jAlbum 11new

Released: April 24, 2013

11.2.1

News and Updates

• Album projects can now be ordered by reverse name too
• Renamed "Include original" to "Do not re-encode" for videos
• Now more tolerant to faulty camera metadata structures. Images processed through Adobe Lightroom used to not have its EXIF metadata visible in jAlbum due to an incorrectly written "EXIF Directory length" field. jAlbum now handles such files too.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug causing only the first of several IPTC keywords to show (Since 11.2)

Released: April 19, 2013

11.2

News and Updates

• Added "Project ordering" drop menu. Projects can now be ordered by name or last used
• Videos can now be selected to have their processing bypassed (check "Include original")
• Added play button onto videos in the user interface to better indicate them
• Extended tool-tip display time from 4 seconds to 10 seconds
• Updated bundled skin Turtle to v4.1
• Armenian translation added. Thank you Hrant Ohanyan!

Bug fixes

• The preview image was not updated while the video clip sliders were dragged
• The video clip slider was not visible for videos having their own custom thumbnail file (.thm file)
• Editing titles and ratings of objects in a sub folder wouldn't trigger reprocessing of that sub folder if "Process only updated sub folders" was selected
• Fix to disabling of undo/redo for read-only text components
• Respects portrait oriented embedded thumbnails instead of creating separate thumbnails
• Style hints was applied twice and caused deadlock if opening a project while loading a skin
• Fixed character encoding issue for EXIF and IPTC metadata
• The videoWidth and videoHeight variables weren't calculated correctly if a custom thumbnail file were present having other dimensions than the video
• The underlying metadata-extractor library was sometimes wrongly returning metadata for an embedded thumbnail instead of metadata for the main image
• The demo filter "SimpleFilter" was broken

Released: April 15, 2013

11.1.5

News and Updates

• Renamed "Use as folder thumbnail" to "Make key photo" and moved closer to top of context menu (inspired by iPhoto)
• Bundled updated Turtle skin v4.0.11
• The detection of skin changes upon make album that triggers skin reloading is now based on version number instead of checking last modified date

Bug fixes

• jAlbum 11.1 could fail with out of memory error when making huge albums (around 20.000 images). Now reverted to earlier memory management.
• Import settings wasn't fully tight
• Now prevents .mp4 videos from being overwritten if output is set to same directory as input directory
• jAlbum wouldn't use the embedded thumbnail images of some portrait oriented images when painting the user interface thumbnails, and would instead generate its own (since v11)
• Minor bug fixes

Released: April 10, 2013

11.1

News and Updates

• Asks user whether he wishes to copy added files or link to them (saves disk space for instance). See this blog post for more info on different ways of managing images with jAlbum.
• Copy files progress bar now shows progress during the copying of large files too
• Performance enhancements
• Minor UI adjustments
• Updated bundled skins Turtle and Base.
• More robust against broken images
• Verifies date pattern under advanced album settings so incorrect patterns are prevented
• Now reporting number of videos when adding albums to jalbum.net
• Now using a smaller folder icon when in small thumbnail view
• Developers: New API for fast and flexible counting of object categories
• Logo filter can now be excluded for selected images

Bug fixes

• Updating a skin from within jAlbum would reload default skin settings instead of keeping project settings
• Partly uploaded files weren't completed on next upload
• Files having a "-" in the start of the file name weren't sorted according to user's wish
• Updating skins would sometimes cause an exception to be thrown
• Typing special Polish characters when entering captions would trigger events like undo/redo
• Updating skins would sometimes cause an exception to be thrown
• Moving deleting and excluding videos was not synchronized with the corresponding video file in the album structure
• Wasn't possible to select folders to represent albums
• Ensures that any locally stored manifest.jmf file isn't uploaded (should never be manually uploaded)
• The selected style on Mac wasn't rendered correctly
• Made uploading albums more robust against jalbum.net not responding correctly
• Fix to bug in detection of circular folder references (equal folder names would fool the logic)
• Fix to bug calculating the right web root url from an ftp server name

Released: March 13, 2013

11

News and Updates

• Converts over 160 video formats suitable for the web (mp4). See blog post
• Auto detects and adjusts video orientation
• Allows videos to be rotated
• Videos can have their start and end trimmed
• Generates preview images for videos
• Supported video formats are configurable under preferences. There is also a master switch to enable/disable video support under Preferences
• Now smart enough to pick the latest skin version from disk, be it either a bundled skin or an installed skin (Previously just picked an installed skin, if present)
• If skin related error occurs, a friendly error dialogue is now displayed helping users to update skin and report errors. (Switch on debug mode to get the classic error dialogue)
• New license info panel under "About jAlbum" window
• Bundled the Arty ("Instagram" like effects) and AutoCorrection image tools
• Support for rotating all images, not just images coming straight from digital cameras (having EXIF data)
• Tags published albums containing processed videos with a "video" tag
• If unexpected internal errors occur (stuff printed to System.err), will display a small warning icon in the lower right corner. Clicking it will bring up the error message in the System console.
• Remembers divider location, if "Remember window position and size" set
• New pro looking program icons
• New 128x128 web icon set
• Minor user interface adjustments
• Includes updates to Turtle, Base, Mr.Burns and Lumen skins
• Clicking the thumbnail icon for the current album project will leave edit mode and return you to the thumbnail view (and root folder)
• Developers: Now sets closeupPath for supported videos to slide page to enable embedded videos
• Developers: New API for unzipping and downloading
• Developers: Added the skin variables "videoWidth" and "videoHeight", that will give you the dimensions of the processed/final video (only present if video support is switched on)
• Developers: Added file category support (fileCategory variable)
• Developers: Blur filter now accepts different radius/strength

