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v1.19.1 · 19 September 2026

Flickr now accepts an ordinary profile link — paste flickr.com/photos/someone and it works, no hunting for an RSS link or a numeric id. 1.19.0 could not do this because Flickr refuses to serve its profile pages to anything that is not a real browser. Its oEmbed endpoint is a public API rather than a page, answers normally, and the embed snippet it hands back links to the photostream by its internal id — so that is where the id now comes from. Links that already contain the id, and the RSS link, still work as before.

v1.19.0 · 19 September 2026

You can now add a public Flickr photostream as a gallery: paste the link into Add gallery and it is detected automatically, alongside Nextcloud and Synology. Photos stream straight from Flickr and are never copied onto the NAS.
Two limits worth knowing, both coming from Flickr rather than from this app. It brings in the 20 most recent public photos (that is all the key-free public feed offers), at up to 1024px. And Flickr will not let this app translate a profile name into the id its feed needs — it blocks non-browser requests to profile pages. So paste either a profile link that already contains the numeric id (flickr.com/photos/12345678@N01/) or, easier, the "Latest" RSS link from the bottom of the photostream. Paste a name-only link and the app tells you exactly this instead of failing with a vague error.

v1.18.1 · 19 September 2026

Fixed the Map taking over the screen on a phone: once you opened Map you could not get back to Feed, because the map covered the buttons. Leaflet gives its own map layers and zoom controls a stacking priority far above the rest of the app, so the navigation drawer was opening underneath the map instead of over it. The map is now sealed into its own layer, and the top bar sits above it. The earlier 1.15.2 fix addressed a different problem (the page freezing), which is why this one survived it.

v1.18.0 · 18 September 2026

New optional Fujifilm (approx) profile for RAW photos, measured from your own library: 34 RAW+JPEG pairs from one X-E5 shoot were used to fit one curve per channel mapping the neutral RAW decode onto the camera's own JPEG. Validated by leaving each photo out of the fit in turn — average error 16.8 → 8.4, closer on 33 of the 34.
It is opt-in and never the default, for a reason worth knowing: it reproduces the camera settings those frames were shot with, not "Fujifilm" in general. Your camera applies a different rendering per shot (the EXIF shows Saturation switching between Normal, High and a film-simulation code, and white-balance fine-tuning ranging from 0,0 to 60,−80). On frames shot with other settings the same fit measured worse than no profile at all, so it stays a choice you make per photo. On XE500605 it lands much closer than Standard (error 44.5 → 27.1) without being an exact match.
A true 1:1 match to the in-camera JPEG is not reachable this way at all: the camera also corrects lens distortion in its JPEG while the RAW decode does not, so the two frames do not even align geometrically (luminance correlation 0.90 where an aligned pair would be above 0.99).

v1.17.0 · 18 September 2026

RAW photos now get a real display rendering, so they look like a developed photo instead of a washed-out one. 1.16.0 fixed the decode but left the old display curve, which kept colour ratios perfectly intact — spectrally faithful, and flat and grey to look at. The new curve is filmic and applied per channel, so highlights roll into white and lose saturation on the way, exactly as film and the eye do. That highlight desaturation is most of what makes Lightroom, Capture One and Apple Photos look the way they do.
New Profile control in the darkroom for RAW photos — Neutral, Standard, Vivid, Portrait, Muted — the base rendering a photo starts from, the same idea as a camera or creative profile. Standard is the default; every slider still works on top of whichever you pick.
The editor is roughly five times faster while you drag a slider: it now renders at preview resolution during the movement and re-renders at full resolution once you stop, instead of recomputing all 2.5 million pixels plus a full-canvas histogram read on every single frame (measured 89 ms → 19 ms per frame, about 7 fps → 50 fps).
Ordinary JPEGs are deliberately unchanged: they have already been rendered once, and tone mapping them a second time would only brighten and flatten them.

v1.16.0 · 18 September 2026

RAW files now open as an actual RAW: a neutral, flat, scene-referred starting point instead of a camera-style rendering. The decoder was leaving LibRaw's auto-brightness switched on, which stretched every frame by a different amount and clipped as it went — on a test X-E5 frame it blew out 0.49% of the pixels, destroying cloud detail, before any slider was touched. That is why pushing exposure or white balance afterwards made colors fall apart: the information they needed was already gone.
The decode now runs linear at 16 bits with no automatic tone shaping, uses the sRGB transfer curve (it was using BT.709, while everything downstream assumes sRGB), and keeps the as-shot white balance as its neutral reference. Exposure is then normalized by a rule you can predict — anchored to a high percentile of the real data, only ever lifting, never clipping — so the frame arrives usable and flat, with the whole tonal range intact for the sliders to work on.
Existing RAW previews were regenerated, so this applies to your whole library, not just newly imported files.

