The first alpha version of RawTherapee 3.0 is available for download. Note that this is not a feature complete version. In V3.0 both major
GUI/workflow and algorithm changes are planned. This alpha version demonstrates the new, much more efficient GUI, but it does not contain
any algorithmic changes yet.

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If you want to understand how to work with Raw Therapee even better, we recommend to read the users manual. You can download it in PDF format:

• Users Manual for RT v2.4 (english), last change: 2009-09-04
• Manuel pour RT v2.4 (french), last change: 2009-09-20, write errors corrected
• Benutzerhandbuch für RT v2.4.1 (german), last change: 2009-10-21
• Manuale dell'utente di RT 2.4 (italian), last change 2009-02-08
• Japanese Users Manual for RT v.2.4 (japanese), new: 2009-07-27
• Handleiding RT 2.4 (netherlands), last change 2009-09-04, updated for 2.4.1

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Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.12, gtkmm 2.14 series required

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This is a bugfix/dcraw update release.

Changelog:

• dcraw 8.97/1.428
• Updated translations
• Many bugs fixed

After a long beta cycle we are proud to announce RawTherapee v2.4!

Changelog (from v2.3):

• Exif/IPTC support
• Theme switching
• Improved GUI layout
• Improved filebrowser
• Ranking support
• Basic file operations possible (delete, remove, rename)
• Filtering based on Exif data
• Configurable thumbnail caching
• Live thumbnails (showing the images in the processed state)
• Resizable thumbnails
• Configurable thumbnail layout (left - right, top - down)
• Basic batch processing
• Controllable workqueue
• Copy/Paste processing profiles (or only parts of them)
• Direct sending of images to the workqueue
• Improved auto-exposure and spot white balance
• "Send to Editor" feature (Gimp, Photoshop, custom editor)

The long delay in the recent months was partially caused by the lack of
time devoted to bug fixing and by the solution of a critical bug in
shadow & highlight enhancement method.

Development did not stop at this point. The first alpha versions of v2.5 are going to appear in a month with a rearranged (and netbook-aware) GUI and much enhanced batch processing.

Requirements:

• a fast processor with SSE support is recommended (but not required)
• at least 512 MB of RAM.
• Minimum recommended screen resolution 1024x768
• Windows version: Windows 2000, XP or Vista (32bit) is required
• For the linux version: gtk+ 2.12, gtkmm 2.14 series required

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Explanation about 'Beta' Releases:

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The following fixes/additions have been made since the last release candidate:

• dcraw update to 8.93/1.421
• gtk/gtkmm update in the win32 version
• fixed installer/uninstaller
• fixed several small bugs

I had to withdraw the windows installer since I made a mistake when making the package. I have updated it, so from now you can download the correct installer again.

If you were so fast that you downloaded the RC of RawTherapee in the past few hours please be so kind and do it again.

I apologize,

Gabor

The following fixes/additions have been made since the last beta:

• crash on closing the progress dialog fixed
• confusion when pp2 files of both the old and new naming convention found
• less tall "Preferences" dialog to fit the small screen of netbooks
• a new option in the "Save As" dialog: put to the head of the queue
• fixed non-working image saving when path contains international characters
• much fewer maze artifacts for Olympus raw files with hphd and ahd demosaicing methods
• more keyboard shortcuts (see the popup menu in the file browser)
• dcraw updated to 8.90/1.417
• updated rawzor support (now for 64 bit linux version, too)

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The RawTherapee DevTeam wants to wish everyone a happy Christmas!

Lots of bugfixes have been made so we released the 4th beta version.

Bugs fixed:

• crash on save-as (a new progress indicator dialog has also been introduced)
• ISO is now recognized in rw2 files
• autoexp with clipping=0 is working
• fixed the permanent delete & empty trash crash when the image in editor is deleted
• detail window label when zooming
• better jpeg error handling
• Canon 1Ds tiffs and Kodak dcr files are supported again
• new naming scheme for pp2 files (the old one is kept for loading only for compatibility)

Our team rests now for a few days, but the development is continued soon.

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Thanks to the detailed bug reports several bugs have been fixed.

Bug fixes compared to beta2 are:

• dcraw updated to version 8.89
• improvements in internalization
• an exif saving problem in jpeg output
• corrupted saving of large tiff files
• problems with preview zoom when images of the same size are opened
• corrupt output color profile in the saved images
• incorrect permissions for the "converted" directory under linux
• auto and spot wb for sRaw and linear dng fixed

Known issues:

• still no solution on the library dependency problems under older linux distributions

Based on the bug reports of the users many annoying bugs have been discovered and fixed. There are still some more, but we think it's time to make beta 2 available for the public.

Bug fixes compared to beta1 are:

• multiple thumbnails for the same image bug fixed
• color propagation is back! However the luminance method is used instead in the file browser.
• proper rights for the "converted" folder under linux
• history panel cannot be resized after hide/restore fixed
• send to editor now does not freeze if the app path in invalid
• duplicate list of extensions in the preferences fixed (you have to delete your old options file!)
• tiff and rw2 extensions added to the default list of extensions
• color values under the mouse pointer are now correct
• directory browser now does not forget its width
• linear dng/canon sraw is now supported
• IPTC data in nef files is now detected/parsed
• several bugs fixed corresponding to the multiple selection in the file browser

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The development team is happy to announce the beta version of RawTherapee 2.4. The aim of this release is to give possibility to the users to test and report back problems and bugs. Translators can start translating new language strings to make RawTherapee as multi-lingual as possible.

We hope to have a short beta cycle and try to release the final version as soon as possible. There are many-many changes under the hood. We have all the major building blocks done, so -- for the next version -- we can start a new, workflow-oriented GUI re-arrangement and also to refine the image processing algorithms.

Detailed changelog for 2.4beta1:

• newest dcraw 8.88
  
• Improved GUI Layout
• Separated GUI from processing engine
• Improved Filebrowser
• Ranking support
• Basic file operations possible (delete, remove, rename)
• Filtering based on exif data
  
• Configurable thumbnail caching
• Live thumbnails (showing the images in the processed state)
  
• Resizable thumbnails
• Configurable thumbnail layout (left - right, top - down)
  
• Basic batch-processing
• Controllable workqueue
• Copy/Paste processing profiles (or only part of them)
• Direct sending of images to the workqueue
• Improved auto-exposure and spot white-balance
• "Send to Editor" feature (Gimp, Photoshop, custom editor)

Changelog for earlier 2.4m1

• Full EXIF support
• EXIF Browser: Browse, edit, delete the original EXIF tags
• IPTC tag support
• More input ICC profile options
• A new highlight recovery method ("CIELab Blending")
• Histogram now corresponds to cropped area
• Theming support (with runtime theme switching, limited possibilities on Linux running KDE)

One important goal of the RT DevTeam is to inform you about what's going on behind the scenes. This time we can't offer any downloads, but some information about the progression. Please let us emphasize: no downloads this time, "only" great news!
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