Release notes

Released: May 30, 2015

12.7

News and Updates

Supports 3-digit hex colors too (#ABC meaning #AABBCC)
Developers: Added setWhenAdded to jAlbum's AlbumObject API
Native Mac file chooser now also supports filtering on file types
Added a "Thread dump" button to jAlbum's system console window to ease debugging
Developers: Made layoutHints property available via Config API
Updated bundled skins Turtle, Base and Fully
Updated German and Dutch translations. Thank you translators!
Refactored out old code
Updated Turtle, Base and Minimal skins

Bug fixes

Updating some skins on Windows (Turtle for instance) caused file locked warnings
Newly added videos couldn't be edited (clip start/stop and representing thumbnail)
Fixed bug causing remote directory to be set to another project's remote directory setting when switching projects while upload window is still open
Moving between images in edit mode was slow due to non functioning image cacheing
Fixed bug causing nullpointer exception on some image tools
"Save copy as" could generate images with inconsistent orientation information thereby causing images to be presented sideways

Released: April 27, 2015

12.6.4

News and Updates

Remembers last used folder for adding pictures instead of always starting at "My Pictures"
New "Server mode tool" that also uploads album after album has been made
Windows and Mac versions bundled with latest Java (1.8.0_45)
Developers: Variables can now be added programatically to the generated json files on album make time
Windows version packaged with updated installer builder

Bug fixes

RSS feed generation could break with certain date formats

Released: March 25, 2015

12.6

News and Updates

Free update for all jAlbum 12 license holders
Significantly faster image tools (Levels, Gamma, AutoCorrect and Arty)
Text and Logo image effects now supports tiling. This addition makes it easier to apply subtle watermarks across your whole images in order to protect them from being copied
Improved keyword management. Easier to add keywords to multiple images.
Minimal skin updated. Now supports keyboard navigation

Bug fixes

Red Eye filter didn't work (still doesn't work in Explore view, but works in final albums and in edit mode)

Released: February 17, 2015

12.5

News and Updates

Free update for all jAlbum 12 license holders
Performance improvements to ftp uploader (less verbose communication)
Deleting albums from ftp servers (not ours) is now faster due to use of multiple connections.
Uploads to external ftp servers now kicks off faster. The initial delay when the UI was frozen has now been replaced by an instant dialogue with progress spinners and the ability to cancel.
Built-in watchdog that triggers the generation of a "thread-dump.txt" file and attempts to unlock the UI if the UI ever hangs for more than 20 sec. (Disabled by default. Enable under Preferences->Advanced)
Some improvements to the ftp4j ftp client library
"Print selected" plugin improved to support multi line captions and also print videos and folders
Developers: API change: AlbumObject.loadImage() now also loads images for videos (the representing image)
Several languages updated. Thank you dear translators!

Bug fixes

Fix for the long standing issue with excluded files reappearing again
Fix to allow https based web root URLs
The thumbnail image for folders having portrait oriented representing images could sometimes get an incorrect aspect ratio
If "Include photographic data in generated images" was checked, some images taken with portrait orientation would be presented sideways on some browsers (iPad's browser for instance)
Developers: jAlbum's JAlbumUtilities.countCategories() method should have ignored hidden folders but didn't

Released: January 13, 2015

12.4

News and Updates

Consumes far less RAM memory when making large albums
Font size for jAlbum's user interface now configurable under Preferences
Added order by file type (category)
Improved error logging
Facebook uploader tool now remembers last used window size
Reordered album tags and album description and removed warning for using more than 4 album tags
Updated Turtle and Minimal skins

Bug fixes

Fixed failing to launch on Windows XP when RAM memory is scarce.
Fix to image exclusion failing for newly created and edited sub folders
Auto completion didn't work properly when entering keywords
Filter by keywords didn't work for non image file types (videos for instance)
Fixed unnecessary creation of .info files when browsing images in edit view (caused unnecessary reprocessing and uploading of images)
Fixed upload progress bar bug for huge albums (>2 GB)
Fixed "Headless exception" problem creating Turtle skin based albums from command line on Linux
Developers: Fixed broken "Prepare for online and console use" developer tool

Released: December 11, 2014

12.3.5

News and Updates

Embedded web browser updated. Support of Mac OS X 10.10 and Debian 7.7 32-bit and 64-bit has been added apart from engine enhancements and bug fixes.
Selecting "Embed" from a project context menu will again display the embed code in a separate window
Upload window: Clicking on another server folder will cancel (instead of commit) any ongoing rename or folder creation operation. Hit Enter or Upload to commit such operations.
French translation updated.

Bug fixes

The Make album button became grayed out after displaying embed code (displaying the share panel for instance)
Fixed rare bug causing deletion of wrong album folder from server when deleting album project (only triggered by a rare sequence of circumstances)
Wasn't starting up on Java 7
Fixed concurrency issue when logging to system console
Bug fixes to Facebook importer

Released: December 1, 2014

12.3

News and Updates

30 more trial days for those of you who've tried earlier releases but still not have a v12 license
All windows and panels now feature context sensitive help (F1 or clicking "?" button)
New Facebook importer, see "Add" button
Uploads are now more robust than ever. Uploader routines and libraries updated
Skin developers: JavaScript as scripting language added to album engine. You can now script skins in either BeanShell (interpreted Java) or JavaScript.
Enables individual images to be excluded from image effects
Updated image crop tool. Now for instance remembers last used aspect ratio
Prevents users from accidentally overwriting web files when uploading albums
Size of recent project menu is now configurable
Updated Share panel with embed code embedded into panel
Bundled with updated Turtle and Base skins

Bug fixes

jAlbum couldn't handle images fed directly from a drive root ("F:\" for instance)
Videos having non squary pixels weren't presented with the correct aspect ratio

Released: October 23, 2014

12.2.4

News and Updates

Defaults to opening final album in external web browser after publishing album
Increased font size on caption editor of edit view
About window now contains information on Java version and number of bits (32 vs 64)
Updated internal web browser (jxBrowser 4.6)
Updated embedded Java engine (1.8.0_25)
Mac version is now bundled with Java 1.8 by default instead of relying on Apple's old Java 6

Bug fixes

Renaming recently created folders would sometimes make the folder non-openable
Toggling file exclusion didn't always take
Certain URLs (those containing spaces for instance) couldn't be opened in external browser

Released: September 18, 2014

12.2

News and Updates

Please read blog post for details on jAlbum 12.2
New full screen slide show, simplifying the process of approving images
Zoom support added to edit panel
Sub directories can now be chained, simplifying sequential navigation through large album trees (see Advanced->General). This feature defaults to off
Improved reading of TIFF and JPEG 2000 files
Displays time info when dragging clip and thumbnail sliders for videos
Windows version bundled with latest Java 8 engine (1.8.0_20)
More solid parsing of various video formats
Performance enhancement: Better cacheing of image size calculations
Developers: Updated JSON API now including image specific metadata. Developing Javscript based skins now easier than before
The whenAddedDate now corresponds to when an album object has been added to an album, and not to an album project. This also gives less eager creation of albumfiles.txt files.
The address bar of the internal browser now has a context menu
Bundled skin Minimal now uses HTML5 instead of tables. Thanks jGromit for this one.
Various minor improvements
Added experimental JavaScript support to console window
Updated bundled Turtle skin to v5.1.3

Bug fixes

Several bug fixes, for instance to uploader (more robust reconnects)
Full HD video resolution resulted in 720p instead of 1080p
Fixed ugly rendering of style selector for styles with long names
Fixed problem previewing network mounted albums in external browser
Reopening an alreadty running jAlbum on Mac by clicking the dock icon would restore maximized window to normal state

Released: June 16, 2014

12.1.9

News and Updates

The new "Crop focus" plugin is now bundled, allowing easy positioning of auto-cropped areas
If a tool or plugin exists both as bundled and manually installed, jAlbum will always use the latest version (the one having the most recent last modified date)
Added warning icons when using excessive image- and video quality settings
Updated "ftp4j" ftp library to version 1.7.1
Improved error diagnostics
Bundled updated Turtle 5.1.1 skin
Updated French and Brazilian Portuguese translation

Bug fixes

Internal browser updated to v4.4, now with a host of improvements
Re-editing text using the Text effect under edit mode didn't work
The buttons of the Download user interface were missing text and icons

Released: May 15, 2014

12.1.8

News and Updates

Skin info window now also displays physical location on hard disk
Developers: The AlbumImage.applyFilter API now passes variables bound to the corresponding album object if the AlbumImage was created with an AlbumObject as parameter
Developers: The CropFilter and FixedShapeFilter can now accept custom per-image crop regions (passed via user variables)
Updated bundled skins "Turtle" and "Fully"

Bug fixes

Fixed bug causing image corruption on certain images when editing recently edited captions (Since 11.6)
"Make changes" is now respected again (i.e. images are only reprocessed if they are missing in the output directory or if individual images have been updated)
Left, then right clicking an album object quickly on Mac would accidentally open it for editing
Fixed occasional error about "not being in pause state" during album upload
Embedded browser preview now works with password protected pages too

Released: April 25, 2014

12.1

News and Updates

This update is free for all jAlbum 12 license holders
Improved printing support for printing multi-image contact sheets. (Right click thumbnail images and select "Print selected...")
Easier to locate lost projects: Offers to open existing project when name of new project collides with existing project
Mac version now supports retina displays. (Thank you for your help Jan Meyer-Hübner)
Supports symbolic links
Disables "Preview" view mode if internal browser is switched off
jAlbum can now auto-update without requiring to run as Administrator
Embedded browser now allows local file access (other file types than html and images)
Updated underlying ftp and sftp libraries
Language files for several languages updated. Thank you translators!

Bug fixes

Embedded Chromium-based browser now updated to v4.3.1 containing several bug fixes to crash bugs and improved compatibility. Now also supports 64 bit RedHat Linux
Image coordinate offset error in edit panel fixed (affected moving control handles)
Fixed rotation error when moving between crop and straighten image tools
Fix to old bug parsing old-style variables in templates (variables were sometime not expanded)
Fixed ClassCastException error when using Synth look and feel
jAlbum remade newly made albums one extra time when first flipping to the preview view mode
Dropping a project folder onto an already open project would open the dropped project instead of adding the dropped folder to the already opened project (since v10.x)
Fixed label type button painting issue
Skin info for skins containing spaces in the file name didn't work
Skin likes notification kept popping up although dismissed
Fix to button texts on trial expired notice

Released: April 3, 2014

12

News and Updates

Note to existing users: Version 12 requires a license upgrade. See blog post about jAlbum 12
Redesigned user interface, more targeted at professionals and cleaned-up. Read blog post
Embedded browser preview (Google Chromium) streamlining the work flow. (Can be switched off under preferences)
Auto updates the album preview when playing around with settings when viewing the "Preview" panel. Invites exploration of jAlbum's capabilitites
Faster: Avoids reprocessing of already processed images and videos when resuming interrupted album builds
Faster: Better file attribute cacheing, minimizing file IO during operation of the user interface and album making
More snappy thumbnail painting in user interface, especially over slow network drives
New "Effects" settings tab allowing easy and detailed control of album-wide image effects like watermarks/texts, logos, grayscale, auto-correct and arty filters via an easy to use interface. (Effects applies to all images unlike their "Image tools" counterparts). (Advanced users: The chosen effects are synched with the user variables panel)
New "Share" panel to simplify sharing albums via different social networks. jAlbum's sharing is now opt-in, i.e. you have to click the frog to share an album with jAlbum followers and in the http://jalbum.net/explore/recent section
jAlbum now checks and informs about incorrectly configured ftp account profiles, ensuring that jAlbum can properly generate links to the published albums.
Skin information like feature set and support links now available in new skin information window
New Notification Center that remembers and presents notifications in a less obtrusive way
Now deletes unused slide and original images from album folder, thereby cleaning up albums when playing around with various skins
Updates to several languages
Added "Use as folder thumbnail" toolbar button
Added "New page" toolbar button
Album object information is now available when hovering the mouse over the new info "i" status icons
Speed-up to deleting directories over SAMBA mounted network drives
Folders and web pages now follow the same label type view+editing as images instead of being locked to file names. (Hint: Alt-click the name section to rename object)
Prints license state on splash screen
Skins Mr.Burn5 and Fully now bundled
Implemented logging levels
Updated texts. Thank you all translators!

Bug fixes

Rewritten change detection. No more spurious "Do you wish to save changes" warnings
Fix for broken "Repair all links"
Fixed bug causing lost reference to image directories when storing the project file outside of the image directory
Null pointer fix to deepLastModified API call
Fixed painting bug on some look and feels
Fixed bug that prevented switching back to explorer when clicking a folder of the project
Various bug fixes

Released: February 11, 2014

11.6.14

News and Updates

Added "Order by camera date" as an album-level image ordering option
Reverted caption editor behavior to accept enter for newlines. Now draws focus rectangle to indicate focus
Added warning if image and output directory are the same
Non JPEG files (videos for instance) now delivers last modified date instead of 0 when asked for Camera date
Speed up to loading of jAlbum objects.
More user friendly reporting of circular folder reference problems
Better naming of internal threads
Updates to translations. Thank you translators!
Minor code improvements
Updated bundled Turtle skin to v5

Bug fixes

Didn't handle externally modified xmp metadata (like face tags for instance)
Repairing broken links would only render the first repaired object correctly. Now all repaired objects are refreshed properly
Nullpointer fix for loading old skin settings onto new UI containing new UI components
Fix for respecting current directory on Mac File chooser
Occasional paining error fixed
Didn't understand old $variable syntax for subclasses of dates and files
Uses jAlbum ordering instead of custom ordering if visiting a folder containing an albumfiles.txt file but no meta.properties file
Error dialogue didn't properly display a scroller for long stack traces
Using a folder to represent another folder didn't render the representing album object icon
Nullpointer fix for Mac file chooser
Fixed painting issue when using icon instead of text for JLinkLabel component

Released: December 3, 2013

11.6.4

News and Updates

Updated Dutch, Portuguese and Korean translations. Thank you translators!

Bug fixes

jAlbum 11.6 could cause loss of original files if generating the album files to the same folder as the image folder and keeping "Copy originals" and "Link to originals" set.

Released: November 18, 2013

11.6.3

News and Updates

Updated Romanian and Hungarian translations. Thank you translators!
Links may have relative target paths
Added ${buyImageUrl} variable. Exists if images have been published for sale. Skin developers can check for the presense of this variable and simply link to its URL so buyers can purchase the relevant image.
Bundled with updated skin Turtle 4.5.3
Developers: Now avoids interpreting complex object-type variables like window, explorer and engine when using the old-style $variable syntax. This simplifies using Javascript code that refers to $window without the need to surround such references with elements.

Bug fixes

Renaming folders caused inconsistent behavior until window was refreshed (since 11.6)
Convert links to copies broken
Improved UI updates when titles and keywords change
Developers: Corrected IO.resolvePath()
Fixed nullpointer bug in renderer thread

Released: November 5, 2013

11.6

News and Updates

Significantly faster video editing (selecting representing thumbnail and editing start and stop)
Far more responsive user interface when managing images that lack cached thumbnails
jAlbum now keeps track of when album objects were added to an album. Currently supported by the skins Matrix, Gromit and Turtle
Album objects can now be sorted on "when added" date
Hovering the mouse over album objects now display convenient information like type, location on disk, size, date added and date modified
Uses less file IO calls. Speeds up operation where slow disks and network disks are involved
More memory conservative when scaling huge images (>10000 pixels wide)
Significantly faster operation over SAMBA mounted network disks (>600% speed gain)
Improved wait cursor handling for long operations
The ftp4j connection type now sends keep-alives every 30 seconds to avoid disconnects due to timeout
Supports the MPO file format (3D JPEG images)
Updated bundled skins Minimal and Turtle
Added pricing link next to sign in button for unlicensed, not signed in users
Developers: See this forum post for API changes

