RawTherapee/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

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RAWTHERAPEE 5.10-dev RELEASE NOTES
This is a development version of RawTherapee. We update the code almost daily. Every few months, once enough changes have accumulated and the code is stabilized, we make a new official release. Every code change between these releases is known as a "development" version, and this is one of them.
IN GENERAL
Start by reading the "Getting Started" article on RawPedia:
https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/
RawTherapee supports most raw formats, including Pentax and Sony Pixel Shift, Canon Dual-Pixel, and those from Foveon and X-Trans sensors.
If you're wondering whether it supports your camera's raw format, first download RawTherapee and try for yourself. If a raw format is not supported it will either not open, or the preview in the Editor tab will appear black, white, or have a strong color cast - usually magenta. In that case, read the "Adding Support for New Raw Formats" RawPedia article.
In order to use RawTherapee efficiently you should know that:
- You can scroll all panels using the mouse scroll-wheel.
- You can right-click on a tool's name to automatically expand it while collapsing all others.
- To change slider values or drop-down list items with the mouse scroll-wheel, hold the Shift key. This is so that you can safely scroll the panels without accidentally changing a slider or other tool setting.
- All curves support the Shift and Ctrl keys while dragging a point. Shift+drag makes the point snap to a meaningful axis (top, bottom, diagonal, other), while Ctrl+drag makes your mouse movement super-fine for precise point positioning.
- There are many keyboard shortcuts which make working with RawTherapee much faster and give you greater control. Make sure you familiarize yourself with them on RawPedia's "Keyboard Shortcuts" page!
- All sliders support a fine-tuning mode which you can toggle by pressing the Shift key while dragging a slider.
NEW FEATURES SINCE 5.10
- TODO
- Added or improved support for cameras, raw formats and color profiles:
- TODO
NEWS RELEVANT TO PACKAGE MAINTAINERS
New since 5.10:
- TODO
In general:
- To get the source code, either clone from git or use the tarball from https://rawtherapee.com/shared/source/ . Do not use the auto-generated GitHub release tarballs.
- Requires GTK+ version >=3.22.24 in Windows, else >=3.16 (though >=3.22.24 is recommended).
- GTK+ versions 3.24.2 - 3.24.6 have an issue where combobox menu scroll-arrows are missing when the combobox list does not fit vertically on the screen. As a result, users would not be able to scroll in the following comboboxes: Processing Profiles, Film Simulation, and the camera and lens profiles in Profiled Lens Correction.
- RawTherapee 5 requires GCC-4.9 or higher, or Clang.
- Do not use -ffast-math, it will not make RawTherapee faster but will introduce artifacts.
- Use -O3, it will make RawTherapee faster with no known side-effects.
- For stable releases use -DCACHE_NAME_SUFFIX=""
- For development builds and release-candidates use -DCACHE_NAME_SUFFIX="5-dev"
NEWS RELEVANT TO DEVELOPERS
See CONTRIBUTING.md
DOCUMENTATION
https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/
REPORTING BUGS
If you found a problem, don't keep it to yourself. Read the "How to write useful bug reports" article to get the problem fixed:
https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/How_to_write_useful_bug_reports
FORUM
RawTherapee shares a forum with users and developers of other Free/Libre/Open Source Software:
https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/rawtherapee
REVISION HISTORY
The complete changelog is available at:
https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/commits/