Shotwell 0.5.2 - 11 May 2010 ---------------------------- * Added Czech, Finnish, Greek, and Ukrainian translations. Updated Russian translation. * Updated codebase to enable building on Vala 0.8.x. Vala 0.8.0 or later is now required to build Shotwell. Shotwell 0.5.0 - 11 March 2010 ------------------------------ * Photos can be tagged and organized by tag, creating a new tool for managing your photo collection * Printing * Photos can now be published to Google's Picasa Web Albums service * Photo exposure date & time can be set and shifted * Photos can be set as your desktop background directly from Shotwell * Photo import runs in the background, making imports smoother and more fluid * Publishing photos to web services is more responsive * Numerous bug fixes Shotwell 0.4.3 - 18 January 2009 -------------------------------- * Updated Italian and French translations. * Windows theme installed correctly. * Problems unmounting camera fixed. Shotwell 0.4.2 - 4 January 2009 ------------------------------- * Added Bulgarian, Portuguese, and Slovak translations. Updated German translation. * Windows installation fixed. * Crash when deleting photos from camera fixed. Shotwell 0.4.1 - 24 December 2009 --------------------------------- * Minor update adding a script missing in the 0.4.0 release. Shotwell 0.4.0 - 23 December 2009 --------------------------------- * Facebook and Flickr publishing. * Events may now be split and merged. * Alpha-release of Windows port now available. * Undo/redo. * Mark photos as favorite or hidden. View only favorites or show hidden photos. * Duplicate photos. * Numerous bug fixes. Shotwell 0.3.2 - 11 November 2009 --------------------------------- * Loosened photo pipeline assertion that checked for pixbuf scaling. * Better error handling for situation where the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or ready. Shotwell 0.3.1 - 9 November 2009 -------------------------------- * Makefile changes to facilitate packaging. * Warnings caught by Vala 0.7.8 corrected. * Toolbar items now marked "important" where appropriate. * Binary dependencies corrected in Debian packaging. Shotwell 0.3.0 - 2 November 2009 -------------------------------- * Major update with numerous feature additions and performance and scalability enhancements. * Auto enhance button, shadows control, and histogram contrast expansion now available. * Hierarchical event tree in sidebar. Events can now be renamed. * Background readahead to display full-window and fullscreen photos faster. * Crop aspect ratios. * Basic information pane to display photo title, exposure time, dimensions, and file size. * Configurable slideshow delay. * Direct edit mode. Shotwell can open any JPEG file, move between other JPEGS in the same directory, and edit them with the same tools available in the photo manager. * Better keyboard handling for selecting photos and moving between pages on the sidebar. * In camera view, option to hide photos already imported into Shotwell. User now offered full report of imported photos and asked if they wish to delete the photos from the camera. * User-configurable items now stored persistently via GConf. * Code internationalized. Partial French translation now available. Shotwell 0.2.0 - 7 August 2009 ------------------------------ * Color histogram now available in adjustment tool. * Drag-and-drop now supports the modifier keys for linking and asking which operation to perform. * Shotwell no longer uses a hardcoded directory for storing imported photos. * A nasty bug causing the X server to crash under compiz was fixed. (#380) * Support for libgee-0.3.0. Shotwell 0.1.2 - 3 August 2009 ------------------------------ * Red-eye reduction feature now available. * File/Import From Folder offers one more way to import photos into the library. * Color adjustment (exposure/saturation/tint/temperature) now available. * Support for Vala 0.7.5. Shotwell 0.1.1 - 30 June 2009 ----------------------------- * Bug fix: Dragging a selection band to the bottom of the window to start scrolling results in compiz crashing. This fixes that problem, although another reported problem still exists (#380). * Changed package dependency from vala-1.0 to gee-1.0. Although Vala is required to build Shotwell, it does not need to be installed to execute it. Gee provides the collections library Shotwell requires. * Fixed code to compile with Vala 0.7.4. Shotwell 0.1.0 - 26 June 2009 ----------------------------- * Initial release. Features include: - Importing photos from file manager or camera via libgphoto2. - Photos automatically sorted into time-grouped events. - Thumbnails viewable at various sizes. - Sort by photo name or date of exposure. - Fullscreen mode. - Photos may be rotated or cropped. - Export photos as stored or at varying dimensions and JPEG quality. - Desktop integration with Applications menu and media device handling.