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  "textContent": "I’m happy to announce the new release of KPhotoAlbum, the photo management software for KDE/Linux – version 6.2.0!\n\nAlso, I’d like to introduce our new contributor Randall Rude (a.k.a. rsquared), who already worked quite hard on improving our beloved project – welcome to the team :-)\n\nThe following changes have been documented in the ChangeLog:\n\n##### Added\n\n  * Display number of images on collapsed stacks (#223213)\n  * Add commandline option `--find-new-files` as a synonym for `--search`. In the future, `--search` may become deprecated at some point.\n  * Add support for QtMultimedia video backend\n  * Make default annotation mode in viewer configurable (#474317)\n  * Improved diagnostic messages for JPEG decoding errors\n  * Improved diagnostic messages for invalid file names in database\n\n\n\n##### Changed\n\n  * Thumbnail cache and video thumbnail cache directories are now always ignored while searching for new images.\n  * Do not automatically select an image cluster on the map when moving the map if the mouse action started on an image cluster.\n\n\n\n##### Fixed\n\n  * Allow large images up to an in-memory size of 2GB (#500200)\n  * Make \"Clear form\" button in search dialog actually clear all form fields.\n  * Allow setting keyboard shortcuts for \"Clear Form\" and \"Options...\" items in Annotation/Search dialog (#306044)\n  * Fix detection of KDcraw during build time\n  * Fix appearance of mouse cursor in the map view (i.e. indicate clickable items on the map)\n  * Fix display of EXIF date/time data (#511546)\n  * Fix several warnings in the console output (#505015)\n  * Use embedded 'creation_time' data in video files instead of file creation time (#472520)\n  * Allow saving the Annotation Dialog's layout either globally (as a template for all databases) or per-database (#513933)\n  * Prevent unnecessary entries in the block list (#512207)\n  * Prevent creation of .kim files over 4GB (mitigates bug #512199)\n  * Fix compilation without Marble\n  * Improved formatting of \"time ago\" texts\n\n\n\nAccording to `git log`, the following individuals contributed code (in alphabetical order):\n\n  * Johnny Jazeix\n  * Tobias Leupold\n  * Randall Rude\n  * Andreas Sturmlechner\n  * Friedrich W. H. Kossebau\n  * Johannes Zarl-Zierl\n  * Justin Zobel\n\n\n\nThanks to everybody for putting work in this release!\n\n— Tobias",
  "title": "KPhotoAlbum 6.2.0 released"
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