digiKam 8.8.0

What's new in this version:

New features:
Bundles component versions:
- Updated compared to previous digiKam release
- General: Coode ported to last Qt 6.10.0
- General: English string review with codespell static analyzer
- Windows: Support for long file paths in Windows 10/11 when enabled
- RawEngine: Update internal Libraw to last 20250727 upstream
- Video: Update internal QtAVPlayer to last 20250913 upstream (Qt5 only)
- Plugins: G'MIC-Qt updated to last v3.6.0
- TagsManager: Add options to import or export tag-hierarchies to text files
- Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalogue format is supported (https://www.controlledvocabulary.com/products/index.html)
- Preview: Add support to the FujiFilm camera focus points
- Preview: Add support to the Olympus/OM Systems camera focus points
- ColorManagement: Use monitor color profile set under Windows, macOS, and Wayland
- ProgressManager: Use native desktop notifier under Linux, macOS, and Windows
- Editor: New enhance tool to blur progressively the background of a subject from a photo
- Documentation: Add Brazilian translations

Fixed:
- digiKam 8.6 DLNA server freezes after "upnp devices created: 0" (regression from 8.5)
- The help window blocks digiKam at downloading AI models stage
- digiKam crashes after startup if database server is mysql 8
- Split single digikam database into core/thumb/faces/similarity dbs
- Two small note about the "New Advanced Search" menu
- digiKam crashes when trying to start scanning, if no album is selected
- Build failed with : error: ‘QString::QString(const char*)’
- Small fault in the Tooltip text
- Crash at start due to enabled video hardware acceleration
- In "digiKam Properties" sidebar, double quotes in caption are displayed as
- Portable archive for 8.7.0 (digiKam-8.7.0-Qt6-Win64.tar.xz) is missing as a download option
- Face recognition finds nothing
- OpenCV 4.12 exception and face classifier not working
- Face recognition does not identify faces even after scanning hundreds of faces
- Typo: Settings tab is named "Behaviour" even when the locale is en_US
- Small typos and grammatical errors in the English text
- System shows 607MB RAM allocation that is not returned to the OS without a physical end task (or restart of system)
- On Windows 11, digiKam background process remains running after app close
- digikam.exe process never closes after closing the window
- Tag but do not train
- Add delete button to People search filter field
- Automatic update doesn't work because no sha256 files on server
- Face detection and recognition
- Crashes with error: The Wayland connection broken. Did the Wayland compositor die
- Binary data seems gobbled by captions parsing
- Faces recognition stopped working
- Do not allow running multiple instances
- Switching from lazy synchronization mode aborts remaining lazy sync
- Deleted 'Behaviour' term causes problem in language translation
- Editing Advanced Search doesn't work
- digiKam User Comment Exif displaying incorrect characters for Nikon images
- digiKam process does not terminate when window is closed
- Small fault: superfluous dot at the end of the sentence
- Assign the same tag to people in the same photo
- Suggestion for improvement re positioning of small icons in Preview window
- Panorama Tool needs the Hugin pto2mk software
- Language cannot be chosen - only US_English available
- app/utils/digikam_globals_bundles.cpp build failed with error
- Prioritize user-added metadata over the ones in MakerNotes
- Incorrect sorting of picture names
- Portrait videos are displayed horizontally in presentation mode
- Sort Items by Name in Thumbnails View
- Request for Keyword Import in Database Capability
- Feature Request - Import Structured Keyword List Text File
- .digikam_ignore file fails to prevent scanning of subdirectories on Windows
- Tag manager does not support export the tags to a text file
- Gmic plugins using Category dropdown and Preset dropdown to select not working
- G'MIC-Qt plugin "Color Presets" not working properly - LUTs Pack cannot be changed
- Loading HEIC photos from SMB shares is very slow
- File import error when path > MAX_PATH(260)
- Change location of AI model files download
- Building CXX object core/.../digikam_version.cpp.o failed with Qt5
- Setting some ColorLabel does not work
- Reverse geocoding set number street twice into XMP-lr:HierarchicalSubject
- No abort button while exporting to filesystem
- digiKam crashes on startup with remote Mariadb or Mysql database
- When adding a new collection, tags are not associated with images when using sidecars file and tags hierarchy
- Use native Color Management settings from Windows and MacOS
- Add Fujifilm focus-point extractor support to digiKam
- Crash while needing help about numerotation
- Race condition with XMP files causes confusing tagging behavior
- "Open in File Manager" opens a wrong folder
- Face Recognition does not produce any results
- Album marked as not available although it is available
- Wipe all tags from Database only results in "Cannot delete required face tag" message
- Duplicates freezes, cannot sort by Similarity, or resize
- Segments of digikam window are repeated on screen
- Right-Click & 'Open With...' shows apps multiple times
- HEIF/HEIC files not being displayed in Thumbnails
- Printing assistant keeps resetting page layout & no way to specify spacing between images
- "Update Fingerprints" updates all images instead of selected album
- Add new tool to generate blur background of a photo
- Rating an image is counter intuitive in some situations
- Wishlist - Recursive Folder's Option in Advanced Search
- OpenCL not recognized even if installed (Kubuntu 25.04, Nvidia, AppImage)
- Does not start in Windows
- digiKam crashes on launch
- Rebuild all training data results in crash
- digiKam icon is displayed twice in the taskbar
- Add support of OM System OM-5 Mark II focus point
- digiKam git freeze when trying to drag and drop/copy files/images inside albums (Wayland/Hyprland)
- Dragging tags to new location no longer has option to merge tags
- A merge of tags sometimes does not get triggered
- Add support of keywords merge using Drag and Drop
- digiKam generated XMP sidecars not updated by darktable
- digiKam closed unexpectedly (Qt5 based)
- PNG and HEIF not rotated correctly
- Slow first startup after installation
- Failure at initial launch of version 8.7
- digiKam stays as a background process after closing or quitting
- A DK background process remains after closing DK
- gui_digikamautotagassignment_obj.dir/all] Error 2 Build Error
- Moving folder causes recursive copy
- DK crashes with Face Training
- Build failed with : correlator_utest.cpp.o
- Failed to update the database schema from version 15 to version 16
- Duplicates found on Similarity Search but not displayed for review (no thumbnails)
- Extremely slow duplicate search. It takes literally days
- Integrated browser not working well to show image on map
- Bookmark without location saved when selecting multiple images (right click Bookmarks - Add Bookmark)
- Build failed on Qt5 with : gpsitemlistcontextmenu.cpp.o
- Writing something in Captions/Description --> Captions works incorrectly
- QMYSQL driver cannot be used
- Right click on map copy coordinates does not allow pasting in filelist
- Miscellaneous Settings > System > Use OpenCL Hardware Acceleration Issues
- OpenCL isn't working - despite OpenCL driver is loaded on GPU
- Thumbnail for .mov not showing properly
- Wrong country name for North Macedonia