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0001 digiKam 0.9.4 - Release date: 2008-07-16
0002 
0003 **********************************************************************************************
0004 NEW FEATURES:
0005 
0006 General        : for packaging, an external libsqlite3 dependency can be used instead internal version.
0007                  (see bug #160966)
0008 General        : Updated internal CImg library to last stable 1.2.9 (released at 2008/06/26).
0009 General        : external libsqlite3 dependency removed. sqlite3 source code is now included in digiKam core.
0010                  (see bug #160966)
0011 General        : English words review in whole GUI by Oliver Doer
0012 General        : Updated internal CImg library to last stable 1.2.8 (released at 2008/04/18).
0013 General        : New search text filter for all metadata sidebar tabs.
0014 General        : New dialog to list all RAW camera supported. A search camera model tool is 
0015                  available to find easy a camera from list.
0016 General        : Creation of tags simplified everywhere. Multiple Tags hierarchy can be 
0017                  created at the same time. Tags creation dialog re-designed.
0018 General        : Color theme scheme are now supported everywhere in graphical interfaces.
0019 General        : Color theme scheme can be changed from Editor and LightTable.
0020 General        : Updated internal CImg library to last stable 1.2.7 (released at 2008/01/23).
0021 General        : Add capability to display count of items in all Album, Date, Tags, and 
0022                  Tags Filter Folder View.
0023                  The number of items contained in virtual or physical albums can be 
0024                  displayed on the right of album name. If a tree branch is collapsed, 
0025                  parents album sum-up the number of items from all undisplayed children albums.
0026                  Count of items is performed in background by digiKam KIO-Slaves.
0027                  A new option from Setup/Album dialog page can toggle on/off this feature.
0028 
0029 AlbumGUI       : Add a new tool to perform Date search around whole albums collection: Time-Line.
0030 AlbumGUI       : In Calendar View, selecting Year album show all pictures relevant.
0031 AlbumGUI       : Add a new status-bar indicator to report album icon view filtering status.
0032 AlbumGUI       : Auto-completion in all search text filter.
0033 
0034 
0035 Showfoto       : New open image file dialog with photo thumbnail/information.
0036 
0037 ImageEditor    : New saveas image file dialog with photo thumbnail/information.
0038 ImageEditor    : Raw files can be decoded in 16 bits color depth without to use Color Management.
0039                  An auto-gamma and auto-white balance is processed using the same method than dcraw
0040                  with 8 bits color depth RAW image decoding. This usefull to to have a speed-up RAW 
0041                  workflow with suitable images.
0042 
0043 Showfoto       : Added support of color theme schemes.
0044 Showfoto       : Added 2 options to setup images ordering with "File/Open Folder" action.
0045 
0046 **********************************************************************************************
0047 BUGFIXES:
0048 
0049 001 ==> 146393 - No gamma adjustment when opening RAW file.
0050 002 ==> 158377 - digiKam duplicates downloaded images while overwriting existing ones.
0051 003 ==> 151122 - Opening Albums Has Become Very Slow.
0052 004 ==> 145252 - Umask settings used for album directory, not for image files
0053 005 ==> 144253 - Failed to update old Database to new Database format.
0054 006 ==> 159467 - Misleading error message with path change in digikamrc file.
0055 007 ==> 157237 - Connect the data when using the left tabs.
0056 008 ==> 157309 - digiKam mouse scroll direction on lighttable.
0057 009 ==> 158398 - Olympus raw images shown with wrong orientation.
0058 010 ==> 152257 - Crash on saving images after editing.
0059 011 ==> 153730 - Too many file format options when saving raw image from editor in digiKam.
0060 012 ==> 151157 - Right and left keys goes to first picture and last picture without shortcuts.
0061 013 ==> 151451 - Application crashed using edit.
0062 014 ==> 139657 - Blueish tint in low saturation images converted to CMYK.
0063 015 ==> 147600 - Showfoto Open folder - files shown in reverse order.
