JoomGallery 2.1.1 Bugfixrelease

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Published on Sunday, 14 October 2012 20:22

After publishing JoomGallery 2.1 with new features a few bugs were found which we want to fix with this release:

• Voting via Ajax was not possible if SEF is enabled with 'Adds Suffix to URL'.
• Wrong line pitch at the Exif data.
• Wrong value for function imagejpeg() produced an error in PHP 5.4.
• Adding all images of a category to the favourites was not always possible.
• Wrong numbering of 'Auto-Update' forms in the 'Installed extensions' tab of the admin panel.

You can update your gallery with the Autoupdate function. You can also load the Zip from the download section and install it via the extension manager of Joomla!.

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Community Builder Tab at Github

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Published on Friday, 28 September 2012 09:39

Since we have concentrated very much on adding new features to JoomGallery, there was no time for developing and improving Community Builder Tab of JoomGallery, unfortunately. Now, we are starting to make JoomGallery ready for Joomla! 3 and so there still won't be any time for CB tab. Therefore, we decided to move the code of the tab to Github, so that people with more knowledge about Community Builder or other volunteers can contribute easily to the code.

On Github you can fork the repository of the tab with one click and start adding fixes or new features. After that you are able to send a pull request with your changes so that they can be reviewed and merged into the master branch. This way you are able to contribute back to the community and realize your own feature requests!

It would be very cool if you become part of that and fork the tab here:

https://github.com/JoomGallery/jg-cb-tab

This way the Community Builder tab will be built by the community :-)

If you have any questions about JoomGallery compatibility and other things, please feel free to open an issue at the repository on Github. We will try to solve all problems together with you so that the tab integrates perfectly into Community Builder and JoomGallery.

JoomGallery 2.1

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Published on Monday, 17 September 2012 16:07

After a long time without any news we are proud to release the new JoomGallery 2.1 today. Besides a few bug fixes we integrated a lot of new functionality:

• Additional fields for different data can be added to categories and images with the help of plugins (see here for more information).
• Drop down boxes for categories can be replaced with Ajax search boxes. This is very important for galleries with a huge amount of categories because performance will be improved with that.
• The used GoogleMaps-API was changed to version 3. With that no more API key is necessary for most of the sites.
• With an additional option you can configure the gallery to use random thumbnails for categories for which no thumbnail was chosen. Until now you had to use random thumbnails for all categories or to select thumbnails for each of them.
• The gallery uses the meta data set up at the menu item for every view now (if there aren't any meta data specified for the displayed category or thumbnail).
• With an additional button it is possible to add all images of category to the favourites with one action. This way a user can download all images of a category in a zip archive, too.

Since Joomla! 3.0 will be released very soon, JoomGallery 2.1 is the last feature release of the 2.x series. Although there will be bug fix releases when appropriate, no more features will be added to JoomGallery 2. This is because we are a very small team that can develop new functionality for only one major version which will be JoomGallery 3 then. Please note that it is also save now to create template overrides for JoomGallery 2 without having to adapt them again because it is very unlikely that we have to change many layout files in a bug fix release.

Additionally we want to announce that the support of JoomGallery 1.5 will end with the release of JoomGallery 3 for Joomla! 3. Please note that no date for that has been set up yet. If you want to help us speeding everything up you could e.g. post answers in our forum or translate JoomGallery into other languages. For that please simply register on Transifex and join one of the translation teams.

Have fun with the new version!

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JoomGallery 2.1
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