Darktable Releases Major Upgrade

I first heard of Darktable several years ago when it was mentioned as an open source alternative to Adobe Lightroom.  Since I've been very happy using DxO PhotoLab 5 as my preferred RAW processor I never bothered to download the Darktable app.  In spite of that, I think it's worth mentioning here that a major new upgrade, i.e., version 4.0, has recently been released.

The principal new features are as follows:

• Color and exposure mapping to save target colors to color pickcrs;
• Filmic v6, a "new color science" that allows for more saturated colors;
• "Guided laplacian" highlight reconstruction that uses information from non-clipped RGB channels to permit reconstruction of clipped highlight channels (along with that, a noise setting has been added to allow Poisson noise to be added to reconstructed highlights);
• Uniform Color Space 2022;
• Improved user interface;
• Performance and Open CL support changes.

This might be a good time for those still in search of a Lightroom alternative to download the updated app and explore its features for themselves.