Finally, after waiting one year, Bibble 5 Pro is nearly to be released! Great news.

I won’t have much time to test it extensively the next days and week, but I am looking forward to a much more stable and less memory consuming Bibble.

Yes. Another preview version. Bibble 5 Preview 2.2 released.

Not tried it yet very much. But some of the highlights of the changelog:

» Major improvements to the Layers & Regions tools, with better memory management and much faster rendering
» Implemented On / Off toggles per Region and per Layer
» Implemented File -> Open and drag & drop to open image files and work queues.
» Implemented ‘Portable Catalogs.’
» Improved Linux Trash operations (to be freedesktops.org compliant)

This means… Yes, it is time to implement a “Develop in Bibble 5” extension, or at least an “Open with…” context menu entry in form of a desktop file like I did with Bibble 4 (direct link to desktop file and shell script).

I updated the two F-Spot addins for Bibble 4 and I published two new ones. Furthermore, the URL of the repository has changed and I published the source on gitorious.

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Finally. Bibble Labs released, as promised (I wrote about it before), a preview of Bibble 5!

I have not much time, but I gave it a short try. It looks great. Nice, smooth user interface, although I have to get used to it, runs fine under Linux and Windows. The preview is not full featured, there are features that are disabled and will be included in later Previews and in the final release — who knows when this will be…

The selective editing with a kind of layers is one of the features I am looking forward to. Great. I will write about my experiences with Bibble 5 here the next days and weeks. It seems that there are a lot of issues still open in this preview.

Waiting for Bibble 5… they promised it to be released in Q4 of 2008. Well, at the end of December they announced that at least they will release a public beta version until end of January. Hopefully.

I was hoping it, but now they announced that Bibble 5 will support the D90 RAW files. Great. (I don’t think there is so much difference between the D90 files and the D80 files as the workarounds (See the links in my earlier entry) is quite simple.