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug causing editing of moved objects to break
• Fix for nullpointer exception bug when painting thumbnails
• Fix for custom image size error (custom maxImageWidth etc ignored when generating variables)
• Fix to error linking to non existent slide pages
• Fixed bug causing style hints to sometimes not being applied
• Fixed "Invalid code" error when activating license
• Fixed folder ordering bug for folders ending in a space
• Fixed bug where folder thumbnails did not always have the movie thumbnail painted right
• Handles cases where Apache Sanselan can't include xmp metadata in generated hi-res images during upload
• Fixed bug causing infinite loop when enlarging images
• Various minor fixes

Released: November 27, 2012

10.10.8

News and Updates

• Windows version packaged with an updated installer software
• Easier to correctly activate license (erroneous trailing spaces are trimmed from the activation code)
• Bundled Base skin updated

Bug fixes

• Windows version could sometimes trigger security warnings
• The "IPTC author" field of images could sometimes leak into the xmp title field of images
• Uploads could sometimes end up with an error in "Notifier" (missing album URL)
• Fix for custom image size error (image specific maxImageWidth etc variables ignored when generating variables)
• Loading album projects by dropping project files onto the dock icon on Mac could sometimes cause errors
• Fix for not being able to open folders containing double spaces in file names (Windows only)
• More robust against errors reading xml metadata from .info files
• Fix for calculation of album URL (we sometimes got "No web directory selected")
• Running the Mac version as another user than the installed user would prevent the system standard file chooser from opening
• Fix for nullpointer exception bug when painting thumbnails in the UI

Released: October 12, 2012

10.10.7

News and Updates

• Updated bundled Lumen skin now supporting image specific visitor comments via the commenting widget
• Connecting to servers using the sftp protocol (secure ftp) now also supports the "Keyboard interactive" authentication mode.
• Updated Dutch translation

Bug fixes

• The processing of PNG images was broken if "Force JPEG writing" was switched off.
• jAlbum failed to paint the user interface correctly if running on Java 1.5. This mostly affected users running Mac OS X 10.4
• Fix for allowing password popup dialogue on sftp servers that don't accept "Password interactive mode"
• jAlbum wouldn't allow deletion of a folder linked to a read-only target folder

Released: October 3, 2012

10.10.6

News and Updates

• Added new "jAlbum core update" external tool to simplify ad-hoc patches to jAlbum
• Mac version now signed with a code certificate in order to avoid warnings when launching jAlbum on OS X Mountain Lion

Bug fixes

• Failing to append xmp metadata to file would make jAlbum ignore file. Now file is written without xmp metadata for such cases.
• Uploading albums with updated images wouldn't include the updated images (broken since 10.10)
• jAlbum didn't handle < and > in passwords properly
• jAlbum would show a "Do you wish to save changes" warning when moving between album projects while a skin was loading
• Several bug fixes to make jAlbum run properly on Java 1.7 for Mac
• Keyboard support wasn't working when running the full screen slide show on Mac and Java 7
• Album objects (thumbnails) weren't rearranged correctly in the project window when having "Hide excluded" set
• IPTC metadata wasn't imported to xmp block if image already contained an xmp block
• The version number didn't show in the about dialog when using the Alloy look and feel

Released: September 19, 2012

10.10

News and Updates

• Faster album making (roughly 30% faster image processing)
• Faster loading of large album projects (album objects are initialized by multiple threads)
• New "Make an album like that" feature: Ability to import album settings from existing published albums, so you can copy the look of an album you like. See File->Import
• Ability to reset an album project to default settings. Practical if you've lost your way in settings. See File->Import
• Easier and faster skin updating: Skins can now be downloaded and installed from within jAlbum. No need to involve the web browser.
• Better, user configurable credit links, helping making jAlbum known. See Album settings->Pages
• New Minimal skin (v2.0). Updated to today's web standards, but keeping the minimalistic feel.
• Updated Base and Turtle skins
• For skin developers: New alpha (transparency) aware color selector (JAlphaColorSelector)
• Somewhat more performant file writes
• Now verifies validity of web root URLs, making it less likely to have a 404 error when viewing final album
• Widget support always on for unlicensed users
• Various minor code improvements

