Loupe/NEWS

## 51.rc (2026-09-01)

### Fixed

- After editing a file and pressing cancel, ask for saving the image instead of waiting for closing the global window.
- After editing a file, unsaved changes were still reported after using the "Save as…" feature.

## 51.beta (2026-07-31)

### Added

- Show ICC profile description or generated CICP description if applicable.

## 51.alpha (2026-06-29)

### Added

- Show creator, copyright information, camera lens, and used software in image metadata.

### Fixed

- Don't accumulate delays during animations. !596
- Don't keep showing saving overlay after error. !597

## 50.0 (2026-03-13)

### Changed

- Updated dependencies

## 50.rc (2026-02-27)

### Changed

- Updated dependencies

## 50.beta (2026-01-30)

### Changed

- Support XPM and JPEG 2000 mime-types, offering Image Editor as app when opening these image formats
- Use AdwShortcutsDialog

## 50.alpha (2026-01-02)

### Added

- Add a specific error message when loading the image file fails. Usually when the file does not exists or there are no rights to access the file.

### Fixed

- Fixed image navigation overlay controls conflicting with always visible scrollbars.
- Showing wrong mime type in error message if the file ending for an image is wrong.

### Changed

- Don't allow endless zoom out
- Only allow 4 integer digits and 2 decimal digits. That's what's actually respected by the input at max.

## 49.2 (2026-01-01)

### Fixed

- Check if the is-hidden property is available before reading it.
- Considerably increased speed for listing other images in folders, especially for remote locations. This allows for switiching to other images to become available much quicker.
- Don't jump to best-fit zoom level during pinch zoom gesture when scroolbars get displayed. This has only been an issue with the disability option "always show scrollbars."
- Fix panics, probably occuring when using an action like 'copy', and then closing the window. The crash causes all other windows to close. #553
- Force gufo-exif version 0.3.1 to fix the missing beginning of user comments.
- The creation date for images that don't provide a timezone was displayed as if the recorded date and time was in UTC.
- Zooming in would not work via the zoom menu, if the resulting zoom state would still fit the image inside the window.

### Changed

- Track the location in source code of errors trying to get the root window.

## 49.1 (2025-10-21)

### Fixed

- The keyboard shortcut for 300 % (Ctrl + 3, 3) now zooms to 300% instead of 200 %.
- editing: Don't enable option to trash and replace if moving to trash is not supported.

## 49.0 (2025-09-12)

### Fixed

- `F9 <Alt>Return` accel not being parsed correctly

## 49.rc (2025-08-28)

## 49.beta (2025-08-01)

### Changed

- Updated dependencies

## 49.alpha (2025-07-02)

### Changed

- Use glycin loaders with API 2+

## 48.1 (2025-04-11)

### Fixed

- Crash when closing the window, probably in the exact moment when the animnation for hiding controls starts.
- Editing does not work correctly if PNGs or JPEGs are already rotated via an Exif orientation entry before editing.
- Printed pages don't contain anything or garbled output. This is a temporary workaround for <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7464>, using the cairo renderer for the rotation and scaling of the image in the print preparation.

## 48.0 (2025-03-14)

### Fixed

- edit/crop: Pre-select the portrait orientation for images that are taller than wide.

## 48.rc (2025-02-28)

### Fixed

- Decide if an image has a format that supports editing based on the reliable mime-type. That way a wrong file extension will not impact the detection of the format being editable.
- Set description instead of title for general errors, showing the complete and correct message.
- Switch to consitently storing rotation with CCW convention.
- editing/crop: Allow do decrease size of crop selection from edges when fixed aspect ratio is used.
- editing: Don't show error if saving is aborted. Instead handle actual errors correctly.

### Changed

- editing/crop: Change icons for aspect ratio buttons for portrait orientation.
- editing/crop: Disambiguate and tweak icons for crop selection aspect ratio buttons.

