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davidekholm

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jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 29 Aug 25, 18:25

jAlbum 38 is here in an early beta.
Changes:

Added Apache Commons Net's ftp library - a well maintained high quality ftp library for the protocols "ftp", "ftps" and "ftpes"
Estimated time left now based on last 10s (uploads, background processing)
Fix for bug excluding images with "Hide excluded" active
Fix for dialogs blocking UI when sign in dialog is showing
Fixed rendering bug for About windows (Windows Look and feel)
Bundled Split skin
No longer re-copies originals when rebuilding albums

I've also planned to include native AVIF read+write support, but more on that later...

Appreciate if you test the Apache Commons ftp library (set connection type to Apache Commons). With my testing, "Sample Portfolio" uploads 10% faster with it, but the main point is to bundle a well maintained ftp library.

Installers:
Windows: https://jalbum.net/download/jAlbum-install.exe
Mac (Intel): https://jalbum.net/download/jAlbum.dmg
Mac (M-series): https://jalbum.net/download/jAlbum-M.dmg

JeffTucker

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Re: jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 29 Aug 25, 19:14

in response to: davidekholm

The Windows installer is giving me 37.6b1, not 38b1.

RobM

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Re: jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 29 Aug 25, 20:38

in response to: davidekholm

davidekholm wrote:
Added Apache Commons Net's ftp library - a well maintained high quality ftp library for the protocols "ftp", "ftps" and "ftpes"

Is this going to stay for external hosted users as it isn't available for jAlbum hosting?

JeffTucker

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Re: jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 29 Aug 25, 20:49

in response to: RobM

RobM wrote:
Is this going to stay for external hosted users as it isn't available for jAlbum hosting.

Good question. I've been using SFTP on my own host for years, and when I tried to drop back, I discovered that my host no longer supports FTP or FTPS at all. They claim to support FTPES, but in my tests, it simply doesn't work - lots of failures (I need to poke around a bit more to try to figure out what's going on there - I suspect it has to do with the number of simultaneous transfers).

If a user's host doesn't offer SFTP, it's probably time to find a new host. It's like https vs http - if you're stuck with http, switch hosts!

davidekholm

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Re: jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 30 Aug 25, 16:19

in response to: JeffTucker

JeffTucker wrote:
The Windows installer is giving me 37.6b1, not 38b1.

Aargh! I uploaded the jAlbum-install.msi file by mistake. (Thank you Windows for hiding file extensions). Now fixed.

davidekholm

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Re: jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 30 Aug 25, 16:23

in response to: RobM

RobM wrote:
Is this going to stay for external hosted users as it isn't available for jAlbum hosting.

Yes, sftp is still the recommended protocol, and what we use for jAlbum's hosting, but I've found a few servers that require ftps or ftpes and that spits out errors during upload using ftp4j's ftps and ftpes protocols. The Apache Commons versions don't cause these errors.

Investigating these errors further reveals that it's probably some servers that don't handle encrypted data channels properly, so with Apache Common's secure protocols, we only encrypt the the control channel (where passwords are passed)

JeffTucker

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Re: jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 30 Aug 25, 16:35

in response to: davidekholm

davidekholm wrote:
(Thank you Windows for hiding file extensions).

Like macOS, Windows doesn't hide file extensions if you tell it not to.

davidekholm

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Re: jAlbum 38b1 for testing
Posted: 30 Aug 25, 17:56

in response to: JeffTucker

JeffTucker wrote:

davidekholm wrote:
(Thank you Windows for hiding file extensions).

Like macOS, Windows doesn't hide file extensions if you tell it not to.

I know, it's just a bad default.

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