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 digiKam 7.9.0 - Release date: 2022-12-04
 
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 NEW FEATURES:
 
 General  : Update internal Libraw with snapshot 2022-11-23
 General  : Update Exiftool to 12.51 to the bundles.
 MacOS    : Update frameworks Qt5 to 5.15.7 and KF5 to 5.99.
 AppImage : Update frameworks Qt5 to 5.15.7 and KF5 to 5.99.
 Windows  : Update frameworks Qt5 to 5.15.7 and KF5 to 5.99.
 AppImage : Linux Ubuntu 18.04 is now used to compile AppImage with a Glibc >= 2.27 binary compatibility.
 
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 BUGFIXES:
 
 001 ==> 458690 - Crash after the digiKam splash screen.
 002 ==> 458627 - Unconfirmed faces do not show up.
 003 ==> 458752 - Appimage isn't recognising digiKam tags in xmp sidecars.
 004 ==> 458704 - Migration Database.
 005 ==> 458968 - Geolocation information icon not visible.
 006 ==> 458958 - Album items not sorted according to date from XMP sidecar.
 007 ==> 459124 - Tags are duplicated when adding People/Face tags.
 008 ==> 459370 - Merge tags dont remove old tags.
 009 ==> 453621 - Error while opening the database.
 010 ==> 459463 - Paste Coordinates Lost Precision.
 011 ==> 459276 - Batch Queue Manager, Base tool (Convert tool): crash for some selected formats.
 012 ==> 459306 - 'Ambiguous Shortcuts' Message is displayed every time digiKam is launched.
 013 ==> 459822 - Blending raw images (-2,0,+2 Ev) does not result in exposure blend. (all three TIFFs are corrected for 0Ev before merging.)
 014 ==> 459819 - digiKam Crashes after downloading several files.
 015 ==> 459910 - Picture detail in full screen.
 016 ==> 459892 - Fingerprints in maintenance mode crash.
 017 ==> 398386 - Allow video frame to be saved as picture.
 018 ==> 459969 - Unconfirmed Faces are not grouped correctly when re-running recognition.
 019 ==> 460091 - Original batch still present after modification.
 020 ==> 460124 - Unable to acces existing collections.
 021 ==> 460132 - Impossible to drag suggested face tag to other face tag in sidebar (for reassignment).
 022 ==> 460153 - Deleting an album takes many seconds.
 023 ==> 429709 - Date view suddenly switches to month view.
 024 ==> 416524 - Cannot move item inside album or between albums.
 025 ==> 370356 - Very slow when delete photos and albums.
 026 ==> 460464 - "Scan for faces" context menu in Faces view does not trigger scan.
 027 ==> 460629 - "People" top level tag appears in People left hand pane.
 027 ==> 460683 - digiKam crash on libheif.
 028 ==> 456882 - HEIF decoding in 7.7.0 flatpak version not supported.
 029 ==> 460746 - Face rectangle description boxes "fly out of the view" when zooming an image with many faces.
 030 ==> 425254 - Face tagging in digiKam: Exiv2 saves [XMP-mwg-rs] with "inf, inf, inf, inf" instead of numbers.
 031 ==> 461197 - English mistranslation in Showfoto undo cache free space warning.
 032 ==> 461221 - If Title and Description text is the same, only write one of these two to Google Caption Field to avoid duplication.
 033 ==> 459160 - Geolocation Editor maps don’t zoom enough.
 034 ==> 460775 - "TLS initialization failed" error whenever the app tries to download files.
 035 ==> 461257 - digiKam crashes when displaying thumbnails for JP2 files.
 036 ==> 461348 - Does not start because - Failed to update the database schema from version 13 to version 14.
 037 ==> 461495 - 'Help' window does not work.
 038 ==> 461471 - 01-build-mxe Script Fails Due to Unavailable Github Repository
 039 ==> 458754 - Geolocation of JPEG shown in Map vary of 100 meters from the correct position set in RAW.
 040 ==> 461522 - Geo Localisation differs between two jpg-Files.
 041 ==> 461633 - Using rounded coordinates for map display causes wrong emplacement of picture.
 042 ==> 461709 - Maintenance and Scan for New Items options remain disabled after cancelling operation.
 043 ==> 461792 - Map view draws only a partial subset of marker pins for images in album subfolders.
