Gallery 2.3 released
Gallery 2.3, an open source "photo album organizer", has been released. Lot of new features in this version of the Gallery 2.x branch. Some of the new features and enchancements include:
- Slideshow module now uses PicLens to provide a rich, full screen slideshow.
- Comment module now offers spam moderation and Akismet support.
- New email notification module allowing users to configure events they wish to get notified for.
- Support for SQLite 3.x as a database backend.
- New SnapGalaxy module for prints from snapgalaxy.com.
- New Jpegtran module to support rotation and cropping of jpeg images.
- New database backup features.
- Themes can now override module template files.
- Performance and stability improvements.
- User interface improvements.
- Security improvements resulting from internal and external audits.
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