvements:
  • module parameter introspection
  • clang/address-sanitizer/etc compiler warnings fixed
  • flip iop used for raw auto-orientation (simplifies code)
  • complete rawspeed migration for raw loading
  • bug fixes:
  • hdr bracketing fixes
  • masks cleanup and bugfixes
  • correct lens detection for compact cameras
  • avoid clipping in vignette, lowpass, shadows & highlights, a/b channels of colorcontrast and tonecurve
  • new cameras supported:
  • initial support for x-trans sensors
  • new demosaicing algorithms: markesteijn for x-trans and vng for x-trans and regular bayer raws
  • There is support for several dozens of new cameras, and loads of new noise profiles for denoising have been added. Check out the full list in the release notes on github.
  • and of course also:
  • updated usermanual
  • lots of small performance improvements and code cleanup

New in darktable 1.4 RC1 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • darktable now integrates a lua engine that allows writing scripts to make it easier to use with other image processing software. These scripts can be run when a particular event takes place (for example when a new image is imported) or when a particular keyboard shortcut is used. There are very few scripts available at this point but we expect the community to provide some more during the next release cycle.
  • darktable now include several kinds of drawn masks: brush, circle, ellipse, path and gradients
  • exporting in WebP format
  • serious speed enhancements of lighttable when using large collections
  • focus detection on lighttable
  • local cached copies of images for offline files
  • a few new blend mode like "HSV lightness", "HSV color", "Lab lightness" and "Lab color"
  • new modules "contrast brightness saturation", "color balance" and "color mapping" which replaces the now deprecated "color transfer" module
  • new histogram mode "waveform"
  • added a setting to automatically collapse modules to only have a single one expanded
  • better user experience for bauhaus sliders: the popup now has a blinking cursor to make possible text entry more discoverable
  • the text entry for bauhaus sliders and vimkeys' ":set" command can now evaluate mathematical expressions
  • many bug fixes and small improvements
  • a tool for measuring basecurves from a sample image
  • updated usermanual
  • darktable now requires Gtk+ in version >= 2.24, Glib in version >= 2.30

New in darktable 1.2.3 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • Hardware support:
  • update to RawSpeed r570
  • Canon 70D (preliminary)
  • Olympus E-P5 (including preliminary Adobe Coeff.)
  • Samsung NX2000
  • Sony RX100m2
  • Sony SLT-A58 (updated)
  • White balance presets:
  • Sony NEX-5R
  • Sony SLT-A58
  • Nikon D3200 (updated)
  • Pentax K20D
  • Noise profiles:
  • Canon EOS 1100D
  • Canon PowerShot S95
  • Canon PowerShot G11
  • Nikon Coolpix P330
  • Sony A580
  • Fuji X10
  • Pentax K20D
  • optimized default lowpass blur settings
  • improved dithering slider ranges
  • removed several issues with color picker
  • support for multiple instances of exposure module
  • updated Picasa uploader
  • safety-wise enhancements (removed image-deletion from cameras)

New in darktable 1.2.2 (Jun 28, 2013)

  • updated rawspeed r553. Support for
  • Canon EOS 700D
  • Nikon Coolpix P330
  • New Olymbus base curve
  • Updated Adobe Coeffs
  • Enhanced color matrices:
  • Canon 700D (from Canon 650D)
  • Canon 100D (from Canon 650D)
  • Sony NEX-7
  • White balance presets:
  • Some updates from UFRaw
  • Canon 100D
  • Canon 700D
  • Sony SLT-A37
  • Nikon Coolpix P330
  • Noise profiles:
  • Canon EOS-M
  • Olympus E-600 (from: Olympus E-30)
  • Olympus E-620 (from: Olympus E-30)
  • Samsung WB2000
  • Sony A99v
  • Panasonic DMC-G10 iso 100
  • Nikon D60
  • Bug fixes:
  • 0 star rating working again
  • LT: ctrl+d duplicates per default now
  • Some fixes concerning locale handling
  • double click on film strip jumps to image
  • remember position in collections
  • ctrl+k jumps to previous collection
  • Blending parameters are preserved when module is deactivated
  • In full-preview (alt-1) ratings and labels are only applied to image shown
  • Various OpenCL fixes, e.g. compilation on Mac OS X
  • libsquish compilation now optional
  • dr: deactivate interpolation at 200% zoom

