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/
Yeah, I have friends, but not IT savy friends who I would trust could keep a system exposed to the internet updated, I am an IT guy, I don’t want to be responsible for keeping their system updated, or be the guy who punched a hole in their firewall if they get hit by a zero day.