May 2, 2023
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With this major new release, you'll get a long list of new features and enhancements with a focus on performance, security, and file type support. In addition, our Plus Members can now register directly in the app to unlock additional features like vector graphics support and a new admin web UI for user and session management. Thank you to all contributors, members, and sponsors who made this possible!
What's new?
- UX: Improved user interface layout for right-to-left languages
- UX: Improved highlight and background colors in the cards view
- UX: Improved theme styles and search field contrast in Places
- UX: Navigation shows the total number of pictures without those under review
- UX: Enabled long-touch menu in photo viewer on iOS Safari
- PWA: Increased allowed length of app name on home screen
- PWA: Improved manifest.json for more reliable installation prompts
- Themes: Added "Carbon", "Neon", and "Nordic" based on colors from nordtheme.com
- Themes: Removed "Electra", "Moonlight", "Seaweed", and "Cyano"
- People: Ambiguous faces are skipped when matching to improve performance
- People: Entering names is faster with many faces tagged
- Search: Added
id:...filter to find pictures by Exif UID, XMP Document ID or Instance ID - Search: Increased batch size for better performance when loading results
- Search: Deleted albums are ignored when using the
unsortedfilter - Search: Sepia colored pictures are excluded when using the
monofilter - Photos: Image orientation can be changed through the user interface
- RAW: Upgraded RawTherapee from v5.8 to v.5.9 to fix ProRAW support
- Videos: Improved player compatibility with browser plugins
- Videos: Improved preview image generation depending on duration
- Videos: Playback durations of less than one second can be indexed and displayed
- Videos: Added .dv to the list of known video file types
- Videos: Specific video and audio streams can be selected for transcoding
- Videos: Improved detection of HEVC support for Google Chrome
- Albums: Added extended search form with sorting options
- Albums: Fixed form field styles in the share dialog
- Albums: Double quotes in album names are replaced by Unicode characters
- Albums: Improved error handling and validation of query parameters
- Albums: "Download as zip" button is displayed on mobile screens
- Moments: Changed default sort order in the overview to "newest"
- Folders: Search is case-insensitive and uses wildcards for improved usability
- Metadata: GPS coordinates are normalized to be within a common range
- Metadata: Out-of-range altitude values are ignored to prevent indexing errors
- Metadata: Date defaults caused by software or camera bugs are ignored
- Metadata: Software name is displayed on the Files tab, if available
- Metadata: Valid year range in Exif data and filenames has been extended from 1990 to 1970
- Metadata: Scanned images are automatically recognized by device name
- Metadata: Added TakenAtLocal to YAML backups to prevent incorrectly restored times
- Metadata: Notes can be extracted from the Comment and UserComment fields
- Index: Improved performance by skipping updates when there are no changes
- Index: Improved performance when flagging hidden files
- Index: Added file format support for Adobe Photoshop PSD images
- Index: Added support for decoding JPEG XL and playing PNG animations
- Index: Corrupted JPEG images are automatically repaired if necessary
- Index: TIFF images with unsupported file format features can be converted
- Upload: Estimated time remaining is displayed in minutes and seconds
- Download: Added settings to choose which files to download by default
- Backups: Improved backup and restore commands to better handle large index dumps
- WebDAV: Enabled access to the originals and import folders in read-only mode
- WebDAV: Replaced client library to prevent incomplete uploads to other servers
- WebDAV: Download sync is prevented when read-only mode is enabled
- API: Search results can be sorted randomly to get a random set of pictures
- API: HEAD requests are now supported for frontend bootstrap paths
- CLI: Added file extension flag to the
photoprism convertcommand - CLI: Commands create thumbnails and convert files in deterministic order
- Config: Migrations are skipped if the same version has already been initialized
- Config: Use dynamic social preview image based on app name
- Config: Custom template path is not searched for files if not specified
- Config: Advanced settings include additional options for PNGs and vector graphics
- Config: Added advanced HTTP cache control options
- Config: Added option to stream videos over a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Docker: Ubuntu base image has been upgraded from v22.04 to v23.04
- Docker: MariaDB image and binaries have been upgraded from v10.9 to v10.11
- Podman: Added config examples for users of Red Hat-based Linux distributions
- Security: Improved bcrypt password support with explicit 72-character limit
- Security: Go has been updated to v1.20.3, which includes bug fixes and other improvements
- Translations: Added Afrikaans (South Africa) and Basque (Euskara)
- Translations: Updated Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Malay, Russian, Ukrainian and many others