## 48.beta (2025-01-31)

### Added

- edit/crop: Add back the selection of the aspect ratio for aspect ratios.
- edit/crop: Added keyboard shortcuts for some editing operations.
- edit/crop: Allow dragging selection from the edges, not only the corners.
- edit/crop: Apply crop selections on operations like rotate/flip or save.
- edit: Add menu with option to "Save As" or overwrite original.
- edit: Allow to cancel saving operation via the "Cancel" button.
- edit: Give visual feedback while saving image via spinner overlay.
- edit: Show saved image after saving.
- edit: `Ctrl+S` and `Ctrl+Shift+S` shortcuts save images and `Esc` to exit the editing view.

### Fixed

- Disable all zoom buttons and editing button if image fails to load.
- Fix allocation warnings by not causing resizes during allocation.
- edit/crop: Set aspect ratio to "Free" on reset.
- edit/crop: Work around GTK gesture bug that blocks the drag gesture after clicking the apply button until one additional click has been done.
- edit: Disable save actions when saving or no changes have been done.

### Changed

- edit/crop: Enable the "Reset" button when the crop selection change, even if not applied.
- edit/crop: Move crop apply button into crop selection as small checkmark.
- edit/crop: Refactor a lot of the inner working to make code simpler and more robust.
- edit: Add an "(Edited)" suffix to the suggested filename when using "Save As"
- edit: Various design and detail tweaks.
- zoom: Allow zoom levels smaller than best fit via the zoom menu.

## 47.4 (2025-01-13)

### Fixed

- Sometimes SVGs are not shown in the print preview.

## 48.alpha (2025-01-07)

### Added

- Display XMP metadata for JPEG images.
- Initial support for image editing of JPEGs and PNGs with crop, rotate, and flip.
- Show the correct folder name in the properties view inside flatpaks if the file is only accessible via portal.
- User comment field in metadata.

### Fixed

- The sort order is now also following the one found in Files (Nautilus) if the file name contains non-ascii characters.

### Changed

- The design of the overlay buttons, especially for zoom controls has been reworked. A new menu supports selecting from pre-defined zoom levels as well as entering a specific zoom level.

## 47.2 (2024-11-22)

### Fixed

- Don't call style manager in application constructor since this is too early. Do it in startup instead. Without this fix, GTK 4.17.0 will terminate the app on startup.

## 47.1 (2024-10-16)

### Added

- Add `<branding><color>`s instead of just using `GnomeSoftware::key-colors`. That they weren't set was an oversight.

### Fixed

- Make the string "Error Details" translatable.
- Require glycin 2.0.1 crate to detect SVGZ files properly.

## 47.0 (2024-09-13)

### Fixed

- Flickering while images are reloaded. Instead, keep the old textures around until a new texture is available.
- Forcing the zoom to the center of the image is now working again. This is especially noticable when using the touchpads pinch gesture.
- When disabling animations in the OS and using the buttons to change the image, the wrong image was shown, disabling features like zoom.

## 47.beta.1 (2024-08-13)

### Fixed

- Don't force Flatpak sandbox SVGs. This fixes SVGs not loading outside of Flatpak.
- Make the window wider when it would open with a bottom-sheet overlay for properties. That way, the properties can be shown in a sidebar.
- Properly detect non-transparent images and down download a thumbnail for background detection for them. For some reason, the thumbnail download is using a lot of VRAM.
- Rotating a freshly opened image would not follow the best-fit scaling.
- Rotating by 0 degrees went through the complete rotation pipeline including a image reload. Now, 0 deg rotations are ignored.

## 47.beta (2024-08-02)

### Added

- Add reload button to errors and F5 as reload shortcut

### Fixed

- Don't show error-screen if SVG has been loaded and only the rendering for tiles for other zoom levels fails. Instead, show the already loaded tiles.
- Fixed that some actions are available on error pages and loading screens while they are not actually useful. This includes actions like zoom, rotate, and print.
- No longer empty the animation buffer if next frame isn't available yet. This removes flickering for larger and high FPS animations on slower systems.
- Zoom into viewport center via buttons. Before, the image center was used, which would cause a jump if the viewport had been changed.

