String freeze for darktable 1.6

posted on Sat 15 November 2014

Dear all,

as we want to release darktable 1.6 some time at the end of the year, it now is the time to announce the string freeze. Please don’t change any UI strings any more, so translators have a chance to catch up.

Translators: your updates should be committed to the master branch, there is no branch-off for a stable 1.6 version yet.

We should have the first release candidate packed up soon!

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Matthieu Moy on Sun Nov 16 11:03:37 2014:
Is the database stable already? I'm considering upgrading to master but I wouldn't like to convert my database to something which won't be supported by the next stable version.

Thanks,
smn on Sun Nov 16 11:48:28 2014:
If you don't have any strong reason for the upgrade I would not recommend it.

Having said this, the database should be stable (as it almost always is during development) and upgrading to master now with switching back to the release version later should not break things. As usual, make a backup before and be aware of the fact that you can't switch back to 1.4.2 with the database once opened with git master.