We're proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 3.6.0!
The github release is here:
[https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.6.0](https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.6.0)
.
As always, please don't use the autogenerated tarball provided by
github, but only our tar.xz file. the checksums are:
```
$ sha256sum darktable-3.6.0.tar.xz
86bcd0184af38b93c3688dffd3d5c19cc65f268ecf9358d649fa11fe26c70a39
darktable-3.6.0.tar.xz
$ sha256sum darktable-3.6.0.3.dmg
12c9319d68dac5b1b5602bf470254467b90f5c5b9d2e93ea081d42884cfd4f80
darktable-3.6.0.3.dmg
$ sha256sum darktable-3.6.0-win64.exe
aad925988545ff3c50f54243520e8481c695b38b209daa808a490113f6400374
darktable-3.6.0-win64.exe
```
When updating from the currently stable 3.4.x series, please bear in
mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but the new
library and configuration will not be usable with 3.4.x any more.
You are strongly advised to take a backup first.
#### Important note: to make sure that darktable can keep on supporting
the raw file format for your camera, *please* read [this
post](https://discuss.pixls.us/t/raw-samples-wanted/5420?u=lebedevri)
on how/what raw samples you can contribute to ensure that we have the
*full* raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license!
- Almost 2680 commits to darktable+rawspeed since 3.4
- 954 pull requests handled
- 290 issues closed
## The Big Ones
- Full rework of the import module. The new module allows you to see
thumbnails of your images before import and makes it easier to handle
multiple import tasks. The same dialog is now used for importing
from disk, card or camera.
When importing "in-place", images that are already present in
darktable
are flagged and can be automatically excluded from the import.
Importing from a local drive won't use gphoto and so should work more
reliably on Windows.
- A vector-scope is added to complement the current histogram,
waveform and parade views.
- A new default demosaic algorithm (RCD) has been introduced, which
should provide
better quality than the current default (PPG) without the long run-
times
of AMaZE. the order of the demosaic algorithms has also been adjusted
for clarity.
- Support for "dual demosaic" has also been added, allowing you to
combine
"RCD + VNG4" and "AMaZE + VNG4" for bayer sensors, for xtrans sensors
there is
"Markesteijn 3-pass + VNG". This allows you to use an algorithm
better resolving
fine detail and another one delivering smoother output depending on
local image content.
- You can now create an opacity mask based on the sharpness of the
image. This uses
a similar algorithm to that used in dual demosaic.
- Drawn shapes are drawn on the original RAW image and then distorted
through
the pixelpipe. This previously led to, for example, circles becoming
ellipses
(due to lens distortion) after being placed on the image. All drawn
shapes can
now be pre-visualized and moved prior to placement, with full
deformation
applied. This makes the editing of masks easier fully WYSIWYG.
- A new Color Balance RGB module has been added. This can be used as a
one stop module
for all color grading work.
- A new censorize module has been added. This allows you to hide parts
of the image by adding
a blur/pixelization.
- A new crop module has been added. This new module has been added late
in the
pixelpipe and makes it possible to use cropped parts of the image for
source spots
in the retouch module, for example.
- A new section has been added to the color calibration module to allow
you to calibrate
colors using a color checker chart.
- The map module has been enhanced in a number of ways:
- When importing a GPX the trace can be displayed.
- Location can be set using polygons and directly created from
information
reported by Open Street Map. As a reminder, all locations
create tags automatically for images placed into the area.
- The basic adjustments module has been replaced with the quick access
panel, which
can be used to group controls from multiple different modules in one
place. Currently,
only non-graphical controls (sliders, comboboxes etc.) can be used.
## Other New Features And Changes
- The various lighttable modes can now be accessed via clear and
descriptive icons
at the bottom of the screen. These should be easier to use than the
existing drop-down
selection.
- The export module is now also accessible on the left-hand panel of
the
darkroom view.
- The mix control in the contrast equalizer module is now retained as
module parameter. This means that no data is lost when using this
slider and
you can always change the mix later with full precision.
- The following modules have been deprecated:
- The basic adjustments module has been replaced by the new quick
access panel.
- The vibrance module has been replaced by the vibrance control in
the new color
balance rgb module.
