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Hot on the heels of the 4.1 release, we are happy to announce Gallery Server 4.2. We made it easier to upload a watermark image and updated several third party libraries to their latest versions. And of course there are some bug fixes. Applying it to your 4.X installation is easy — just copy the files from the upgrade package over your existing installation. There are no web.config changes to merge and you don’t have to worry about the version_key.txt file or your license information. Get the upgrade package from your downloads page. If you are upgrading from an earlier version, follow the instructions in the Admin Guide. Watermark image upload This is something we've wanted to do for a long time and it always got pushed to the back burner. No longer. Beginning with 4.2, you can upload a watermark image directly from the Image Settings page. When you upload an image, it is saved [...]

We're happy to announce the immediate availability of Gallery Server 4.1. It includes built in support for Active Directory Groups, a new blacklist option for the auto-logon feature, several workflow enhancements, and more than a dozen bug fixes. Applying it to your 4.0 installation is easy — just copy the files from the upgrade package over your existing installation. There are no web.config changes to merge and you don’t have to worry about the version_key.txt file or your license information. Get the upgrade package from your downloads page. If you are upgrading from an earlier version, follow the instructions in the Admin Guide. Active Directory Groups integration The biggest enhancement in 4.1 is the ability to use Active Directory groups as roles in your gallery. We're excited about this feature because it's been on a lot of people's wish list for a long time. Until recently, Gallery Server required an administrator to manually manage the role membership [...]

Today we pushed out Gallery Server 4.0.1. It contains several bug fixes but no new features. Applying it to your 4.0.0 installation is easy — just copy the files from the upgrade package over your existing installation. There are no web.config changes to merge and you don't have to worry about the version_key.txt file or your license information. Get the upgrade package from your downloads page. If you are upgrading from earlier versions, follow the instructions in the QuickStart Guide. You can read the full list of bug fixes on the release history page. Here I'll mention the most important ones. Sort not updated when title is changed If an album is sorted by title and you change the title, the album was not resorted based on the new title. This has been fixed. HTML may be removed from properties and extracted metadata In 4.0.0 and earlier, only administrators were allowed to specify HTML in [...]

We welcome you to Gallery Server 4.0. It is packed with new features that improves performance, helps you manage your gallery more efficiently, and adds nearly four dozen fantastic new features. Here's the high-level overview of what's new: Ribbon toolbar – Manage your gallery faster and with less clicks using the new, ajax-enabled ribbon interface. Most tasks, such as editing properties, creating albums, moving/copying items and more can be done without leaving the current page. Image and HTML editors – Crop, resize and more with the new image editor. Add rich text and formatting with the tinyMCE-based HTML editor. Metadata writing – Common properties such as titles, captions, tags and more can now be written back to the original media file, preserving your hard work long after you’ve moved on from Gallery Server. High resolution viewer – View the original, high resolution images and videos in the browser. Performance improvements – [...]