Aperture Image Viewer v0.8.0-beta1

Added

• Live indexing feedback — adding a folder now jumps straight to it and streams its thumbnails in as they're
  indexed, with a determinate progress bar in the status bar (indexing X / Y), so a large import never looks frozen.
• Preview on the tile right-click menu (top entry, Space shortcut) — opens the full-screen quick-look.

Changed

• Smoother, steadier grid — switching views and live re-indexing now reuse existing tiles instead of rebuilding
  every cell, so thumbnails no longer blank-and-reload on each refresh. A background reconcile that finds no changes
  no longer rebuilds the grid at all, removing the re-render flicker that appeared a couple of seconds after launch.

Fixed

• Space / Enter open the quick-look preview for the selected tile instead of collapsing its date section.
  Collapsing a section stays on the arrow keys, the chevron, and clicking the header.

See CHANGELOG.md for full history.

Download

Aperture-v0.8.0-beta1-win-x64.exe — single-file, framework-dependent build (~25.18 MB).

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (x64)
• .NET 10 Desktop Runtime — https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/10.0

Notes

• The download is signed by Funcular Labs via Azure Trusted Signing (Authenticode). If Windows SmartScreen warns on a very new release, the reputation graph builds up quickly for signed installers.
• Your index/thumbnail cache lives under %LocalAppData%\Aperture and never leaves your machine.