Jalbum Download Older Versions
Remedios Fava
The spyglass icon which will open a search field allowing you to locate jAlbum's controls by their labels, your 'recent/My Albums' projects by their name and all files & folders within the current directory by their metadata - filename, title, comments or keyword. This search can be invoked by clicking the icon, pressing 'CTRL + SPACE' or by the menu, 'Help/Search'. There are preference settings to enable/disable the searching of files and folders.
- If you upgrade, preferably test it on a new, small album to see if it works
- Back up your important album(s) before applying the new version. Use "File -> Duplicate project"
- Note, some settings might not be imported to the new version, because they work differently.
- Make sure you refresh the browser in the Preview (F12) with Ctrl-F5 to get rid of the traces of the old version.
- Always test the local version with "Preferences / Use jAlbum's embedded server", and use "External browser".
- Upload the album only if the local preview looks and works fine
- Finally, if you can't get along with the new version you can always go back to the latest by clicking the "Latest stable major version" link on the left. You can revert to the old settings in the Image directory (Ctrl-Shift-I) by renaming the "-old" settings file as "jalbum-settings.jap".
Changed:
- When using "Selected images" as the hero background, the skin tries to find images in the subfolders too, if there are no, or max. 2 images found
- iPad and iPhone browse bar behavior improved
- If "Back to index" is selected as the last image action, the first image gets focus after reaching the end of a slideshow
Fixed:
- Hero overlay color or pattern was not applied when the hero background image was used at the same time
- The database loading has been made less picky about missing folders
- Range slider in filters might trigger JS error after returning from an overlay
- Keeping track of selected items might fail on overlays
- Reloading the album after the Slideshow timing has changed, might reset to its default value (4s).
Fixed:
- 360 VR panorama images did not use the Edit mode -> 360 image panel settings
- Contents page had separate sections for accented letters, e.g.: "É", then "E", then "É" again.
- Enhanced folders' mosaic thumbnails might be broken when there were only subfolders in a folder
- The map fell back to "Developer mode" for search results on a page with no images
New:
- Hero slider images can be manually picked. Use "Selected images" in the "Tiger / Site / Hero / Background image" box. Select images and folders with right-click -> Tiger -> Use in hero slider. You can select multiple images at once.
- You can easily control the "Panorama" and the "Hide GPS location options" with right-click -> Tiger submenu
- New "Glossary" page, which helps to find certain skin settings
Fixed:
- When using TIFF (or RAW) images and including the originals, the lightbox might try to load these files when the scaled image is too small for the available space. This fails, naturally, as browsers aren't capable of displaying such files.
- Tag cloud box search finds images from subfolders too, even though the function collects tags only from the "current" folder
New:
- Slideshow in the hero: the images are randomly picked from the current folder and its subfolder
- Swiping down in the lightbox will result in returning to the index page
- The hero background image can be made "Black and White"
- New patterns: Cross and Zebra
- New styles: Latte, Portfolio, Plain Ligh, Plain Dark and
- Feedback and Shopping cart using "Floating" buttons in case the cart is off-screen
- During a slideshow when a modal window came up, it didn't resume after pressing an action button
- Folder names weren't encoded in the sitemap.xml file
- Ampersand (&) characters weren't always properly encoded in the sitemap.xml file
New:
- The skin generates a separate image in each folder optimized for social sharing. You can control its size on the Tiger / Advanced panel.
- Facebook sharing updated. Now you can share pages (and images) not only to your newsfeed but also in groups and events.