0064 016 ==> 149851 - Showfoto asks if you want to save changes when deleting photo, if changes have been made.
0065 017 ==> 138378 - Showfoto opens file browser window to last the folder used upon startup.
0066 018 ==> 148964 - images are blur only inside showFoto.
0067 019 ==> 146938 - Themes Don't Apply To All Panels.
0068 020 ==> 135378 - Single-click on picture open it in editor.
0069 021 ==> 142469 - Splash screen to be the very first thing.
0070 022 ==> 147619 - Crash when viewing video.
0071 023 ==> 136583 - Album icon does not show preview-image after selecting given image as preview.
0072 024 ==> 129357 - Thumbnails not rotated for (D200)-NEF.
0073 025 ==> 132047 - Faster display of images and/or prefetch wished for.
0074 026 ==> 150259 - media-gfx/digikam-0.9.2 error/typo in showfoto.desktop.
0075 027 ==> 150674 - Turn of live update of preview when moving points in curves dialog or in histogram.
0076 028 ==> 141703 - Show file creation date in tooltip.
0077 029 ==> 128377 - Adjust levels: histograms don't match, bad "auto level" function.
0078 030 ==> 141755 - Sidebar: Hide unused tabs, Add tooltips. 
0079 031 ==> 146068 - Mixer does not work for green and blue selected as main channel and monochrome mode.
0080 032 ==> 135931 - Reorganize Batch Processing tools from 'Image' and 'Tools' menus.
0081 033 ==> 159664 - Background color of live/quick filter not updated on folder/date change.
0082 034 ==> 162132 - Crash while saving tiff (possibly caused by present alpha channel).
0083 035 ==> 155046 - light-table useability, possible improvements.
0084 036 ==> 161085 - Zoom steps in image editor
0085 037 ==> 162247 - The photos thumbnails list would be better if in the end of an album/date/tag start the next.
0086 038 ==> 160523 - Crash when saving picture as new nameafter resizing.
0087 039 ==> 162428 - debug info needed ?
0088 040 ==> 147597 - Typos in the digiKam PO file.
0089 041 ==> 121309 - Camera list sorted by brand.
0090 042 ==> 137836 - Usability: Configure camera GUI add and auto-detect camera.
0091 043 ==> 160323 - Changing the album name from sth to #sth and then to zsth causes the album to be deleted along with the files.
0092 044 ==> 145083 - Space and Shift-Space isn't used for navigation between images.
0093 045 ==> 158696 - digiKam image viewer crashes when "Save As" is clicked.
0094 046 ==> 156564 - Light table crashes when choosing channel.
0095 047 ==> 147466 - digiKam crashes on termination if an audio file played.
0096 048 ==> 146973 - Crashes when clicking on preview image.
0097 049 ==> 148976 - digiKam Deleted 2.3 g of Pictures.
0098 050 ==> 145252 - Umask settings used for album directory, not for image files.
0099 051 ==> 125775 - digiKam way to save and delete "Searches".
0100 052 ==> 150908 - Canon g3 not recognized works version 0.9.1.
0101 053 ==> 152092 - Showfoto crashes ( signal 11 ) on exit.
0102 054 ==> 160840 - Wrong filtering on Album-Subtree-View.
0103 055 ==> 160846 - Blurred preview of pics.
0104 056 ==> 157314 - Zoom-slider has no steps.
0105 057 ==> 161047 - Shift and wheel mouse doesn't work.
0106 058 ==> 161087 - Conflicting directions of mouse scroll when zooming.
0107 059 ==> 161084 - Not properly updates status bar info.
0108 060 ==> 159236 - Corrupted file when downloading from CF card via digikam.
0109 061 ==> 164392 - Can't compile digikam with missing RawEngine.
0110 062 ==> 160617 - Same image gets opened to both sides of view when draggin image to right side.
0111 063 ==> 165823 - digiKam crashes if last picture is removed from lighttable.
