Software Update: jAlbum 11.6.14

Version 11.6.14 of jAlbum has been released. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a clean interface, photos can be easily adjusted, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. If everything is to your liking, the result can be placed on a web page via the built-in ftp client. Because the software is developed in Java, jAlbum is available for a wide range of operating systems. The Windows version has issues with some versions of Java and is therefore bundled with Java, resulting in a larger download.

Since version 10, the program is no longer free for commercial use and ads are used in the free version. A standard license for version 11 and all 11 series updates costs 39 euros, removes all advertising and gives access to higher priority support. Other licenses, for commercial use or in conjunction with cloud storage, are also available available. If you don’t need these new options or who prefer not to show ads with their photos, you can still version 9 to download. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

News and Updates

• Reverted caption editor behavior to accept enter for newlines. Now draws focus rectangle to indicate focus
• Added warning if image and output directory are the same
• Non JPEG files (videos for instance) now delivers last modified date instead of 0 when asked for Camera date
• Speed ​​up to loading of jAlbum objects.
• More user friendly reporting of circular folder reference problems
• Better naming of internal threads
• Updates to translations. Thank you translators!
• Minor code improvements
• Updated bundled Turtle skin to v5

Bug fixes

• Didn’t handle externally modified xmp metadata (like face tags for instance)
• Repairing broken links would only render the first repaired object correctly. Now all repaired objects are refreshed properly
• Nullpointer fix for loading old skin settings onto new UI containing new UI components
• Fix for respecting current directory on Mac File chooser
• Occasional paining error fixed
• Didn’t understand old $variable syntax for subclasses of dates and files
• Uses jAlbum ordering instead of custom ordering if visiting a folder containing an albumfiles.txt file but no meta.properties file
• Error dialogue didn’t properly display a scroller for long stack traces
• Using a folder to represent another folder didn’t render the representing album object icon
• Nullpointer fix for Mac file chooser
• Fixed painting issue when using icon instead of text for JLinkLabel component