The digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release of
digiKam 0.9.0 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.0.The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November and this beta
release offers you the opportunity to test and enjoy a variety of new
features, additions and improvements.The source for digikam and digikamimageplugins 0.9.0-beta1 is available from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641
A choice from the list of new features

• the sidebar is now used to display image file properties, metadata, comments, tags and color information
• full support for 16bit images in the image editor, all image plugins have been ported to make use of the new 16 bit infrastructure