What's new in F-Stop 5.3.6
Feb 12, 2018
- Photos not in sets can be viewed in main browser.
New in F-Stop 5.3.5 (Jan 16, 2018)
- Redesigned Upload View to display bigger photos
- Added ability to populate photo name and description using IPTC/Exif/Date taken/TIFF Metadata during directories uploads
- Latitude, Longiture can be manually entered using GPS coordinates in Decimal Degrees
- Added ability to sort directories using Taken Date when uploading
- New "Dump Metadata" window to display metadata associated with a photo
- Fixed some visualization bugs in maps
- Fixed memory leaks
New in F-Stop 5.3.4 (Dec 22, 2017)
- Groups listing now uses flickr.groups.pools.getGroups instead of flickr.people.getGroups API. This fix a listing problem: some groups were not displayed by F-Stop.
New in F-Stop 5.3.3 (Nov 7, 2017)
- Fixed problem of disappearing progress bars of photo replacer
- Fixed problem in High Sierra when reordering photos in photo uploader
- Changed minimum OS supported version to 10.12.2 due to the lack of some image templates in touchbar
- Minor bugfixes
New in F-Stop 5.3.2 (Oct 19, 2017)
- Fixed problem of creation of sets having null name. Now name of photoset is assigned correctly.
New in F-Stop 5.3.1 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Fixed a bug in sets creation via AppleScript in uploadview
- Fixed a bug in assigning sets via AppleScript in uploadview
- Fixed a bug that prevented description field to be editable in uploadview
- Improved script sample to show the correct way to assign sets via AppleScript
New in F-Stop 5.3.0 (Sep 26, 2017)
- Removed support for MacOS 10.11
- Compatible with MacOS 10.13
- Added new photo replacement module
- Added AppleScript support to photo replacement module
- Added ability to tag photos with their own filename during upload
- Added ability to assign "{UploadDate-DateFormat}" string as photo name and have it expandend during upload
- Fixed a bug when cancelling photos/sets reordering
- Other Bug Fixing
New in F-Stop 5.2.2 (Mar 20, 2017)
- Fixed a bug that prevented Paste Metadata menu item to work properly
New in F-Stop 5.2.1 (Jan 3, 2017)
- Added support to MacBook Pro Touchbar
- Added ability to sort CameraRoll by interestingness
- Added ability to create a photo search binded to user of another photo search result
- Fixed a potential visualization problem in Photos view
New in F-Stop 5.2.0 (Sep 12, 2016)
- Added support to MacOS Sierra 10.12
- It's now possible to interrupt upload process without waiting for upload to complete
- F-Stop now displays upload progress for each file
- F-Stop can now watch folders and upload new files automatically (Autouploader batch)
- Fixed memory leaks
- Improved error messaging when a file upload fails
- Simplified status messages during uploads
- Minor graphical changes to F-Stop appearance
- Improved compatibility with MacOS Sierra 10.12
- Fixed crash when displaying account activities
- Added tab support for MacOS Sierra 10.12
- Fixed upload status reporting
- Bug fixing
New in F-Stop 5.1.4 (May 25, 2016)
- Fixed hang during photosets creation
- Added new image formats in upload view
New in F-Stop 5.1.3 (Apr 22, 2016)
- Fixed a bug introduced in version 5.1.2 which crashes F-Stop when a collection is selected
New in F-Stop 5.1.2 (Apr 19, 2016)
- Fixed a memory leak when displaying maps
- Added support for photoset/gallery photos reordering using Date Taken/Upload
- Added ability to recurse inside subdirectories when uploading a directory (to be set in preferences)
- Fixed a bug related to photo reordering when a visualization filter is applied
New in F-Stop 5.1.1 (Dec 16, 2015)
- Fixed image flickering when scrolling with mouse wheel in dynamic layout
- Fixed a layout problem when there are empty groups in selection
New in F-Stop 5.1.0 (Nov 24, 2015)
- Improvements in resolution of displayed images:
- Photo Browser now displays flickr large format if available (instead of medium format). Il large file format is not available, medium format is used.
- Photo View now displays largest available image format (with the exclusion of original format)
- SlideShow now uses format in the following order: Very large, large, medium.
- Fixed a bug in camera roll which prevented accurate date searches when certain dates were used (such as 31 December 2014)
- Camera roll now uses a new graphical date selector
- Added new grid layout to Photo Broswer
- Fixed a memory leak in Photo Downloader
- Photo Downloader now restores last selected destination path
- Fixed bugs and race conditions in Photo Downloader. Photos added to Photo downloader are now added using selection order.
