ImageGlass Kobe 8.7.10.26

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📝 Changelog:

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to v12.2.0.
• Changed to use Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP (32 bits-per-pixel component) for the best image quality. This requires a bit more memory to load and process the image. You can download the x86 release of ImageGlass, which uses Magick.NET-Q8 for less memory consumption.
• Allowed user to override the extension icons in Exts-Icon from Config folder (similar to Themes folder).
• Added support for showing translators of the language pack in Settings > Language.
• Added support for auto-applying selected language pack in Settings window when clicking Apply button.
• Added support for using millisecond to set slideshow interval (#1155), thanks to @BenHUET.
• Updated the colon character in slideshow countdown (#1226).
• Added Exit option to the context menu (#1322, #1390), kudo to @BenHUET.
• Updated toolbar icon for Thumbnail bar (#1364).
• Re-enabled the ability to change extension icon for .ICO (#1396).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue when the Window Fit mode is enabled, zooming the image causes the window flickered badly (#1371), a big applause to @2480258.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.10.26_x64.msi	2DD25B7D859FD9192BDC1E34FC966C3BDA4A930E
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.10.26_x64.zip	04362969E66F33867F5D7A3878CF3B52250CA4A5
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.10.26_x86.msi	9CABC6059A98FE0BF905A797A5C7625C808BDDCA
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.10.26_x86.zip	AE2003E45FF4513403BFBCC58ED45DDCD4F5365C

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 is under development.
• From version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

New Contributors

• @2480258 made their first contribution in #1380
• @BenHUET made their first contribution in #1393

Full Changelog: 8.6.7.13...8.7.10.26

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 2 🌒

⚠ Breaking changes

This is the beta-2 release of ImageGlass Kobe version 9. Many features of the version 8 are missing and there are a lot of breaking changes. All features and settings may be changed when the official version 9 is released.

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 3, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/13.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• .NET 6.0 Runtime.
• Windows 7 SP1 ESU 64 bit.

📝 Changelog:

ImageGlass 9.0 beta 2 is a continuation of the version 9.0 beta 1,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.1.514

Show / hide details

🟣 General changes

• Removed support for custom codec.
• Supports for seamless process privilege elevation:
  • No longer requires igtask.exe to run admin commands
  • All functions that require admin permission will trigger the "User Account Control" dialog automatically. For example:
    • Set as desktop background
    • Set as Lock screen image (Windows 10+)
    • Set / unset default photo viewer (#832, #1085, #1360).
• Introduces new classes for user actions that being used widely in the app:
  • SingleAction: contains a single action that can be chained. For example:
    • Click to enter Full screen mode and then set zoom to 200%.
    • See more details in the "Toolbar component" section.
  • ToggleAction: contains ToggleOn and ToggleOff action. Each of them is a SingleAction. ToggleOn and ToggleOff are taken turn to call to switch on or off a feature. For example:
    • First double click to enter Full screen mode.
    • If double click again, exit Full screen mode.
    • See more details in the "ImageGlass.Views" section.
• Added theme-aware dialogs for:
  • Save / Save as
  • Rename
  • Go to
  • Custom zoom
  • Move to Recycle bin / Delete
  • ...
  • All dialogs can be closed with ESC (#1324).
• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 12.1.0.

🟣 New viewer component: ImageGlass.Views

• ImageGlass.Views is based on D2Phap.DXControl which supports both Direct2D and GDI+ graphics thanks to WicNet library.
• Replaced ImageGlass.PhotoBox with ImageGlass.Views, supports Direct2D 1.3 features.
• Supports GPU rendering for transparent formats: PNG,...
• Supports image interpolation modes:
  • NearestNeighbor (default when zoom > 100)
  • Linear (default when zoom <= 100)
  • Cubic
  • SampleLinear
  • Antisotropic
  • HighQualityBicubic
• Improves performance when the checkerboard is on.
• Supports heading for text in-app message.
• Reduces resource usage.
• Image focus mode is now only for panning using keyboard.
• Supports smooth zooming without enabling Image focus mode.
• Zooming with keyboard/ mouse is centered by cursor position (#381).

