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Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.12.2 Released!

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Good afternoon, one and all,

It’s my privilege to announce the release of Shotwell version 0.12.2.  Among the improvements:

  • Improved handling of and robustness against corrupted tag data.
  • Correction of a major UI glitch that could occur if the user switched away from the camera page while the application was retrieving image thumbnails from the camera.
  • Various other bugfixes.

A source tarball for the project is available from the Shotwell home page at:
http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/

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

For Ubuntu Precise users, this version should soon be made available automatically as part of the daily update process.

As always, thank you for using Shotwell, and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let us know.

Cheers,
-c

 

 

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.13 to drop JPEG support

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JPEG compression artifactsYorba announced today that Shotwell, their flagship photo organizer software, will become a lossless-only photo manager with the upcoming release of version 0.13.

Lossless-only means support for legacy image formats such as JPEG will be dropped, a forward-looking move Yorba founder Adam Dingle praised as “position[ing] Shotwell a generation ahead of competing photo management solutions.”

Upon installation, Shotwell 0.13 will upconvert the user’s existing JPEG image files to the lossless DNG format.

Users requiring additional space for their upconverted photos will be directed to a site where they may purchase a new hard drive.  A percentage of proceeds from these purchases will fund Shotwell development.

Yorba is confident that this is a positive step for photo management.

“Think of it this way,” said Shotwell lead developer Lucas Beeler, “If I bought a four terabyte hard drive but only used two terabytes, I’d be wasting half the drive.  Free space equals wasted money, which means Shotwell 0.13 users will get more out of their computers than they did with Shotwell 0.12.”

As Yorba’s Jim Nelson wrote on a blog post, “As a Gnome application, our goal is simplicity. Dropping support for legacy formats such as JPEG is one step toward that goal.”

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.12.1 Released!

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Good evening,

Yorba has just released Shotwell 0.12.1, a bug-fix release of our popular GNOME-based photo manager. This version fixes a critical issue in which the absence of a certain .ui file would cause the application to fail to launch in direct-edit mode.  We advise that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

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

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

For Ubuntu Precise users, this version should soon be made available automatically as part of the daily update process.

Apologies to those who encountered the missing .ui issue, and thank you for your continued interest in Shotwell!

Cheers,
-c

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.12.0 Released!

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Good evening, one and all,

It’s my pleasure to announce the release of Shotwell 0.12.0. This version represents several person months of hard work, saw us add our one-hundred-thousandth line of code, involved a quest that took our merry little band of adventurers half way around the world, three new brave warriors joining our party, and the slaying of many, many monsters.  It’s now more stable than ever before, has a neat new straightening tool, and, thanks to the watchful eyes, thorough bug reports and helpful suggestions of you, our userbase, it’s pure awesome (I admit there may be some bias on my part, but still…).

We’re proud of it, and on behalf of the team here, I sincerely hope you enjoy using it.

Cheers,
-c

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

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

Ubuntu Precise will ship with Shotwell 0.12.x pre-installed by default, so Precise users will be upgraded to Shotwell 0.12.0 automatically as part of their regular software update cycle.

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.11.6 Released!

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Yorba has just released Shotwell 0.11.6, a bug-fix release of our popular GNOME-based photo manager. This release fixes a critical bug in which adding or modifying tags in the single-photo view could result in the loss of tag data. 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

Ubuntu Oneiric ships with Shotwell 0.11.x pre-installed. Oneiric users will be upgraded to Shotwell 0.11.6 automatically as part of their regular software update cycle.

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.11.5 Released!

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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