Bug fixes

Rotating images and applying image tools to images didn't refresh the thumbnails in the user interface
Fixed problems downloading albums using ftpes, ftps and ftp (ftp4j) connection types (exists method broken)
Folders who's names starting with the same letters as the album folder would be ignored
Fixed painting error in edit panel
Non image album objects could be selected to represent a folder or album
Fix for nullpointer error when using upload window when jalbum.net is down
More robust startup (doesn't bail out if unknown enum properties are found)
Renaming files when only the CaSeInG differs would cause double entries
Minor code fixes
Prevents "OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" from being displayed as image caption

Released: September 10, 2013

11.5

News and Updates

Keywords can now be viewed and edited in thumbnail view
One can quickly switch between viewing and editing file names, titles, captions or keywords by right clicking the "label type" indicator in the status bar
Uploading albums to the root of the remote host or to any folder containing other folders than album folders is now considerably faster
Less nagging: Only warns the first time a user attempts to upload an album to the web root of a server account
Bundled "Minimal" skin now updated to use the new video tag (gives an embedded player). Thanks for that one jGromit. Also showcases a simple Google Maps integration
Skins may disable thumbnail layout panel by specifying skin property
Account profiles can now be renamed
The embedded editor now supports the recently added variables "videoWidth", "videoHeight", "videoFPS", "videoDuration", "fileCategory" and "gpsLocation"
Minor API improvements
When opening files using the embedded editor, the currently open image directory is now the default
Developers: Updated plugin API to support adding custom tool bar buttons
Developers: Small fixes and improvements to skin properties editor
Bundled Turtle skin now updated to 4.4.1

Bug fixes

Uploading html files using the protocols "ftps", "ftpes" and "ftp (ftp4j)" would sometimes mangle foreign characters (long standing bug)
Could accidentally leave edit view when files in the current folder were being added or modified
Fix for painting bug when selecting some album objects
Fixed rendering bug in label editor
Developers: The AlbumImage API ignored the compressionQuality parameter

Released: August 8, 2013

11.4.1

News and Updates

Double clicking template pages that have no embedded user interface will now revert to opening in the embedded text editor.
Bundled with updated Turtle 4.3.4 skin (fix for Facebook commenting)
Updated Korean translation. Thank you dear translator

Bug fixes

Selecting the desired image to represent an album using the General settings panel was broken in 11.4
Some images would fail to be processed with a "Missing Huffman code table entry" error if "Include photographic data in generated images" was set.

Released: July 31, 2013

11.4

News and Updates

Significantly faster (around 10 times) loading of large album projects and sub folders
The user interface images and folders are now always in sync with the backing file system so changes directly to the file system, like added and deleted files are reflected in the user interface. No need to manually issue View->update
Developers: Custom template pages are now guaranteed to have all variables present during script processing that are present within the <ja:ui> element. (Easier for template developers. No need to check for void variables)
Bundled with updated Turtle skin 4.3.3

Bug fixes

Red eye reduction tool was broken
Cancelling an album object move by moving the caret back to the initial position would move the album object(s) to the end.
Several minor code fixes

Released: July 7, 2013

11.3

News and Updates

Now preloads the recent album projects list with a sample album project that demonstrates making a full portfolio site using jAlbum including sub folders and custom contact and about pages
Skins can now provide user interfaces for custom web pages like "About.htt" and "Contact.htt"! This enables end users to customize such pages graphically from within jAlbum's edit mode = no need to display html source code to end users. Give it a try by opening the sample portfolio project and double click "About.htt" or "Contact.htt". (The source code can still be edited by right clicking template pages and selecting "Edit" from the context menu). These user interfaces are declared within <ja:ui> elements of the template pages so the skin developer both declares and uses his variables in one convenient location.
Added ability to order album objects by title and caption
Added ability to view and edit Titles as well as file names and captions from the thumbnail view (See View->"Label type")
Label type for thumbnail view (file name, title, caption) now visible and changeable in status bar
Creates web-safe file names if non-safe file names are being used without URL-encoding being active. This should ensure less viewing problems for files using characters like %, #, ? and &
Minor user interface tweaks
Minor code improvements (better naming of CPU threads)
More robust reading of camera metadata
Recent project list now max 50 instead of 25 files
Bundled with updated Turtle 4.3.0 skin
Languages updated. Thank you dear translators!

Bug fixes

Better memory management: Better at releasing unused data in situations where memory is low. jAlbum should now be far better at processing huge albums without running into out of memory conditions.
Fixed deadlock bug in Widget panel causing the user interface to hang
Some Windows systems would experience slow or hanging start up due to misconfigured printer drivers
Album projects can now again be opened by simply dropping their folders onto jAlbum
Prevents copying a file to itself (thereby rendering the file zero bytes in length)
The state of custom UIs wasn't saved when making the album
Handles broken manifest.jmf files on upload = more robust uploads on shaky network connections

Released: May 28, 2013

11.2.5

News and Updates

The signup procedure is now embedded within the client. Signing up and testing our storage solution is now a far faster procedure than before
Better error reporting if jAlbum can't connect to jalbum.net storage accounts
Album objects having file names containing illegal, non web safe characters (like %, # and ?) are now highlighted with warning icons
Developers: Added Google Maps formatted ${gpsLocation} variable
Now prevents accidental deletion of remote albums that reside directly at the web root folder
Updated bundled Turtle skin to 4.2.2

