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"textContent": "Dear digiKam fans and users,\n\nAfter months of intensive development, bug triage, and feature integration, the digiKam team is thrilled to announce the stable release of **digiKam 9.0.0**. This major version introduces groundbreaking improvements in performance, usability, and workflow efficiency, with a strong focus on modernizing the user interface, enhancing metadata management, and expanding support for new camera models and file formats.\n\n * New Features and Major Changes\n * General Updates and Porting\n * Bundles Component Versions\n * Raw Camera Support\n * User Interface and Usability\n * Metadata and Tag Management\n * Preview and Media Support\n * New Survey Tool\n * Editor and Plugins\n * New Advanced Search and Sorting Options\n * Geolocation Editor\n * Performance and Stability\n * Notable Bug Fixes\n * Internationalization\n * Future Plans\n * Final Words\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n# New Features and Major Changes\n\n## General Updates and Porting\n\ndigiKam 9.0.0 marks a significant milestone with the core code now fully ported to **Qt 6.10.1** for the AppImage and macOS bundles, ensuring improved performance, security, and compatibility with modern operating systems. The Windows Qt6 bundle also benefits from the latest **Qt 6.9.1** and **KDE Frameworks 6.20.0**.",
"title": "digiKam 9.0.0 is released"
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