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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37.0.6
News and Updates
- Updated bundled skins Projector, Plain and Tiger,
Bug fixes
- v37 didn't respect embedded non sRGB color profiles when using jpeg-turbo reader
- Fixed old bug causing double builds when using the integrated web browser
- Fixed old bug causing excessive thread creation and RAM usage ("icon loader" thread)
- Fixed text rendering issue with Windows installer
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37
News and Updates
- Reads and writes JPEG images twice as fast thanks to turbojpeg library (native code stuffed with SIMD instructions for max performance)
- Faster image processing pipeline, lower RAM usage
- Image tools rewritten to take advantage of GPUs and SIMD instructions. The following image tools have been accelerated: Flip, Brightness, Contrast and Gamma
- Faster page processing during album builds: 1.7x normal speed when making a 6000 image Tiger gallery with slide pages, no mediaRSS
- Updated video processing code to ffmpeg 7, including AppleSilicon version for M-series Macs (1.5x faster video encoding)
- Faster folder tree rendering when navigating slow devices, like NAS devices. The folder tree is now discovered using multiple background threads, leading to a more responsive UI.
- jAlbum no longer reprocesses videos when issuing "Force remake". To also force video reprocessing, hold down ALT key.
- jAlbum's MultiMaker now uses SHIFT qualifier to trigger a "Force remake". (SHIFT-ALT triggers remake of videos as well)
- Removed expensive code to read old project format (projects older than 15.1)
- Progress bars now reflect video processing as well
- Progress bars now print video encoding speed as well
- Inactivated expensive deep change detection for embedded browser
- Bundled new Lizard skin (instead of ZigZag)
- Updated bundled Tiger skin
- Minor code optimizations (Vector to ArrayList etc)
Bug fixes
- jAlbum wouldn't include originals unless one issued a "Force remake" (since 35.1)
- Fixed icons for upload window (only folders should have a folder icon)
- Fixed occasional ClosedChannelException in Review mode
- Video support wasn't working on aarch64 (arm) version for Linux
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36.1
News and Updates
- jAlbum now runs on arm based Linux distros as well as Intel based
- Multi-screen aware: jAlbum now remembers the last screen, position and size of windows (see Preferences-General)
- Improved full screen support on integrated browser
- The location editor can now be undocked to a separate window
- Explorer view now supports PgUp, PgDown, Home and End navigation
- Usability: Folder tree triangles only show if there are sub folders now
- Usability: Folder tree doesn't expand unless one hits a triangle or double-clicks
- Generates project previews from recent project list as well
- Updated bundled skins
- jAlbum now runs on top of Java 23
Bug fixes
- The integrated browser now plays videos as well (licensing issue fixed)
- Better keyboard focus behaviour for integrated browser on Linux
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36
News and Updates
- jAlbum's embedded browser engine replaced from the outdated "WebKit" based browser to a modern "Chromium" based browser engine. This fixes many rendering and JavaScript issues and improves performance
- jAlbum's embedded browser now supports full screen mode
- Developers: jAlbum's embedded browser now supports source code viewing
- Developers: jAlbum's embedded browser now supports developer tools
- jAlbum's embedded browser now has a convenient context menu
- MultiMaker window is no longer always on top
- Updated bundled skins
- Updated translations. Thank you dear translators
Bug fixes
- jAlbum's Google Map's based Location Editor now works again
- Copy + paste now working in the embedded html editor (thanks to new browser engine)
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35.1.3
News and Updates
- Now prints startup time to system console
- Updated bundled skins Tiger and Projector
Bug fixes
- Windows file chooser would crash if selecting many files with long file names
- "Delete published album" did not always work. Requires re-upload to fix
- Improved startup robustness (clipboard was previously queried over a custom thread)
- Removed Java 16 dependencies so jAlbum also runs on Java 14
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