The Big Ones
The following is a summary of the main features added to darktable
5.6.1. Please see the user manual for more details of the individual
changes (where available).
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UI/UX Improvements
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Performance Improvements
- Reverted increased preview pipe dimension for UI performance.
Other Changes
- AI model downloads now resume after an interruption and retry on
transient network errors instead of starting over.
- AI raw denoise now refuses legacy Fujifilm Super CCD sensors, whose
sensor layout the models were not trained for.
- Color labels, ratings and manually applied geotags are now copied to
images created by AI denoise and upscale, in addition to EXIF data
and tags.
Documentation updates
- The manual has seen a lot of attention this cycle: the documentation
is up to date again, and translations are flowing once more via Weblate.
- We've also expanded the docs on how dtdocs itself is set up and maintained, making it easier for new contributors to get
involved. If you find room for improvement, you are welcome to open an issue, post to pixls.us, or submit a PR yourself.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that left OpenCL AMD devices disabled on Windows
systems.
- Fixed a bug in demosaic module resulting from bad green
equilibration data.
- Fixed a bug preventing the tether mode to connect when using a non
English UI.
- Fixed an out-of-bounds read in wavelet decomposition that could
occasionally crash darktable when generating previews.
- Fixed an out-of-bounds write in path masks that could lead to
crashes when two nodes overlapped exactly.
- Fixed a bug in the retouch module that would prevent cache
invalidation after shape changes when blending is active.
- Fixed an out-of-bounds read in the code responsible for raster
mask caching.
- Fixed a possible crash when applying .cube, .3dl, or compressed
GMIC 3D LUTs.
- Enforce darktable loading screen on windows systems to avoid
darkroom refreshing issues.
- Fixed a bug in CPU opposed highlights code that could lead to out of
memory crashes.
- Fixed a crash on Windows when auto-detecting an incompatible ONNX
Runtime library, or when reopening preferences after configuring
one.
- Fixed the preferences dialog blocking when opened on a slow or
unreachable network. The AI model update check now runs in the
background.
- Fixed a crash in neural restore raw denoise on raws where the
visible area extends to the sensor edge, e.g. some phone
tele-lens DNGs.
- Fixed the "add to the current collection" checkbox in neural
restore being ignored when the global "ignore non-raw images"
import filter is enabled.
- Fixed neural restore writing past the CFA buffer on 4-Bayer
sensors (CYGM, RGBE). Output is now a Linear DNG.
- Fixed Sony embedded lens-correction tags being stripped from
exported TIFF and DNG files. Re-imported files now offer the
"embedded metadata" lens-correction mode again.
- Fixed a crash and white cast in neural restore preview on
LINEAR-class images (Apple ProRAW, computational raws).
- Fixed sRaw images being rejected as unsupported by neural
restore. They now route through the LINEAR pipeline.
- Fixed wrong blue colors for 16bit png exports.
- Fixed some subtle segment issues in highlights segmentation mode.
- Fixed two-finger scrolling falling through to zoom when drawing masks,
scrolling now pans unless the active mask consumes the gesture.
- Fix feather rendering on path masks whose control points coincide
with their corners; previously produced wildly displaced border
lines instead of a proper offset outline.
- Fixed the on-screen rating message showing the wrong value when
rating multiple images at once (for example, clearing 1-star still
reported rating 1).
- Fixed a bug leading to subtle color errors after history changes.
- Fixed lighttable full preview jumping to the first image when
rejecting with filmstrip auto-scroll disabled and the collection
filtered to hide rejected images.
- Fixed the image index and filmstrip selection in culling mode not
updating when navigating with the arrow keys.
- Fixed lighttable filemanager scrolling to the top when assigning
a star rating or color label while the first row was only partly
visible.
- Fixed calculation of pixelpipe cache payloads while preparing the
cache and while checking for requested tiling thus reducing oom kills
on small systems.
- Fixed possible over-allocations of OpenCL memory that could lead to
instabilities or dt crashing on small devices
- Fixed corrupted pixels on some AMD GPUs using the Mesa rusticl OpenCL
driver. Colorspace conversions, the lookup table module and the contrast
equalizer no longer read from and write to the same image buffer on the
GPU, which the OpenCL specification leaves undefined.
- Fixed the AppImage defaulting to x11/Xwayland in native Wayland
sessions.
- Fixed masks being altered by modules blending.
- Ignore possible OpenCL null events (uninitialized) due to hard
memory pressure.
- Fixed performance drop due to larger mipmaps being used. This has
been reviewed to ensure the performance is back to usable on small
systems.
- Fixed distortion of one out of every four pixels in JPEG 2000 images
with YCbCr 4:2:0 subsampling.
- Fixed a bug where drawn path masks with many nodes rendered a
chaotic feather line instead of following the mask outline.
- Fixed a crash when switching the lens correction method from
embedded metadata to Lensfun and back.
- Fixed the AI raw denoise preview showing a different area than the
one selected on cropped images, and the area picker remaining
unavailable until darktable was restarted.
Lua
API Version
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New Features
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Bug Fixes
- Stop script_manager from starting twice and causing a stack overflow.
- Change to user installed scripts directory before updating.
- Execute user luarc file in all cases.
New Scripts
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Other Lua changes
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Notes
- When exporting to AVIF, EXR, JPEG XL, or XCF, selecting specific
metadata (e.g. geo-tag or creator) is not currently possible. For
AVIF, EXR, JPEG XL, and XCF formats, darktable will not include any
metadata fields unless the user selects all of the checkboxes in the
export module's preference options.
- Starting with release 5.4, macOS versions older than 14.0 are no
longer supported on Apple Silicon Macs, nor older than macOS 15 on
Intel Macs.
Changed Dependencies
Mandatory
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Optional
- N/A
Camera support, compared to 5.6.0
Base Support
- N/A
White Balance Presets
- N/A
Noise Profiles
- N/A
Missing Compression Mode Support
- Apple ProRAW DNGs
- CinemaDNG lossless (Blackmagic, some DJI, etc.) and lossy (Blackmagic)
- DNG 1.7 using JPEG XL (Adobe enhanced, Samsung Expert RAW)
- Fujifilm lossy RAFs
- Nikon high efficiency NEFs
- Phase One other than IIQ L
- Sony ARW 4.0/5.0 downsized lossless ("M" for full-frame, "S" for full-frame & APS-C)
- Sony ARW 6.0 compressed and compressed (HQ)
Suspended Support
Support for the following cameras is suspended because no samples are available on https://raw.pixls.us:
- Creo/Leaf Aptus 22(LF3779)/Hasselblad H1
- Fujifilm IS-1
- Kodak EasyShare Z980
- Leaf Aptus-II 5(LI300059)/Mamiya 645 AFD
- Leaf Credo 60
- Leaf Credo 80
- Olympus SP320
- Phase One IQ250
- ST Micro STV680
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