New release: digiKam 8.0.0

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The digiKam photo-management tool has announced its 8.0.0 release, after two years of development, bug fixing, and testing. Major new features include a documentation overhaul (with a new web site), support for more file formats, a new optical character recognition (OCR) tool, improved metadata handling, a neural-net-based image quality classifier, better integration with G’MIC-Qt, a Qt6-compatible code base, and lots more. See the announcement for all the details.