digiKam 8.0.0

What's new in this version:

Some of the new features in this release of digiKam include (compared to digiKam 6.x):
- More than 400 user-reports closed on bugzilla
- Port code to Qt6 framework (code still compatible with Qt5 API)
- Add JPEG-XL, WEBP, and AVIF export settings everywhere
- Add convert to lossless JPEG-XL, WEBP, and AVIF while importing from camera
- Add JPEG-XL; WEBP, and AVIF converters in Batch Queue Manager
- Versionning: add support of JPEG-XL, HEIF, WEBP, and AVIF as lossless image format to store versionned images in editor
- Usability: add hamburger menu to tool-bar if main menu is hidden
- Metadata: add new option to write metadata to files with ExifTool backend
- Metadata: optional write metadata operations to DNG and RAW files are now always delegated to ExifTool Backend
- Metadata: optimize layout of Metadata Edit plugin for a better usability
- Metadata: add new options to save and load configuration profiles in Avanced Metadata Settings Pannel
- Advanced Rename: add increment file counter to sequence numbering from with option [c] or [c,step]
- Advanced Rename: add random text sequence numbering with option [r]
- Advanced Rename: add configurable first character for the unique modifier with {unique:n,c}
- Advanced Search: add search for items by number of face regions
- Advanced Search: add search for items without face regions
- Collections: add support for cross-platform network paths
- Database: add support for SQLite WAL (Write-Ahead-Logging) mode
- Add spell-checking support in caption text widget using KF5::Sonnet component
- Add Spellcheck config panel in Settings/Miscellaneous for digiKam and Showfoto
- Add online translations support to Alternative Language text editor widget
- Add Localize config panel in Settings/Miscellaneous for digiKam and Showfoto
- Add settings to list preferred alternative/translated languages in text edit widget
- Allow to use Global or Customized Image Quality Sorting settings everywhere
- Add Icon-View settings to customize Labels visibility over thumbnails
- Add support for float16 (half float) images in the TIFF Loader
- Add new maintenance tool to perform Aesthetic Detection to classify images using deep learning model
- Add new tool to perform OCR over scanned text
- Queue Manager: add new tool to assign pick label automatically by parsing image quality
- Queue Manager: add new tool to assign rating, pick, and color labels in batch
- Queue Manager: add new tool to assign titles and captions in batch
- Documentation: Rewrite handbook from DocBook to Sphinx/ReStructuredText framework
- Update G'MIC-Qt tool to last version 3.2.2 and finalize MacOS port and improve stability of plugin
- Update internal RAW engine to last Libraw snapshot 20230403
- New RAW features: Phase One/Leaf IIQ-S v2 support Canon CR3 filmrolls/RawBurst Canon CRM (movie) files Tiled bit-packed (and 16-bit unpacked) DNGs (non-standard) Deflate-compressed integer DNG files are allowed Canon EOS R3, R7 and R10 Fujifilm X-H2S, X-T30 II OM System OM-1 Leica M11 Sony A7-IV (ILCE-7M4) DJI Mavic 3