- Added option to remove user notification of photos uploaded with error.
- Fixed white screen in Photo View when a video is selected. Notes are now disabled for videos
- Timezones are now respected in Camera Roll when Upload sorting is selected
- Fixed some drag&drop issues in Photo Browser
- Statistics view now uses monospaced font
New in F-Stop 5.0.2 (Oct 22, 2015)
- Fixed a memory leak in photo downloader
- Photo downloader now uses the same concurrency setting defined for uploads
- Fixed a bug which prevented F-Stop to download Untitled photos owned by user with screenname containing "." or /"
- Fixed layout of vertical auxiliary views of photosets and groups
- Maps annotations callout displays photo
- Fixed a bug in drag&drop of photos from Photosets auxiliary view
- Improved map annotation in Upload View.
- New icon on photo tile to display quick editor
New in F-Stop 5.0.1 (Oct 8, 2015)
- Fixed a crash when exploding tags in sidebar of Photos view
- Added EaseInEaseOut Timing function to drawer animations
- OSX minimum system version required changed from 10.10 to 10.11
New in F-Stop 5.0 (Sep 30, 2015)
- Requires OSX 10.11 El Capitan (Not compatible with OSX 10.10 Yosemite!!!!)
- New graphical interface for Image Browser.
- Removed all deprecated methods of old releases of OSX including NSURLConnection
- Improved logical separation between application modules using Frameworks
- Fixed bug when displaying Total in statistics view
- Improved performance of Photo Downloaders. Now downloads are exectuted concurrently with a progress bar for each download
- Videos can now be played within Image Browser
- Improved upload performance allowing concurrent uploads (Max 10 concurrent uploads. To be set in preferences)
- User definable default custom size for uploads
- Added ability to specify geolocation in Uploads and in Metadata Editor
- Fixed memory leaks
- Improved editing of tags when Photo View is displaying a selection
- Fixed a bug when displaying notes in Photo View
- Fixed a crash when starting slideshow in Photo View
- Improved animation of sidebars
- QuickEditor is now displayed using CMD+Left Click on a Photo
- Removed support for Google Maps
- Minor bug fixes
New in F-Stop 4.1.4 (May 30, 2015)
- Fixed infinite photostream backup introduced by a new behaviour of a Flickr api
- Now backed up files have their creation date set to EXIF Date Time Original (if available)
New in F-Stop 4.1.3 (May 8, 2015)
- Fixed an exception raised when a null page number is inserted in page number field.
- Fixed some warnings on startup
- Fixed a bug in search that prevented tag mode (any, all) to work properly
New in F-Stop 4.1.2 (Apr 29, 2015)
- Fixed another "skipped file counter" bug which displays an abnormal big number the first time an incremental upload is started for a directory.
- Fixed an auto layout bug triggered by displaying upload preferences
- Fixed a bug which prevented manual change of page number in search photo view
- Fixed a bug which allowed to populate editable field in search photo view also when there wasn't any search selected. Now criteria fields are hidden when there is no selection
- Restored "parameterless search" alert when user tries to make a search without parameters. This time, alert is less intrusive than the one in previous versions of F-Stop.
