We are happy to announce that almost after one year darktable 1.6 has just 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-1.6.0 Please only use our provided packages (green buttons tar.xz and dmg) not the auto-created tarballs from github (grey buttons, zip and tar.gz). The latter are just git snapshots and will not work! Here’s the direct link to tar.xz: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.0/darktable-1.6.0.tar.xz

**Update: **the git repository officially resides in github now. Today we are moving our git repo from sf.net to github, as it was agreed in the developer meeting that took place yesterday. This will happen today 22:00 – 23:00 CEST What should I do now? Depends on the role you play in the project. You have commit rights into current sf.net repository: please open an account in github if you don’t have any and make me know it.

It is done, 1.0 is out. I sent out most of the new features with the announcement for 1.0rc2 a few weeks ago already, but for completeness, here it is again: New cameras supported Leica M9 NX100/NX5/NX10/NX11 Panasonic DMC-GX1 Pentax K-r Canon Powershot S100 Olympus XZ-1 Olympus E-P3 Sony DSLR A330 Sony NEX-5N Canon EOS 1000D Canon EOS 600D Sony Alpha 390 Fuji Finepix HS20EXR New and updated translations (we now have chinese!