Another step in 0.9.1 release cycle is accomplished: RC1 is available for download and testing from here. The sources are on sourceforge.net as well. A compiled Kubuntu package is here (thanks to Achim).
0.9.1-final is expected in a weeks time. Download, compile and enjoy!It is a bugfix and usability release.For new features of 0.9.1 please refer to the 0.9.1-beta1 release note. With RC1 many things changed under the hood (Gilles prepares the future), but some stuff, in partcular on the core slide show has been added, improved and fixed as well:

Another step in 0.9.1 release cycle is accomplished: RC1 is available for download and testing from here. The sources are on sourceforge.net as well. A compiled Kubuntu package is here (thanks to Achim).
0.9.1-final is expected in a weeks time. Download, compile and enjoy!It is a bugfix and usability release.For new features of 0.9.1 please refer to the 0.9.1-beta1 release note. With RC1 many things changed under the hood (Gilles prepares the future), but some stuff, in partcular on the core slide show has been added, improved and fixed as well:

After 8 days of intensive work, I'm very proud to announce the first LibKdcraw shared library 0.1.0 beta release.LibKdcraw is a C++ interface around a dcraw binary program used to decode RAW picture files. This library is actually used by kipi-plugins (trunk), and later on by digiKam (with future 0.9.2 release). A RAWConverter screenshot can be seen at this urlThe library documentation is available in the header files. Check at svn trunk repository for details.

After 8 days of intensive work, I'm very proud to announce the first LibKdcraw shared library 0.1.0 beta release.LibKdcraw is a C++ interface around a dcraw binary program used to decode RAW picture files. This library is actually used by kipi-plugins (trunk), and later on by digiKam (with future 0.9.2 release). A RAWConverter screenshot can be seen at this urlThe library documentation is available in the header files. Check at svn trunk repository for details.

The digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release digiKam 0.9.1 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.1.The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1 (including
digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1 and libkexiv2-0.1.0 as separate packages,
libkexiv2 is required). The files are online at at this urlThis is a bug-fix and useability release with several new features for viewing
and slideshows that even display RAW files. Plans are to put -rc1 in a week
and -final in two weeks time online.

The digiKam team is proud to announce the first beta release digiKam 0.9.1 and digiKamimageplugins 0.9.1.The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1 (including
digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1 and libkexiv2-0.1.0 as separate packages,
libkexiv2 is required). The files are online at at this urlThis is a bug-fix and useability release with several new features for viewing
and slideshows that even display RAW files. Plans are to put -rc1 in a week
and -final in two weeks time online.

Last year I was fortunate enough to be one of the coders COSS hired to code for an open source project. My project of choice was Scribus. Now it’s your turn. COSS is extending the deadline for Kesäkoodi 2007 applications. So if you think you can fill in their requirements submit your application to COSS. [...]

Tuesday, 6 Feb 2007 00:50am GMT Inkscape (the free, open source SVG editor) has announced the release of version 0.45 of their great vector drawing program.

Links & Downloads:
- inkscape.org
- Download Inkscape 0.45 - Linux & Mac OS X packages (Windows should be there within 24hrs)
- Inkscape 0.45 Community submitted screenshots
- Inkscape Press Contact Jon Phillips' Blog on 0.45 Release

The following excerpt is from the Inkscape Press Release:

Wednesday, 31 Jan 2007 03:28 am GMT Lamborghini Gallardo
by Michal Pecyna

Monday, 29 Jan 2007 02:47am GMT Tom Whiteley has developed an extremely cool little web application aptly titled "Search with Pictures" which allows a user to draw a image in a javascript canvas, then it searches Open Clip Art library images for similar images based on the drawing. This little app is still being developed by Tom, however after playing with it for a bit, it is clear that is has awesome potential as a search tool for the Open Clip Art Library. Hopefully, once it has been developed further, it can be integrated into our ccHost engine to allow users to search the Open Clip Art Library visually, as well as using tags.