# Version 1.0.0-rc.40

**URL:** https://community.bildhuus.com/t/version-1-0-0-rc-40/701
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release
**Created:** [24 November 2025 20:26 UTC](https://community.bildhuus.com/t/version-1-0-0-rc-40/701 "2025-11-24T20:26:36Z")
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### Author: ![Soenke](https://community.bildhuus.com/user_avatar/community.bildhuus.com/soenke/32/59_2.png) [@Soenke](https://community.bildhuus.com/u/Soenke)
#### Post date: [24 November 2025 20:26 UTC](https://community.bildhuus.com/t/version-1-0-0-rc-40/701/1 "2025-11-24T20:26:36Z")

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Hey everyone,

a new version of Aspect has been released: 1.0.0-rc.40 ([view blog post](https://aspect.bildhuus.com/blog/posts/aspect-rc-40)). 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)](https://download.bildhuus.com/packages/aspect/aspect-1.0.0-rc.40-setup.exe)  
[📎 macOS bundle (universal)](https://download.bildhuus.com/packages/aspect/aspect-1.0.0-rc.40-macos.zip)  
[📎 Linux AppImage (x86\_64)](https://download.bildhuus.com/packages/aspect/aspect-1.0.0-rc.40-x86_64.AppImage)

[📎 Windows server version (x86\_64)](https://download.bildhuus.com/packages/aspect/aspect-web-1.0.0-rc.40-windows-x86_64.exe) (experimental)  
[📎 macOS server version (universal)](https://download.bildhuus.com/packages/aspect/aspect-web-1.0.0-rc.40-macos-universal.zip) (experimental)  
[📎 Linux server version (x86\_64)](https://download.bildhuus.com/packages/aspect/aspect-web-1.0.0-rc.40-linux-x86_64.zip) (experimental)  
[🗒 Getting started with the server version](https://aspect.bildhuus.com/blog/posts/aspect-preview-41)

Please remember: Even though the software is reasonably stable at this point, **always make a backup of your data**!

## Mobile Apps

[🗒 Getting Started on Android](https://aspect.bildhuus.com/blog/posts/aspect-preview-40#getting-started-on-android)  
[🗒 Getting Stated on iOS](https://aspect.bildhuus.com/blog/posts/aspect-preview-40#getting-started-on-ios)

## New features

- Added a new menu entry for moving images contained in a scanned folder into the library folder

## Enhancements

- The full screen view now only closes when the application as a whole loses focus
- Avoiding files removed from file system notifications when the affected files are in the library trash

## Bug fixes

- Fixed a class of possible crashes during shutdown while library instances are being unloaded
- Fixed a crash happening for certain Olympus camera images with invalid GPS coordinate metadata
- Windows: Fixed flickering issues for the fullscreen view
- Fixed a rare crash happening when local library information is being updated during a network access from a different machine running Aspect
- Fixed a possible crash when moving a freshly imported image to an event at a very early stage of the import process
- Fixed bogus file deletion notifications when renaming a referenced event
- Fixed a crash happening when replacing an existing event folder by a different event folder
- Fixed a crash caused by moving an event or individual photo folder node file (.aspectnode) to a sub folder or ancestor folder of the associated event/individual photo folder
- Fixed a crash happening when exchanging the names of two event or individual photo folders within the same parent folder
- Fixed bogus file removal notifications when moving a sub folder of a scanned folder into the library folder
- Fixed the detection of moved files when those files have duplicates in the library trash
- Fixed a possible crash when library changes happen in the background while the photo stream context menu is open and the user then clicks on the event selector menu entry
- Fixed an issue where the library storage settings were erroneously displayed as insufficient when all images were in a scanned folder
- Fixed a possible crash when a duplicate image gets imported and an additional duplicate is already in the library trash
- Fixed a possible crash directly after upgrading an old library instance
- Fixed possible issues resulting from possibility of a manual and an automatic file system synchronization process running in parallel
- Fixed the the caption of certain message boxes to use the term “photo stream” instead of “shoe box”
- Fixed the image analysis process to not process images that are in the library trash
- Fixed the tree generation algorithm for the event selector UI to guarantee a consistent folder hierarchy

Feel free to leave any feedback here or in the [bug reports](https://community.bildhuus.com/t/bug-reports) sub forum. Thanks for helping to shape a new way of organizing photos!