Changes/Darktable 2 0

Darktable 2.0

Summary

Update Darktable to new 2.0 major release

Owner

• Name: Madko
• Name: Germano Massullo

• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 24
• Last updated: 2015-12-22
• Tracker bug: #1281478

Detailed Description

Darktable is one of the most important photo editing software in the whole FOSS world. The 2.0 final version is going to be released in a few weeks, and it will be shipped in Fedora 24

Changelog: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.0.0

Benefit to Fedora

Darktable 2.0's improved support for newer cameras stresses that the FOSS world is a concrete alternative for professional (and not) photographers

Scope

• Proposal owners: actually update Darktable package to 2.0 sources.

• Other developers: nothing

• Release engineering: no action required

• Policies and guidelines: no new policy/guideline changes required.

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Upgrade tested. Downgrade from 2.0 to 1.6.x not supported.

How To Test

x86 64bit CPU only.

You are expected to successfully open and edit photos already edited in Darktable 1.6.x.

Actually you can test the final release by enabling the COPR repo https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/germano/Darktable_2.0_release_candidate/

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

The same of Darktable 1.6.x, plus colord-gtk, cups, osmgpsmap, pugixml, and gtk3* that replaced gtk2*

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
• Blocks product? product

Documentation

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.0.0