Software update: Gallery 2.3 rc2

Yesterday the second and, in their own words, the last release candidate of version 2.3 of Gallery was released. Gallery is a program written in PHP that can be used to create online photo albums. For example, unlike Jalbum, for example, the photos are stored in a database and a web server is needed to run the whole thing. Others features for example, the Photo Management option that can automatically create thumbnails, rotate and resize photos, among other things. Furthermore, it is possible to assign read and/or write permissions to the albums and there are countless modules to further expand the possibilities or appearance to adjust. The second release candidate does not have a separate changelog, but we do have an overview of what the biggest changes in release 2.3 will be:

New Features of Gallery 2.3 Include:

• New version of the slideshow module now uses PicLens to provide a rich, full screen slideshow.
• Comment module now offers moderation and Akismet support to help weed out spam comments.
• New email notification module allowing users to configure events they wish to get notified for. You can watch albums for changes, items for new comments, etc.
• Support for SQLite 3.x as a database backend.
• Smaller downloads available
  • English only version, with new Language Manager that allows the addition or removal of translations.
  • Significantly fewer language related directories in all versions
• New SnapGalaxy module for prints from snapgalaxy.com.
• New Jpegtran module to support rotation and cropping of jpeg images with no loss in image quality.
• New database backup feature. Backup at start or upgrade, or anytime from Site Admin / Maintenance. Restore a backup from lib/support interface.
• New event logging system records Gallery errors, viewable in the Site Admin interface.
• Remote module now bundles the Gallery Remote client and makes it available via Java Web Start. Users with a Java enabled browser can then launch Gallery Remote with a single click instead of manually downloading and installing.
• Themes can now override module template files, allowing a themed look to more aspects of the application.
• Performance and stability improvements.
  • Smarty templates now permanently cached by default. Turn this off in Site Admin / Performance when working on tpl files, so changes take effect immediately during development.
  • Avoid reading EXIF ​​data multiple times in Carbon theme.
  • Some added caching in GalleryUrlGenerator.
  • Use progress bar when adding items to avoid server or browser timeouts. Particularly helpful when adding many items from local server.
  • Refactor of translator hints to avoid some processing when translations are not used (en_US).
  • Faster plugin and language package downloads.
  • Refactor of event system working towards a performance improvement in the next release.
• User interface changes.
  • Use AJAX to speed up deleting comments(spam) on items/albums.
  • Use quick DHTML confirm dialog for deleting single items. Dialog offers link to bulk delete several items from an album.
  • Use YUI ItemTree instead of plain select box to select target album when moving items, creating replicas or link items.
• Security improvements resulting from internal and external audits.
• Many bug fixes!

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