v1.15.3 · 18 September 2026

Fixed the queue counter sticking at a number that never went down ("42 photos queued"). The counter counted every photo missing a cached preview, but the background pipeline only ever picked up photos still missing EXIF — so a photo that already had EXIF but had lost its preview (pruned for age or size, or cleared by the 1.15.0 Leica DNG repair) was counted forever and never actually processed. The pipeline now picks those up too, once the EXIF backfill is done, so the number counts down to zero instead of parking. Nothing was broken or missing in your library — those photos still loaded normally when opened; only the counter and the pre-warming were out of step.

v1.15.2 · 18 September 2026

Fixed the Map getting stuck on the phone: after opening Map, tapping a pin and then going back, the app froze and the map stayed on screen no matter which menu item you tapped. 1.15.1 only stopped the hidden grid from being rebuilt when you switched galleries, but the same rebuild was still triggered by a dozen other actions — closing a photo, liking, sorting, searching — each of which rebuilt a card for every geotagged photo while Map was open. The guard now sits inside the grid builder itself, so no action can trigger it while Map, Calendar or Collages is showing.

v1.15.1 · 18 September 2026

Fixed the Map being extremely slow, or appearing to hang completely, once you had a few thousand geotagged photos: opening Map quietly rebuilt a hidden copy of the entire photo grid — every card for every photo — in one blocking pass, on top of drawing the map itself. Map (and Calendar and Collages, which work the same way) no longer builds that hidden grid at all, and the map markers are now added in the background with lazy-built popups, so the map appears right away regardless of how many photos are on it.

v1.15.0 · 17 September 2026

Editor: new Whites and Blacks sliders next to Highlights/Shadows, and the whole tone engine now works in linear light with one brightness adjustment applied evenly to red, green and blue — pushing any slider to its end brightens or darkens without shifting or "crashing" colors. Exposure, contrast and the zone sliders are all hue-preserving, with a soft shoulder instead of hard clipping near white.
Negative conversion rebuilt for photographed negatives: the orange mask is measured from the film base of each frame, the inversion runs in the density domain (how film actually transmits light), the light-table border and blown areas are ignored when setting black/white points, and a gray-world balance plus auto-exposure land a natural, neutral positive before any grading. Black & white negatives use the same approach on luminance. Tuned on real Fujifilm (.RAF) and Leica (.DNG) scans.
Fixed 937 Leica SL3-S DNG files that were mistakenly registered as JPEG, so their previews came from the camera's embedded/Synology thumbnail instead of a genuine RAW decode — they're re-rendered from the RAW data now. A RAW opens in the editor as its natural decode, not the in-camera JPEG.
Raised the preview size limit from 40 MB to 100 MB (RAW originals up to 150 MB on the NAS), so large JPEGs such as S1000560.JPG no longer report "exceeds the preview limit". Preview cache raised to 50 GB.
Map: hovering a cluster shows bigger thumbnails that load immediately (no more white box), and the preview no longer sits in the way of the click. Clicking a cluster opens that group as its own grid — open a photo, browse next/prev within the group, close, and you're back in the same grid; "← Map" returns to the map.
New "Added" filter (last 7/30/90/365 days by the date the photo was added to PhotoClub), alongside the year/month filters.
Calendar and Collages no longer repeat their title inside the page; the "photoclub." brand and the page title are now on exactly the same line; and all small text uses one consistent size across the app.

v1.14.0 · 17 September 2026

Fixed the editor failing to open ("Cannot set properties of null") on any photo that already had a draft, or whenever a default preset was set — a leftover from the editor unification in 1.13.0.
Much faster with large libraries: the photo grid now builds cards as you scroll instead of all at once, so searching, liking and sorting no longer freeze the page for seconds on a few-thousand-photo gallery.
Lighter on the NAS: the background-status poll no longer touches every cached preview file on disk every 5 seconds, the preview cache is tidied once a minute instead of on every new thumbnail, storage stats aren't re-scanned every time you open a photo, Map view filters on the server, and two database indexes speed up the feed and the background pipeline.
Fixed deleting a gallery failing with a server error if any of its photos had a draft or a saved version.
Fixed "Load full image" occasionally mislabeling the next photo as already loaded after switching photos mid-load.
Small text (counts, timestamps, captions) is darker for readability, the floating Chat button no longer covers the last row of photos or the comment box on phones, and screen readers no longer re-announce the whole grid on every change.

