released darktable 1.6.4

We are happy to announce that darktable 1.6.4 has been released.

The release notes and relevant downloads can be found attached to this git tag: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-1.6.4 Please only use our provided packages (“darktable-1.6.4.*” tar.xz and dmg) not the auto-created tarballs from github (“Source code”, zip and tar.gz). The latter are just git snapshots and will not work! Here’s the direct link to tar.xz and dmg: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.4/darktable-1.6.4.tar.xz https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.4/darktable-1.6.4.dmg

this is another point release in the stable 1.6.x series.

sha256sum darktable-1.6.4.tar.xz
 c5f705e8164c014acf0dac2ffc5b730362068c2864622121ca6fa9f330368d2a
sha256sum darktable-1.6.4.dmg
 e5bbf00fefcf116aec0e66d1d0cf2e2396cb0b19107402d2ef70d1fa0ab375f6

General improvements:

• major rawspeed update
• facebook exporter update (first authentication usability should be much better now)
• first run opencl benchmark to prevent opencl auto-activation if GPU is obviously slower than CPU
• lensfun cornercase fixes
• some mask cornercase fixes
• zonesystem now updates it’s gui when number of zones changes
• spots iop updates
• ui_last/gui_language should work more reliably now
• internal lua updated from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4 (distro typically use their own version of lua)
• gcc 5 should build now

Camera support:

• Canon Digital Rebel (non-european 300D)
• Nikon D5500 (experimental)
• Olympus E-M5 Mark II (experimental)
• Samsung NX500 (experimental)

White balance presets:

• Sony A77 II
• Fujifilm X-E2
• Olympus E-M5 Mark II

Noise profiles:

• Canon 7D Mark II

updated translations:

• German
• French
• Russian
• Danish
• Catalan
• Japanese
• Dutch