29.3
News and Updates
- New advanced option to remove diacritic marks from generated file names. This improves compatibility with servers that can't handle foreign characters properly
- Updated bundled Story skin
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29.2
News and Updates
- Keywords can now be renamed and deleted for multiple selected images. (Right click selected keywords in jAlbum's keywords list to reveal new context menu)
- Improved crop image tool: Now starts off with a full size crop box. No longer defaults to "Keep ratio". Helpful grid lines added to crop box. Use ALT qualifier key for centered resizing.
- Instead of aborting, will now log unexpected errors and continue album generation for unexpected errors occurring during image processing
- Improved uploads: Re-enabled "ssh-rsa" encryption algorithm to ease connecting to old ssh servers
- MultiMaker window now stays on top. (Minimize it or close it if it disrupts the view)
- Developers: Updates to Work API.
- Added "copy to clipboard" button to connection error dialog
- Developers: Skins may now set the cleanResFolder=true skin property if they want the "res" folder to be cleared on each album build
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators!
- External tools adjusted to make use of updated Work API
- Minor API enhancements (VersionNumber class)
Bug fixes
- Previewing galleries containing foreign characters didn't work (since 29.1)
- Textual edits weren't committed to the project if making an album using a keyboard shortcut while editing a text
- Fixed bug relating to JSON page generation causing JSON pages to be read before being fully created
- Fixed NullPointerException occurring when editing a JSpinner in Edit view->Raw settings and leaving Edit view while using some skins
- Fixed problem with HTML editor
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29.1
News and Updates
- Now uses up to 8 CPU cores for image processing instead of 4 for faster album builds
- Faster page processing due to better parallelism when updating pages (most noticeable on networked disks where up to 6x write speeds have been achieved)
- Faster metadata reading during album builds due to better parallelism. Now uses 24 threads instead of # of CPU cores. (most noticeable on networked disks where up to 3x read speeds have been achieved)
- Faster counting of # of total files during album builds due to better parallelism.
- jAlbum now remembers the thumbnail zoom position between sessions
- More conservative rewrites of resource files during album builds. Speeds up album builds.
- Removed obsolete code
- Developers: New Profiler API to address performance issues
- Developers: Now supports Groovy properties in skin UIs
- Developers: Dump threads now separates active from passive threads for quicker analysis
- Avoids creating already created directories. Improves album build performance
- ZigZag skin now allows order of images and text to be reversed
- ZigZag skin now uses Groovy as scripting language
- Prints status info during album builds for file attribute reading too
- Translations updated. Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
- "Show in file system" was causing failure launching the external browser afterwards (Windows only. Since v29)
- Deletion of unused JPEG images didn't work properly when switching from JPEG to WebP
- Fixed rename error occurring if one edits a project name and directly clicks on another project
- Fixed bug causing missing folder descriptions for non JSON skins (since 29.0.2)
- Fixed error when writing WebP theme images
- Minor bug fixes
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29.0
News and Updates
- jAlbum now runs natively on M1 Macs ("Apple Silicon") too. 3x speed improvement!
- Mac versions now using new "Metal" graphics pipeline (more energy efficient)
- Future proofed: Runs on Java 19 instead of Java 14
- Faster JPEG processing: 1,25x vs previous version
- Faster WebP writes: 1,94x faster vs previous version (Sample Project)
- Faster HEIC image reading: 1,69x vs previous version (iPhone 12 HEIC images)
- Faster TIFF image reading: 5,6x vs previous version
- More robust reading of TIFF and PSD files
- System console: More clever scrolling of output panel. Ability to execute statements in either panel
- Windows version now has a fully working "Open in file system" ability
- Supports new image formats: HDR and IFF
- Easier to set up monitored projects (projects that gets updated and uploaded once changes are made)
- Updated sftp library capable supporting modern encryption algorithms
- Updated Groovy language support (v4.0.4)
- Updated JavaScript language support
- All external tools rewritten using Groovy (shorter, cleaner code examples)
- Updated BeanShell scripting language to comply with Java 18's module system
- Updated look & feel library. Improvements to Windows rendering
- MultiMaker can now force rebuild projects. (Use ALT key)
- MultiMaker now keeps green color on made projects until window is closed and reopened
- Recovery tool is now aware of Variants (making better choices when recovering)
- Updated skins, including an updated Responsive. Thanks Jeff!
Bug fixes
- Fix to recovery tool not handling certain file name combinations
- Fix: File->Recent projects->Clear wasn't working properly
- Fix: If a skin disables widgets, then the widget activation button under Settings->Widgets is also disabled
- Monitoring is now paused for the currently open project (to avoid spurious updates while working on current project)
- Minor bug fixes
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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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