We have 3 tickets left, and they look like things for which we would probably not block the launch. WOOT!

Some highlights of the RC 2 cycle:

• nivekiam, suprsidr, floridave, Serge D, dmolavi and I have racked up a total of 1267 forum posts and comments in the last 30 days!
• We've closed 127 tickets so far since RC2
• There are 85 Gallery 3 modules listed!
• gallerymodules.com is now an easy way to download individual modules!

The product is looking great. I'm really excited to ship the final version! If you were ever planning on testing it, now is the time!

If you know of somebody who has time to make the Debian package, now is a great time for that too. Here's the package bug for that: Debian Bug #511715 - Gallery 3.

Looking forward to an awesome release!

Bharat registered Gallery as a project on SourceForge on June 18th, 2000 to share his small PHP photo program with the world. Now with over 20,000 code changes across 3 completely unique versions and almost 100,000 forum topics, Gallery is 10 years old and on countless web sites around the world. In addition to the huge Team of documented contributors over the years, thousands of people have helped make this possible. Thanks everyone for all of your comments, bug reports, patches, help, and feedback. We couldn't have done this without you!

Gallery 3 RC 2 is just around the corner and we can't wait to finish up the last few things and get it out the door to you.

Übermind, the folks behind several popular digital photography software plug-ins, have released GalleryExport for Aperture and iPhoto. With support for both Gallery versions 1 and 2, it is now easier than ever before to share photos from your Mac to your Gallery.

Both GalleryExport plug-ins are free and available to download from the Übermind website:

Aperture: http://www.ubermind.com/products/galleryexportforaperture.php
iPhoto: http://www.ubermind.com/products/galleryexportforiphoto.php

Read on for the feature list.

After spending a bit of time hacking around with various JavaScript frameworks and running into the limits of what JavaScript makes possible in the browser, we realized that a highly effective "Organize Items" tool in Gallery 3 was going to require something a little different. Some of the things we found that we liked were implemented in Adobe Flash, and while Flash has its pros and cons, we decided to at least build a proof of concept using Adobe Flash Builder.

It's pretty pricy, but with a few e-mails back and forth with Adobe, they hooked us up with a few completely free copies of Adobe Flash Builder 4 shortly after it was released. Thanks Adobe for supporting Open Source!

The first release candidate of Gallery 3.0 (code named Santa Fe) is here! Your feedback in our beta phase has been priceless, help us with our final push to work out the last little bugs and issues and polish up the product! Download it now! or read on for more details...

Update: A bug crept in at the last minute. It's fixed and the download link is updated. Sorry!