On the GSoC side:

• rubenv has prepared a mockup of what the next editors interface could be. you can find an interesting video on his weblog.
• wasja is constantly reporting progress on the color profile work, and soon some of his job will be ready for SVN users.
• apart has started uploading changes to the svn repository for the DPAP sharing protocol.

About the rest, not many visible features have been introduced, but much more valuable ones have been!
The main actual goal is focusing on performances. Sde and RubenV (which is doing great stuff along with his GSoC project) have done an excellent work on this subject, by optimizing code and object structures.

In the last month small pieces of the puzzle have been placed: right now tagging, commenting and rating doesn’t refresh the picture anymore. And that’s already very good. Then it has been time for query optimization: F-Spot now uses more limited queries and temporary tables for handling request.

But the most stunning improvement has been committed in r4173: since last week you will be able to tag your pictures instantly! No kidding, that’s really amazingly fast! Tagging hundreds of pictures takes less than one second. Much less, we’re talking about 0,1s!

That’s great, isn’t it?

Our big hero Sde committed today a small but very nice patch which will sensibly speed up your photo tagging. Maybe it’s not yet light-speed but it’s certainly a very appreciated step ahead!

Stay tuned for interesting stuff in the next weeks!