Bug fixes

• Users could sometimes get a "No such user" error message after uploading albums
• Album projects containing folders with representing thumbnails referenced via broken links wouldn't open
• The output (album) directory was created as soon as skins were loaded instead of at album build time
• Some images could trigger an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error when appending xmp metadata during album generation (3:rd party bug in Apache Sanselan library. Now handled by ignoring appending xmp metadata for such images)

Released: August 28, 2012

10.9.2

News and Updates

• Updated bundled skins "Mr.Burns" and "Lumen"

Bug fixes

• Fixed java.lang.NullPointerException when uploading albums (in Notifier.java:108)

Released: August 25, 2012

10.9.1

News and Updates

• jAlbum now always prints some diagnostic message to the system console if a severe error occurs that prevents jAlbum from starting
• For skin developers: The JColorSelector component is now somewhat better at supporting colors with alpha channels on Java 7

Bug fixes

• Under rare circumstances, the recent project list would show each entry doubled (since 10.9)
• jAlbum wouldn't launch on Java 7 (since v10.9)
• jAlbum's embedded text editor would cause error messages to be printed to the system console when editing new files
• The "Convert spaces to underscores" external tool was broken
• Minor fix to embedded Turtle skin (stripping quotation from home page link text)

Released: August 23, 2012

10.9

News and Updates

• New widget settings tab that allows you to manage widgets for albums from within the software itself
• New address bar added to jAlbum's thumbnail view. The address bar continuously shows you the hard disk location of the currently open folder (can be toggled on/off)
• An initial path can be added to the server name of connection profiles, thereby enabling users to upload albums to ftp servers that hide files and directories
• Less annoying notifications: jAlbum now ensures that not more than two "promo type" notifications are shown per session. Also, such "promo type" notifications won't interrupt any currently showing notifications (they are put on a queue instead)
• Updated ftp library to v2.3.0 (previously 2.1.0)
• Promotion links are now never added to albums when a license is active

Bug fixes

• Fixes to jAlbum's detection of published albums: Some albums didn't show up as published even though they were.
• Some thumbnails in the recent album project list would sometimes not show. This bug has been around for years and now finally found and fixed!
• The detection of recent album projects has been rewritten. There were occasions where the previous code could cause an empty recent project list. This will hopefully never happen again.
• Fix for running jAlbum on Java 1.7 (fix for SocketReset error during ftp uploads)
• jAlbum can now again produce that famous "ribbit" sound when clicking the frog face during start-up :-)

Released: August 8, 2012

10.8.1

News and Updates

• No longer saving passwords for account profiles as plain text (applies to new account profiles)
• Added directory chooser button for "My Albums" location to jAlbum's preferences dialog
• Updated bundled skins Turtle, Base and Galleria

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug causing mixup of some camera metadata when using multiple threads with some skins (really old bug)
• The user interface was hanging if making albums after modifying a skin (installing an update or editing the currently used skin)
• jAlbum didn't start on Java 1.5. This mainly affected those running jAlbum on Mac OS X 10.4
• Fixed bug where jAlbum would choke on some unusually formatted xmp metadata in images
• Reloading a skin now keeps the current skin and style settings
• Filters out jAlbum specific files from the "res" folder of album projects when copying files
• The "My Albums" location couldn't be set to the root of a file system (for instance C:\)
• jAlbum would accidentally create a .jalbum folder inside the installation folder on startup (since 10.8)

Released: July 6, 2012

10.8

News and Updates

• Albums may now be tagged to increase visibility in search engines etc (see Album settings->General)
• jAlbum now saves xmp formatted metadata with generated closeups and hi-res images. This for instance ensures that photographer copyright information and keywords are preserved (Setting is on by default. Can be controlled under Album settings->Advanced->Metadata).
• jAlbum now provides a native way to add a link to your homepage from the albums (See Album settings->Pages). This was previously a setting each skin had to provide (in various ways). jAlbum also imports existing homepage links from skins like Turtle, Galleria, Photobox, MatrixSlide and Matrix. Skin developers: Please use the new homepageAddress and homepageLinkText variables to support homepage linking!
• Updated bundled Turtle skin: Now supports facebook commenting among a list of other improvements
• Updated several bundled skins to support new homepage linking
• New and faster loading splash screen
• Removed obsolete 3:rd party code
• Various internal improvements

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug causing album objects to go out of order when converting links to copies

Released: May 16, 2012

10.7.2

News and Updates

• Again reverted to reading TIFF images using the Sanselan library as it is far faster. (Fixed issue where some images read via Sanselan didn't show up)
• Removes camera maker copyright notes from the "IPTC Caption" field too
• Increased font size on camera metadata listing and made font size adjustable (+/- keys)
• Bundled with updated versions of Turtle, Mr.Burns and Lumen skins

Bug fixes

• Grayscale filter on Mac version didn't handle transparency
• Fixed nullpointer exception bug in histogram

