28.1
News and Updates
- Will now warn if a skin update also requires a jAlbum update
- Updated Polish, English and Swedish translations
- Updated bundled skins Tiger, PhotoBlogger, Story, Projector and Minimal
- When uploading projects in the background, jAlbum no longer pops up the resulting gallery in the browser. A notification is shown, and that's enough for background tasks.
- jAlbum no longer does regular network calls to check for new "collaborative images" if no such projects are active
Bug fixes
- Fix to accidental deletion of audio clips if an image is renamed when only the case differs
- jAlbum was reprocessing excluded images that were used to represent folders every time, therefore slowing down repetitive album builds
- The progress bar wasn't updated while processing excluded images that are also used to represent folders
- The progress bar could sometimes display more progressed than total images
- jAlbum would buffer up and flood our servers with checks for "collaborative images" if the computer was woken up from sleep
- "Import settings from published album" would fail if album is hosted at jalbum.net and URL ends with a slash
- jAlbum would incorrectly generate the "imageRenditions" variable and JSON file entry for 360 images lacking renditions
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28
News and Updates
- Support for attaching and recording audio clips to objects
- Skins Tiger, PhotoBlogger, Projector, Story and Minimal updated to support audio clips.
- The image tools "Straighten", "Brighten" and "Gamma" now gets keyboard focus when activated.
Use cursor keys to quickly adjust values and Enter to save.
- Developers: Various API improvements: New MediaUtil class to simplify retrieving metadata from media files.
MonitoredWorkQueue can now indicate progress. JSmartToggleButton now has a "selectedText" state.
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators!
- Developers: Skins may now disable arbitrary non-relevant UI components
Bug fixes
- Infinite "Make album" - "Upload" loop for monitored projects fixed
- Fixed broken folder thumbnail images for folders containing dots (since v27)
- The status bar sometimes indicated "make (All)" while in fact only changes were being made.
- Fixed some bugs introduced in v27
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27
News and Updates
- New "folder thumbnail" image category now managed by jAlbum, thereby unburdening skins from managing folder thumbnails. jAlbum managed folder thumbnails can have sizes, shapes and image filters that differ from ordinary thumbnails and closeup images.
- Minimal skin now supports "folder thumbnails". See sample gallery
- Faster builds: Now uses fewer IO calls during album builds. (The "Sample Portfolio" project was built in 20% less time on a networked drive using a 4 core computer)
- Pops up progress dialogs faster during album builds
- Developers: Skins may now call engine.setStatus(String message) to provide better status reporting during long builds.
- Developers: engine.setSlides() now working from within init scripts
- Updated bundled skins.
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug in font selector
- jAlbum didn't print the reason for aborted album builds if the background engine was used
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26.2
News and Updates
- Added a "Set as default" button to the text filter of jAlbum's edit view (advanced section) to facilitate adding texts to multiple images. (Alt-click button to reset)
- The background uploader now also updates your profile page on added galleries (if you're signed in, that is)
- Updated Korean, Finnish, Slovenian and Polish translations. Thank you translators!
Bug fixes
- jAlbum would sometimes write duplicate file entries to the albumfiles.txt file
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26.1
News and Updates
- New "Background mode" preference: Use background processing when hitting the "Make album" and "Upload" buttons
- Lower resource usage (threads)
- Lower CPU usage during uploads (especially for Mac version)
- Reports amounts > 1 GB as GB (or TB if needed) instead of reporting amounts in MB only.
- Upload speed reporting for background uploader
- Background uploader now pops up a confirmation window on first upload or when uploading to a new location
- Faster (multi-threaded) local size calculation
- Background uploader now updates progress bar during long file transfers too
- Faster local vs remote file comparison before upload begins. Total gain for 26 GB networked gallery: 1 min 30 sec vs 15 min
- Updated bundled skins Tiger, PhotoBlogger, Projector, Lucid, Animatics and Story
- More robust abortion of uploads when not using zipstreaming
- Windows version now bundled with the latest Java 14 (v14.0.2)
- Added find & replace dialogs to System console and "List metadata" tool. Hit CTRL/CMD+F or CTRL/CMD+R to open dialogs.
- More responsive abortion of background uploads
- More detailed progress reporting during uploads
- Minor usability improvements to find & replace dialogs: ESC key now closes all the time. Beeps when searching past last matching string. Selects all text to find when reopening find dialog
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators
Bug fixes
- Windows version was leaking "User Object" resources, eventually triggering out of memory conditions. (Fixed by updating embedded Java to v14.0.2)
- Fixed bug causing negative time left estimates on huge galleries
- Removed erroneous progress reporting during uploads ("x of 1 files")
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26.0
News and Updates
- Faster loading of HEIC image thumbnails
- Windows version now offers more screen real estate as the title bar and menu bar are integrated into one bar (applies to all look&feels except the standard Windows look&feel)
- Faster uploads: The deletion of old stale files from earlier uploads is now performed over multiple connections.
- New license model: Moved from 30 day trial to a non expiring free version. Users that don't have a license can now run jAlbum 26 forever, but with some limitations, see purchase page
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
- Fixed occasional StackOverflowException on startup
- Improved skin loading robustness
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25.1
News and Updates
- No longer invalidates a working license if user signs in with an account that doesn't have a license
- Updated 3:rd party Groovy scripting language library to v3.0.9
- Updated 3:rd party JSON writing library to v4. More RAM conservative.
- More informative if web root is missing (printed "null" earlier)
- Updated bundled skins
Bug fixes
- Exiting jAlbum on Ubuntu Linux didn't work (system tray not available)
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25.0
News and Updates
- 30 new trial days for everyone. Free update to anyone who is on a current support and update plan
- Albums can now be made and uploaded in the background while you continue working with jAlbum. This is a huge time saver!
- Project monitoring: jAlbum monitors projects for changes and makes and uploads changes automatically in the background
- Improved MultiMaker: Make and upload multiple projects easily. Now with a rewritten more informative user interface and adapted for the new background processing engine.
- 100% faster image processing* (Measured on a full rebuild of a 80 image gallery consisting of 16MPixel images)
- Lower memory usage for image processing.
- Faster metadata parsing. The time to read .properties files (for instance long folder comments) has been reduced by several magnitudes.
- Better reporting: Started, completed, aborted or failed make- and upload tasks are now clearly reported to jAlbum's system console along with project name and timing information
- The Preferences-Details panel has now been given more space
- Added Creator, Copyright and Copyright URL metadata to the album maker's change detection
- Improved error reporting
- Updated bundled skins.
- Updated translations. Thank you dear translators for your help with translating this version
Bug fixes
- The property panels of jAlbum's Edit mode did not always fit
- jAlbum could sometimes hang when opening projects while a Tiger skin was loading
- The JAlbumUtilities.countCategories() API included objects in hidden files
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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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