Bug fixes

Wouldn't launch on old Macs running Java 1.5 if the default skin required Java 1.6

Released: May 14, 2013

11.2.4

News and Updates

Performance improvements to UI painting and album building with Turtle skin
Even more tolerant to faulty camera metadata structures (for instance images written by Adobe Lightroom)
Bundled updated Turtle, Mr.Burns and Lumen skins
Media RSS files will now have absolute links (per the media RSS specification) if the new "Address" field under album settings points out the destination album URL.
Minor code improvements
Developers: New CompiledBase API for compiled skins

Bug fixes

Fixed bug where video resolution was reset when loading projects having custom video settings

Released: April 24, 2013

11.2.1

News and Updates

Album projects can now be ordered by reverse name too
Renamed "Include original" to "Do not re-encode" for videos
Now more tolerant to faulty camera metadata structures. Images processed through Adobe Lightroom used to not have its EXIF metadata visible in jAlbum due to an incorrectly written "EXIF Directory length" field. jAlbum now handles such files too.

Bug fixes

Fixed bug causing only the first of several IPTC keywords to show (Since 11.2)

Released: April 19, 2013

11.2

News and Updates

Added "Project ordering" drop menu. Projects can now be ordered by name or last used
Videos can now be selected to have their processing bypassed (check "Include original")
Added play button onto videos in the user interface to better indicate them
Extended tool-tip display time from 4 seconds to 10 seconds
Updated bundled skin Turtle to v4.1
Armenian translation added. Thank you Hrant Ohanyan!

Bug fixes

The preview image was not updated while the video clip sliders were dragged
The video clip slider was not visible for videos having their own custom thumbnail file (.thm file)
Editing titles and ratings of objects in a sub folder wouldn't trigger reprocessing of that sub folder if "Process only updated sub folders" was selected
Fix to disabling of undo/redo for read-only text components
Respects portrait oriented embedded thumbnails instead of creating separate thumbnails
Style hints was applied twice and caused deadlock if opening a project while loading a skin
Fixed character encoding issue for EXIF and IPTC metadata
The videoWidth and videoHeight variables weren't calculated correctly if a custom thumbnail file were present having other dimensions than the video
The underlying metadata-extractor library was sometimes wrongly returning metadata for an embedded thumbnail instead of metadata for the main image
The demo filter "SimpleFilter" was broken

Released: April 15, 2013

11.1.5

News and Updates

Renamed "Use as folder thumbnail" to "Make key photo" and moved closer to top of context menu (inspired by iPhoto)
Bundled updated Turtle skin v4.0.11
The detection of skin changes upon make album that triggers skin reloading is now based on version number instead of checking last modified date

Bug fixes

jAlbum 11.1 could fail with out of memory error when making huge albums (around 20.000 images). Now reverted to earlier memory management.
Import settings wasn't fully tight
Now prevents .mp4 videos from being overwritten if output is set to same directory as input directory
jAlbum wouldn't use the embedded thumbnail images of some portrait oriented images when painting the user interface thumbnails, and would instead generate its own (since v11)
Minor bug fixes

Released: April 10, 2013

11.1

News and Updates

Asks user whether he wishes to copy added files or link to them (saves disk space for instance). See this blog post for more info on different ways of managing images with jAlbum.
Copy files progress bar now shows progress during the copying of large files too
Performance enhancements
Minor UI adjustments
Updated bundled skins Turtle and Base.
More robust against broken images
Verifies date pattern under advanced album settings so incorrect patterns are prevented
Now reporting number of videos when adding albums to jalbum.net
Now using a smaller folder icon when in small thumbnail view
Developers: New API for fast and flexible counting of object categories
Logo filter can now be excluded for selected images

Bug fixes

Updating a skin from within jAlbum would reload default skin settings instead of keeping project settings
Partly uploaded files weren't completed on next upload
Files having a "-" in the start of the file name weren't sorted according to user's wish
Updating skins would sometimes cause an exception to be thrown
Typing special Polish characters when entering captions would trigger events like undo/redo
Updating skins would sometimes cause an exception to be thrown
Moving deleting and excluding videos was not synchronized with the corresponding video file in the album structure
Wasn't possible to select folders to represent albums
Ensures that any locally stored manifest.jmf file isn't uploaded (should never be manually uploaded)
The selected style on Mac wasn't rendered correctly
Made uploading albums more robust against jalbum.net not responding correctly
Fix to bug in detection of circular folder references (equal folder names would fool the logic)
Fix to bug calculating the right web root url from an ftp server name

