34.2
News and Updates
- The "jAlbum" metadata source now has highest read priority (over "xmp"). See Settings-Advanced-Metadata.
- The "jAlbum" and "xmp" sources are now broken out from "comment sources" and applies to all kinds of metadata. See Settings-Advanced-Metadata
- F7 now toggles console window visibility
- Updated bundled skins Plain and Animatics
Bug fixes
- Fix for errors generated for odd images when including metadata in generated images
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34.1
News and Updates
- The mouse wheel scroll speed can now be configured. See Preferences->Explorer.
- Updated bundled skins Story and Projector
- Somewhat better error reporting for broken images
Bug fixes
- Aborting album builds would sometimes trigger a warning notification (since v34)
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34
News and Updates
- New item ordering mechanism: Selected items can now be ordered by a number of factors (folders first, name, date, camera date, added date, rating, title, comment, category, type and shuffled). See blog post
- Select-as-you-type added: You can now quickly locate and select items within jAlbum's Explorer by just typing the first few letters of the file name.
Select-as-you-type is also implemented in the Project Gallery, MultiMaker and Backup/Restore tools. See blog post
- Folder navigation history added: jAlbum now keeps track of visited folders of the current project and enables you to go "Backward" and "Forward" to quickly peek at folder contents and then return to where you were before. Shortcuts: ALT-Left arrow and ALT-Right arrow. See blog post
- Now supports the "back" mouse button on 4-button mice.
This navigates back to the previously visited folder.
- The MultiMaker can now list projects under various locations, not just recent projects
- The MultiMaker now has a new "Apply current settings" context menu that applies the current settings to ALL selected projects.
This makes it super easy to, for instance, change skin or style on multiple projects
- The detail view of the background maker now includes the parent folder's name as well as the current file
- Added "Type" (file extension) ordering. (The old "Type" ordering was actually a Category ordering and is now correctly labeled "Category")
- Improved error reporting of background maker: If jAlbum fails to process an object, it's presented as a notification with a clickable link to the failing object.
- Renamed the "Order by" and "Order folders by" menus to "Ordering" and "Folder ordering" as they in fact MAINTAIN an ordering.
Contrast this with "Order selected by" which does the ordering at that point in time only.
- All current notifications are cleared when beginning a "Make in background" operation
- Important notifications now comes with a discrete audio signal
- Bundled skins Tiger, Story and Projector updated
Bug fixes
- Should not require a DISPLAY when running in console mode
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33.3
News and Updates
- GIF images now get "Use original" applied automatically. This ensures that animated GIFs always show up animated
Bug fixes
- Using "Use original" in combination with Variants caused broken image links with some skins
- jAlbum was sometimes re-uploading the whole gallery when resuming an interrupted upload.
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33.2
News and Updates
- Now "Rebuild all" and "Make Test" also runs in background mode (see Preference setting for background mode)
- Developers: Skins may now exclude certain file types and categories from builds. See forum
- Developers: New "earlyinit" init script that allows setting up stuff that needs to be done prior to "init" being called. See forum
- Developers: The Paginator class now supports including/excluding file types as well as categories. See forum
- Updated bundled skins Plain, Tiger and Projector
- Minor UI improvements
Bug fixes
- Backup tool didn't include originals for linked files in sub folders
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33.1
News and Updates
- Bundled with far more flexible Plain skin v2.1
- Updated Korean translation
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug causing reprocessing of folder thumbnails
- Some user settings weren't respected when making albums in background mode with some skins (Plain for instance)
- Change indicator (lower-left corner asterisk) did not respond to style changes
- Fixed old issue with some settings (at least credit links) requiring project to be closed and reopened to be respected
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33
News and Updates
- Rewritten, easier to use Settings window
- New tools to backup and restore projects. This simplifies the task of moving jAlbum projects from one computer to another. (See File menu)
- Faster startup (loads project icons in multiple threads)
- Plain skin is now updated, compiled (loads instantly) and is now the default skin
- Skins may now supply custom context menu items so users can easily apply settings to multiple items (see Tiger skin)
- jAlbum now cleans up stale original images from album when making an album after having unticked the "Include originals" setting
- Developers: Skins may set the skin property singleIndexPage=true to force the generation of one single index page, no matter the rows and cols settings.
