digiKam, KDE’s full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.
You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.
We also fixed 140 bugs!
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0/_release/_announcement/
Sorry about leaving you hanging, I fell asleep.
Yeah, exporting galleries in digiKam, you get several options for theming and other settings.
You simply select the phots in a folder, in the order you want them, run the wizard in digiKam and bam, you have an HTML gallery that is fast and simple to navigate.