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digiKam 5.0.0-beta1 - Release date: 2015-10-18

NEW FEATURES:

General            : Implementations ported to Qt5 libraries and KF5 libraries.
General            : Integer and double input value sliders use now PhotoShop/Krita/Gimp like widget.
General            : LCMS1 support removed.
General            : Sqlite2 support removed.
General            : Welcome Page view re-writed to support selected best background photo from end user.
General            : Replacing annoying KIOSlave listing and scanning methods with new threads based implementation.
General            : Isolating KIO calls in KIOWrapper to be able to create a pure Qt digiKam in the future.
General            : Add embedded trash support for each collection instead desktop trash.

Batch Queue Manager: New BQM tool to convert RAW to DNG.

Image Editor       : Add a new option to import images from a digital scanner.
Image Editor       : Add a new option to edit metadata.
Image Editor       : Add a new option to edit geolocation.

Light Table        : Add a new option to import images from a digital scanner.
Light Table        : Add a new option to edit metadata.
Light Table        : Add a new option to edit geolocation.

Showfoto           : Add a new option to import images from a digital scanner.
Showfoto           : Add a new option to edit metadata.
Showfoto           : Add a new option to edit geolocation.

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (https://www.digikam.org/changelog):

001 ==> 284216 - Using slider widget from Krita.
002 ==> 342010 - digiKam crash, apparently in xcb.
003 ==> 317599 - Port digiKam to KF5 and Qt5.
004 ==> 342256 - digiKam Crash on Start.
005 ==> 340933 - digiKam crash while tagging photos (Baloo database).
006 ==> 343662 - Build Error regarding lensfuncameraselector.
007 ==> 332665 - digiKam should use Baloo interface.
008 ==> 345144 - Remove kdelibs4support not finished (frameworks branch).
009 ==> 345484 - Add Eclipse support to bootstrap.linux, fix QT_INSTALL_PREFIX detection.
010 ==> 278577 - Display album thumbnails in welcome page.
011 ==> 138200 - Display all pictures when root album (as "My Albums" and "My Tags") is selected instead of welcome page.
012 ==> 348173 - digiKam crash during i was browsing photo in a directory.
013 ==> 349925 - Fail cmake chek if -DENABLE_KFILEMETADATASUPPORT=ON is not set.
014 ==> 333377 - Show warning messagebox when non-RAW file is added to DNGConverter instead of none.
015 ==> 122653 - file-dialogue claims that pictures are not on the local-storage, yet they are
016 ==> 348347 - Can't create albums - menu is greyed out.
017 ==> 164168 - Integration of image scanning into showfoto.
018 ==> 144597 - Metadata editor not accessible from image editor.
019 ==> 132161 - Support for editing EXIF comments.
020 ==> 328548 - Show a progress bar while saving files imported from a scanner.
021 ==> 208502 - Add small thumbnail of current edited image somewhere in tool dialog.
022 ==> 317241 - GoogleMaps : Tiles are not refresh.
023 ==> 330231 - GoogleMaps : Memory leak when map is displayed.
024 ==> 208227 - ImagePosition does not always reflect contents of GPS Exif-Tags.
025 ==> 284767 - No geolocating for (Canon) RAW files displayed/saved.
026 ==> 146557 - kio_digikamdate takes the cpu load up when downloading raw files with digiKam.
027 ==> 109631 - Make digikamtags protocol public KIO-slave.
028 ==> 224604 - Add internal trash for files deleted in digiKam (as IPhoto).
029 ==> 353621 - Error at startup : couldn't create KIO slave.
030 ==> 352458 - GPL2 and GPL3 De-Mazing methods not enabled (Configured) on Windows build.
031 ==> 353927] Missing local sources for libmediawiki.
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