Dear distributors, please replace KPhotoAlbum 5.4 with 5.4.2 and remove this version from your repositories as soon as possible!
We just released a bugfix version of KPhotoAlbum, version 5.4.2 (there's no version 5.4.1, I messed up the tarball, but it already was on the mirrors when I noticed, so I had to increase the version number another time ;-)
This version is essentially only about one bug, Bug #403668, which is fixed with version 5.4.2.
-The default storage format has been changed from the "more readable" format to the "faster" one and is silently changed by version 5.4 when saving the first time. The bug lead to data loss if a category name contained non-ASCII characters: the respectice category and all tags within was discarded. If you don't have category names with non-ASCII characters, you're safe.
+The default storage format has been changed from the "more readable" format to the "faster" one and is silently changed by version 5.4 when saving the first time. The bug lead to data loss if a category name contained non-ASCII characters: the respective category and all tags within were discarded. If you don't have category names with non-ASCII characters, you're safe.
If you already used version 5.4 and have category names with non-ASCII characters, please update to version 5.4.2, revert your XML database to a backed up one with the original data (luckily, KPA creates backups automatically in case you don't have an "own" backup) and run the new version. The database will be stored using the "fast" format, without losing anything.
Sorry for all inconvenience!
Apart from this, we also included the fix for Bug #403721. This one was "only" about a possible crash, which is also fixed with version 5.4.2.
All patches used in this version have been contributed by Johannes Zarl-Zierl, thanks for fixing this immediately!
— Tobias
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KPhotoAlbum News Feed
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/
enThe KPhotoAlbum Team
-Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:07:58 +0100
+Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:41:46 +0100Hotfix: KPhotoAlbum 5.4.2 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0097#item0097
0097Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:38:29 Dear distributors, please replace KPhotoAlbum 5.4 with 5.4.2 and remove this version from your repositories as soon as possible! We just released a bugfix version of KPhotoAlbum, version 5.4.2 (there's no version 5.4.1, I messed up the tarball, but it already was on the mirrors when I noticed, so I had to increase the version number another time ;-) This version is eKPhotoAlbum 5.4 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0096#item0096
0096Sun, 14 Oct 2018 21:06:12 We are pleased to announce the new release 5.4 of KPhotoAlbum, the KDE photo management software! Please consider that we dropped support for older Qt versions with this release. You will need at least Qt 5.8 to build KPA now. Another notable change is that FreeBSD is now also a supported platform of KPAKPhotoAlbum 5.3 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0095#item0095
0095Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:19:35 We are pleased to announce the new release 5.3 of KPhotoAlbum, the KDE photo management software! Removal of the face management Most notably, we sadly had to remove face detection and face recognition (for now), as the Digikam guys apparently decided to abandon libkface, the backend we used for this. ItKPhotoAlbum 5.2 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0094#item0094
0094Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:46:53 We are pleased to announce the new release 5.2 of KPhotoAlbum! The most notable new feature is the new Geo Position selection page in the browser. Using it, one can add an area on a map as a criterion for the image selection. Thanks to Matthias Füssel for the original patch! Other changes (from the ChangeLog): Bugfix: FiKPhotoAlbum 5.1 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0093#item0093
0093Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:14:15 We are very pleased to announce the new release KPhotoAlbum 5.1. The following things are new: Changes on the face management Using the face detection and face recognition ourselves, we sadly had to realize that the current state of the implementation is not really suitable for productive use. The detector finds some faces, but only the straiKPhotoAlbum 5.0.1 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0092#item0092
0092Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:38:16 We are very pleased to announce the new release KPhotoAlbum 5.0.1. What's new Version 5.0.1 builds against the new KDE Frameworks libraries and uses Qt5. It does not depend on kde4libssupport, so it's a "real" KF5 program. All depreceated code has be reworked to match the current recommendations. It's feature-complete, meaning everyKPhotoAlbum 4.7.2 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0091#item0091
0091Sat, 30 Jul 2016 10:17:38 We are pleased to announce the new release KPhotoAlbum 4.7.2 of the photo management and tagging application for KDE. Version 4.7.2 will likely be the last release of the 4.x series, which depends on KDE 4 and Qt 4 libraries (of course if we don't find some severe problem). We will now mainly focus on the KDE Frameworks and QKPhotoAlbum 4.7.1 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0090#item0090
0090Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:51:39 We are pleased to announce the release of KPhotoAlbum 4.7.1, a new version of the photo management and tagging application for KDE. This is mostly a bugfix release. Some regressions caused by the category localization removal did not catch our eye before the last release, but have been fixed now in 4.7.1. Everybody is encouraged to useKPhotoAlbum 4.7 released
http://www.kphotoalbum.org/news/?item=0089#item0089
0089Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:41:30 We are pleased to announce the release of KPhotoAlbum 4.7, a new version of the photo management and tagging application for KDE. This release contains a lot of new features, changes and bugfixes. Most notably: Removal of translatable "standard categories" KPhotoAlbum starts with a set of so-called "standa