v1.13.2 · 17 September 2026

Fixed Shadows/Highlights shifting colors when pushed hard: they now work like Lightroom/Capture One — one brightness adjustment derived from each pixel's own brightness, applied evenly across red/green/blue, instead of each color channel computing its own amount. Colors stay put; only shadow and highlight detail moves.
Shadows lift and highlight recovery are both noticeably stronger now, concentrated on true shadow/highlight zones without touching midtones.
Every photo now gets a gentle baseline tone curve even with all sliders left at zero, instead of a flat, unprocessed-looking decode — colors and contrast should look more natural right away, before any manual adjustment.
Re-tuned the built-in Looks (Portra, Gold, Velvia, Classic Chrome) for the improved engine.

v1.13.1 · 17 September 2026

Fixed the topbar rendering way too tall: removed the duplicate queued/pause status from the top of the page — it's still right there in the sidebar, one click away.
Clicking the queued status now also shows which photos the pipeline can't finish and why, not just what it already finished — useful when something looks permanently stuck.
Fixed Calendar's month view: the back link and month title were scattered apart in the topbar instead of sitting together.
Map: clicking a cluster now opens all of that cluster's photos together (browsable with next/prev), instead of jumping to just one.

v1.13.0 · 17 September 2026

Simplified editing: one "Edit" button for every photo instead of separate B&W/Color darkrooms that guessed which one to open from the file type (and sometimes guessed wrong). Every photo now opens the same editor with the full set of sliders.
Tick "This is a negative" to invert a photographed/scanned negative before editing, then choose Color or Black & white — it reverses accordingly. Leave it unticked for an ordinary digital photo.
Presets and versions now apply to every photo the same way, regardless of RAW/JPEG or negative type. Presets saved before this update will still load, but any negative/invert setting they had will need to be re-applied once via the new tick.

v1.12.0 · 17 September 2026

The background pipeline (thumbnails, EXIF, GPS) now runs continuously by default instead of waiting for the app to go idle — pause it any time from the new Pause button, right where the queue status used to be.
Click the "queued"/"Preparing previews…" status (sidebar or topbar) to see exactly what the background pipeline has been doing, with times, and pause or resume it from there too.
Calendar: a "← Calendar" link now appears when viewing a month, so you can get back to the month grid without reopening the sidebar.
A small storage bar now sits next to the version number for admins, showing preview cache usage at a glance — click it to open Admin → Storage.
Map: hover a cluster to preview the photos inside it; click a cluster to jump straight to those photos instead of zooming in step by step.
New "Color negative → positive" option in the Color darkroom, for a color negative photographed or scanned unconverted — inverts and auto-corrects the orange mask before the normal color grading tools.

v1.11.4 · 17 September 2026

Fixed Map view showing "Access blocked" instead of tiles: it was loading map tiles directly from OpenStreetMap's own server, which blocks any real deployed app under its usage policy (that server is for light development use only). Map view now uses Wikimedia's map tiles instead, which are freely available for this kind of app.

v1.11.3 · 17 September 2026

Fixed the "Preparing previews…" status looking like it never finishes on a large library: it was showing progress within the current batch (which resets to 0 every ~500 photos), not real progress across your whole library. It now shows the true remaining count, which counts down the same way the whole time.

v1.11.2 · 17 September 2026

Fixed a real bug that permanently stalled the background pipeline on any library bigger than 500 photos: it always looked at the same 500 newest photos, so once those finished, every later cycle (automatic or manually resumed) found nothing to do — even with thousands of older photos still untouched. It now correctly keeps making progress through the whole library.

v1.11.1 · 17 September 2026

The background pipeline (thumbnails, EXIF, GPS) now tells you when it's paused: "N photos queued · waiting for idle" appears whenever there's work to do but the app hasn't been idle long enough, instead of showing nothing at all.
New "Resume now" button next to that status lets you push the queue through immediately, even while you're actively using the app.

v1.11.0 · 17 September 2026

New "Import from device" button (⬇, next to Add gallery): pick a connected camera/drive and a destination folder on your own computer, and it copies new photos there directly — nothing uploads to the server. Needs Chrome or Edge (shows a clear message otherwise). Re-running it only copies files that aren't already at the destination.

v1.10.5 · 17 September 2026

Fixed RAW EXIF extraction for Fujifilm files (.RAF): the format opens with a proprietary header that isn't a standard TIFF/JPEG structure, so EXIF reading now looks for the file's embedded JPEG preview (which carries a full, real EXIF block) instead of failing at the unrecognized outer container.

