Major Changes
• #1554 Refreshed the style of thumbnails. They do now have rounded corners and a slight drop
shadow. That might cause some trouble with your customization. Please double-check and
adjust after installing this release.
• #1555 Reduced the number of generated thumbnails. By default, those sizes are generated now:
160, 320, 512, 720, 1024, 1440, 1600
Bug Fixes
• #1563 Uploading MP4 files was not possible if images are pre-calculated.
v5.4.11
- #1553 A new button in the download log section allows to delete the download log.
- #1514 Avoid a PHP warning message is a menu item is not correctly configured.
- #1552 Handle exceptions for download attempts for deleted images.
v5.4.10
- #1509 improved image loading behavior in the lightbox. A source set is now used to load better-fitting image sizes on different devices. This will also increase the zoom ability. Images from Google Photos, pulled in via Shared Pages, will benefit here the most.
- The transition when opening a lightbox from a cropped image has improved and avoids jumping from the cropped image to the large image.
v5.4.9
- #1489 fixing exessive logging for handling shared pages from Google Photos. If you want to clean up, check the Joomla /logs folder. You can delete the log files which have a 'com_eventgallery_googlephotossharedpage.log' in them manually if you like.
v5.4.8
- #1462 The imagelist layout for Events in the Events-module has a new parameter to control the behavior of the last line in the layout. You can now select if the last row should be stretched over the full width or not.
- #1463 Allow selecting a default Event Type in the components configuration. This setting is used for preselecting the right folder type when creating a new Event.
- Some minor improvements for light/dark mode in the upload, sync database and thumnbail creator.
- #1464 some images can contain EXIF-data which will make the upload or reading image metadata fail. This is handled now gracefully.
- #1456 Breakpoints are configurable in the component and modules. This will avoid the need for custom CSS to just change the size of thumbnails or the number of items per row. Check the manual for details.
- #1455 remove Google Photos Import since it will no longer working after Google changes the API access.
v5.4.7
- #1457 under rare conditions an error like <code>MimeType not in in allowed list image/jpeg, image/gif, image/png, image/webp, video/mp4</code> could show up for local images. This is fixed.
- #1458 the content plugin did not output alt-attributes for single images.
- #1456 Breakpoints are configurable in the component and modules. This will avoid the need for custom CSS to just change the size of thumbnails or the number of items per row. Check the manual for details.
v5.4.6
- #1455 remove Google Photos Import since it will no longer working after Google changes the API access.
v5.4.5
- #1451 Adding a CLI extension to migrate from Google Photos to local storage or S3 storage. Check https://www.svenbluege.de/blog/upda...-changes-to-the-google-photos-api-integration for details. Do the change until 25.3.2025!
v5.4.3
- #1436 Introducing a new plugin to support the web service API going forward. The first use case is the tracking of image hits. An image hit is counted when the lightbox is opened. This behavior can be disabled in the components options and applies only to local and S3 images.
- #1437 Adding better support for dark mode by fixing the CSS classes for select boxes.
- #1439 The checkout review page now includes an additional checkbox. While it is labeled as a newsletter opt-in by default, you can repurpose it for other uses by simply modifying the localization keys. The selected value is stored with the order for future reference. The default mail template for order confirmation contains this option if the user selects the opt-in switch.
- #1449 restore compatibility with the current state of Joomla 6
This is a very alpha feature! Itll download images with a fixed size of 2400px and only to local webspace. You have to trigger this migration for every event and delete/deactivate the old Google Photos-based Event manually.
- #1431 Google Photos will be no longer supported after May 2025 because Google will make their images unaccessible through their API. If you need to migrate, this is a pain. With this version, I added a link on the list of Events which allows you to copy the Event and download all the images to your local webspace.
If you have any requirement to make your life easier, please reach out to me using the ticket system.
- #1433 A new button on the Event page in the backend can be used to reset the hit counter for an Event.
v5.4.2
- #1432 Avoid overriding the regular fontawesome CSS and uglify other parts of the page.
v5.4.0
- #1424 At the Event you can define user groups to allow the download of the original image. That selection is improved to easily see if the global component configuration is used and to allow reverting event-specific settings.
- #1417 The lazy loading of images was improved to avoid too many requests to the server without a need. Images are much lazier than before.
- #1418 The search for orders in the backend will now search for orders having a file or folder with the search term.
- #1419 Allow the order status field to have user-defined colors to improve usability.
- Updated Glide, the JS framework for the slides to the latest version https://github.com/glidejs/glide/releases/tag/v3.7.1
- #1426 Use the X-platform icon instead of the legacy Twitter icon.
- #1429 Update to Fontawesome 6.
- #1430 adding LinkedIn sharing button.
- #1393 The upload allows to select if the uploaded image should be resized or not. The components options contain two new settings in the image-tab to enable the resizing by default and to set a size in px.
- #1399 The file upload provides a new option. In combination with the existing Google Photos Accounts, you can select your files from Google Photos albums and upload them to local webspace or AWS S3 buckets.
- #1392 The Event Module has now two new configuration fields to override the default sorting of Events
- #1390 Fixes the broken pagination in Events in Joomla 5.1.3 and removes unneeded URL parameters from the paging URLs.
- #1395 Paging in categories views did not work if that happened in a sub-category. It jumped back to the parent category.
- #1396 In generated thumbnails, the EXIF information got broken due an outdated library. The update is in place and generated thumbnails contain the right EXIF now
- #1406 In some cases, the Flickr-URLs are not created correctly and therefore not shown in the front end.
- #1332 remove pixel-based icons in the backend. They had been there for 14 years, the usage of an icon font is more modern.
- #1333 use the lightbox for image is the backend. It is finally possible to click on a thumbnail and see the larger image version in a lightbox.
- #1343 added a fallback for the case a template has the funny idea of replacing data-title with data-bs-title everywhere, even in places it should keep its fingers from. As a result, even in this case, the title will appear in the lightbox again.
- #1342 The module for the latest event can show the latest images, too. Now it can do this with different layouts without throwing an exeption.
- #1346 With at least Joomla 5.1 RC2 there was an issue submitting the Event form with a non-english backend.
With Event Gallery 5, I'll drop any Joomla 3 support. Event Gallery 4 will continue supporting Joomla 3, but will get only bug-fixes in emergency cases.
- #1158 Allow to limit the maximum size of Flickr images. Right now, it is possible to download the original Flickr image with the download button. The lightbox uses the h-(2048px)-image. Now you can limit the size to the k-(1600px)- or b-(1024px)-image by modifying the config.php-file and create an overload. Please check the manual for details.
- #1161 allow different ITPC-fields for title and description. This change is available via config.php file only.
- #1163 EXIF data: the focal length is now shown with its 35mm equivalent if available. Example for a 1.5x crop camera: 30mm (45mm).
- #1154 Fixes issues with the ISO value in EXIF data written Pentax camera
- #1155 If a password was entered incorrectly, the message should show up as an error message. Before it was the default success message.
- #1156 PHP 8.1 // Remove deprecation warning on list of files in the backend
- PHP 8.1 // removed some deprecation warnings
- #1157 allow changing the folder name if the change includes only changes in upper/lower case spelling
- #1162 Unable to save event descriptions if using the Arc-editor and multiple languages. If not all descriptions are filled, nothing was saved.