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darktable 3.6 will be shipped with up-to-date user documentation : https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/

It is partially translated in 9 languages already. You can help translate it on https://weblate.pixls.us/projects/darktable/dtdocs/

Don't forget to ping @aurelienpierre if you need help to translate the technical terms, especially the color science bits.

darktable 3.6 is in the last row before release. Translators can now take over.

Download your language .po file or the base .pot English starter : https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/tree/master/po

Then open the file with https://poedit.net/

Translate and send us the resulting .po file in a PR on https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable or by email to darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org

Basic photo processing for beginners in darktable 3.6 :

https://youtu.be/5CmsxxxsMDs

Thanks Phoronix for entertaining the confusion darktable/Adobe Lightroom. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Darktable-3.6-Released

No, darktable is not a free replacement of Lightroom, it targets different users and has made different design choices (like enabling fine-grained control). Feeding that comparison is only going to frustrate LR users who may consider switching by setting wrong expectations.

#darktable 3.6 is out now.

Release post : https://www.darktable.org/2021/07/darktable-3-6/

Windows/Mac binaries : https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.6.0

Linux packages : https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=graphics:darktable:stable&package=darktable

Don't forget the release party at the end of the day (16:00 UTC) : https://hub.link/NWRSaUP

darktable 3.6 is ready to be released tomorrow. For that occasion, we organize a virtual party on https://hub.link/NWRSaUP starting at 16:00 UTC. Join us !

(The event is going to be mostly in EN, but you can add the languages you speak in your username like [EN] [DE] so people uncomfortable with EN may still interact).

#darktable 3.6 source code has been frozen today. Repositories maintainers can now build packages for Linux distributions. Official release in 10 days.

2680 commits since 3.4, 6 months ago, 290 issues closed and 954 pull requests handled. Last but not least, an up-to-date documentation at release time !

But only 13 languages translated…

darktable 3.6 will be shipped with up-to-date user documentation : https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/

It is partially translated in 9 languages already. You can help translate it on https://weblate.pixls.us/projects/darktable/dtdocs/

Don't forget to ping @aurelienpierre if you need help to translate the technical terms, especially the color science bits.

darktable 3.6 is in the last row before release. Translators can now take over.

Download your language .po file or the base .pot English starter : https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/tree/master/po

Then open the file with https://poedit.net/

Translate and send us the resulting .po file in a PR on https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable or by email to darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org

To keep up with the current development pace, we have decided to keep releasing 2 major versions of #dartkable per year :
* one for summer solstice
* the usual one for winter solstice.

Those 2 major releases will ship new features, while the dot releases (like 3.4.1, which will be frozen next week) will only ship bug fixes.

We still need a lot of translating help for Asian and Arabic languages, the dev team being EN/FR/DE/ES.

#darktable 3.4 is out. Merry Christmas !

#darktable 3.4 will not be shipped with translations for Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Bengali, even though they are among the 10 most spoken languages in the World, for lack of complete translation.

Some translation like zh_CN are "only" missing 1257 strings (meaning the rest is already done).

To help translators, we have put up a short guide: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/wiki/Translating-darktable

It's not too late to help translating darktable 3.4.1.

#darktable source code 3.4 was tagged today, that means the release is frozen entirely, code and translations, waiting for packagers to build the binaries in the next week. Then it shall be on time under the Christmas tree.

Happy holidays on behalf of all the darktable developers, contributors, translaters and testers !

darktable 3.4 new module : color calibration, get your Christmas lights back in gamut !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4CEN0JPcoM

Self-portrait, Before/After, of a full beauty edit performed on #darktable 3.4.

See (in French) the editing process by Minh-Ly, the model in the picture, guided by her husband, a darktable's developer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH1gRQ3Und0

The next-gen WIP documentation for darktable has been moved here : https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/

darktable is now in feature-freeze state for version 3.4 planned for Christmas day. Translators can now take over (for supported languages, see https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/master/po/LINGUAS - only German and French have 99% complete translations).

It has been a truly crazy month. So much work… Stay tuned for more news.

@eylul I know you have many original workflows I have never seen elsewhere, your opinion ?

Dear users, a glorious patch submitted in June to make the masking and blending fully scene-referred-compliant (and unbounded) is currently being reviewed for merging in #darktable 3.4.

We would like to take this opportunity to declutter and remove the output masking parameter, which nobody seems to use. Does anyone has a case to make against this ?

PR : https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/4688