digiKam 2.1.0 - Release date: 2011-09-04

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NEW FEATURES:

Import Tool : camera items thumbnails are processed on the fly. Connection to camera device is faster.
Import Tool : Sort of items by date is possible with photo taken quickly (less than 1s).
Import Tool : New option to setup a default target album to download items from camera device.
Import Tool : New option to download new items in just one click.
Import Tool : New option to filter icon-view by type mime.

Preview   : New option to show/hide information over preview canvas.
General   : New tool to export collection to VKontakte web service (https://www.vkontakte.ru).
General   : New tool to stitch photos as panorama.

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BUGFIXES:

001 --> 218365 - Show icon thumbs when loaded and not only after all were read.
002 --> 278526 - No picture is displayed in the Album View.
003 --> 245079 - Let the user download all before thumbnails are generated.
004 --> 278033 - Cannot set jpeg compression ratio (or any other save options) when exporting image.
005 --> 278966 - Building the unittests fails when using external libpgf.
006 --> 199985 - digiKam, import, writing to sd card, bad folders.
007 --> 261627 - GNOME says "No applications found" ignoring digikam.
008 --> 251900 - Preview of RAW images missing.
009 --> 260669 - Images on camera always marked as new.
010 --> 246336 - Ordering incorrect.
011 --> 264123 - digiKam freezes when creating thumbnails in the import dialog (from a memory stick).
012 --> 199197 - Can't import pictures from camera.
013 --> 181521 - NEF's in descending order, AVI in ascending order in import from SD-card.
014 --> 221457 - digiKam camera download - dates are not preserved.
015 --> 229543 - Video exif info not found during import and renaming.
016 --> 265243 - Series of AVIs imported with the same (incorrect) time.
017 --> 199913 - Creation date is changed when converting to png.
018 --> 190717 - Camera movie files dates not used for date based sub folder name.
019 --> 246337 - Changing sort order forces thumbnail regeneration.
020 --> 256776 - digiKam leaves ".digikam-exifrotate" files etc. on harddisk.
021 --> 237810 - Wrong date when renaming downloaded pictures.
022 --> 233621 - Importing from Nikon Coolpix P90 ignores date/time of the images and uses 31-12-1969 instead.
023 --> 160496 - No disk space reported when importing pictures.
024 --> 184439 - Closing the "USB DISK DOWNLOAD from DISK" window updates the digikam folder view.
025 --> 253268 - digiKam crashes when starting to download pictures.
026 --> 216492 - Camera interface upload can't select a movie only image.
027 --> 274199 - digiKam crashed when using "inpainting" tool.
028 --> 278320 - Crash with "-graphicssystem raster".
029 --> 279551 - Wrong window title when deleting a search.
030 --> 271030 - Windows Live Photo Gallery people tagging Compatibility.
031 --> 279549 - Lighttable gets automatically filled on digiKam start.
032 --> 279696 - Building the unittests of Geolocation fails.
033 --> 279713 - Libmediawiki tries to install test files (patch attached).
034 --> 236394 - Import from camera using cable is slow and previously imported video files are not flagged.
035 --> 261871 - digiKam import of Nikon D7000 images very slow.
036 --> 243760 - Import *listing* from "Canon PowerShot G5 (normal mode)" takes very long.
037 --> 246401 - Improve date based sort of camera interface: use more time precision from Exif when shots are taken with less than 1s.
038 --> 266317 - Nepomuk Service Stub (nepomukservicestub) crashes in libdigikamdatabase.so.1 when syncing tags to nepomuk.
039 --> 269373 - Adding face tag to large amount of pictures fails.
040 --> 225759 - JPG image size = 0 byte, when transfer occurs from my camera to my NAS.
041 --> 202641 - Import images - always increase renaming counter by number of images imported.
042 --> 189903 - Allow default Target Album for Image Download.
043 --> 259861 - One-click "Download New Items".
044 --> 144227 - Allow for fully customized album names when importing.
045 --> 279402 - Focus textbox for identifying faces gets lost too easily (and other issues).
046 --> 277796 - Build failure in the dcraw_emu sample.
047 --> 280240 - digiKam crash when attempting to view slideshow.
048 --> 280517 - Moving photo from an album to another leads to loose face tags.
049 --> 280101 - Patch: Add option to hide icons and text in preview.
050 --> 279183 - Themes configuration dialogue does not open.
051 --> 257806 - Images imported from backup card + filtering icon-view [patch].
052 --> 272143 - Remove the "a tool to" prefix in the BQM tools description.
053 --> 281116 - Wish: Customisable date format in auto creation of albums.
054 --> 277935 - Rename libkmap to Geolocation and move it to extragear/libs.
055 --> 264412 - Crash when opening a directory.
056 --> 264638 - Stuck when cancelling rename/overwrite dialog in batch queue manager.
057 --> 276061 - "Save (as new version)" is not enabled right after importing a RAW picture.
058 --> 270419 - digiKam's tool can't import my photo from facebook.
059 --> 279078 - Yandex.Fotki tool causes digikam crash.
060 --> 141389 - Unpredictable image ordering in gallery.xml
061 --> 171794 - Display keywords by flash export.
062 --> 279515 - FlashExport's FirstRunDialog doesn't install simpleviewer's archive.
063 --> 279445 - Change the way progress is reported in the Geolocation Correlator.
064 --> 098693 - Easy stitcher and panorama tool.
065 --> 235766 - Panorama Tool as hugin, gimp-pandora.
066 --> 280860 - Compile fails due to DSO error with pthread.
067 --> 280736 - Wrong check for cpfind when using panorama tool.
