Pholio 2026.10.8

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.8

2026-10-11 · 8 changes since v2026.10.7

✨ Features

🏷️ gallery

• filter the grid by import with import: and import:last
• show favorites as an r:5 search in the search bar

🏷️ imports

• open the gallery from an import's number link

🏷️ update

• offer the platform installer or the website from the update link

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ navigation

• only expand or collapse a sidebar entry already on screen

♻️ Refactoring

🏷️ people

• split the people view into the list and a person's faces page
• package refactoring.

✅ Tests

🏷️ nrt

• accept the palette and greyscale tiffs carry no exif

Pholio 2026.10.7

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.7

2026-10-10 · 23 changes since v2026.10.6

✨ Features

🏷️ gallery

• show the search bar only over the gallery's grid

🏷️ installation

• generate a stable installation id on first start

🏷️ library

• check library folders every minute and at once on volume changes

🏷️ licensing

• ask to accept the licence on first start instead of in the installers

🏷️ people

• show a face's photo in the gallery from its preview
• show a named person's id and creation date on their page avatar
• mark avatars with faces still to confirm
• widen "not a face" to faces too blurry to be of use
• correct faces from a person's page, with a user guide
• rework a person's page and the people list
• enlarge avatars and tighten the photo grid
• rework the people view as avatars with a page per person

🏷️ recognition

• remember face corrections and keep person tags in step

🏷️ search

• find one person's photos by id with pid:

🏷️ ui

• add shared action buttons and keyboard-driven dialogs

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ people

• show the photo's library folder in the preview error

🏷️ recognition

• test unconfirmed faces again once a person gains confirmed ones

🏷️ theme

• color icons given an AtlantaFX semantic style

♻️ Refactoring

🏷️ people

• scroll the people list and a person's photos smoothly

📝 Documentation

🏷️ people

• explain what "recalculate all" does

🏷️ plans

• plan installation metrics and per-machine activation
• plan tile grids filling the panel width

🏷️ scheduling

• list every startup and recurring task, reachability included

Pholio 2026.10.6

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.6

2026-10-07 · 12 changes since v2026.10.5

✨ Features

🏷️ health

• show a compare icon on the open duplicates tool button
• find duplicates and show health results through the search bar
• add date, place and people checks
• add the library health check engine, file checks and dashboard

🏷️ library

• sync a library folder as soon as it is reachable again
• flag unreachable library folders in the folder tree
• offer to delete cached thumbnails when deleting a library

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ i18n

• keep apostrophes in formatted messages and fix the delete library text

🏷️ library

• name root folders and warn before adding a whole drive

🏷️ media

• keep the exif thumbnail readable after a lossless rewrite

📝 Documentation

🏷️ navigation

• count the tools entries as four, health check included

✅ Tests

🏷️ media

• check that an in-file metadata write preserves the file

Pholio 2026.10.5

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.5

2026-10-07 · 43 changes since v2026.10.4

✨ Features

🏷️ gallery

• distinguish pending, unavailable and failed thumbnails

🏷️ import

• make the removable media poll interval configurable
• preview the source as a grid of pictures
• propose an import when a memory card is plugged in
• keep the original file name and the import id in xmp
• resolve {CITY} and {COUNTRY} from gps

🏷️ imports

• show the grid by default again
• drop the sources of an unmounted volume and copy a source path
• show the table by default with a stop button
• decode only the previews around the viewport
• count files by kind under the left-aligned filters

🏷️ licensing

• add free/pro feature gating and signed licences

🏷️ logging

• write rolling log files in release builds

🏷️ media

• read the exif of canon cr3 files
• read the recording position of mp4, mov and 3gp videos
• use the full-size jpeg previews embedded in raw files
• decode heif and avif with the os codecs

🏷️ memory

• let the user choose the heap target

🏷️ site

• mark the pro features as coming soon
• add the library, people, places and import screenshots
• add the first real screenshots
• add a static one-page showcase site

🏷️ status-bar

• show a thin task progress bar with counter and current title

🏷️ ui

• fade the library grid in after switching library
• save the active window as a png on shift+f12

🏷️ viewer

• show tiff, webp and raw at full size, and cmyk jpeg right

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ media

• unmap raw previews as soon as they are read
• find the exif thumbnail a few bytes past its recorded offset
• read bmp, avi and 3gp sizes and the avi recording date
• read matroska and webm metadata

🏷️ ui

• show the grid when picking a folder over an open photo
• show the library grid after switching library
• make modal dialogs resizable again

♻️ Refactoring

🏷️ preferences

• remove preferences nothing reads

📝 Documentation

🏷️ cla

• govern the cla by quebec law

🏷️ import

• record the design of #29, #30, #31 and #33

🏷️ media

• plan video thumbnails and playback
• map every declared format against what pholio does with it

✅ Tests

🏷️ media

• measure import preview reads on a real folder
• add an undecodable jpeg to the non-regression set

🏷️ nrt

• read every non-regression file through the real media factories
• add a non-regression media set covering every declared format

🔧 Chores

🏷️ site

• add a script publishing the site with rsync

Pholio 2026.10.4

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.4

2026-10-04 · 2 changes since v2026.10.3

✨ Features

🏷️ onboarding

• manage several tours started on demand
• guided tour of preferences and folder watching

