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Pixaria Gallery 2.9.1 Released

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Pixaria Gallery version 2.9.1. This is a recommended upgrade for all current users and includes a number of fixes and improvements to various parts of the software. Version 2.9.1 includes a new feature which makes it possible to place expiry dates on user accounts either by limiting access to a defined number of days from the first login or else by locking the account on a fixed date.

To get this update, please drop me an e-mail at upgrade@pixaria.com and I'll send the new version to you. As always, please take a moment to check out the release notes and change log before upgrading as these contain full details of all the modifications in this version.

Note: Technical support for this upgrade is only available to users who are within their active support period (one year from date of original purchase or purchase of a support and upgrade extension).

Pixaria Forum Updates

Regular visitors to the forums will be aware that I don't get the opportunity to respond to messages there as much as I would like. To help improve this situation, I've made some changes which I hope will make the forum easier to use and simpler for me to monitor.

As of this evening, I've consolidated all of the forum topics into a single Pixaria discussion area called 'Pixaria Community Forum' and I've used this as an opportunity to clean up some obsolete topics and sticky messages that are no longer of use or are out of date.

I hope that these changes will make the forums more useful for everyone. If you have any thoughts on this, please let me know in the comments!

Pixaria Gallery 2.8.8 Released

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of Pixaria Gallery version 2.8.8 which is an important new release containing a number of significant new features and improvements.

The big news in this update is that, Pixaria now supports uploading and importing of TIFF, PSD and JPEG 2000 images*, further enhancing the digital asset management capabilities of the software and making it even more useful as an archiving and image management software package.

Non JPEG images in the above supported formats are imported and resized into JPEG comp and thumbnail versions which can be viewed and managed in exactly the same way as with standard JPEG files. I hope to be able to further expand the supported image formats in the near future pending feedback on this new feature.

Other new features in this update include:

1. Support for e-mail address whitelisting for new registrations
2. Admin definable download rights for users on a gallery by gallery basis
3. Gallery level control over image product availability
4. Administrators can require users to accept terms and conditions and enter their intended use of images when downloading free files.

Also included in this update are a large number of minor enhancements and bug fixes. The large number of changed files in this release is due to the new support for PHP 5.3 which has required changes in many areas of the script.

To get this update, please drop me an e-mail at upgrade@pixaria.com and I'll send the new version to you. As always, please take a moment to check out the release notes and change log before upgrading as these contain full details of all the modifications in this version.

*The new image format support requires that ImageMagick is installed on your web server and it not compatible with Windows at the present time. ImageMagick will automatically be detected where it is available and you will then be able to import the newly supported file formats. To check if ImageMagick is installed, browse to the 'Extensions' tab of the software status page in the admin area of your Pixaria installation.

Regrettably, it's not possible to support these additional image formats where ImageMagick is not installed. This is because the GD graphics library which is included with PHP does not support working with image formats other than JPEG, GIF and PNG.

Upgrades and Support FAQ

I've had a few questions about the new upgrade and support extension packages that I've recently introduced and thought it might be helpful to clarify a couple of points:

Why have you introduced this policy?
Because it is not realistic for me to provide free support and upgrades on an indefinite basis. Doing so reduces the time available for development of new features and to support new users and in time, would probably make continued development of Pixaria impossible.

When might I need to purchase an extension?
If you purchased Pixaria over one year ago and wish to continue receiving technical support. Upgrades continue to be free until version 3.0 is released.

Why not charge only for major releases?
I'm moving towards an approach of adding significant new features all the time rather than in big groups as this makes support and development simpler and easier to manage. Adding features simply to justify a version number and price increase is not good for anyone.

Why are upgrade and support extensions priced as they are?
The pricing is extremely competitive when compared to that of similar software packages. Providing technical support is time consuming and expensive and not charging for it is unrealistic given the number of users that Pixaria now has.