digiKam 8.8.0 - Release date: 2025-11-xx

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NEW FEATURES:

Bundles component versions:

(*): Updated compared to previous digiKam release.

| Bundles       | Qt version | KDE version | OpenCV version | FFmpeg version | Heif version | ExifTool version | Exiv2 version |
|---------------|------------|-------------|----------------|----------------|--------------|------------------|---------------|
| Windows Qt5   | 5.17  (*)  | 5.116       | 4.11           | 7.1.1 (*)      | 1.20.2 (*)   | 13.36 (*)        | 0.25.5        |
| Windows Qt6   | 6.9.1 (*)  | 6.17.0 (*)  | 4.11           | 7.1.1 (*)      | 1.20.2 (*)   | 13.36 (*)        | 0.25.5        |
| AppImage Qt5  | 5.17  (*)  | 5.116       | 4.12 (*)       | 7.1.1 (*)      | 1.20.1 (*)   | 13.36 (*)        | 0.25.5        |
| AppImage Qt6  | 6.9.1 (*)  | 6.17.0 (*)  | 4.12 (*)       | 7.1.1 (*)      | 1.20.1 (*)   | 13.36 (*)        | 0.25.5        |
| macOS Qt5     | 5.15       | 5.116       | 4.12 (*)       | 7.1.1 (*)      | 1.19.8 (*)   | 13.36 (*)        | 0.25.5        |
| macOS Qt6     | 6.9.1 (*)  | 6.17.0 (*)  | 4.12 (*)       | 7.1.1 (*)      | 1.19.8 (*)   | 13.36 (*)        | 0.25.5        |


Windows:         Support for long file paths in Windows 10/11 when enabled.
RawEngine:       Update internal Libraw to last 20250727 upstream.
Video:           Update internal QtAVPlayer to last 20250913 upstream (Qt5 only).
Plugins:         G'MIC-Qt updated to last v3.6.0.
TagsManager:     Add options to import or export tag-hierarchies to text files.
                 Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalogue format is supported (https://www.controlledvocabulary.com/products/index.html).
Preview:         Add support to the FujiFilm camera focus points.
Preview:         Add support to the Olympus/OM Systems camera focus points.
ColorManagement: Use monitor color profile set under Windows, macOS, and Wayland.
ProgressManager: Use native desktop notifier under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Editor:          New enhance tool to blur progressively the background of a subject from a photo.
Documentation:   Add Brazilian translations.

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BUGFIXES:

001 ==> 506429 - digiKam 8.6 DLNA server freezes after "upnp devices created: 0" (regression from 8.5).
002 ==> 506457 - The help window blocks digiKam at downloading AI models stage.
003 ==> 506577 - digiKam crashes after startup if database server is mysql 8.
004 ==> 506671 - Split single digikam database into core/thumb/faces/similarity dbs.
005 ==> 506712 - Two small note about the "New Advanced Search" menu.
006 ==> 506861 - digiKam crashes when trying to start scanning, if no album is selected.
007 ==> 507071 - Build failed with : error: ‘QString::QString(const char*)’.
008 ==> 507092 - Small fault in the Tooltip text.
009 ==> 507064 - Crash at start due to enabled video hardware acceleration.
010 ==> 479792 - In "digiKam Properties" sidebar, double quotes in caption are displayed as &quot;
011 ==> 507051 - Portable archive for 8.7.0 (digiKam-8.7.0-Qt6-Win64.tar.xz) is missing as a download option.
012 ==> 506663 - Face recognition finds nothing.
013 ==> 507101 - OpenCV 4.12 exception and face classifier not working.
014 ==> 507113 - Face recognition does not identify faces even after scanning hundreds of faces.
015 ==> 507299 - Typo: Settings tab is named "Behaviour" even when the locale is en_US.
016 ==> 507279 - Small typos and grammatical errors in the English text.
017 ==> 505199 - System shows 607MB RAM allocation that is not returned to the OS without a physical end task (or restart of system).
018 ==> 507190 - On Windows 11, digiKam background process remains running after app close.
019 ==> 506775 - digikam.exe process never closes after closing the window.
020 ==> 487911 - Tag but do not train.
021 ==> 479404 - Add delete button to People search filter field.
022 ==> 506073 - Automatic update doesn't work because no sha256 files on server.
023 ==> 468867 - Face detection and recognition.
024 ==> 446729 - Crashes with error: The Wayland connection broken. Did the Wayland compositor die?
025 ==> 507417 - Binary data seems gobbled by captions parsing.
026 ==> 503251 - Faces recognition stopped working.
027 ==> 507449 - Do not allow running multple instances.
028 ==> 507467 - Switching from lazy synchronization mode aborts remaining lazy sync.
029 ==> 507356 - Deleted 'Behaviour' term causes problem in language translation.
030 ==> 507485 - Editing Advanced Search doesn't work.
031 ==> 507576 - digiKam User Comment Exif displaying incorrect characters for Nikon images.
032 ==> 507582 - digiKam process does not terminate when window is closed.
033 ==> 507591 - Small fault: superfluous dot at the end of the sentence.
034 ==> 507595 - Assign the same tag to people in the same photo.
035 ==> 507355 - Suggestion for improvement re positioning of small icons in Preview window.
036 ==> 455226 - Panorama Tool needs the Hugin pto2mk software.
037 ==> 507647 - Language cannot be chosen - only US_English available.
038 ==> 507657 - app/utils/digikam_globals_bundles.cpp build failled with error.
039 ==> 507668 - Prioritize user-added metadata over the ones in MakerNotes.
040 ==> 507713 - Incorrect sorting of picture names.
041 ==> 507661 - Portrait videos are displayed horizontally in presentation mode.
042 ==> 507749 - Sort Items by Name in Thumbnails View.
043 ==> 444966 - Request for Keyword Import in Database Capability.
044 ==> 507524 - Feature Request - Import Structured Keyword List Text File.
045 ==> 507798 - .digikam_ignore file fails to prevent scanning of subdirectories on Windows.
046 ==> 459913 - Tag manager does not support export the tags to a text file.
047 ==> 507575 - Gmic plugins using Category dropdown and Preset dropdown to select not working.
048 ==> 491687 - G'MIC-Qt plugin "Color Presets" not working properly - LUTs Pack cannot be changed.
049 ==> 505486 - Loading HEIC photos from SMB shares is very slow.
050 ==> 453768 - File import error when path > MAX_PATH(260).
051 ==> 507909 - Change location of AI model files download.
052 ==> 507953 - Building CXX object core/.../digikam_version.cpp.o failed with Qt5.
053 ==> 508042 - Setting some ColorLabel does not work.
054 ==> 508047 - Reverse geocoding set number street twice into XMP-lr:HierarchicalSubject.
055 ==> 508076 - No abort button while exporting to filesystem.
056 ==> 508123 - digiKam crashes on startup with remote Mariadb or Mysql database.
057 ==> 508060 - When adding a new collection, tags are not associated with images when using sidecars file and tags hierarchy.
058 ==> 436526 - Use native Color Management settings from Windows and MacOS.
059 ==> 508104 - Add Fujifilm focus-point extractor support to digiKam.
060 ==> 508242 - Crash while needing help about numerotation.
061 ==> 508419 - Race condition with XMP files causes confusing tagging behavior.
062 ==> 503370 - "Open in File Manager" opens a wrong folder.
063 ==> 508121 - Face Recognition does not produce any results.
064 ==> 508464 - Album marked as not available although it is available.
065 ==> 508500 - Wipe all tags from Database only results in "Cannot delete required face tag" message.
066 ==> 508633 - Duplicates freezes, cant sort by Similarity, or resize.
067 ==> 508645 - Segments of digikam window are repeated on screen.
068 ==> 501767 - Right-Click & 'Open With...' shows apps multiple times.
069 ==> 509074 - HEIF/HEIC files not being displayed in Thumbnails.
070 ==> 387323 - Printing assistant keeps resetting page layout & no way to specify spacing between images.
071 ==> 509213 - "Update Fingerprints" updates all images instead of selected album.
072 ==> 508606 - Add new tool to generate blur background of a photo.
073 ==> 509375 - Rating an image is counter intuitive in some situations.
074 ==> 509156 - Wishlist - Recursive Folder's Option in Advanced Search.
075 ==> 506495 - OpenCL not recognized even if installed (Kubuntu 25.04, Nvidia, AppImage).
076 ==> 508681 - Does not start in Windows.
077 ==> 508768 - digiKam crashes on launch.
078 ==> 509059 - Rebuild all training data results in crash.
079 ==> 509583 - digiKam icon is displayed twice in the taskbar.
080 ==> 509573 - Add support of OM System OM-5 Mark II focus point.
081 ==> 505103 - digiKam git freeze when trying to drag and drop/copy files/images inside albums (Wayland/Hyprland).
082 ==> 501862 - Dragging tags to new location no longer has option to merge tags.
083 ==> 503054 - A merge of tags sometimes does not get triggered.
084 ==> 504238 - Add support of keywords merge using Drag and Drop.
085 ==> 509796 - digiKam generated XMP sidecars not updated by darktable.
086 ==> 509844 - digiKam closed unexpectedly (Qt5 based).
087 ==> 509976 - PNG and HEIF not rotated correctly.
088 ==> 510040 - Slow first startup after installation.
089 ==> 507615 - Failure at initial launch of version 8.7.
090 ==> 510129 - digiKam stays as a background process after closing or quitting.
091 ==> 510179 - A DK background process remains after closing DK.
092 ==> 510191 - gui_digikamautotagassignment_obj.dir/all] Error 2 Build Error.
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