Hello Piwigo users,

Here comes Piwigo version 2.5.1. This version fixes various bugs, mainly introduced by changes of Piwigo 2.5, see full details on the Piwigo 2.5.1 Release Notes.

Please also note the active work from the translation team:

* 2 new languages: Kannada in India and Norwegian nynorsk
* 18 languages have been updated to include the latest strings introduced in Piwigo 2.5

Follow the automatic upgrade procedure and run the most recent version of Piwigo.

Have a nice spring!

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Piwigo Team

Hi Piwigo Community,

We are currently moving all data of Piwigo.org to a new server (faster and more reliable). You may encounter connection problems during the next 24 hours, due to DNS propagation and database redirections.

Let me thank our donators. We have enough money to buy a powerful server. If you also want to help, don't hesitate : Donate page

If you love technical details, read [Forum, topic 21877] New server, details

edited on April 2nd 2013: This was of course an April Fools joke. We have no plans to merge the projects. However, it's true that both projects share the same spirit and have a friendly connection for years. Thanks to the Zenphoto team for joining us with this little fun!

Hi Piwigo Community,

After long negotiations and deliberations the teams of Piwigo and Zenphoto have decided to merge projects. The reason is the ever growing competition with the big CMS like Wordpress (although their gallery functions are nowhere near those of Piwigo and Zenphoto), social networks or online photo communities like flickr or Picasa.

We know this comes as a big surprise to you our users. But there is no need to fear! Piwigo and Zenphoto share the same strong open source spirit. The teams also had a friendly connection by recommending each other for years!

Neither of the projects will be abandoned and no features will be lost. On the contrary the projects will be merged so you will get the best of both worlds so to speak. It will be a new project called "Zenwigo" with a complete new user interface and full backward compatibility via convenient importers to older Piwigo and Zenphoto installations.



We hope to manage all this by the end of this year. As you can imagine it will require quite some rewrite of code which already started in secret last year. For the time being both project sites will stay active until the transition is complete. But then you all will get the best media focussed CMS the net ever has seen.

Help let our competitors bite the dust!

Read the announcement on Zenphoto.org

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Zenphoto and Piwigo Teams

Hello Piwigo Community,

Piwigo 2.5 is available for download or upgrade! You can read the Full release notes of Piwigo 2.5.0, which includes many screenshots and details.

An advanced setting for protection of original photos was added, to make Piwigo an even safer place for your photos. Piwigo becomes more social with email and website fields for user comments. The external authentication with plugin oAuth let your visitors connect with their Facebook, Google, OpenID or Wordpress.com account (and many others). The new web API explorer will help developers to know how to communicate remotely with Piwigo.


In the Batch Manager, you can filter photos on dimensions (width, height and ratio)

Links:
* Piwigo 2.5.0 release notes (with screenshots)
* Upgrade Guide (automatic upgrade recommended)

If you have a blog, a Twitter, Facebook or Google+ or if you participate in a community linked to photography, free software or web tech, please spread the news!

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Piwigo Team

Hello Piwigo beta-testers,

Here comes the second release candidate for Piwigo 2.5. This release only brings a few bug fixes. To learn more about new features, you can read previous announcements:

* announcement for 2.5.0beta1
* announcement for 2.5.0beta2
* announcement for 2.5.0beta3
* announcement for 2.5.0RC1

1) Changes

Here follows the list of changes available in version 2.5.0RC2, compared to version 2.5.0RC1:

* [Bugtracker, feature 2827, fixed] [language switch] use a sprite for flags to reduce the high number of server requests



* [Bugtracker, bug 2837, fixed] [language switch] rtl languages : flag overlaping text
* [Bugtracker, bug 2845, fixed] can't escape comma for tags/keywords with ws_images_addSimple
* [Bugtracker, bug 2825, fixed] missing album thumbnail breaks multiple size engine
* [Bugtracker, bug 2841, fixed] doesn't duplicate using merge action on only one group
* [Bugtracker, bug 2822, fixed] editing photo replaces date_creation time to 00:00:00

+ various upgrades on jQuery plugins.

2) Start your tests

Test Piwigo 2.5 live demo or Download Piwigo 2.5.0RC2

Please, open a new topic in the beta testing forum for each problem you may encounter.

If you can not install this test release, but you still want to test and help us stabilize Piwigo 2.5, we will provide you a "ready to use" test environment. Just ask.

Have a nice time while discovering Piwigo 2.5 new features!

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The Piwigo Team