14 DAY TRIAL // The developers of the open-source, free, and cross-platform darktable RAW image editor announced the availability of the second Release Candidate for the upcoming and highly anticipated 2.4 release.
darktable 2.4 RC2 comes only one week after the first Release Candidate, and it promises to bring support for Sony's newest Alpha a7R III mirrorless digital camera (Sony ILCE-7RM3). Besides that, there are a few improvements to increase the overall stability, reliability, and compatibility of the application.
Since we didn't report on the RC1 changes, you should know that it implemented a noise profile for Nikon D4, support for the Phase One IQ140 and Canon EOS M100 digital cameras, as well as Lightroom 7 import improvements, working timezone selection for geotagging on Windows, and a few other bug fixes and updated translations.
RC2 fixes a bug in haze removal, which could add black areas in the exported images, disables the combobox mode in the exposure module instead of hiding it, changes the styling of insensitive Bauhaus widgets, addresses an issue in local contrast, and no longer displays an error pop-up on Windows when the CD drive is empty.
darktable 2.4 is a major release with numerous new features
darktable 2.4 promises to be a major update of the open-source RAW image editor, and the biggest new feature is support for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Other features include support for Fujifilm compressed RAF files, support for loading floating point HDR DNG files, and a new X-Trans demosaicing algorithm.
Of course, there will be a lot of new noise and white balance profiles for several digital cameras from Fujifilm, Pentax, Sony, Olympus, Canon, Nikon, and Panasonic. You can test drive the second Release Candidate of darktable 2.4 right now by downloading the packages for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows OSes from our website.