Released: March 13, 2013

11

News and Updates

Converts over 160 video formats suitable for the web (mp4). See blog post
Auto detects and adjusts video orientation
Allows videos to be rotated
Videos can have their start and end trimmed
Generates preview images for videos
Supported video formats are configurable under preferences. There is also a master switch to enable/disable video support under Preferences
Now smart enough to pick the latest skin version from disk, be it either a bundled skin or an installed skin (Previously just picked an installed skin, if present)
If skin related error occurs, a friendly error dialogue is now displayed helping users to update skin and report errors. (Switch on debug mode to get the classic error dialogue)
New license info panel under "About jAlbum" window
Bundled the Arty ("Instagram" like effects) and AutoCorrection image tools
Support for rotating all images, not just images coming straight from digital cameras (having EXIF data)
Tags published albums containing processed videos with a "video" tag
If unexpected internal errors occur (stuff printed to System.err), will display a small warning icon in the lower right corner. Clicking it will bring up the error message in the System console.
Remembers divider location, if "Remember window position and size" set
New pro looking program icons
New 128x128 web icon set
Minor user interface adjustments
Includes updates to Turtle, Base, Mr.Burns and Lumen skins
Clicking the thumbnail icon for the current album project will leave edit mode and return you to the thumbnail view (and root folder)
Developers: Now sets closeupPath for supported videos to slide page to enable embedded videos
Developers: New API for unzipping and downloading
Developers: Added the skin variables "videoWidth" and "videoHeight", that will give you the dimensions of the processed/final video (only present if video support is switched on)
Developers: Added file category support (fileCategory variable)
Developers: Blur filter now accepts different radius/strength

Bug fixes

Fixed bug causing editing of moved objects to break
Fix for nullpointer exception bug when painting thumbnails
Fix for custom image size error (custom maxImageWidth etc ignored when generating variables)
Fix to error linking to non existent slide pages
Fixed bug causing style hints to sometimes not being applied
Fixed "Invalid code" error when activating license
Fixed folder ordering bug for folders ending in a space
Fixed bug where folder thumbnails did not always have the movie thumbnail painted right
Handles cases where Apache Sanselan can't include xmp metadata in generated hi-res images during upload
Fixed bug causing infinite loop when enlarging images
Various minor fixes

Released: November 27, 2012

10.10.8

News and Updates

Windows version packaged with an updated installer software
Easier to correctly activate license (erroneous trailing spaces are trimmed from the activation code)
Bundled Base skin updated

Bug fixes

Windows version could sometimes trigger security warnings
The "IPTC author" field of images could sometimes leak into the xmp title field of images
Uploads could sometimes end up with an error in "Notifier" (missing album URL)
Fix for custom image size error (image specific maxImageWidth etc variables ignored when generating variables)
Loading album projects by dropping project files onto the dock icon on Mac could sometimes cause errors
Fix for not being able to open folders containing double spaces in file names (Windows only)
More robust against errors reading xml metadata from .info files
Fix for calculation of album URL (we sometimes got "No web directory selected")
Running the Mac version as another user than the installed user would prevent the system standard file chooser from opening
Fix for nullpointer exception bug when painting thumbnails in the UI

Released: October 12, 2012

10.10.7

News and Updates

Updated bundled Lumen skin now supporting image specific visitor comments via the commenting widget
Connecting to servers using the sftp protocol (secure ftp) now also supports the "Keyboard interactive" authentication mode.
Updated Dutch translation

Bug fixes

The processing of PNG images was broken if "Force JPEG writing" was switched off.
jAlbum failed to paint the user interface correctly if running on Java 1.5. This mostly affected users running Mac OS X 10.4
Fix for allowing password popup dialogue on sftp servers that don't accept "Password interactive mode"
jAlbum wouldn't allow deletion of a folder linked to a read-only target folder

Released: October 3, 2012

10.10.6

News and Updates

Added new "jAlbum core update" external tool to simplify ad-hoc patches to jAlbum
Mac version now signed with a code certificate in order to avoid warnings when launching jAlbum on OS X Mountain Lion

Bug fixes

Failing to append xmp metadata to file would make jAlbum ignore file. Now file is written without xmp metadata for such cases.
Uploading albums with updated images wouldn't include the updated images (broken since 10.10)
jAlbum didn't handle < and > in passwords properly
jAlbum would show a "Do you wish to save changes" warning when moving between album projects while a skin was loading
Several bug fixes to make jAlbum run properly on Java 1.7 for Mac
Keyboard support wasn't working when running the full screen slide show on Mac and Java 7
Album objects (thumbnails) weren't rearranged correctly in the project window when having "Hide excluded" set
IPTC metadata wasn't imported to xmp block if image already contained an xmp block
The version number didn't show in the about dialog when using the Alloy look and feel

Released: September 19, 2012

10.10

News and Updates

Faster album making (roughly 30% faster image processing)
Faster loading of large album projects (album objects are initialized by multiple threads)
New "Make an album like that" feature: Ability to import album settings from existing published albums, so you can copy the look of an album you like. See File->Import
Ability to reset an album project to default settings. Practical if you've lost your way in settings. See File->Import
Easier and faster skin updating: Skins can now be downloaded and installed from within jAlbum. No need to involve the web browser.
Better, user configurable credit links, helping making jAlbum known. See Album settings->Pages
New Minimal skin (v2.0). Updated to today's web standards, but keeping the minimalistic feel.
Updated Base and Turtle skins
For skin developers: New alpha (transparency) aware color selector (JAlphaColorSelector)
Somewhat more performant file writes
Now verifies validity of web root URLs, making it less likely to have a 404 error when viewing final album
Widget support always on for unlicensed users
Various minor code improvements

Bug fixes

Users could sometimes get a "No such user" error message after uploading albums
Album projects containing folders with representing thumbnails referenced via broken links wouldn't open
The output (album) directory was created as soon as skins were loaded instead of at album build time
Some images could trigger an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error when appending xmp metadata during album generation (3:rd party bug in Apache Sanselan library. Now handled by ignoring appending xmp metadata for such images)

Released: August 28, 2012

10.9.2

News and Updates

Updated bundled skins "Mr.Burns" and "Lumen"

