News
Zenphoto 1.2.5 RC1 Out for Testing May 18th, 2009
For the 1.2.5 release, we’ve decided to encourage more testing and community involvement by releasing a Release Candidate build one to two weeks before the final release. We hope this is convenient and allows you to easily test new features and give us feedback without dealing with the nightly packages.
The release can be downloaded here:
Zenphoto 1.2.5_RC1 (tar.gz) or (Zip)
As with any testing release, this is not recommended for installation on production systems and should be used for testing only. However we do encourage you to try it out if you’re interested and we don’t forsee any drastic issues.
Please issue bug reports on Trac or discuss features on the forums. Thanks for your help!
Version 1.2.5 May 18th, 2009
- Exifer libary fixes [Special thanks to bharat of the Menalto Gallery team]
- Additional filters [sbillard]
- Options for gray images [sbillard]
- jQuery datepicker for date fields [sbillard, acrylian]
- RSS improvements [acrylian]
- ngettext() now used for plurals translations [sbillard]
- Plugin to allow cropping of images [sbillard]
- Admin backend improvements [sbillard, acrylian]
- Search improvements [sbillard]
- Cookie/session handling improvemens [sbillard]
- Implemention of Uploadify multi file upload [sbillard, acrylian]
- Plugins
- Rating plugin now jQueryfied [sbillard]
- print_album_menu restructuring [sbillard]
- html_meta_tag plugin [acrylian, sbillard]
- flowplayer3 playlist plugin [acrylian]
- Slideshow now can optionally be called directly [acrylian, sponsored by fretzl]
- page_thumbs_nav plugin improvements [acrylian]
- zenpage improvements [sbillard, acrylian]
- Lots of other bugfixes (full list)
Back on Trac April 09th, 2009
Trac is now back up! Registration and logins are now working as before, with no changes to passwords or usernames. Everything should work normally. Let us know if you have any trouble logging in or submitting tickets.
I’d also like to credit Acrylian with the witty pun for the title of this post. Some other notable ones include: “Any progress following the trac?” and “On the wrong trac then?”, and my favorite, “Star Trac: Where no user has gone before.” This is how he motivates me to fix things.
Trac Down April 02nd, 2009
Trac is unfortunately down while I work out some bugs from an upgrade. On the plus side, the server is now running the latest and greatest of all the backend software. If you’ve got urgent bug reports, you can use the forums to bring them to our attention, or wait a couple days and Trac should be back up and working as normal. Thanks for your patience.
Update: Trac is now back up! Feel free to login or register and submit those bugs you’ve been waiting to tell us about.
Zenphoto Roadmap March 31st, 2009
Note: As a preface, this is an April Fool’s joke. Zenphoto is as active as ever, and we hope to keep making it even better.
With the release of our latest version, Zenphoto 1.2.4, and the perfection, stability and widespread use of our amazing software, we thought it would be a great time to discuss the schedule for Zenphoto. Here’s a general idea of what we expect for the year ahead.
Our plan is for a final point release in one or two months, as per our usual schedule. This will probably come around May or June 1st, and will be version 1.2.5.
This will be Zenphoto’s final release. We’ve decided that our software is decidedly feature complete and 100% working for its intended purpose. If we continue adding features, we will be going against our philosophy of bloat-free, simple photo software, and at some point we simply have to call it finished. With all due respect, Zenphoto has gone as far as it can with its current codebase.
This is why we believe that for all our users, moving to the Gallery project will be an excellent and logical option. The Gallery software has two more full-number versions than Zenphoto, and on the new third version, Gallery 3, they’ve finally realized everything that Zenphoto was from the beginning. With many years more experience than our team, we have every reason to believe they will be able to make a better gallery than Zenphoto ever was or will be.
After all, zenphoto was originally conceived as a replacement for gallery software like Coppermine and Gallery 1 and 2 which were large bloated applications full of features that displayed your photos and did your dishes too! We basically designed Zenphoto to be everything we desired in a “Gallery 3.” But now that the Gallery team is making “Gallery 3″ for real, like we always wanted – a simple, usable, and lightweight photo gallery designed for simply showing photos – Zenphoto’s “raison d’être” is no more! We’d like to thank the Gallery team for taking over all this hard work for us.
All the members of our team look forward to having much more time to enjoy on beautiful beaches in Hawaii and the Italian riviera, funded of course by the tens of millions of dollars in donations we’ve received from our generous users. Thanks to all of our users, and… ciao!
Some site updates March 30th, 2009
Besides the release of Zenphoto 1.2.4 also our site saw some updates. The themes and the showcase sections have been reworked a little: You now can subscribe to RSS feeds for updates and also vote for your favorite theme or showcase site. Themes are now marked about their compatibility status to minimize surprises if trying an 3rd party theme that has not been updated in a year.
There is also now a new screenshots section which features some screenshots of the Zenphoto admin and of the Zenpage CMS plugin.
Also with Zenpage being an official plugin now the content of the now obsolete Zenpage project site has been moved to zenphoto.org. The only things that will be kept there will be the Zenpage default theme demo and the older version archive for now.
The new Zenpage resources:
- Zenpage plugin page including the tinyZenpage page content
- Troubleshooting Zenpage
- Zenpage theming tutorial (now part 4 of the Zenphoto tutorial)
- Screenshots (in the new screenshots section on zenphoto.org)
- Zenpage default theme demo (only exception, still to be found on the old link)
Version 1.2.4 March 30th, 2009
- Passwords for protected images [sbillard]
- Setup improvements: File/folder permissions security [sbillard]
- Gallery statistics extended for tags and Zenpage items [acrylian]
- Mixed field/tag searches in boolean expressions [sbillard]
- Media RSS improvements, RSS for latest albums [acrylian]
- A little admin design modernization [acrylian]
- filter for comment posting [sbillard]
- plugins
- New: Flowplayer 3 [acrylian]
- Zenpage now included as official plugin
- Performance improvements [sbillard]
- More internal restructuring and integration with Zenphoto [sbillard,acrylian]
- Content scheduling and expiration [sbillard, acrylian]
- Some pure theme related plugin options moved to theme options [sbillard ,acrylian]
- Zenpage setup integrated with main Zenphoto setup [sbillard]
- Zenpage default theme
- Homepage option to choose any unpublished page [sbillard,acrylian]
- Thickbox theme option [acrylian]
- paged_thumbs_nav: search mode support [acrylian]
- contact_form: multilingual support [acrylian]
- flvplayer: Now incorporates the former flv_playlist plugin [acrylian]
- and as always lots of minor bugfixes and improvements (full list)
Note: Some plugins that were included officially before have been removed from the package. They have actually been third party contributions by users that have gone elsewhere so we cannot support them anymore. These can now be found on the Zenphoto plugins page.
Zenpage svn now incorporated into Zenphoto February 06th, 2009
Zenpage 1.1. is still available standalone but the svn has now already been included in Zenphoto’s. So if you download from the svn repository or a nightly you will from now on get also the full Zenpage package.
Also from now on translations for Zenpage will be included with the Zenphoto translation files. The former separate translation way does not work with the svn/nightly anymore (still works for Zenpage 1.1 of course). There are no translations for Zenpage incorporated yet but since there weren’t that many at all this is surely a minor drawback during the process of joining.
Zenpage 1.1 now available February 04th, 2009
More info on http://zenpage.maltem.de/news
Zenpage 1.0.1 is not compatible with Zenphoto 1.2.3 February 02nd, 2009
Zenphoto 1.2.3 requires the Zenpage svn version. Alternatively you can wait a few days until Zenpage 1.1 will be released. Due to time constraints this is a little delayed.