Release Notes for 0.9.RC2b - "Giannutri"

Bug

• [BM-592] - 0.9.RC2 can't start on workspaces with no downloaded updates or plugins
• [BM-593] - The Windows shortcut to the installer doesn't work if the installation folder contains spaces

New Feature

• [BM-583] - Add special tags in the Calendar Explorer

Release Notes for 0.9.RC2 - "Giannutri"

Bug

• [BM-184] - If explorer panels are not showing and they are opened from menu, they get into the wrong area
• [BM-186] - The first time a tag is added to a parent tag, it performs slowly
• [BM-305] - Sometimes the zooming over a set of locations is not optimal
• [BM-321] - The "Move down" button doesn't get disabled when moving a node to the bottom
• [BM-451] - Fix test dependencies for module Trip - KML
• [BM-463] - NASA World Wind works only the first time the app is started
• [BM-469] - Cannot rename Galleries
• [BM-470] - Crash on Mac OS X while rendering the "View" menu
• [BM-475] - License panels are black on Windows and Linux
• [BM-476] - Cryptic message if Acceptance Test preferences not set; after setting, needs restart
• [BM-477] - Bad L&F background colors on Option panels in Windows and Linux
• [BM-479] - The Linux jar installer still runs with Java 5
• [BM-480] - The Linux jar installer doesn't activate antialiasing in fonts
• [BM-481] - Some delay in starting
• [BM-483] - Trip doesn't display path samples.
• [BM-485] - Context menus of catalog nodes aren't always enabled when they should.
• [BM-486] - Can't add a subfolder in a Gallery folder
• [BM-487] - Cannot delete a gallery or a folder.
• [BM-499] - The "Proxy settings" in the Plugin pane doesn't work
• [BM-501] - REGRESSION - Docking screwed up after update
• [BM-503] - Fonts appear wrong size with multiple displays
• [BM-504] - Proxy Settings not working (e.g. with the Update Center)
• [BM-510] - Incubator Update Center configuration dropped from the built-in configurations
• [BM-511] - Tools -> Options -> Thumbnails - Create thumbnails automatically does not work
• [BM-522] - REGRESSION: thumbnails not persistent
• [BM-526] - REGRESSION: Memory monitor disappeared
• [BM-528] - REGRESSION Sometimes RAW files are not loaded (only the preview)
• [BM-529] - REGRESSION Sometimes the Thumbnail Viewer starts with thumbnails that are too small
• [BM-534] - Selecting the "2006" year in the Calendar View with the Base Test Set, a NPE is thown which breaks the GUI
• [BM-542] - Deleting a trip doesn't remove the node
• [BM-554] - Warning in logs about hibernate.cfg.xml being in the default package
• [BM-557] - Updated plugins from a previous version may create conflicts
• [BM-570] - Crashes during thumbnail decompression
• [BM-571] - The image initializers for Thumbnails don't take advantage of multi-cores
• [BM-572] - The metadata initializers for Thumbnails don't take advantage of multi-cores
• [BM-574] - Thumbnail image are decompressed even though they are not rendered
• [BM-575] - ThumbnailDataNode always recreates a small res icon even though it could be useless

New Feature

• [BM-459] - Panoramio web publishing
• [BM-482] - Added Trip importer for GPS data recorded by Nokia Sports Tracker
• [BM-491] - Animation for Film Strip viewer
• [BM-497] - Light dimmer
• [BM-514] - "What the Duck" comic strip reader
• [BM-517] - The Welcome screen can be re-displayed with the menu "Windows / Welcome Panel"
• [BM-519] - Added an option pane to set the localization.
• [BM-550] - Drag and drop geotagging
• [BM-580] - Added an option to automatically update a Viewer on each node selection in an Explorer

Task

• [BM-465] - Remove the patch for TabControl
• [BM-466] - Drop Update Centers for 0.9
• [BM-492] - Release Notes 0.9.RC2
• [BM-520] - Replace 0.9.RC1 with 0.9.RC2 in all documents (e.g. the Welcome panel)
• [BM-552] - Document drag and drop geotagging