 044 ==> 461889 - digiKam crashes on close (perhaps properties dialog and/or exiftool).
 045 ==> 461790 - Upload from digiKam 7.8.0 to piwigo 13.1.0 broken.
 046 ==> 462013 - Preferences on application of changes not saved.
 047 ==> 462067 - Order by Exif date.
 048 ==> 462129 - Bomb after splash screen.
 049 ==> 461842 - digiKam crash at launch after migration kubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS.
 050 ==> 447304 - Appimage digiKam 7.4 will not start in Linux Mint 19 (Tara).
 051 ==> 443484 - digiKam 7.2 does not start after upgrading to Windows 11.
 052 ==> 436930 - Visualization of tracks in the Map tab.
 053 ==> 458138 - Crash when adding new items to the Batch Queue Manager.
 054 ==> 458628 - Unconfirmed faces do not show up.
 055 ==> 452752 - Upon starting digiKam - the following message is displayed - There are two actions (Open Command Bar, Add Images...) that want to use the same shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+I).
 056 ==> 446931 - Can't upload pictures.
 057 ==> 445694 - Thumbnails jump to the wrong place if you are "-" a photo for an incorrectly identified face when the same face is elsewhere in the photo.
 058 ==> 417833 - Geolocation is not shown under Maps view.
 059 ==> 413327 - Option to change video thumbnail.
 060 ==> 296838 - Export tool has problem with non ascii characters in new albums.
 061 ==> 289463 - The workflow for uploading photos to is not consistent with other export tools.
 062 ==> 287773 - digiKam crash.
 063 ==> 288207 - Trying to launch Scangui makes digiKam crash - always.
 064 ==> 282744 - Crash when importing photos from Android phone.
 065 ==> 242411 - digiKam crashed while importing pictures.
 066 ==> 234043 - I was importing a group of .NEF raw files (Nikon raw) and the application crashed.
 067 ==> 233228 - digiKam crashed when selected "download/delete all" from import window.
 068 ==> 232488 - Crash trying to download picture from SD card.
 069 ==> 231798 - digiKam crashed after trying to copy large amount of jpg's into a directory.
 070 ==> 231481 - digiKam crashes when trying to download images via SanDisk USB card reader.
 071 ==> 230837 - digiKam shuts down photos from card.
 072 ==> 230761 - digiKam crashes when attempting to download images from mobile phone.
 073 ==> 230464 - digiKam, crash report, loading photos to disk.
 074 ==> 228837 - digiKam crashed when importing images from a USB device.
 075 ==> 229436 - digiKam crashed when try to transfer pictures (click on transfer button).
 076 ==> 228744 - digiKam crashed during image download.
 077 ==> 227102 - Crash while attempting to copy selected images from card reader.
 078 ==> 227013 - The crash appen when i try to download images from my canon cameras.
 079 ==> 225919 - digiKam crash when try to download picture from device.
 080 ==> 225401 - Cannot export to Flash.
 081 ==> 225197 - digiKam crashes each time I try to import new Pics from my Camera (seen as a USB disk).
 082 ==> 225060 - Tried to import pictures from a USB drive.
 083 ==> 424363 - If an album is created with google photos then with digikam we can't add photo to album.
 084 ==> 404900 - Exporting video, photo to Google photo fails.
 084 ==> 268773 - Crash while Adding Camera.
 086 ==> 269626 - Crash trying to add Camera.
 087 ==> 462286 - HEIF image loading broken with kimageformats 5.100.0.
 088 ==> 462137 - Information about applied Gmic-Qt filter not saved (neither in database nor in metadata Xmp.digiKam.ImageHistory).
 089 ==> 462066 - Filters missing from G'MIC.
 090 ==> 427906 - Appimage fails to launch on Wayland stating xkb.
 091 ==> 433766 - Flickr export does not work (7.1.0 appimage).
 092 ==> 323300 - Keyboard shortcuts do not respect the keymap.
 093 ==> 389054 - "use file dialog from system" fail.
 094 ==> 462226 - No Tool Bar in Presentation Tool in action.
 095 ==> 415999 - Progress bar goes backwards when tagging faces (from (100% to 0%).