Released: May 3, 2012

10.7

News and Updates

• jAlbum now supports a histogram for easier image editing and analysis
• Right-click image(s) and select "List metadata" to see all embedded metadata (exif+iptc+xmp) listed in a separate window
• Right click image(s) and select "Open with..." to integrate jAlbum with your favorite image editing software.
• jAlbum now also makes all xmp variables as parsed by Adobe's standard library available via the "meta" object under the "xmp." namespace. Previously, xmp variables were only available via a sparate "xmp" object.
• Licensed albums are now tagged with an id number instead of the username of the license holder (for improved integrity)
• Bundled with updated Turtle skin 3.2.0
• Windows version bundled with updated Java 1.6.0_32

Bug fixes

• jAlbum 10.6 wouldn't run from command line mode on servers lacking a display.
• More robust uploading: Album uploads would halt with a "No such file" error if album sub folders had been manually deleted from the server.
• For developers: jAlbum's layout manager RiverLayout wasn't respecting component's maximum size limitation for elastic components

Released: April 23, 2012

10.6

News and Updates

• You can now be signed out and still have your license active
• The Mac version of jAlbum now has a native file chooser for adding images and image folders. Thanks goes to TeamDev jniwrapper for the support for this.
• Added alternative way of activating/attaching license based on a code (See Help->Activate license)
• New sub context menu for picking page templates from currently loaded skin when building web sites
• More robust reading of certain JPEG images.
• Bundled with updated Turtle 3.1.2 skin version
• Album's plugin API updated to allow for new kinds of extensions. The first one to use this is our new Histogram plugin
• Added language info to published albums
• Added a JAlbum.dumpThreads() debug method for developers
• Added a "version too low" error message if users try to run jAlbum's internal text editor on Java 1.5.
• Translations updated for Brazilian Portuguese, German, English, Swedish, French, Spanish, Finnish, Slovak, Polish, Slovenian, Romanian and Korean. Thank you dear translators!

Bug fixes

• Passing a -projectFile as argument to running jAlbum in console mode generated a nullpointer exception
• Image size specific variables were sometimes lacking when processing "ja:fileiterator nodirs" elements
• Broken images could cause a nullpointer exception
• Uploading folders with missing project files would generate and error when writing the lifeboat.zip file
• png files named PNG wouldn't be processed.
• The "Server mode" tool wasn't working in UI mode
• media.rss injection and Microsoft MarkOfTheWeb injection wasn't working for skins using headers and footers

Released: March 27, 2012

10.5.2

News and Updates

• Updated bundled Turtle skin to 3.0.5
• Updated external tool "Import comments from rss file". Now repairs albums with sub folders too

Bug fixes

• Album builds could sometimes break with a nullpointer exception on multi core CPUs (since 10.4)
• Bug fix to reading CMYK encoded JPEG images

Released: March 19, 2012

10.5

News and Updates

• Up to 8 times faster album downloading due to simultaneous file transfers
• jAlbum now able to import published albums created with desktop jAlbum too (not just albums made with online jAlbum)
• jAlbum now has an option to force GIF and PNG files to be written as JPEG too
• Album projects can now be moved and copied without breaking
• Automatically identifies and handles incompatible skins
• Sign-out button moved to File menu (only to be used rarely)
• Updated bundled skins Turtle, Base and Mr.Burns
• "New skin" tool (Tools->Skin developer->New skin) now asks user what skin to use as base for new skin
• Mac version repackaged without a visible "skins" folder. (Users should never modify the bundled skins)
• Embedded skin editor now warns if user tries to modify a bundled skin (can result in changes being overwritten by updates)
• "Lifeboat file" now includes custom pages too meaning that full web sites can be restored too

Bug fixes

• Fixed "ConcurrentModificationException" sometimes occuring when making albums (since 10.4)
• Album projects having deep sub folders with the same name (for instance "Family/2011" and "Work/2011") could cause jAlbum to open the wrong sub folder while navigating

Released: March 9, 2012

10.4.4

Bug fixes

• Applying a sharpening filter on certain JPEG images could cause an "Unable to convolve src image" error (Old Java bug #6585922 we've now worked around)

Released: March 8, 2012

10.4.3

Bug fixes

• jAlbum would re-upload hi-res images every time, even if they were already uploaded (broken since 10.4)

Released: March 7, 2012

10.4.2

News and Updates

• Updated software certificate for windows installer package

Bug fixes

• Widgets broken on some skins that were including the page footer (Galleria and others)
• Wouldn't allow users to make albums to the same folder as the image/input folder (broken since 10.4)
• Images with broken metadata (EXIF) structures could cause out of memory conditions (old issue)
• The ja:widget tag now allows the page type to be passed with the ${pageType} syntax

