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digiKam 0.9.0 NEW FEATURES:

General       : Sidebars are used at all to display metadata, comments & tags, and file properties.
General       : Removed imlib2 and libkexif depencies. Add Exiv2 and LCMS depencies.
General       : New API in digiKam core named DImg to manage image data in 8 and 16 bits colors depth.
General       : New API in digiKam core named DMetadata to manage image metadata.
General       : Ported all image filter algorithms to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images.
General       : New metadata viewers based on Exiv2 : Exif viewer, MakerNote viewer, IPTC viewer, 
                and GPS locator.
General       : New ICC profiles profile viewer based on LCMS.
General       : New powerfull widget to display CIE color space used by ICC profiles.
General       : New implementation to load/save images file using a separate thread.
General       : Tags/Rating/DateTime/Comments/PhotographersID/Copyrights are now stored in Exif 
                and/or IPTC metadata tags.
General       : digiKam comments are now store in JPEG file to JFIF section, Exif UserComments tags 
                and Caption Iptc tags.
General       : New fast preview pictures mode embedded into main interface.

Image Editor  : Image Editor support 16 bits color depth images (RAW, TIFF, PNG, PNM).
Image Editor  : Complete rewrite of image editor/showfoto gui implementation. Implementation 
                is now common and is more easy to maintain!
Image Editor  : Add a progress bar to Image editor/showfoto about IO image files access.
Image Editor  : Support of ICC color profiles management using LCMS into Image editor/showfoto.
Image Editor  : digiKam setup is now available from Image Editor menu.
Image Editor  : TIFF and JPEG Exif thumbnail are recomputed at saving pictures.
Image Editor  : Iptc preview image are recomputed at saving pictures.

Image Plugins : New powerfull Noise Reduction algorithm based on dcamnoise2 implementation.
Image Plugins : New powerfull Black & White converter tool using curves adjustements.
Image Plugins : New plugin to experiment ICC profiles to perform color corrections into images.
Image Plugins : New preview rendering modes in all color correction image plugins dialogs.
Image Plugins : Redesign/polishing of all image plugins dialogs. Histogram are available at all 
                when it's necessary. All dialogs used in DigikamImagePlugins are common in digiKam 
                core now.
Image Plugins : New zooming capabilities in image plugins dialogs.
Image Plugins : Ported all core image plugins to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images.
Image Plugins : Ported all DigikamImagePlugins tools to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images.

Setup         : Advanced settings to load RAW files in Image Editor using external dcraw instance.
Setup         : Setup implementation are now common between Showfoto and digiKam.
Setup         : new Identity setup page to set default strings informations about Photographer and 
                copyright used when IPTC tags are updated.

CameraGUI     : new option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif and/or IPTC tags 
                on the fly.
                JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation.


Showfoto      : image properties sidebar support
Showfoto      : all images from a folder can be loaded at the same time.
Showfoto      : Add 16 bits/color/pixel support (DImg API).
Showfoto      : Thumbbar moved to the left by default in vertical mode. Image properties side bar to the 
                right to make a consistant GUI with digiKam main interface.
Showfoto      : Thumbbar can be used to the bottom in horizontal mode.
Showfoto      : New Exif Auto-rotate option like in digiKam ImageEditor.
Showfoto      : New Set Orientation Exif flag to normal after Rotate/Flip like in digiKam ImageEditor.