Improvement

• [BM-80] - The size of thumbnails should be expressed in relative units rather than absolute
• [BM-270] - Redesign Gallery listeners in a more efficient way
• [BM-318] - Use Nodes and ThumbnailRenderers for drawing photos over a map
• [BM-351] - Tags should be visible by the Photo Viewer
• [BM-445] - NMEA importer
• [BM-472] - Refactor node management
• [BM-488] - New L&F for scrollbars in the main window.
• [BM-489] - Nimrod L&F upgraded to 0.99b.
• [BM-490] - Refactoring: IOC applied between Photo and Thumbnail modules
• [BM-495] - Major refactoring - MVC and interfaces in public APIs
• [BM-496] - Improvements in the L&F; some smooth transitions added
• [BM-505] - Updated gluegen (1.0b5), jogl (1.1.1.20070725), nasa world wind (0.2.0.20070817)
• [BM-512] - double-clicking on a thumbnail should be the same as right-click 'view'.
• [BM-518] - Zooming buttons have been moved out of the primary toolbar down to the PhotoViewer toolbar
• [BM-548] - Drop RefreshableNode, update support from ThumbnailTracker
• [BM-553] - Upgrade platform to NetBeans 6.0beta1
• [BM-559] - WWJ upgraded to 20070920
• [BM-569] - Improvements in speed reliability of ThumbnailImage

Release Notes for 0.9.RC1 - "Gorgona"

Bug

• [BM-198] - build/update thumbnail menu items don't appear on folders' contextual menus
• [BM-238] - Adding a child tag shows twice the same node in the parent tree.
• [BM-243] - On the window title bar display the revision number and the workspace path.
• [BM-278] - Show the license the first time the application is run
• [BM-299] - Catalog operations not complete
• [BM-323] - Sporadic IllegalArgumentException
• [BM-332] - Docking an explorer to another side, if there are no other explorers in the original side, it displays empty instead collapsing
• [BM-375] - Some preferences are stored in the operating system registry
• [BM-384] - Issues on the splash screen - page width
• [BM-385] - Loops repaint indefinitely the first time an image is open
• [BM-414] - On Linux, error when accessing files mounted on mounted (was: NTFS) file systems
• [BM-419] - CLONE -Sometimes the "show tagged photos" from the Catalog Explorer doesn't work
• [BM-421] - Bugs in the Import Media from... pane
• [BM-423] - Local cache of maps removed
• [BM-425] - NetBeans UML modules are erroneously inserted in the distribution
• [BM-426] - Google Maps support removed - was: Legal issues for Google Maps?
• [BM-427] - .deb installation doesn't create a blueMarine menu item
• [BM-433] - Cannot mount .DMG on Mac OS X
• [BM-435] - Install fails: Bad JRE version 1.5.0_11 - 1.5.0_99
• [BM-436] - Fonts are too small with very high resolutions
• [BM-437] - Error with Linux installation
• [BM-438] - .deb package installs with wrong file owner (501:501)
• [BM-443] - On some Linux installations, an empty window appears
• [BM-446] - Can't see TIFF files
• [BM-452] - debian package installs with bad permissions
• [BM-454] - Can't read some TIFF files on Mac OS X
• [BM-473] - CLONE of BM-187 - When a tag is added to a parent tag, it is not placed in order among siblings

New Feature

• [BM-190] - Add tagging with drag and drop
• [BM-391] - Make geotags exportable to .KML
• [BM-430] - Added support for NASA World Wind
• [BM-432] - Add warnings about the usage of geo data, where applicable
• [BM-444] - Added support for OpenStreetMap
• [BM-450] - Created an Update Center

Task

• [BM-371] - Test with Java 6
• [BM-411] - Find whether the manual installation of org-netbeans-modules-applemenu.nbm can be removed
• [BM-431] - Decide to keep compatibility with Java 6 in installers
• [BM-464] - Release Notes 0.9.RC1

Improvement

• [BM-106] - Add support for distributed computing
• [BM-307] - Reorganize integration tests in an hyerarchical fashion
• [BM-373] - Upgrade to NetBeans 6 (when available)
• [BM-374] - Drop NbPreferences in OpenIDE Utilities
• [BM-428] - Create installers for Java 6
• [BM-429] - Split JOGL stuff from NASA World Wind module
• [BM-441] - Upgrade to NetBeans 6
• [BM-448] - Metadata Extractor upgraded to 2.3.1