Released: March 2, 2012

10.4

News and Updates

• Support for making whole web sites and not just albums. Currently supported by "Turtle", "Galleria", "Minimal" and "Base" skins (now bundled). More skins to follow.
• About 40% faster page processing due to better use of multi-core CPUs
• Bundled updated Turtle 3.0 and Base 2.0 skins. See skin pages for a full list of enhancements.
• Support for transparent images and PNG writing. GIF and PNG files are now written as PNG files
• Images can now be individually scaled to different sizes (by overriding the max* image size variables for specific images.
• Album projects missing a "directory" entry will now pick the image directory path from the project file location. This will soon help to making album projects truly portable
• Alt-clicking preview will bring up final published album (only valid for albums uploaded using jAlbum 10.4 and up)
• Removed "Generate Search engine friendly file names" feature for now. It wasn't ready for prime time (caused too many side effects)
• Images can now be oriented in any direction
• Supports dragging and dropping .ico files too
• Camera copyright messages are now filtered from the EXIF "Image desc." field
• jAlbum now keeps track of dates and locations for made and uploaded albums (will be put to use in future versions)
• Added "Activate license" button to about window
• Introducing "licenceManager", "currentObject" and "currentFolder" and "rootFolder" variables to compiled code
• Added a pageType variable (values are "index", "slide" or "page")
• Puts a unique ID in the widget loader for anonymous / not signed in albums. This will make it considerably easier to later get rid of ads for such albums. (Will remove the need for rebuilding and reuploading albums after purchasing a license)
• Made the objects "rootFolder", "currentFolder" and "selectedObjects" available via the system console as a convenience to developers

Bug fixes

• jAlbum wasn't actually using the recently added "FTPES", "FTPS" and "FTP (ftp4j)" transfer protocols.
• Xmp captions would be deleted from images that were linked into jAlbum when such images were deleted from jAlbum
• jAlbum's notification system failed to work on OS X Lion (spitting out loads of error reports on the system console)
• Fixed minor rounding error for scaling images (could get one pixel too small)
• Images could show up incorrectly oriented if "Include photographic data in images" was checked
• Rewrote progress dialog window. Now improved performance and fixed bug causing the progress dialog to spontaneously reopen after having been automatically closed after a successful album build
• Unrelated files could be accidentally deleted from a server folder the second time an album was uploaded to a server folder where other files are already present
• Moving images didn't also move the corresponding generated files
• Some albums were made without thumbnails if a previously used skin switched off thumbnail generation
• Replaced files (when adding files to jAlbum) are first removed, then added again. This removes stale cached thumbnails and stale generated slide images
• jAlbum's settings window could become larger than the screen with certain skins and settings
• AlbumObject.getLastModified() is now correct for folders too (senses structural changes to children)
• The "onload.bsh" script file now has access to "rootFolder" and "rootImageDirectory" variables
• Images taken upside down weren't oriented right

Released: January 4, 2012

10.3.1

News and Updates

• Portuguese translation updated.

Bug fixes

• Windows version would hang when dragging and dropping images from the file chooser onto jAlbum. This bug has been around for over a year and is now finally fixed.
• Mac version would fail with "Could not initialize class com.adobe.xmp.impl.XMPMetaParser" error on OS X Lion
• Error reporting for skins that require "compatibility mode" to run wasn't tight

Released: January 2, 2012

10.3

News and Updates

• More memory conservative so huge albums can be built without running out of memory. (Some older skins will need to run in "compatibility mode" to work with this release. See Preferences->Advanced)
• Supports reading JPEG images in the CMYK color space too. Thanks goes to Werner Randelshofer for making this possible.
• Sub-albums can now be selectively hidden (i.e. included in the album, but not linked to from index pages).
• Can generate search engine friendly file names. (See setting under Advanced settings->Naming)
• Guides users trying to upload to jAlbum's storage without having storage activated
• Welcomes licensed users upon license activation. Excludes credit links by default for licensed users
• New file type: .patch.jaskin: Contains only new and updated skin files. Deletion of the old skin doesn't happen. This simplifies distributing minor patches to skins.
• Translations updated. Thank you all translators!

Bug fixes

• Fixed memory leak on Mac that could cause huge memory usage when working with many album objects in the UI.
• Fixed issue where jAlbum could hang if Make album was pressed while loading a project
• Dismissing skin "like" notifications is now remembered
• Negative camera metadata values expressed as rational numbers weren't interpreted correctly (for instance EV -1/3)
• Fixed randomly occuring exception in renderer thread
• Fixed exception triggered in "SpecialMacHandler" when quitting Mac version
• Better error reporting if "Output has not been set" error occurs

Released: December 5, 2011

10.2

News and Updates

• Up to 10 times faster album uploads when uploading to external sites (uploads to jalbum.net are already accelerated). The accelerated speed is gained by transferring multiple files simultaneously (see jAlbum preferences->publishing for configuring)
• Support for the secure file transfer protocols "FTPS" and "FTPES" added. jAlbum now supports four transfer protocols: FTP, SFTP, FTPS and FTPES.
• jAlbum now works correctly behind http proxies (proxy settings can be manually configured under Preferences->Advanced unless auto configuration works)
• Added "Activate license" menu item to help menu
• Updated 3:rd party SFTP library to improve stability on secure transfers (jsch 0.1.45)
• Added new 3:rd party library for FTP transfers (ftp4j 1.6.1)
• Updated bundled "Turtle" skin to v2.1.10
• Updated bundled "Happenings" skin to v1.1.7
• Updated bundled "PhotoBox" skin to v1.1.15

