24.1
News and Updates
- jAlbum's system console can now be accessed via the F7 keyboard shortcut even if the progress dialog or upload window is active.
- Bundled updated Tiger and PhotoBlogger skins
- Added mkv as supported video format
- More robust skin loading: Recovers from inability to write certain property values to UI components
- Added warning dialog when choosing WEBP as single output format
- JAlbumUtilities.getCameraDates now no longer falls back to file dates
Bug fixes
- Didn't always release ftp connections (happens when doing empty or nearly empty uploads). Old bug
- Now a cap of 16 upload threads to avoid out of memory / thread conditions if connections hang during upload
- Delete local album was resetting the structure type to "mirrored" even though the UI didn't reflect this
- Changing file dates didn't work (broke with Java 9)
- More robust against problems populating the recent project list
- Forgot to add support for superimposing a play icon on video thumbnails on v24
- Directory chaining didn't handle linked folders properly
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24.0
News and Updates
- Variants introduced to image processing: Now lets the browser choose the image size and format that best suits the user's display (See Settings-Images-Variants) and read our blog post
- Reads and writes the improved WebP image format
- Reads the improved HEIC/HEIF image format (commonly used on iOS). Credit to IDR Solutions (JDeli)
- Bundled with major update to Mininal skin now supporting Variants, multiple icon sets, cleaner look and responsive, full window slide images
- Bundled with major update to Tiger skin now supporting Variants, instant preview and improved zooming.
- Two types of directory chaining offered: "Full tree" vs "Siblings"
- Handles flipped images as well
- Faster object counting (uses multiple threads, skips ordering objects)
- Better error reporting if jAlbum fails to start
- Made folder deletions more consistent
- Database file importer now better detects type of CSV files passed
- Developers: New API calls to retrieve objects faster (unordered) and to retrieve filtered lists of objects
- Developers: New ja:picture tag to simplify adding Variants support
- Developers: New imageSrcset and thumbSrcset variables for Variants support
- Developers: Hidden folders are now marked as "hidden" in generated json files
- Developers: IO.zip now allows FileFilter to be specified
- Reads user configurable config dir/system/filetypes.xml too
- Added "currentFolder" variable to external tools
- Updated translations: Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
- Fixed ConcurrentModificationException in uploader
- Search bar now resizes target window so controls fit
- AlbumObject.getDescendants now handles (ignores) circular folder references
- Fix for Windows not being able to write properties to hidden files
- The image file chooser of the web location panel didn't pick up the right folder of the currently selected image
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23.2
News and Updates
- jAlbum now interprets flipped/mirrored images correctly (mobile phone selfies for instance)
- New flip/mirror button added
- Improved error reporting if errors occur during uploads
- Folder icon changed from bluish to outline for better visibility.
- The theme image selector of the folder properties panel now has an "Edit" context menu that opens the current image in a larger window
- Adjusted colors of the crop focus to comply with dark look&feel
- Changed more icons from png to scalable svg (broken images, broken links etc)
- Removed several unused icons
- Updated bundled skins
Bug fixes
- Fixed collapsed property panel when opening Edit mode (old bug)
- Replaced Windows file chooser library (from xfilechooser to JNA). Now we rely on one library less
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23.1
News and Updates
- Faster auto correction processing
- Significantly faster previews
- Updated bundled skins PhotoBlogger, Story, Animatics and Lucid
- Minor robustness improvements
Bug fixes
- Mac version would sometimes not run on enough RAM memory
- Updated broken facebook importer (now complies with updated facebook APIs)
- Would sometimes fail building albums with an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
- Preview window would sometimes trigger a not needed album remaking
- MP4 video GPS coordinates weren't imported as jAlbum gpsLongitude and gpsLatitude variables causing videos to not be correctly positioned on maps.
- Fix to logic determining if an image is a photo-sphere or not
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23
News and Updates
- Faster/snappier Explorer view. Feels 30-50% faster on a 4 core CPU
- Faster album remakes (around 20% on a 4 core CPU), due to better use of multiple threads
- Faster filter processing due to better use of multiple threads.
Image filters are now required to be thread safe (i.e. not contain state that changes during execution of the filter() method).
(Filters that aren't thread safe should have their filter() method marked with the java "synchronized" keyword.)
- Faster initialization of consecutive album builds. Cuts about one second from album builds.
- Now allows hiding of web pages. (For supporting skins only. See Story skin)
- New "Last tool" menu item that executes the last used tool, including external tools and plugins.
It's bound to the CTRL/CMD+L shortcut and can be accessed from both the Explore view and Edit view.
This feature considerably speeds up accessing a commonly used tool while moving through album objects.
- Improved drag and drop behavior: You can now decide to either position dropped files on the caret location (jAlbum switches to Custom ordering) or to let the default folder ordering decide the position.
The behavior depends on where you drop (drop in the margin area to let the folder decide)
- When jAlbum switches sort ordering for a folder, this is now indicated clearly with an animated text
- Updated metadata-extractor library to v2.15. Now reads Exif from PNG and HEIC/HEIF images and supports MP4 GPS coordinates among other fixes and improvements.
