Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the amazing Xen Media Gallery users
Thank you so much for your patience.
Release of Xen Media Gallery 2.0 is still a short time away, but private beta testing has been incredibly useful. I'd especially like to take the opportunity to thank @Brogan and @Martok but also a big thank you to anyone else who has taken the time to look into what we have so far.
It's true that actually my original plan was to have more testers but ultimately I think fewer testers has been just as useful.
I also have to, once again, extend a huge thank you to all customers who have supported me and been patient while this version has been developed.
Today Xen Media Gallery 2.o reached the Beta 5 milestone which has been the product of many bug fixes and improvements over the last couple of weeks. It's important that I now accelerate the testing and feedback processed. I'm therefore pleased to announce:
Xen Media Gallery 2.0 is now installed at http://xenmediagallery.com
This also seems a fitting time to announce some changes to the previously announced feature set of Xen Media Gallery 2.0.
The first is slightly minor. The watermark feature. It now requires ImageMagick to be installed on your server or the watermarking feature remains disabled. The reason being is the default GD functions of PHP were NOT performing as expected with all file types. Often producing undesired results, such as opaque areas that should be transparent in PNG files. You do not need ImageMagick to be set as your default XF image processor. That option remains separate. But you will need ImageMagick installed on the server to enable watermarking.
The second is a bit bigger. Video uploads. These are not currently ready for XMG 2.0. It is important to me that the quality of all functions within the product are as good as they can be and this area needs some more work. That work is something I am not willing to delay the rest of XMG 2.0 for. With that in mind, the primary focus will be getting XMG 2.0 released in its current form and the work will continue on the video uploading feature behind the scenes.
All in all, XMG 2.0 is looking in great shape. Check it out, I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know what you love, what you hate and what you want to see next over at http://xenmediagallery.com.
Thank you
Thank you so much for your patience.
Release of Xen Media Gallery 2.0 is still a short time away, but private beta testing has been incredibly useful. I'd especially like to take the opportunity to thank @Brogan and @Martok but also a big thank you to anyone else who has taken the time to look into what we have so far.
It's true that actually my original plan was to have more testers but ultimately I think fewer testers has been just as useful.
I also have to, once again, extend a huge thank you to all customers who have supported me and been patient while this version has been developed.
Today Xen Media Gallery 2.o reached the Beta 5 milestone which has been the product of many bug fixes and improvements over the last couple of weeks. It's important that I now accelerate the testing and feedback processed. I'm therefore pleased to announce:
Xen Media Gallery 2.0 is now installed at http://xenmediagallery.com
This also seems a fitting time to announce some changes to the previously announced feature set of Xen Media Gallery 2.0.
The first is slightly minor. The watermark feature. It now requires ImageMagick to be installed on your server or the watermarking feature remains disabled. The reason being is the default GD functions of PHP were NOT performing as expected with all file types. Often producing undesired results, such as opaque areas that should be transparent in PNG files. You do not need ImageMagick to be set as your default XF image processor. That option remains separate. But you will need ImageMagick installed on the server to enable watermarking.
The second is a bit bigger. Video uploads. These are not currently ready for XMG 2.0. It is important to me that the quality of all functions within the product are as good as they can be and this area needs some more work. That work is something I am not willing to delay the rest of XMG 2.0 for. With that in mind, the primary focus will be getting XMG 2.0 released in its current form and the work will continue on the video uploading feature behind the scenes.
All in all, XMG 2.0 is looking in great shape. Check it out, I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know what you love, what you hate and what you want to see next over at http://xenmediagallery.com.
Thank you