New in darktable 1.2 (Apr 8, 2013)

  • As a feature release, it comes with a lot of new goodies:
  • profiled denoising: adapt to the properties of your camera's sensor (72 cameras already profiled for you).
  • lightroom import: convert some basic edits from your lightroom collection to darktable operations.
  • multi instance support: duplicate your modules and apply them more than one time with different settings.
  • improved usability for distorting modules (streamline spot removal in the presence of crop/rotate for example).
  • selective copy/paste of image processing.
  • new more intuitive keystone correction tool.
  • jpeg2000 support.
  • graphics magick import (support virtually all input image formats).
  • much faster thumbnail loading (if you can live with crappy embedded thumbnails).
  • incredibly lengthy list of small bug fixes, performance enhancements, and usability improvements.
  • new camera support (decode and color matrices).
  • dithering against banding.
  • sharper thumbnails in lighttable mode.
  • new oauth2 based picasa uploader.
  • updated translations.
  • and a thoroughly overhauled user manual, proof read by natives (thanks heaps guys!).
  • This is the list of cameras supported for profiled denoising in this tarball:
  • canon eos-1d mark iv
  • canon eos-1ds mark ii
  • canon eos 20d
  • canon eos 30d
  • canon eos 350d
  • canon eos 400d
  • canon eos 40d
  • canon eos 450d
  • canon eos 50d
  • canon eos 550d
  • canon eos 5d
  • canon eos 5d mark ii
  • canon eos 5d mark iii
  • canon eos 600d
  • canon eos 60d
  • canon eos 650d
  • canon eos 6d
  • canon eos 7d
  • canon eos rebel t1i
  • canon eos rebel t3i
  • canon eos rebel t4i
  • canon powershot g10
  • canon powershot g12
  • canon powershot s90
  • konica minolta dynax 5d
  • nikon d200
  • nikon d300
  • nikon d300s
  • nikon d3100
  • nikon d5000
  • nikon d5100
  • nikon d600
  • nikon d700
  • nikon d7000
  • nikon d80
  • nikon d800
  • nikon d800e
  • nikon d90
  • olympus e-30
  • olympus e-400
  • olympus e-420
  • olympus e-m5
  • olympus e-pl1
  • olympus e-pl5
  • olympus xz-1
  • olympus xz-2
  • panasonic dmc-fz18
  • panasonic dmc-g2
  • panasonic dmc-g3
  • panasonic dmc-g5
  • panasonic dmc-gf1
  • panasonic dmc-gh2
  • panasonic dmc-gx1
  • pentax k100d
  • pentax k10d
  • pentax k200d
  • pentax k-5
  • pentax k-5 ii s
  • pentax k-7
  • pentax k-m
  • pentax k-r
  • pentax k-x
  • samsung nx100
  • sony dsc-rx100
  • sony dslr-a200
  • sony dslr-a230
  • sony dslr-a550
  • sony dslr-a700
  • sony nex-3
  • sony nex-5n
  • sony nex-6
  • sony nex-7
  • sony nex-c3
  • sony slt-a55v
  • sony slt-a65v
  • sony slt-a77v

New in darktable 0.9.1 (Jul 28, 2011)

  • This version has a few bugfixes on top of release 0.9 (184 patches).
  • Some items: new rawspeed, dcraw, and libraw; fixes for various segfaults and deadlocks; the pipeline is now more real HDR (no more gamut clipping in between); a fix for a nasty bug that could cause complete loss of history for an image; darktable-faster now plays nicely with darktablerc (non-gconf); many opencl improvements; updated translations; and the second part of the GSoC: customizable keyboard shortcuts.

