New version of digiKam, a photo collections management tool for KDE, was released today with some new features, but mostly — with bugfixes.

Overall 54 bugs were fixed, as for the new features, here is the list:

• LensFun was included as 3rd party library, mostly to ease compilation on systems like Windows;
• batch queue manager now allows applying lens corrections via LensFun;
• another new thing batch queue manager now allows to do is removing metadata from images;
• internal editor now does much better 8bit to 16bit per color channel transformation.

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More on this topic:

• digiKam 2.1.0 released with panorama stitcher
• digiKam 1.4.0 gets bugfixes and duplicates removal
• digiKam 1.7.0
• digiKam, KIPI plug-ins 1.6.0 released
• digiKam tips and tricks e-book is available