- Now allows ordinary web pages to be put inside the "res" folder (included in "res" folder of output)
- New "Import comments from rss file" external tool to import comments from really old albums (prior to jAlbum 8.14).
- Paints user installed external tools in bold (Windows + Linux)
- jAlbum's text editor and system console now understands Lua language syntax too
- jAlbum's text editor now adjusts the line number font size in accordance to the text font size
- Updated JNA library from v4.5 to v5.6 thereby improving compatibility and performance when interacting with native OS calls.
- Paints hidden items somewhat darker now for better visibility on bright look and feels
- Updated non-thread safe filters XBorderFilter, AutoFilter and PropertyChangingFilterWrapper to be synchronized
- Updated bundled skins
- Updated translations. Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
- Fix to occasional make album crash when switching skins directly followed by making albums
- jAlbum should now never accidentally suggest to upload a gallery to a folder called "album"
- jAlbum now remembers even if you upload to the root of your ftp directory (valid for non jalbum.net accounts).
It would previously always suggest the project name unless a target folder was set.
- Color selector wouldn't work under Java 8
- jAlbum now remembers the sort order and adds newly added files to the right ordered location if you add files using the "Add" button. So if you have "Order by camera date" set for instance, then adding files using the "Add" button will put them in the right order directly (required a screen refresh before)
- Dropped items were not always positioned correctly
- Fixed bug where nothing was printed to the system console if one executed "print" in JavaScript from within the console (swapping back and forth between languages resolved it though)
- Dropped items would be re-arranged surprisingly on next screen refresh
- Fix to incorrect references to global context (wrong engine could sometimes be referred to)
- Woudln't print camera dates older than Jan 1 1970 in the tool-tips of objects of the Explore view
- Fixed repainting of thumbnails when "Hide" is toggled
- Revisiting the Arty image tool in edit mode several times for the same image would result in multiple versions of the Arty UI
- jAlbum's text editor didn't remember the last selected font size
- Division by zero error when processing empty albums
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22.1
News and Updates
- Added metadata import tool for ACDSee
- The originalDate variable is now also generated for videos (mp4 and QuickTime)
- Added help button to html editor
- The external tools list is now ordered case insensitive
- Updated bundled skins Story and PhotoBlogger
- Updated translations. Thank you translators!
- Developers: Added allowHTMLEditing and fullHTMLEditing client properties to smart text component so these features can be added without skin requiring jAlbum 22
- Removed Java 11 dependency
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue preventing jAlbum from starting due to a corrupt "Java Assistive Bridge" installation
- Mac version could occasionally crash when hitting the Add button to open the file chooser
- Text components shouldn't have hover buttons
- Fixed issue where renames to newly created folders would be interrupted
- jAlbum's deep-data.json generation could cause out of memory conditions for huge albums
- jAlbum's search wouldn't work if "My Albums" location was pointing to a non existent folder
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22.0
News and Updates
- New "Multi Maker" window that builds and uploads albums from multiple projects in the background at the same time. See Tools->Multi Maker.
- Embedded html editor rewritten using new library. (Respects your current tag structure)
- HTML Syntax highlighting added to description/comment text components
- Syntax highlighting and variable completion added to jAlbum's system console
- Updated html editor now shows reduced buttons for ordinary objects, but a full suite of buttons for comments for pages only
- Groovy language library updated to v3.0.5
- Developers: New Work API vastly simplifying automating data processing.
See new *.groovy external tools for examples.
- The theme image's crop focus can now be adjusted with the cursor keys as well as mouse (for better precision)
- Developers: New JSmartSyntaxTextArea component for enabling syntax highlighting in your skins.
(It's a drop-in replacement to JSmartTextArea which defaults to html syntax)
- 8 External tools rewritten to use the new Work API, reducing the code to maintain to 20%
- Updated bundled skins
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators
Bug fixes
- Fix to icon caching (the wrong icon was sometimes delivered)
- Extremely long project names sometimes caused problems with "Remember last selected item"
- Embedded browser would sometimes not initialize properly
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21.0
News and Updates
- Embedded visual HTML editor! Right-click a comment or description and select "Open HTML Editor" and take it from there.
Now you can style your album- and image descriptions without any HTML knowledge.
- Comes with 5 new modern user interface themes ("look and feels") thanks to the open source FlatLaf project.
(The new default "jAlbum Dark" look replaces Darcula, which has become abandoned.).
New looks can be added by users to jAlbum's system/themes folder.
- Icons modernized
- Now embeds xmp metadata into GIF, TIFF and PNG files as well as JPEG images.
- Prepared for Oracle's upcoming GraalJS JavaScript engine, which will replace the Nashorn JavaScript engine skins like Tiger and PhotoBlogger currently run on.
(Nashorn is no longer present in the next Java version to come)
- Made Preferences window less tall by using 2 columns for checkbox settings
- Developers: New system/base.css file providing common styles for the new html editor to all skins (prepended to common.css)
- Updated bundled Minimal skin. Thank you jGromit!
Bug fixes
- Edits to folder titles and folder descriptions would get lost if one navigated to another folder using the folder tree without leaving the edited field first
- Minor bug fixes
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