Gallery 2.2 RC2 is now available for download! This is the final release candidate before Gallery 2.2 will be complete. A release candidate helps users like you test out new features and provide feedback so that the final version has as many issues resolved as possible. We have 4 different packages for you to choose from. You can read all about it on our Gallery 2 Download Page.
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. If you're upgrading, be sure to scan the updating instructions first. Then head on over to the Gallery 2.2-RC-2 Forum Topic and let us know what you think!
Thanks for your continued support! Read on for more details...
Note: This is a *pre-release* version, and you should be sure to BACKUP YOUR GALLERY *before* upgrading your current Gallery.
New Features Include:
- Downloadable Plugins.
- This feature allows you to download and install Modules and Themes directly via the Site Admin interface. You can select from different sets of plugins (officially released plugins, experimental plugins under development and plugins provided by the Gallery community). This makes it very easy to stay up to date with the latest changes.
- Added support for themes to display dynamic albums.
- New Keyword Album module makes use of this feature to show albums based on a search of item keywords.
- New Dynamic Albums module shows albums of newest, most viewed or even random items.
- Ratings module has a new view to display highly rated items from across the Gallery.
- Watermarking changes
- Edit Album now has a Watermark tab where watermarks may be added or removed from an entire album, optionally including subalbums too.
- Edit Watermark now has an option to replace a watermark image and apply the new image everywhere the old was one used.
- New option to always use a single watermark and give users no watermarking options. Only Site Admins can change/remove existing watermarks.
- New option to turn off the ability for users to upload their own watermark images.
- New themes: Carbon and Ajaxian
- New WebDAV module to mount Gallery as network device on your computer. This allows you to easily manage your Gallery with any WebDAV client like Windows Explorer.
- New module to send Ecards.
- New Digibug module for prints from digibug.com.
- Added support for Flash Video and Windows ASF video.
- Photo auto-rotation based on camera sensors or on settings from other applications.
...and many more!