Added support for custom mouse actions:

Mouse click actions (#381, #648, #748, #909, #991, #1337): (see full example at #991 (comment))

• Setting name: MouseClickActions.
• Supports events:
  • LeftClick
  • LeftDoubleClick
  • RightClick
  • RightDoubleClick
  • XButton1Click
  • XButton1DoubleClick
  • XButton2Click
  • XButton2DoubleClick
  • WheelClick
  • WheelDoubleClick
• Action for mouse click is ToggleAction which means you can configure on and off event separately. Each on and off action can be chained as well.
• Example:

  "MouseClickActions": {
    "LeftDoubleClick": {
      // first left click to enable full screen mode and set zoom factor to 50%
      "ToggleOn": {
        "Executable": "IG_ToggleFullScreen",
        "Argument": true,
        "NextAction": {
          "Executable": "IG_SetZoom",
          "Argument": 0.5,
        }
      },
      // second left click to exit full screen mode
      "ToggleOff": {
        "Executable": "IG_ToggleFullScreen",
        "Argument": false
      }
    }
  },

Mouse wheel actions:

• Setting name: MouseWheelActions.
• Supports events:
  • Scroll
  • PressCtrlAndScroll
  • PressShiftAndScroll
  • PressAltAndScroll
• Actions for mouse wheel are pre-defined:
  • DoNothing
  • Zoom
  • PanVertically
  • PanHorizontally
  • BrowseImages
• Example:

  "MouseWheelActions": {
    "PressCtrlAndScroll": "BrowseImages",
    "PressShiftAndScroll": "PanHorizontally",
  },

🟣 Thumbnails bar component

• Significantly improved the loading speed when opening big folder.
• Shows more image information on tooltip:
  
  • Image name and dimension
  • Full file path
  • File size
  • Date modified
  • Frames count (if the viewing image contains more than 1 frame)
  • Rating (if image contains rating)
• Use the Magick.NET library to read image metadata to fix the issue that the image dimension shows (0 x 0) in some image formats.

🟣 Toolbar component

• OnClick is a SingleAction. So you can set a chain of actions to run.
• Added support for custom icon path for field Image in ToolbarItems in igconfig.json. The path can be absolute or relative.
• For example for the above changes:

  "ToolbarItems": [
    {
      "Type": "Button",
      "Id": "btn_Flip",
      "Text": "Flip and save the image, then exit ImageGlass",
      "DisplayStyle": "Image",
      "Alignment": "Right",
      "Image": "%systemroot%\\system32\\my_custom_icon.svg",
      "OnClick": {
        "Executable": "MnuFlipHorizontal",
        "Argument": "",
        "NextAction": {
          "Executable": "IG_Save",
          "NextAction": {
            "Executable": "IG_Exit",
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]

🟣 Image Booster component

• Auto-detects and uses current monitor color profile (#781, #693).

🟣 New features

• Rename
• Delete
• Move to Recycle bin
• Delete / Recycle bin confirmation
  • Option to update the warning setting in the confirmation dialog.
• Go to file
• Custom zoom
• Flip horizontal / vertical
• Set as desktop background
• Set as Lock screen image (Windows 10+)
• Share (Windows 10+)
• View image channels
• Save
• Save as
  • Auto-process image color, rotation,...
  • Supports reading multi-frame format, saving to GIF (#1058)
  • Supports custom quality for JPEG.
• Save / Save as override confirmation (#1074)
  • Option to update the override warning setting in the confirmation dialog.
• Copy & paste image with transparency support (#1305).
• Support Clipboard image (#584)
  • Flip horizontal / vertical
  • Print
  • Save as
  • Set as Desktop background
  • Set as Lock screen image
  • Share
  • Open with
  • Re-copy
• Full screen mode (#1403):
  • Toggle Full screen mode.
  • Options to hide tool bar and thumbnails.
  • Restore window size, position and state correctly when restoring a maximized window from Full screen mode (#1015).
  • Save and restore for next run.
  • Fixed: Screen flashes when entering full screen mode (#905)

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.2.904_Beta-2_x64.zip	0488E3B86564CE1BA8725354C56F1B991604E374

ImageGlass Kobe 8.6.7.13

♨ Updates

• Updated the ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.7.13_x64.msi to fix #1365, the old one is marked 'deleted'.

👐🏿 Support ImageGlass Kobe on Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes.

