Help test Shotwell with the daily build PPA

Great news for folks helping test Shotwell on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) — we have a daily build PPA for you!

WARNING: Shotwell daily builds are for testing purposes only. We highly recommend that you only manage your important photos with a release build.  Please backup your ~/.shotwell folder and your Pictures folder before installing and testing with this pre-release version of Shotwell.

Okay, you read that warning, right?  Great! The PPA address is: ppa:yorba/daily-builds

If you find any issues in testing, please report them here. For more details on providing the best possible bug report see our FAQ.

Shotwell 0.11.5 Released!

Yorba has just released Shotwell 0.11.5, a bug-fix release of our popular GNOME-based photo manager. This release fixes an issue in which Shotwell could crash when using the “Import from F-Spot” feature for the subset of users who continued to experience this problem after the 0.11.4 upgrade. We recommend that all users upgrade.

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

Or grab a binary for Ubuntu Natty or Oneiric at Yorba’s Launchpad PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa

 

Shotwell 0.11.4 released!

Yorba has just released Shotwell 0.11.4, a bug-fix release of our popular GNOME-based photo manager. This release fixes two critical issues present in all previous versions of Shotwell 0.11.x that could cause Shotwell to crash when using the “Import from F-Spot” feature. We recommend that all users upgrade.

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

Or grab a binary for Ubuntu Natty at Yorba’s Launchpad PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa

Shotwell 0.11.3 released!

Yorba has just released Shotwell 0.11.3, a bug-fix release of our popular GNOME-based photo manager. We recommend that all users upgrade. This releases fixes two critical bugs, including:

  • Shotwell could crash at the end of photo imports where one or more files failed to import correctly
  • Showell crashed when a new tag containing a slash (“/”) character was created by context-clicking on the “Tags” item in the sidebar and choosing “New”

and improves error reporting in the publishing system.

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

Binaries for Ubuntu Natty will soon be available at Yorba’s Launchpad PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa