Hey everyone,
a new version of Aspect has been released: 1.0.0-rc.14 (view blog post). You’ll find the download links in the next section of this post. Simply install over the existing installation to upgrade.
Download
Windows installer (x86_64)
macOS bundle (universal)
Linux AppImage (x86_64)
Windows server version (x86_64) (experimental)
macOS server version (universal) (experimental)
Linux server version (x86_64) (experimental)
Getting started with the server version
Please remember: Even though the software is reasonably stable at this point, always make a backup of your data, or work with a copy of it!
Mobile Apps
Getting Started on Android
Getting Stated on iOS
Enhancements
- The metadata and thumbnail caches can now detect entries that haven’t been written to disk properly due to an abnormal process termination and will recompute them accordingly
- The cache optimization activity now displays a progress and can be paused/canceled
Bug fixes
- Fixed a crash happening on Linux in the library creation dialog happening when choosing a pictures folder on the root volume, while the home directory is in a different volume
- Fixed the library structure preview tree to not display hidden dummy items
- Fixed pinning custom metadata fields
- Fixed the JIT cache directory growing indefinitely over time
- Fixed a possible crash when entering standby right after loading a library
- Fixed the cache order to match the new photo stream order introduced in 1.0.0-rc.4
- Fixed a possible crash during cache optimization
- Fixed a crash happening when using the menu to assign a star rating to a non-library file
- Fixed entering shortcuts using several special keys
- Fixed entering shortcuts with multiple modifier keys
- Fixed an issue where the application wouldn’t start after using the ‘<’ key for a keyboard shortcut setting
- iOS: Fixed a possible crash when the library could not be loaded
- Fixed a possible crash when an external drive is removed while navigating
- Fixed an unintended application exit when rapidly clicking the fullscreen view button
- Fixed a possible crash when switching focus from the fullscreen window to the secondary window
- The system language is now determined correctly on Windows in cases where language and region are set differently
- Fixed the synchronization process spending an extended amount of time in the “previews” phase when many files hadn’t yet been fetched
- Fixed an issue where unnecessary empty library revisions could be created
- Fixed a possible crash happening when suspending or shutting down the application while other Aspect instances are downloading files
- When using the “system default” language setting, number/date formats will now be chosen to match the detected language
- Fixed the appearance of event headers for images with no available pixel data/colors
- Fixed invisible remnants of an animated transition being still drawn over the whole UI after the transition (performance issue)
- Fixed a possible crash happening under certain conditions when switching libraries
Feel free to leave any feedback here or in the bug reports sub forum. Thanks for helping to shape a new way of organizing photos!