Bug fixes

Fixed java.lang.NullPointerException when uploading albums (in Notifier.java:108)

Released: August 25, 2012

10.9.1

News and Updates

jAlbum now always prints some diagnostic message to the system console if a severe error occurs that prevents jAlbum from starting
For skin developers: The JColorSelector component is now somewhat better at supporting colors with alpha channels on Java 7

Bug fixes

Under rare circumstances, the recent project list would show each entry doubled (since 10.9)
jAlbum wouldn't launch on Java 7 (since v10.9)
jAlbum's embedded text editor would cause error messages to be printed to the system console when editing new files
The "Convert spaces to underscores" external tool was broken
Minor fix to embedded Turtle skin (stripping quotation from home page link text)

Released: August 23, 2012

10.9

News and Updates

New widget settings tab that allows you to manage widgets for albums from within the software itself
New address bar added to jAlbum's thumbnail view. The address bar continuously shows you the hard disk location of the currently open folder (can be toggled on/off)
An initial path can be added to the server name of connection profiles, thereby enabling users to upload albums to ftp servers that hide files and directories
Less annoying notifications: jAlbum now ensures that not more than two "promo type" notifications are shown per session. Also, such "promo type" notifications won't interrupt any currently showing notifications (they are put on a queue instead)
Updated ftp library to v2.3.0 (previously 2.1.0)
Promotion links are now never added to albums when a license is active

Bug fixes

Fixes to jAlbum's detection of published albums: Some albums didn't show up as published even though they were.
Some thumbnails in the recent album project list would sometimes not show. This bug has been around for years and now finally found and fixed!
The detection of recent album projects has been rewritten. There were occasions where the previous code could cause an empty recent project list. This will hopefully never happen again.
Fix for running jAlbum on Java 1.7 (fix for SocketReset error during ftp uploads)
jAlbum can now again produce that famous "ribbit" sound when clicking the frog face during start-up :-)

Released: August 8, 2012

10.8.1

News and Updates

No longer saving passwords for account profiles as plain text (applies to new account profiles)
Added directory chooser button for "My Albums" location to jAlbum's preferences dialog
Updated bundled skins Turtle, Base and Galleria

Bug fixes

Fixed bug causing mixup of some camera metadata when using multiple threads with some skins (really old bug)
The user interface was hanging if making albums after modifying a skin (installing an update or editing the currently used skin)
jAlbum didn't start on Java 1.5. This mainly affected those running jAlbum on Mac OS X 10.4
Fixed bug where jAlbum would choke on some unusually formatted xmp metadata in images
Reloading a skin now keeps the current skin and style settings
Filters out jAlbum specific files from the "res" folder of album projects when copying files
The "My Albums" location couldn't be set to the root of a file system (for instance C:\)
jAlbum would accidentally create a .jalbum folder inside the installation folder on startup (since 10.8)

Released: July 6, 2012

10.8

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

Released: May 16, 2012

10.7.2

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

Released: May 3, 2012

10.7

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

Released: April 23, 2012

10.6

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
Album's plugin API updated to allow for new kinds of extensions. The first one to use this is our new Histogram plugin
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

Released: March 27, 2012

10.5.2

News and Updates

Updated bundled Turtle skin to 3.0.5
Updated external tool "Import comments from rss file". Now repairs albums with sub folders too

Bug fixes

Album builds could sometimes break with a nullpointer exception on multi core CPUs (since 10.4)
Bug fix to reading CMYK encoded JPEG images

Released: March 19, 2012

10.5

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

Released: March 9, 2012

10.4.4

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)

Released: March 8, 2012

10.4.3

Bug fixes

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

Released: March 7, 2012

10.4.2

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

Released: March 2, 2012

10.4

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

Released: January 4, 2012

10.3.1

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

Released: January 2, 2012

10.3

News and Updates

More memory conservative so huge albums can be built without running out of memory. (Some older skins will need to run in "compatibility mode" to work with this release. See Preferences->Advanced)
Supports reading JPEG images in the CMYK color space too. Thanks goes to Werner Randelshofer for making this possible.
Sub-albums can now be selectively hidden (i.e. included in the album, but not linked to from index pages).
Can generate search engine friendly file names. (See setting under Advanced settings->Naming)
Guides users trying to upload to jAlbum's storage without having storage activated
Welcomes licensed users upon license activation. Excludes credit links by default for licensed users
New file type: .patch.jaskin: Contains only new and updated skin files. Deletion of the old skin doesn't happen. This simplifies distributing minor patches to skins.
Translations updated. Thank you all translators!

Bug fixes

Fixed memory leak on Mac that could cause huge memory usage when working with many album objects in the UI.
Fixed issue where jAlbum could hang if Make album was pressed while loading a project
Dismissing skin "like" notifications is now remembered
Negative camera metadata values expressed as rational numbers weren't interpreted correctly (for instance EV -1/3)
Fixed randomly occuring exception in renderer thread
Fixed exception triggered in "SpecialMacHandler" when quitting Mac version
Better error reporting if "Output has not been set" error occurs