- Fixed a memory allocation problem in canvas view of Stacks
- Fixed a memory leak during incremental uploads
- Fixed a memory allocation problem in application delegate
New in F-Stop 4.1.1 (Apr 14, 2015)
- Added support for new Flickr Licenses: Public Domain Dedication and Public Domain Mark
- Fixed counter of skipped files in upload message
New in F-Stop 4.1.0 (Mar 30, 2015)
- Added ability to perform real incremental uploads
- Added "Camera Roll" like function
- Added ability to see photos not beloning to photosets when displaying a photoset
- Fixed a bug in seconds conversion in searches
New in F-Stop 4.0.5 (Mar 3, 2015)
- Fixed a graphical corruption in Links View
- Added ability to open Flickr.com urls for users, groups, photosets, galleries via Open Flickr URL menu item
New in F-Stop 4.0.4 (Nov 26, 2014)
- It's possible to save errors (manually/automatically) for a later review
- Added ability to double click over a photo in statistics view and open it
- Fixed a bug that prevented video camera icon to be displayed in browser view
New in F-Stop 4.0.3 (Nov 13, 2014)
- Fixed problem of some unclosable windows with CMD+W combination
- Date/Time in errors window has simpler format
- Fixed some bugs in image resizing when an upload is stopped and restarted
- Fixed a bug in sudden termination when using Photo Downloader
- Fixed an autolayout problem in preferences window
- Quicklook window is bigger now
New in F-Stop 4.0.2 (Oct 28, 2014)
- Fixed a deadlock while uploading folders
New in F-Stop 4.0.1 (Oct 17, 2014)
- Improved graphical interface for Yosemite
- Added date field in error windows
- Improved quicklook window
- Added implementation of metadata copy/paste
- Added warning when quitting while upload is running
- Added option to have tag automatically added for a directory upload
New in F-Stop 3.7.2 (Jul 24, 2014)
- Fixed problem of spinning wheel in photos view when a video is displayed
- Fixed a problem of video loading in photos view before video playback
- Fixed a problem of display refresh in photos view when a video is playing and the user tries to switch to another video/photo
New in F-Stop 3.7.1 (Jul 17, 2014)
- Changed sorting of groups/sets ins upload view to be case insesitive
New in F-Stop 3.7.0 (Jul 10, 2014)
- Added video support
- Now it's possible to change default tags separator (comma) with space
- Now it's possible to sort groups/photosets alphabetically in upload view
- Now it's possible to upload files inside directory in reverse alpha order
- Now it's possible to change colors for titles/subtitles in Image Browser
- Bug Fixing:
- Minor graphical changes to views
- Fixed a bug in caching of some metadata
- Fixed a problem of restore of Z-Ordering in stacks
- Improved support for Retina Displays
New in F-Stop 3.6.0 (May 28, 2014)
- Now F-Stop is using SSL to comply with new Flickr API requirements.
- Fixed a bug that prevented descriptions of photos to appear when browsing a photoset.
New in F-Stop 3.5.0 (May 17, 2014)
- Added support for uploads driven by AppleScript.
New in F-Stop 3.4.0 (Apr 30, 2014)
- Added quick look function to upload view
- Fixed some bugs in quick look
- Added filters in upload view to manage large collections of groups/sets
- Increased tag field size in metadata editor
- Now files/directory names containing dots are well
- managed by upload view
- Fixed problem of name cleared after reordering of photos in upload view
New in F-Stop 3.3.0 (Mar 27, 2014)
- Added a new functionality named Stacks. Stacks allow user to create a locally stored collection of photos for later review/download.
- Now it's possible pasting of photos in Photo Downloader using Paste command
- Now F-Stop displays a small camera icons over photos that represent videos
- Added QuickLook function (invoked from View Menu or pressing CMD+Enter) to have a bigger preview of images
- Now Photo Links function displays URL also for photoset, groups, galleries
New in F-Stop 3.2.0 (Feb 1, 2014)
- New Functionalities:
- Added photoset reorder capability
- Added photo/photoset reordering using automatic sorting by name, number of views
- Added tooltips to simplify understanding of buttons,view,etc.
- Improved statistics of backups
- Added new user preferences to suppress notification for each photo upload
- Batch uploads now send notification when they start,stop,complete
- Progress bar of upload view now report percentage of completion
- Progress bar of backup view now report percentage of completion instead of number of backed up items
- Bug Fixing:
- Fixed a graphical glitch in backup view when pressing stop button
- Fixed graphical glitch when pressing stop button in UploadView
- Fixed a race condition that caused crash when reordering photos during uploads
- Solved a memory leak
- Fixed a bug that prevented favorites to be added using drag&drop inside photo browser with multiple selection
- Fixed a race condition that caused crash when reload button is used
- Now, when a deletion of multiple items completes, the entire photo group is reloaded to avoid inconsistent visualization of user photostream
- Fixed a bug in the caching mechanism that lead to share calls with same parameters between accounts. This could lead to have inconsistent results if the accounts have different permissions on a target objects and they access them at the same time
- Fixed a bug that prevented correct restore of saved items of search field on startup
- Changed color of unselected item of block outliner to make it darker and more visible on old monitors
New in F-Stop 3.1.0 (Jan 14, 2014)
- New Functionalities:
- Added new caching mechanism to increase performance and reduce number of calls to Flickr servers
- Bug Fixing:
- Solved memory leak during backups
- Now Photo information is refreshed correctly after photoset/gallery rename
- Adjusted scrolling sensitiveness of Image Browser when determining if a new page needs to load
- Fixed a crash with Apple maps that can happen when a map tile is redraw in background and Photo Map View in no longer displayed
- Fixed a bug in info popover of BackupView
- Improved performance of Drag&Drop when moving a large set of photos over LightTable
- Reduced memory footprint when backing-up very large photostreams
New in F-Stop 3.0.7 (Dec 30, 2013)
- Bug Fixing: Now Backup Path bar works fine also if User Home Directory contains spaces or other "strange" characters.
