F-Spot

Several crashes were fixed. Obsolete code was removed. The Taglib# code now comes from the official repository, and many bugs in it were fixed.

This is the first stable release incorporating all the changes from the 0.7.x development series, including a more stable and hackable codebase with various clean-ups, use of Taglib# and gvfs, and hundreds of bugfixes.

Glade was replaced by GtkBuilder. Various code clean-ups and refactorings were made, with more use of Hyena. Fixes were made to Taglib#. IconView was split up and made much more modular. Copying to clipboard was fixed along with 20 further bugs.

A switch was made to a new Taglib#-backed metadata layer. Support for XMP sidecars was added. Several usability improvements and performance improvements were implemented. Many clean-ups and bugfixes were made.

This is the first development release towards 0.8, within the new versioning scheme. The goal is make the code more stable and hackable, in order to solve long-standing issues such as performance and memory usage. Notable changes are: faster and less memory-hungry importation, reparenting and detaching support, replacement of gphoto2-sharp with gvfs for increased stability, fixed Facebook support, modernized unit tests, a new build system, functional duplicate detection, mouse selection in the icon view, panning support using the middle mouse button, and UI improvements. Over 100 bugs were fixed.