Immage 0.41.0

Downloads

macOS (Apple Silicon)	Immage-0.41.0-macOS-arm64.dmg
Windows (x64)	Immage-0.41.0-Windows-x64-setup.exe
Linux (x86-64)	Immage-0.41.0-Linux-x86_64.AppImage
Linux (ARM64)	Immage-0.41.0-Linux-arm64.AppImage
Source	immage-0.41.0-source.tar.gz

Improvements

• Preferences > Modules adds Contrast equalizer as a Contrast option, replacing the Contrast slider with a draggable graph for luminance, chroma, edges and noise thresholds across coarse-to-fine detail bands.
• Preferences > Modules offers Contrast & Texture alternatives for Clarity and Texture, with the module's native controls in adjustments and masks. Medium and Fine details stay visible; an Advanced chevron reveals the remaining controls in both adjustments and masks. Existing defaults remain in place.
• Optional compact 100% loupes above the Detail and Presence controls show the same selected area. It defaults to off; enable it in General > Workspace. Use its point picker, then click the photo to choose the area; Escape cancels picking. Disabling the loupe also disables its rendering. Detail and grain drags preview the selected area directly when the loupe is enabled; otherwise, they keep the visible image at full preview resolution while dragging, including Texture, Sharpening, and luminance and color Denoise. Release updates the full visible view. Contrast and tone adjustments keep their normal whole-image previews.
• Panorama Merge supports JPEGs and other non-RAW photos, including mixed RAW and non-RAW selections, and saves an editable DNG beside the first photo. A preview above the projection choices lets you compare projections, see which one Auto chooses, and toggle Auto Crop to see the edges it removes before merging.
• Adjust Capture Time in the photo context menu or Metadata panel shifts selected photos by the same amount to synchronize camera clocks. Preview and confirm the adjustment before saving it to XMP sidecars; the context menu can undo the last batch. Photos without a recorded time are skipped.
• Metadata adds Location: enter coordinates or drop and drag a pin on an optional OpenStreetMap map, then Apply to save GPS information to the photo's XMP sidecar. Remove location clears GPS coordinates and altitude. Maps offer dark and standard styles and require no API key.
• Negative adds Export to Library to save a separate positive beside the original, with the conversion and current edits baked in and normal editing tools available. Preferences > General > Workspace chooses losslessly compressed DNG (16-bit float, the default) or TIFF (32-bit float).
• Filters adds a Rejected category with All photos, Hide rejected and Only rejected options. The selection counts as an active filter and resets with Clear all.
• Filters adds Camera body: distinguish identical camera models by their body serial numbers, independently of the lens, or find photos without a serial.
• Immich search results add Import Parent Folder to the right-click menu: add a locally available result's folder to Folders and browse its photos. The action appears only when Immich is configured in Preferences.
• Generated HDR merges, panoramas, AI denoise results, positive exports and the first result from a plugin open for editing automatically. Preferences > General > Workspace can disable this. Successful completion notifications close after 30 seconds, or immediately when Open or OK is selected.
• Preferences > Modules groups settings under collapsible Global and Masks sections that follow Focus mode; Alt-click keeps both open. Custom module choices are independent, including contrast equalizer for masks while using AgX globally. Existing adjustments keep their modules.
• Windows downloads now provide a single .exe installer, with a choice of installation for your account or for everyone on the computer.
• The user guide now includes compact screenshots of the workspace and Basic adjustment controls, with links to the full-size images.
• User and developer guides now cover all module choices, the contrast equalizer graph, detail previews, metadata editing and generated-photo workflows.

Performance

• Linux AppImages bundle WebKitGTK and JavaScriptCore 2.54.2 while keeping the Ubuntu 22.04 runtime baseline, including Linux Mint 22.x, on x86-64 and ARM64. Fractional-scale drag previews remain supported.
• Detail and Presence loupes pause while browsing or selecting photos in grid view and refresh on return to the photo view, avoiding extra detail renders.
• Thumbnail loading follows the visible grid or filmstrip as you scroll, rendering on-screen photos before checking the rest of the folder.
• Deleting rejected photos removes their thumbnails immediately after confirmation while the files move to the Trash in the background.
• Preview layers reuse canvas allocations and already uploaded frames, skip unchanged placement updates, and defer navigator drawing to reduce work when an exact frame arrives.
• Histogram, scope and clipping calculations run in background workers, with a fallback where workers are unavailable. Histogram input copies wait until after drawing to reduce work on the window's main thread.
• The engine retains scaled preview checkpoints on the GPU for reuse by downstream edits. Three recent scaled checkpoints survive ordinary cache replacement, while upstream changes and memory cleanup still invalidate them. This avoids retaining full-resolution demosaiced GPU buffers.
• Slider drags avoid redundant panel updates. Histograms and scopes update at a reduced cadence during interaction and refresh on release. Slider drags and wheel gestures combine engine edits once per display frame and skip unchanged values, while release immediately submits the final edit.
• Opening folders reads TIFF-based RAW metadata from small prefixes where possible. Grid thumbnails read suitable embedded JPEGs directly and decode them closer to the grid size, reducing file reads and temporary memory. Other preview layouts retain the full-read fallback.
• Balanced previews add a 75% size. The tuner uses median timing from the middle 10–90% of frames, defaults to an 80 ms latency target, and groups setup, targets and recommendations with advanced comparisons folded away.
• Preferences > Performance adds a tuner that starts at full preview quality and finds the highest tested quality meeting your FPS and latency targets. Review its recommended changes, apply them, and verify with another run. Load a representative RAW and use your usual window size for useful results. Other performance settings support measured comparisons and relaunch verification; AI and thumbnail caches are excluded.
• GUI benchmarks now record CPU usage per core and process, RAM and swap, supported GPU/VRAM counters, and the busiest Linux threads to help identify single-thread bottlenecks. The dashboard shows resource use by step, frame pacing, UI stalls and rendering-path evidence.
• GUI benchmark diagnostics trace input-to-frame latency, render queues, engine mutex waits, module timings and raw checkpoint cache reuse and eviction. Reports include the build commit and tracked-change status; a bottleneck analysis tool helps interpret the collected traces.
• Preferences > Performance has a Window renderer choice: Automatic, Mesa or NVIDIA. Relaunch to switch paths, then run the GUI benchmark to compare them on the same build. Photo processing keeps its own GPU setting. Automatic uses the system default renderer on all GPUs, removing the forced Mesa override on NVIDIA.

