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Awesome!
While this release doesn't seem to add a huge amount of new stuff on the surface, the devs focused more on usability, performance and smaller improvements, which were all much needed.
Please correct me if I'm wrong and I oversaw something huge.
I'm really excited to see how the performance will improve on my shitty laptop. While the program itself shouldn't take too many resources to run, it always felt barely usable on that device, and on my gaming PC, it never used the GPU. I've often heard many complaints about how Lightroom or Rawtherapee for example run way smoother than Darktable.
What change are you the most exited about?
In my experience, that is usually a problem with the GPU OpenCL drivers. Sadly, the Mesa OpenCL implementation didn't include image support when I last checked (you can check with
clinfo | grep "Image support"). For AMD cards you need to have either the "pro" driver or ROCM installed, both aren't packaged by all distros. Similar with Intel, don't know about Nvidia, but I'm sure if it works, it's only with the proprietary driver.I ended up installing darktable in an arch distrobox container, as arch has ROCM packages (in AUR) and ever since GPU acceleration is working fine.