Today we released 3.0.2, containing 8 enhancements and 31 bug fixes. New features include a new default search option optimized for titles and captions, improvements to the naming of optimized images, and more.
This release is a free upgrade to 3.0 license holders. Upgrading is easy – just copy the files from the upgrade package over your existing web application. Installations and upgrades for other scenarios are in the Quick Start Guide.
New search option
The search window now allows you to search the title and caption fields:
Previously, the only way to search these fields was to select the Everything category, which has a pretty high performance cost and can take a long time for galleries with hundreds of thousands of objects.
Searching by title/caption is now also the default, as we expect it is the more common usage scenario.
Copy from a read-only gallery
Some users have requested the ability to copy media objects from a read-only gallery to another gallery. Previously, this was not supported. This ability helps enable the use case where you have a private and public gallery. For example, your private gallery might be a read-only view of your personal media collection. The public gallery is a curated set of media objects from your private gallery suitable for your audience. You periodically copy the desired items from your private gallery to your public gallery.
Note that you must be a gallery or site admin in the destination gallery to use this feature.
Enable password retrieval
In 3.0.0 and 3.0.1, the ability for users to request their password to be e-mailed to them was inadvertently turned off. This has now been restored as a default configuration setting.
This new setting applies only for new installations. To enable password retrieval for upgrades, open web.config and change the value of enablePasswordRetrieval to “true”.
Matching filenames
In versions earlier than 3.0.2, optimized images were created with the .jpeg extension, even if the original file’s extension ended in .jpg. If a user then deleted the original file using the Delete original files task, the optimized version was renamed to match the original, *except* for the extension, which retained the .jpeg value.
This is all fine and dandy, but it presented a problem for users synchronizing files between locations using a program like SyncBack. For example, let’s say you have 50 GB of photos you want to share with the world. Your web hosting company might not be happy with that much data on their servers, so you want to let Gallery Server Pro delete the original files from the web server once the web-optimized ones are created. So you set up SyncBack on your home PC to sync your media library with your hosted web server. You use GSP’s sync function to build media objects from the files and then delete the original files to clear up server space.
So far, so good, and you could have done this with earlier versions. But you want SyncBack to run periodically to keep your local library sync’d with your web-hosted library. When SyncBack runs, it won’t find any matches on the server for the local photos because the files on the server now all end in .jpeg and your originals end in .jpg. So it copies the entire 50 GB up again. Not cool.
3.0.2 now ensures that the web-optimized files are given the same name as the original file during the delete original files operation, thus allowing file syncing programs to continue matching up files based on their names.
BUG FIX: Gallery control settings occasionally reset or gallery assigned to another gallery
I’ve been trying to solve this one for a long time, and I finally figured it out. What happens is that the options on the Gallery Control Settings page are occasionally reset to their default values. Or, in other cases, a page that has been assigned to a particular gallery may get re-assigned to the default gallery.
The issue was caused by code that was not thread-safe, resulting in a code path that wiped out the gallery control settings when two threads tried to access the same chunk of code. It is now fixed and I hope I never see this issue again.
BUG FIX: Album titles not appearing in HTML title element
Prior to 3.0, the HTML title tag was dynamically assigned to the title of the current album, but in 3.0.0 and 3.0.1, default.aspx included a hard-coded <title> element set to ‘Media Gallery’. This prevented to the auto-title code from running, resulting in every page in your gallery having the same generic title. Most browsers use this title as the name on the tab, as seen here in Safari:
In 3.0.2 the hard-coded title element in default.aspx was removed, allowing the gallery to auto-generate this value to the name of the current album:
If you prefer the original behavior or would like to use your own title, open default.aspx and add a <title> element to the <head> tag with the desired text:
<title>Media Gallery</title>
List of all enhancements
View detailed report of enhancements
- New default search option for title/caption
- Allow copying from a read-only gallery to a read/write gallery
- Allow backup/restore functionality after trial period expires
- Show improved error message during 2.6 => 3.0 migration
- Allow ability to cancel all pending video/audio conversions
- Enable password retrieval by default
- Filename of optimized image file should match original file after original is deleted
- New media objects may not appear right away after a sync
List of all bug fixes
View detailed report of bug fixes
- Gallery control settings occasionally reset or gallery assigned to another gallery
- Tooltip message incorrect on site settings page
- Apostrophe in tag/person not supported
Tooltip over thumbnail title is truncated after apostrophe Cannot log in from create account page Error creating gallery when current gallery has read-only media objects path Concurrency error may occur when retrieving galleries Cannot synchronize more than one object when metadata extraction is disabled Album titles not appearing in HTML title element Synchronization error when directory names differ by case Cannot restore membership only User may not be able to delete their user album or account "Insufficient permission" message shown to user on create account page New user may receive message 'Your account does not have permission to make changes to roles' List of roles resets to filtered view after adding or deleting a role Changing album title to empty string results in a silent HTTP 500 error Error on site settings page when skin directory contains capital letters Cannot assign user as owner of an album whose title contains a comma Null reference exception when creating an album with no parent album selected 'Also apply watermark to thumbnails' setting should be disabled when parent setting is unchecked User may be able to see albums in breadcrumb menu she does not have access to Error may occur while logging error thrown by ImageMagick (convert.exe) After deleting a media object, view resets to first media object instead of sibling Duration on video & audio page sometimes incorrectly calculated Search results do not allow downloading original file Sync fails when ImageMagick creates corrupt file Move/copy toolbar buttons generate an error when browsing search results Input focus reset when message box auto-disappears Media files are deleted during gallery deletion - Cancelling an "in progress" encoding leaves the encoding engine unable to process other media items
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