Gallery 1.5 Released

Gallery v1.5 is now available for download. This release fixes bugs and has a large number of neat new features. Read more for the huge list!

Download 1.5 from the Gallery Download Page.

PHP 5 users can download a patch for the album upgrade error on the download page. Read more for instructions.

How to apply a .diff

Save the .diff file to your albums directory and apply the patch using "patch -p0 < gallery-1.5-php5_upgrade_error.diff"

If you are unable to use patch, you can save this file as "gallery/classes/Album.php"


New Features
  • Multisite support for caching albums.php - Use your Gallery on multiple virtual hosts and the caching code will know what is going on.
  • Much improved layout/skin/css model with updated skins - Gallery is now easier than ever to customize and comes with some great new looks.
  • Optional icons instead of text links for most actions - If you like you interface clean and simple you can now have self explanatory icons instead of text links.
  • Sharing/Printing photos with mPUSH, Fotoserve
  • Per-album RSS feeds
  • Statistics support - most viewed, recently added, number of comments, etc
  • Support for exiftags to read EXIF information from images.
  • Limitable depth for the album tree - only show subalbums to a certain depth on the front page.
  • More HTML 4.01 compliance
  • Recursive resize all photos, recursive rebuild thumbs, recursive permissions
  • Allow relative URLs in config wizard
  • Integration with CPGNuke
  • Support for rar files
  • Support for/Require register_globals off, switch to superglobals from $HTTP vars
  • Support for Coral webcache
  • Tool for finding/removing content spam with a blacklist
  • Support for choosing a mail server for sending mail other than the server Gallery is running on
Issues resolved from RC3
Issues resolved from RC2
Issues resolved from RC1
  • backup_albums.php now works properly
  • LM_mode 0 works now
  • EXIF information displayed correctly
  • Custom welcome emails work
  • Mambo and CPGNuke updates
  • All skins updated to work with the new system
  • Several others! (see the RC1 thread for the full list)
Submitted by dcigary on Thu, 2005-04-14 12:33.

Hmmmm. None of the mirrors seem to have it yet...... :(

ckdake's picture
Submitted by ckdake on Thu, 2005-04-14 13:12.

This happens every time. It takes a while for them to sync, but the files should be on alteast one of the mirrors.

Submitted by dcigary on Thu, 2005-04-14 13:18.

Yup, got it from one of the Germany mirrors. Installing now!!

Submitted by prwood on Thu, 2005-04-14 14:13.

I get this error when trying to upgrade my albums:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Progress:<br />
<br />
Album: Events and Gatherings<br />
Upgrading album properties...<br />
Fatal error: Cannot unset string offsets in /var/www/htdocs/gallery/classes/Album.php on line 481<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Server is running:<br />
Linux kernel 2.4.20<br />
Apache 2.0.53<br />
PHP 5.0.4<br />
Gallery 1.5

ckdake's picture
Submitted by ckdake on Thu, 2005-04-14 14:17.

Please use the forums for support issues. Your specific issue is addressed here: http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=28823

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Submitted by Tim_j on Thu, 2005-04-14 14:18.

This is a php5 issue we overlooked.<br />
<br />
See http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=28823<br />
for fix

Submitted by dcigary on Thu, 2005-04-14 20:16.

I'm trying to set the album frames on both the main page and subsequent nested album pages to have the drop-shadow. The front page works, but the other albums that have nested albums don't. I've made the change in both the main album setting and the other place (on the next step) in the config.<br />
<br />
This a known bug?

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Submitted by schultmc on Thu, 2005-04-14 20:30.

Version 1.5-1 of the Debian gallery package was uploaded on Thursday, April 14, 2005 and should be available in Debian unstable after the archive run completes in the afternoon (EDT) of Friday, April 15, 2005

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Submitted by signe on Fri, 2005-04-15 01:14.

Please file a bug on SourceForge and give reproductions.<br />
<br />
I'm unable to see any issue.

Submitted by puckmaster87 on Sun, 2005-04-17 20:52.

Hmm, I haven't upgraded Gallery in a while. Do the secure.sh and configure.sh matter anymore? They don't seem to do anything anymore on my server. I run the commands, but it doesn't make a difference -> I can still access the login screen for the gallery config (although my previous version didn't have a login for the config.)