- Developers: Skins that prefer using scripting to produce content rather that html mode + jAlbum's iterators now have a new "children" variable to assist iterating the children of a folder. The "children" variables is of type "Paginator" and supports methods to include- and exclude various file categories and to iterate the children Album Objects in "pages" (i.e. in sets of n items at a time).
- Moved some context menu items under a "Extensions" sub menu in order to have a more manageable size
- Made the camera importer tool more clever
- Developers: Skins may now supply a custom icon (see "icon" skin property)
- Faster skin loading. Compiled skins can now bypass execution of "onload" file and instead specify a "mainClass" skin property pointing to the UI code. See Plain skin
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32.1
News and Updates
- On Windows 11, popups now use native Windows 11 rounded borders and drop shadows, which gives them a beautiful look
- Mac version now adapts title bar colors to match system appearance
- New light and dark UI themes that use macOS colors and look similar to native macOS controls (See Preferences-General-Look And Feel)
- Updated bundled skins Tiger, PhotoBlogger and Story
- Updated Croatian translation
Bug fixes
- The "Do you want to save changes" dialog would sometimes not show (when using multiple screens)
- The folder property panel would sometimes show up cropped
- The file chooser dialog would sometimes not show up in front, when opened from the MultiMaker
- jAlbum's Explorer wouldn't scroll to reveal the last edited object when returning from Edit mode
- The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons on the crop focus selector weren't translated
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32
News and Updates
- Improved WebP writer. Now produces less blocky and smaller WebP images. See blog post
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts, even language specfic. See blog post
- Review mode now applies image tools like "auto correct" and crop to images just like Edit mode does.
- Better translations: Uses Google Translate to assist translators. See blog post
- Major updates to bundled skins. Check out new modern styles for Tiger, Story and PhotoBlogger!
- More robust skin loading
- jAlbum's "Add from phone" now announces itself on the local LAN (enables external apps to discover jAlbum)
- Shows spinner pointer if opening folders takes too much time
- jAlbum now has a complete Italian translation. Thank you IncoMedia!
Bug fixes
- Navigating folders on slow devices, like NAS storage is again significantly faster (got broken in v30.1 when introducing high quality thumbnails.
- Developers: importVariables was called twice on skin load. Now it's only called once
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31.1
News and Updates
- "Add from phone" (see blog post) now allows far longer videos and more images to be transferred in one go.
- "Add from phone" (see blog post) now has an improved progress indicator
- "Add from phone" (see blog post) window can now be kept open all the time (see context menu), thereby constantly allowing incoming images.
- Windows version now runs on Java 20 instead of Java 19
- Updated bundled skins Tiger and Story
Bug fixes
- Fixed problem handing images with rating -1
- Web locations were sometimes double-counted
- Search bar menu now reappears when search bar regains focus
- Improved "Add from phone" for Java 14 (Mac) (Improved local IP discovery)
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31
News and Updates
- Free update to anyone who is on a current support and update plan
- New "Add from phone" function for direct and fast transfer of images and videos from mobile phones and tablets to the current jAlbum folder. Simply point your phone's camera onto the displayed QR code and follow the link. Works across all mobile devices (Android + iOS). No app installs required.
- SHIFT-click either preview button to preview galleries on your phone through the provided QR code
- The embedded browser now has a "Phone previewer" button that allows you to preview and view galleries on your phone using a QR code
- Collaborative albums now has a "QR-invite" option, allowing people to contribute to an album with their phone images through QR codes
- The full screen review mode now scales-up images that are smaller than the screen
- The full screen review mode now displays the image dimensions as well
- Updated bundled Animatics skin
- Updated Groovy scripting engine to v4.0.12
- Translations updated, including Polish.
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