Zoph 0.9.18 released

Zoph 0.9.18 includes a change that has been on my personal wishlist for a very long time: no longer requiring manual changes to the database when performing an upgrade. It's something I tend to dislike and often forget about applications I use and it will open Zoph to much less computer-savvy users. Speaking about this, Zoph is now fully included in FreedomBox, a project aiming to create a home server appliance that can be used by non-technical users. Check out their Demo. Zoph is now installable in the demo.

If you were previously on Zoph v0.9.17, you can now upgrade to Zoph by simply copying the install files into you the 'webroot' of your webserver and the GUI will guide you through the upgrade process. Since it's always a good idea to create a backup before performing an upgrade, you can now also make a backup of Zoph's database, directly from the GUI.

If you are not yet on v0.9.17, you should follow the manual upgrade instructions to get to v0.9.17 and after that log in and perform the upgrade to v0.9.18.

The 'annotated photos' feature that was deprecated in v0.9.17 has been removed now.

Furthermore, I made some changes to the import process. Most notably, a partial rewrite of the XMP import. It turned out I had made some erroneuous assumptions about the format of the XMP files and the import process would fail on certain data inserted by Photoshop. If you find photos that are incompatible with Zoph, please file a bug and I'll do my best to fix it.

Shorty before the v0.9.17 release, I noticed some errors in the translation of 'actionlink', the small links, ususally on the top right of the page that let you for example [ edit ] or [ delete ] a photo or album. Unfortunately this was too late to be included in that release. I went through Zoph and found 35(!!) locations where there was something wrong with either a translation or the 'actionlinks'. These are all fixed now.

Finally, there was a bug that was annoying enough to be reported by 3 (!!) different people. It would cause Zoph to show an error about not being able to change the size of the photo to a human readable format, but only in some specific cases, that had caused me to miss it. Anyway, this fixed in this release.

The full changelog can be found in the changelog. You can download Zoph from the Gitlab site.