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Submitted by signe on Sun, 2005-04-17 22:56.

No, they don't really matter anymore. configure.sh creates the files if they don't exist, and secure.sh performs the chmod on them afterward, but the setup directory is always available due to the login requirement.

Submitted by aberkvam on Mon, 2005-04-18 04:15.

Running secure.sh means that even if someone manages to hack the login screen (by guessing your password, exploiting a bug, etc.), they still can't change the configuration because the configuration file isn't writable. It's an added layer of security.<br />
<br />
Also, the configure.sh script makes the file readable and writable by anyone with an account on your web server (unless the server has other security measures in effect). Unless you trust everyone with a login to the server, it's a good idea to run secure.sh.

Submitted by pcmike on Mon, 2005-04-18 21:39.

Well I just upgraded to 1.5 and now I'm stuck witht he awful blue default colors. I always just made use of standalone_style.css and put my colors in there, but for some reason that css is never loaded now. Before you ask, no the gallery is not embedded anywhere and there is a standalone_style.css AND standalone_style.css.default. Why is it not being loaded?

Submitted by pcmike on Mon, 2005-04-18 21:47.

Nevermind, saw the entry in the changelog. I think I'm going to have to compare what files come with the distribution and what I have and delete alot of the junk that is just hanging around. =\

Submitted by JustinHoMi on Mon, 2005-04-18 21:53.

I'm having the same problem... I guess I'll have to take a look at the docs too.

Submitted by pcmike on Mon, 2005-04-18 22:11.

They got rid of the standalone_style.css in lieu of base.css and screen.css. You might try just copying your older standalone_style.css into the bottom of screen.css. :)

Submitted by pcmike on Mon, 2005-04-18 23:35.

Can someone clue me into what or why the adminbox always has a white border no matter what I change in base.css and screen.css? I'm pretty dang well edited out all FFFFFF's and white's, but yet the border is still white! Also, I tried to apply the same hover effect to the adminbox, but it doesn't work properly. The [ ] are NOT included in the effect. Can someone help me out a bit? I'm not a CSS wizard! :)

Submitted by pcmike on Tue, 2005-04-19 02:03.

Alright, so I've figured out a few more things since my last post. The issue I'm having now is getting the black bar out from between 'popuphead' title and 'adminbox' commands. I ended up editing the .php files in /tools/ directly by adding the following:<br />
<br />
includeLayout('navtablebegin.inc');<br />
includeLayout('adminbox.inc');<br />
includeLayout('navtablemiddle.inc');<br />
includeLayout('navtableend.inc');<br />
includeLayout('ml_pulldown.inc');<br />
<br />
This gave me two bars, one with the title for each php (e.g. find_orphans.php) and the other with the 'return to admin page' and 'return to gallery' commands. I want to get the black bar the separate the two bars out of the picture so that the hover effect (that was originally being used on the regular bar) looks decent. I've tried every combonation of the above lines.<br />
<br />
Anyone get what I'm trying to do? Please help. :)

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Submitted by h0bbel on Tue, 2005-04-19 15:03.

Sigh. If only people could post in the forums, they could probably get some support.

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Submitted by Jean-Marc Liotier on Sun, 2005-05-01 21:19.

> They got rid of the standalone_style.css in lieu <br />
> of base.css and screen.css. You might try just<br />
> copying your older standalone_style.css into the <br />
> bottom of screen.css.<br />
<br />
That did not work for me. Here is the result : <br />
http://gallery.ruwenzori.net/jim<br />
<br />
I have tried various replacement in base.css and screen.css but I have not found a workaround... Does anyone know how I can get back the white color of the default look I have come to love ?<br />
<br />
I find disappointing that the upgrade messed up with the look.<br />

Submitted by phule on Mon, 2005-06-06 20:03.

Yeah, this bit me too; that's what I get for not reading the docs.<br />
<br />
Ended up having to spend a bit of time updating the new css files with the old info. The only problem I have with this is now I have to do it 3 other times because I run gallery on three other domains. <br />