v1.10.4 · 17 September 2026

Fixed EXIF (camera/lens) never populating for regular JPEG photos from providers whose thumbnail API strips metadata (confirmed on Synology: its rendered preview carried zero EXIF tags of any kind). EXIF now always reads from the real original file, never a provider's re-rendered preview.
If you have a Synology-shared album whose "Allow downloading" setting is off, RAW photos still can't get a genuine demosaic or real EXIF — the app can't be given original bytes it isn't allowed to download. Enable that setting on the share for full RAW/EXIF/GPS support.

v1.10.3 · 17 September 2026

Fixed a real bug affecting every Docker deployment: the container's own built-in health check (polled every 30 seconds, the same as the default idle threshold) was counted as activity, so the background pre-warm pipeline — thumbnails, EXIF, GPS extraction — could never actually go idle and start working. Upgrading an existing install now lets it run within moments of genuine inactivity, as intended.

v1.10.2 · 17 September 2026

The sidebar's "photoclub." title now lines up with the gallery title in the topbar, instead of sitting noticeably lower.
The "+" add-gallery button moved from next to the title to the Galleries row, where it belongs alongside the gallery count.
New: a 👁 "Photo information" button in the viewer shows basic EXIF — camera, lens, captured date, RAW/JPEG type, and GPS location (with a link to view it on OpenStreetMap) when available.

v1.10.1 · 17 September 2026

New performance-testing script (scripts/perf_test.mjs): times image loading, opening the editor, slider-drag smoothness, and Map view against a running instance, so performance can be measured and tracked release to release. No app behavior changed.

v1.10.0 · 17 September 2026

Fixed camera/lens filters not showing when signed out — they were nulled for any anonymous request, the same treatment as genuinely sensitive fields like the file path.
Fixed the histogram again: the midtone bar was still too short on contrasty scenes, so it now uses a logarithmic scale (the same approach darktable/RawTherapee use) instead of square-root, plus a small guaranteed-visible floor for rare tones.
New Map view: photos with GPS data appear as clustered markers on an interactive map; click a marker to open the photo, like, comment, share or edit it exactly as from the grid.

v1.9.0 · 17 September 2026

Fixed the histogram: shadow/highlight spikes no longer flatten the rest of the tonal range to invisible, and it now overlays the photo so it stays visible while scrolling the tools panel.
Fixed "Load full image" showing "Photo unavailable" on failure — it now falls back to the fast preview with a toast instead.
A "back to top" button appears once you've scrolled down.
On mobile, the photo now stays pinned while editing so the sliders sit reachable right below it, no scrolling needed.
Full screen editing: the photo fills the screen with the main sliders overlaid subtly on the right — toggle with the new button, F, or Esc to exit.
Share a single photo from a private album — only that photo is visible at the link, never the rest of the album.
New Calendar view: every month with a dated photo becomes a tile with a cover photo; click through to browse that month.
Background pre-warming now shows in the topbar too, not just the sidebar, so it's visible on mobile.

v1.8.0 · 16 September 2026

Fixed a second RAW bug: thumbnail/viewer generation for a Synology-sourced RAW photo was fetching Synology's own rendered thumbnail instead of the real RAW file, silently defeating the genuine-demosaic fix from 1.7.0. Both sizes now always decode from the true original for RAW photos.
A background pipeline now generates thumbnails ahead of time, but only after 30 seconds of nobody using the app, pausing instantly on any activity — a small "Preparing previews…" note appears in the sidebar while it runs.
New filters for camera, lens, RAW/JPEG and the date taken (year and month), each showing how many photos match, extracted automatically in the background.
Admin → Storage shows how much space PhotoClub is using and where: the preview cache, My edits, drafts, preset thumbnails and collages.
Double-click a photo in the viewer to zoom to 100%; double-click again to zoom out.
A "Load full image" button in the viewer swaps the fast preview for the real original (or, for RAW photos when signed in as Piotr, a fresh full-resolution decode).

v1.7.1 · 16 September 2026

Preview cache default raised from 512 MB to 4096 MB — a large community library could exceed the old limit mid-scroll, evicting and regenerating thumbnails you had already viewed.

v1.7.0 · 16 September 2026

RAW decoding now tries a genuine demosaic first for RAW-tagged photos — fixes some brands silently showing the camera's own embedded JPEG instead of a neutral RAW rendering.
Exporting (Download JPEG, Save to My edits, batch ZIP) now re-decodes from the RAW/original source for full quality; viewing and interactive editing stay fast at the existing 1920 px preview size.
Unsaved edits now auto-save as a draft and are visible to everyone until explicitly discarded — no more losing work by closing the editor without saving.
Save named Versions of a single photo's edit, separate from portable presets, with a visual picker.
Copy an edit from one photo and apply it to another while browsing, without batch mode.
A live histogram, hold E/W/S/H/K and scroll to nudge exposure/white balance/shadows/highlights/contrast, C opens crop, and crop can keep the original proportions locked (untick to crop freely).
The preset section is now a single compact row, redesigned to work well on phones.

