Darktable 5.6.2 has been released today as the second point release to the latest Darktable 5.6 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform raw image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Coming a little over a month after Darktable 5.6.1, the Darktable 5.6.2 release adds white balance presets for the Leica SL3-P (DNG) and Sony Alpha 7R VI (Sony ILCE-7RM6) cameras, improves highlights modes for 4BAYER (CYGM/RGBE) raws, and improves OpenCL support for recent Intel graphics drivers.
Darktable 5.6.2 also fixes OpenCL input gamma-corrected scaling for some devices, an OpenCL error in filmicrgb leading to wrong masks, a crash that occurred when importing a style whose module order is empty, and small memory leaks when expanding variables, which grew with the number of images imported or exported with each instance.
On top of that, this release fixes a small memory leak that occurred each time a history stack was pasted onto the image open in darkroom, corrupted output or a crash when an AI model returns more data than darktable reserved for it, which affected object masks and Lua models, and an issue with transparent dialog title bars on macOS 27.
Also fixed is a crash that occurred 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, an OpenCL error in filmicrgb leading to wrong masks, and highlights Laplacian OpenCL code.
For Windows users, this release addresses a crash or hang when checking a faulty custom ONNX Runtime library, a bug causing Alt+Tab to fail to switch away from darktable when the mouse pointer was over a lighttable thumbnail, and an issue with the console windows that appeared repeatedly when darktable or a Lua script ran an external command.
Lastly, Darktable 5.6.2 fixes a stealing focus issue from other apps on Windows, which could happen when hovering over lighttable thumbnails, during import and export, or when log messages appeared or expired. According to the devs, while Darktable was minimized, it took the keyboard without becoming visible.
Some documentation updates are present as well, so check out the release notes for more details. Meanwhile, you can download Darktable 5.6.2 as a universal AppImage binary from the official website, which you can run on virtually any GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything on your personal computer.