[FIXED] Fixed an issue with title and caption settings when a question mark was used.
[FIXED] Some installs were breaking when the PHP include path was not setting correctly.
[FIXED] Removed double text in album audio tab.
[FIXED] Some installs were inadvertently allowing the main gallery to be deleted.
[FIXED] A mistake in the French translation was causing parts of Director to break.
[FIXED] Bugs related to the mysqli addition in 1.2.1.
[NEW] Take advantage of myqli module in PHP when available.
[FIXED] Fix uploads from the Lightroom exporter.
[FIXED] Various bug fixes
[NEW] To upgrade an existing install of Director, the existing install must be running Director 1.1 or greater. To upgrade pre-1.1 installs, you will need to first upgrade to 1.1.9, then upgrade to 1.2.
[NEW] API for retrieving data and imagery for use outside of SlideShowPro.
[NEW] Administrators can now view other user's profiles, including their passwords. Handy for those installations that have issues sending emails to new users.
[NEW] Link templates are now exposed to more data, including the image title, caption and album name. Also, you can now tap into the on-demand image publishing system when created your link templates. To illustrate this, a new link template is included in the update that opens an optimized copy of the image at 800x800 in a chromeless popup window.
[NEW] Added new fields to user profile, giving API developers more data to play with when creating custom front-ends.
[NEW] Director now checks to see if you have setup a crossdomain.xml file and if you haven't, alerts you.
[NEW] Director now reads all EXIF/IPTC data and allows you to use it when in the album settings tab when creating link or caption presets.
[NEW] Added pagination to albums and galleries index pages.
[CHANGED] User management has been split out to its own tab. The preferences screen is now labeled "System Info" to better reflect its content.
[CHANGED] All dates are now stored in GMT for more consistency. Director also attempts to read the time zone of your local machine and modify the dates to match when displaying them in the interface.
[CHANGED] Director now loads an optimized copy of the image when editing in the Content tab, which generally speeds everything up.
[FIXED] Batch selection in the Content tab was broken when using a Mac.
[FIXED] Using international characters in the Album settings tab would cause Director to freeze.
[FIXED] The process to set image metadata defaults in the Album settings tab has been reworked and is now more efficient.
[FIXED] Images copied from one album to another did not respect the target album's sorting preset.
[FIXED] A bug in the resize computations caused some images not to be downsized correctly when using ImageMagick.
[FIXED] The new parameters in 1.1.8 were not completely compatible with the older ImageMagick 5 series.
[NEW] Support for the vidpreview XML parameter introduced in the beta for SlideShowPro 1.7. Director now uses your assigned video thumbnail to create the preview with on-demand image publishing.
[CHANGED] The .htaccess file that ships with Director now uses the alternative implementation found here.
[CHANGED] Make sure that 16-bit ImageMagick installs convert optimized imagery at 8-bit, lowering file sizes.
[FIXED] Installations that use a socket along with the MySQL hostname should behave properly after installation.
[FIXED] A nasty bug was introduced in PHP 5.2.5 that would cause problems with the include path in PHP. We've implemented a workaround for this issue in Director.
[FIXED] With PHP 5.2.4 and above, there was a variable conflict that caused problems with how Director identified what image processing library you were using. Should be fixed in 1.1.7.
[FIXED] Upgrades of older Director installs should now properly rearrange the files during the upgrade process.
[FIXED] Stray NULL records no longer created in the images table of the database.
[FIXED] Avatars were not properly uploading on some servers.
[FIXED] Some language packs were not working correctly with certain Director functions.
[FIXED] Images uploaded to the end of an album in "Manual" sorting mode weren't always keeping the correct order.
[FIXED] On servers that do not support rotation, the focal point button would incorrectly be hidden. Fixed in 1.1.5.
[FIXED] When replacing an existing image, the image cache is now properly cleared.
[FIXED] Certain characters in caption/link/title templates would cause the templates to fail.
[FIXED] Emailing from servers without the mbstring extension now works.
[FIXED] Form buttons in Safari 3 are aqua styled once again.
[FIXED] Portrait images over a certain aspect ratio were not being scaled correctly. This problem also manifested itself in slideshows not honoring the focal point setting.
[FIXED] When adding a user and changing their permissions, adding another user would cause weird errors. Fixed in 1.1.4.
[FIXED] Some high aspect portrait images caused the layout in the Content tab to break.
[FIXED] Batch deleting images was causing some servers to throw a 500 error.
[FIXED] Some users were experiencing blank screens after upgrading to 1.1.2. This should be fixed.
[FIXED] Image publishing wasn't correctly identifying ImageMagick in 1.1.2. Fixed now.
[FIXED] Sometimes changing the image order, album image links, etc would cause a 500 error due to server limitations. This should be fixed in 1.1.2.
[FIXED] Client side caching. Director now works with your browser and only sends a new image down the pipe if your browser doesn't have it in the cache. This should significantly reduce bandwidth as well as making your slideshows seem snappier.
[FIXED] Custom themes placed in the ssp_director/themes folder now work properly.
