digiKam 9.2.0 - Release date: 2026-xx-xx

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NEW FEATURES:

Bundles component versions:

(*): Updated compared to previous digiKam release.

| Bundles       | Qt         | KDE        | (lib)MariaDB | OpenCV   | FFmpeg    | Heif       | ExifTool  | Exiv2      | G'Mic-Qt  | LibRaw       | Llama.cpp | QtAvPlayer   | Build Environment   |
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| Windows Qt5   | 5.15.17    | 5.116      | 8.0.40       | 4.11     | 7.1.1     | 1.20.2     | 13.59 (*) | 0.28.9 (*) | 4.0.3 (*) | 20260914 (*) | 0.3.0     | 20260405     | Windows 10 + VCPKG  |
| Windows Qt6   | 6.11.1 (*) | 6.28.0 (*) | 3.4.8 (*)    | 4.12     | 9.0.1 (*) | 1.23.2     | 13.59 (*) | 0.28.9 (*) | 4.0.3 (*) | 20260914 (*) | 0.3.0     |    -         | Windows 11 + VCPKG  |
| AppImage Qt5  | 5.15.19 (*)| 5.116      | 10.06.23     | 4.14 (*) | 9.0.1 (*) | 1.23.3 (*) | 13.59 (*) | 0.28.9 (*) | 4.0.3 (*) | 20260914 (*) | 0.3.0     | 20260405     | XUbuntu 22.04       |
| AppImage Qt6  | 6.11.2 (*) | 6.28.0 (*) | 10.06.23     | 4.14 (*) | 9.0.1 (*) | 1.23.3 (*) | 13.59 (*) | 0.28.9 (*) | 4.0.3 (*) | 20260914 (*) | 0.3.0     |    -         | XUbuntu 22.04       |
| macOS Qt5     | 5.15.19(*) | 5.116      | 10.11.18     | 4.14 (*) | 8.1.2 (*) | 1.23.3 (*) | 13.59 (*) | 0.28.9 (*) | 4.0.3 (*) | 20260914 (*) | 0.3.0     | 20260405     | Monterey + Macports |
| macOS Qt6     | 6.11.2 (*) | 6.28.0 (*) | 10.11.18     | 4.14 (*) | 8.1.2 (*) | 1.23.4 (*) | 13.59 (*) | 0.28.9 (*) | 4.0.3 (*) | 20260914 (*) | 0.3.0     |    -         | Tathoe   + Macports |

Icon-View  : Improve filename matching for timelapse/burst grouping items.
Raw Support: Add support of Sony ARW6 CRAW HQ, Sony ILCE-7M5, and Canon R50 V.
Database   : MySql support is dropped in favor of MariaDB. It's highly recommended to migrate from MySql to MariaDB.
Search     : Natural Language Search in the Advanced Search tool, powered by a local LLM (Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct)
             that runs entirely on your computer. Describe what you want in plain language and digiKam builds the corresponding
             structured search. Supports tags, people, albums, ratings, labels, orientation, places, dates, captions, video properties
             (duration, frame rate, bitrate), and file formats. For details, see this report:
             https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2026/StatusReports/SrirupaDatta
Preview    : Add configurable Play/Pause Video shortcut for preview mode.

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BUGFIXES:

001 --> 521193 - Survey tool shortcuts do not toggle labels with keyboard shortcuts.
002 --> 518911 - digiKam terminates abnormally with signal 6/ABRT.
003 --> 521262 - Newly installed 9.1.0 crashes under Windows.
004 --> 521397 - Low-resolution/pixelated thumbnail generated for JXL images after internal editing (e.g., Local Contrast).
005 --> 521428 - Bug: "Find new items" progress bar and percentage do not update during scan (stuck at 0% until 100%).
006 --> 521485 - The Dates and Timeline views no longer work after update.
007 --> 521756 - 03-build-digikam.sh script bug: cleanup logic inadvertently deletes all VCPKG dependencies.
008 --> 436975 - Advanced search - right sidebar metadata tab is disabled.
009 --> 522001 - MP4: [Composite] GPSLatitude / GPSLongitude / ... metadata - ignored and deleted (on save).
010 --> 522052 - In the TableView the seconds from creation Date/Time isn't shown correctly eg it stay always at 00.
011 --> 521955 - Failed to map xmp metadata Xmp.iptcExt.Event to digiKam Tag.
012 --> 522204 - Core Mysql database schema update to V 17 failed using AppImage 9.1.0.
013 --> 522716 - OPenCV 5 exception while processing face recognition.
014 --> 522423 - Pictures in Dates tab not showing, also takes very long to load (0-100%).
015 --> 522695 - Face management workflow "Scan new images" incorrectly scans the entire photo collection.
016 --> 522792 - The 9.1.0 compile version will not deploy on Ubuntu 26. I had to extract the AppImage.
017 --> 522770 - Face tag not read from .xmp for jxl files.
018 --> 522944 - Detect new files without refreshing thumbnails.
019 --> 522954 - Copy as path.
020 --> 522968 - Missing folders.
021 --> 523055 - Test GPU AI Compatibility fails instantly with QString::arg Argument missing: OpenCLDNN error (Windows, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti).
022 --> 523250 - Created filename on import is wrong (date/time).
023 --> 522889 - Pick Label "None" filter and Advanced Search return drastically different counts for the same criterion.
024 --> 522748 - Crash upon clicking on Maps - fatal allocator error: sized deallocation mismatch (small).
025 --> 523371 - ImageTagProperties Table Does Not Get Cleared in "Reset and clear all faces and training".
026 --> 523414 - Build failure with latest commit (templateselector.cpp).
027 --> 514721 - digiKam tends to crash with no error message on the first attempt at a duplication search on a folder with a larger number of images, but not on post-restart attempts.
028 --> 518566 - Crash on Marble map interaction after Geolocation Editor open for some time.
029 --> 485654 - Product Hangs when Trying to apply Geolocations.
030 --> 519108 - Moving multiple tags into a hierarchy causes crash.
031 --> 523455 - Delete duplicates button stays greyed out in duplicates tool.
032 --> 523476 - GPS Correlator removes GPS data when no correlation found.
033 --> 469202 - Crash when deleting.
034 --> 478104 - A new version delete all my configuration and tags.
035 --> 491886 - digiKam erase my photos.
036 --> 523211 - Crash on start on Windows 10 (Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x0000000000000000) with today's Beta release.
037 --> 523810 - Add a setting for font used during SlideShow.
038 --> 523759 - Create directory symbolic links / junctions from within digiKam (restricted to existing managed collections).
039 --> 523852 - Feature Request: Option to shift File Modification Timestamp by +/- 1 second when writing metadata
040 --> 523957 - It is not possible to drag photos within the same album to arrange them according to your own scheme.
041 --> 524000 - digiKam: crashes when finding duplicate or building fingerprints.
042 --> 522887 - Face recognition tool no more working with the latest OpenCV version 5.0 and later.
043 --> 524196 - Solved for me after performing the mention steps.
044 --> 524254 - Unable to add /usr/bin/tesseract binary to digiKam.
045 --> 511758 - digiKam is almost unusable when mysql is not connected over lan.
046 --> 524383 - Fingerprint maintenance stuck at 0% for hours on large collections — calculateAffectedAlbums() is O(N²) due to QList::contains() per item.
047 --> 514751 - Implement dynamic, multi-column metadata filtering with real-time item counts (Lightroom-style "Filter Bar").
048 --> 524498 - [Feature Request] Display current image index and total image count (e.g., "12 / 150") in full-screen slideshow OSD.
049 --> 524505 - G'MIC filter list can't be updated: https://gmic.eu/update360.gmic 404 not found.
050 --> 515936 - Support for Semantic Image Search using CLIP-ViT-H-14 models.
051 --> 428545 - Wish: Writing SQL query in Advanced Search or Access to all fields of the database.
052 --> 473731 - User input SQL statement to search.
053 --> 497938 - Text-based Image Search.
054 --> 367700 - It should be possible to search for more, if not all metadata fields.
055 --> 524661 - Some timestamps written to XMP sidecar even if timestamps metadata setting disabled.
056 --> 524434 - Support Xiaomi HyperOS Micro‑Video motion photos.
057 --> 503112 - macOS supports universal binaries, this would be preferable to having separate x68_64 and arm64 binaries.
058 --> 525159 - Automatically refresh when files are moved, added or deleted externally.
059 --> 525175 - Feature request: allow filtering using tags and view results using Dates view.
060 --> 525230 - "Set as Wallpaper" tool silent failure / crashes OS background engine when used on RAW/unsupported image formats.
061 --> 525215 - Misleading naming for ‚Albums‘ vs. ‘Collections’.
062 --> 524693 - Connection to Google earth.
063 --> 525294 - Crash (EXC_BREAKPOINT/SIGTRAP) inside QImage::toCGImage().
064 --> 524477 - Crash viewing image.
065 --> 524393 - Crash when dragging image in library to re-position it.
066 --> 525774 - digiKam has trouble with the % character in folder names.
067 --> 522801 - Add hardware compatibility with Intel NPUs for running image processing models such as YOLO.
068 --> 511487 - No Hardware Acceleration with Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Blackwell GPU?
069 --> 523446 - Dates lost.
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