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+KPhotoAlbum 5.4 released
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+<p>
+We are pleased to announce the new release 5.4 of <a href="/download/source/">KPhotoAlbum</a>, the KDE photo management software!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Please consider that we dropped support for older Qt versions with this release. You will need at least Qt 5.8 to build KPA now.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Another notable change is that <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a> is now also a supported platform of KPA.
+</p>
+
+<h4>New developer</h4>
+
+<p>
+We're especially delighted to welcome a new KPA developer: Robert Krawitz. He supplied us with meaningful patches for quite some time now, and finally decided to really step in now. For v5.4, he contributed and changed a lot of code touching complicated parts of KPA, mostly, the changes were about optimizing code, speeding it up and removing unneeded or obsolete parts.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Kudos for this! We hope to have another long-term developer with Robert now. Welcome to the team :-)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A selection of improvements and speedups in version 5.4 follows:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Insert Exif data for each loaded image as it's loaded, but within a transaction.</li>
+<li>Elide unnecessary MD5 computations.</li>
+<li>Reduce I/O wait time of image loader by introducing a scout thread.</li>
+<li>Improve I/O efficiency for MD5 calculation.</li>
+<li>Fetch Exif data only once during load.</li>
+<li>Improve efficiency of loading previews from RAW images.</li>
+<li>Ignore more sidecar files to improve performance (.xmp, .pp3, and .pto).</li>
+<li>Improve thumbnail generation speed and efficiency.</li>
+<li>Overlap thumbnail create with image load.</li>
+<li>Generate new thumbnails for moved images detected during load.</li>
+<li>Speedup startup 10-15% by eliding unnecessary category creation.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>L10N rework</h4>
+
+<p>
+Big thanks also go to Antoni Bella Pérez, who put a lot of work on reworking the localizable stings in KPA, fixed a lot of errors, added contexts and made the whole thing follow KDE's I18N guidelines better.
+</p>
+
+<h4>Thanks to everybody involved</h4>
+
+<p>
+Here's an alphabetically sorted list of people who contributed to this release.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Antoni Bella Pérez</li>
+<li>A. Wilcox</li>
+<li>Christophe Giboudeaux</li>
+<li>Johannes Zarl-Zierl</li>
+<li>Pino Toscano</li>
+<li>Robert Krawitz</li>
+<li>Tobias Leupold</li>
+<li>Yuri Chornoivan</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+Thanks for all the work!
+</p>
+
+<p class="author">— Tobias</p>