digiKam 7.2.0-beta2 - Release date: 2020-12-27

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NEW FEATURES:

General       : MacOS PKG installer is now compatible with Apple BigSur.
General       : MacOS bundle is now fully relocatable.
General       : Check and fix source codes with Clazy static analyzer.
General       : All bundles updated to last KF5 framework version 5.74.
General       : All bundles updated to last OpenCV version 4.4.0.
General       : Add a static QCollator class for fast item sorting.
Database      : Change database scheme under MySQL from TagsTree VIEW to TABLE with triggers.
FaceManagement: Improve users experience in GUI for face workflow while tagging and manage faces.
FaceManagement: Add face engine clustering support for detection and recognition processes.
FaceManagement: Remove face engine data files from sources and bundles and add a file downloader.

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BUGFIXES:

001 ==> 415565 - Show face as icon for each person in the People panel.
002 ==> 415604 - Allow changing a face tag from a person to another.
003 ==> 392023 - Add "Ignored" group of faces.
004 ==> 423114 - Deleted Faces don't re-appear in Face Scan with "Skip Images already Scanned".
005 ==> 384485 - Face Regions are deleted when unconfirmed face suggestion is rejected by user.
006 ==> 384396 - Display faces sorted by similarity (pre-grouped) instead of album/time/.
007 ==> 415782 - Face recognition "favors" people with few images: missing faces clustering.
008 ==> 416630 - Use N nearest neighbor search.
009 ==> 415895 - DNN Face recognition not working well on a picture.
010 ==> 344800 - SQLITE : when moving an album to another location tags are lost (NFS storage).
011 ==> 426186 - Lots of error messages from ItemAlbumModel.
012 ==> 426185 - digiKam starts more slowly than previous version.
013 ==> 390226 - Never import current collection.
014 ==> 426373 - Can't get Adjust Date & Time to work.
015 ==> 415867 - Face recognition -> after manual tagging -> no detection.
016 ==> 293697 - Crashes on Remove Red Eyes.
017 ==> 323253 - When face tag scanning, digikam exhausts all memory on computer.
018 ==> 409146 - Name not applied to RegionInfo when the region was added by iOS.
019 ==> 268191 - Allow building without FacesEngine.
020 ==> 392024 - Feature request: group similar faces in "Unknown" faces.
021 ==> 409788 - Sort-by/group by detected person (in Unconfirmed-View).
022 ==> 414653 - Ranking option in people recognition.
023 ==> 415878 - Sort "Unconfirmed" images by face name / or group them.
024 ==> 417390 - In "unconfirmed" and "unknown" can be grouped by similar faces.
025 ==> 421985 - Difficult to use face recognition.
026 ==> 415786 - Option to ignore group of images from face detection.
027 ==> 415880 - Add a way to easily correct a face name.
028 ==> 418757 - Ability to Ignore a face region.
029 ==> 419047 - Closing Face Tag Delete Dialog Box still ends up deleting face tag.
030 ==> 423387 - Add Button to instanlty set face tag as Unknown.
031 ==> 261319 - digiKam crash at startup with "signal: Illegal instruction" (SIGILL)
032 ==> 420257 - Empty secondary window sometimes appear when using digiKam.
033 ==> 406591 - Error in SDL2.dll.
034 ==> 135374 - Rename image files: add the possibility of "Find and replace".
035 ==> 336307 - Photos from Samsung S2 disappear after rename.
036 ==> 244559 - Crash when renaming files in batch process.
037 ==> 249148 - digiKam crashed when rename files.
038 ==> 252557 - Batch rename files caused crashed.
039 ==> 255830 - Crash while renaming files using German Umlauts
040 ==> 256314 - Crash when renaming jpegs.
041 ==> 257099 - Crash when leaving Rename dialog if several files selected.
042 ==> 257788 - Renaming multiple files crashes.
043 ==> 258045 - digiKam crashes, related with the rename of several photographs.
044 ==> 264019 - Crash by multi rename.
045 ==> 267211 - digiKam crashes after batch renaming more than two files.
046 ==> 211426 - Rename collision dialog notifies that files aren't on local computer.
047 ==> 237805 - File rename using metadata fails when using file conversion tool in Batch queue manager.
048 ==> 251768 - digiKam custom file renaming options are ignored when importing from camera.
049 ==> 318363 - Bad performance of file renames (thumbnail recreation?).
050 ==> 414081 - Renaming not working as expected in digiKam 6.4.
051 ==> 420691 - digiKam stopped responding and required new setup.
052 ==> 257677 - Crash when I renane files.
053 ==> 109517 - Photo Tag's & Comment's are lost when ablum's are rearranged or renamed.
054 ==> 091161 - Batch processing - rename problems.
055 ==> 374783 - Window location is not restored correctly after restart.
056 ==> 413884 - digiKam does not remember last window position and size on startup.
057 ==> 132691 - Pressing the Supr button should display a warning message to prevent to delete photos.
058 ==> 197449 - digiKam crashes after deleting a bunch of images.
059 ==> 199096 - Deleting files in a folder being viewed by digiKam seemed to crash it.
060 ==> 208635 - Next picture after delete.
061 ==> 246488 - digiKam crashes if i click on a deleted file.
062 ==> 293692 - digiKam Crash.
063 ==> 282510 - digiKam crashed when changing selection while images are being deleted.
064 ==> 286065 - digiKam crash when I delete a photograph.
065 ==> 104009 - Photo stays in album when moved to another album.
066 ==> 114189 - Add an option where i can set the "picture create permissions".
067 ==> 246174 - digiKam dies when "doing file -> new".
068 ==> 247090 - "New" problem.
069 ==> 377422 - Main window got stuck in Full Screen mode - Cinnamon DE.
070 ==> 426346 - People display is garbled.
071 ==> 426356 - Poor video performance in Flatpak images.
072 ==> 426332 - Confirmed Face Tags Turned To Unconfirmed.
073 ==> 132631 - digiKam does not restore main window size.
074 ==> 425238 - Abnormally large icons.
075 ==> 292902 - After choosing a dark theme the album view still with a white background and unreadable yellow or white font.
076 ==> 229043 - digiKam dark designs are not redable.
077 ==> 426575 - The album shows the contents of sub folders before the main folders.
078 ==> 426635 - Healing Clone Tool missing from (Image Editor) Enhance Menu.
079 ==> 087106 - Advancedslideshow : option to pause, go back or forward, and quit/resume.
080 ==> 095592 - Slideshow fills both screens in dual head setup.
081 ==> 114510 - In Dates view and Searches view, advancedslideshow does not work when the option "Show all images in current album" is checked.
082 ==> 116611 - Add xscreensaver-style panning-zooming crossfade effect.
083 ==> 125693 - User comments should appear in the slideshow.
084 ==> 129375 - I don't want to use timer functionality for slideshow, change to next picture when key/mouse is pressed.
085 ==> 426699 - "Ignored" faces category should not be positioned alphabetically, but on top of the list.
086 ==> 372380 - Support for MediaWiki tool?
087 ==> 417788 - Can't import a video file in an album.
088 ==> 426218 - Pictures from old collection still in database after removing it.
089 ==> 426597 - Stack underflow crash in Digikam::DImg::load().
090 ==> 159788 - Picture zoomed in "full screen modus".
091 ==> 176699 - Picture not shown, digiKam, error displaying pictures, just thumbails.
092 ==> 193265 - The application suddenly crashes when I try to open a preview of a photo.
093 ==> 170340 - Embed view does not work; I can not see an image.
094 ==> 175326 - View photo displays blank image.
095 ==> 172730 - Preview only, but no photo details shown at all.
096 ==> 256161 - Another crash while navigating/deleting photos quickly.
097 ==> 296653 - Selecting a range of photos when in preview mode is buggy.
098 ==> 231570 - digiKam crashes when opening the full size preview with a very large panorama picture.
099 ==> 240250 - Crash in previewer.
100 ==> 320333 - digiKam crashed while changing to the next photo in photo preview view.
101 ==> 330645 - digiKam crashed whilst advancing from one photo to the next in preview.
102 ==> 251932 - digiKam crash.
103 ==> 300843 - Just a random crash, just browsing photos.
104 ==> 256898 - digiKam crashed while browsing Photos.
105 ==> 338164 - Crash when switching from camera preview to folder on system.
106 ==> 426862 - Keyboard shortcut "delete" not working.
107 ==> 426481 - Face recognition feels like a regression from 6.4.
108 ==> 426479 - Slideshow: Show lens name in properties overlay.
109 ==> 426884 - Geolocation Editor discards changes without warning.
110 ==> 426659 - Thumbnails for tagged faces not useful.
111 ==> 426422 - digiKam won't work.
112 ==> 426912 - digikam-7.1.0-x86-64.appimage fails to start on CentOS 8.
113 ==> 426996 - Write geolocation to EXIF.
114 ==> 416470 - Suggestion: Make Album TreeView more explorer like.
115 ==> 426888 - digiKam crashes shortly after I attempt to start it.
116 ==> 427041 - Geolocation information not being saved to the metadata.
117 ==> 427056 - digiKam seg faults building thumbnail from gigabyte PNG.
118 ==> 427112 - Modify the geolocation : Legends of the screen menus incorrect.
119 ==> 427173 - When clicking on the parent folder that has multiple subfolder with the images, nothing is shown.
120 ==> 427079 - Error "internal server is not used and is not active".
121 ==> 426175 - Segmentation fault while Faces detection.
122 ==> 423632 - Segfault when scanning faces.
123 ==> 425723 - digiKam crashes after a while when detecting faces using multiple CPU cores.
124 ==> 425063 - Detect Faces crashes the App.
125 ==> 425230 - Crash when scanning for faces.
126 ==> 425698 - digiKam face detection crash under Linux.
127 ==> 420411 - digiKam Crash on detect faces 7.0.0 beta3 debug build.
128 ==> 425972 - Scan for face: crash under Windows during Album scan with multicore.
129 ==> 425904 - digiKam crash while scanning faces.
130 ==> 418939 - Crash in metadata engine when search faces.
131 ==> 426236 - Crashed when running face detection.
132 ==> 422735 - Segment fault after first 'scan collection for faces'.
133 ==> 425096 - Crash Unsupported JPEG process: SOF type 0xc8.
134 ==> 425702 - digiKam crashes under Linux when detecting faces.
135 ==> 425703 - digiKam crashes (again) under Linux while detecting faces.
136 ==> 184469 - Red eyes doesn't work here.
137 ==> 174683 - Crashes when try to correct red eye.
138 ==> 425439 - App crashes during the maintenance process with face recognition. stacktrace and log included.
139 ==> 426331 - The file digikam.exe contains no icons.
140 ==> 426333 - Icons Not Set for digiKam and Showfoto.
141 ==> 426717 - digikam.exe & showfoto.exe: no application-specific icons shown on Windows 10 after upgrade to 7.1.0.
142 ==> 427468 - Duplicate subalbums on Windows 10 (format YYYY\MM).
143 ==> 427385 - digiKam git build fail.
144 ==> 427555 - Allow selecting single picture, which fills complete screen which can be panned and zoomed.
145 ==> 427662 - HiDPI Settings Not Working in Digikam 7.1.0.
146 ==> 396086 - Changing elements order takes near 5 minutes in a folder with 50 images.
147 ==> 424691 - Thumbnails not showing for face tags [patch].
148 ==> 427863 - Dragging a folder onto albums tree view sidebar will import with name of parent folder.
149 ==> 427899 - Search (and Timeline, and ...) should offer a way to go to the album of the currently selected image.
150 ==> 427907 - Person name appears in tool tip and also search and also people listing but is shown as unknown in the photo.
151 ==> 428435 - Duration Column not showing any value.
152 ==> 388899 - Assigning color labels from right side menu is different than over context menu.
153 ==> 428427 - Some metadata (tags, captions) not applying to grouped images.
154 ==> 424437 - Batch deleting duplicates.
155 ==> 428558 - With batch workflow lens correction doesn't use metadata.
156 ==> 428472 - digiKam doesn't come up as it can't update db schema from 9 to 10.
157 ==> 428578 - The filename extension is used for sorting the filename.
158 ==> 428733 - Import window always keeps last image.
159 ==> 428723 - Wish - 'copy to' function with right click on thumbnail.
160 ==> 427067 - Albums doesn't show thumbnails; timeline only shows 1 folder.
161 ==> 427031 - Reverse image search.
162 ==> 426480 - Remove unused lenses from database.
163 ==> 373839 - Continuously face thumbnails flicker/update.
164 ==> 426208 - Thumbnails constantly refreshing on Mac version.
165 ==> 422138 - Select other Languages is out.
166 ==> 428924 - Group of *.MP4 files that have disappeared from digiKam. Database problem?
167 ==> 428638 - 7.2.0 beta1: sorting of images in thumbnail view - german environment and UI.
168 ==> 429021 - Wrong image rotation when extracting face thumbs.
169 ==> 426309 - Support face detection back ends that require larger data sets.