Fixed:
- Total album images (in the footer) also get updated when an external album (added as web location) has changed
- Audio clips won't play in search (and tag search) results
- Hero buttons have an unnecessary 2px extra gap in between them
- Slideshow doesn't continue in the next folder after clicking "Next folder" in the dialog
New:
- Audio clip can be played right from the thumbnail
- Audio clips got volume control
- The last volume setting is remembered between folders and works both on the index page and in the lightbox
Fixed:
- Custom pages have the same meta description tags as their parent folders'
- The "info window" button shows up in subdirectories even if "Top-level only" is turned on
- The Newimages.htt custom page is broken when PDF - or other non-image type items - got mixed into the results
- "Embed all" custom pages might embed only the first such page
Fixed:
- Folders in search results don't have a thumbnail image
- Folders not marked as "new" in subfolders
- Menu is aligned right when a logo is used but search isn't
- Moving GIF's replaced by PNG (not moving) versions in the lightbox
- Video, audio, and other non-image types appear as JPG's in the PayPal cart
Fixed:
- Folders are not marked as "new"
- 360 panoramas ignored the "Field of View" and "Initial view" settings embedded in photos
- Folder info and bottom navigation is missing on custom pages
- View Feedback button is inactive even if there are some images in the cart
Fixed:
- Search for folders did not find all the matching folders, or some folders don't have a thumbnail
- Custom pages in search results don't have a thumbnail, the caption shows "undefined"
- Starting the album with URL (e.g. index.html?#search=london) did not find all items
- Lazy loading folders might result in massive server requests
Fixed:
- Feedback email contains links to folders double-encoded (e.g. %2520 instead of %20)
- Inconsistent height for folder thumbnails after the 20th
- Thumbnail text might be hard to read when placed below the thumbnail
- Small images could be enlarged beyond the maximum allowed zoom level
- Sharing the URL is not possible on the index page
- Custom page links placed below each other instead of next
- Bottom navigation did not appear on custom pages
Fixed:
- Footer background color isn't applied
- The text on Previous/Next links might become hard-to-read
- Some of the texts are missing on the User Interface
- No hero background image is used in subfolders when "Album image" is selected
- Map displays in restricted mode for the lightbox image if no Map section is used
- Virtually empty select box or cropped text in the shopping cart when at least one of the options is too long
Fixed:
- Folder thumbnails might be too small and can be cropped after the 20th with the non-fixed-shape variant
- Home icon in the top bar might be too small and not styled like other buttons
- Lightbox image won't load in certain cases when using the Fit toggle button
- Can't share individual images on Facebook
- Search for area tags is difficult; added "regions" as default option for Search and Tag cloud
- Some settings got cropped or hidden in some languages (e.g. Deutch)
Fixed:
- Hero area background is broken when "Album thumbnail" is chosen as "Type"
- Wrong cropping/justification of the hero background on small screens
- Apostrophe in folder name makes the page broken
- Custom section doesn't work
- Unnecessary backups of settings
Fixed:
- Folder thumbnails are still improperly sized on small screens with "No limit" page width
- Loading too large thumbnails in Masonry layout (after the 20th)
- Sharing a folder with a changed folder thumb, the previously selected thumbnail remains
- Tooltips might linger on the screen after closing a dialog or the lightbox
- Top menu links of deep folders are not encoded
Fixed:
- Folder thumbnails are improperly sized on small screens when "No limit" is selected as "Max. page width"
- Share dialog can be too small to fit everything onto it
- Mark new files with the "Text" option looks bad
Fixed:
- Feedback cart half off-screen
- Folder thumbnails (beyond the 20th) might grow too big in "Grid" layout
- Too tall folder thumbnails on iPad's
- Slideshow resumes after being stopped and used the prev/next button after that
Fixed:
- Play button appears even though "Show Start/Stop" is disabled
- Fit toggle (zoom) button appears even though "Show fit toggle" is disabled
- Top "hamburger" menu button doesn't work on mobiles
- When started right within the lightbox, some thumbnails left unloaded after returning to the index page
- Could not start right in the lightbox on lazy loaded thumbnails (> 20)
- "Fit image by default" setting is ignored
- Does not display the lightbox image in the integrated browser (the load animation remains)
- Folder thumbnail aspect ratio might fall back to 1:2, which looks bad in most cases
- Selecting FixGrid as thumbnail layout might corrupt the instant preview, and results in wrong thumbnail aspect ratio
- Folder thumbnails won't load beyond the 20th (or whatever the "Preload thumbs" setting)
New:
- Instant preview for the index page and the lightbox on the user interface
- Support for jAlbum v24's image variants
- New thumbnail layout type: masonry (variable width horizontal)
- New folder thumbnail layout: the text placed beside the image (like in Turtle)
- Removed Zurb Foundation framework, replaced with vanilla CSS flex layout
- 2 icon styles: fat (legacy) and thin
- Rounded borders are used universally
- Some sections can be made "sticky" - Filtering and Sort, Shopping cart, and Feedback - so users have always access to them
- Continuous zoom support (zoom slider), which also allows maximizing to the original (if included)
- Preloading the icon font and the hero background (before the page composition starts)
- 4 folder icon designs (displayed if no folder thumbnail found)
- Auto fullscreen mode for the lightbox