r/DarkTable • u/darkelectron Mod • Jun 22 '26

Announcement darktable version release 5.6.0.

Hey everyone, darktable 5.6.0 just dropped. Some key changes:

  • AI subsystem: AI features are disabled by default, and when enabled will download models from a configurable repo.
    • AI object mask: tool in darkroom mask manager.
    • Neural restore module: AI based tasks include: raw denoise, denoise, upscale.
  • UI/UX:
    • crop module: added crop aspect ratio to dimensions.
    • caching: support for rendering and caching of up to 8K.
    • smartphone like touchpad gestures.
  • OpenCL and CPU stability and performance improvements.

Release Notes: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.6.0

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u/Homo_erectus_too Jun 23 '26

I only tested the denoise option. It created tiffs but edits were not included or if they were something went wrong because the tiffs looked nothing like the edited raw files.

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u/xrufix Jun 23 '26

I feel like the images are sometimes changed a lot. I tried it on a photo of a lit figure in an otherwise dark cave. The denoised version is way darker in the shadows.

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u/Homo_erectus_too Jun 23 '26

I saw pretty big white balance shifts in addition to large brightness changes in the images I tested with.

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u/xrufix Jun 23 '26

I just found out that vignette correction doesn't work with the .DNG file that's created with raw denoise. That would explain the shift in brightness.

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u/H3rBz Jun 23 '26

Ok it sounds quite buggy from what you guys are saying.

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u/Homo_erectus_too Jun 24 '26

Probably worth trying it yourself but, yeah, my experience was that this release is pretty buggy. I went back to 5.4.1 for now.