Bug fixes

• Upload window wasn't working using GTK+ Look&Feel on Linux
• Images altered outside of jAlbum didn't trigger jAlbum to recopy them to the destination album (if "link to originals" and "copy originals" was chosen)
• An early 10.2 release had issues with loading the FotoPlayer skin and switching to other skins thereafter.
• The remote directory (where to upload albums) was accidentally stored among the default settings
• Previewing albums didn't work on some Windows machines

Released: October 18, 2011

10.1.2

News and Updates

• Bundled with updated Turtle skin 2.1.4
• Faster start up time on systems with a large number of installed fonts (font list loaded in separate thread)

Bug fixes

• Could accidentally delete files from the destination folder on the server that haven't been previously uploaded by jAlbum. This is a several year old bug.
• Autocompletes keywords with coRRect CaseIng and not just with small caseing
• The embed album function could sometimes bail out with scripting errors

Released: October 5, 2011

10.1

News and Updates

• Updated filter bar: You can now filter on keywords too. Use comma and plus separated keywords to narrow the number of images to match your liking
• Fast and convenient keyword tagging: jAlbum learns your keywords and autocompletes them as you type. See video!
• jAlbum now offers you to "like" the currently used skin after a successful album upload.
• Reset filter bar button added to filter bar
• Filter bar can be closed with escape key
• jAlbum's xmp property editor now imports metadata like Author, Keywords and Copyright from the older IPTC fields if an image lacks xmp fields but has IPTC fields
• The filter bar now applies a logical "AND" between the ratings, flags and keywords categories, so it's now easier to for instance filter for all "5-star nature images"
• Bundled Turtle skin updated to v2.1.2
• New LicenseManager API replacing SignInManager for handling licenses
• Minor user interface polishing
• Added keyboard shortcut to import settings from other projects (CTRL+SHIFT+O)
• jAlbum's PluginContext API now has a getCurrentFolder() call too.
• Windows version bundled with latest official Java version (1.6.0_27)
• Defaults to using Java's more modern "Desktop" API for launching browsers and opening file system folders in Explorer and Finder

Bug fixes

• jAlbum 10 introduced incompatibility with some skins (triggered scripting errors due to missing API call). Now fixed.
• The external tool "Apply ordering to subfolders" was broken.
• Some albums could get a broken parent link from the top level instead of no parent link (${parentIndexPage} was incorrectly null instead of missing)
• When moving to a parent folder in a final album, you were incorrectly taken to the first index page instead of the index page linking to the current folder.
• More robust against broken image data structures when figuring out image orientation

Released: September 26, 2011

10.0.1

Bug fixes

• Wouldn't start on computers only having Java 1.5 installed (applied to early versions of v10)
• Java 1.6.0_26 had a bug that prevented the file chooser from showing up when clicking "Add photos" on Windows, Windows version therefore again bundled with a bug fixed Java version (Java 7)
• Several bug fixes to bundled Turtle skin
• Some skins would incorrectly produce dead parent level links from the root album level (${parentIndexPage} was incorrectly declared for root level).
• Some skins (Turtle, Lumen, Mr.Burns) wouldn't build albums from command line.

Released: September 19, 2011

10

News and Updates

• New license model: jAlbum is now free for non commercial use only. For commercial use of the application you need to purchase a Pro license. The Pro license also lets you remove ads and white label your albums, and will give you access to our priority e-mail support.
• Full xmp metadata support. Read and write metadata like caption, title, rating, keywords, author and copyright directly to your images and exchange data with other xmp aware applications like Adobe Photoshop, Bridge and Lightroom. Read blog.
• Now also supporting the image formats TIFF, PSD (some aspects), PNM, PGM, PBM, and PPM. For details see the Sanselan library
• Albums can now be easily embedded in web sites and blogs by using the new "Embed album" feature. Skin developers can use the new "embed.htt" template file to customize how their skins are embedded. Read blog.
• You can now move album objects (images, folders) between album projects (within the same application)
• The filter bar now lets you filter by flag/color (xmp Label) too, and the slide show allows you to quickly flag images by color using keys 6-9. (Use keys 0-5 to rate images). Read blog.
• Faster album making: We were able to avoid duplication of metadata reading
• Upload button now defaults to the advanced upload window for externally hosted albums (ALT key toogles between quick and advanced view)
• New XmpManager API for those skin and plugin developers who wish to manage the hundreds of other XMP properties there are.
• Skins Lumen, Mr.Burns and Galleria updated
• New "Copy file metadata to xmp" external tool that injects xmp metadata into the images of old album projects
• Turtle skin now v2.0, a major rewrite packed with improvements and new expressions.
• Translations updated. Thank you all translators for your continuous help!

Bug fixes

• Fix to reading Unicode encoded EXIF User comments.
• Fixed error causing "Convert link to copy" from two folder levels down to seemingly not work (the visual appearance wasn't updated)
• Operations were applied to album objects that were selected but filtered-out by a filter
• Some images got negative GPS coordinates

Released: August 25, 2011

9.6

News and Updates

• The thumbnail view can now be filtered on image rating (and in the future on keywords etc). Press CTRL+F to activate the filtering (CMD+F on Mac). See blog post for more details.
• Images can be easily rated using keys 0-5 in both thumbnail view mode, edit mode and full screen slide show mode. The rating also shows in full screen slide show mode (can be toggled with the "R" key)
• The full screen slide show can be played and paused using the space bar key
• When adding files that already exists, allows the user to skip or replace on a per-file basis
• New dialog explaining different drag and drop behaviors
• If errors occur, the error dialog now has a "Copy" button to copy the error message to the clipboard (simplify error reporting to us)
• Added skin API for commercial / licensed skins
• Hovering the mouse over the "Filters applied" status icon of a thumbnail now lists the image filters applied
• Embedded IPTC titles are now respected by the UI and ${title} variable
• Flash videos are now also considered "media files" and gets a superimposed film icon
• File type icons now changed from GIF to PNG type
• New bundled Flash based skin: "Lumen"
• New bundled Flash based skin: "Mr.Burns"
• Skin "Simplicity" no longer bundled. Available from http://jalbum.net/skins/skin/Simplicity

Bug fixes

• Embedded EXIF captions on some images couldn't be properly read
• Embedded GPS coordinates on some images couldn't be properly read
• Switching between languages would reset the "After publishing" behavior to "Open publish successful page"

Released: June 20, 2011

9.5

News and Updates

• Avoids copying files already copied from camera memory cards by storing a small database on each card. (Behavior can be controlled under jAlbum Preferences)
• jAlbum is now better at accepting files dropped from iPhoto and Photoshop Elements (got worse since v9). Such images can now be either copied or linked to jAlbum
• jAlbum now detects camera memory cards inserted into the computer (Bundled CameraImporter extension).
• Asks 1:st time users if they already have a jAlbum account when uploading
• Clicking the account status bar in the lower right now takes you to your profile page signed in

Bug fixes

• Windows version now bundled with Java 1.6.0_25 as a bug introduced in 1.6.0_26 (the current release) has broken the "Add photos" button. Those who wish can download jAlbum without embedded Java here.
• Files containing illegal web characters could accidentally be moved or deleted by jAlbum (since 9.3)
• jAlbum failed to start on other systems than Windows, Mac and Linux (since 9.4)
• Renaming a file extension between upper and lower case didn't work
• The "Convert upper case to lower case" tool didn't work
• Creating project names or renaming projects to invalid names now properly errors
• Removed debug prints

Released: May 26, 2011

9.4.1

News and Updates

• Mac version now uses the Mac native file chooser whenever possible for a better Mac-ish feeling
• The Linux installers (Ubuntu-Debian and RedHat-RPM) now associate jalbum project files, skins and extensions with jAlbum with proper icons. Thank you Cody for assistance on this!
• French and Slovenian translations updated. Thank you translators!
• Galleria and Happenings bundled skins updated
• Embedded skin text editor now updated to include new v9.4 variables "currentObject", "currentFolder" and "rootFolder"

Bug fixes

• Album generation could halt with an "ArrayStoreException" if minor errors were encountered in the processed images (since 9.4)
• The Linux Debian installer no longer complains about invalid binaries during installation
• Skin developers: Calling getVars() on AlbumObjects now never returns null (registers those variables on demand)
• Skin developers: Entering an empty string in a custom UI field and later clearing it won't leave that field overriding a skin settings UI field with the same name.

Released: May 13, 2011

9.4

News and Updates

• New extension support. Extend jAlbum's functionality as easily as you install skins by double clicking .jaext files
• Major updates to album engine. Now up to 40% faster page processing and updated API for skin developers
• Config files now centrally located in one config folder
• Logo filter now accepts different transparency levels and rotation angles. New attributes are angle and strengthPercent. See example in our blog!
• Excluded images can now also be used as folder thumbnails
• Windows version now installs on both 32 and 64 bit Windows
• jAlbum now has a better looking Windows 7 task bar icon.
• External tools can now be installed next to installed skins (in a "tools" folder") and thereby survive jAlbum updates
• Splash screen now has a debug feature to trace cause of startup-hangs. Alt-click the splash screen to trigger a full thread dump.
• Updated Plugin API. jAlbum extensions can now install themselves in the Import menu too.
• Missing album project no longer generate error lines to the console window
• Chameleon skin no longer bundled, but can at any time be downloaded here

