It seem that digiKam team is very active. After two months of release 1.2 version, they are releasing version 1.2 with massive change-log. I wonder how they manage to do that? Is developing digiKam so easy? Anyway, enjoy this release.

The main changes are in ImageEditor and BatchQueueManager. ImageEditor becomes multi-threaded and has a zoom-able preview widget. BatchQueueManager gains 16 new tools. Moreover, digiKam managed to close 100 bug reports which is impressive.
For more details see the announcement here.
Well done guys and keep it up.
digiKam team have announced availability of 