JAlbum - 更新履歴

News and Updates

• PDF files now have thumbnails and closeup images (taken from 1:st page)
• Files can now be ordered by creation date
• Thumbnails can now also display creation date within jAlbum's Explore view
• jAlbum now generates theme images in any output format, not just JPEG

Bug fixes

• Windows image reader would leave open file locks, preventing file deletions (since 39.3)
• Fixed intermittent delay when viewing images full screen on Mac (using OpenGL pipeline now)
• Fixed potential crash issue in Mac image reader (when reading broken/empty images)
• Fixed rare freeze issue when using the Mac file chooser
• Lifeboat creation wasn't working properly with views
• Adding files with "Replace" option chosen wasn't respected
• Pasting keywords using Keywords extension didn't also update keyword list
• Switching to another folder while editing a title/comment would cause edit to be ignored
• Developers: Fixed incorrect value for "closeupPath" variable for some non-image file types. See new "universalCloseupPath" skin property
• Fixed issue with theme image not being generated for the root level of a view if view had an attached representing image

News and Updates

• Windows version can now use Windows native image readers, see "Tools - Windows Image readers". (Using Windows image readers gives 2x faster HEIC reading and 2x faster RAW reading)
• Windows version can now use Windows native high quality image scaler, see "Settings - Images - Scaling - Windows Fant".
• Supports signing in and up via Google, Apple and GitHub in addition to classic username + password sign in.
• System console is now capped to max 100.000 lines to avoid out of memory conditions due to extensive logging in large projects
• Now clicking project file link within Album information will highlight the project file
• Now using digitized date as a fallback if camera date is missing

Bug fixes

• Fixed memory leak in album builds (since v38)
• Fixed broken reading of GPS coordinates for MP4 videos
• Fixed issue setting passwords on albums (since recent security update)
• Fixed issue with 360 images being scaled too much
• Robustness improvements
• Fixed missing AlbumImage.saveImage call (since v39), causing Matrix skin to break

News and Updates

• MultiMaker now also displays the output format(s) of each project
• MultiMaker now allows for batch-converting projects to AVIF output format

Bug fixes

• Mac image reader couldn't read some TIFF files
• Fixed broken thumbnail strip in slide pages

News and Updates

• Mac versions now capable of using Mac's native image readers, delivering considerably faster reading of multiple image formats
• Mac versions now capable of fast high quality image scaling using Apple's "CoreGraphics" scaler, delivering 6x performance at quality comparable to "Smooth - Lanczos"
• AVIF reader now handles HDR AVIF images (converts colors to best fitting sRGB color space)
• Improved hardware scaling via TurboJPEG reader (fast scaling from 7/8 to 1/8 of JPEG size)
• The initial (most expensive) scaling can now be performed accelerated by image readers. Initial scaling currently supported by the Mac image reader and TurboJPEG
• Faster thumbnail rendering (warming up metadata in multiple threads instead of on UI thread)
• Disable color subsampling now available as an AVIF option too (gives higher color resolution)
• Faster album builds with AVIF files: Theme image processor now also handles change detection for AVIF files
• Checkbox lists now allows multiple selection
• Developers: Added Tools menu to System Console
• Developers: Added keyboard shortcut for printing profiling data from system console (CTRL/CMD+P)
• Developers: Added better scaling profiling data
• Updated bundled skins Tiger, PhotoBlogger, Story and Plain

Bug fixes

• Fixed problem causing wrong orientation of some written AVIF images
• Fixed support for color indexed PNG files
• Fixed bug causing broken icons for some web locations when using HiDPI thumbnails
• AlbumImage.saveImage picked the wrong file type

News and Updates

• Read and write support for the superior AVIF image format. See blog post
• Rewritten image settings user interface
• Loads zipped samples as well as unzipped ones
• Updated bundled skins
• Updated translations. Thank you dear translators

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug causing missing heart icon for representing album object
• Fixed broken "embed album"
• Fixed ja:picture element and ao.elements() when referring to icons (broke with Variants)
• Fixed incorrect linking when referencing original videos outside of the album folder (since v38)
• Fixed NPE when disabling "Use folder for folder thumbnails"
• Fixed bug where representing images containing diacritics was ignored if "Remove diacritics" was set.
• Various minor fixes

News and Updates

• Views are now available instantly from View-Views menu. No need to manually create a view before temporary use within jAlbum. No need to clean-up temporary views either. View-views menu really encourages exploring your projects in different ways (via date, place, keywords etc)
• Views now support keyboard navigation, multiple object selection and launching review mode (Space)
• Now installs and uninstalls several times faster, especially on Windows
• New modern, faster installer theme (Windows)
• 70 MB smaller Windows installer
• Lower RAM usage, various performance tweaks added to the underlying Java engine
• Bundled skins are now unpackaged on-demand = faster install + uninstalls
• Several enhancements to system console: Far faster, syntax highlighting, row and column indication, match parenthesis etc
• jAlbum's JSON files can now be pretty printed (See Preferences-Project-Pretty Print JSON)
• jAlbum's text editor now wraps/cycles searches = easier to use

