KPhotoAlbum 6.2.0 released
March 13, 2026
I’m happy to announce the new release of KPhotoAlbum, the photo management software for KDE/Linux – version 6.2.0!
Also, 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 :-)
The following changes have been documented in the ChangeLog:
Added
- Display number of images on collapsed stacks (#223213)
- Add commandline option --find-new-files as a synonym for --search. In the future, --search may become deprecated at some point.
- Add support for QtMultimedia video backend
- Make default annotation mode in viewer configurable (#474317)
- Improved diagnostic messages for JPEG decoding errors
- Improved diagnostic messages for invalid file names in database
Changed
- Thumbnail cache and video thumbnail cache directories are now always ignored while searching for new images.
- Do not automatically select an image cluster on the map when moving the map if the mouse action started on an image cluster.
Fixed
- Allow large images up to an in-memory size of 2GB (#500200)
- Make "Clear form" button in search dialog actually clear all form fields.
- Allow setting keyboard shortcuts for "Clear Form" and "Options..." items in Annotation/Search dialog (#306044)
- Fix detection of KDcraw during build time
- Fix appearance of mouse cursor in the map view (i.e. indicate clickable items on the map)
- Fix display of EXIF date/time data (#511546)
- Fix several warnings in the console output (#505015)
- Use embedded 'creation_time' data in video files instead of file creation time (#472520)
- Allow saving the Annotation Dialog's layout either globally (as a template for all databases) or per-database (#513933)
- Prevent unnecessary entries in the block list (#512207)
- Prevent creation of .kim files over 4GB (mitigates bug #512199)
- Fix compilation without Marble
- Improved formatting of "time ago" texts
According to git log, the following individuals contributed code (in alphabetical order):
- Johnny Jazeix
- Tobias Leupold
- Randall Rude
- Andreas Sturmlechner
- Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
- Johannes Zarl-Zierl
- Justin Zobel
Thanks to everybody for putting work in this release!