Alternatively, you can use the one-time donation from ♥ GitHub Sponsor, then drop me a message in ImageGlass Discord or email, and I will send the code shortly.

📝 Changelog:

This is a hotfix for ImageGlass 8.6.6.6.

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to v11.2.0.
• Reverted the app folder back to ImageGlass (instead of ImageGlass Kobe) (#1352).
• Add a non-UI setting AutoFocusToolbarOnHover to fix an issue when the window in inactive, user need to click twice for the toolbar buttons, kudo to @Sxderp (#1202).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue that the MSI 64-bit installer threw the error "Could not write value..." when user chose the option Only Current User (#1355).
• Fixed an issue that the app could not load image due to missing vcomp140.dll file from Magick.NET library (#1354).
• Fixed an issue that the igcmd.exe was crashed and shown every time user launches the app (https://github.com/ImageGlass/Spider/issues/4)
• Fixed an issue that Left/Right keyboard control keeps losing focus causes by AutoFocusToolbarOnHover setting in igconfig.xml is enabled by default.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.7.13_x64.msi	67B8CBF7BE8C6E42529EBCC6667D6C250B94D50D
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.7.13_x64.zip	C91701A57115F74E35F32017D68D1A1CAB785302
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.7.13_x86.msi	0BC6F420C3409442247741DC61DD5D3351FED15A
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.7.13_x86.zip	9BEAFBDF4499325FC2A8D7CCE56D7FD423BACA3C

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 is under development.
• Since version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 1 🌑

♨ Updates

• Build v9.0.1.518: Fixed an issue where the app cannot find Codecs folder.
• Build v9.0.1.515: Fixed an issue where the app cannot write igconfig.json file in the startup folder.

⚠ Breaking changes

This is the first beta release of ImageGlass Kobe version 9, rewritten from scratch. Many features of the version 8 are missing and there are a lot of breaking changes. All features and settings may be changed when the official version 9 is released.

💀 If you want to try this bleeding edge release, use it at your own risk!

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 2, please follow: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/12.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• .NET 6.0 Runtime.
• Windows 7 SP1 ESU 64 bit.

📝 Changelog:

Show / hide details

🟣 General changes

• Changed format of config, theme, and language from XML to JSON: igconfig.json, igtheme.json, <language name>.iglang.json.
• Supports hardware acceleration for non-alpha, non-animating image formats (#272).
• Adds Image Focus mode for better panning and zooming the viewing image.
• Supports hotkey customization for menus, and Image Focus mode (#608).
• Supports more flexible customization for toolbar buttons and positions.
• Supports smooth scrolling and displaying tooltip for thumbnails.
• Adds ability to choose which image information tags to display on title bar (#971).
• Adds more options in theme pack.
• Supports FITS, XV, VIFF, MJPEG and animating WEBP format (#508).
• The server for Check for update feature is changed to https://github.com/ImageGlass/config.
  Supports 3 levels of setting: igconfig.json, igconfig.default.json, igconfig.admin.json
• Supports passing individual settings to ImageGlass.exe through command line (#669).
  The setting must start with a hyphen -, and setting value comes after equal character =. For example:

  # hide the toolbar and set background color to red
  ImageGlass.exe -ShowToolbar=false -BackgroundColor=#ff0000

• Supports customizing the image information on title bar through the setting InfoItems (#971), supports displaying EXIF Rating.
• Upgraded Magick.NET to v11.1.2.
• Fixed: when single instance enabled, window always stayed behind when passing a file (#620).
• Uses the new API to save the window position: WindowPlacement. This works better with multi-screens.
• Changes registry keys for Set as default photo viewer from ...\PhapSoftware\ImageGlass\... to ...\ImageGlass<code>\..., while code is either Kobe, Spider, or Moon. This is ImageGlass Moon release, so the key is ...\ImageGlassMoon\....