Bug fixes

• Skin installer sometimes quit before being done installing skins. This could result in all kinds of skin related errors. If you have any issues running a skin, try reinstalling that skin using this update.
• Files couldn't be deleted from within jAlbum if they were located on an Apple AFS volume (Mac only)
• Some ftp servers didn't allow jAlbum to list directory contents

Released: April 19, 2011

9.3

News and Updates

• Improved privacy control when uploading albums. You can now password protect albums as you upload them and select who are to know about your album updates on a per album basis. Read more
• Windows version now precompiled and packaged with Excelsior JET for improved startup performance and ease of installation on 64 bit systems. This also means that jAlbum for Windows now is independent of Java. You are recommended to uninstall earlier versions before installing this version. If you perfer jAlbum to rely on your existing Java installation, just download from all-systems instead
• Import album projects from Online jAlbum by using the integrated import wizard (File->Import). Note, you cannot currently convert imported albums back to Online jAlbum albums.
• jAlbum can now prevent you from entering file name characters that are illegal in web use. See Preferences->Album
• Displays the project folder name instead of the image folder name in the album project list
• Made the account you upload to follow the account you sign in as if the current account you upload to is a jAlbum account
• Bundled Happenings skin now includes an Easter theme
• Translations updated. Thank you dear translators!

Bug fixes

• The skin update notifier sometimes didn't compare version numbers right
• The skin update notifier didn't handle skin names containing spaces
• The "Make album" window sometimes didn't lay out the action buttons right
• jAlbum couldn't list the directory contents on Pure-FTPd ftp servers
• The skin update notifier would sometimes generate errors to the system console if the currently selected skin was missing on jalbum.net

Released: March 22, 2011

9.2

News and Updates

• jAlbum will notify you when there is an update to a recently selected skin
• The "Make album" window now also has a convenient "Open in file system" button that gives you access to the album folder.
• Bundled with sponsored skins PhotoBox and Happenings
• Translations updated. Thank you dear translators!
• The TextFilter and ShadowTextFilter is now capable of rotating text around it's own axis. This allows for more flexible placement of watermarks for instance.

Bug fixes

• The "Server mode" external tool would end up in a loop rebuilding the current album.
• Selecting "Rename" from the context menu of album objects would edit the caption instead of the file name.
• On occation, some users would get an IllegalStateException when uploading albums
• Moving or deleting a file with attached .thm file didn't also move or delete that file
• When donating by pressing the "Donate" button within the application, one didn't automatically get signed into the web site
• When moving between images in edit mode, you would see the end of long captions instead of the beginning.

Released: February 25, 2011

9.1.3

Bug fixes

• Version 9.1.2 introduced a bug where the album was always generated on the C: drive on Windows no matter the output directory setting
• Mac and Linux users couldn't previously use filesystem soft links referencing the image directory and output directory

Released: February 23, 2011

9.1.2

News and Updates

• Turkish translation updated

Bug fixes

• Fixes bug that was introduced in v9 that caused some skins to break: JSP-style comments in included code snippets caused album build to fail
• Fixes bug that was introduced in v9 that caused the removal of unnecessary newlines in the generated html code to not work for included code snippets

Released: February 11, 2011

9.1

News and Updates

• New tool to convert links to copies (right click album objects to access it from the context menu)

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug that caused the recent album project list to sometimes be cleared (has been around for years)
• Keyboard navigation focus was lost when moving into subfolders and to the parent folder
• On some occations, the donate reminder dialog could show even for users who had donated or paid for a Premium or Power account

Released: January 22, 2011

9

News and Updates

• Defaults to copying added files instead of linking. You can now move or delete your original images without breaking the ability to update existing album projects. Read more!
• New "hi-res" (2048x2048) image linking option. This enables your visitors to easily download printable versions of your images. (Skin developer can use the new variables "hiResPath", "hiResWidth" and "hiResHeight" that exists only if hi-res images are present). Read more
• Faster startup for users having many recent album projects listed
• More robust startup
• Writes a "lifeboat.zip" to published albums containing all project settings (including captions), thereby simplifying recovery of lost album projects. Read more
• More robust publishing (failing to delete old remote files won't halt the upload process)
• Generates better looking code (extraneous empty lines removed)
• Doesn't display sign in window when starting for first time users. The sign in window is only displayed when the user opts to use any of Jalbum's services
• Local sharing of albums to root of web site using jAlbum's embedded web server allowed
• Scrolling the album project list using the mouse now steps in more natural increments
• Displays a donation reminder dialog when quitting (can be dismissed for the current version)
• Better drag and drop support with digiKam for Linux
• Better validation of entered image- and thumbnail bounds
• Updated bundled Turtle and Galleria skins
• Updated translations. Thank you dear translators!
• Various minor code improvements

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug making Jalbum ask for quota changes during long network operations
• Fixed drag and drop bug (selected wrong object after drop)
• Fixed bug where one was unable to drop onto a selected folder
• Renaming a project that outputs the album to the image directory didn't also adjust the output directory