Chromaforge v26.44.1

What's Changed

• LR-VIEW-HDR-DISPLAY: on Wayland, SDR white follows the compositor by @Kaan88 in #631
• LR-VIEW-ZOOM, LR-VIEW-HDR-DISPLAY: faster high quality previews, next photo and 1:1 release by @Kaan88 in #506
• LR-IMP-FORMATS: HEIC decoding on by default in the app and CLI by @emmertex in #615
• Plug-ins: a settings screen, settings kept for the whole app, dialogs that remember, and a prepare step by @clydecbrown in #621
• LR-IMP-FORMATS: Canon CR3 decodes its streams in parallel by @Kaan88 in #623
• LR-IMP-FORMATS: Samsung NX1, NX500, NX3000 and NX mini raws are raws by @Kaan88 in #624
• LR-IMP-FORMATS: Canon CRW decodes without an allocation per sample by @Kaan88 in #625
• LR-IMP-FORMATS: hot-pixel noise bins take their median by selection by @Kaan88 in #626
• Docs: CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md as the one instruction file, PR template in line by @clydecbrown in #628
• SMB share: use the fsync fallback for imports, moves and sidecar backups by @endthestart in #636
• Move: sync the copy's folder before removing the original by @endthestart in #637
• Lightroom import: decode compressed history steps and snapshots by @clydecbrown in #634
• Upstream review r4: 10 ports from open PRs storytold#3038–storytold#3118 by @emmertex in #635
• test(codecs): test the no-pixels decode guard directly by @emmertex in #638
• security(raster): try_vec fills without invoking Clone by @emmertex in #639
• Plug-ins: start a program the user approved, and hear back when it exits by @emmertex in #640
• Library: search boxes in the Metadata columns and the People view (carries #643) by @emmertex in #645
• Upstream storytold#3020 follow-ups: Windows file identity compares lengths first, and index 0 matches nothing by @emmertex in #646
• Upstream storytold#3165, storytold#3124, storytold#3122: refuse signed control indexes, non-UTF-8 arguments and non-object script params; review r5 by @emmertex in #647
• Upstream storytold#3168 (part): exports skip the render copy when nothing changes it; faster JPEG band encoding by @emmertex in #648
• Plug-ins: a prepare step can't start a program by @clydecbrown in #650
• Calibrations: remove the Nikon Z6III calibration, it turns skies purple by @endthestart in #651
• LR-EDIT-COLOR-WB-PICKER: White Balance Selector loupe and sample size by @emmertex in #660
• #471: mask Amount slider under the mask-creation tiles by @emmertex in #653
• Presets: option to list User Presets first by @emmertex in #654
• People: assign or reject selected suggestions on a person's page by @emmertex in #655
• #538: smooth grid scrolling with the Filter Bar shown by @emmertex in #656
• #642: Masking: folding slider sections, Color Grading in masks, bin on mask rows by @emmertex in #657
• #618: a Develop tool's drawer takes the panels' place by @emmertex in #658
• LR-LIB-CAPTURETIME: capture time from file names (#619) by @emmertex in #659
• #491: shared AI backend: device choice with CPU fallback, job queue, activity row by @emmertex in #661
• Develop tool row: Edit button and applied-tool dots (#617) by @emmertex in #662
• #616: Edit In asks which file to edit by @emmertex in #663
• Release 26.44.1: version and changelog by @emmertex in #664
• Release 26.44.1: full-CI fixes by @emmertex in #666
• Release 26.44.1: full-CI fixes (2) by @emmertex in #669

Full Changelog: v26.44.0...v26.44.1