4.2.5

This is a bug-fix release only for macOS. For Windows and Linux, please use 4.2.4 instead.

Bug fixes

• macOS -- Add missing libraries and code signing (Aries85#265)

4.2.4

Windows packages are made with install4j, multi-platform installer builder.

How to install LightZone on Linux:

• Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Raspbian: Follow instructions on OBS.
• Ubuntu and Mint: Add our PPA to your system, then sudo apt install lightzone.
• Arch: Use the AUR package.
• Other distributions: Build and install by yourself, referring the build instruction.

Bug Fixes

• UnsupportedOperationException in Red Eye Reduction (Aries85#259)
• v4.2.3 very slow with max system resource utilization (Aries85#258)
• Corrupted GUI (57cb1cb)
• Linux: "Couldn't link with platform-specific native libraries no linux in java.library.path" message on startup (4750b0b)
• macOS, Linux (Arch): Lens correction cause crash (4752e2f)
• Wrong HiDPI coordinate of "Select a folder" message in Browser mode (66d079e)
• Disable unusable update check (4eef962)

Changes & Improvements

• Show photoshop:Urgency metadata as color label (16887dd)
• Native support for Apple Silicon m1 machines
• Limit JVM max heap to 2GiB (6bd8b24)
• Add flip function in Editor (08bf5fa)
• Correct ZoneFinder highlight position when zoom-in (3f65bea)
• Show zone/value of a pixel under mouse pointer in Editor mode
  • Show lines on Histogram (f4d8dfe)
  • Highlight zone in ZoneFinder (beddbf5)
  • Show zone on Histogram (d818b98)

Known Issue

• The 'lack of tile' artifact in Editor mode still sometimes occurs on macOS

4.2.3

Windows packages are made with install4j, multi-platform installer builder.

How to install LightZone on Linux:

• Debian, Fedora, Mageia, OpenSUSE, and Raspbian: Follow instructions on OBS.
• Ubuntu and Mint: Add our PPA to your system, then sudo apt install lightzone.
• Arch: Use the AUR package.
• Other distributions: Build and install by yourself, referring the build instruction.

Bug Fixes

• Fix 'lack of tile' artifact in Editor mode (d0e8b62, Aries85#255)
• Fix HiDPI coordinate bug in Clone tool and color dropper (5117af8, Aries85#256)
• Correct top-left control point behavior of Spot tool (4d7947b)
• Fix bug in batch config directory chooser (539d77b)
• Windows - Fix missing dll errors (#17)
• macOS - Use native Finder as a file chooser (dd20d95)

Changes & Improvements

• Support space key for pan-mode in Editor again (#18)
• Upgrade to SIMDe 0.7.0 (#16)
• Update Default Tone Curve list in Help
• macOS - Drop support old OS version
• Windows - Remove unused forkdaemon.exe

Known Issue

• Lens correction cause crash on macOS and Arch Linux. This is because of a bug in lensfun version 0.3.95.
• ant build and ant run on Apple Silicon m1 machine is now supported (#21), but could not create working app/dmg packages yet.

4.2.2

Windows packages are made with install4j, multi-platform installer builder.

How to install LightZone on Linux:

• Debian, OpenSUSE, and Raspbian: Follow instructions on OBS.
• Ubuntu and Mint: Add our PPA to your system, then sudo apt install lightzone.
• Arch: Use the AUR package.
• Other distributions: Build and install by yourself, referring the build instruction.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed artifacts in Soft Light blend mode (a7cd8f3)
• Keep more free memory during batch operations (Aries85#253, Aries85#243, 0724bab)

Improvements

• Use SIMDe to speed up highlight recovery and bilateral filter. (fb753e3)
• Support Linux arm64 and armhf with neon SIMD, such as Raspberry Pi 2B, 3B, and 4B. (4367ff1)

4.2.1

Windows packages are made with install4j, multi-platform installer builder.

How to install LightZone on Linux:

• Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE: Follow instructions on OBS.
• Ubuntu and Mint: Add our PPA to your system, then apt install lightzone.
• Arch: Use the AUR package. The package needs to be built using jdk11 or above.
• Other distributions: Build and install by yourself, referring the build instruction.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed block pattern noise on highlight
• Added missing library on macOS

Improvements

• UI language can be selected in Preference dialog (restart required)

4.2.0

Windows packages are made with install4j, multi-platform installer builder.

New features

• Lens Correction Tool - distortion / TCA correction using Lensfun
• Film Grain Tool
• Horizontal / Vertical Flip button

Improvements

• Better HiDPI support
• Speed up Bayer demosaicking code
• Renew some of button icons using jIconFont
• Speed up Editor rendering by reusing tile cache from different zoom level
• Migrated to Java 11
• Generate and include custom Java Runtime Environment bundle for Windows and macOS packages

Bug fixes

• Add missing dlls for Windows 32-bit build

Known issue

• Manual Lens Correction generates blank image if Lensfun 0.3.95.0 was used.

4.1.9

2018-12-25: There are some problems in Linux package build process on OBS, so currently Linux users need to build LightZone from source by themselves.