v1.6.0 · 16 September 2026

Import color RAW files from Fujifilm, Leica, Canon, Sony and Panasonic through the existing Nextcloud/Synology gallery import — no separate upload step.
A new Color darkroom (white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation, vibrance, split toning) opens automatically for RAW-sourced photos; regular photos keep the existing B&W darkroom.
A Looks section offers one-click film-inspired starting grades; Save preset keeps any further tweaks, the same as existing presets.

v1.5.1 · 16 September 2026

Maintenance release: no visible feature changes.
The editor's crop/rotation and negative-conversion math now run as part of the required test suite, both locally and in CI, instead of sitting unused.

v1.5.0 · 16 September 2026

Default presets and P / D shortcuts in the editor.
Previous / next photo navigation with session adjustments retained.
Save single or batch edits directly to your private My edits gallery.

v1.4.0 · 16 September 2026

Piotr can save and reuse editor presets across devices.
Percentage border trim, independent crop edges, 90° rotation and straightening.
Batch-edit selected photos and download one ZIP of JPEGs.

v1.3.1 · 16 September 2026

Owner-only private galleries, including photos, folders, search and activity.
Privacy can be selected on import or changed in gallery options; previous share links are revoked.

v1.3.0 · 16 September 2026

Piotr-only B&W editor with negative conversion and tonal sliders.
Compare, reset and JPEG export at preview resolution; originals stay untouched.

v1.2.5 · 15 September 2026

Album arrows use a fixed position beside the title across browsers.
Versioned frontend assets prevent stale styles after updates.

v1.2.4 · 15 September 2026

Album expand arrow stays beside the album name.
Shift-click selects a photo range in the current display order, up to 48 photos.

v1.2.3 · 15 September 2026

Personal photo filters show matching photos out of the current folder/search total.
A comment icon filters photos you commented on, including replies.

v1.2.2 · 15 September 2026

Expand albums in the sidebar and open Nextcloud subfolders directly.
Nested folder names, photo counts and mobile drawer navigation.

v1.2.1 · 15 September 2026

Copy links to all selected photos with one click, including selections across galleries.
Each photo link includes its own public thumbnail preview.

v1.2.0 · 14 September 2026

Import public Synology Photos albums by pasting their share link.
Cached previews, synchronization, original downloads and stable photo references.

v1.1.10 · 14 September 2026

Photo keyboard shortcuts: F fullscreen, . like, / star.
Shortcuts pause while typing or using another dialog.

v1.1.9 · 14 September 2026

Gallery options use a gear at the far right.
Reaction notifications use a bell, distinct from photo likes.

v1.1.8 · 14 September 2026

Choose a Nextcloud subfolder in Options, including nested folders.
Folder selection works with search, reactions, sorting and collage selection.

v1.1.7 · 14 September 2026

Search opens from the magnifying glass on the right.
My likes and My stars are compact toggle icons.
Options contains sorting and photo selection only.

v1.1.6 · 14 September 2026

Photo-first browsing with collapsed filters, search and selection tools.
Mobile galleries move into a drawer; compact header leaves more space for photographs.

v1.1.5 · 14 September 2026

Activity includes stars on your photos and emoji reactions to your comments.
Unread counts, dates and direct navigation to the comment.
Earlier reactions are included without generating new alerts.

v1.1.4 · 14 September 2026

Removed the message preview beside Chat; only the unread counter remains.

v1.1.3 · 14 September 2026

Like and star photographs directly in full screen.
Emoji reactions on comments and replies: ❤️ 👍 😂 🔥.

v1.1.2 · 14 September 2026

Subtle chat dock and message preview stay within the desktop sidebar.
Version placed at the bottom of the sidebar.

v1.1.1 · 14 September 2026

Feed navigation always returns to the top.
Large photo actions align with the photograph width.
Collages have their own virtual gallery and direct link.

v1.1.0 · 14 September 2026

Search photo names, comments and replies.
Full screen displays the photograph alone, with its proportions preserved.
Application version and Admin changelog.
Feed starts in Grid; latest message beside chat.
Media fetching releases database connections; lighter gallery summaries.
Installation archive uses the photoclub folder.

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