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@github-actions github-actions released this 28 Sep 14:47
· 45 commits to main since this release
v0.37.0
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Highlights

  • Changes are saved even when the grid can't refresh straight after. Starring, keywords, albums, hiding or renaming a folder, turning a photo and removing a folder used to report an error in that case, although the change had been saved. The viewer then flipped a star back, unticked an album or left photos selected for a retry that had nothing left to do. Now the change simply shows up on the grid's next refresh.
  • Hiding a selection lands in the right place. After selecting a whole folder, opening a photo and closing the viewer again, H could land thousands of photos past the folder. It now lands just after it. Hiding photos while a drag-selection is still finishing no longer puts them back in the selection.
  • Slow drives and network shares hold up less of the app:
    • An export, checking an export folder, Reveal, Open with and starring now run in the background. Several at once, or one waiting on a share that has stopped answering, no longer stall the rest of photon.
    • Watching for file changes now starts as soon as the startup scans finish. Before, it waited for the whole-library duplicate and look-alike check, and files changed in the meantime went unnoticed until the next rescan of their folder.

Your files are untouched

photon still never deletes, moves or alters a photo or a video. This release changes only what photon reports after a change and where its work runs.

Upgrading

Nothing to do. The library is not upgraded, so 0.36.x can still open it if you go back.

Not in this release

  • Very large libraries in a narrow window: with large tiles and one or two columns, the end of a library of roughly 140,000 photos or more cannot be scrolled to (fewer on Windows with display scaling above 100%). The viewer still reaches every photo. A fix is being designed.
  • Sorting inside each folder while keeping the folder headers.
  • Trimming, editing or turning videos; AVI, MKV and 3GP; playing videos inside a slideshow.
  • Video playback on macOS and Windows has still not been checked by hand.
  • Picasa's own crops and rotations are still not imported.
  • HEIC and camera RAW: every way of decoding them means shipping a C library.

Unsigned installers. See the README for the security warnings each OS shows, and how to get past them.

Full Changelog: v0.36.1...v0.37.0

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