170 ==> 420128 - Poor result of face detection (7.0.0. beta2).
171 ==> 415559 - Standard Face Detection does not work on LowRes pictures.
172 ==> 429221 - digiKam Editor White Balance Effect Shadows Slider Not Working.
173 ==> 429118 - Changing the keywords of DNG files do not really change the file - the changes are not saved in the DNG.
174 ==> 429055 - Storing tags to files does not work.
175 ==> 429310 - Tagging regression with last digiKam git versions.
176 ==> 375062 - digiKam does not remember sort direction in Date-View.
177 ==> 429335 - digikam 7.2.0-beta2 (18.11.2020) crashes after assigning name to unknown face.
178 ==> 429362 - Please make qtwebengine dependency optional.
179 ==> 429232 - digiKam Does not open - Happens also on a fresh Manjaro Linux install with BTRFS as file system.
180 ==> 429261 - Malformed characters in EXIF Artist field.
181 ==> 429346 - Rotating and cropping: Concentration of the cropping frame on the real image area.
182 ==> 406723 - Tags are not synced.
183 ==> 429471 - User is prompted to remove face tags from images when image count is zero 0.
184 ==> 429551 - Many Tags Stored in Photos are not Inserted into digiKam's tag list When Photos are Read.
185 ==> 429664 - Windows file rename change case only fails badly.
186 ==> 429625 - Under Import, Add images and Add Folders options are not available.
187 ==> 429715 - When importing with the rename function, 'import selected' does not import files.
188 ==> 427107 - Geolocation data not written in jpeg files in v7.1.0.
189 ==> 429783 - Geolocation information lost on export and no EXIF tags generated in .JPG.
190 ==> 429787 - Delete Unassigned Tags: show list of the unassigned tags before deleting them,
191 ==> 429820 - Radio buttons vs. checkboxes for Tags Matching Condition "OR/AND" chooser.
192 ==> 429820 - Checkboxes should be radio buttons in Tags Matching Condition "OR/AND" chooser.
193 ==> 429827 - Clarify parent when creating new album (UI shows a mismatch).
194 ==> 429931 - Small Typo on web page.
195 ==> 429995 - Unexpected Media Server listening on *:8200 - Should have been informed / given the option during 1st run setup.
196 ==> 430056 - Rotating a photo confirms its unconfirmed face tags.
197 ==> 430094 - Crash when opening configure dialog.
198 ==> 430103 - Move gallery trash.
199 ==> 430132 - Some vertical videos are rotated sideways in preview player.
200 ==> 430147 - Search and escaping of database wildcard characters in filenames.
201 ==> 430134 - Face tags lost and captions mis-transferred after digiKam automatically renames a conflicting filename.
202 ==> 430189 - Can't login because I have no rights to access the Database.
203 ==> 430179 - Thumbnails sort order.
204 ==> 425746 - No thumbnails when importing photos from camera.
205 ==> 429116 - System crash under macOS 11 install. Does not load.
206 ==> 430451 - Building Fingerprint abruptly stops.
207 ==> 430427 - PSD files cannot be viewed. Thumbnails are OK.
208 ==> 430566 - Make DK_PLUGIN_PATH allow multiple paths.
209 ==> 429103 - digiKam 7.1.0 does not start up, when using macos big sur.
210 ==> 372487 - BQM says there are unprocessed items even though it completed successfully and all images were processed.
211 ==> 430664 - How to access a database and files from another computer in LAN.
212 ==> 430684 - Renaming mp4 files - metadata fields have no values.
213 ==> 430589 - Want to disable face detection extra download on Mac version.
214 ==> 383096 - digiKam crash, maintenance related?
215 ==> 430762 - Change icon size for people keywords.
216 ==> 430337 - Failed to create a new people tag.
217 ==> 430250 - Provide filetype-based filter for running face detection.
218 ==> 423386 - Unconfirmed face detections treated as confirmed.
219 ==> 397229 - Facetags are not well displayed in the facetag list for one person.
220 ==> 430810 - Cannot found Slideshow settings dialog page.
221 ==> 376891 - Digikam becomes unusable with many Metatags.
222 ==> 417399 - Wishlist: button to hide confirmed faces for a person.
223 ==> 279667 - Face thumbnails from people tags does not support drag and drop.
224 ==> 430818 - In Batch Queue Manager, the "Run" command, execute always the first queue.
225 ==> 426860] digikam not entirely behaving as app on MacOS.
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