We have prepared a new Bugfix-Release for the JoomGallery 1.5.0.3 for a couple of malfunction and bugs you informed us about. If no more problems arise this will be one of the last releases for the version 1.5.0. In the future we will solely work on the MVC version of our Gallery. We will shortly publish a BETA version of the JoomGallery 1.5.5.

This release eliminates the following errors:

• The reduction of the picture description in the category view was removed because it led to malfunctions.
• In the gallery and category view certain adjustments were displayed not correctly.
• Some small errors in the update script are resolved.
• On some servers the UNIX rights were misplaced with activated FTP layer
• The navigation of "My Gallery" doesn’t work.
• Deactivating of all EXIF- respectively IPTC options was not possible.

In addition to the bug fixes we have made two further modifications:

• Updated JAVA Applet (4.5.0). Many thanks to the developers of this applet
  
• for the plugins four events are added: 'onAfterJoomComment', 'onAfterJoomVote', 'onBeforeJoomUpload', 'onAfterJoomUpload'

Further details regarding the modifications you will find as usual in the 'changelog.php'

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Before concentrating fully on the development of new features for Joomgallery, we decided to make the code lighter and easier to maintain. We recently started to rewrite the gallery to follow the so-called MVC (Model View Controller) structure, which was introduced with Joomla 1.5 move.

This brings many advantages for Joomgallery users. To name just a few, the change will enable you to finally create links to categories and detailed image views directly in the Joomla menu manager, or to use template overriding, and more.

The grain of salt lies in the fact that at present this version of Joomgallery is merely in 'alpha' stage. In NO CASE case it should be used on production sides. To make it turn Stable as quickly as possible, we depend on your support through detailed testing and bug reporting. You can download the JG MVC Alpha version here in the forum.

You'll note that the language output contains some obvious errors. Some constants haven't been translated yet, and the conversion to JText:: sprintf () messes with entire sentences in some places. For example, "number of comments" is missing below the thumbnails, where currently you'll only see the word 'Comments' (or its equivalent in another language). At least the German and English language files should be adapted until Beta or, at the very latest, until the Stable version. Please also note that some JG gallery extensions probably will not function correctly with this version.

Here is a list with the new features that are already integrated in this version.

Have fun, and thanks for testing in advance.

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It's time for a new extension of JoomGallery:

The small plugin called 'JoomAutoCat' automatically creates a new category in JoomGallery whenever a new user is registered in Joomla! and assigns this user to the category.

Thereyby the category is named like the username of its owner.

Update: With the BETA 2 of the plugin, it is possible to automatically create categories for users who are already registered, too.

In the plugin manager, you can specify a parent category in which the categories will be created. Additionally you may choose the access level of the new categories and decide whether they shall be published from the start.

You can download the plugin here and install it with the Joomla installer on your site, but please don't forget to activate it in the plugin manager.

Please post bug reports and feature requests in our forum and have fun with this plugin!

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This bugfix release relates to the correction of errors which have been reported e.g. in the forums. A small feature has been added too.

• DHTML view didn't work when the image description contained an apostrophe (')
• updated JAVA Applet (4.4.0) , problems in uploading with IE7 should be solved now. Thank you to the developers of the JAVA applet.
  
• further corrections in the upload functions for a better cooperation with activated FTP-Layer in Joomla!
• double entries in CSS removed
• in category view the image description will be shortened now automatically to 30 chars
  

You can find further details as usual in the file 'changelog.php'

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