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digiKam 1.2.0 - Release date: 2010-03-28

NEW FEATURES:

AlbumGUI          : All Album tree views are ported to pure Qt4 model/view implementation.

ImageEditor       : Brightness/Contrast/gamma tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Color Balance tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Hue/Saturation/Lightness tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Auto Color Correction tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Channel Mixer tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Black and White tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : White Balance tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Adjust Curves tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Adjust Levels tool is multithreaded and use a zoomable preview widget.
ImageEditor       : Complete rewrite of the FilmGrain tool. 
                    FilmGrain tool use now YCrCb color space to add noise. Graininess size can be adjusted
                    with an option to set-up photographic distribution of noise. 
                    Different amounts of noise can be added to highlights, shadows and midtones.

BatchQueueManager : New tool to fix Brightness/Contrast/gamma.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to adjust Color Balance.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to fix Hue/Saturation/Lightness.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to convert images color space.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to mix color channel.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to convert to Black and White.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to adjust White Balance.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to adjust Curves.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to blur images.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to add Film Grain to images.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to apply Local Contrast (LDR tone mapping).
BatchQueueManager : New tool to add/remove vignetting.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to invert image colors.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to convert color bits depth.
BatchQueueManager : New tool to add border around images.
BatchQueueManager : Rotate tool support Free Rotation adjustments.
BatchQueueManager : It's now possible to Stop and restart a processed queue.

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 223936 : Moving photos between albums is slow.
002 ==> 224698 : digiKam fails to rotate pefs via orientation tag.
003 ==> 224021 : Zoom shortcuts inconsistent between editor and preview.
004 ==> 225160 : digiKam built with QT4 ver 4.5.3 does not display pictures in album view.
005 ==> 225397 : Tip refers to "Print Wizard", it is now "Print Assistant".
006 ==> 225555 : Crash when deleting tag.
007 ==> 207244 : Image disappears when enlarging.
008 ==> 221155 : Add collection fails on similarly named directories (seems that check is not strict enough).
009 ==> 225731 : digiKam no preview icon for movie.
010 ==> 222698 : digiKam 1.0.0 crashes when editing tags by drag-and-drop.
011 ==> 225328 : Creating new album during import fails.
012 ==> 216633 : Additional aspect ratios in crop tool.
013 ==> 151406 : Filters in 'Enhance' dropdown menu lack mouse-over preview mode.
014 ==> 225698 : When I export my Album to a Html Gallery then Digikam crashed at the End.
015 ==> 225787 : Scroll wheel doesn't work while moving images.
016 ==> 226081 : Trying to delete tags crashes digiKam.
017 ==> 226118 : IPTC metadata tag delimiter is no longer stored (since 0.10).
018 ==> 226235 : digiKam fails after upgrade - no albums - rh tag & captions bar frozen.
019 ==> 225272 : digiKam destroy some exif data.
020 ==> 226584 : digiKam crashes in the starting phase.
021 ==> 226537 : hovering doesn't show sub-tags.
022 ==> 225827 : Gpswidget inactive on default selected photo.
023 ==> 226381 : Copy/Paste of images in Albums view selects wrong image.
024 ==> 224999 : Thumbnails blury after upgrade to 1.0.0 from 0.10.
025 ==> 226789 : Metadata settings only EXIF.
026 ==> 185266 : digiKam shows unknown icon when moving images to other directory.
027 ==> 226872 : Tag tree not expanded with "Tags already assigned" button.
028 ==> 226858 : digiKam 1.2 My Tags window always blank.
029 ==> 226568 : digiKam 1.1 crashes when renaming tag.
030 ==> 226515 : My tags on Caption/Tags becomes empty after removing a single tag.
031 ==> 227244 : Images on local disk not shown in middle pane.
032 ==> 226853 : No images shown after upgrading from previous version.
033 ==> 226932 : Batch Color Space Conversion Tool.
034 ==> 207338 : Batch queue manager does not cancel processing.
035 ==> 215657 : Raw import tool does not use general digiKam settings.
036 ==> 226846 : Issues with color management and color profiles.
037 ==> 227498 : digiKam no longer shows any fotos. opengl image viewer works. showFoto works.
038 ==> 226537 : hovering doesn't show sub-tags.
039 ==> 227550 : Tags already assigned looks messy.
040 ==> 226962 : Applying tags to images requires extra work.
041 ==> 226238 : Histogram never get completed in image editor after any change in the image.
042 ==> 227545 : Toggle Auto/Parents does not work as expected.
043 ==> 219772 : Opening the application causes crash.
044 ==> 226382 : Curves Adjust dialog broken: No Histogram and no effect when changing the line.
045 ==> 227555 : Preview image in digiKam is not displayed after saveas in editor.
046 ==> 225728 : Adding vignette should not increase brightness in the center.
047 ==> 227992 : Search field should not lost focus if nothing was found.
048 ==> 228326 : Crash trying to create a new tag.
049 ==> 227905 : ISO Album dates for 2009 2010 sort wrong.
050 ==> 225443 : Fileview preview panning shortcut back to old.
051 ==> 224094 : Modifying file (caption, keywords, EXIF) takes a very long time and 100 % CPU.
052 ==> 228378 : Tag filtering is bugged.
053 ==> 227668 : Not enough space to show alle tags.
054 ==> 227640 : No Pictures visible in Collections.
055 ==> 227075 : digikam3 database is not imported.
056 ==> 225927 : Add white-balance to the batch base tools.
057 ==> 225718 : Crash when having two tags with the same name in one folder.
058 ==> 221918 : Wrong thumbnails after save as.
059 ==> 226586 : digiKam 1.2 crashes after My Tags window goes blank.
060 ==> 226885 : Not displayed thumbnails failed load kio_digikamalbums.
061 ==> 226363 : Root album is not expansed after upgrade to model view port.
062 ==> 224080 : Selected image thumbnails should be automatically added to the list of images for processing in Batch Queue Manager.
063 ==> 225722 : Selection in editor should not darken image.
064 ==> 228802 : Copy paste doesn't work.
065 ==> 227064 : digiKam 1.1.0: crash on image download.
066 ==> 228807 : Dancing thumbs in album view.
067 ==> 214303 : Position of preview type buttons is inconsistent across different tools.
068 ==> 163286 : Accurate histogram preview required.
069 ==> 229287 : Crash in digiKam when renaming with directory.
070 ==> 148540 : Improvements of adding noise tool.
071 ==> 229340 : digiKam Crashes When Saving PNG Files.
072 ==> 229664 : Curves Widget not working anymore in BWSepia Plugin.
073 ==> 229574 : Moving tags doesn't update the "tag counter" next to the tag name.
074 ==> 229690 : No picture on thumb bar icon.
075 ==> 229793 : Drop image file in digiKam.
076 ==> 228483 : digiKam 1.1.0 with system libjpeg-8 breaks image rotation.
077 ==> 187431 : Gui too big for eeepc.
078 ==> 230008 : digiKam Nikon fetching pictures.
079 ==> 229470 : digiKam fails to start with QCursor: Cannot create bitmap cursor; invalid bitmap(s).
080 ==> 221992 : "local contrast" settings make no difference.
081 ==> 230003 : Zoombar slider adjustments below 100% are hard to archieve [patch].
082 ==> 228810 : Need to roll over again on a thumb to correct the rating.
083 ==> 210259 : Scan crashed on multi-layer TIFFs.
084 ==> 229344 : digiKam starting up - loading kipi-plugins.
085 ==> 229578 : Metadata is not correctly updated when just assigning tags.
086 ==> 230323 : ShowFoto and digiKam opening Olympus E-P2 ORF file will crash.
087 ==> 229108 : digiKam doesn't display all images after and upgrade.
088 ==> 201591 : Restart queue in Batch queue manager.
089 ==> 223003 : Cancelling duplicate search doesn't remove waiting cursor.
090 ==> 230358 : Selected album does not match containing items.
091 ==> 231048 : Monochrome tool shows plain grey preview.
092 ==> 222774 : Many (but not all) tags have been lost after multiple albums facility added.
093 ==> 226504 : When moving assigned tag in the keywords hierachy it becomes unassigned.
094 ==> 220415 : Clicking the + in the Album tree expands and just collapses subdirs again.
095 ==> 207881 : Album order differs in import dialog.
096 ==> 231361 : digiKam crash when trying to open NIKON NEF format photos from camera.
097 ==> 230573 : digiKam crash with import from DSL Nikon D90.
098 ==> 196470 : Update files with metadata from DB.
099 ==> 224052 : Pressing Delete repeatedly is not cached.
