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The winners in the Gallery 2 Theme contest has been announced.
Head over to the Gallery site and check out the details.

The Gallery team has announced it’s long awaited Gallery 2 Theme contest. Submissions are due January 14th, 2007 at 11:59:59 PM Pacific, so all budding and experienced theme designers should get started asap. Currently the combined prize money is set at $3,141.59 USD, but that could increase later on. So what are you waiting for? Get going!

I got an invite, downloaded a new version of Picasa 2 Beta, and published some photos.

Seems to work very well so far, check it out at http://picasaweb.google.com/h0bbel. I've put some new Picasa 2 Beta screenshots up in my Gallery install too.

It looks pretty much the same as the old Picasa 2 application,. but has a few new tricks up it's sleeve:

The web application is the slick, nearly minimalistic look you come to expect from Google. So far it's very responsive and the performance seems great. The ability to download an album directly into Picasa 2 from someone who has shared their photos seems like a good idea. You get 250MB storage space for free, and can purchase 6 gigabytes of additional storage for $25 a year.

In my test I uploaded one pure jpg, one Canon RAW .cr2 file and one jpg with Picasa 2 tags in it. I can't seem to find the tags in the Web interface though, but I'm sure that will come.

RSS feeds are also offered.

Looks like this could become a real flickr contender. Lets hope it stays as snappy as it is now though, and don't get bogged down and sluggish like flickr is.

Now, who's going to create a Gallery 2 module that deals with Picasa Web Albums? Perhaps a RSS module for Gallery 2 could read albums from Picasa Web albums and display photos stored there as items in a Gallery 2 album? At least that sounds possible now, until Google (hopefully) releases an API that can be accessed directly.

Gallery 2.1.1

is now available for download! This bugfix release resolves problems with Postgres7, Oracle and DB2. It also includes minor bugfixes for the imageblock module and fixes some very rare permission issues in the toolkit (archiveupload, dcraw, ffmpeg, imagemagick, netpbm, zipcart) modules.

New in this release is the Gallery2 Preinstaller. This nifty tool is a tiny download that will download and unpack Gallery2 on your server for you -- saving you tons of download and upload time. This is very useful if you're using ftp.

Download 2.1.1 now and if you have problems, please report them in the Gallery 2 forums!

Gallery 2.1 (Blackjack)

is now available for download! This release is a substantial improvement over Gallery 2.0 in both features and performance. We've added 10 new modules supporting features like RSS, ratings, permanent links, Picasa and Google Sitemaps. We've made many changes to the core framework to reduce code size and improve our performance, and this release includes page level caching which can provide a profound performance increase in most situations. This release has also received a professional security audit. See what else is new and then download now!

If you're upgrading from an older release of Gallery 2, you should read the upgrading notes first. Upgrading is quick and easy, but if you're upgrading from 2.0 there are a few things you should know first.

As always before you ask for help, please, please read the README -- we've made an effort to answer all of your questions there. Especially read the known issues section. Then head on over to the Gallery 2 Forums and let us know what you think!

Thanks for your continued support!