digiKam 5.3.0 Open-Source Image Editor Released for Linux as an AppImage Bundle

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

In the last minutes of November 7, 2016, the development team behind the open-source and cross-platform digiKam image editor, viewer and organizer software was proud to announce the release of digiKam 5.3.0.

digiKam 5.3.0 is the third maintenance update to the stable 5.x series of the software project, bringing a month’s worth of bug fixes and general improvements. However, the biggest new change in digiKam 5.3.0 is the availability of an AppImage bundle that allows Linux users to install the application in virtually any GNU/Linux distribution.

The AppImage bundle includes all the digiKam components, as well as its main third-party libraries, such as Lensfun, Exiv2, and OpenCV, which have been optimized for digiKam. To make sure that there won’t be any issues with the AppImage bundle, the digiKam developers didn’t include any additional or experimental configurations.

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