🟣 New viewer component: ImageGlass.PhotoBox

• Supports hardware acceleration to improve image interaction performance (#272).
• Navigation arrow buttons are improved with better look and interaction behaviors (#1224).
• Supports showing better text message.
• Supports Image focus mode for smooth zooming and panning (#272, #522).
• Able to change zooming/panning speed.
• Supports customize keyboard for Image focus mode through the setting ImageFocusModeHotkeys (#608). Default values:

  "ImageFocusModeHotkeys": {
    "InternalPanningLeftKeys": "Left",
    "InternalPanningRightKeys": "Right",
    "InternalPanningUpKeys": "Up",
    "InternalPanningDownKeys": "Down",
    "InternalZoomInKeys": "-",
    "InternalZoomOutKeys": "+"
  }

🟣 Toolbar component

• Supports fully customizable toolbar buttons through the setting ToolbarItems: []. For example:

  "ToolbarItems": [
    {
      "Type": "Button", // "Button" or "Separator"
      "Id": "btn_Thumbnail", // Id must be unique
      "Text": "Thumbnail bar", // Tooltip text for the button
      "DisplayStyle": "Image", // Style of button: "Image" or "ImageAndText"
      "CheckableConfigBinding": "ShowThumbnails", // Bind the setting name for auto-check on click
      "Alignment": "Left", // Alignment group: "Left" or "Right"
      "Image": "ThumbnailBar", // Predefined image key in theme pack
      "OnClick": {
        "Executable": "MnuToggleThumbnails", // Can be the name of menu, name of function in FrmMain.IGMethods.cs, or path of executable file.
        "Argument": "" // argument for function in FrmMain.IGMethods; or command arguments for executable file.
      }
    },
  ]

  • Built-in methods (start with IG_): https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/blob/9.0.1.514/v9/ImageGlass/FrmMain/FrmMain.IGMethods.cs
  • Setting names (Config.cs): https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/blob/9.0.1.514/v9/Components/ImageGlass.Settings/Config.cs
  • Menu names (start with Mnu): https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/blob/9.0.1.514/v9/ImageGlass/FrmMain.Designer.cs#L1203-L1311
• Able to add new buttons with custom actions: Use menu item's action; predefined methods; or a custom command
• Supports 2 position groups: Left/Center group, Right group
• Adds more properties for theming
• Improves toolbar overflow panel (#541)

🟣 Thumbnails component

• Adds option to show filename under the thumbnail (#539)
• Supports item tooltip
• Supports dark mode for scrollbar
• Supports persistent disk cache, maximum 100 MB by default (#1292)
• Supports dragging thumbnail to other app (#990)
• Improves scrolling performance by mouse wheel, trackpad.

🟣 Image Booster component

• Supports cancelling loading the previous images on fast navigating (#1025, #1107)
• Supports custom codecs. Currently, only contains Magick.NET codec

🟣 Menu component

• Supports custom keyboard shortcut through the setting MenuHotkeys (#608). For example:

  "MenuHotkeys": {
    "MnuAbout": "Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A",
    "MnuCopyPath": "F1",
    "MnuOpenFile": "O"
  }

• Removes the ugly top-left lines (#1218)

🟣 Supported features

• File > Open file..
• File > Open width...
• File > Print...
• File > Refresh / Reload / Reload image list
• Navigation > View next / previous image
• Navigation > View the first / last image
• Zoom > Zoom in / out / view actual size
• Zoom > all 6 zoom modes from version 8:
  • Auto zoom,
  • Lock zoom,
  • Scale to width,
  • Scale to height,
  • Scale to fit,
  • Scale to fill.
• Image > Image focus mode (new)
• Image > Loading orders
• Image > Open image location
• Image > View image properties
• Clipboard> Copy / Cut multiple image files
• Clipboard > Copy image pixel data
• Clipboard > Copy image path
• Layout: All menu features from version 8: Toggle toolbar, thumbnail bar, checkerboard background, set window always on top
• Help > Set as default photo viewer (new)
• Help > Unset default photo viewer (new)
• And other features...

🟣 Limitations

• Changing settings in runtime is not supported yet. If you want to change settings, you can do it using igconfig.json before the app runs.
• Supporting for animating WEBP format is not native yet, ImageGlass converts WEBP to GIF to play the animation.
• Hardware acceleration is not supported for those images that contain alpha pixels (transparent) and larger than 16,380 pixel width and height.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.1.518_Beta-1_x64.zip	BF9F2BD48989BDA7E7700BA5A0D495EDCE83F257

ImageGlass Kobe 8.6.6.6

Update & known issues:

• 64-bit MSI installer could not write registry key if "Only for me" option is selected: #1351 (comment)
• The app's code name is changed to ImageGlass Kobe (the installed path as C:\Program Files\ImageGlass Kobe\), it may break your automation flow (#1353).

