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 digiKam 0.9.1 - Release date: 2007-03-04
 
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 NEW FEATURES :
 
 General       : New native JPEG2000 image loader using Jasper library witch 
                 can support 16 bits color depth pictures.
 General       : New optimized layout to show Comments & Tags side bar contents.
 General       : Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support drag & drop.
 General       : New Batch tool to sync all images metadata (EXIF/IPTC) with 
                 digiKam database content.
 General       : Add a status bar to Album Gui with a progress bar, text bar, 
                 and navigate bar.
 General       : New native SlideShow tool witch use the Image Preview feature. 
                 RAW files can be slided very fast.
 General       : Native slideshow tool : new option to slide an album tree in recursive mode.
 General       : Native slideshow tool : add capability to print photograph information during slide.
 General       : Native slideshow tool : preaparing slideshow is now cancelable.
 
 AlbumGUI      : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags 
                 about auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview.
 AlbumGUI      : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users.
 AlbumGUI      : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of 
                 default media player.
 AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading.
 AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu.
 AlbumGUI      : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to 
                 apply properties.
 AlbumGUI      : New option to set the action to do when user right click on 
                 picture thumb: Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview.
 AlbumGUI      : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images 
                 (DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback)
 AlbumGUI      : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags about
                 auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview.
 AlbumGUI      : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users (like Kmail or Konqueror).
 AlbumGUI      : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of default desktop
                 media player.
 AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading.
 AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu.
 AlbumGUI      : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to apply properties.
 AlbumGUI      : New option to set the action to do when user right click on picture thumb: 
                 Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview.
 AlbumGUI      : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images (DateTimeDigitized 
                 and DateTime only used as fallback)
 
 Image Editor  : All tools remember settings between sessions.
 Image Editor  : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View.
 Image Editor  : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop.
 Image Editor  : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed 
                 and over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections.
 Image Editor  : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same 
                 than Photoshop.
 Image Editor  : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width 
                 can be set in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting.
 Image Editor  : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines.
 Image Editor  : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko.
 Image Editor  : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform 
                 auto-exposure corrections.
 Image Editor  : all tools : capabilty to remember settings between tool
                 sessions to store configuration in a settings file.
 Image Editor  : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures.
 Image Editor  : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels.
 Image Editor  : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram 
                 available in sidebar.
 Image Editor  : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files.
 Image Editor  : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in 
                 File Save dialog.
 Image Editor  : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy 
                 compression image format with a link to wikipedia to aware users.
 Image Editor  : All tools remember settings between sessions.
 Image Editor  : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View.
 Image Editor  : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop.
 Image Editor  : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed and
                 over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections.
 Image Editor  : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same 
                 than Photoshop.
 Image Editor  : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width can be set
                 in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting.
 Image Editor  : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines.
 Image Editor  : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko.
 Image Editor  : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform auto-exposure corrections.
 Image Editor  : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures.
 Image Editor  : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels.
 Image Editor  : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram available in sidebar.
 Image Editor  : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files.
 Image Editor  : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in File Save dialog.
 Image Editor  : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy compression image 
                 format with a link to wikipedia to aware users.
 
 CameraGUI     : New option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif and/or IPTC tags 
                 on the fly.
 CameraGUI     : JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation.
 CameraGUI     : digiKam theme support.
 
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 BUGFIXES:
 
 001 ==> 115157 - Usability: Image comments/tags dialog: hard to find/see all already selected tags (and to 'de'select them).
 002 ==> 132309 - Wish: enhance video support in digiKam.
 003 ==> 115153 - Assigns tags not only to selected images with drag and drop.
 004 ==> 131743 - Comments and tag edit widgets should retain focus when changing image.
 005 ==> 140412 - Comments/Tags sidebar steels focus.
 006 ==> 137491 - Editor image cache not flush when an image is modified outside digiKam.
 007 ==> 138949 - Save/overwrite fails: wrong dialog.
 008 ==> 139197 - Crash during import of raw imagefiles (DNG).
 009 ==> 139313 - UTF-8 image comments are mangled when input from image editor.
 010 ==> 136903 - If partition gets full during camera/card copy there is no warning and empty files are created.
 011 ==> 133955 - Rating search: less, equal, and larger comparison.
 012 ==> 139547 - Tag hierarchy automatic fill.
 013 ==> 138816 - gpcamera.cpp compile failure CameraList camList.
 014 ==> 093542 - Improvements to digiKam print interface.
 015 ==> 139658 - Tiff generated by photoshop is either ignored by digiKam image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating the database.
 016 ==> 102032 - Wish: rating system for photos, show/hide/sort by rating.
 017 ==> 111446 - Bad behaviour when out of disk space.
 018 ==> 133516 - Tags set in Comments/Tags end up on the wrong picture.
 019 ==> 140136 - Aspect ratio crop and selection widget improvements.
 020 ==> 131600 - Set tag for multiple selection of images.
 021 ==> 137545 - Helper lines / cross wanted.
 023 ==> 131170 - Add grid/auxiliary lines for perspective correction tool.
 024 ==> 138158 - Allow to edit multiple image tags/comments at same time.
 025 ==> 140234 - Thumbnail click default action.
 026 ==> 135141 - Border size in pixel.
 027 ==> 137696 - Border extent should not follow image aspect ratio.
 028 ==> 138444 - More clear/consistent color management terminology.
 029 ==> 140176 - Showfoto crashes when selecting a filter.
 030 ==> 130237 - Typos in digiKam tool files.
 031 ==> 138925 - External modules config dialog lacks a select all button.
 032 ==> 140038 - digiKam Image Editor crash on right click after changing toolbar.
 033 ==> 139766 - Crash when displaying EXIF metadata with Unicode comment
 034 ==> 130017 - Wish: batch operation to save existing comments in the files.
 035 ==> 140320 - View menu should better fit after Edit.
 036 ==> 127617 - "Toggle Fullscreen" should be located in "View" menu instead of "Settings" menu.
 038 ==> 139264 - digiKam sorts pictures with wrong exif tag.
 039 ==> 140417 - Crash digiKam when delete image.
 040 ==> 110514 - Enhanced selection, refactored histogram. 
 041 ==> 140933 - Typo: Album Library Path.
 042 ==> 141190 - digikam crash when invalid ICM file at color profile directory and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR SPACE PROFILES.
 043 ==> 123649 - JPEG/PNG quality settings at the "save" dialog.
 044 ==> 116518 - Use tool for displaying slideshows.
 045 ==> 140304 - Start slideshow from the current image.
 046 ==> 140303 - slideshow must be relocated to View menu from tools menu.
 047 ==> 137503 - Tags are not written to image file automatically.
 048 ==> 136254 - Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords.
 049 ==> 135655 - Proper full screen mode (no menu, toolbar, statusbar, sidebars).
 050 ==> 142088 - Build fails when MetadataEngine is in $PREFIX, but not standard include directories
 051 ==> 140227 - remove or modify D&D tags menu from icon view area (improvements, not finished)
 052 ==> 142109 - Turn under/over exposure display on/off by click on corresponding icons
 053 ==> 141663 - Keep getting prompted to Apply Comments
 054 ==> 139024 - Camera GUI new items selection doesn't work
 055 ==> 139547 - Tag hierarchy automatic fill 
 056 ==> 141626 - Bugs in german translation 
 057 ==> 141786 - Confirmation dialog during rename to existing file does n... 
 058 ==> 141924 - Tags preview not updated in last image of album 
 059 ==> 141934 - Incorrect capitalized string: "back to album" 
 060 ==> 141961 - Long comments truncated in slideshow