### Changed

- Changed the drag and drop overlay to use accent colors instead of a fixed color. This also makes it follow the new adjustable accent colors.
- Don't emmediately show the spinner for loading images. This avoids fresh spinners showing up each time when switching through images very quickly via keyboard.
- Make strings that contain `\u{<hex>}` translatable
- No longer overwrite GTKs default renderer with 'gl'. The latest patches in GTK seem to make the Vulkan renderer work fine.
- The properties no longer use the deprecated AdwFlap widget. For very small windows, properties are now shown in an AdwBottomSheet.
- Use AdwSpinner when loading images.
- Use glycin's auto detection of development mode to disable sandbox.

## 47.alpha (2024-06-28)

### Added

- New dialog to show and copy error details
- Rotating JPEG images with an orientation Exif entry will now change that entry

### Fixed

- Disable markup in property rows

### Changed

- Follow the Rust Style Guide for Cargo.toml and .rs filenames
- Image delete confirmation now uses AdwAlertDialog
- Make error messages translatable and look nicer
- Move many shortcuts to window level instead of using app accels
- Replace AdwAboutWindow with AdwAboutDialog !376
- Use new GtkPrintDialog API #144

46.2
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- Fix fractional scaling beeing blury by setting GDK_DEBUG=gl-no-fractional as default
- Fix exposure times above 0.5 seconds not being displayed correctly in properties
- Fix page orientation from print preview dialog is not honored for actual print

46.1
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- Fix fill-space option not being applied when changing the orientation in print preview
- Fix PNGs not being available when browsing images on SMB shares
- Don't animate switching between images with the mouse fwd/back buttons

46.0
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- Change to stable dependencies

46.rc
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- Fix background color detection ignoring small lines in large images
- Change to "gl" as GSK default renderer instead of "ngl" due to performance reasons
- Change to sticking to the first error delivered during image loading

46.beta.2
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- Change metainfo to include GNOME group
- Change metainfo to use reversed name for the developer id
- Change to use latest glycin beta for better metadata performance

46.beta.1
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- Change .desktop file to not include "Slideshow" as keyword
- Change help by regenerating pages
- Change help to correctly represent zoom
- Change to use zbus 4.0

46.beta
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- Fix not reliably returning to restored image when undoing trash operation
- Added Shift+Delete as shortcut for permanent image deletion
- Added build option that makes X11 an optional dependency
- Added button to copy coordinates for location in properties
- Change to not using animation when changing images via keyboard shortcuts
- Change to opening image in new window, occupy 40% of the screen instead of 30%
- Change to using "stacked cards" animation when changing images via buttons
- Changed to show city if it's less than 15km away instead of 100km before

46.alpha
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- Fix "Ctrl + C" copies image instead of metadata if text is selected
- Fix "g_object_weak_unref" warnings
- Fix changing image resets timeout for hiding controls if still visible
- Fix long file names can newly opened window larger than required for image
- Fix not always zooming into center when using overlay buttons on touchscreen
- Fix opening image in different folder ends fullscreen mode
- Fix scrollbars disappearing under certain conditions
- Add zooming via touchpad scrolling while Ctrl button is pressed
- Follow G_MESSAGES_DEBUG variable for logging
- In print preview, base 100% image scale on physical dimensions of SVGs if specified
- In print preview, fix wrong upper input limit in height
- In print preview, scale SVGs correctly
- More reliably zoom into image position below cursor
- Pre-select current image's folder in file-chooser dialog
- Remember image properties visibility state
- Use GdkSurface:scale instead of scale factor, in theory supporting fractional scaling
- Use glycin 1.0

45.3
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- Fix horizontal scrollbar sometimes jumping to center while zooming in

45.2
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- Fix order of images gets confused after deleting image
- Fix image is not shown when sucessfully reloaded after error
- Fix keyboard shortcuts shows the swipe gestures the wrong way round

45.1
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- Fix sandbox for image decoding not enabled by default
- Fix printing on different printer than selected
- Fix print dialog crashes on confirmation
- Fix print dialog needs second confirmation inside Flatpaks
- Fix SVGs sometimes not re-rendering for zoom level
- Fix animated image formats with variable frame length using only one length
- Fix rotation getting applied twice to HEIF images

