Shotwell 0.27.0 Released with Many New Features

Shotwell, the Gnome photo management software, has reached the new major 0.27.0 release with many new features, bug-fixes, performance improvements and translation updates.

What’s New in Shotwell 0.27.0:

• Remove F-Spot import support
• A command line utility to test image transformations
• Speed up color transformations a bit.
• Bump GTK+ requirement to 3.18 and remove deprecated functions
• Clean-up histogram drawing code
• Run thumbnailer with nice 19
• Update VAAPI blacklisting for video thumbnailer and new plugin structure
• Add configurable image background
• Split several dialogs from shotwell.ui file
• Move Tumblr to default plugin set
• Remove some unnecessary memcpys on import
• Add Meson build support
• Some more ngettext for plurals
• Add –fullscreen/-f option for viewer
• Add option to install Ubuntu apport hook
• Fix issue when importing to NTFS-backed vboxfs
• Fix GSettings schema search path for running out-of-tree
• Work around “Camera locked: -53” error on GNOME
• Fix issue with missing highlight on dnd actions

How to Install Shotwell 0.27.0 in Ubuntu:

There’s no official Linux binary at the moment of writing besides the source tarball. I’ll update this tutorial once the maintainer updates the Ubuntu packages.