From 56fcaf28f928917db52b2f817cac4a1c3adc6bf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Morgan Hardwood Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 23:27:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated RELEASE_NOTES.txt --- RELEASE_NOTES.txt | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt index 4be529939..396763ab9 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ RAWTHERAPEE 5.4-RC1 RELEASE NOTES --------------------------------- -This is RawTherapee 5.4 Release Candidate 1, released on 2017-09-25. +This is RawTherapee 5.4 Release Candidate 1, released on 2018-02-05. Start by reading the "Getting Started" article on RawPedia: http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/ News Relevant to Photographers ------------------------------ -RawTherapee supports most raw formats, including Pentax Pixel Shift, Canon Dual-Pixel, and those from Foveon and X-Trans sensors. +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: @@ -18,26 +18,43 @@ In order to use RawTherapee efficiently you should know that: - 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! New features since 5.3: -- To be filled in when 5.4 is released. +- New default processing profiles, now the default look for raw photos closely matches the out-of-camera look with regard to tones and includes lens distortion and vignetting correction. +- New histogram matching tool, to have RawTherapee automatically adjust the image for you to match the out-of-camera look with a single click of a button. +- New HDR Tone Mapping tool to compress the light in scenes with a high dynamic range, allowing you to show details in both shadows and highlights in a realistic way. +- New Local Contrast tool to boost clarity using a simple interface. +- New color toning method L*a*b* Color Correction Grid. +- New RCD demosaicing algorithm to minimize artifacts even with artificial lighting and strong chromatic aberration. +- Added support for showing out-of-gamut areas based on the output profile. +- Added support for reading and writing metadata and ICC profiles to and from PNG images. +- Added support for processing Sony Pixel Shift ARQ raw files - make sure that the ARQ extension is enabled in Preferences > File Browser > Parsed Extensions. +- Create Sony ARQ raw files using https://github.com/agriggio/make_arq +- Added support for saving 32-bit floating-point TIFFs clamped and clipped to [0-1]. +- Added profiled chromatic aberration correction support using Lensfun. +- More tools now have an on/off switch. +- The user interface is cleaner, with all power-house tools moved into a new "Advanced" tab to prevent slider-shock to newcomers. +- The Metadata tab now lets you choose whether you want to copy metadata unchanged, edit metadata or strip metadata when saving images. Now you can also make metadata changes in batch mode. +- The choice of whether the main histogram should display information using the working profile or the output profile is now available from the Editor tab's top toolbar. +- The Crop tool's aspect ratio now defaults to that of the image, and RawTherapee automatically zooms-to-fit the crop once it's placed. +- RGB input-type ICC profiles can now be used as output profiles. +- The saved reference image for profiling (created from within the Color Management tool) now contains metadata. +- PNG and compressed TIFF images make use of better compression. +- Shortcut key changes: Zoom-to-fit the crop using "f", fit the whole image using "Alt+f". + +There were several hundred commits optimizing processing speed and memory usage as well as bug fixes and code refactoring, though the details of these are too arcane to list here. The effort involved thousands of developer-hours. News Relevant to Package Maintainers ------------------------------------ In general: -- Requires GTK+ version >=3.16, though 3.22 is recommended. +- Requires GTK+ version >=3.16, though >=3.22.24 is recommended. - 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" -Changes since 5.2: -- To be filled in when 5.4 is released. - News Relevant to Developers --------------------------- -- Announce and discuss your plans in GitHub before starting work. -- Keep branches small so that completed and working features can be merged into the "dev" branch often, and so that they can be abandoned if they head in the wrong direction. -- Use C++11. +See CONTRIBUTING.md DOCUMENTATION ------------- @@ -67,7 +84,7 @@ More information here: http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/IRC SOCIAL NETWORKS --------------- Google+ -http://plus.google.com/106783532637761598368 +https://plus.google.com/+RawTherapee REVISION HISTORY ----------------