digiKam 1.8.0 - Release date: 2011-01-23

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NEW FEATURES:

General        : digiKam has now a stand alone installer for Microsoft Windows based on Null Soft Installer.

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BUGFIXES:

001 --> 256372 - Add a digiKam installer based on NSIS.
002 --> 261086 - Crash at startup.
003 --> 212947 - digiKan crashes upon import of large photo collection.
004 --> 261015 - digiKam Fingerprinter crashes.
005 --> 237639 - Wish: All thumbs created in a folder automatically.
006 --> 189585 - Thumbnails do not display.
007 --> 255852 - digiKam crashed when browsing/rating images.
008 --> 184635 - Empty menu when right clicking on an image.
009 --> 261868 - Provide a progress indicator for "rename".
010 --> 244560 - digiKam crash while viewing photos.
011 --> 261582 - Default filename for renamed imports: remove the colon character.
012 --> 262065 - Linking issue with Marble library.
013 --> 261879 - Ubuntu unity compatibility bugs: export menu disappeared.
014 --> 262296 - Camera GUI does not open [patch].
015 --> 201788 - Picture navigation problems and disambiguation.
016 --> 261415 - digiKam crashes when adding lens data to ~/.local.
017 --> 253062 - Database of 80,000+ images wiped out.
018 --> 263083 - digiKam editor crashes on "save" and "save as" (KFileDialog relevant).
019 --> 252404 - digiKam crashes when modifying caption.
020 --> 262720 - Rebuild thumbnails or 'scan for new images' should work on just current folder.
021 --> 242036 - digiKam crashed when pressing 'Album -> New'.
022 --> 235597 - Disconnected usb passport external hard drive using "safely remove drive" option.
023 --> 237957 - Crash while looking at folder with 380 images for first time.
024 --> 253067 - Crash when viewing pictures.
025 --> 255054 - Crash during picture import [KDirWatch::contains, digiKam::AlbumManager::addAlbumRoot, digiKam::AlbumManager::slotCollectionLocationStatusChanged].
026 --> 258106 - digiKam crashed on search Pictures on individual Album.
027 --> 261384 - Crash while scrolling the raw image preview.
028 --> 258922 - digiKam crashed while scrolling through images in folder.
029 --> 263726 - Metadata lost when decoding a raw file.
030 --> 224047 - Thumbnails incorrectly rotated on certain images.
031 --> 239902 - digiKam seems to find images that are not in the collection directory.
032 --> 245958 - Some tags lost on batch color space conversion - import metadata does not work.
033 --> 246735 - Frame rate drops to around 5 fps when draggingg & dropping.
034 --> 261275 - Fails to build [patch].
035 --> 253257 - Program uploads only part of file or smaller version of file and match error occurs.
036 --> 257514 - Scaling of Pictures for print.
036 --> 196855 - Remember last position, remember last view mode, cache the last view.
038 --> 262125 - DNG Conversion can't be inverted. Embedded file is corrupted.
039 --> 245956 - Upload video from digiKam to Picasa.
040 --> 262642 - Better looking of "captions" during slideshow [patch].
041 --> 263545 - Crashed, when trying to import photo from picasaweb.

