As promised, digiKam 0.7 is now available . This release brings substantial improvements over the last stable release (0.6.2). Some of the key new features are listed below: * Reliable and fast database (sqlite) backend for saving metadata * Tagging support for photos. * Tags are grouped together as virtual folders shown similar to albums. * Extensive drag and drop support for tagging and moving/copying photos * Enhanced camera interface with support for automatic photo rotation and renaming of photos while downloading. * EXIF support with optional oriented display of thumbnails and photos using camera provided information * Customizable thumbnails for albums and tags * Support for nested albums * Tooltips providing detailed photo information * Themeing support for digiKam * KIPI support for enhanced plugin support. KIPI is an initiative between various KDE image management applications to provide a common architecture for implementing image based plugins. Currently implemented plugins and other details can be found at: KIPI Extragear Page * New fast image viewer and editor which uses its own plugin architecture to provide various additional functionalities in addition to the usual gamma/contrast/brightness adjustments, rotation, resize functions. Some of the plugins supplied with digiKam are: o Histogram Viewer o Red Eye correction o Black & White and Sepia conversion o Blurring and sharpening o RGB color correction o Hue/Saturation/Lightness correction o Normalize and Equalize * Improved thumbnail loading speed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67644 ***