Pholio 2026.10.3

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.3

2026-10-04 · 5 changes since v2026.10.2

✨ Features

🏷️ library

• generate thumbnails newest first

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ gallery

• show the thumbnail while a photo loads, never the previous one

🏷️ library

• count thumbnail progress as each thumbnail is written

📝 Documentation

🏷️ general

• note the progressive thumbnail dispatch idea

✅ Tests

🏷️ general

• run fx helpers inline when already on the fx thread

Pholio 2026.10.2

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.2

2026-10-04 · 9 changes since v2026.10.1

✨ Features

🏷️ gallery

• show face avatars in person chips and link them to people view

🏷️ shell

• make the navigation sidebar resizable with a floating handle

🏷️ status

• add copy-path context menu to breadcrumb crumbs

🏷️ ui

• add selectable label factory with hover copy button

🏷️ update

• check for a newer release at startup and show it in the status bar

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ imports

• keep preview and validation bindings alive

🏷️ recognition

• queue face detection once and show it as a single task

🏷️ shell

• show photos again when re-clicking the selected folder elsewhere

🏷️ task

• run thumbnails before face detection on the cpu pool

Pholio 2026.10.1

🚀 Pholio 2026.10.1

2026-10-04 · 31 changes since v2026.9.0

✨ Features

🏷️ credits

• render the credits from a single markdown file

🏷️ gallery

• confirm selection bar changes with the number of files
• copy metadata from a photo and paste it onto a selection
• close the info panel when files are picked for a group action

🏷️ import

• add the import screen for devices and other folders
• copy import groups safely into the library and index them as a batch
• analyse import sources for eligible, linked and duplicate files
• add the naming pattern language for imported folders and files

🏷️ imports

• add an imports view for folder imports and external changes

🏷️ library

• watch library folders for external changes

🏷️ metadata

• let edits go to an xmp sidecar instead of the photo file

🏷️ tools

• add a Wikimedia Commons demo library downloader

🏷️ ui

• show a splash screen while the desktop interface starts

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ gallery

• share one card menu, close it on click and show its shortcut
• thicken and soften the navigation selection frame

🏷️ people

• reload the view when the library changes

🏷️ ui

• move the search help icon to the right of the search bar
• stop sharing a remembered size between generic dialogs
• shrink the header logo and load a sharper source
• match the full-screen title bar to the theme on macos
• restore finder-sized window buttons on macos and move to java 27
• stack modal dialogs instead of replacing the open one

⚡ Performance

🏷️ ui

• weave @FxThread at build time, keep the agent as a safety net

♻️ Refactoring

🏷️ ui

• rename MaintenancePeoplePane to PeopleView

📝 Documentation

🏷️ general

• move the documented jdk to 27 and keep the import epic plans
• open contributions on gitea and accept the cla by pull request
• license pholio under polyform strict 1.0.0

💄 Style

🏷️ ui

• share one overlay opacity between the status drawer and the info panel

🔧 Chores

🏷️ build

• require jdk 27 and spell out the compiler release

🏷️ general

• add spdx license identifier to source files
• move the todo list to github issues

Pholio 2026.9.0

🚀 Pholio 2026.9.0

2026-09-30 · 30 changes (last 30 commits)

✨ Features

🏷️ gallery

• read the all-metadata dialog straight from the file
• smooth isolated wheel notches and widen mid-row date gap
• make the grid-mode media info overlay slightly translucent
• bring the action-selection checkbox and date actions menu back
• replace ThumbnailGalleryPane with a justified grid (JustifiedGalleryPane)
• add GalleryGridItem, a header/content item split

🏷️ geocoding

• save only the locality as a photo's place name

🏷️ packaging

• fit the app icon to the macOS icon grid

🏷️ release

• group the release note by type, then by scope
• generate a release note and publish it with the release
• add a maven release profile with YYYY.M.N versions

🏷️ search

• add a search syntax guide below the search bar

🐛 Bug fixes

🏷️ gallery

• retry the selection-highlight resync across a few pulses
• clear stale :hover on a reused card that changed column
• force an immediate CSS pass after every selection/checked pseudo-class flip
• resync selection highlight against the live scene, not per-cell state

🏷️ packaging

• pass jDeploy launch arguments as separate entries

🏷️ search

• drop the quotes around a quoted free-text phrase

♻️ Refactoring

🏷️ cli

• make headless the explicit default launch mode

🏷️ gallery

• let the parent layout own all inter-card spacing
• render date headers as their own fixed-height grid item
• move the detail-mode info panel into PhotoDetailPane

📝 Documentation

🏷️ search

• explain that named people are found through synced tags

🏷️ general

• add a README with an overview, dev options and the release command

💄 Style

🏷️ build

• commit the pom.xml layout sortpom produces

✅ Tests

🏷️ general

• align geo initializer and legacy gallery tests with current behavior

📦 Build

🏷️ general

• drop unused libraries from the executable jar

🔧 Chores

🏷️ distrib

• update jdeploy title.

🏷️ git

• ignore the nested distrib worktree

🏷️ release

• 2026.9.1