The web plugins were ported to the new libsoup API

Oct 25, 2016 23:20 GMT  ·  By

A new stable release of the popular Shotwell open-source image viewer and organizer arrived for users of Linux-based operating systems, version 0.25.0, bringing lots of important changes.

As usual, we've managed to get our hands on the internal changelog, which we've also attached at the end of the story for your reading pleasure, and we'd like to tell you that Shotwell 0.25.0 now supports the tags written by the commercial AcdSee photo manipulation software.

The application now makes use of Unicode characters, supports recent Vala compiler releases, improves the Piwigo upload support by implementing an option to override the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate handling, and another one to display the SSL certificate, along with better creation of new albums.

New dependencies, updated translations

Among other interesting changes implemented in Shotwell 0.25.0, we can mention the refactoring of the web authenticator, lots of internal cleaning by removing many deprecated calls, a GTK+ workaround, and an obsolete CSS style property, as well as full-screen and libraw improvements.

Last but not least, the VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) decoder is now blacklisted to prevent various crashes that could have occurred when extracting video metadata, the "Folder" sidebar is now automatically hidden when it's empty, and it looks like the web plugins have finally been ported to new libsoup API.

The source archive of Shotwell 0.25.0 is now available for download via our website, and please note that it requires you to have the GTK+ 3.14, GLib 2.40, GExiv2 0.10.4, and GCR-3 packages installed, or later versions, of course. However, you should update from the default software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. Please update Shotwell to version 0.25.0 as soon as it lands in the stable repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux operating system.

Shotwell 0.25.0 Changelog