When updating from the stable 5.2 series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but the new library and configuration will no longer be usable with 5.2.

You are strongly advised to take a backup first.

Important note: to make sure that darktable can keep on supporting the raw file format for your camera, please read this post on how/what raw samples you can contribute to ensure that we have the full raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license!

Since darktable 5.4.0:

• 124 commits to darktable+rawspeed
• 74 pull requests handled
• 25 issues closed

Please note that the darktable documentation is not currently complete for release 5.4 and contributions are greatly appreciated. Please see the project documentation for more information on how to contribute.

The Big Ones

The following is a summary of the main features added to darktable 5.4. 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

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Other Changes

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed wrong handling of scaling factor during multi-preset export.

• Fixed missing help URL, pointing to the online documentation, for the new AgX module.

• Fixed wrong handling of overwrite if changed in export.

• Fixed images exported with wrong settings when using multi-preset export.

• Fixed wrong RAW specific auto-applied preset being applied to non RAW images.

• Fixed subtle color casts in bayer dual demosaicers.

• RustiCL gets the default optimizing compiler flags as other platforms.

• Fixed loading some Olympus ORF files (e.g. E-410 and E-510) due to a possible crash or memory corruption when parsing highlight-preservation Exif tag.

• Fixed the mask support in scale pixels module.

• Fixed a possible crash when using workspace due to the non deterministic ordering of the list of workspace read on disk.

• The list of the allowed tags in the metadata editor preferences has been restricted to tags which are supposed to be user-editable.

• Fixed the thumbnail information update in the overlay or the tooltip when some metadata variable are used. That is, when changing the metadata we need to recompute the thumbnail information.

• Fixed a possibly standstill while discarding history on fast systems.

• Fixed a possible crash in the way the Color Equalizer module GUI is initialized.

• Fixed an issue in culling layout where switching to the darkroom sometimes failed with an error message.

• Fixed an inconsistency in the styles module UI when shown in the darkroom view. It is not possible to create a duplicate to which the style is applied, and the setting of the corresponding checkbox has just been ignored. To avoid confusion, the checkbox is now hidden in the darkroom view.

• Fixes resets to default OpenCL per device setting.

• Fixed possibly outdated metadata when returning from darkroom. For example if the image is cropped in darkroom, the metadata $(WIDTH.x) and $(HEIGHT.x) where not correct on lighttable.

• Fixed a missing thumbnail overlays with $(CATEGORY[n,m]) variables update when a tag is assigned.

• Fixed jumping of curvature slider when used on the mask manager.

• Fixed a crash when mounting a camera from Darktable due to the current locale. Mounting is now done using the C locale.

Lua

API Version

• API version is now 9.6.0

New Features

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Bug Fixes

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Add action support for Lua

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

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RawSpeed changes

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Camera support, compared to 5.4.0

Base Support

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White Balance Presets

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Noise Profiles

• Canon EOS 10D
• Sony ILCE-7CR

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) and ARW 6.0 lossy

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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