18.3
News and Updates
- jAlbum's Text and Logo effects now supports layers, meaning that, for semi transparent images, the texts and logos may be positioned all over, on top or behind the existing images.
- You may now individually control whether to force thumbnails or closeup images to JPEG format (see Settings-Images-Advanced)
- New MarginFilter capable of adding semi-transparent margins/borders to images.
- Supporting other users? Hold down SHIFT or ALT while searching for a UI setting to have the path written to the clipboard too
- Developers: Skin UIs may contain tables too (JTable instances) that becomes persisted with the project and appears as variables in the skin.
(The generated variables contains the table contents in CSV format)
- Developers: new getJSONMaker() API call to AlbumBean (engine)
- Developers: Improved error message for embedded skin editor
- Updated the bundled skins Tiger, PhotoBlogger and Projector
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators
Bug fixes
- The settings window could sometimes appear too far to the left or top of the screen
- Fixed handling of EXIF data for certain images
- Fixes/updates to Facebook importer plugin
- Labels would appear faint on OS X Look and Feel (Explore view) if file names were more than 15 characters
- Minor fixes
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18.2
News and Updates
- jAlbum now has search!.
Type your way to that color or font setting instead of browsing through deeply nested settings panels.
Finding the right setting has never been easier.
- Bundled updated Tiger and PhotoBlogger skins
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18.1
News and Updates
- New work flow indicator to better assist new users in the start-make album-upload album work flow (shows for unlicensed users only)
- Somewhat faster album deletes when deleting published albums
- Uploader now has a better auto-discovery mechanism for determining the web root URL and web root folder.
- Uploader has a new mechanism to auto-discover the ftp server name given the web address.
Correctly identified server names turn green
- Bundled the completely rewritten PhotoBlogger 2.1 skin.
- Made generic error dialog expandable to reveal full stack trace
- Minor robustness improvement to uploader.
(Reconnects if ftp server reports that data connection is down during transfer)
Bug fixes
- The preview address of the upload window was incorrectly adding a slash (/) when referencing plain files
- The upload dialog is now modal in order to avoid bug in Mac OS X where the upload confirmation dialog appears behind the upload dialog.
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18
News and Updates
- New Project Gallery allowing you to visually browse web preview thumbnails of your album projects (See File->Project Gallery or new button next to the "New project" button).
The project gallery allows you to explore all projects present in "My Albums" as well as all projects listed under "Recent Projects".
- Faster album uploads, especially updates to exiting albums due to rewritten media RSS handling and minimizing network IO calls
- Exclude now deletes cached thumbnails
- Removed obsolete Show thumbnails with high JPEG compression quality option
- Removed obsolete Progressive mode image setting
- Removed obsolete URL-encode links option
- Languages updated. Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
- More robust uploads. Now recovers from upload problems arising due to inconsistencies between the "manifest.jmf" cache file and the true contents of the server.
- Fixed broken Media RSS generation (URLs weren't absolute)
- Save changes warnings were sometimes generated even though no changes has been made
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17.1.5
News and Updates
- Updated bundled skins Tiger, Projector and Responsive
- Added convenience link to Preferences->Album from within New Project dialogue to simplify permanently changing file locations
Bug fixes
- Media-RSS support was broken (since 17.1) also affecting mobile viewing
- Album uploads would fail if the "manifest.jmf" cache file got out of sync with the server state.
Now detects this and recovers upload instead of failing.
- Albums using non-standard index page names or extensions ("album.htm" for instance) wouldn't have their thumbnail showing up correctly on the profile page after publishing.
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17.1.1
News and Updates
- Added Dutch translation update.
Bug fixes
- Deleting published albums via ftp wouldn't work
- Windows version had trouble handling https based web locations
- Location editor wouldn't work on Windows (ECDH keypair problem blocking Google maps)
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17.1
News and Updates
- Completely rewritten skin template parser.
Potentially faster as templates are now parsed once to an internal object tree (Abstract Syntax Tree) and from there evaluated to final pages multiple times.
The new parser not only caches the internal object tree,
it also caches compiled scriptlets for scripting languages supporting this (JavaScript and Groovy.
BeanShell doesn't compile well so far)
- Introduced Groovy as scripting language. Note, this is still an experimental alpha.
The sharp release is scheduled for Q1 2019. Read more here.
- Update image reading library to TwelveMonkeys 3.5. Problematic CMYK JPEG images should now work again.
- Adapted colors for Mac OS X Mojave
- Now allows preview browser to be operated while building album
- Removed obsolete "Local Flash preview" preference
- Moved "Video support" to Preferences->Advanced (no need to touch for the vast majority)
- Updated Korean translations for ZigZag, Mr.Burn5 and Responsive
Bug fixes
- Problematic CMYK JPEG images should now work again
- Adding some https web locations could cause an SSL handshake error
- Fixed bug causing loss of skin project settings if loading skin while another skin is still loading
- Fixed crash bug upon opening preview window on Mac OS X Mojave
- Ensured that the text field specific undo stack is cleared when the user is about to edit titles,
comments or keywords. Users can now safely hit CTRL/CMD+Z to undo without going past initial value
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17
News and Updates
- Completely rewritten review mode featuring thumbnail navigation, image zooming and multiple image comparison (1-6 images)
- Way faster and better behaving zoom control installed in both Edit and Review mode
- Better integration with Review mode and Explorer and Edit mode (hit Space to review selected image(s))
- Reads EXIF metadata from video files as well (MP4 and MOV)
- Supports camera date/creation date for mp4 and mov videos too
- Has new "Disable color subsampling" option under Settings-Images-Advanced.
Will produce even better looking JPEGs when checked.
Currently only applies to images with compression quality >= 90.
Disabling chroma/color subsampling increases file size about 17% but doubles the horizontal and vertical color resolution of images.
See this article
- Explore mode adjusted for lower CPU usage = better performance
- Now runs on Open Java 11 on all platforms.
Earlier, the Mac version was using Oracle's Java 8 and Windows version using Java 9.
With Java 11, Oracle's Java is under a commercial license.
We therefore moved to the open source "Open JDK 11", which should be working as well by now.
- Remembers width of folder property panel if "Remember last window position and size" is checked under Preferences
- All versions has reduced footprint due to removal of unneeded Java code
- Default video resolution for generated videos bumped from 480p to 720p
- Now capable of correctly importing incorrectly written Windows comments and titles
- Rewritten Mac file chooser integration (runs on Java 9+)
- Embedded browser now accepts all certificates (avoids certificate related errors)
- Moved "Clear project list" to top and added confirmation dialog
- Updated bundled Tiger, Zigzag and Minimal skins
Bug fixes
- Fixed Location editor (updated to newer Google Map APIs
- Projects zipped on Windows could only be unzipped on Windows
- Improved rendering of cropped images in Edit mode
- Fixed problem when skin hints were ignored when switching to same-family skins when no project is open
- The crop focus plugin didn't respect custom theme image ratios
- Explore view would incorrectly scroll to the top then objects were added via file selector
- Fixed bug in project importer. Wouldn't handle albums with more than 2 folder levels
- Various bug fixes
- Would throw IOException when generating albums made purely of non re-encoded videos
- Hopefully fixed issue where recent project list could get cleared accidentally
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