Hello Piwigo Community,

Piwigo 2.5 is available for download or upgrade! You can read the Full release notes of Piwigo 2.5.0, which includes many screenshots and details.

An advanced setting for protection of original photos was added, to make Piwigo an even safer place for your photos. Piwigo becomes more social with email and website fields for user comments. The external authentication with plugin oAuth let your visitors connect with their Facebook, Google, OpenID or Wordpress.com account (and many others). The new web API explorer will help developers to know how to communicate remotely with Piwigo.


In the Batch Manager, you can filter photos on dimensions (width, height and ratio)

Links:
* Piwigo 2.5.0 release notes (with screenshots)
* Upgrade Guide (automatic upgrade recommended)

If you have a blog, a Twitter, Facebook or Google+ or if you participate in a community linked to photography, free software or web tech, please spread the news!

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Piwigo Team

Hello Piwigo beta-testers,

Here comes the second release candidate for Piwigo 2.5. This release only brings a few bug fixes. To learn more about new features, you can read previous announcements:

* announcement for 2.5.0beta1
* announcement for 2.5.0beta2
* announcement for 2.5.0beta3
* announcement for 2.5.0RC1

1) Changes

Here follows the list of changes available in version 2.5.0RC2, compared to version 2.5.0RC1:

* [Bugtracker, feature 2827, fixed] [language switch] use a sprite for flags to reduce the high number of server requests



* [Bugtracker, bug 2837, fixed] [language switch] rtl languages : flag overlaping text
* [Bugtracker, bug 2845, fixed] can't escape comma for tags/keywords with ws_images_addSimple
* [Bugtracker, bug 2825, fixed] missing album thumbnail breaks multiple size engine
* [Bugtracker, bug 2841, fixed] doesn't duplicate using merge action on only one group
* [Bugtracker, bug 2822, fixed] editing photo replaces date_creation time to 00:00:00

+ various upgrades on jQuery plugins.

2) Start your tests

Test Piwigo 2.5 live demo or Download Piwigo 2.5.0RC2

Please, open a new topic in the beta testing forum for each problem you may encounter.

If you can not install this test release, but you still want to test and help us stabilize Piwigo 2.5, we will provide you a "ready to use" test environment. Just ask.

Have a nice time while discovering Piwigo 2.5 new features!

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The Piwigo Team

Dear Piwigo users,

Piwigo version 2.4.7 is out. 10 languages have been updated with new documentation pages. A vulnerability has been fixed if your Piwigo is installed on Windows (the vast majority of Piwigo galleries is installed on Linux) and we have increased security on LocalFiles Editor plugin. Read details on the Piwigo 2.4.7 Release Notes.

Follow the automatic upgrade procedure and run the most recent version of Piwigo.

Happy 1-clic upgrade!

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Piwigo Team

Dear Piwigo Worldwide Community,

Piwigo Team is proud to announce the opening of da.piwigo.org and tr.piwigo.org, the Danish (Dansk) and Turkish (Türkçe) presentation websites for Piwigo. Piwigo.org is now available in 12 languages while Piwigo itself is available in 50 languages.



Special thanks to Kaare, pointman (translators in danish) and LazBoy, hakanselcuk, Nakre (translators in turkish).

Enjoy Piwigo, God fornøjelse med Piwigo, Piwigo'nun keyfine bakin

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Piwigo Team

Dear Piwigo beta-testers,

We're two months late compared to the original 2.5 roadmap but here is the first release candidate for Piwigo 2.5. This version is for test only, don't install it on your live website.

For those who have followed the beta versions of the previous months, you already know what Piwigo 2.5 brings. For others, you can read previous announcements:

* announcement for 2.5.0beta1
* announcement for 2.5.0beta2
* announcement for 2.5.0beta3

1) Changes

Here follows the list of changes available in version 2.5.0RC1, compared to version 2.5.0beta3:

* [Bugtracker, feature 2831, fixed] Add a simple way to protect original urls
* [Bugtracker, feature 2425, fixed] Better group management interface
* [Bugtracker, feature 2833, fixed] [theme elegant] better looking icons

* [Bugtracker, feature 65, fixed] Add support for PHP mysqli extension (8 years old request, never stop hoping)
* [Bugtracker, feature 2835, fixed] ability detect mobile theme earlier, before plugin load
* [Bugtracker, feature 2834, fixed] move "up" icon before previous/next arrows
* [Bugtracker, feature 2684, fixed] add a loader image based on the theme config
* [Bugtracker, feature 2663, fixed] license issue, replace JSmin by JavaScriptPacker
* [Bugtracker, feature 2823, fixed] Add triggers for login system
* [Bugtracker, feature 2826, fixed] make PEM categories id configurable
* [Bugtracker, feature 2820, fixed] maxRequests (for ajax) as a config var
* [Bugtracker, feature 2798, fixed] ability to change default number of comments for the comments page
* [Bugtracker, feature 2772, fixed] remove "Home" from html title pages on index pages

* [Bugtracker, bug 2794, fixed] Virtual albums are displayed in physical albums list in synchronization tool
* [Bugtracker, bug 2816, fixed] {strip} smarty tag can introduce bugs in javascript

2) Screenshots



Piwigo gets an improved group manager. Just like the photo batch manager, you can apply an action to several groups at once. New action added "merge groups".





Better default icons for default theme Elegant. That's just the beginning, other icons must be improved too.





Since Piwigo 2.4, when displaying thumbnails, you can sometimes see that the thumbnail is not available because Piwigo has to generate it. With Piwigo 2.5, if the thumbnail is not available we display a default icon.



3) Start your tests

Test Piwigo 2.5 live demo or Download Piwigo 2.5.0RC1

Please, open a new topic in the beta testing forum for each problem you may encounter.

If you can not install this test release, but you still want to test and help us stabilize Piwigo 2.5, we will provide you a "ready to use" test environment. Just ask.

Have a nice time while discovering Piwigo 2.5 new features!

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The Piwigo Team