New in darktable 0.9 (Jul 6, 2011)

  • This version has countless new features over release 0.8, such as run-time detected GPU acceleration (switch it on/off during runtime in the prefs), blend operations, a spot removal tool, a low light vision tool, non-local-means denoising (relatively fast for nlmeans, but still slow), a framing plugin (adds postcard borders to match a given aspect ratio), tonemapping is a lot faster now (probably the fastest high-dimensional bilateral filter available today), changed images come with the darktable|changed tag, and many more. The first part of the Google summer of code project is already merged.

New in darktable 0.8 (Feb 16, 2011)

  • much faster image loading due to rawspeed, an awesome new library by klaus post @rawstudio
  • lots of performance improvements in our caches and pixel pipelines (together with the above like 5x--10x)
  • gpu computing using opencl (for graphics boards that support it) for a lot of common plugins, to give a huge performance boost
  • overhauled collection plugin for more flexible image collections
  • metadata editor (set author and copyright information etc)
  • fast demosaicing now done on roi and in floating point
  • HDR bracketing and tone mapping (somewhat experimental)
  • flickr upload
  • new languages: thai and japanese
  • lots of new color matrices and white balance presets
  • lots of bugfixes

New in darktable 0.7.1 (Dec 7, 2010)

  • some more white balance presets
  • layout fixes for overlong profile names
  • styles now actually work
  • extensive documentation in form of screencasts

New in darktable 0.7 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • .xmp is now used instead of .dt for sidecars
  • libraw with dcraw 9.05
  • plug-ins of darkroom mode are now in groups/tabs
  • new darkroom plug-ins: zone system, relight, graduated neutral density, watermark
  • changes can now be saved into named processing styles
  • initial preferences dialog was added
  • custom shooting settings can be added in tethering mode
  • initial user manual was written, available in english, german, french, dutch, and swedish
  • moved to xdg config file standard
  • languages: ca cs de es fi fr gl it nl pl ru sq sv
  • reset labels: double click the label to only reset this option, not the whole plug-in
  • a cropped image can now be recropped without resetting the whole plug-in (press backspace)
  • lots of new cameras with enhanced support (input profiles and base curves)
  • recursive image import
  • 962 commits since release-0.6 :)

New in darktable 0.6 (Aug 30, 2010)

  • libraw 0.10.0-beta3
  • tethered shooting mode
  • import from camera via gphoto2
  • new, improved plugins: vignetting, velvia, grain, denoise (via bilateral filter), color transfer, channel mixer ..
  • crop/rotate: straighten tool, perspective correction, guide lines (ported from digikam)
  • lots of new input color matrices and base curves
  • openexr export
  • database format changed, which greatly improves speed (and cuts down used disk memory)
  • film strip view in darkroom mode for quick image switching
  • cool alternative demosaicing algorithms (ported from rawtherapee): dcb, amaze, vcd, c/a autocorrection
  • customizable preset system for all darkroom modules with auto application to matching images, selected by exif
  • reworked export system to modularly support export to picasa webalbum, email, or disk in jpg, png, 8/16-tiff, pfm, exr, or 16-ppm.
  • lots of performance enhancements (plugins denoise and local contrast are still slow)
  • translations: de es fi fr gl nl ru sv

New in darktable 0.5 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • image tagging
  • flexible database queries by exif and custom tags
  • powerful color zones plug-in, to selectively alter only some colors
  • french translation
  • libraw 0.8.5
  • new light table mode layout: file manager
  • inotify support
  • tiff 8-bit and 16-bit export
  • new, more powerful widgets to replace sliders and spin buttons (derived from libphat)
  • reworked, fully color managed processing pipeline
  • supplied some useful base curves
  • image cache can now enforce a strict memory limit
  • snapshots: side-by-side comparisons in darkroom mode
  • fixed aspect ratio and horizontal/vertical flipping in crop module
  • spot auto exposure
  • highlight reconstruction
  • white balance presets with fine-tuning (from ufraw)
  • ..countless small improvements