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digiKam 1.0.0-beta1 - Release date: 2009-05-31

NEW FEATURES:

General        : Add new Batch Queue Manager (http://www.digikam.org/node/427).
General        : New tool bar animation banner.
General        : Fix compilation under MSVC 9.
General        : New first run assistant (http://www.digikam.org/node/442).
General        : New dialog to show Database statistics.

ImageEditor    : New Liquid Rescale tool (http://www.digikam.org/node/439).

CameraGUI      : New history of camera actions processed.

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 091742 : Batch process auto levels.
002 ==> 149361 : Not all edit actions are available as batch commands (for example auto-levels and gamma correction).
003 ==> 187523 : digiKam crashes on startup (undefined symbol).
004 ==> 187569 : Crash on star removing when filtering by stars.
005 ==> 186549 : digiKam crashes when hovering the bottom part of its.
006 ==> 187641 : Error while loading shared libraries: libkdcraw.so.5.
007 ==> 187429 : Crash on Launch after disable KIPI plugins rotate.
008 ==> 187937 : Writing tags to files doesn't update modification timestamp.
009 ==> 184687 : Crash after deleting an empty album.
010 ==> 186766 : Crash after finish resize and rename of images in folder.
011 ==> 184953 : Zooming and paning in slideshow / without toolbars.
012 ==> 187508 : Spontaneous crash whilst doing nothing in particular.
013 ==> 188235 : Assigning a color profile to TIFF images does not work anymore with 0.10.0.
014 ==> 187748 : Install application icons to right path for non-KDE desktops.
015 ==> 186255 : digiKam crashes when switching collection database.
016 ==> 178292 : AspectRatioCrop is slow and jumps around in first second.
017 ==> 181892 : AspectRatioCrop: some properties should be disabled.
018 ==> 188573 : RW2 converter broken for low light images.
019 ==> 188642 : GPS data in Digikam shows the wrong places on the map.
020 ==> 188907 : Album view should display subfolders, like tag view does.
021 ==> 183038 : "Select All" action interrupts other widgets.
022 ==> 189022 : Better guessing of proportions with 'inverse transformation' option.
023 ==> 189286 : EXIF info lost while converting from NEF to TIFF.
024 ==> 189336 : Preview of RAW look different than actual image.
025 ==> 189413 : Images without GPS-data are shown on the equator in the geolocation-view.
026 ==> 184954 : Unable to delete items from camera - canon sx10is.
027 ==> 189168 : You do not have write access to your home directory base path.
028 ==> 185617 : Images are invalid / not found when an album is moved.
029 ==> 187265 : Advanced search crashes if a selected album has been deleted.
030 ==> 185177 : Searches are not updated when changes are made to the resulting image set.
031 ==> 189542 : Crash on opening download dialog.
032 ==> 114225 : Free rotation using an horizontal line.
033 ==> 189843 : Crash on ubuntu jaunty beta.
034 ==> 167836 : Image preview is too large.
035 ==> 189250 : Editing a canon camera jpeg adds broken sRGB profile.
036 ==> 187733 : Cannot turn off sidebar after Infrared filter usage?
037 ==> 188755 : Strange behaviour on selection.
038 ==> 185884 : Empty view after clicking the left thumbnail image in Image Editor filter view.
039 ==> 188062 : Synchronize Images with Database does not save Copyright, Credit, Source, By-line, By-line Title in IPTC.
040 ==> 186823 : Several bugs in lens defect auto-correction plugin.
041 ==> 190612 : digiKam and Showfoto crash.
042 ==> 191092 : No images shown in digiKam albums.
043 ==> 191203 : digiKam crashed on first load, after being installed on ubuntu 9.04.
044 ==> 151321 : Remaining space incorrectly calculated when using symlinks (import from camera).
045 ==> 189742 : Thumbnails not saved between sessions.
046 ==> 180507 : Crash when dragging picture to another app with kwin_composite enabled.
047 ==> 190296 : Can not save images on Windows.
048 ==> 141240 : Camera download: file rename with regexps.
049 ==> 181951 : digiKam crashes (SIGABRT) during the importing of pictures from Kodak V530 camera.
050 ==> 166392 : File-Renaming: custom sequence-number doesn't work.
051 ==> 182332 : Can't stop generating of thumbnails when import from a card reader.
052 ==> 152382 : Unable to view photo.
053 ==> 161744 : Filenames are lower case when imported via sd card reader, upper case when imported via usb cable directly from camera.
054 ==> 187560 : Iptc data for author are missing while downloading images.
055 ==> 192294 : digiKam crash when i try to import photos from my card reader.
056 ==> 192413 : Missing items from right-click search menu.
057 ==> 131551 : Camera port info deleted when editing camera title.
058 ==> 181726 : digiKam collect video, music when I connect usb key.
059 ==> 154626 : Autodetect starting number for "appending numbers" when downloading images.
060 ==> 188316 : Missing NEF files when importing from USB disk.
061 ==> 193163 : digiKam ignores settings on the rating stars.
062 ==> 189168 : You do not have write access to your home directory base path.
063 ==> 193226 : Data loss on downloading photos from camera.
064 ==> 189460 : digiKam crash when goelocating image in the marble tab.
065 ==> 186046 : Crash after calling settings.
066 ==> 193348 : Can't build digiKam on kde 4.2.3.
067 ==> 150072 : Download with digiKam doesn't work with the first start of digiKam.
068 ==> 193738 : Have the image editor status bar show the current color depth.
069 ==> 191678 : Exif rotation for Pentax Pef not working.
070 ==> 146455 : Image rotation and auto-rotate don't work. 
071 ==> 152877 : Thumbnails: URI does not follow Thumbnail Managing Standard.
072 ==> 140615 : Pre-Creating of image thumbnails in whole digiKam/all subfolders.
073 ==> 193967 : VERY fast loading of thumbnails [PATCH].
074 ==> 191492 : digiKam hangs on startup "reading database".
075 ==> 171950 : Lost pictures after 'download/delete all' when target dir had same file names.
076 ==> 191774 : digiKam download sorting slow, and wrong with multiple folders.
077 ==> 191842 : digiKam download forgets to download some pictures (multiple big folders).
078 ==> 187902 : Status bar gives wrong picture filename and position in list after "Save As". 
079 ==> 193894 : Pop up "Copy Finished!" dialogue when done downloading from camera.
080 ==> 193870 : digiKam freezes after second exif rotation on same file.
081 ==> 194342 : What is the right rename pattern to get names like 2009.02.18_09h56m30s?
082 ==> 194177 : digiKam crashes always on startup and causes signal 11 (SIGSEGSV) - app not useable.
083 ==> 169213 : digiKam should not enter new album after creating it.
084 ==> 191634 : Statistics of the database, and all pictures?
085 ==> 193228 : Experimental option "write metadata to RAW files" corrupts Nikon NEFs.
086 ==> 194116 : digiKam crashed for no obvious reason.
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