Announce: Entangle “Down” release 0.6.0 – An app for tethered camera control & capture

I am pleased to announce a new release 0.6.0 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location:

  http://entangle-photo.org/download/

This release has a mixture of bug fixes and new features / changes and new widget styling

• Add a demonstration plugin for setting up a captive photo box display mode
• Switch to use Python3 for plugin engine instead of JavaScript
• Use GTK dark theme
• Require GNOME symbolic icon theme to be installed
• Switch to require lcms2 instead of lcms
• Move application icon into a standard directory mandated to work with the appdata tools
• Make manual focus work with Canon EOS cameras
• Disable flickering progress bar in preview mode with Canon EOS cameras
• Remove use of deprecated GTK methods/classes/constants
• Remove use of gexiv2 method which is not long exported
• Remove use of deprecated libpeas methods
• Add GTK-DOC transfer annotations / docs to all methods
• Avoid loosing camera capabilities on disconnect
• Fix off by one in histogram tables causing memory corruption
• Mark appdata / desktop files for translation
• Fix typos in README file
• Fix inverted tests when checking if range widget changed
• Avoid storm of expose events due to auto-drawer widget
• Avoid never ending circular update of controls causing errors in some camera modes
• Add workaround for crazy D5100 camera serial number
• Add customizable highlight/background for images
• Avoid reference leak of windows preventing proper cleanup
• Remove camera manual/about/driver help windows since it did not contain any info useful to users
• Filter list of cameras in connect dialog to only those which support capture/preview
• Don’t auto connect to cameras which don’t support capture or preview
• Ensure parent window is set on dialogs to prevent them falling behind main window
• Fix crash with latest GTK due to incorrect overriding of GtkApplication startup method
• Update to cope with changed GExiv API version
• Refreshed translations from transifex

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