45.0
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- Always ask which program to use for "Open With…"
- SVG: Force minimum tile size of 1000x1000
- SVG: Don't render first tiles with zoom=1
- Empty state: Use flat headerbar
- Fix non-native files with path cannot be deleted
- Update screenshots
- Drag and Drop: Only expect sources of type FileList
- Update SlidingView after removing unsupported image

45.beta.1
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- Reload images when the file is replaced by moving another file at it's place
- Update dependencies

45.beta
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- Newly designed print dialog
- Added sandboxing for SVG rendering by using glycin
- Use RaisedBorder for HeaderBar to avoid shadow over images
- Fix browsing images on SMB shares not working
- Fix touchscreen gestures not working when zoomed in
- Fix touchscreen swipe only working on second attempt
- Added JpegXL support via new glycin version
- Added overshoot for swipe gesture
- New custom style for drop targets
- Changed name to Image Viewer

45.alpha
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- Add help
- Disable trashing for non-native files
- Give toast for latest deleted file priority over the others
- Only list supported image formats in file chooser
- Do not guess a potentially different background color for opaque images
- Fix incorrect updates when deleting or changing images
- Fix SVG zooming with high-res scroll-wheels
- Use glycin for sandboxed extendable image loading expect for SVG
- Remove backspace as a trash shortcut
- Change command line to open all given images in one window
- Do not show "Set as Background" if operation was aborted
- Let the user select multiple files to open in file chooser
- Support forward and back mouse buttons
- Correctly align right-click menu

44.3
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- Hide cursor together with controls when fullscreened
- Remove ctrl+x shortcut for deleting images
- Fix 'delete' action appearing too long in help overlay
- Split rotate actions making it possible to use them in help overlay
- Cancel GFile loading when decoder is dropped
- Make crossfade from spinner page to image work
- Don't make activatable row subtitles selectable in properties view
- Disable "open folder" action for non-native files (GTK doesn't support it)
- Leave fullscreen when status page is shown
- Skip unsupported formats when sliding through images
- Show window after 2 seconds if dimension are not yet known
- Cancel scroll deceleration on gesture use
- Hide headerbar on idle in fullscreen
- Show controls on mouse click
- Better solution for not registering swipes as cursor motion
- Use AdwBreakpoint to move properties below the image for narrow windows
- Fix vertical minimum size in measure for LpImageView
- Ignore EXIF rotation info for now in HEIF formats

44.2
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- Use GFile instead of direct file access
- Do not crash when monitor info is not available
- Get rid of many unwraps and report issues to UI instead, just to be safe
- #130 Fix displayed times are wrong because they do not respect timezones
- Add basic support for ICC color profiles
- Support opening multiple files via drag and drop
- Fix textures and background color not updating when image data changed
- #124 Fix not defaulting to light background color in light theme
- Fix thumbnail is broken for auto-rotated (EXIF) images
- #120 Fix high-res scroll wheel issues
- #134 Fix 100%/200% shortcuts ending up at best-fit when window size close to 100%/200%
- Add printing support
- Center new tilings in the viewport, making the first rendered tile cover the viewport already
- Allow dragging (panning) the image with middle button
- Generate list of mime types in meson and fix list of formats
- Set actions enabled state based on UI property status, not manually everywhere
- Add and update license headers with script based on commit info
- Hide overlay controls after inactivity
- Remove OSD from HeaderBar in fullscreen
- Drop AdwFlap for HeaderBar
- Make properties button insensitive if no image shown/loading
- Move 'toggle fullscreen' button from inner to outer position
- Add 'all files' filter option to file chooser

44.1
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Bugfix release after initial feedback:
 - Bump GTK dependency to 4.11.1 because of required fixes for scaled texture
 - Drop gtk-macros (crate) dependency since it is not needed and lacking a LICENSE files
 - #115 Fix WebP support for still images
 - #115 Fix not detecting HEIC files

44.0
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Initial release