39.0.0
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
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38.2.0
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
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38.1.0
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
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38.0.0
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)
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37.7.0
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
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37.6.0
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
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37.5.0
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)
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37.4.0
News and Updates
- Folders can now also have image effects excluded (applies to children)
- Updated bundled skins Tiger and PhotoBlogger
Bug fixes
- Deleting externally published albums through project context was broken
- Text-lookup could sometimes fail, causing !ui.keyHere! to be printed instead of text
- Deleting remote files would trigger the browser to show
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37.3.0
News and Updates
- Added "Scroll to top" preference, see Preferences-Explorer
- Updated TwelveMonkey's image IO library from v3.9.4 to v3.12
- Updated bundled skins Tiger and PhotoBlogger
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue with disabled buttons not showing on Windows Look&Feel (since 37.2)
- Some TIFF files couldn't be read (since v37)
- Fixed occasional hanging of UI when moving the location pin using the location editor
- Fixed issue with removal of keywords not working through context menu
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37.2.0
News and Updates
- The full screen review mode now displays camera metadata (hover the mouse over the file name to reveal, click to pin)
- The thumbnail context menu now allows RAW image settings to be copied, pasted and reset
- Updated "Add-Import from database file" to also allow mapping of CSV/xml data to user variables and to remember last used mappings.
- jAlbum's Search Bar has been updated visually. Now looks better and presents more menu options at the same time
- The camera tab of the Edit view has been updated
- Updated skins Tiger and PhotoBlogger
- Updated translations. Thank you dear translators
Bug fixes
- Thumbnails weren't updated as one changed RAW settings
- The camera settings now also show correctly for Nikon RAW files and other files storing EXIF data using multiple segments
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37.1.0
News and Updates
- Roughly twice as fast RAW image processing thanks to updated RAW library (LibRaw 24)
- Adding RAW image support to arm based Linux and M-series Mac computers thanks to updated RAW support
- Updated bundled Tiger skin
- Updated translations. Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
- Updated integrated browser support, fixing issue with unpacking browser binaries on Windows (blocked by Windows Defender)
- Fixed image aspect ratio error on RAW files of type RAF
- Fixed problem with certain RAW files causing crashes
- Fixed bug causing scheduled tasks to be fired too often
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