The first “Beta� release of G2, code named “Dark Fibre� has been released, and marks another milestone in the Gallery 2 development cycle. Now is definately the time to start playing around with it, and start test migrating your existing Gallery install.
More info in the official release post.
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Beta 1 (Dark Fibre)
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1. Shutterfly - New module for printing photos with Shutterfly.com. 2. Classic Layout - New layout similar to the G1 top level album. Shows thumbnails, item details and a tree of links to subalbums. 3. Origination Timestamp - New field to store the date normally shown with items. The field is automatically set from EXIF data if available but can also be changed manually. 4. Resizes - Added support for both width and height bounds for photo resizes and scaling the original image. 5. Archive Upload - New module extracts files from uploaded zip archives and adds each to the album. Implemented to allow support for other archive formats to be added later. 6. Size Limit - New module to define maximum dimensions or file size of uploaded images. 7. Custom Thumbnails - Thumbnail module now allows uploading a custom jpeg thumbnail for any album or item. 8. Rearrange - New module allows rearranging the order of all items in an album at once. 9. Album Select - New module adds a select box for jumping directly to any album. 10. EXIF - Added ability to set item summary/description from EXIF description when new photos are uploaded. 11. Symlink - Option to add items using symbolic links to existing files on a unix server. 12. Sort Order * Two levels of sorting now supported. * New sort to always show albums first. 13. Image Block Enhancements * Picture/Album of the Day/Week/Month. * Option to omit certain albums from image blocks. * External image blocks using full size images. * Scale external image blocks to a specified maximum size. * Support for image frames around image blocks. 14. User Album Options * Create user albums when first accessed instead of right when the user account is created. * Show link to user album. * Jump to user album after login. 15. Embedding * Futher improvements in the API and documentation. * Added support for search and image block. * Xaraya integration in CVS. 16. Multisite Support - The installer can now configure multiple independent sites using a single codebase. 17. Internationalization - Added basic support for right-to-left languages. 18. Error Handling - Improved handling and display of error messages. 19. Bugs - Many, many bugs fixes
So, what are you waiting for? Download now!
I'm probably going to change from Gallery 1.x to Gallery 2 soonish, but I really want some kind of integration with Wordpress before I switch.
Do you copy, Navid and Ryan?
Also, I'm looking forward to the RSS module for Gallery 2 (go Volksport!), which in combination with Magpie could make some interesting Gallery 2 -> Wordpress integration happen.
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Navid Azimi, on March 5, 2005 at 10:51am, said:
I copy. I copy. I'll be upgrading to the latest G2 release this weekend and will get started on WPGI -- that's short for -- WordPress Gallery Integration. Again, thanks for the heads up. I hope to add a positive aspect to this already amazing open source project. Keep in touch.
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h0bbel, on March 5, 2005 at 10:57am, said:
Thats great, Navid! Looking forward to seeing this! Join #gallery and hang out as well! :-)
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Navid Azimi » Getting Busy, on March 5, 2005 at 11:13am, said:
[...] s into a prototype. Gallery2: I am working on integrating Gallery2 with WordPress 1.5. As h0bbel pointed out, I may use the new RSS feature in G2 to flush out some new [...]
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h0bbel » Gallery 2 and Wordpress Integration, on March 19, 2005 at 8:59pm, said:
[...] ho would like to get involved in integrating the two. Gallery 2 is currently in it's first beta (Codename: Dark Fibre) release, which probably makes this the perfect time to star [...]
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