fgallery Changelog

What's new in fgallery 1.7

Sep 9, 2014
  • With Firefox the gallery can now be viewed directly without an HTTP server.
  • Fixed crash when reading invalid EXIF timestamps.
  • Fixed crash when reading read-only images.
  • Fixed invalid check with newer versions of ImageMagick.

New in fgallery 1.6 (Apr 18, 2014)

  • Do not produce warnings when reading files without suffix.
  • Strip EXIF metadata from image previews and thumbnails.
  • We now require the Image::ExifTool perl module to extract EXIF information (libimage-exiftool-perl).
  • Preview/thumbnail images are now converted to sRGB colorspace by default (liblcms2-utils required) for improved color appearance across devices.
  • Fixed mixing/sorting of images without EXIF data.
  • A customizable URL (--index) can be specified on the command line to put a back-link in the gallery header.
  • Reduced the payload size.

New in fgallery 1.5 (Mar 4, 2014)

  • Allow to reverse the album order (-r).
  • Fixed crash when reading read-only images.
  • Fixed crash when the input directory contains spaces.
  • Fixed time sorting.

New in fgallery 1.4 (Jan 28, 2014)

  • Manual copying of the template directory is no longer required.
  • Fixed incorrect thumbnail size for rotated JPGs.
  • Fixed encoding of the album name.

New in fgallery 1.3 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Improved browser behavior of the back button.
  • Fixed incorrect thumbnail stretch for certain image ratios.
  • Fixed empty thumbnail list in old browsers without devicePixelRatio.
  • Fixed incorrect usage of pngcrush, resulting in stray PNG output files.
  • Gallery generation speedup with parallelism/multi-core support (-j).
  • Can use p7zip when installed for faster compression.
  • Perl dependency on Date::Parse removed.
  • Minor/cosmetic improvements.

New in fgallery 1.2 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • Faster loading of large galleries.
  • Automatic thumbnail scaling on small screens.
  • Improved support for mobile browsers.
  • Swiping support.

New in fgallery 1.1 (Oct 24, 2013)

  • Gallery generation speedup.
  • Improved handling of UTF-8/special file names.
  • Clicking on the main image shows the full image directly (if present).
  • Adapts to the current screen layout automatically (horizontal/vertical layout).
  • Supports face detection for improved thumbnail generation.
  • JPEG/PNG optimization as an optional post-processing step.
  • Minor/cosmetic improvements.