Bug fixes

• Opening the file chooser from jAlbum's text editor would crash jAlbum on OS X Tahoe
• Camera metadata wasn't available through views
• One could accidentally drag objects into views

News and Updates

• Views can now be explored/viewed within jAlbum's explorer as well
• You can now select folder thumbnails for views and their sub folders (within view explorer)
• Views can now be sorted individually from the View explorer
• New faster and better icon rendering library (JSVG)
• Improved painting of highlighted icons
• Improved painting of Mac menu icons (now retina-aware)

Bug fixes

• Backup tool didn't handle Views
• Cleaned up handling of folder thumbnails

News and Updates

• jAlbum 38 is a free update to anyone who's on an active support & update plan. Enjoy!
• New "Views" concept introduced, allowing additional ways to navigate a gallery, see demo gallery.
• New "Internal linking" concept added, allowing images and videos to be referenced from multiple locations within a gallery. This radically reduces album size and build time for view based galleries. See demo album.
• "Attachments" introduced, allowing both images and audio files to be attached to objects, just like you attach files to emails. Now any non displayable object, like a pdf file, can have a representing image attached to it.
• Improved uploads: Added Apache Commons Net's ftp library - a well maintained high quality ftp library for the protocols "ftp", "ftps" and "ftpes", providing faster and more robust uploads to other web sites
• Dumped old THM file support in favour attachments (will be imported automatically)
• Estimated time left now based on last 10s (uploads, background processing)
• Skins updated to support "Internal linking". Supporting skins include: Plain, Tiger, PhotoBlogger, Story, Lizard and Minimal as well as 3:rd party skins like Atom, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Opus 16 and Saturn

Bug fixes

• No longer re-copies originals when rebuilding albums
• "Adjust camera date" extension was broken
• Fixed drag and drop problems on Mac. Now integrates better with the Mac desktop, AirDrop etc.
• Fix for dialogs blocking UI when sign in dialog is showing
• Fixed rendering bug for About windows (Windows Look and feel)

News and Updates

• Polished the user interface. Now using less and more sublime divider lines. Looks more appealing in multiple look & feels now.
• Updated UI rendering library (flatlaf 3.6)
• Name ordering now better mimics the behaviour on Windows Explorer: Orders punctuation before numbers and letters
• Name ordering now respects the current language setting
• Drag operations are now accompanied by a drag image along with the cursor
• Linux version now has supports custom title bars too (occupies less vertical space). Optional preference.
• "Add from database" improved further: Now maps metadata to user variables of images in nested folder hierarchies as well.
• Updated bundled skins Tiger and Story

News and Updates

• New Google Photos importer (see File-Import or Add button). The importer adds your precious metadata to imported images in the open "xmp" format thereby making your data available to any xmp-aware software like jAlbum, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, digiKam, ACDSee Photo Studio, Photo Mechanic, Apple Photos, Windows File Explorer etc.
• The image tools of Edit mode now have configurable keyboard shortcuts
• New "Import pre v16 projects" external tool
• Continuing a drag operation while Peek is active will cancel Peek (more convenient drag & drops)
• View mode specific menus and shortcuts, (freeing shortcuts to be used for image tools)
• Shortcuts can be saved under config/system/shortcuts folder (survives updates)
• Dropping a folder onto itself will cancel drop instead of showing an error
• "Add - From Database file" now recognises JSON files as well as xml and CSV files. Now it's easier than ever to import comments and such from external sources.
• Added custom menu bar to system console window
• Updated bundled skins
• Updated Portuguese translation. Thank you dear translator!

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug breaking dnd before peeking at images (since 37.5)
• More robust reading of non-standard HEIC files
• Incorrect image sizes will no longer cause errors (reverts to last ok size)
• Fixed issue keeping metadata when using "Save copy as" (Broken since we introduced TurboJPEG)
• Switching language wouldn't update plugin-specific keys (dirty cache)
• Moving groups of images to folder tree is now gathered in one undo/redo group
• Rotating and excluding groups of images now properly reports to undo manager
• Didn't load the most recent extension
• Fix incorrect icon colors in Mac menus with some dark UI combinations

News and Updates

• New "peek" feature: Simply keep the mouse pressed at a thumbnail for >0.4s and a larger closeup will show. Release mouse button to return. Now you don't need to zoom, open edit view or review view in order to quickly peek at an image. You can also use the arrow keys to quickly peek at neighbour images while peek is active.
• New "Select excluded" function that, for instance, simplifies deletion of excluded objects
• Review mode now has PageUp and PageDown, Home and End support, allowing users to review larger images in groups of 2 by 2, 4 by 4 or 6 by 6.
• Add - From database improved to handle adding metadata from xml files that carry the data in attributes. (Previously we only supported data as nested elements). Now it's easier than ever to import comments and such from external sources.
• Updated bundled Tiger skin
• Updated translations. Thank you dear translators!

Bug fixes

• Fixed problem with an incorrect language code being written to pages for languages having both language and region in their text file names (Chinese for instance)