VERSION_23.10.1

db: Use PostgreSQL as major database.
db: Removed GRDB (SQLite) due to bad concurrency performance.
ui: adjusted for search, pagination and navigation.
ui: translated to Simplified Chinese.
face: able to group people by core members.
face: Unlinked dlib and face-recognition for decoupling purpose.

VERSION_0.10.0

New feature:

1. Splash screen on startup
2. Better organized setting screen and performance control screen
3. Pagination for collection view
4. Detect and recognize faces from images

Screen shots:
New feature: splash screen on startup

New feature: pagination for collection view

New feature: scan and recognize faces (required dlib+python libraries)

New feature: performance control

VERSION_0.9.4

New features:

1. Recognize duplicated images
2. Transfer images to devices (android / local directory)
3. Images Viewer
4. Date adjustment (+- year/month/day/hour/minutes)
5. More detailed description of images (short / long)
6. Improve settings

Screen shots:

Todo:

1. Faces and relationship
2. Multiple destination for exporting images for different relationship

VERSION_0.9.3

Fixed:

1. System error on "too many file opens" when exporting images to Plex library
2. High memory occupation when exporting images to Plex library
3. Meaningless characters showed up in description area in Plex
4. Incompatible window size with different size of display screens

Screen shot:

Todo:

1. Repository folder management (mark as hidden, physically move to elsewhere)
2. Date adjustment (+- year/month/day/hour/minutes, support wildcard)
3. More detailed description of images (short / long)
4. Transfer images to devices (android / local directory)
5. Faces and relationship
6. Multiple destination for exporting images for different relationship
7. Improve settings

VERSION_0.9.2

New features:

1. Import images from local directories as supplement of historical images of specified mobile device
2. Import images from iOS devices by using libimobiledevice and ifuse

Fixed:

1. SQL grammar error when exporting images
2. SQL bug when updating name of place
3. Simplified name of HK SAR

VERSION_0.9.1

New feature:

1. Detect plugged Android devices and iOS devices by clicking a tree node
2. Import images from Android devices

Fixed:

1. Improperly ignored loading geolocation info after importing images

Refactor:

1. Centralize getters and setters of meta info of images
2. Use shared GRDB database queue/pool to manage/reduce database read/write conflicts

VERSION_0.9.0

Refactor:

1. Use GRDB to replace Core Data in order to reduce/avoid concurrency issues among multi-threading

Fixed:

1. Improve performance on recognizing duplicates

VERSION_0.8.2

New feature:

1. Use Google Map API to help recognize world wide geolocations
2. Add filters on camera models and image-sources for loading trees and searching images

Fixed:

1. Sync location info to preview area after assigning location to images

VERSION_0.8.1

New features:

1. Backup database before launching and terminating application
2. Cancellable on loading collection view

Optimize:

1. Improve performance on checking images to be added and deleted

VERSION_0.8.0

First near-stable version

Major objectives:

1. Import images from local directories
2. Change photo-taken-date and geolocation of images
3. Export images to another directory to feed Plex Media Server

Features:

1. A tree view to organize images by directories, dates and places
2. A collection view to preview thumbnail of images happened during a day
3. A table view to list EXIF infos, such as dates, geolocation and camera models
4. Preview picture/video in a bigger size
5. A map view for geolocation of an image
6. Update multiple images by assigning photo-taken-date and geolocation in a batch

Based on:

1. Core Data to manage data in a SQLite database
2. ExifTool to load EXIF info from images
3. Baidu Map API to recognize geolocation from images