KPhotoAlbum 6.2.0 released

I’m happy to announce the new release of KPhotoAlbum, the photo management software for KDE/Linux – version 6.2.0!

Also, I’d like to introduce our new contributor Randall Rude (a.k.a. rsquared), who already worked quite hard on improving our beloved project – welcome to the team :-)

The following changes have been documented in the ChangeLog:

Added

• Display number of images on collapsed stacks (#223213)
• Add commandline option --find-new-files as a synonym for --search. In the future, --search may become deprecated at some point.
• Add support for QtMultimedia video backend
• Make default annotation mode in viewer configurable (#474317)
• Improved diagnostic messages for JPEG decoding errors
• Improved diagnostic messages for invalid file names in database

Changed

• Thumbnail cache and video thumbnail cache directories are now always ignored while searching for new images.
• Do not automatically select an image cluster on the map when moving the map if the mouse action started on an image cluster.

Fixed

• Allow large images up to an in-memory size of 2GB (#500200)
• Make "Clear form" button in search dialog actually clear all form fields.
• Allow setting keyboard shortcuts for "Clear Form" and "Options..." items in Annotation/Search dialog (#306044)
• Fix detection of KDcraw during build time
• Fix appearance of mouse cursor in the map view (i.e. indicate clickable items on the map)
• Fix display of EXIF date/time data (#511546)
• Fix several warnings in the console output (#505015)
• Use embedded 'creation_time' data in video files instead of file creation time (#472520)
• Allow saving the Annotation Dialog's layout either globally (as a template for all databases) or per-database (#513933)
• Prevent unnecessary entries in the block list (#512207)
• Prevent creation of .kim files over 4GB (mitigates bug #512199)
• Fix compilation without Marble
• Improved formatting of "time ago" texts

According to git log, the following individuals contributed code (in alphabetical order):

• Johnny Jazeix
• Tobias Leupold
• Randall Rude
• Andreas Sturmlechner
• Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
• Johannes Zarl-Zierl
• Justin Zobel

Thanks to everybody for putting work in this release!

— Tobias