- The spot removal module has been replaced by the retouch module
(use
this module in "clone" mode to replicate the spot removal
functionality)
- The defringe module has been replaced by a new "chromatic
aberrations" module.
The old module has been renamed to "raw chromatic aberrations".
- The RAW chromatic aberration module has been enhanced to support
multiple iterations and an option to help avoid color shifting has
been added (not activated by default).
- Scene-referred workflow is now the default, though this can still be
changed in
preferences.
- The ESC key can be used to exit the slideshow view.
- You can now <kbd>Ctrl-Click</kbd> on the module groups preset button
to
access the manage dialog directly.
- Many aspects of the GUI have been reworked or tweaked for a better
user
experience (combo-box alignment, padding, histogram icons, etc.).
- The color of scope views (histogram, parade, waveform) has been
reworked using CSS.
- The integrated help system now points to the new user manual which is
up-to-date for this release. Also for development builds of darktable
these links will
go to the development version of the manual. So more links have been
added, for example, for the lighttable layout and the timeline.
As a reminder, the new documentation is available in the following
location
(viewable online or in pdf and epub formats):
https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/3.6/en/
- Many graphs in processing modules can now be resized with
<kbd>Ctrl+Scroll</kbd>.
(Filmic RGB, RGB levels, levels, lowlight, colorzones, rawdenoise,
denoise profile, contrast equalizer).
- A new color preservation method ("norm-preserving colorfulness") has
been added to the color calibration module.
- A simplified and more precise message has been added to notify the
user
when their database(s) are locked by another process.
- A rational function has been added to toe/shoulder controls in Filmic
RGB.
- A new preference for advanced users can now be used to disable the
module warning messages. Use at your own risk.
- Preliminary work toward full support for CR3 has begun. darktable's
exif
support can now read CR3 files if the proper exiv2 library version
is found.
- A new color science with norm preservation under de-saturation has
been
added to Filmic RGB and a new scaled euclidean norm is supported.
- Some changes have been made to make liquify faster when editing
nodes. Also smaller deformation stamps are now supported.
- The style of module sub-sections has been tweaked so that they stand
out more.
- It is now possible to more easily manage overlapping masks. For
example, it is
possible to change an ellipse's control points when they lie within a
larger circle or path shape.
- Easier handling of the mask controls - do not require high precision
as mouse collision detection has been reworked.
- The preferences, "manage module groups" and import dialogs will
remember and
restore their size after closing. Their default size is designed to
support
smaller screens and it is recommended that you resize them as
appropriate.
- A huge number of internal optimizations have been made throughout the
code.
For example: soften, tone equalizer, drawn masks, color picker, color
space conversions.
It is impossible to list them all
- Many speed improvements have been made for the standard CPU code path
by tuning the
OpenMP code. There are some huge gains with the new code in some
modules. We have then removed some hand-coded SSE routines as they
are not
faster and are hard to maintain.
- The prompt that appears when exporting in overwrite mode is now
optional and controlled
by a security preference.
- An icon has now been added to module headers to indicate whether a
module uses a mask.
This allows you to quickly see which modules use a mask and to
enable/disable the mask
preview by clicking on it.
- A message is now shown when a camera is plugged and darktable is not
able
to connect to it. The general cause is that the camera is mounted by
the OS and so is exclusively locked.
- The grey darkroom loading screen is now optional. This can lead to
on-screen artifacts
but can also be useful to quickly compare versions of an image.
- Module group presets can now be auto-applied based on the image being
edited.
This make it possible to create groups specifically to develop color,
monochrome, RAW or Jpeg images, for example.
- Different interpolation algorithms are advised for warping and
scaling modules.
A new preference has been added to allow you to select these
algorithms independently.
- RGB scene blending mode is now used for the denoise (profiled)
presets.
- Parametric masks are now handled better when being reset. Some
parametric masks
may need to be inverted in order to be considered as a no-operation.
- The GUI of the blending section has been rewored to be more compact.
- Distortion is no longer computed for shapes that are outside of the
current
view.
- Better values are reported on toast messages when changing masks'
size
and feather.
