Gallery 2.2 Press Release

Gallery 2.2 (Double Double) Released with Major Improvements and New Features

(Mountain View, CA) Gallery 2.2 (Double Double) is now available for download! In what has been close to a year of development, the Gallery team has packed this release full of new features and security enhancements. Major new features include: Downloadable Plugins allow for downloading, installing, and upgrading modules and themes through the web interface; Dynamic Albums enable albums based on keywords, ratings, and more; and WebDAV support for managing photo libraries like a network hard drive with folders of images.

Security: Like each Gallery 2 release before this one, a professional security audit has been conducted and many improvements have been made to further tighten down Gallery 2 and protect Gallery users from abuse. All issues addressed in this release were discovered during this private, internal security audit. No known exploits are available, however, upgrading to Gallery 2.2 is highly recommended to secure public Gallery installations.

Translations and Integrations: Gallery 2.2 has been localized into over 30 languages. 8 languages are now 100% translated and 13 more are over 60% translated. The Gallery 2 Localization Report provides an overview of the current status of all translations. Additionally, support has been added for plugins and integration with even more 3rd party applications. The Gallery website provides complete lists of available integrations and Gallery client applications.

New Features of Gallery 2.2 Include:

1. Downloadable Plugins.
   • This feature allows for downloading and installing Modules and Themes directly via the Site Admin interface. Administrators 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.
2. 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.
3. Watermarking changes
   • Edit Album now has a Watermark tab where watermarks may be added or removed from an entire album, optionally including sub-albums 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 Admininistrators can change/remove existing watermarks.
   • New option to turn off the ability for users to upload their own watermark images.
4. New themes: Carbon and Ajaxian
5. New WebDAV module to mount Gallery as network device on desktop computers. This allows users to easily manage their Gallery with any WebDAV client like Windows Explorer.
6. New module to send Ecards.
7. New Digibug module for prints from digibug.com.
8. Added support for Flash Video and Windows ASF video.
9. Photo auto-rotation based on camera sensors or on settings from other applications.

...and many more!

Important Changes in System Requirements:

PHP 4.3.0 or later: Gallery 2.2 requires PHP 4.3.0 (formerly 4.1.0) or more recent PHP 4 versions. Gallery 2.2 still works with PHP 5.0.4 or later PHP 5 versions as well.

Note for Microsoft IIS Users: As of Gallery 2.2, Microsoft IIS doesn't work with PHP-CGI due to a PHP/IIS bug. Microsoft recommends FastCGI instead and doesn't support PHP-CGI. Please use ISAPI PHP or FastCGI with IIS instead. Users of Apache on Windows can still use PHP-CGI (and mod_php or FastCGI).

Availability:

Gallery 2.2 is free of charge and can be downloaded from Gallery's download site. Further instructions and release notes can be found in the README. Detailed installation and upgrade instructions as well as a list of known issues can be found in the Gallery codex, Gallery's main documentation site.

About Gallery 2:

Gallery is an online photo album organizer. Whether for small personal sites or large community sites, Gallery provides an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into any website. Serving millions worldwide, Gallery is the most widely used system of its kind. Gallery is free to download and use.

With Gallery one can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums and photos can have view, edit, delete and other permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.

About the Gallery Project:

Gallery is an open source project with the goal to develop and support leading photo sharing web application solutions.

The Gallery project develops open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. The development is a distributed effort, with collaboration from around the globe.

E-mail: gallery@menalto.com
Website: http://gallery.menalto.com

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