darktable5.6.2
Photography workflow application and raw developer
v5.6.2
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darktable lets photographers organize digital photographs, develop raw images, and apply enhancements within one connected workflow. Its database manages photographs as digital negatives, giving users a structured way to handle a growing collection. A zoomable lighttable supports browsing from a broad overview down to close inspection of individual images.
From the lighttable, users can move into the darkroom for raw development and image adjustments without switching applications. These two workspaces separate reviewing from editing while keeping the stages connected. The workflow suits photographers sorting personal shoots, examining large collections, or refining raw files through an orderly review process.
darktable 5.6.1, produced by the darktable team, is open-source Photo & Graphics software for Windows on x64 systems. AI model downloads now resume after interruptions and retry temporary network failures, while AI raw denoise refuses legacy Fujifilm Super CCD sensors whose layout was not represented in its training. Images created by AI denoise or upscale retain EXIF data, tags, color labels, ratings, and manually applied geotags.
The release also restores the earlier preview-pipe dimension for interface performance and fixes a Windows issue that could disable AMD OpenCL devices. Its manual is up to date again, translations are progressing through Weblate, and expanded dtdocs maintenance guidance helps new contributors participate through issues, pixls.us discussions, or pull requests.
Architecture: x64
What's new in v5.6.2
The Big Ones The following is a summary of the main features added to darktable 5.6.2. Please see the user manual for more details of the individual changes (where available). - N/A UI/UX Improvements - N/A Performance Improvements - N/A Other Changes - N/A Documentation updates - Versioning of the docs has resumed! With release of each new major version of darktable we take a snapshot of the current state of the development-docs. - The stable documentation for 5.6.2 can be found here and now contains a version switcher at the top to switch between 5.6 and development version of the manual. - If you find room for improvement on the manual, you are welcome to open an issue, post to pixls.us, or submit a PR yourself. - Translations of the docs are maintained through weblate. Bug Fixes - Fixed highlights modes for 4BAYER (CYGM/RGBE) raws, only clipping mode is available for those. - Fixed darktable stealing the focus from other applications on Windows, pushing itself in front of whatever you were using and taking the keyboard. This could happen when hovering over lighttable thumbnails, during import and export, and when log messages appeared or expired. While darktable was minimized it took the keyboard without becoming visible. - Fixed Alt+Tab failing to switch away from darktable on Windows when the mouse pointer was over a lighttable thumbnail. - Fixed the console windows that repeatedly appeared on Windows when darktable or a Lua script ran an external command. darktable now keeps a single console session for its lifetime instead of creating a new console for each command. - Fixed highlights laplacian OpenCL code. - Fixed OpenCL input gamma corrected scaling for some devices. - Fixed an OpenCL error in filmicrgb leading to wrong masks. - Fixed transparent dialog title bars on macOS 27. - Fixed a crash when importing a style whose module order is empty. The malformed order is now ignored and the style keeps the default one. - Fixed a crash at the end of neural restore's raw denoise on certain sensor sizes, where blending the tile seams wrote past the edge of the image. - Fixed small memory leaks when expanding variables, which grew with the number of images exported or imported in one run. - Fixed a small memory leak each time a history stack was pasted onto the image open in darkroom. - Fixed a crash or hang on Windows when checking a faulty custom ONNX Runtime library. - Fixed corrupted output or a crash when an AI model returns more data than darktable reserved for it, affecting object masks and Lua models. - Fixed OpenCL support for recent Intel drivers. Lua API Version - N/A New Features - N/A Bug Fixes - Stop script_manager from starting twice and causing a stack overflow. - Change to user installed scripts directory before updating. - Execute user luarc file in all cases. New Scripts - N/A Other Lua changes - N/A Notes - When exporting to AVIF, EXR, JPEG XL, or XCF, selecting specific metadata (e.g. geo-tag or creator) is not currently possible. For AVIF, EXR, JPEG XL, and XCF formats, darktable will not include any metadata fields unless the user selects all of the checkboxes in the export module's preference options. - Starting with release 5.4, macOS versions older than 14.0 are no longer supported on Apple Silicon Macs, nor older than macOS 15 on Intel Macs. - On Windows 11 24H2 and later, darktable no longer creates any console window. On earlier Windows versions one console window is retained for as long as darktable runs and closes automatically when darktable exits. Changed Dependencies Mandatory - N/A Optional - N/A Camera support, compared to 5.6.1 Base Support - N/A White Balance Presets - Leica SL3-P (DNG) - Sony ILCE-7RM6 Noise Profiles - N/A Missing Compression Mode Support - Apple ProRAW DNGs - CinemaDNG lossless (Blackmagic, some DJI, etc.) and lossy (Blackmagic) - DNG 1.7 using JPEG XL (Adobe enhanced, Samsung Expert RAW) - Fujifilm lossy RAFs - Nikon high efficiency NEFs - Phase One other than IIQ L - Sony ARW 4.0/5.0 downsized lossless ("M" for full-frame, "S" for full-frame & APS-C) - Sony ARW 6.0 compressed and compressed (HQ) Suspended Support Support for the following cameras is suspended because no samples are available on https://raw.pixls.us: - Creo/Leaf Aptus 22(LF3779)/Hasselblad H1 - Fujifilm IS-1 - Kodak EasyShare Z980 - Leaf Aptus-II 5(LI300059)/Mamiya 645 AFD - Leaf Credo 60 - Leaf Credo 80 - Olympus SP320 - Phase One IQ250 - ST Micro STV680 Translations - Albanian - Brazilian Portuguese - Chinese (Simplified) - Chinese (Traditional) - Czech - Dutch - European Spanish - Finnish - French - German - Hungarian - Japanese - Korean - Lao - Norwegian Bokmål - Polish - Russian - Slovenian - Swedish - Ukrainian
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| v5.6.1 SHA-256 | 133.1 MB | 9/18/2026 | Clean | Download |
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