[FIXED] Manage users is now open to all administrators, not just the user who setup Director initially.
[NEW] Added a FORCE_GD parameter to user_setup.php. For those having problems with ImageMagick, this is a way to force Director to use GD instead.
[FIXED] After upgrade, some installs would result in a blank page. This is fixed in 1.1.1.
[FIXED] H264 formatted videos uploaded via FTP are now recognized and added by Director.
[NEW] Complete user interface / design overhaul / reorganization
[NEW] Focal point assignment for more accurate cropping
[NEW] New on-demand image publishing system
[NEW] Support for the ImageMagick image manipulation library
[NEW] Image sharpening (requires ImageMagick)
[NEW] Ability to copy/move images between albums
[NEW] Ability to batch copy/move/delete images in any album
[NEW] Editable template system for assigning hyperlinks to images
[NEW] Automatic reading of IPTC caption metadata (if available) on image upload
[NEW] International language support
[NEW] One-click copying of XML file paths
[NEW] Interface themes (comes with two - black and white)
[NEW] User avatars
[NEW] Integrated server/installation information
[NEW] Ability to "remember me" when logging in
[NEW] Domain based licensing authentication
[NEW] Gallery auto sort: Albums that belong to a gallery can now be auto-sorted by their title, date created or date modified.
[NEW] You can now quickly get a set of albums using the following feed:
images.php?album=3,7,24,15
This will fetch album 3, 7, 24 and 15 and will display them in that order.
[CHANGED] Gallery feeds now use the following url: images.php?gallery=3 instead of images.php?gid=2 for increased readability. The gid form will still work, but will eventually be deprecated.
[CHANGED] Album ids are not written into the XML like this: <album id="album-12" ... making it easier to use loadAlbum
[FIXED] On Windows machines, the "Resize" link would not show up for the album preview. This has been fixed.
[FIXED] Special characters are now automatically stripped out of uploaded file names.
[FIXED] Special character rendering on the "News" section of the dashboard.
[FIXED] No more pesky Flash alerts on long uploads.
[FIXED] SWF uploads no longer fail if the album has large image settings.
[FIXED] Various IE7 visual bugs.
[FIXED] Upload progress now updates more frequently, especially in Safari.
[FIXED] Any import would always be named "Test Import", no matter what value you gave in the form. This has been fixed.
[FIXED] For some users, the "Browse" button on the upload page would mysteriously stop working. This issue should now be resolved.
[FIXED] Importer should now work in PHP 4 based installs.
[FIXED] If images were added to an album with links already generated, the link for the new image would not correctly link to the hr version. This has been fixed.
[FIXED] Sanitize data that is passed to popup.php.
[FIXED] Broken link generation again works in PHP 4
[FIXED] Editors are no longer able to delete albums, galleries or slide shows.
[CHANGED] The file that handles uploading is now named in all lower case characters, resolving issues where case sensitivity was causing the file not to load.
[FIXED] Links were not clearing properly when using the generate interface
[FIXED] Only show new version available messages when the x version has changed (1.0.x, 1.x no 1.0.9.x)
[FIXED] Broken link generation in some PHP versions
[FIXED] Dynamic gallery feeds for users with MySQL 3.x are working again. All other users are unaffected.
[NEW] You can now import galleries that you previously set up with SlideShowPro. For a walkthrough, see the screencast: http://slideshowpro.net/mov/screencast/ … import.mov or the updated user guide.
[NEW] Values for titles, links and captions set via the generate tab are remembered and applied to future uploads.
[NEW] Password reminder functionality.
[NEW] You can now upload a thumbnail of a different type for any image. (Ex: Large image: test.swf ... Thumb: test.jpg)
[CHANGED] Director no longer uses mod_rewrite.
[CHANGED] General optimizations for the code that handles image processing.
[CHANGED] If the user's server has CakePHP installed, ignore it and use the one installed with Director.
[CHANGED] Album thumbnail values are no longer stored with absolute paths.
[CHANGED] Upgraded to the freshest (stable) CakePHP (1.1.12.4205)
[FIXED] Errors when uploading are now properly caught and the user is informed.
[FIXED] The "Browse" button on the upload page does not show up until the proper components have loaded, most likely taking care of any "Click the browse button but nothing happens" reports.
[FIXED] Repetitive code for images.php all moved to a single location.
[FIXED] Various issues found in the 1.0.8 migration that should bring greater server compatibility/stability.
[FIXED] The "Include in slide show" checkbox in edit images works again.
[FIXED] The "Show album titles and description" checkbox in edit info works again.
[FIXED] The slide show dropdown has returned to the header when you are on a page that isn't the dashboard.
[NEW] Director has been ported to the CakePHP framework for more agile, rapid development.
[NEW] New upload procedure, with upload progress(!)
[NEW] You can now add images to an existing album in bulk.
[NEW] IE 7 compatibility
[NEW] Image ordering presets - Director can now sort your albums by filename or date, and will remember and reapply those settings when new images are uploaded.
[CHANGED] Slight dashboard reorganization
[CHANGED] Better file permission management
[CHANGED] The subdomain flag (subdomain=1) is now deprecated. Director no longer adds www. to paths.
[NEW] You can now call the XML for a single album.
[FIXED] No longer rely on setting the include_path, bringing into compatibility 5.0.4 w/ open_basedir.
[FIXED] More efficient handling of image generation - Director now checks for the existence of an hr image on a per image basis when doing any image generation.
[NEW] Preferences pane to set defaults and Director options
[NEW] Scaling options improved and extended to large images.
[NEW] Director now ensures that a user has ran upgrade.php after an upgrade is performed.
[CHANGED] Albums now show thumbnail and image information on the edit dynamic gallery page.
[CHANGED] Upgraded to script.aculo.us 1.6.2
[FIXED] In a few cases, Director was not correctly ascertaining the server name. Director now checks to see if HTTP_HOST is set and, if it is, uses it instead of SERVER_NAME.
[FIXED] Patched a few security risks that could enable a logged in user to commit a cross site scripting attack (XSS).
[FIXED] Filenames are now properly encoded when written to the XML document.
[FIXED] Director now takes into account for filenames with multiple periods (ex: file.1.jpg)
[FIXED] Image and thumbnail processing now starts a new script for each image, resolving most timeout issues.
[NEW] Option to create square thumbnails
[CHANGED] If an image is being processed that is smaller than the processing settings, the image is not processed and is left in its' original state.
[FIXED] Updating an image's attributes now correctly clears the xml cache.
[FIXED] Multiple fixes to the installation process, enhancing usability and improving error handling.
[FIXED] Image processing now corrects itself if it finds an empty hr folder, moving on to use the lg folder instead.
[FIXED] If PHP is not built with the bundled GD library, image rotate buttons do not appear in the edit image pane. (The imagerotate function is only available if PHP is built --with-gd, not --with-gd=/some/prefix.)
[FIXED] Fixed a bug that caused any edit to an image in edit images to clear the existing selection for album preview.
[CHANGED] Sessions are no longer checked to ensure they began from the same IP (because of multiple problems with proxies, etc)
[FIXED] Bug that kept checkbox values from being saved when using Firefox.
[FIXED] images.php now works around an obscure bug in PHP 4.3.1.
[FIXED] Make sure that the album preview is cleared if the image being used for the preview is deleted.
[FIXED] Textarea inputs now shows up correctly in Firefox/Mozilla based browsers.
[NEW] Windows servers are now supported
[NEW] When albums are processed or when thumbs are created, Director remembers those values so when a new image is added, Director automatically brings them in line with the rest of the album
[NEW] Added control over whether the title and description of the album is displayed in the XML document. (Useful when you want to use a album preview for the entire link in the gallery view)
[NEW] More control when filling captions
[NEW] Image processing now built in
[NEW] Director now creates a set of internal thumbnails to speed up the edit image interface considerably
[NEW] Rotate images from inside the application
[CHANGED] Director now handles ZIPs in two ways: First, the default behavior, with the lg and tn folders zipped. However, now you can directly zip a group of images, and Director recognizes the structure, creates the proper folders, and moves the images for you.
[CHANGED] The dashboard has been altered to better support larger album and dynamic gallery sets
[FIXED] Director now validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional (for those who care)
[FIXED] Detect and adjust for web servers running on ports other than 80
[FIXED] Allow for longer file names
[FIXED] Thumb listing in Album preview select now displays in a more organized manner
[FIXED] All Ajax calls now use POST instead of GET for greater security
[FIXED] Director now disables PHP's timeout setting on potentially long running scripts
[FIXED] Only delete a new album folder on failure if it was uploaded via ZIP or single image. Leave FTP'd folders alone.
[FIXED] Director now recognizes GIFs and also can create thumbs for GIFs provided the GD installation allows for it
[FIXED] Now smartly switches between using PHP_SELF and SCRIPT_URL for better host compatibility
[FIXED] Images without links now correctly show up as empty in the XML document
[NEW] Smart handling for links: Makes sure that http:// is prepended before all link attributes for images in the XML.
[NEW] Added new property to user_setup to allow disabling of external data loading by Director (news, new version check in footer) for use on local servers that do not have access to the internet. See user_setup.txt for more information.
[FIXED] Auto-linking only links to hr images if there is a matching image in the hr folder for the image in question. If there isn't, link falls back to the lg version of the image.
[FIXED] Several fixes to the caching system.
[FIXED] Various visual bugs in IE6.
[FIXED] More meaningful error messages when uploading an album fails.
[NEW] Built in caching of XML files.
[NEW] XML is automatically passed to flash with a random string appended to the file name to fool Flash into thinking it is a new file, preventing the ever present Flash caching issue once and for all.
[FIXED] An improper value in the mailing function preventing email going out to new users.
[FIXED] Visual bug when you update an Album title with an apostrophe in the text.
[FIXED] File uploading and permissions will now work on a wider variety of server configurations.
The first public release of SlideShowPro Director.