- Undo has been enhanced to support duplicates. That is, the creation
of
duplicates can be undone using <kbd>Ctrl+Z</kbd> (undo).
- In the darkroom, undo now restores the mask display status along with
the module changes.
- Non-matrix-based color profiles have been filtered out of the
histogram profile
menu.
- The timeline/filmstrip keyboard shortcut has been changed to
<kbd>Ctrl-B</kbd>.
This is more consistent with <kbd>Ctrl+Shift+B</kbd> (used to toggle
the bottom
panel) and avoids a conflict with sticky preview shortcut.
- Some preferences have been moved to a sub-menu in the module preset
menu. This makes the global preferences lighter. This has been
done for the import, export, metadata and "collect images" modules.
- Jpeg-2000 files are now decoded faster (using multiple threads).
- The lighttable has been enhanced to use the embedded Jpeg preview
depending on the size of the thumbnails being displayed.
Setting such a preference to use embedded preview for small
thumbnails may speed-up
the handling of large collections during import, for example.
- Added support for removing multiple styles at once.
- Added support for import/export of presets on mass.
- Added collect filter presets to display images based on aspect ratio
and import date.
- The variables $(EXIF_xxx) can now be used while importing pictures.
- Graduated density module's control is fixed when using down-sampling.
- Color zone saturation has been adjusted to avoid misleading visual
illusions.
- Modules can now be removed from a group by right-clicking on the
group icon.
- Many improvements have been made to the TIFF export module.
- In the lighttable, when several images are selected, the image
information module
now displays the information only if every image share the same data.
If data are
different, a \<various values\> text is displayed.
- In the export module, the last visited Piwigo album is now remembered
between sessions.
## Bug Fixes
- Fix ellipse and gradient rotation angle when distortion modules are
activated. This is a GUI issue only when adding and editing shapes.
- Fix white-balance from old edits where the white-balance module was
left at default values in darktable 2.6.x. For those edits we
need to recover the legacy values and not the new ones from 3.x.
- Use smooth zooming to avoid thumbnails flickering.
- Fix entering of exponent expression in sliders for keyboard where ^
is a dead key (this is the case in the German and French layout for
example).
- The import should be a bit faster for large collections by limiting
the GUI update.
- Fix various AVIF issues (set YUV range, proper use of color
primaries, set codecName, etc.)
- Fix demosaic border handling and have fewer differences between the
CPU & GPU code path.
- Fix use of sources in spot and retouch when distortion is used. The
source area was not always correctly distorted and was actually
giving different results depending on whether distorting modules
were present in the pipe.
- In the default watermark simple-text we now preserve the spaces.
- Properly check for CLUT in all ICC intents before extracting matrix.
- Properly use the inverse-transform routine provided by lensfun
instead
of an adhoc iterative routine in the lens correction module. This
makes the code
cleaner and probably more precise.
- Hide borders by default in slideshow view.
- Ensure that duplicates are given the same time-stamp as the source
image.
- Fix creation of duplicates when the workflow default has been
changed since the base image was created. That is, an image
created with the display-referred workflow must be fully identical
when duplicated, even if the workflow default has been changed to
scene-referred.
- Properly group focal lengths in the collect images filters.
- Better naming of the RAW prepare module controls.
- Fix live-view display scaling on large screens (especially for HiDPI
ones).
- Fix migration of legacy parameters for denoise (profiled). A
copy/paste error was copying the shadow parameter as the new bias.
- Fix possible loss of masks where a module is disabled just before
switching to another module.
- A new module instance can now be created by right-clicking on
the multi-instance menu or on a preset. This replaces middle-click,
which is not available on all mice.
- Fix zoom in the lighttable full preview to keep the mouse position.
- Recover forms from legacy spot in version 1.
- Fix reset in the export module so that it resets all module
parameters
to their default values.
- Fix HDR DNG white balance setting.
- Import Lightroom metadata only if there is not already a darktable
XMP for
the corresponding image.
- Fix color profile handling in the overexposed module.
- Fix style undo in overwrite mode.
- Fix possible issue with CUPS printer margins computation when
computer is not using the English locale.
## Notes
- The database upgrade can be slow.
This new version modifies quite a lot the database structure by
adding
foreign keys and cascade support. This will avoid dangling data in
the
database and will enforce a better consistency.
