1.0.0-rc.10

We've done another round of maintenance, with a few extra additions!

What's Changed

• More natural zoom behavior by @AlanDrake in #530
• Add upscale smooth/pixelated option, also by @AlanDrake in #531

allusion-upscale-filter.mp4

• Fixed an issue where an ExifTool instance would remain open after closing Allusion #529
• Arrow-keys now behave as expected when editing metadata #528
• Now showing a "Parameters" entry (when available) in the metadata panel, often used for AI generated images #515
• Added support for the .ico image format #512
• General performance and stability improvements due to updated dependencies in #526
  • ...due to which metadata can now be saved to Webp files too (#533)

Thanks for the contributions @AlanDrake !

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc9...v1.0.0-rc.10

1.0.0-rc9

What's Changed

• Full support for PSD (Photoshop) files: #498
  Thumbnails are now much better quality and they can be viewed at their full resolution too! You might need to clear your thumbnail directory if you already imported PSD files in Allusion
• Press Ctrl+Enter to open all selected files in their default external program: #497 - thanks @Krakor92!
• Width and height can now be used in search queries
• Option to show image resolution on thumbnails: #502
  
• View Similar Images option (press Ctrl to add to current search query)
  
• The Allusion Web Clipper is now available as a Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/allusion-web-clipper/ (see #493)
• General improvements through maintenance: Refactoring and dependency updates #499 #501

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc8.1...v1.0.0-rc9

1.0.0-rc8.1

A minor version upgrade that includes some critical fixes and our first external contribution!

What's Changed

New Features

• Saving images from the clipboard by @citizenll in #480
  • Paste an image into Allusion from your clipboard using Ctrl + V (or Cmd + V on MacOS) to save it to the Download directory (configurable in Settings > Background processes)

Bug fixes

• Dragging a parent tag on any of its child tags would create a cycle in the tag structure, causing Allusion to crash (reported in #438, #488)
• Deleting a tag would clear the tags on all files that the deleted tag was assigned to (reported in #483)

New Contributors

• @citizenll made their first contribution in #480. Thanks! <3

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc8...v1.0.0-rc8.1

1.0.0-rc8

It's been a while but we are nearing the stable release version! Our focus will be mostly bug fixes and solving the UI/UX issues.

✨ New features ✨

• Theme Customization

We have decided to allow custom CSS by loading a CSS file from the Allusion/themes directory. Right now we have two presets with light and dark variations. To add a new theme, add a new CSS files and it will show the name in the dropdown menu.

allusion-custom-themes-v2.mp4

Improvements

• Move files to a location

For the longest time our mantra was to never touch the file system of the user. However, since then we have added more file operations in the context of Allusion due to feature requests and doing it manually via the file explorer is in many situations just very cumbersome. We will probably change our mantra more to keep file operations transparent.

That said in this release we add the possibility to move images to another location by dragging an image and dropping it on a location in the locations panel.

allusion-move-files.mp4

Fixes

• Detect if SIMD instructions are supported and falls back to a non-SIMD compiled version (#452).
• Fix dragging images and dropping on a location to import image.
• Fix allowing dragging and dropping a tag on a descendant tag.
• Fix a new loaction being mistaken as sub-directory of an existing location.
• Fix for untagged file counter not showing the correct number.

Community

Many issues have been converted to discussions in order to keep better track of feature requests and actual bugs. In the coming days, duplicate feature requests will be merged into one and we will also add comments on progress and likelyhood of it happening. This is to improve communicating our development plans but also for users to discuss features without any pressure of it being not on topic.

1.0.0-rc7.3

This is a minor patch that tries to fix a user issue by updating Electron.

1.0.0-rc7.2

Contains some more tweaks to the major RC7 release:

• Fixed an issue where certain image formats could not be dragged outside of Allusion (#437)
• Reverted unintended behavior change when a tag is applied: the slide view no longer closes if open, and the image sorting and filter are no longer immediately re-applied. E.g. when tagging an image in the "Untagged" view, it remains visible until searching or sorting manually, as it did in previous versions

1.0.0-rc7.1

A hotfix for the preview window after the major RC7 release, read the full release notes there!

1.0.0-rc7

We're back with a big list of changes!

⚠️ When you update Allusion to this version, it might take a minute or longer to initialize the first time, depending on the size of your library.

New features

• Saved searches: A new panel has been added to the outliner where you can save the search criteria entered in the advanced search panel. You can use these as bookmarks for your visual library, quite a powerful feature!
  • 💡 Clicking one of these search items while holding Ctrl will add or remove it to your current search criteria, just like when doing so on tags or locations

• Customizable start-up behavior: By default, Allusion will remember the view you had open when you last closed Allusion. This can be disabled in the settings panel.
• Sort by Random: A new sorting method has been added for shuffling your visual library
• Editable Exif data: Various attributes stored in the Exif data can be modified in the inspector (when opening a single image).

Improvements

• Re-ordering Locations by drag and drop. The same applies to the the Saved Searches panel!
• Resizable outliner panels: Drag the lower right corner of panels in the outliner to resize them. Double click on a panel header to reset its height.
• Performance improvements when tagging many files at once
• Various theming improvements (e.g. the scrollbar handle is more prominently visible)
• Improved detection of files being moved or removed. You no longer need to close and re-open Allusion to get rid of missing images that were moved elsewhere
• The Chrome extension now saves the URL of the page in the Exif data of the image
• The Chrome extension now allows you to import an image by picking an element when a shortcut key is pressed, instead of just being available as a context menu option. The default shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+1, which is configurable in chrome://extensions/shortcuts

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where thumbnails would sometimes never finish loading
• Various small bugs regarding searching, images/locations with certain symbols and unbound shortcut keys

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc6.1...v1.0.0-rc7

1.0.0-rc6.1

We've polished some rough edges from the previous release. Thanks for all of the bug reports!

Fixes

• New images were not detected properly while Allusion was running, which also made the browser extension function incorrectly
• Deleting files no longer worked due to a breaking change of a dependency

Improvements

• Lots of layout improvements for the tag input elements, and in panels where there was not enough room to fit all content due to long tag names or a narrow window size
• The tag editor panel opened with T now keeps being open when navigating left and right using the arrow keys in the gallery. You can still move the text cursor in the tag editor by holding the Shift key!

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc6...v1.0.0-rc6.1
Or check the latest Pull Request: #387

1.0.0-rc6

It has been a while, but we're back with a bunch of new features and fixes!
We have recently opened up the Discussions feature on GitHub, let us know what you think if you have any opinions or questions, or if you'd like to share how you use Allusion.

New features

• Support for more image formats: Krita's .kra format, TIFF, PSD (thumbnail-only) and OpenEXR (experimental), requested in #361, #338 and #279. You can toggle the support for each format in the Image Formats tab of the settings panel.
• Dynamic thumbnail size, preview your images smaller or larger than ever before!
  

Improvements

• Various design improvements (layout, colors and icons)
• Clearer selection and search behavior in the Tags panel. This one might get mixed feelings, but we felt like it's more intuitive for tag management. Here's an example of the new behavior:
  
• When images are modified on disk, their properties and thumbnail will be re-indexed by Allusion
• The Advanced Search panel got an upgrade, making it clearer how to build up your criteria
• The List view now has resizable columns and other various improvements
• An option for disabling the auto-update check on start-up (#362)
• Many dependency updates, so it should run faster and more stable overall

Fixes

• Various fixes to parsing filenames and paths that caused issues when importing or viewing images (#343, #375)
• Fixed error when dragging images from Allusion to another application for some image formats (#366)