NEWS.md

January 2015

• Heavy work on clean packaging and versioning.

  • Archive-based and Archlinux packages are ready

• Change JEE appserver from Glassfish to Tomcat

  • Way simpler for administration, lightweight and fast.
  • Better control of the tool.
  • Embedded server not working yet.

• Dependency upgrade: Java 7, Hibernate 4.3, JPA 2.1

• WebAlbums FS

  • Improve efficiency of WFS with path to object caching.
  • Split Album listing year by year.
  • Allow auto-mount at startup.

• WebAlbums web-interface

  • Switch to HTTP/Basic authentication, it remembers login after server reboot.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fix OpenLayers maps.
  • Fix Where tags map display.

December 2014

• WebAlbums FS
  • Add Carnets
  • Add subdirectory Tags into Albums directories

April 2014

• WebAlbums web-interface
  • add redditp slideshow support
• Start playing with Python (Jython) direct access to WebAlbums engine.

January 2014

• Add possibility to download a carnet and all its picture
• Allow WebAlbums bootstrap to start without a GUI
  • --no-gui or -nx

December 2013

• Bug fix:
  • Avoid NullPointerException if no EXIF data is present

September 2013

• Bug fix (WFS):
  • Force ISO-8859-1 encoding of generated GPX files

August 2013

• WebAlbums FS
  • Support tagging through image drag-and-drop.
• Work on database consistency verification
  • All databases entries point to an existing file
  • All filesystem files point to a valid db enty
• Remove Perf4j performance logging, I don't use them
• Great refactoring of session parameter sharing

July 2013

• Update NetBeans and Hibernate version

• Keep working on photowall GUI

March 2013

• Work on a GUI for generating photowalls
  • plain photos or polaroid-like shots
• Add widget for "years ago" albums: albums shot the same date, years before
• Add ability to move an album from one theme to another
• Work on a random galery to display random pictures in fullscreen

January 2013

• Improve Carnets handling

2012

• Introduce staring feature:
  • Rate photos with stars
  • Select the 'quality' level you want to show
• Add timeline view of album list
• Introduce a Photowall generator, in Python
• Add chart view of tag tree
• Add support for VISIO mode, an html fullscreen view of albums
• Add heatmap to OpenLayers tag map
• Add systray bootloader for server quick start
• Introduce GPX files into WebAlbums
• Introduce Fuse-base WebAlbums filesystem (summer 2012)
• Introduce OpenLayer maps, instead of Google maps
• Add ability to import/export database to XML
• Work on ability to download WebAlbums for offline view
• Adapt Single Page Interface to HTML5 history

2011

• Add birthdate to WHO tags, compute the age when the tag is displayed
• Add appserver security enforcement
• Introduce Carnets: blog-oriented posts focused on pictures
• Switch to Hibernate 4
• Use JQuery for faster image tagging
• Move from Sourceforge SVN to Github GIT (may 2011)

2010

• Introduce Single Page Interface, to improve page navigation speed
• Switch to JPA Criteria and Metamodel
• Ability to automatically add white border on photos
• Tree-based tags
• Introduce a great pagination :-)
• Switch to Google Map v3
• Add Random by year widget
• Insert Perf4J logging for performance measurement
• Add a custom backgroup picture !
• First version of bootstrap with embedded glassfish
• Local fullscreen tag view, by copying photos to temp and starting Eye of Gnome
• Introduce pluging interface for accessing OS tools
• Introduce Edition, Visite and Normal views
• Massive refactoring. Switch to:
  • Glassfish Appserver and MVC model and XML generation,
  • XSL transformations,
  • XHTML, CSS and Jquery web interface
• Import from SVN Assembla

2009

• No clean history, just tarballs ...

2008

• No clean history, just tarballs ...
• Oldest tarball (February 2008), application structure already there:
  • Hibernate DAO classes for Albums, Photos, Authors
  • Java-base HTML generation