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We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0!
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0.
To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarball provided by GitHub on the release page, download our tar.xz file instead. If you’re just building for yourself without creating a package for some distribution, then using source code cloning in git is an even more convenient way.
The checksums are:
$ sha256sum darktable-5.0.0.tar.xz
eaa136e6e624bb53127282e26aafa0441abcc189b55371465e1f5a8a493fa3a1 darktable-5.0.0.tar.xz
$ sha256sum darktable-5.0.0-x86_64.dmg
3f49cfb63958269b99065cf6b501678d4e63f2457ee1915bcd7ffa0dfef9dcfd darktable-5.0.0-x86_64.dmg
$ sha256sum darktable-5.0.0-arm64.dmg
14feb35ef2b2e8e50cf1855826ad4913e905a5600a56a87dd98382e8d828e9db darktable-5.0.0-arm64.dmg
$ sha256sum darktable-5.0.0-arm64-13.5.dmg
b43011cae5ddc9f19a8f895ba389e9ddb79d01534e9ca0568b7125026ac72145 darktable-5.0.0-arm64-13.5.dmg
$ sha256sum darktable-5.0.0-win64.exe
40444d5c7d310b1e1e859bd6b7c5d5e35d538a7bf9ad3e918b0e883c971451ea darktable-5.0.0-win64.exe
$ sha256sum Darktable-5.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
d0061ac5a345c473d98f04388197afaee48e61b638db576ae1c88700cb8855cd Darktable-5.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
When updating from the stable 4.8 series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but the new library and configuration will no longer be usable with 4.8.
Personally, I’m grateful this tool exists. I have used Adobe Lightroom 5 the one you could get on a disc, like, when owning things was actually possible. Adobe has systematically pissed me off over the last decade. Lightroom was great, non-destructive edits, import into year with sub directory sorted by months. Quick copy and apply edits. Lr5 was great.
I’m just a hobbyist photographer, I’m not doing pro level anything or charging anyone anything. I would love to use the student edition. I refuse to though, because it requires Adobe to upload them online, use them for ai training, it’s not private. I take photos on a camera to NOT have them on the Internet. To be honest I’d be upset if a photographer used any ai or cloud storage for my personal photos. Sadly, it’s so baked in a photographer might not even know. Not everyone cares or is tech savvy(which is totally fine) it’s not their fault the company is shady.
That was a first issue, second they won’t support the version I have any longer, ok that’s how software/hardware works, but it’s a subscription model now and that sucks. I upload 6 months of photos at a clip, I didn’t need a monthly sub. Because of that I’m tied to an old laptop that’s on death’s door to edit my pics.
Darktable provides everything I need that Lightroom did, sans a small bit of import magic to organize photos, and it’s a little tricky to use but after about an hour, I understand how to get things going. Anything has a learning curve. With darktable I know my pics are mine, they are on my laptop, I won’t be paying a subscription. That small amount of frustration is worth it to tell Adobe to piss off.