FFe: darktable 2.6.3 in focal needs update to 3.0.1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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darktable (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
This is a request to update darktable deb to match the snap ;)
The biggest new features to warrant it:
- UI rework; everything is now themable, and it works properly on high-DPI screens
- 'filmic RGB' module as a new option to old global tone-mapping modules
- a new culling mode
and more, full release notes at
https:/
This also pulls in the first bugfix release, plus a couple of commits from git to fix some minor regressions found since.
--- original description: ---
Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa LTS still only has darktable 2.6.3 in the official repositories.
darktable 3.0.0 was released Dec 24, 2019, and darktable 3.0.1 was released March 09 2020.
( darktable feature releases are traditionally released each Christmas. )
Please note that darktable 3.x is NOT backward compatible with darktable 2.6.3. So there is no way for a user of a more current version of darktable to even use darktable 2.6.3. A supplement problem is that running 2.6.3 when you have a 3.0.x db (eg. if upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04 in place) results in a totally silent fail at load. Only if run from a terminal do you see the '... db is too new ... Aborting ...' message.
I'll submit a post to <email address hidden> re this
affects: | ubuntu-mate → darktable (Ubuntu) |
Changed in darktable (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
assignee: | nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in darktable (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Darktable is a package that is synced from upstream Debian. Even if 3.0.1 were to land in Debian today, we would need a Feature Freeze Exception (it contains new features) and a Sync Request in order to get it into the repo in time. Unfortunately, that's not likely to happen.
Long story short, it's too late to get it into Focal.
I *might* be able to get it in the Ubuntu Studio Backports PPA, but I'll admit, that's not a priority right now.