New in F-Stop 3.0.6 (Dec 14, 2013)
- New:
- Now it's possible to make searches based on geographic locations (OSX 10.9 or later)
- Now it's possible to make searches based on photo license
- Now it's possible to change Photos Upload Dates (and reorder Flickr photostream)
- Added an info popover to Backup View
- Bug Fixing:
- Now Photo Downloader works fine also if User Home Directory contains spaces or other "strange" characters.
- Fixed a bug that prevented space bar to work properly in adding pages to Image BrowserView
New in F-Stop 3.0.5 (Nov 27, 2013)
- Bug Fix:
- Now ImageBrowserView inside Photos View responds again to left-right keys.
- Fixed a potential visualization problem when photo reorder fails or is cancelled.
- Improved detection of scroll down/up events in ImageBrowserView when using mighty mouse
- Now Upload Status Bar is correctly updated when an upload of a directory with 0 files completes.
New in F-Stop 3.0.4 (Nov 25, 2013)
- New functionalities:
- Now it's possible to specify a custom upload size.
- Now It's possible to upload an entire directory.
- Now F-Stop displays number of Views for photos, sets, galleries inside browser view
- Bug Fix:
- Increased compatibility with auto layout and OSX 10.8 (this fix some glitches when displaying upload buttons and metadata views)
- Reduced memory footprint when upload a large set of photos
New in F-Stop 3.0.2 (Nov 2, 2013)
- No more duplicates photos in explore after reaching last explore page.
- Now multiple explore views (displaying different dates) can be opened in another window or under MISC section.
- Solved bug related to empty tooltips displayed in Mac OSX 10.8.
New in F-Stop 2.2.1 (Mar 21, 2013)
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Fixed a problem with multiple selection affecting Mac OSX 10.7
- Fixed a problem with group discussion window
New in F-Stop 2.2.0 (Mar 6, 2013)
- Can now change metadata settings for multiple photos inside photos view
- Can create multiple upload batches with different schedules for delayed upload
- Displays errors during background activities in a dedicated error window
- Displays long running operations (such as metadata changes) inside a dedicated activity window
New in F-Stop 2.1.3 (Jan 3, 2013)
- New Features:
- Resize images to standard flickr image sizes before uploading.
- Add discussions and replies to groups
- Reorder photos inside upload view
- Preserve Light Table selection and position on startup (option inside preferences)
- Bug Fixing:
- Fixed a race condition while changing Explore Date
- Fixed a parser problem and a column resizing problem in Activity view
- Other bug fixes
New in F-Stop 2.1.1 (Oct 19, 2012)
- Added support for Collections. Due to minimal support coming from flickr api, collections are immutable. Photos inside Photosets inside Collections can be reordered as usual using drag&drop
- Added ability to rename photosets/gallery using quickeditor. QuickEditor is invoked keeping mouse pressed over a photoset/gallery/photo
- Improved performance when downloading galleries/photosets/collections
- Created a completely new Slideshow framework build by my own to support slideshow with large images. Now, if present, a large flickr image (1024 pixel wide) will be displayed during slideshows. Images will be streamed directly from Flickr so expect a latency if you are on a slow network.
- It's now possible to create photosets inside upload view. Photoset is actually created only if, during the upload view, a photo is added to the new photoset.
- Various bug fixing.
New in F-Stop 2.0.4 (Aug 29, 2012)
- Flicker1 now uses Mountain Lion Power Management assertions to avoid Mac sleep during long uploads/download.
New in F-Stop 2.0.3 (Aug 13, 2012)
- New functionalities:
- Added support for Retina Displays
- Added ability to see original flickr URLs for various photo sizes
- Added filter to include/exclude viewed photos
- Added support for Mountain Lion
- Implemented Mountain Lion Notifications for Upload/Download
- Bug Fixing:
- Solved a problem with Flickr screen names not displayed in a correct way (it needs re-authentication)
- Solved a problem that prevented histogram to be displayed sometimes
- Now all groups of a user are displayed instead of just public groups
- Fixed a visualization bug while opening/closing imageBrowserView in Mountain Lion
- Fixed a parser problem when displaying photos privacy settings
New in F-Stop 2.0.1 (May 2, 2012)
- New Functionalities:
- Now it's possible to search users using their email address
- Added ability to download Largest Size Available within Batch Downloader
- Added sliders in preferences window to increase usability when selecting number of photos displayed.
