JAlbum 15.1.6

News and Updates
■ Portuguese translation updated.
Bug fixes
■ Windows version would hang when dragging and dropping images from the file chooser onto jAlbum. This bug has been around for over a year and is now finally fixed.
■ Mac version would fail with "Could not initialize class com.adobe.xmp.impl.XMPMetaParser" error on OS X Lion
■ Error reporting for skins that require "compatibility mode" to run wasn't tight

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News and Updates
■ Support for making whole web sites and not just albums. Currently supported by "Turtle", "Galleria", "Minimal" and "Base" skins (now bundled). More skins to follow.
■ About 40% faster page processing due to better use of multi-core CPUs
■ Bundled updated Turtle 3.0 and Base 2.0 skins. See skin pages for a full list of enhancements.
■ Support for transparent images and PNG writing. GIF and PNG files are now written as PNG files
■ Images can now be individually scaled to different sizes (by overriding the max* image size variables for specific images.
■ Album projects missing a "directory" entry will now pick the image directory path from the project file location. This will soon help to making album projects truly portable
■ Alt-clicking preview will bring up final published album (only valid for albums uploaded using jAlbum 10.4 and up)
■ Removed "Generate Search engine friendly file names" feature for now. It wasn't ready for prime time (caused too many side effects)
■ Images can now be oriented in any direction
■ Supports dragging and dropping .ico files too
■ Camera copyright messages are now filtered from the EXIF "Image desc." field
■ jAlbum now keeps track of dates and locations for made and uploaded albums (will be put to use in future versions)
■ Added "Activate license" button to about window
■ Introducing "licenceManager", "currentObject" and "currentFolder" and "rootFolder" variables to compiled code
■ Added a pageType variable (values are "index", "slide" or "page")
■ Puts a unique ID in the widget loader for anonymous / not signed in albums. This will make it considerably easier to later get rid of ads for such albums. (Will remove the need for rebuilding and reuploading albums after purchasing a license)
■ Made the objects "rootFolder", "currentFolder" and "selectedObjects" available via the system console as a convenience to developers
Bug fixes
■ jAlbum wasn't actually using the recently added "FTPES", "FTPS" and "FTP (ftp4j)" transfer protocols.
■ Xmp captions would be deleted from images that were linked into jAlbum when such images were deleted from jAlbum
■ jAlbum's notification system failed to work on OS X Lion (spitting out loads of error reports on the system console)
■ Fixed minor rounding error for scaling images (could get one pixel too small)
■ Images could show up incorrectly oriented if "Include photographic data in images" was checked
■ Rewrote progress dialog window. Now improved performance and fixed bug causing the progress dialog to spontaneously reopen after having been automatically closed after a successful album build
■ Unrelated files could be accidentally deleted from a server folder the second time an album was uploaded to a server folder where other files are already present
■ Moving images didn't also move the corresponding generated files
■ Some albums were made without thumbnails if a previously used skin switched off thumbnail generation
■ Replaced files (when adding files to jAlbum) are first removed, then added again. This removes stale cached thumbnails and stale generated slide images
■ jAlbum's settings window could become larger than the screen with certain skins and settings
■ AlbumObject.getLastModified() is now correct for folders too (senses structural changes to children)
■ The "onload.bsh" script file now has access to "rootFolder" and "rootImageDirectory" variables
■ Images taken upside down weren't oriented right

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News and Updates
■ Updated software certificate for windows installer package
Bug fixes
■ Widgets broken on some skins that were including the page footer (Galleria and others)
■ Wouldn't allow users to make albums to the same folder as the image/input folder (broken since 10.4)
■ Images with broken metadata (EXIF) structures could cause out of memory conditions (old issue)
■ The ja:widget tag now allows the page type to be passed with the ${pageType} syntax

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Bug fixes
■ jAlbum would re-upload hi-res images every time, even if they were already uploaded (broken since 10.4)

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Bug fixes
■ Applying a sharpening filter on certain JPEG images could cause an "Unable to convolve src image" error (Old Java bug #6585922 we've now worked around)

