Firstly and most important - many thanks to all that have worked so hard
to make this major release possible.
I am however, confused about one thing ( so far, I am sure that there
will be more ) :
In the past, when in light table view it was possible to navigate to a
directory ( that contained several several sub-directories that had all
previously been imported ) and select it for opening. I believe there
was a setting that determined the max number of sub-directories that
could be traversed / nested ).
Use case : I have a folder from a holiday that contains sub-folders of
images by date. I then wish to open all images from that holiday.
I cannot seem to find this option within 3.6.
Apologies if this is a numpty question but any suggestions much appreciated.
Cheers,
F
On 03/07/2021 09:14, Pascal Obry wrote:
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
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