Bug fixes

• Fix Windows engine linking with the bundled OpenCV used by HDR alignment and Panorama Merge.
• Fix conflicting Linux build dependencies for the bundled webview on x86-64 and ARM64.
• Windows icon buttons use a consistent arrow cursor so toolbar icons no longer appear to overlap the hand pointer.
• Windows builds correctly detect the bundled static OpenCV libraries, enabling Panorama Merge and its projection preview. Builds fail if stitching is missing.
• Opening Crop preserves portrait orientation, so resizing from the top edge no longer snaps a vertical photo to a horizontal crop.
• HDR, RAW panorama and AI Denoise DNGs retain their format and color calibration metadata, so thumbnails display and the generated photo opens for editing in Immage and darktable.
• Reset All clears native module settings as well as sliders, including edits imported from darktable that Immage has no controls for. Legacy Filmic and Base Curve tone mappers switch off so they cannot compress highlights after Immage's tone mapper. The reset remains undoable.
• Histogram graphs give clipped black and white peaks their full bin width, keeping endpoint spikes visible in scopes and tone curves.
• Preview and final frames stay aligned on scaled displays when adjusting sliders, including 75% previews with odd pixel dimensions.
• Expanding a folder shows its subfolders without waiting for other expanded folders on slow or disconnected drives to finish loading.
• Closing Immage stops an unresponsive engine after five seconds, even if it never answers the quit request. On Linux, an Immage crash also stops its engine so it cannot keep the library locked and block relaunching.
• Folder reads report an error after 30 seconds without an engine batch reply instead of waiting indefinitely. Switching folders ignores the previous read's progress and results.
• Changes in Preferences > Modules apply to unused tools on the current photo when Preferences closes, without restarting. Tools with edits keep their module.
• Object mask backdrop ranges use double precision when read back to avoid intermediate overflow with large boost values.
• Opening a generated positive or other local result from an Immich search switches the grid to its local folder, so the new image is visible there. Generated images also retain their information while the folder loads.
• Crop corners respond to the first inward drag with a locked aspect ratio, including pulls that are mostly horizontal or vertical.
• Windows builds compile positive export with or without panorama support and with Exiv2 builds that use UTF-8 paths.
• Crop guides appear immediately when entering crop and selecting an aspect ratio, including on photos that have not been cropped before.
• Clipping overlays and histogram/scope updates discard results from replaced frames, including same-sized frames and GPU/CPU transitions. Old clipping overlays clear as their source frame changes.

Installing

These builds are not signed with a developer certificate, so each system warns when Immage is opened for the first time. Updates after that install from inside Immage, without the warning.

• macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 15 or newer): open Immage-0.41.0-macOS-arm64.dmg and drag Immage to Applications. Open it once; when macOS says it cannot check it, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Immage.app
• Windows (x64): run Immage-0.41.0-Windows-x64-setup.exe. When SmartScreen stops it, click More info, then Run anyway
• Linux (x86-64, glibc 2.35 or newer, such as Ubuntu 22.04 or Linux Mint 22.x): make Immage-0.41.0-Linux-x86_64.AppImage executable (chmod +x Immage-0.41.0-Linux-x86_64.AppImage) and run it
• Linux (ARM64, glibc 2.35 or newer, such as Ubuntu 22.04 or Linux Mint 22.x): make Immage-0.41.0-Linux-arm64.AppImage executable (chmod +x Immage-0.41.0-Linux-arm64.AppImage) and run it

Immage checks for a new version once a day (Preferences › About › Updates), and offers to install it.

Known issues

• X11 desktops with NVIDIA, including Linux Mint: if Immage fails to launch, run GDK_BACKEND=x11 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 ./Immage-0.41.0-Linux-x86_64.AppImage (use your downloaded filename). Then select MESA in Preferences → Performance and restart Immage. After selecting MESA, you can launch normally without the environment variables. Rendering performance still varies by system; Ubuntu/Wayland testing showed improved NVIDIA performance. Photo processing uses its own GPU setting.
• Linux on Wayland with fractional scaling (125%, 150%, ...): the web view Immage is built on draws such a window at 200% and the desktop shrinks it. Immage renders the photo for the screen's own scale while a slider moves, but the photo after you let go, and the window itself, are still drawn at 200%, so letting go is slower than at 100%. On some computers frames also take longer to reach the window at 200%. At 100% scaling, or started with GDK_BACKEND=x11, it is about as fast as elsewhere

Source

immage-0.41.0-source.tar.gz is the source of this release: Immage, with darktable and Immporter at the commits it was built from. The libraries bundled from Homebrew, MSYS2 and Ubuntu are listed in Preferences › About with the version shipped and where their source is published. For at least three years after this release, anyone may also ask for the complete source of any GPL or LGPL library in these binaries, at the version shipped, free of charge: open an issue at https://github.com/Rhettus/immage/issues.