Released: December 5, 2011

10.2

News and Updates

Up to 10 times faster album uploads when uploading to external sites (uploads to jalbum.net are already accelerated). The accelerated speed is gained by transferring multiple files simultaneously (see jAlbum preferences->publishing for configuring)
Support for the secure file transfer protocols "FTPS" and "FTPES" added. jAlbum now supports four transfer protocols: FTP, SFTP, FTPS and FTPES.
jAlbum now works correctly behind http proxies (proxy settings can be manually configured under Preferences->Advanced unless auto configuration works)
Added "Activate license" menu item to help menu
Updated 3:rd party SFTP library to improve stability on secure transfers (jsch 0.1.45)
Added new 3:rd party library for FTP transfers (ftp4j 1.6.1)
Updated bundled "Turtle" skin to v2.1.10
Updated bundled "Happenings" skin to v1.1.7
Updated bundled "PhotoBox" skin to v1.1.15

Bug fixes

Upload window wasn't working using GTK+ Look&Feel on Linux
Images altered outside of jAlbum didn't trigger jAlbum to recopy them to the destination album (if "link to originals" and "copy originals" was chosen)
An early 10.2 release had issues with loading the FotoPlayer skin and switching to other skins thereafter.
The remote directory (where to upload albums) was accidentally stored among the default settings
Previewing albums didn't work on some Windows machines

Released: October 18, 2011

10.1.2

News and Updates

Bundled with updated Turtle skin 2.1.4
Faster start up time on systems with a large number of installed fonts (font list loaded in separate thread)

Bug fixes

Could accidentally delete files from the destination folder on the server that haven't been previously uploaded by jAlbum. This is a several year old bug.
Autocompletes keywords with coRRect CaseIng and not just with small caseing
The embed album function could sometimes bail out with scripting errors

Released: October 5, 2011

10.1

News and Updates

Updated filter bar: You can now filter on keywords too. Use comma and plus separated keywords to narrow the number of images to match your liking
Fast and convenient keyword tagging: jAlbum learns your keywords and autocompletes them as you type. See video!
jAlbum now offers you to "like" the currently used skin after a successful album upload.
Reset filter bar button added to filter bar
Filter bar can be closed with escape key
jAlbum's xmp property editor now imports metadata like Author, Keywords and Copyright from the older IPTC fields if an image lacks xmp fields but has IPTC fields
The filter bar now applies a logical "AND" between the ratings, flags and keywords categories, so it's now easier to for instance filter for all "5-star nature images"
Bundled Turtle skin updated to v2.1.2
New LicenseManager API replacing SignInManager for handling licenses
Minor user interface polishing
Added keyboard shortcut to import settings from other projects (CTRL+SHIFT+O)
jAlbum's PluginContext API now has a getCurrentFolder() call too.
Windows version bundled with latest official Java version (1.6.0_27)
Defaults to using Java's more modern "Desktop" API for launching browsers and opening file system folders in Explorer and Finder

Bug fixes

jAlbum 10 introduced incompatibility with some skins (triggered scripting errors due to missing API call). Now fixed.
The external tool "Apply ordering to subfolders" was broken.
Some albums could get a broken parent link from the top level instead of no parent link (${parentIndexPage} was incorrectly null instead of missing)
When moving to a parent folder in a final album, you were incorrectly taken to the first index page instead of the index page linking to the current folder.
More robust against broken image data structures when figuring out image orientation

Released: September 26, 2011

10.0.1

Bug fixes

Wouldn't start on computers only having Java 1.5 installed (applied to early versions of v10)
Java 1.6.0_26 had a bug that prevented the file chooser from showing up when clicking "Add photos" on Windows, Windows version therefore again bundled with a bug fixed Java version (Java 7)
Several bug fixes to bundled Turtle skin
Some skins would incorrectly produce dead parent level links from the root album level (${parentIndexPage} was incorrectly declared for root level).
Some skins (Turtle, Lumen, Mr.Burns) wouldn't build albums from command line.

Released: September 19, 2011

10

News and Updates

New license model: jAlbum is now free for non commercial use only. For commercial use of the application you need to purchase a Pro license. The Pro license also lets you remove ads and white label your albums, and will give you access to our priority e-mail support.
Full xmp metadata support. Read and write metadata like caption, title, rating, keywords, author and copyright directly to your images and exchange data with other xmp aware applications like Adobe Photoshop, Bridge and Lightroom. Read blog.
Now also supporting the image formats TIFF, PSD (some aspects), PNM, PGM, PBM, and PPM. For details see the Sanselan library
Albums can now be easily embedded in web sites and blogs by using the new "Embed album" feature. Skin developers can use the new "embed.htt" template file to customize how their skins are embedded. Read blog.
You can now move album objects (images, folders) between album projects (within the same application)
The filter bar now lets you filter by flag/color (xmp Label) too, and the slide show allows you to quickly flag images by color using keys 6-9. (Use keys 0-5 to rate images). Read blog.
Faster album making: We were able to avoid duplication of metadata reading
Upload button now defaults to the advanced upload window for externally hosted albums (ALT key toogles between quick and advanced view)
New XmpManager API for those skin and plugin developers who wish to manage the hundreds of other XMP properties there are.
Skins Lumen, Mr.Burns and Galleria updated
New "Copy file metadata to xmp" external tool that injects xmp metadata into the images of old album projects
Turtle skin now v2.0, a major rewrite packed with improvements and new expressions.
Translations updated. Thank you all translators for your continuous help!

Bug fixes

Fix to reading Unicode encoded EXIF User comments.
Fixed error causing "Convert link to copy" from two folder levels down to seemingly not work (the visual appearance wasn't updated)
Operations were applied to album objects that were selected but filtered-out by a filter
Some images got negative GPS coordinates