• Translation updates

• Library scan no longer loads file metadata if no new files found.
• Support iOS live photos exported with Synctrain.
• Translation updates. Thank you for everyone who contributed.
• Fix: Crash if named person doesn't have a thumbnail set.
• Fix: File metadata was not processed if EXIF metadata absent.
• Fix: Videos not rotated correctly.

• Display info bar face thumbnails in grid.

• Support for GNOME 49.

• Support non-DRM m4v video files.

• Skip hidden directories.

• Fix crash when picture backing a person's thumbnail is deleted.

Fotema has changed the way it generates thumbnails, which has the unfortunate side-effect of requiring all your thumbnails to be re-generated.

• BREAKING CHANGE: Fotema requires version 1.20.0+ of the xdg-desktop-portal.
• Faster face recognition.
• Faster library scanning—now scan library only once instead of twice.
• Use the ffmpeg-full Flatpak extension.
• No longer need to transcode HEVC videos.
• Add setting to enable or disable Android motion photo processing.
• Enabling face detection now applies immediately.
• Re-organize settings.
• Display full directory path of photo library in preferences dialog.
• New icon for day album.

• BUGFIX (maybe): Incorrect picture shown when clicking thumbnail.
• Translation updates.
• Bump dependencies.

• GNOME 48 runtime.
• Translation updates.
• Bump dependencies.

• Bump dependencies.

• Bug fix: not all languages loaded when localizing.

• Move face thumbnails to info panel.
• Add icons to info panel rows.
• Support QUI image format.

• Bug fix: Animated photo controls no longer overlap face thumbnail bar.
• Bug fix: download face detection models from correct URL.
• Translation updates.

• Only allow single directory selection.
• Translation updates.

• Update libheif.

• Anchor face list in bottom left corner of window, not corner of photo.
• Translation updates.

• Navigate viewer with left and right arrow keys.
• Translation updates. Thank you everyone who puts in the time for translations--you are fab.

• Show info panel as bottom sheet when window is narrow.
• Photo view next/previous buttons should respect sort order.
• Bug fix: info panel sometimes shows info for wrong file.
• Bug fix: person selector is too short.

• Use GNOME 47 runtime.

• Revert back to GNOME 46 runtime to fix memory leak in video playback.

• Taller default window on first run so button isn't hidden.

• Lovely new icon by Tobias Bernard.
• Update to GNOME 47 runtime.
• Swipe between photos and videos.

• Fix missing icon in Phosh app overview. For real this time. Maybe.

• Fix missing icon in Phosh app overview.
• Translation updates. Thank you!

• Fotema no longer refreshes albums during startup if no photo/video updates are detected.
• Translation updates. Thank you!

• Accommodate even narrower displays.
• Translation updates. Thank you!

• Pictures directory is now user-selectable.
• Fewer Flatpak permissions.
• Removed unused files from Flatpak package.
• Fix content rating in GNOME software.
• Translation updates. Thank you!

• Add button to stop all background tasks.
• Translation updates. Thank you!

• Add ascending/descending chronological album sort option.
• Translation updates. Thank you!

• Always use sandbox when generating thumbnails.
• Apply EXIF orientation to thumbnails. Sorry, some thumbnails will have to be regenerated.
• Cleanup thumbnails, transcoded videos, and detected faces when photos and videos are deleted.
• Translation updates. Thank you!

Improvements:

• Faster face detection.
• Remove confusing desktop/mobile face detection options.

Bugs fixed:

• Face thumbnails visible on live photo transcode view.

Improvements:

• Face detection and person recognition.
• People album.

Bugs fixed:

• "Open Containing Folder" button absent when photo is in library root.

• Fix panic when parsing some photo EXIF metadata.

• More robust latitude and longitude processing.
• Update Turkish translation.

• Add French translation.
• Add Indonesian translation.
• Update German translation.

• Add Norwegian translation.
• Update Turkish translation.
• Add Weblate translation link.
• Add Phosh metadata.

• Turkish translation.

• Hindi translation updates.

• View photos on a world map.

• Hindi translation updates.
• Panic when no language preferences detected.

Hindi translation updates.

Bugs fixed:

• Thumbnails not generated for files without a creation time.
• Deleted videos not removed from database.

Bugs fixed:

• No photos or videos displayed on file systems that don't expose a file creation time.

Improvements:

• Android motion photo support (Samsung devices only).
• Updated Hindi translation.

Bugs fixed:

• Regional requested language would not fall back to non-regional variant.

Improvements:

• German translation.

Bugs fixed:

• Hamburger menu would not open properly for mobile view.

Improvements:

• Italian translation.

Bugs fixed:

• Thumbnail resizing was not reliable and would result in mixed thumbnail sizes and incorrect resizing.

Improvements:

• Display an error message when a photo or video fails to load.

Bugs fixed:

• Fix resource leak leading to crash when scrolling thumbnails.

Improvements:

• All, Video, Animated, and Selfie views are now mobile friendly and will display three columns.
• Year, month, and folders views are now mobile friendly and will display two columns.
• Hindi localisation.

Bugs fixed:

• Skip forward button would sometimes stay disabled.

Fixes for narrow displays.

• Use GNOME suggested minimum window width and height.
• Collapse photo info bar when display is narrow.
• Move file name from title to photo info bar.
• Move next/previous buttons so they don't overlap with video controls.

What's new?

• Add basic video playback controls.

What's fixed?

• Human readable formatting of video duration in photo info bar.
• Less notification banner flicker when there is no work to do.

Reliability and performance improvements:

• Mark photos and videos as broken if thumbnail generation fails and exclude them from future processing and from being displayed.
• Gracefully handle fatal errors instead of aborting when generating thumbnails.
• Don't rotate video thumbnails as they are already rotated.
• Improve video metadata processing performance.

Photos and videos should now display the right way up if they contain the appropriate orientation metadata.

Quality of life improvements:

• Add next and previous buttons to photo/video view.
• Add "Open Containing Folder" button to photo info sidebar.

Reduce logging noise. Logging level can now be configured through RUST_LOG environment variable.

First release with the following features:

• Gallery of all items.
• Overview by month.
• Overview by year.
• iOS live photos.
• View folders as albums.
• View videos.
• Option to transcode incompatible videos.