F-Spot 0.5.0.3 bugfix release
After the amazing 0.5.0 release, introducing some very cool features, three bugfix releases followed. From NEWS file:
- released a workaround for a bug on gdk-pixbuf, causing errors on png files
- fixed a huge memory leak in export to folder (and somewhere else also)
- removed automatic database upgrade for md5 hash calculation
- fixed a very bad bug in duplicate detection which slipped in
- added support for Sqlite 3.6.x (which is NOT backwards compatible for some stuff, see 1.4)
So, when you install 0.5.0.3 be aware that the long awaited duplicate detection works only for pictures imported from now on! The automatic MD5 calculation was removed because many user complained about having the hard disk spinning and taking CPU for ages without knowing why… People wishing to enable duplicate detection on their whole archive can enable and run the HashJob extension, which will perform MD5 hashing of all the pictures in database. The jobs can be stopped at any time, and restarted later on.
No big news in SVN, except the introduction of XDG-dir support: as of r4527 base directory moved from ~/.gnome2/f-spot/ to ~/.config/f-spot.
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Comments
Comment from jose americo
Time: 12 December 2008, 14:57
Hi, I have Ubuntu 8.10 with f-spot 0.5.0.3, but I don’t have the Edit Mode Tools! The re-installations completely and partial with apt-get and also the source installation don’t be resolved the problem. (excuse me my elementary english:)
Comment from Maxxer
Time: 14 December 2008, 21:52
Jose: it’s likely that the bar is simply small to invisible. Ensure that View > Components > Sidebar is enabled, and when it is drag thumbnails’ view left border.
Comment from Martin
Time: 16 December 2008, 11:24
On a hardy heron, I was running 0.4.3.0, but upgraded to 0.5.0.3 to get duplicate detection. I built from source, and upgraded some dependant packages from https://launchpad.net/~ruben/+archive .
However, when I try to do hashing, nothing happens. The dialog with “Execte / Stop” does nothing when I click it – not even gives any exceptions in the console if f-spot is started from there.
This may be the wrong forum for this, in which case I apologize…
Comment from Maxxer
Time: 17 December 2008, 11:26
Martin: extension’s lack of communication has been fixed in SVN and in 0.5 svn stable branch. Compile
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/f-spot/branches/FSPOT_0_5_0_STABLE/
instead of 0.5.0.3 sources.
Comment from Robin
Time: 24 October 2008, 00:39
Freedesktop goodness, yay!