0112 064 ==> 165921 - Translation bug: Missing german translation.
0113 065 ==> 130906 - Allow user to click text of tags to tag an image (not checkbox only).
0114 066 ==> 126871 - Click on parent folder in tree should generate a reaction.
0115 067 ==> 162812 - Sharpen slider enhancement refresh previews continuously.
0116 068 ==> 166274 - Rename files on download from camera.
0117 069 ==> 166472 - Thumbnail bar gone in image editor when switching back from fullscreen.
0118 070 ==> 166540 - Showfoto always prints filename.
0119 071 ==> 162496 - When digiKam saves file as JPEG - JPG options are not always presented.
0120 072 ==> 160740 - Handbook says that libgphoto2 is required but does not say whether it should be compiled with exif support.
0121 073 ==> 148400 - Problem loading 16bit Grayscale TIFF image.
0122 074 ==> 160925 - digiKam crash, I don't know why, but I have the bugreport.
0123 075 ==> 162691 - 0.9.4 beta5 compile error imagehistogram.cpp.
0124 076 ==> 160966 - Some searches don't work properly with the new sqlite3-3.5.8.
0125 077 ==> 162245 - Assigned tag list not updated correctly when "show assigned tags" filter is active.
0126 078 ==> 158866 - Advanced Search on Tags a mess.
0127 079 ==> 162814 - digiKam crashes when using light table (page down).
0128 080 ==> 163151 - Red eye correction doesn't work fine.
0129 081 ==> 163227 - Searching for tag names in simple and advanced search doesn't work.
0130 082 ==> 163474 - Config UI using external media.
0131 083 ==> 156420 - Canon EOS 400D, no thumbnails displayed then digikam segfaults.
0132 084 ==> 163118 - digikam-0.9.4_beta5 compilation hangs with gcc 4.3.
0133 085 ==> 159806 - Cannot display Nikon d3 raw files.
0134 086 ==> 148935 - digiKam hot pixel tool can not read canon RAW files.
0135 087 ==> 158776 - Confirm tag delete if tag assigned to photos.
0136 088 ==> 148520 - Change of rating causes high CPU load.
0137 089 ==> 140227 - Remove or modify D&D tags menu from icon view area.
0138 090 ==> 154421 - Live search doesn't search filenames.
0139 091 ==> 118209 - digiKam hotplug script user detection problem.
0140 092 ==> 138766 - JPEG Rotations: Give a warning when doing Lossy rotations (and offer to do lossless when applicable).
0141 093 ==> 156007 - Canon Raw+Jpg Locks up download image window during thumbnail retrieval.
0142 094 ==> 114465 - Simpler entry of tags.
0143 095 ==> 154346 - Can't rename in digiKam.
0144 096 ==> 154625 - Image-files are not renamed before they are saved to disk.
0145 097 ==> 154746 - Album selection window's size is wrong.
0146 098 ==> 158558 - Delete Function in Tag Filters panel needs to make sure that the tag is unselected when the tag is deleted.
0147 099 ==> 120309 - Change screen backgroundcolor of image tools.
0148 100 ==> 153775 - Download from camera: Renaming because of already existing file does not work.
0149 101 ==> 096388 - Show number of images in the album.
0150 102 ==> 155271 - Configure suggests wrong parameter for libjasper.
0151 103 ==> 155105 - Broken png image present in albums folder causes digikam to crash when starting.
0152 104 ==> 146760 - Providing a Timeline-View for quickly narrowing down the date of photos.
0153 105 ==> 146635 - Ratio crop doesn't remember orientation.
0154 106 ==> 144337 - There should be no "empty folders".
0155 107 ==> 128293 - Aspect ratio crop does not respect aspect ratio.
0156 108 ==> 157149 - digiKam crash at startup.
0157 109 ==> 141037 - Search using Tag Name does not work
0158 110 ==> 158174 - Precise aspect ratio crop feature
0159 111 ==> 142055 - Which whitebalance is used