- "Add to batch downloader" menu item added to contextual menu when displaying photos
- Bug Fixing:
- Added a workaround to upload Untitled photos to Flickr
- Untitled photos will not have Untitled name in Flicker1. Photos will appear as having null title
- Solved a bug with batch downloader after first application authorization
- Restored 32-bit compatibility
New in F-Stop 2.0.0 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Improved graphical appeal of application
- Multiaccount: It's possible to manage multiple Flickr Accounts
- Better upload view: now, it's possible to change multiple photos properties at the same time
New in F-Stop 1.3.3 (Jan 19, 2012)
- New functionalities:
- It's now possible to delete photos using cmd+delete key.
- The new delete function provides an exact detail of actions that will be performed on user's photostream.
- It possible to edit name/description of photos using ToolTip Viewer (activated keeping mouse pressed over a photo).
- It's now possible to "swipe" over Image Browser to change page number.
- It's possible to prevent HTML decoding of comments (setting option inside preferences): this increase performances and privacy respect (sometimes flickr html comments contains references to third party flag counters...)
- Bug Fixing:
- Fixed a bug that prevented users to post comments containing special characters such as "'*
- Now author name is displayed for each photo
New in F-Stop 1.3.2 (Nov 30, 2011)
- Added Histogram to photos
New in F-Stop 1.3.1 (Oct 29, 2011)
- Fixed a bug when an activity has a nil name leading Flicker1 to hang
New in F-Stop 1.3.0 (Oct 4, 2011)
- New Functionalities:
- Sharing of photos using twitter
- Metadata editor to change photo properties
- Bug Fixing
New in F-Stop 1.2.3 (Sep 10, 2011)
- Bug fixing:
- Fixed a crash while navigating between photos with comments displayed.
New in F-Stop 1.2.2 (Aug 16, 2011)
- Flickr compatibility:
- A big rewrite of code was done to support new Flickr Authentication mechanism named OAuth. Old Authentication APIs are deprecated by Flickr and will stop working later this year. As a big rewrite of code was done, please notify bugs sending a mail to [email protected]
- New Functionalities:
- Zoom Value is now saved and restored
- Lion compatibility:
- Flicker1 is sandboxed for better security. User side, the only change visible is a new default download directory when using Batch Downloader.
- Lion FullScreen supported.
New in F-Stop 1.2.1 (Jul 12, 2011)
- New features:
- Quick comments. This functionality can be enabled inside preferences and allows to see comments in a photo popover
- Pinch to zoom inside Image Browser
- Table views in statistics view are sortable now
- When viewing a photo, it's possible to press left,right key (or swipe) to move to next one.. Double clicking over a photo will show a small imagebrowserview over the photo from which other photos are selectable
- It's possible to decide if open comments and map automatically when a Photo is displayed
- Bug Fixing:
- Solved an issue related to memory releasing.
- Solved a leak
- UI:
- Minor graphical changes
New in F-Stop 1.2.0 (Jun 1, 2011)
- Minor Graphical Changes:
- Added drag & drop functionality to Browser View for the following tasks:
- Adding photos to galleries / photosets / favorites / groups
- Reordering images inside photosets / galleries
- Bug Fixing:
- Resolved an issue in batch downloader: in some cases was not possible to download photos
New in F-Stop 1.1.1 (Apr 20, 2011)
- Graphical Interface changes:
- Added a single window style to avoid windows cluttering. This can be activated using preferences window.
- Added a full screen mode.
- Drag & drop is supported for photos addition in Upload view.
- Flickr support:
- Added support for Galleries
- Now it's possible to define defaults privacy settings when uploading photos. This is done using preferences window.
- Bug Fixing:
- Fixed a bug where photosets containing only private photos were not presented in Flicker1
- Exif are now preserved after uploading
- Fixed a bug using Authorize on Flickr menu
New in F-Stop 1.0.1 (Feb 15, 2011)
- Added support for 32bit architectures
- Fixed a bug when downloading photo with / character in its name
- Fixed a bug related to drag & drop
- Added green check mark inside upload window
- Now you can download images in their original size