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BUGFIX from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 87823  : displaying images with ICC color profile when possible
002 ==> 91811  : find pictures by meta tag info, date
003 ==> 91812  : viewer/editor for IPTC meta data
004 ==> 96459  : EXIF for RAW camera images
005 ==> 116248 : Ask user which plugins should be enabled on first startup 
006 ==> 115441 : resize EXIF-rotated images doesn't work
007 ==> 115460 : opening and closing right pane with tag filter also changes width of left pane and vv 
008 ==> 124688 : Digikam loading time is big because of : WARNING: Failed to find parent for Tag
009 ==> 109253 : Digikam does not store comments in image EXIF tags
010 ==> 115764 : Modify EXIF creation date
011 ==> 121487 : "Tip of the day" text gets cut off
012 ==> 120052 : redraw problem with whatthis info of an image show and start scrolling with the mouse
013 ==> 120053 : whatthis info not closed when albumview is scrolled up or down with cursor keys 
014 ==> 123522 : Minolta's RAW files (mrw) aren't show in the view window
015 ==> 121905 : albums not displayed correctly and digikam crashes with St9bad_alloc
016 ==> 113997 : option to store tags in image
017 ==> 123742 : preview-pictures seem to be handled differently by digiKam and Konqueror
018 ==> 121308 : Mass storage and PTP usability
019 ==> 121306 : Add copyright/license during download
020 ==> 111560 : Be able to locate photos on a map
021 ==> 122747 : Will not build with GCC 4.1
022 ==> 103176 : 16bit/channel framework for digikam
023 ==> 109096 : provide quick access to image comment
024 ==> 109817 : feature request for image properties dialog in image editor
025 ==> 109992 : Preview in comments editor resizeable
026 ==> 113103 : Show digikam comments into digikam image editor
027 ==> 124939 : Improve import picture nomenclature
028 ==> 113915 : Tags are lost after "Save As..."ing
029 ==> 103245 : Image Effects are inaccessible from image editor
030 ==> 125589 : saving user preferences not possible
031 ==> 103201 : easy transport of albums, including tags, comments, etc.
032 ==> 119234 : Window views not updated when tag name changed in "Tag Filters"
033 ==> 103255 : wish: *add* (not edit) EXIF headers like date, comment etc
034 ==> 121800 : can't setup camera correctly
035 ==> 121784 : accessing the camera in mass storage mode just lists jpegs and no other filetypes
036 ==> 121371 : Missing display of EXIF infos in "Simple view"
037 ==> 123646 : rating image with a keyboard shortcut
038 ==> 119946 : thumbnails not correctly rotated according to exif information
039 ==> 106103 : Should support adding GPS EXIF header to images
040 ==> 110598 : synchronize digikam comments to existing embedded comments
041 ==> 118501 : Exifs lost when modifying the images
042 ==> 122264 : Exif data fail to show up in recent SVN
043 ==> 103489 : sort and re-order EXIF information dialogs
044 ==> 105670 : option to print EXIF data with images
045 ==> 109319 : Full EXIF info - exiftags style
046 ==> 120963 : optional album date change
047 ==> 121370 : Can't save images sometimes after some modifications
048 ==> 121646 : digiKam on PPC has problem identifying JPEG and tries to use dcraw with them
049 ==> 120479 : Search problem for not tagged or commented images
050 ==> 120775 : Search doesn't find pictures without rating
051 ==> 112063 : When viewing image in fullscreen there is an ugly frame at the border of the screen
052 ==> 120736 : many imageplugins going busy for ever when not using rubber to change a value
053 ==> 116154 : Show progress bar while saving large files
054 ==> 120521 : Untranslatable message in tagfilterview.cpp
055 ==> 119742 : wish list -include move to trash in right click menu
056 ==> 119201 : Sometimes digiKam fails to show newly downloaded photos
057 ==> 117401 : digikam's 'my albums' and 'my tags' does no longer remember it's state when restarted
058 ==> 116520 : Slideshow should work for search results as well
059 ==> 119073 : wish list rescan option
060 ==> 118543 : enable-nfs-hack no longer works
061 ==> 113807 : Is it possible to have the tags of the contextual menus "Assign Tag" and "Remove Tag" sorted ?
062 ==> 116343 : "Not Tagged" has disappeared from the Tags Filter view when changing album library path
063 ==> 117225 : digikam requires at least libpng >= 1.2.7
064 ==> 115423 : thumbnails view jumps to top when new photos are added
065 ==> 125732 : ICC settings get reset when disabled and re-enabled
066 ==> 119741 : Restore image editor if already open
067 ==> 122374 : Ignores read-only permission during saving.
068 ==> 121367 : Add properties tab to digiKam and (especially) Image Editor.
069 ==> 125926 : Directories with a '#' in their name are not properly detected when created outside digikam.
070 ==> 125733 : Enabling 'Always apply ICM profiles' can lead to suprising results.
071 ==> 126326 : camera download: auto-rotated images loose EXIF info when 'No EXIF information found.' 
                 is written to console.
072 ==> 121242 : mimelnk/x-image-raw.desktop conflicts with kdegraphics-3.5.x.
073 ==> 127374 : unsharp mask: max. radius way too small.
074 ==> 116485 : Mimimize button missing on "Compaq Flash Reader" camera window.
075 ==> 127577 : raw display too dark and not rotated.
076 ==> 127634 : Communication between digikam and its kioslaves broken if size_t != off_t.
077 ==> 126335 : Autoration of photos may confuse user because of changes made he is not aware of.
078 ==> 127759 : no scroll bar in color management/select profile.
079 ==> 114211 : Main Interface: image comments encoding unreadable after moving an album.
080 ==> 120241 : Main Interface: utf8 display and edit.
081 ==> 127905 : wish: make comment field resizable.
082 ==> 127946 : Typo: the word Toogle should be Toggle.
083 ==> 117115 : Automatically rotate/flip using camera-provided information (EXIF) modifies image contents
084 ==> 128069 : crash when moving an album to another album.
085 ==> 125779 : use deflate compression for tiffs.
086 ==> 127972 : digikam does not *add* EXIF:DateTimeOriginal when modifying date
087 ==> 127697 : camera gui always puts *.JPG and *.NEF in the configure - digikam dialog/File Mime Types/ Image Files.
088 ==> 128373 : "Makernote - Simple" should show ISO.
089 ==> 113915 : Tags are lost after "Save As..."ing.
090 ==> 128283 : thumbnail generation fails with raw images.
091 ==> 126112 : Do not open new window when camera is connected.
092 ==> 127846 : digiKam crash when 2nd gphoto camera dialog is closed.
093 ==> 93569  : easier connection to USB disc cameras.
094 ==> 124952 : digikam "Mount and Download" Problems.
095 ==> 129134 : Typo in missing files warning dialog "loose" should be "lose".
096 ==> 128914 : Differientiating view and edit / call for a integrated viewer.
097 ==> 128669 : Use embedded thumbnail for viewing RAW files.
098 ==> 127991 : digiKam image editor and raws (nef).
099 ==> 129450 : Cannot exit preview mode within empty album.
100 ==> 129610 : Unsupported initialization of CameraList object.
101 ==> 127584 : Minimum width of sidebar too large.
102 ==> 127763 : color management, profile selection crashes.
103 ==> 126199 : Nikon D70 comments in jpegs are all shown as "charset="Ascii".
104 ==> 130381 : Automatic colorbalance and camera color balance checkboxes swapped.
105 ==> 117248 : Opening default app when camera inserted return KIOExec error.
106 ==> 130883 : Overexposure indicator in color management is saved as part of the picture
107 ==> 130798 : Editor saves some jpeg's 30% smaller than original,
                 even with jpeg compression option set at 100.
108 ==> 130525 : Saving large (>5M) jpg's result in corrupt file.
109 ==> 130920 : ICC, profiles, metadata, abbreviations.
110 ==> 124199 : digikam crashed when I right-clicked in the (empty) "My Albums" view.
111 ==> 127826 : Album comment with no wordwrap.
112 ==> 121691 : Problems with Downloading images from Camera.
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