Darktable Tagged 5.6.1 with Numerous Bug-fixes & Improvements
Darktable, the open-source photography and raw developer application, tagged 5.6.1 version today.
The new version is a maintenance release that improved the AI support, fixed numerous issues, and updated translations.
The last Darktable 5.6.0 introduced AI sub-system and a preference dialog to download AI models. The new version updated the download manager, so it will resume after an interruption and retry on transient network errors instead of starting over.
Darktable AI preferences
The AI-based noise reduction will no longer try to process photos from older Fujifilm cameras that use Super CCD sensors, because this sensor format isn’t supported by the AI model.
And when the AI denoise or AI upscale creates a new image file, it now carries more of the original photo’s metadata, including color labels, ratings and manually applied geotags, in addition to EXIF data and tags.
Besides AI related updates, it fixed AMD OpenCL issues on Windows and Rusticl/Mesa issues, reduced excessive OpenCL memory usage, and improved stability on low-memory GPUs.
It also fixed incorrect colors in 16-bit PNGs, demosaic problems, highlight segmentation issues, JPEG 2000 corruption, and subtle color errors after history changes.
It as well reduced excessive preview/mipmap and pixelpipe memory usage to prevent OOM crashes and restore better performance on small systems.
The AppImage package for Linux now supports Wayland natively, and, it will fallback to x11 if no Wayland compositor is available.
For Windows, it now enforces darktable loading screen to avoid darkroom refreshing issues. And, it does no longer crash when auto-detecting an incompatible ONNX Runtime library, or when reopening preferences after configuring one.
Other changes in Darktable 5.6.1 include:
- Fix tether mode connection issue for non-English UI.
- Fix crash applying
.cube,.3dl, or compressed GMIC 3D LUTs. - Fix corrupted pixels on some AMD GPUs using the Mesa rusticl OpenCL driver.
- Reverted increased preview pipe dimension for UI performance.
- Preserve Sony’s built-in lens-correction information when exporting TIFF/DNG.
Get Darktable 5.6.1
The official release note as well as the installer packages will be soon available in Github releases page via the link below:
Besides the packages under Assets section, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE users may keep an eye on this OBS page for the native .deb/.rpm packages.
And, I’ll update this PPA once the source tarball (not the one auto-generated by Github) is available.
Source: UbuntuHandbook