Preparing for release 5.12-rc1

RELEASE_NOTES.txt

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-RAWTHERAPEE 5.11-dev RELEASE NOTES
+RAWTHERAPEE 5.12-rc1 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.
+This is Release Candidate 1 of RawTherapee 5.12, released on 2025-04-27. This is not the final release yet.
 
 
 
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 NEW FEATURES SINCE 5.11
 
-- TODO
-- Added or improved support for cameras, raw formats and color profiles:
-    - TODO
+- The Raw Black Points has a new option called Dehaze. It sets the black points to the minimum values in the image, which often has the effect of reducing haze.
+- Distortion Correction gained a de-fish feature that converts fisheye images into normal (rectilinear) images. It works best with the equidistant fisheye projection. The new Scale adjuster in Lens / Geometry allows manual scaling of the transformed image for when Auto-fill yields unsatisfactory results.
+- All images in a Canon RAW burst mode file are accessible. Previously, only the first 6 images were accessible.
+- A new tool called Gamut Compression applies the ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) Reference Gamut Compression operator to improve the look of highly-saturated colors and bring colors within a selectable gamut before applying other color-related tools offered by RawTherapee.
+- The Resize tool gained a framing feature that adds a decorative solid color border around the image before it is saved. Various sizing options allow great flexibility in adjusting the border thickness and image dimensions. To reflect the tool's capabilities, it has been renamed to Resize & Framing.
+- Demosaiced floating-point DNGs are now supported.
+- The Abstract Profile tool has a new Contrast Enhancement feature that offers a simple way to add local contrast. It can be used to restore contrast lost due to the application of the abstract profile.
+- More Sony lenses are recognized, improving the data displayed in the quick info overlay and enabling automatic profiled lens correction.
+- Added or improved support for cameras, raw formats and color profiles (not an exhaustive list because unconfirmed support is excluded):
+    - Canon EOS R8 (DCP, black level in electronic shutter mode)
+    - Fujifilm X-E4 (raw crop in electronic shutter mode)
+    - Sony ILCE-7CR (pixel shift)
+    - Sony ILCE-7M3 (black level)
+    - Sony ILME-FX3 (black level when not using LibRaw)
 
 
 
 NEWS RELEVANT TO PACKAGE MAINTAINERS
 
 New since 5.11:
-- TODO
+- The official repository has been moved to a new GitHub organization called RawTherapee. The repository is now at https://github.com/RawTherapee/RawTherapee. Previously, it was at https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee.
 
 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.
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 REVISION HISTORY
 
 The complete changelog is available at:
-https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/commits/
+https://github.com/RawTherapee/RawTherapee/commits/

com.rawtherapee.RawTherapee.appdata.xml

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     <url type="translate">https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Main_Page#Localization</url>
     <launchable type="desktop-id">rawtherapee.desktop</launchable>
     <releases>
+        <release version="5.12-rc1" date="2025-04-27" type="development"></release>
         <release version="5.11" date="2024-08-25" type="stable"></release>
         <release version="5.10" date="2024-02-16" type="stable"></release>
         <release version="5.9" date="2022-11-27" type="stable"></release>