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!

In October, 2009 Microsoft released version 1.1 of the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP. This driver is fully maintained with an active release and development cycle, is extensively documented on MSDN and contains multiple features missing in previous SQL Server specific drivers such as native UTF-8 support, MARS support (necessary for SQL Azure), PHP 5.3 support and more.

Microsoft got in touch with us and put in all the legwork to make Gallery 2.3.1 support this new driver, so we're very happy to point you to their patch and a pre-patched Gallery 2 zip. If you're using Microsoft SQL Server, using this version will move you over to a backend driver that is supported by Microsoft, so their support team will be able to help you resolve any issues specific to using Microsoft SQL Server. A patch file that adds said support to existing installs can be found on Sourceforge at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2941873&group_id=7130&atid=307130

For your convenience, we've uploaded a pre-patched version of Gallery 2.3.1 to our Gallery 2 nightly build page:

http://www.rabinovich.org/G2/gallery2-sqlsrv.zip

Remember that the Gallery Team is officially no longer working on Gallery 2, there are no future releases of Gallery 2 planned, and that the Gallery team is not providing direct support for this patch. That said, hopefully this patch is helpful to some of you!