Download

Download

Development Builds

If you wish to make use of the very latest features and updates, you can use a development build. These can be downloaded from several locations:

• The official RawTherapee GitHub repository. Note: currently, the Windows builds are not being generated.
• The unofficial builds by André Gauthier.
• The unofficial macOS builds by Richard Barber.

While the development builds can be safely run alongside an installed version of RawTherapee, be aware that edits in a newer version do not generally carry over to older versions. In other words: there is no guaranteed forward compatibility, but we aim for complete backward compatibility.

There are several benefits from using a development build. It contains all the latest bug fixes and usually has better support for the latest camera's. You can also test out newly introduced features before they are officially released. Feel free to comment on these and suggest changes on our GitHub issue tracker or support forum. Be aware that backward compatibility between subsequent development builds is not guaranteed and the look and function of tools may change before a next release. If stability is key for you, we recommend that you use the latest release.

The filenames for the development builds roughly follow this structure:

RawTherapee_branch_tag_commit_date.extension

• Code changes happen several times a day, and each code change is referenced by a unique hash number in the commit - it looks like this: d9ad93c15.
• Each commit happens on a "branch". The main branch is called dev. New features are developed on their own branches, and then merged into dev when ready.
• The "tag" is the human-friendly version of the latest release, e.g. 5.8.