14 DAY TRIAL // The darktable development team announced today the release and immediate availability of darktable 2.2.4, the fourth maintenance update to the most stable and advanced branch of the open-source and cross-platform RAW image editor tool.
Coming two months after the 2.2.3 point release, darktable 2.2.4 is here to introduce two new scripts, one for purging stale image thumbnails and another one for watching a specific folder for new photos, as well as to improve the opacity handling of the brush trace to offer better control to the user.
It also adds base support for various new digital cameras, such as Fujifilm X100F and Fujifilm X-T20, but it looks like darktable 2.2.4 only supports uncompressed raw for now. Nikon COOLPIX B700 (12bit-uncompressed), Olympus E-M1 Mark II, Sony ILCE-6500, Panasonic DMC-TZ61 and Panasonic DMC-ZS40 are also supported.
Noise profiles are also available for the Olympus E-M1 Mark II, Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II, and LG Nexus 5X digital cameras. Support for the next-generation Wayland display server has been improved a bit by preferring XWayland, if available, as native Wayland support doesn't work as expected at the moment.
Picasa web exporter improvements, bug fixes
A bunch of bugs and issues have also been fixed in darktable 2.2.4, improving the Picasa web exporter functionality, DNG support so that it won't report the wrong camera name anymore, the Camera import feature to make the ignore_jpg setting work again, and a rare issue with the import/export string.
Tiling was updated to no longer process small end tiles, the OpenCL support has been improved for profiled demosaic, denoise and colormapping, the EXIF functionality now handles image orientation '2' and '4', and the Masks and Collection components received a few fixes too.
As usual, we've attached the full changelog below if you're curious to know what exactly was changed in darktable 2.2.4, and you can download the binaries for GNU/Linux and macOS operating systems right now from our website, or directly from the official homepage of the application.