Bloom Changelog

What's new in Bloom 3.8.0

Oct 10, 2023
  • 3.8.0 resolves login issue
  • General improvements

New in Bloom 3.7.1 (Mar 31, 2021)

  • 3.7.1 resolves a minor issue with adding captions to images

New in Bloom 3.7.0 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Bloom 3.7.0 fixes an issue creating new albums for groups
  • Added an intermediate screen after changing the account used in the top drop down in order to avoid refresh issues
  • Improve Exif dialog size

New in Bloom 3.6.0 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Bloom 3.5.6 support for new Facebook API changes: no longer allows creating new albums because of new Facebook API restrictions - Bloom will redirect you to your browser to create a new album and then you can add the photos to the album in Bloom
  • Minor improvements

New in Bloom 3.5.4 (Jun 7, 2020)

  • Bloom 3.5.4 improves UI experience but only letting the user create a new album for groups, pages and not his individual profile
  • Improves downloding albums UI experience for overwriting existing folders
  • Improves image thumbnail navigation and stability

New in Bloom 3.5.3 (Feb 26, 2020)

  • Bloom 3.5.3 resolves login issues due to new Facebook API changes

New in Bloom 3.5.2 (Mar 10, 2019)

  • resolves issues after Facebook permissions changes, now Facebook disallows uploading to personal accounts. Windows 64 and Mac are only supported now

New in Bloom 3.5.1 (Aug 25, 2018)

  • Resolves issues after Facebook permissions changes, now Facebook disallows uploading to personal accounts.

New in Bloom 3.5.0 (Sep 6, 2017)

  • Adds ability to upload to and download from Facebook groups
  • Resolves Facebook API issue when accessing albums

New in Bloom 3.4.8 (Oct 21, 2016)

  • Resolves Facebook API issue when accessing photos
  • Fixes bug in upload video size
  • Brings improvements in Exif handling, uploading videos

New in Bloom 3.4.7 (Dec 4, 2015)

  • Resolves issue with uploading multiple videos: some titles and descriptions disappear when clicking back and forth between videos

New in Bloom 3.4.6 (Dec 3, 2015)

  • Resolves issue with uploading videos: entered titles are not brought over to Facebook
  • Improves video uploading UI: disable text fields when no video is selected
  • Increase the number of rows of the description text field for video and photo uploads.

New in Bloom 3.4.5 (Nov 11, 2015)

  • Fixes Downloading albums with special characters

New in Bloom 3.4.4 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • Fixes upload videos bug caused by Facebook API changes.
  • Improves video upload UI dialog
  • Improve robustness of log out process

New in Bloom 3.4.3 (Jun 1, 2015)

  • Fixes authentication bug caused by Facebook API changes.

New in Bloom 3.4.2 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Improves the display of different accounts a user has access to by adding the category for ex. an app page, photographer, etc.
  • Changes wording of privacy 'Everyone' to 'Public' to match Facebook naming convention.

New in Bloom 3.4.1 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • Sort list of albums by creation date
  • Fixes bug introduced by Facebook that limits albums to 50 and photos to 100

New in Bloom 3.4.0 (Aug 28, 2014)

  • Improved Exif support, you can now choose to display Exif sections and tag names or not and sort in any order you want. You can now use IPTC fields for ex. Caption or Headline as you wish and in the order you want.

New in Bloom 3.3.2 (Aug 28, 2014)

  • Fixed the following error some users were getting: There was an error executing the request java.lang.NullPointerException
  • Improve errors tracability.

New in Bloom 3.3.1 (Jul 10, 2014)

  • Improves Export options
  • Fixes the issue of uploading photos to the same album

New in Bloom 3.3 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Adds the ability to convert image formats. Formats supported are: JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF. The conversion uses all your CPU cores
  • Adds the ability to upload JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF images.
  • Fixes the language bug that occurred on locales other than English, French or Spanish.
  • Fixes opening browser on Ubuntu.
  • Improves saving window position
  • Improves robustness and stability of application for handling image formats

New in Bloom 3.2 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Fixes the 'Cannot Create JVM' issue that occured sometimes on Windows 64 bits.
  • Adds the ability to increase the memory allocated to Bloom, therefore loading larger images is possible: Mac has no limit (maximum of 75% of total RAM), limited to 1024MB for 32 bits JVMs (Windows and Linux), .

New in Bloom 3.1 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • Much improved exif support, support for larger image sizes and other bug fixes more

New in Bloom 3.0.9 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Support for larger image sizes and fixed activation issue on Mac.

New in Bloom 3.0.8 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • Corrected activation and language issues.

New in Bloom 3.0.5 (Jul 27, 2013)

  • Corrected activation issue on Windows
  • Corrected image viewing label
  • Increased size of thumbnails

New in Bloom 3.0.2 (May 27, 2013)

  • Added privacy for video uploads
  • Added automatic update check, on by default
  • Fixed video upload link after upload
  • Fixed re-ordering of photos

New in Bloom 3.0.1 (May 15, 2013)

  • Fixes the video upload defect

New in Bloom 3.0 (May 15, 2013)

  • Bloom Free:
  • Brings compatibility with new Facebook API
  • Saves the security token for ease of use
  • Bloom PRO:
  • Adds the ability to upload large image sizes and to configure the image size wanted
  • Adds ability to upload to Facebook pages

New in Bloom 2.9.1 (Aug 12, 2011)

  • fixes the bug with uploading photos to an existing album

New in Bloom 2.9.0 (Jan 26, 2011)

  • Fixes the bug with uploading photos to an existing album

New in Bloom 2.8.0 (Mar 16, 2010)

  • Adds cover flow: the ability to view photos by pressing on the SPACE button, ESCAPE dismisses the preview, the RIGHT and LEFT arrows are used to navigate between photos
  • Increase the upload photos size to 720 pixels
  • Added Spanish translation thanks to Francisco Viollaz
  • Added the ability to choose the default file dialog directory (in the Preferences menu)
  • Added the ability to save photos from the thumbnails list
  • Added the ability to locate the added images in the file manager (Explorer, Finder)
  • Performance improvement when viewing albums
  • Fixes the caption defect: when selecting a photo with a caption then selecting other photos, the other photos captions get overwritte.

New in Bloom 2.7.1 (Jan 21, 2010)

  • Fixes the upload of certain photos for some users. Facebook photos and albums are now Strings instead of integers or longs previously.

New in Bloom 2.6.0 (Nov 9, 2009)

  • Adds the ability to customize the imported IPTC metadata
  • Fixes the proxy server support
  • Enlarges the photo caption text area for a better user experience
  • Adds the support in the help for Snow Leopard and Windows 7.

New in Bloom 2.5.1 (Sep 11, 2009)

  • Fixed bug in friends' list introduced by Facebook changes...more