[Shotwell] [Yorba Announce] Shotwell 0.8.0 - A GNOME Photo Manager

[Adam Dingle]

It's great that 0.8 is out at last.  By the way, 0.8 also supports
publishing to two new photo hosting services.  You can upload photos to
Yandex.Fotki (a popular Russian photo site) or to any site running the free
Piwigo software (see http://piwigo.org).

I'd like to thank the hard-working Yorba team plus the following external
contributors who made especially significant contributions to this release:

  Jani Monoses wrote the code to upload videos to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook,
and PicasaWeb.

  Maxim Kartashev implemented the feature that lets you set a background
slideshow from a set of photos.

  Evgeniy Polyakov implemented Yandex publishing.

  Guillaume Viguier-Just implemented Piwigo publishing.

Thanks again to these contributors and to everyone else who sent us bug
reports and patches for this release!

adam

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org> wrote:

> Yorba has released Shotwell 0.8.0, a major update to our digital photo
> manager.  This release includes some great new features, such as:
>
> * Video support for most major video formats, including importing them off
> of camera and adding them to events and tags.
>
> * Publish videos to major Web services, including YouTube, Flickr,
> Facebook,
> and PicasaWeb.
>
> * Runtime monitoring of library directory and auto-import of newly created
> files.
>
> * Background writing of metadata (tags, titles, ratings, orientation, and
> exposure date) to master files (user-configurable).
>
> * Flagging photos for batch operations.
>
> * Set multiple photos to desktop background slideshow.
>
> * Numerous translation updates.
>
> * Various bug fixes.
>
> We highly recommend that all Shotwell users upgrade.
>
> Yorba would like to thank all of our bug testers and translators, without
> whom this release would not have been possible.
>
> You can download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
> http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/
>
> Binaries for Ubuntu Maverick users will be available shortly on Yorba's
> Launchpad PPA (https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa>
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa>
> ).
>
> -- Jim
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