👐🏿 Support ImageGlass Kobe on Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial. If you buy ImageGlass in the Microsoft Store, you'll be supporting its development directly. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes.

📝 Changelog:

🌱 New:

• Added support for WEBP animated format (#508), FITS, MJPEG, VIFF, VX.
• Added a new feature on Windows 10 or later: Share (S).
• Added new settings for vertical / horizontal panning speed in Settings > Image > Panning, kudo to @siblount (#1179).
• Added a setting for automatically displaying new image in folder in Settings > Image > Image loading (#1348).
• Changed the URL for Update service: Since v8.6, when checking for an update, ImageGlass connects to https://imageglass.org/url/update instead of https://imageglass.org/checkforupdate.

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to v11.1.2.
• Color management: Add option Use current monitor profile to auto-select the current monitor profile in Settings > Image > Color management (#781). If the monitor does not have a profile, sRGB will be used.
• Added support for auto-resizing the windows in Frameless mode when user zoom the viewing image, kudo to @SylwesterZarebski (#822).
• Added support for copy & paste image with transparency (#1305).
• Removed the ugly top and left border of the menu dropdown on Windows 10 (#1218).
• Improved edit feature: try to find and use MS Paint as the default editing app on Windows 11 (#1307).
• Updated the text for clearer explanation in Settings > General > Others (#1325):
  • Start with OS to improve startup speed.
  • Continue running in the background when the app is closed.

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue that the app window does not activate when opening an image from Explorer in single instance mode (#620).
• Fixed an issue when the window in inactive, user need to click twice for the toolbar buttons, kudo to @Sxderp (#1202).
• Fixed an issue when printing the viewing image crashes the app if the Temp folder is not found (#1343).
• Fixed an issue when the 32-bit MSI installer has wrong default installation directory and creates unnecessary folder (#1265).

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.6.6_x64.msi	B6CE0AC63E56C8FA4E995C926D60181A01D2F6C6
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.6.6_x64.zip	8EE32EC15D2135E3A69BA4916D01908BC450CCE5
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.6.6_x86.msi	84C513F1C311B8314DC26CF6832D98AB4B05F441
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.6.6_x86.zip	2299838ABDB05411C2F231B429AF61E2C0135537

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 is under development.
• Since version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

ImageGlass Kobe 8.5.1.22

👐🏿 Support ImageGlass on Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial. If you buy ImageGlass in the Microsoft Store, you'll be supporting its development directly. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes.

📝 Changelog:

🌱 New:

• Added support for QOI image format.
• Added an option to play sound when a number of images change (#1199), thanks to @AutomationBoi.
• Added new shortcut to close ImageGlass: Ctrl+W (#1172).
• Added an option: "Continue running background when the app is closed" to minimize the app window to system tray menu when user closes ImageGlass (#1196). To truly exit the app, right-click on ImageGlass tray icon, select Exit; or use Main menu > Exit (Shift+ESC).
• Added an option: "Start with OS" to auto-run ImageGlass when Windows starts and stay in system tray (#1205).

🔮 Improvements:

• Improved software security, all binary files are now signed (#97).
• Updated Magick.NET to 8.6.1.
• Added extensions icons for JXL, HEIF, CR3, AVIF, B64, QOI (#1183).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue that the viewing image disappears when changing color channels (#1175).
• Fixed an issue that when editing image from the clipboard, ImageGlass ignores the editing app from Settings > Edit, always uses MS Paint (#1139).
• On Windows 11, fixed an issue that the default editing function throws error because of the changes of Windows associated programs (#1160). ImageGlass is now using MS Paint to edit by default on Windows 11.
• Fixed several issues that the image is corrupted while being saved when users navigate to other images or close the app by disabling the UI when the app is busy (#566, #1097, #1120, #1134).
• Fixed an issue that ImageGlass shows confusing error message when clicking on Unregister extensions button (#1174).

