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Shotwell 0.11.6 Released!

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Lucas Beeler

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.

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Shotwell 0.11.5 Released!

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Lucas Beeler

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

 

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Shotwell 0.11.4 released!

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Lucas Beeler

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

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Shotwell 0.11.3 released!

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Lucas Beeler

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

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Shotwell 0.11.2 is Here!

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Lucas Beeler

Yorba has just released Shotwell 0.11.2, a bug-fix release. We recommend that all users upgrade. Features of this release include:

  • Improved stability working with hierarchical tags
  • Importing hierarchical tags from F-Spot doesn’t generate duplicate top-level tags
  • Fixed “server redirect contained no session key” errors in the Facebook Connector
  • Corrected problems with item counts over mixed media
  • Various small fixes and enhancements

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

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

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Shotwell 0.8.1 Released

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Lucas Beeler
Yorba has released Shotwell 0.8.1, an update to our digital photo manager for GNOME. This release provides bug fixes, support for new video and RAW formats, and translation updates. Specific enhancements include:
  • Fixes a problem where Shotwell could crash unexpectedly at startup or when reading/writing metadata to files.
  • Fixes a problem where Shotwell could hang when importing voice-annotated videos.
  • Fixes a problem where Shotwell failed to import date and time information for some camera-generated MP4 videos.
  • Shotwell can now delete video files from camera memory.
  • Shotwell now supports the 3GP video format common on mobile phones and RAW files with the SRW suffix generated by Samsung cameras.
  • Numerous translation fixes and updates.
We recommend that all users upgrade.
You can download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
or grab a binary for Ubuntu Maverick via Yorba’s Launchpad PPA at:
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Shotwell 0.7 Released!

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Lucas Beeler
Yorba has released Shotwell 0.7.0, a major update to our digital photo manager. This release includes a host of new features, such as:
  • Migration support for F-Spot users: Shotwell can import photos directly from your F-Spot library, preserving tags and ratings.
  • Photos can be rated on a 1-5 star scale or marked as rejected. A filter button supports viewing only photos of a specified rating or better.
  • A new Last Import page in the sidebar gives you instant access to your most recently imported photo roll.
  • Sidebar functionality and appearance have been improved with new icons and inline renaming.
  • Numerous bug fixes and translation updates.
We highly recommend that all Shotwell users upgrade.
Yorba would like to thank all of our bug testers and translators, without whom this release would not have been possible.
You can download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page.
Binaries for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick users will be available on Yorba’s Launchpad PPA within a few days.
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Publishing is Ready for Prime Time!

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Lucas Beeler

With the release of Shotwell 0.6 coming up, we’ve started the process of updating documentation. In addition to Shotwell’s familiar user documentation, which Allison has been diligently cranking away on to great effect, there’s also the Architecture Overview, a technical document that describes Shotwell’s underlying design. Of more interest to programmers than users, the Architecture Overview is the go-to document for understanding how all of Shotwell’s pieces fit together. Because I wrote a lot of the publishing subsystem, it fell to me to document it for the Architecture Overview. And as I was writing up my description of the publishing subsystem’s design earlier today, I realized something: publishing is ready for prime time.


What I mean by this is that if you’re a software developer and there’s a web service you’d like to publish photos to that’s not supported in Shotwell right now (SmugMug and Zooomr come to mind), then building support for it into Shotwell shouldn’t be too hard. There is one major caveat: the service you’re interested in supporting must provide a REST interface. But if that key requirement is met, you should be able to adapt the Shotwell publishing system to your needs in no time.


Adding new publishing services will get easier once we have a dynamically-loadable plug-in system in Shotwell (see ticket #182), but even today it’s straightforward. If you’re interested, start by scrolling through the “Photo Publishing“ section of the Architecture Overview. Once you get a feeling for the classes the make up a typical web connector and how they interact, you’re not far from subclassing them for use with your own web service.


If you do end up building your own web connector in Shotwell, by all means send us a patch. Pending a code review, we’d love to include it in the next version of Shotwell!

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