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Pixaria 2.7 Has Landed

I'm very pleased to report that Pixaria Gallery version 2.7 is finally here, bringing new features and massive improvements to the gallery and image management tools.

The major new front-end feature in this release is support for Cooliris thanks to new media RSS support for galleries. This much requested addition is fully configurable and enables Pixaria to integrate seamlessley with the Cooliris browser plug-in using feed auto-detection. This also provides gallery level RSS feeds for all major browsers and RSS readers including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

New Gallery and Image Management

Cooliris aside, the most important changes to Pixaria in version 2.7 are in the admin controls, in particular the tools for uploading and importing images and for managing galleries. I've had a huge amount of correspondence about these aspects of Pixaria over the last few months and years and it's exciting to be able to finally introduce a public beta of new and much improved admin tools.

The main changes that will be immediately apparent in the admin area are that the upload and import controls now share a similar user interface that eliminates the tedious, multi-step process of earlier versions. The new tools are also designed with speed in mind and include integrated panels for adding images to galleries and setting metadata on files. The import forms also remember all your settings and configuration options between login sessions on a user by user basis which makes it easier to quickly import images using frequently used settings.

For anyone who's not quite ready to jump in and use the new tools, the old import and upload functions will remain available for the next couple of releases.

Wildcard Keywords

This release also includes a unique new feature which allows administrators to add wildcard keywords to images. This means that in the same way as an asterisk can be used in a keyword in the search form to match variations on a word, wildcard keywords allow you to specify keywords for images that can return search results from different search terms. For example, an image with the wildcard keyword 4.*.*5|2.*3 will return matches on any of the following search terms: 4115, 4785, 203, 293 etc.

Details of all the new additions and changes in this release can be found in the release notes and a full list of all the changed files is available in the change log. This update also includes the recent patch for a remote file disclosure security vulnerability.

All registered users of Pixaria can obtain the update free of charge by e-mailing [email protected].

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