Software Update: jAlbum 12.2

Version 12.2 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.

Previously there was also a free version, which showed advertisements, but the program is now fully commercial and can be tried for 30 days. A standard license for version 12 and all updates from the 12 series costs 39 euros. This bundle is temporarily offered with a discount of 10 euros. Other licenses, for commercial use or in conjunction with cloud storage, are also available available. If you don’t need these new options or prefer not to show ads with your photos, it’s better to go to version 9 to stay. The changelog for this release shows the following changes and improvements:

News and Updates

• New full screen slide show, simplifying the process of approving images
• Zoom support added to edit panel
• Sub directories can now be chained, simplifying sequential navigation through large album trees (see Advanced->General). This feature defaults to off
• Improved reading of TIFF and JPEG 2000 files
• Displays time info when dragging clip and thumbnail sliders for videos
• Windows version bundled with latest Java 8 engine (1.8.0_20)
• More solid parsing of various video formats
• Performance enhancement: Better cacheing or image size calculations
• Developers: Updated JSON API now including image specific metadata. Developing JavaScript based skins now easier than before
• The whenAddedDate now corresponds to when an album object has been added to an album, and not to an album project. This also gives less eager creation of albumfiles.txt files.
• The address bar of the internal browser now has a context menu
• Bundled skin Minimal now uses HTML5 instead of tables. Thanks jGromit for this one.
• Various minor improvements
• Added experimental JavaScript support to console window
• Updated bundled Turtle skin to v5.1.3

Bug fixes

• Several bug fixes, for instance to uploader (more robust reconnects)
• Full HD video resolution resulted in 720p instead of 1080p
• Fixed ugly rendering of style selector for styles with long names
• Fixed problem previewing network mounted albums in external browser
• Reopening an alreadty running jAlbum on Mac by clicking the dock icon would restore maximized window to normal state