digiKam 5.3.0 - Release date: 2016-11-06

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NEW FEATURES:

General: Add support of universal Linux 32 and 64 bits AppImage bundle deployment.
General: Internal Libraw updated to 0.18-beta1 with 78 cameras added,
         floating point DNG support, decode exotic DNG formats e.g. 8-bit DNG,
         and more metadata parsed while decoding as white balance presets,
         DNG colordata, vendor specific metadata.

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BUGFIXES:

001 --> 368965 - Crash when clicking on Table button in top menu bar [patch].
002 --> 366769 - Rename aborts after first rename of many.
003 --> 369140 - Tags don't appear at all.
004 --> 329060 - digiKam Tabs in Scanning faces dialog need to be fixed.
005 --> 369407 - Remove <para><interface> and </para></interface> from tooltip.
006 --> 369321 - Translation of digikam + showfoto docbooks missing in digikam-5.2.0 tarball.
007 --> 369517 - digiKam from 5.2.0 tarball installs libvkontakte translations even if libvkontakte is disabled.
008 --> 369626 - "Subjects" metadata fields cannot be edited once other metadata are filled in and stored.
009 --> 369656 - Corrections to Metadata Editor section.
010 --> 364258 - 4.x application configuration rc files are ignored
011 --> 357944 - wrong encoded collection paths after upgrade from digikam v4.x
012 --> 368968 - Geo bookmarks are not migrated from version 4 to version 5
013 --> 368794 - digiKam crashes with lossy dng image.
014 --> 370190 - Trash is shown twice.
015 --> 366019 - digiKam Crashes when Table view button is clicked.
016 --> 370331 - Menu dropdown Color / Enhance / Decorate / Effects not working.
017 --> 370252 - In picture editor the menus "color", "enhance", "decorate" and "effects" are empty.
018 --> 370287 - Crash rotating image taken with Casio camera.
019 --> 370298 - Slider behaviour, e.g. in 'local contrast'.
020 --> 370427 - Reset To Default Button Causes Duplication of List Items When Configuring Metadata.
021 --> 369345 - In tagging apply to all versions fails.
022 --> 370631 - Converting ARW to DNG fails.
023 --> 370175 - Cannot Import Images (Failed to detect camera with GPhoto2 from Solid information).
024 --> 370958 - Cannot save a scanned image.
025 --> 370943 - Cannot Select EXIF or IPTC Metadata Subspaces.
026 --> 371066 - Crash whenever right-clicking in Albums area under the albums list.
027 --> 371072 - Edit Advanced Search does not show selected labels.
028 --> 370942 - Advanced Metadata Write Options Ineffective.
029 --> 371142 - digikam5 does not start when SD card with photos is inserted to computer.
030 --> 371517 - Thumbnail view is not rotated, but the image preview is rotated ok.
031 --> 367640 - Crash when decoding Canon 550D RAW file using VNG interpolation with libraw 0.18.
032 --> 368862 - Thumbnails for Olympus raw (ORF) in albumview are blurred.
033 --> 371627 - Enlarging Thumbnail On Map Results in Large Blue Circle.
034 --> 371951 - Thumbnail recreation is blocking.
035 --> 368124 - Face tag inside album view is case sensitive.
036 --> 371956 - "Apply pending changes" button placement.
037 --> 366429 - digiKam 4.14.0 linux does not read XMP created by digiKam 5.0.0 windows.
038 --> 369003 - Editor crash.
039 --> 366104 - digikam5 "hangs' @ 100%CPU at exit.
040 --> 367495 - Geolocation editor and reverse geocoding segmentation fault.
041 --> 369630 - Unable to export movie to google photo.
042 --> 370025 - KMLExport cannot move data to destination directory.
043 --> 369639 - Window exceeds available screen space.