• Ubuntu cosmic/bionic users can install LightZone using official PPA.
• Arch Linux users can use aur/lightzone-git and edit PKGBUILD to use java 8.

Bug fixes

• Random one pixel size errors, when converting a JPEG (#204)
• Crash caused by division-by-zero bug in CropBounds scaling (#210)
• No color profiles but sRGB available (#215)
• Support geotagged Olympus images (#219)
• Support Richo DNG makernotes (#217)
• Converted TIFFs lack some EXIF information (#223, #231)
• Some UTF-8 Characters not supported in metadata (#225)
• Saw tooth edges in Olympus E510 etc. (#229)
• Fix crash under JRE 11 (#232)
• Avoid huge memory usage on progressive JPEGs

macOS

• Missing color profiles under /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/

Improvements

• Switch to Java 8 and replace old APIs; Disable build using jdk6
• Enable "Check for Update" menu again, using Refuel
• Add 40 new RAW Tone Curves (see 21773af)

dcraw_lz

• Update to version 9.28 (1.478)
• Patch applied to support Fuji compressed raw files

macOS

• homebrew formula is now available

4.1.8

Bug fixes

• File is lost if renaming failed
• Fix white stripes in UnSharpMaskOperation
• Do not block EDT while updating directories in FolderTree
• Wrong crop ratio after save/export (#204)
• Applying clone tool near from image edges results in black areas (#208)

macOS

• Freeze when print dialog (#195)
• Cannot save TIFF with specified ICC profile (#202)

Linux

• MaxMemory preference value was ignored
• Crash when closing app on Ubuntu (#188)

Improvements

• Add Spanish Help files by RobertoQ
• Show GPS metadata from EXIF on Metadata pane. Clicking the GPS metadata will open Google Maps in a web browser.
• Show more makernote metadata, especially lens names
• Support more Crop ratios (#199)
• Accept multiple files and folders as command line arguments or drag-and-drop onto LightZone icon
• Open recent file/folder in another frame when in Editor mode
• To release unused JVM memory, introduce G1 Garbage Collector. Both MinHeapFreeRatio and MaxHeapFreeRatio are set to 30.
• Do not show stack trace from BadImageMetadataException
• Append "_lzn" suffix for batch-processed images
• Windows - Support build on MSYS2

4.1.7

Bug Fixes

• JPEG quality setting was ignored when saving
• Expanded Grid overlay support to rotated crop window
• Updated DCRaw patch for SONY DSC-RX1RM2 for correct cropping
• macOS
  • Crash on start because of missing libraries
  • Mouse click on preview image to was ignored and could not enter edit mode
• Linux
  • Fixed (some of) errors on JRE 9

Improvements

• Modified RangeSelector slider to clarify which slider thumb will move with mouse drag
• "Reset Setting?" dialog will timeout after five seconds
• Added new Raw Tone Curves
  • PANASONIC: DMC-TZ100 (DMC-ZS100)
  • SONY: ILCE-6300
• Updated application icons
• macOS (Mavericks or later)
  • Oracle Java 8 runtime is included in .dmg packages, so Java 6 from Apple is not required now.
• Windows
  • Updated bundeld JRE to 1.8.0_102

Known Bugs

• macOS
  • UI fonts are not anti-aliased

4.1.6

Bug Fixes

• Append extension on exported file name
• Show unknown aperture/shutter values as a question mark

Improvements

• l10n - New Italian translation by Giorgia Dessì
• Added 5 types of crop overlays (Rule of Third, Golden Triangles, Golden Ratio, Fibonacci Spiral, and Diagonal). Using mouse click in crop mode to toggle different overlays and space key to switch different orientations for golden triangle and Fibonacci spiral.
• Updated DCRaw to v9.27 (1.477)
• Added new Raw Tone Curves:
  • CANON: EOS 80D, EOS M10, EOS-1D X MARK II, EOS REBEL T6, POWERSHOT G3 X, POWERSHOT G5 X, POWERSHOT G7 X MARK II , POWERSHOT G9 X, POWERSHOT SX60 HS
  • FUJIFILM: X70, X-PRO2, X-T10
  • NIKON: D5, D500, 1 J5
  • OLYMPUS: E-M10MARKII, E-M5MARKII, AIR-A01, PEN-F
  • PANASONIC: DMC-CM1, DMC-FZ300, DMC-G7, DMC-GX8
  • PENTAX: K-1, K-3 II
  • RICOH: GR II
  • SONY: ILCA-77M2, ILCE-7RM2, ILCE-7S, ILCE-7SM2, DSC-RX10M2, DSC-RX1RM2, DSC-RX100M4
• Parallelized some of JAI OpImage functions. This will speed up opening an image for editor mode.
• Enable zoom buttons in Crop/Rotate modes
• Linux
  • Support PowerPC build (experimental)
  • Support HiDPI mode on JRE9 (experimental)
• Mac OS X
  • Support build on El Capitan (experimental)
  • Fixed build errors on Snow Leopard
• Windows
  • Updated bundeld JRE to 1.8.0_92