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_8.5.1.22_x64.msi	988efe9ec3db11f769240fe7b118b08ee859e973
ImageGlass_8.5.1.22_x64.deleted.msi	6062fa31452e5b359b2d3893a6ae350d4a4c7fe8
ImageGlass_8.5.1.22_x64.zip	a04de0d9a833c562e2871a1834dabc204d1c76ca
ImageGlass_8.5.1.22_x86.msi	be49f886f8f81796bba872e8f0a10fd599f31b09
ImageGlass_8.5.1.22_x86.zip	3c9a00bc5c169251021d942f578987d606a43110

Update:

• Updated the ImageGlass_8.5.1.22_x64.msi to fix #1260, the old one is marked deleted.

🛣 Roadmap for ImageGlass 9

We are planning to migrate ImageGlass to .NET 6 from version 9 which is scheduled some time in 2022.
If you are unable to install .NET 6, you can stay with ImageGlass 8.

ImageGlass Kobe 8.3.11.21

ImageGlass comes to Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial.

If you buy ImageGlass in the Microsoft Store, you'll be supporting its development directly. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes. 😊

🌱 New:

• Updated UI for Windows 11 (#1099, #1147)
• Added "Custom zoom..." feature Z
• Added Ascending and descending loading options in the main menu / context menu (#1101)
• Added support for multipage printing for .FAX format (#1091)
• Added options in Settings > Image > Full screen to hide the toolbar and thumbnail bar in Full screen mode (#551, #621, #936, #1035)

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to 8.4.0
• Changed keyboard shortcut of main menu from ` to Alt+F (#1159)
• Set keyboard shortcut for "Keep window always on top" to ` (#970, #1161)
• Set keyboard shortcut for Copy image path to Ctrl+L (#608)
• Improved multipage formats auto-detection (#1113)
• Improved color management for multipage formats (#906)
• Supported accent color in theme pack for toolbar and thumbnail bar (#218, #1121)
• Added an icon for .HEIC extension (#1076)
• Added an option "Use embedded thumbnail for RAW formats" in Settings > Image > Image loading (#682, #495)

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue that the image opened from clipboard doesn't apply zoom mode (#583)
• Fixed an issue that "Save as.." across network throws unhandled exception (#1055), thanks to @fire-eggs
• Fixed an issue that the "Save" and "Save as..." of a pasted image from clipboard results in dialog error (#1075), thanks to @fire-eggs
• Fixed some resouce leaks (#1087)
• Fixed an issue that .TIF files display a pink tint after rotating (#874)
• Fixed an issue that opening duplicated folders when rooted in user directory (#1151), thanks to @dixonte

🧪 Experiment settings (no UI):

• Added new setting: SinglePageFormats which contains a list of extensions to forcefully read the formats as single-page (for better loading speed). Default value: *.psd;*.heif;*.heic;*.webp; (#1157)

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_8.3.11.21_x64.msi	ac9530fca39d89906941cd11ee166daf0d8d7648
ImageGlass_8.3.11.21_x64.zip	2d149661e7dd5928267c3a0d19be383084b478ed
ImageGlass_8.3.11.21_x86.msi	6e376586e7638df74d62755a4a2e613ba60a17eb
ImageGlass_8.3.11.21_x86.zip	caa954d42b0b74dcf7025130b97f607eb51f2909

🛣 Roadmap for ImageGlass 9

We are planning to migrate ImageGlass to .NET 6 from version 9 which is scheduled some time in 2022.
If you are unable to install .NET 6, you can stay with ImageGlass 8.

ImageGlass 8.2.6.6 - June

🍹 Join in ImageGlass official Discord server here: http://discord.io/imageglass

📢 Note:

• This is a hot fix for v8.2.5.16
• For full changelogs of v8.2, refer to https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/8.2.5.16

🐛 Bugfix:

• Fixed an issue when edit the viewing image by default app does not work.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_8.2.6.6_x64.msi	15fed676bce43befe21bcb8141409a356a87f1da
ImageGlass_8.2.6.6_x64.zip	e06c8e33db158b9b2d5ef67f9dcf89388f201cc3
ImageGlass_8.2.6.6_x86.msi	d28a36b77e0b056bed541a4610ca497cb20d0186
ImageGlass_8.2.6.6_x86.zip	3cdcfec64304a16bada10ea849aba5e10b4a5fcc

ImageGlass 8.2.5.16 - June

🌱 New:

• ImageGlass official Discord server: http://discord.io/imageglass 🍹
• Editing app: (#945)
  • Added support for *.lnk extension, environment variables (relative paths). You can use command for App path, e.g. cmd, cmd.exe, imageglass, ...
  • Added support for selecting multiple extensions to edit.
• Added support for auto-selecting the largest frame of ICO files (#994).