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News and Updates
■ Up to 8 times faster album downloading due to simultaneous file transfers
■ jAlbum now able to import published albums created with desktop jAlbum too (not just albums made with online jAlbum)
■ jAlbum now has an option to force GIF and PNG files to be written as JPEG too
■ Album projects can now be moved and copied without breaking
■ Automatically identifies and handles incompatible skins
■ Sign-out button moved to File menu (only to be used rarely)
■ Updated bundled skins Turtle, Base and Mr.Burns
■ "New skin" tool (Tools->Skin developer->New skin) now asks user what skin to use as base for new skin
■ Mac version repackaged without a visible "skins" folder. (Users should never modify the bundled skins)
■ Embedded skin editor now warns if user tries to modify a bundled skin (can result in changes being overwritten by updates)
■ "Lifeboat file" now includes custom pages too meaning that full web sites can be restored too
Bug fixes
■ Fixed "ConcurrentModificationException" sometimes occuring when making albums (since 10.4)
■ Album projects having deep sub folders with the same name (for instance "Family/2011" and "Work/2011") could cause jAlbum to open the wrong sub folder while navigating

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News and Updates
■ You can now be signed out and still have your license active
■ The Mac version of jAlbum now has a native file chooser for adding images and image folders. Thanks goes to TeamDev jniwrapper for the support for this.
■ Added alternative way of activating/attaching license based on a code (See Help->Activate license)
■ New sub context menu for picking page templates from currently loaded skin when building web sites
■ More robust reading of certain JPEG images.
■ Bundled with updated Turtle 3.1.2 skin version
■ Added "ImageListener" callback interface to "EditPanel" so plugins can easily implement histograms for instance
■ Added language info to published albums
■ Added a JAlbum.dumpThreads() debug method for developers
■ Added a "version too low" error message if users try to run jAlbum's internal text editor on Java 1.5.
■ Translations updated for Brazilian Portuguese, German, English, Swedish, French, Spanish, Finnish, Slovak, Polish, Slovenian, Romanian and Korean. Thank you dear translators!
Bug fixes
■ Passing a -projectFile as argument to running jAlbum in console mode generated a nullpointer exception
■ Image size specific variables were sometimes lacking when processing "ja:fileiterator nodirs" elements
■ Broken images could cause a nullpointer exception
■ Uploading folders with missing project files would generate and error when writing the lifeboat.zip file
■ png files named PNG wouldn't be processed.
■ The "Server mode" tool wasn't working in UI mode
■ media.rss injection and Microsoft MarkOfTheWeb injection wasn't working for skins using headers and footers

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News and Updates
■ jAlbum now supports a histogram for easier image editing and analysis
■ Right-click image(s) and select "List metadata" to see all embedded metadata (exif+iptc+xmp) listed in a separate window
■ Right click image(s) and select "Open with..." to integrate jAlbum with your favorite image editing software.
■ jAlbum now also makes all xmp variables as parsed by Adobe's standard library available via the "meta" object under the "xmp." namespace. Previously, xmp variables were only available via a sparate "xmp" object.
■ Licensed albums are now tagged with an id number instead of the username of the license holder (for improved integrity)
■ Bundled with updated Turtle skin 3.2.0
■ Windows version bundled with updated Java 1.6.0_32
Bug fixes
■ jAlbum 10.6 wouldn't run from command line mode on servers lacking a display.
■ More robust uploading: Album uploads would halt with a "No such file" error if album sub folders had been manually deleted from the server.
■ For developers: jAlbum's layout manager RiverLayout wasn't respecting component's maximum size limitation for elastic components

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News and Updates
■ Again reverted to reading TIFF images using the Sanselan library as it is far faster. (Fixed issue where some images read via Sanselan didn't show up)
■ Removes camera maker copyright notes from the "IPTC Caption" field too
■ Increased font size on camera metadata listing and made font size adjustable (+/- keys)
■ Bundled with updated versions of Turtle, Mr.Burns and Lumen skins
Bug fixes
■ Grayscale filter on Mac version didn't handle transparency
■ Fixed nullpointer exception bug in histogram

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News and Updates
■ Albums may now be tagged to increase visibility in search engines etc (see Album settings->General)
■ jAlbum now saves xmp formatted metadata with generated closeups and hi-res images. This for instance ensures that photographer copyright information and keywords are preserved (Setting is on by default. Can be controlled under Album settings->Advanced->Metadata).
■ jAlbum now provides a native way to add a link to your homepage from the albums (See Album settings->Pages). This was previously a setting each skin had to provide (in various ways). jAlbum also imports existing homepage links from skins like Turtle, Galleria, Photobox, MatrixSlide and Matrix. Skin developers: Please use the new homepageAddress and homepageLinkText variables to support homepage linking!
■ Updated bundled Turtle skin: Now supports facebook commenting among a list of other improvements
■ Updated several bundled skins to support new homepage linking
■ New and faster loading splash screen
■ Removed obsolete 3:rd party code
■ Various internal improvements
Bug fixes
■ Fixed bug causing album objects to go out of order when converting links to copies

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