ZenPhoto

Zenphoto used the jQuery Thickbox script as default “box” script for quite some time.  Since Thickbox has been abandoned by its developer and the coming Zenphoto 1.2.9 will feature the brand new jQuery 1.4 Thickbox will be replaced by the Colorbox script.

So if you use a customized standard theme and included the Thickbox script as often told by us from zp-core/js you should now update your theme to either use the Thickbox from elsewhere or the new Colorbox. The standard themes — especially the Zenpage theme — have already been updated for tonight’s nightly build.

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We’re pleased to announce the release of Zenphoto 1.2.8. The changelog is the same as the Release Candidate a short time ago.

We recommend everyone upgrade to this release as soon as possible. As always, you can download it from the front page of zenphoto.org.

Hope everyone has a happy new year!

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The first release candidate for Zenphoto 1.2.8 is now available for download and testing from our download page. Please note that we have taken down the official 1.2.7 release as we feel the RC is more stable. This mainly because of the recent quite major bug discovery.

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It just has been discovered that under certain circumstances all of your image descriptions could be cleared if you refresh the meta data. This could happen if you have Exif/IPTC data in the image but not a description. The same applies to the title.

We therefore strongly advise anyone to backup the database before any update to 1.2.7 and before any meta data refresh. You could of course also try the nightly build where this issue has been fixed.

Since we are a small team we have only one developement stream that is under continous developement so that we can’t provide a bugfix release inbetween. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

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In case you have not noted we have done some restructuring on the site, mainly on the extensions section.

We have divided the former “collection” posts that contained several extensions into separate posts now. This way you can easier search using the categories and the newly introduced tags for extensions to find what extension you are looking for.

For the now slightly increased number of entries we have also installed a better page navigation.

Also some stuff has been moved to the user guide section as it was not really about exensions but more tutorials. These are just these:

• One “Zenphoto into Wordpress integration tutorial” entry that was part of the former entry Wordpress Tools & Plugins.
• The zenphoto as a “plugin” way to use Zenphoto functions outside of Zenphoto that was part of the also former hacks, utilities & addons entry.

It is sadly not avoidable that this may break some links from older forum posts but we hope that you will find the new extensions section much more convenient.

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The Zenphoto team will be more or less unavailable to provide the usual fast support on the forum on these days.

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We have just relased release candidate 2 of 1.2.6. Please test it thoroughly and report any bugs on trac as usual.

Download links: Zenphoto 1.2.6 RC2 (tar.gz) or (zip)

The changelog is still found here: Version 1.2.6 (RC1)

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We have another RC for 1.2.5 out and ready to test. Please test it thoroughly and report any bugs on trac as usual.

Download links:

Zenphoto 1.2.5 RC2 (tar.gz) or (zip)

In addition, the svn trunk has been tagged at http://www.zenphoto.org/svn/tags/1.2.5_RC2

The changelog for 1.2.5 will continue to be updated as the RC’s are released, and the full set of changes can be seen on Trac.

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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!

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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.

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