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to 7.24.0.0
• Added color management for WebP and AVIF images (#1022), kudo to @datasone.
• Added support for printing all pages of TIFF file (#1031).
• Set minimum size of window in Window Fit mode (#814).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue that cannot convert from WEBP to PNG (#1021).
• Fixed an issue where "Reached first image" state stops animated GIF from playing (#1020), thanks to @fire-eggs.
• Fixed an issue that opening an image pops up the message "Reached the first image" and only shows a blank screen until you go prev/next (#1019), thanks to @fire-eggs.
• Fixed an issue when rotating files and saving them causes corruption (#1033).
• Fixed an issue when %AppData%\ImageGlass does not exist, ImageGlass is unable to save user settings (#689).
• Fixed an issue that Save image as... crashed when file extension is empty (#1050).

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_8.2.5.16_x64.msi	80e2f715b07ca3f052fa7f00c33b685742935958
ImageGlass_8.2.5.16_x64.zip	e5054b8dd5235325241c469936a30c5ebb12b90f
ImageGlass_8.2.5.16_x86.msi	c5d95aaaf99e569541fe732f3ae6902e1879266b
ImageGlass_8.2.5.16_x86.zip	ae76f7d91391954b53bf09af313d007489e62b51

ImageGlass 8.1.4.18 - Home

🌪 Breaking change:

• Shortcut for "Save image as..." menu changed from Ctrl+S to Ctrl+Shift+S (#939)
• Shortcut for "Open image location" menu changed from Ctrl+Shift+L to L (#958)

🌱 New:

• Added JPEG XL (*.jxl) support (#940), kudo to @cocoon!
• Added "Save image" menu (Ctrl+S) (#939)
• ImageGlass official Discord server: http://discord.io/imageglass 🍹

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to 7.23.3.0
• Improved startup time when opening the image in a large folder (#881), kudo to @dixonte!
• Exif tool: Added ability to customize the EXIF tags to view (#978)
• Disabled "View channels" menu if it is not supported for the viewing image (#571)
• Hid "Open with" menu on Windows 7 (#869)
• Added more interpolation options in Zoom Optimization setting (#949)
• Added current viewing folder item in Open/Save file dialog (#952)
• Reused the existing File Explorer window for "Open Image Location" (#972), kudo to @dixonte!
• Improved opening time of menu / context menu.
• Updated the text in Check for update dialog to be more subtle (#932)

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where cannot integrate exiftool.exe if its path contains space (#927), kudo to @Norgerman!
• Fixed an issue that an unhandled exception thrown when using Windows touch and pen input (#928)
• Fixed an issue that an unhandled exception thrown when saving a theme (#872)
• Fixed an issue where memory leak happens for certain GIF files (#950)
• Fixed an issue where the app crashed in Settings if using custom ThumbnailDimension (#967)
• Fixed an issue that HEIC images with YUV444P8/10 color space doesn't present correct chroma resolution (#977)
• Fixed an issue that unchecking "Auto-center the window in Window Fit mode" in Settings doesn't work (#987), kudo to @flyxyz123!
• Fixed an issue that toolbar disappears when returning from Full screen mode (#961), kudo to @cocoon!
• Fixed an issue that Previous / Next Image with arrow keys also pan the view (#963), kudo to @fire-eggs!
• Fixed an issue that toolbar buttons are misaligned after maximized (#965), kudo to @cocoon!

🥒 Checksums:

Note: The ImageGlass_8.1.4.18_x64.msi file is updated to fix the issue #1014. Hence the SHA-1 checksum is updated, too.

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_8.1.4.18_x64.msi	53b3a51d9387b8bd0ed18fc1d91a5a3a7f327a31
ImageGlass_8.1.4.18_x64.zip	60b346921f58d1507a46cbf2849385a01a21a99f
ImageGlass_8.1.4.18_x86.msi	a1f1eab1b22cda675231e9fdac722ac5eea18107
ImageGlass_8.1.4.18_x86.zip	c27d30803e6b47f6c771c189c4f37340e3126fe4