Download digiKam 6.0 beta 1

The first beta release of digiKam version 6.0 has been released. This photo management and image editing application for KDE has downloads for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows. It includes support for various file formats and can also be provided with more options via plug-ins, such as exporting an album to Facebook or Flickr. More about the possibilities of this program is on this page to find. The complete release notes for this release can be found at this pagethe main improvements are briefly summarized below.

Improvements and Fixes
The next major version 6.0.0 looks promising, and will introduce new features as:

• Full support of video files management working as photos.
• An integration of all import/export web-service tools in LightTable, Image editor and Showfoto.
• Raw file decoding engine supporting new cameras.
• Similarity data is now stored in a separate file.
• Simplified web service authentication using OAuth protocol.
• New tools to export to Pinterest, OneDrive and Box web services.
• The capability to re-organize the icon-view contents manually.

A huge factoring of source code has been done to reduce external dependencies again with the goal to simplify application compilation, packaging and maintenance for the next years.