darktable 1.6 release candidate 1

please be sure to download the provided tarball and check the sha1sum:

132728b89228b91f9f93714fd06e3010d3856901 darktable-1.5.1.tar.xz

(the github provided zip and tar.gz balls are just git snapshots and will not work)

these are the preliminary release candidate release notes:

new features:

• input colour gamut mapping
• slideshow
• better basecurve tool to create basecurves from raw/jpg pairs
• soft boundaries in sliders (right click and type 8 in exposure compensation for example)
• support huge images (> 32 bit pixel index)
• pwstorage libsecret
• new defringe image operation
• automatic levels
• big exr export speedup (multicore support)
• colour conversion speedup (openmp for lcms2 case)
• tiff read/write rewritten, works on 32-bit float now
• embedded icc profile support for png/tiff (read/write)

internal improvements:

• module parameter introspection
• clang/address-sanitizer/etc compiler warnings fixed
• flip iop used for raw auto-orientation (simplifies code)
• libraw not used any more for a lot of file formats (faster loading via rawspeed now)

bug fixes:

• hdr bracketing fixes
• masks cleanup and bugfixes
• lens iop presets are working
• correct lens detection for compact cameras

and of course also:

• updated usermanual
• lots of performance improvements and code cleanup

please give this some testing and let us know in #darktable or on the darktable-devel mailing list if there are remaining issues with it.

and as always, thanks to our great community and all the contributors for making this possible! enjoy the release!

p.s. new cameras supported!

• initial support for x-trans sensors

new noise profiles:

• canon eos 700d
• canon eos rebel sl1
• dmc-gh3
• dmc-gm1
• dmc-gx7
• dmc-lx5
• dsc-rx100m2
• dsc-rx100m2
• dsc-rx100m2
• e-m10
• e-pl2
• fuji x-e2
• fuji x-t1
• fuji x100s
• ilce-6000
• ilce-7
• ilce-7r
• nex-5r
• nikon d40
• nikon d5300
• nikon d610
• nikon d750
• nikon d810
• olympus e-m10
• panasonic dmc-gh3
• panasonic dmc-gx7
• pentax k100d super

new cameras in rawspeed:

• Canon Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL
• Canon Canon EOS D30
• Canon Canon EOS D60
• Canon Canon EOS 10D
• Canon Canon PowerShot Pro1
• Canon Canon PowerShot G1
• Canon Canon PowerShot G2
• Canon Canon PowerShot G3
• Canon Canon PowerShot G5
• Canon Canon PowerShot G6
• Canon Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II
• Canon Canon PowerShot S30
• Canon Canon PowerShot S40
• Canon Canon PowerShot S45
• Canon Canon PowerShot S50
• Canon Canon PowerShot S60
• Canon Canon PowerShot S70
• Canon Canon PowerShot S120
• Canon PowerShot S3 IS
• Canon PowerShot A610
• Canon PowerShot A620
• Canon PowerShot A640
• Canon PowerShot A650
• Canon PowerShot A720 IS
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D1X
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D750 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D750 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D7000
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D7100
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D800 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D800 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D810 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D810 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D810 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D810 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D810 mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D4S mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D4S mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D4S mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D4S mode
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D4S
• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON 1 J4 decoder_version
• OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C5050Z
• OLYMPUS CORPORATION C5060WZ
• OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-PL6
• OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-PL7 supported
• Panasonic model = DMC-GH1 mode
• Panasonic model = DMC-GF3 mode
• Panasonic model = DMC-GF3 mode
• Panasonic model = DMC-GF3 mode
• Panasonic model = DMC-FZ70
• LEICA DIGILUX 2 decoder_version
• LEICA DIGILUX 2 mode
• LEICA D-LUX 3 decoder_version
• LEICA D-LUX 3 mode
• LEICA V-LUX 1 decoder_version
• LEICA V-LUX 1 mode
• Panasonic DMC-L10 decoder_version
• Panasonic DMC-L10 mode
• Panasonic DMC-FZ30 decoder_version
• Panasonic DMC-FZ30 mode
• Panasonic DMC-FZ50 decoder_version
• Panasonic model = DMC-FZ50 mode
• Panasonic DMC-FZ8 decoder_version
• Panasonic DMC-FZ8 mode
• Panasonic DMC-FZ18 decoder_version
• Panasonic DMC-FZ18 mode
• Panasonic DMC-L1 decoder_version
• Panasonic DMC-L1 mode
• Panasonic DMC-LX2 decoder_version
• Panasonic DMC-LX2 mode
• LEICA model = D-LUX 6
• LEICA model = D-LUX 6 mode
• LEICA model = D-LUX 6 mode
• LEICA model = D-LUX 6 mode
• LEICA model = D-LUX 6 mode
• PENTAX Corporation PENTAX K100D Super
• PENTAX Corporation PENTAX *ist D
• RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. PENTAX K-3
• PENTAX PENTAX K-5 decoder_version
• SAMSUNG NX5
• SAMSUNG NX3000
• SAMSUNG EK-GN120 decoder_version
• SONY DSC-RX100M3
• SONY DSLR-A100 decoder_version
• SONY ILCE-5000 supported
• SONY ILCE-5100
• SONY ILCE-6000 supported
• SONY ILCE-7S supported
• SONY ILCA-77M2
• FUJIFILM FinePix S6000fd
• FUJIFILM FinePix S200EXR
• FUJIFILM FinePix F700
• FUJIFILM FinePix F900EXR
• FUJIFILM FinePix E550
• FUJIFILM IS-1
• FUJIFILM FinePix S3Pro
• FUJIFILM FinePix S5Pro
• FUJIFILM FinePix S5600
• FUJIFILM FinePix E900
• FUJIFILM FinePixS2Pro
• FUJIFILM FinePix S5000
• FUJIFILM FinePix S5200
• FUJIFILM FinePix S5500
• FUJIFILM FinePix S6500fd
• FUJIFILM FinePix S9500
• FUJIFILM FinePix S9600
• FUJIFILM FinePix S9600fd
• FUJIFILM FinePix HS10 HS11
• FUJIFILM FinePix HS20EXR
• FUJIFILM FinePix HS30EXR
• FUJIFILM FinePix X100
• FUJIFILM X10
• FUJIFILM X-S1
• FUJIFILM X-Pro1
• FUJIFILM XF1
• FUJIFILM X-E1
• FUJIFILM X20
• FUJIFILM X30
• FUJIFILM X100S
• FUJIFILM X-M1
• FUJIFILM X-A1
• FUJIFILM XQ1
• FUJIFILM X-E2
• FUJIFILM X-T1
• MINOLTA DYNAX 5D
• MINOLTA DYNAX 7D
• MINOLTA DIMAGE A1
• MINOLTA DIMAGE A2
• MINOLTA DIMAGE A200
• MINOLTA DIMAGE 5
• MINOLTA DIMAGE 7
• MINOLTA DIMAGE 7I
• MINOLTA DIMAGE 7HI
• SONY DSC-R1
• Mamiya-OP Co.,Ltd. MAMIYA ZD
• Creo/Leaf Leaf Aptus 22(LF3779 )/Hasselblad H1
• Leaf Leaf Aptus 75(LI400146 )/Large Format
• Leaf Credo 40
• Leaf Credo 60
• Leaf Credo 80
• Leaf Leaf Aptus-II 5(LI300059 )/Mamiya 645 AFD
• Leaf Leaf Aptus-II 8(LI300247 )/Mamiya 645 AFD
• Leaf Leaf AFi-II 7(BT12701 )/Leaf AFi
• Leaf Leaf Aptus-II 10(LI300019 )/Phase One 645DF
• Leaf Leaf Aptus-II 10R( )/Large Format
• Leaf Leaf Aptus-II 12(LI301306 )/Phase One 645DF/645AF
• Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n
• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY KODAK P880 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
• SEIKO EPSON CORP. R-D1
• Hasselblad Hasselblad 500 mech.
• Hasselblad Hasselblad H3D