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RapidReady v0.4.5

RapidReady v0.4.5 brings major performance optimizations, deeper metadata inspection, and enhanced collection management. It introduces speculative RAM viewport caching with live visual buffer bubbles, a comprehensive technical EXIF inspection card in the Inspector, event-loop throttling for ultra-fast NVMe/APFS archive scans, library-scoped virtual collections with RapidRAW parity, and export compatibility for photos with embedded HDR gain maps.

⚡ What's New & Highlights

🚀 Speculative RAM Viewport Caching & Live Buffer Badges

  • Proactive Loupe Preloading: Background preloading of +1 to +5 images in the flip direction (and 1 image backwards buffer) directly in Rust's worker threadpool (spawn_blocking). Prewarms Scale 2 (720px preview) and Full-Res Preview (scale 100) concurrently.
  • Proactive Grid Preloading: Lookahead preloading of +3 rows ahead (and 1 row behind) during 150ms idle pauses.
  • Live Buffer Count Badges: Floating dark-glassmorphism count badges indicating cached thumbnails in RAM (▲ top / ▼ bottom in Grid view; ◀ left / ▶ right in Loupe view).
  • Zero-Latency Invalidation: Atomic cancellation tokens (WARMUP_TOKEN) instantly abort running preloads on user scroll or navigation to preserve 100% UI responsiveness.

🔍 Comprehensive Technical EXIF & Camera Metadata Hub

A dedicated, clean exposure details card in the Inspector panel:

  • Exposure Settings: Clean shutter speed (e.g. 1/250s, 2.5s) and aperture (f/2.8) with decimal rounding limits, plus ISO.
  • Exposure Program: Manual (M), Aperture Priority (Av/A), Shutter Priority (Tv/S), Program (P), Creative and Scene modes.
  • Metering Mode: Multi-segment / Evaluative Matrix, Center-Weighted Average, Spot, Partial.
  • Flash State: Fired vs. Did not fire, with fill flash and red-eye reduction detection.
  • White Balance & Color Temperature: Auto vs. Manual/Preset with Kelvin color temperature.
  • Optics & Focal Length: 35mm equivalent focal length (FocalLengthIn35mmFilm) and subject distance to focal plane in meters.
  • Color Pipeline: Color space (sRGB, Adobe RGB, Display P3, Uncalibrated) and exposure bias / compensation (+0.7 EV).
  • Camera & Lens Specification: Clean camera make/model and optical lens specification display.

📁 Library-Scoped Virtual Collections & Lifecycle Protection

  • Library-Scoped Sidebar Filtering: Collections are now scoped to the active library root (libraryRoot), ensuring sidebar album lists strictly match the active library and eliminating empty collection views when switching between locations.
  • RapidRAW Central Storage Interoperability: Maintains full compatibility with RapidRAW's central albums.json via atomic Last-Write-Wins (LWW) synchronization.
  • Temporary Location Protection Dialog: Prompts users when navigating away from temporary locations containing curated collections, offering to save the folder as a permanent library location, discard temporary collections, or cancel the switch.

🛡️ High-Speed SSD Scan Throttling & UI Fluidity

  • Ingest Event-Loop Protection: Batched chunk ingestion during active directory scans buffers incoming 100-file chunks and throttles store updates (max once every 200ms or 500 images) to eliminate main-thread starvation and UI freezing on fast NVMe SSDs and APFS volumes.
  • Continuous Progress Counter: Decoupled floating scan banner counter (files_found and transfer rate) updates smoothly and continuously without stuttering.
  • Deterministic Order: Restored 100% deterministic alphabetical path sorting across all archive views.

🛠️ HDR Gain Map Export Compatibility & UI Ergonomics

  • HDR Gain Map Export Fix: Resolved export failures and image corruption for photos containing embedded HDR gain maps (Apple, Adobe, and Ultra HDR / ISO 21496-1 gain map metadata) in JPEG and RAW companion files.
  • Splitter Ergonomics: Expanded hit-target grab zones for panel splitters and scroll handles, preventing cursor slipping and eliminating layout conflicts between scrollbars and resizers.
  • Modal Hierarchy: Resolved z-index hierarchy and splashscreen timing preventing modals from blocking startup.

📥 Installation Notes

macOS

  1. Download RapidReady_0.4.5_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon) or Intel build.
  2. Open the .dmg and drag RapidReady into your Applications folder.
  3. First launch: If macOS Gatekeeper shows an unidentified developer warning, run: xattr -cr /Applications/RapidReady.app

Or: Right-click (Control-click) RapidReady.app in Applications, select Open, and confirm.

Windows (x64)

  1. Download RapidReady_0.4.5_x64-setup.exe.
  2. Run the installer (no admin privileges required).
  3. If Windows SmartScreen appears, click More info → Run anyway.

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.4.5

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