Gallery 1.5-RC1 Preview Release

Gallery v1.5-RC1 is now available for download. This
release has been in development for a long time. With
over 300 changes, it fixes a large number of bugs and
has a huge number of new features. Read more for the
details!

Download 1.5-RC1 from
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130.
Visit the 1.5-RC1 Discussion Thread at
http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=119082
to submit bug reports or see a known issues list.

Note: This is a *pre-release* version, and you should
be sure to BACK UP YOUR GALLERY *before* installing
and upgrading your current Gallery. Read on for
information on how to back up critical data...

We have provided a small PHP script with this version
to assist you in making a backup. When you download
and decompress this release, the script will be
located in:

gallery/setup/backup_albums.php

To run this script, put your Gallery into
configuration mode, install the new software over your
existing Gallery installation and copy
backup_albums.php out of its location in the setup
directory and into your existing main Gallery
directory. Run this script from your browser. It will
package the important album data and save a backup to
your computer, in one of two formats: .tar.gz (useful
on Unix/Linux systems) or .zip (useful on Windows
systems).

The script gives you the option of backing up your
entire albums ("All files") directory or just the
Gallery database files ("Data files only"). While you
should have a backup copy of all your photos, for most
upgrades, it is sufficient to just back up the data
files only. Note that backing up all the files could
produce a *huge* file, since all of your photos will
be included.

Finally, verify the contents of the downloaded backup
file to make sure the files were indeed saved. Once
you have the data files backed up, you can confidently
proceed with reconfiguring your Gallery and updating
your albums. Make sure you remove the copy of
backup_albums.php from the Gallery directory, so
visitors can't make a copy of your entire Gallery!

New Features

    * Multisite support for caching albums.php
    * Much improved layout/skin/css model with updated
skins
    * Optional icons instead of text links for most
actions
    * Sharing/Printing photos with mPUSH, Fotoserve
    * Per-album RSS feeds
    * Statistics support, most viewed, recently added,
number of comments, etc
    * Support for exiftags
    * Limitable depth for the album tree
    * More HTML 4.01 compliance
    * Recursive resize all photos, recursive rebuild
thumbs, recursive permissions
    * Allow relative URLs in config wizard
    * Integration with CPGNuke
    * Support for rar files
    * Support for/Require register_globals off, switch
to superglobals from $HTTP vars
    * Support for Coral webcache
    * Tool for finding/removing content spam with a
blacklist
    * Support for choosing a mail server for sending
mail other than the server Gallery is running on



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