Yorba has released Shotwell 0.8.0, an update to our digital photo
organizer.  This release includes some great new features:

  
* Video support for most major video formats, including importing them off of camera and adding them to events and tags.

  * Publish videos to major Web services, including YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and PicasaWeb.

  * Runtime monitoring of library directory and auto-import of newly created files.

  * Background writing of metadata (tags, titles, ratings, orientation, and exposure date) to master files (user-configurable).

  * Flagging photos for batch operations.

  * Set multiple photos to desktop background slideshow.

  * Numerous translation updates.

  * Various bug fixes.

It’s highly recommended all users upgrade.

In addition, Yorba has released an update to our Exiv2 GObject
wrapper library, gexiv2 0.2.2.  (This library is a requirement for
Shotwell.)  This update fixes a bug where a photo file with malformed
EXIF could cause a crash.  It’s highly recommended that all users
upgrade.

Download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

Download a source tarball from the gexiv2 home page at:
http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/gexiv2

Binaries for Ubuntu Lucid (gexiv2) and Maverick (Shotwell, gexiv2) are available at Yorba’s Launchpad PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa