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RapidReady v0.5.4 — Fullscreen Presentation, Smooth Crossfades & Olympus RAW Support

Released on October 28, 2026

RapidReady v0.5.4 introduces an integrated Fullscreen Presentation & Slideshow Mode with hardware-accelerated 2-layer crossfades and in-presentation culling, native Olympus and OM System RAW (.ORF) preview extraction including Handheld High-Res Shot (HHHR) multi-frame support (GitHub Issue #4), a real-time Inspector Live Histogram, safe two-stage folder deletion with remote NAS protection, configurable shortcut presets (Standard vs. Darktable), and video codec fallback handling.

Key Achievements in v0.5.4

  • Zero-latency Full Window presentation mode (F) unmounting UI sidebars while keeping LibraryGrid mounted in the background to preserve scroll state.
  • Integrated automated slideshow with customizable intervals (2s, 3s, 5s, 10s), loop toggle, and auto-hiding floating glassmorphism HUD deck.
  • Snappy 2-layer hardware-accelerated crossfades (350ms ease-in-out) with GPU compositor layers and HUD toggle button.
  • Clean aspect-ratio transitions: outgoing wings dissolve smoothly to black when switching between landscape and portrait.
  • Proactive WebKit browser pre-decoding alongside Rust chunk cache pre-warming for instant frame-1 image transitions.
  • In-slideshow keyboard rating and culling (P, X, U, 1–5, 6–9) with 1.2s glassmorphic feedback badge.
  • Olympus & OM System RAW (.ORF) MakerNote preview and thumbnail extraction (OLYMPUS\0II and OM SYSTEM\0\0\0II) (GitHub Issue #4).
  • Handheld High-Res Shot (HHHR 12-bit / 14-bit) multi-frame sub-IFD traversal for OM-1 and E-M1 cameras.
  • Inspector Live Histogram (H) with RGB, single-channel, and Luminance modes in Linear and Logarithmic scale.
  • Two-stage folder deletion moving to OS Trash by default, with non-empty confirmation and NAS permanent deletion safety guards.
  • User-selectable keyboard shortcut preset in Settings (Standard / Lightroom vs. Darktable).
  • Video format preview routing (.mkv, .webm, .flv, .wmv) with graceful in-app fallback and external player button for unsupported system codecs.
  • Unified toolbar 3-way toggle switch: Grid (G) / Loupe (E) / Full Window (F) with localized tooltips.

Key Achievements since v0.5.0 (v0.5.0 – v0.5.3)

  • Comprehensive technical EXIF inspection with intelligent camera make/model harmonization and crop-sensor 35mm equivalent focal length indicator (v0.5.3).
  • Collapsible extended details drawer in Camera Card with monospace summary badge and persistent toggle state (v0.5.3).
  • Dynamic sub-second transfer rate formatting and rolling window hardening for slow NAS archives (GitHub Issue #3) (v0.5.3).
  • Dedicated in-app guide: "Archive, Scanning & High-Speed Cache" (v0.5.3).
  • Speculative L1 RAM pre-caching from local L2 SSD chunk cache (< 0.5 ms) with live visual buffer indicators (v0.5.2).
  • Unified thumbnail and inspector portrait orientation pipeline for EXIF orientations 6 and 8 (GitHub Issue #2) (v0.5.2).
  • Format-filling edge-to-edge Loupe viewport without artificial borders for 3:2 camera photos (v0.5.2).
  • Protocol concurrency throttling (2 concurrent full-res permits) and stale request pruning (v0.5.2).
  • Windows compilation hardening, Win32 API RFC 3484 compliance, and volume path normalization (v0.5.2).
  • Native Fujifilm RAW (.raf) header parsing and universal fallback safety net for all proprietary RAW formats (v0.5.1).
  • Panasonic Lumix (.rw2) and Olympus (.orf) fast-path single-read header extraction (v0.5.1).
  • Persistent local disk cache architecture (64 MB chunk containers with single-seek byte-range retrieval and SQLite catalog) (v0.5.0).
  • Instant sub-2ms embedded JPEG extraction from CR2, CR3, ARW, DNG, NEF, and PEF (v0.5.0).

Download & Installation

macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel)

  1. Download RapidReady_0.5.4_universal.dmg.
  2. Open the .dmg and drag RapidReady into your Applications folder.
  3. First Launch Note: If macOS Gatekeeper shows a warning because RapidReady is an open-source project without a paid developer certificate, run this command once in Terminal: 
    xattr -cr /Applications/RapidReady.app
    (Or right-click RapidReady.app in Applications and select Open).

Windows (x64)

  1. Download RapidReady_0.5.4_x64-setup.exe.
  2. Run the installer (no administrator privileges required).
  3. SmartScreen Note: Click More info and then Run anyway if prompted by Windows SmartScreen.
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