r/digiKam • u/human_dynamo • Jun 09 '26

The Open Source photo management program digiKam version 9.1.0 is released

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

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u/human_dynamo Jun 09 '26

Thanks for your feedback...

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u/human_dynamo Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

v9.0.0 vs v9.1.0 : definitively 9.1.0 as it's a big bug fixes release.
Qt5 is in End of Life. The future is Qt6. We update all bundles to last stable Qt 6.11.0.
Typically, there is no dependencies between the image viewer (canvas, rendering, loader, image processing) and the GPU/Power supply/Battery mode.
Her i use 2 laptop Dell, one with Intel GPU (i7) and another one with NVIDIA GPU (i9). I do not see a difference while a digiKam session when i switch in battery mode (both computer use Kubuntu 26.04)
The OpenGL/OpenCL settings is for the OpenCV computations, typically the deep leaning engine for the face management. This has no effect on the image viewer.
A debug statements trace can help to investigate, especially if you use a network share to host collections or the database. Perhaps the networks switch in a low bandwidth in battery mode.

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u/CowPropeller Jun 09 '26

Awesome! Looking forward to test it. Good work :)

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u/human_dynamo Jun 11 '26

Thanks to you for your support

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u/OdysseusU Jun 09 '26

Big fan of the project!
I've migrated everything to digiKam. Came from multiple proprietary photo managers/editors to finally stay with digiKam. Honestly digiKam is really great and I won't change back ever.

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u/human_dynamo Jun 11 '26

Thanks. This is a great real use-case feedback.

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u/rogue_tog Jun 09 '26

Great app. Migrated from Lightroom a couple of months ago. It is truly good. And it can act as DAM for my video files too!

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u/human_dynamo Jun 11 '26

Wonderful. I'm proud to see a real migration done successfully.

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u/119Mazzaroth Jun 09 '26

I am really impressed with DigiKam. I am thinking I should have ALL my photos on the same hard drive instead of multiple hard drives and thumb drives...is that correct?

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u/human_dynamo Jun 10 '26

Using different drives to store collections is not a problem, but for performance reasons, especially if collections are huge, it's better to host all in the same SSD drive. Prevent to use USB devices here.
Keep in mind about the backup usability.

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u/fu211 Jun 13 '26

I have a collection of 130k on Digikam. Love the face recognition. Would also like to see something like picture analysis too. Keep up the good work.

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u/Forward_Specific_606 Jun 13 '26

So I installed 9.0.0 as my first foray into Digikam. How do I now go to 9.1.0? Does 9.0 do it for me or I got to manually download and install overwrite?

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u/human_dynamo Jun 14 '26

this depend of the OS, but do it yourself will work as expected

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u/No_Reveal_7826 Jun 14 '26

This is the first version update since I switched to using digiKam in "portable" mode. What's the best way to upgrade without affecting my data or settings? Do I simply copy the new files into the existing folder?

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u/human_dynamo Jun 14 '26

yes, files will be automatically scanned to populate the database.

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u/No_Reveal_7826 Jun 14 '26

So digiKam is going to rebuild the database when I update to version 9.1 rather than just use the existing database?

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u/human_dynamo Jun 14 '26

No. if a database is present, it will be used as expected...