## Lua
- API changed to 6.2.0
- Password storage and retrieval - added _darktable.password.save()_
and _darktable.password.get()_ to save and retrieve passwords using the
darktable password storage back end.
- Widget naming - widgets now have a name field, making it possible to
style them using CSS
- _darktable.gui.libs.visibility_ is fixed so that setting a lib to
hidden (false) removes it from the user interface.
- Preferences - added _darktable.preferences.destroy()_ to remove a
preference. Added _darktable.preferences.get_keys()_ to return a
sorted table of all of the preferences for both darktable and lua.
- Get image from database by image id - added
_darktable.database.get_image()_ to retrieve an image by the image ID
- _darktable.gui.libs.metadata_view.destroy_info()_ - function added to
remove field added by
_darktable.gui.libs.metadata_view.register_info()_ from the image
information display. Thanks @phweyland
- API change to 6.2.1 - **SCRIPT BREAKING CHANGE**
- Event naming - add a name field to _darktable.register_event()_ so
that multiple events of the same type can differentiated and the
desired one selected and accessed.
- Event destruction - _added darktable.destroy_event()_ to remove an
event.
- API change to 6.2.2 - **SCRIPT BREAKING CHANGE**
- Add _selection-changed_ to the lua events so that scripts can respond
when the selection changes
- Selection naming - add a name field to
_darktable.gui.libs.select.register_selection()_ so that the selection
can be selected and manipulated after creation
- Selection destruction - add
_darktable.gui.libs.select.destroy_selection()_ to remove an selection
button from the user interface.
- Selection sensitivity - add
_darktable.gui.libs.select.set_selection_sensitive()_ to set selection
button sensitivity
- API change to 6.2.3 - **SCRIPT BREAKING CHANGE**
- Action naming - add a name field to
darktable.gui.libs.image.register_action() so that the action can be
selected and manipulated after creation
- Action destruction - add darktable.gui.libs.image.destroy_action() to
remove a lua created action button from the user interface.
- Action sensitivity - add
darktable.gui.libs.image.set_action_sensitive() to set action button
sensitivity
- Bugfix - Changed text_view widget to wrap lines when the text exceeds
the width of the widget
- Storage removal - add darktable.destroy_storage() to remove a storage
from the exporter
- Widget visibility - add visible member to widgets for visibility
control
- Change API to 7.0.0 for darktable 3.6.0 due to all of the breaking
changes this development cycle
## Changed Dependencies
## RawSpeed changes
## Camera support, compared to 3.4.1
### Base Support
- Fujifilm GFX100S (compressed)
- Fujifilm X-E4 (compressed)
- Fujifilm X-S10 (compressed)
- Leica D-Lux 7 (4:3, 1:1, 16:9, 3:2)
- Nikon Z 6_2 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed,
12bit-uncompressed)
- Nikon Z 7_2 (14bit-compressed, 14bit-uncompressed, 12bit-compressed,
12bit-uncompressed)
- Panasonic DC-G100 (4:3)
- Panasonic DC-G110 (4:3)
- Panasonic DC-GF10 (4:3)
- Panasonic GF90 (4:3)
- Pentax K-3 Mark III
- Ricoh GR III (dng)
- Sony ILCE-1
- Sony ILCE-7SM3
- Sony ILCE-QX1
### White Balance Presets
- Fujifilm GFX100S
- Fujifilm X-E4
- Nikon D780
- Panasonic DC-FZ10002
- Panasonic DMC-G8
- Panasonic DMC-G80
- Panasonic DMC-G81
- Panasonic DMC-G85
- Ricoh GR III
- Samsung GX20
### Noise Profiles
- Canon PowerShot S110
- Nikon COOLPIX P950
- Nikon Z 7_2
- Olympus E-M10 Mark IV
- Pentax K-3 Mark III
- Samsung GX10
- Samsung GX20
- Sony ILCE-1
- Sony ILCE-7C
### Custom Color matrices
- Samsung GX20
## Translations
- Afrikaans
- German
- Esperanto
- European Spanish
- French
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Dutch
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Russian
- Slovenian
- Ukrainian
