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