ImageGlass 9.0.8.1208

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🪁 System Requirements

• Windows 10/11 64-bit, version 2004 or later
• .NET Desktop Runtime 8 (64-bit)
• WebView2 Runtime 64-bit v119.0.2151 or later

📝 Changelog (since ImageGlass 8.10)

Please read the blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/introducing-the-new-imageglass-version-9-88

📝 Changelog (since ImageGlass 9.0.7.1125):

🔮 Improvements:

• MSI installer:
  • Added support for Windows Server 2019 x64 (#1711)
  • Added support for installing as system wide app for all users (#1708)
• Added support for auto-detecting WebView2 Runtime and showing a message if user does not have it installed (#1722, #1724)
• Changed the WebView2 user data location from the app config folder to %LocalAppData%\ImageGlass\<version>\Webview2_Data\
• Added WebView2 Runtime information in About dialog
• Added support for copying version information in About dialog (#1730)
• Improved image interpolation setting (#1716):
  • Always uses NearestNeighbor when zoom factor is 100%
  • Updated the setting When zoom ≤ 100% to When zoom < 100%
• Removed in-app message for all window modes (#1739)
• Added + and - numpad key together with =, - as default zooming hotkeys
• Added a message in app settings where user select Current monitor profile option for Color management to tell them ImageGlass does not auto-update monitor color profile when moving between monitors (#1709)
• Removed the Save/Save As context button on the toolbar when users edit the image
• Updated the default toolbar buttons to make it similar to version 8 (#1648)
• Renamed Page navigation tool to Frame navigation tool, and its menu name from MnuPageNav to MnuFrameNav
• Added .avif to the SingleFrameFormats (#1735)
• Enabled "Maximize" button in Window Fit mode

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where the functionality of Zoom In and Zoom Out button on toolbar was swapped (#1704)
• Fixed an issue where the style of Full Screen button on toolbar was not updated after exiting Full Screen mode (#1729)
• Fixed an issue where user could not increase the slideshow interval (#1728)
• Fixed an issue where user could not run ImageGlass as Administrator because WebView2 could not write data to the installed directory (#1725)
• Fixed an issue where scroll wheel didn't work if "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" is disabled in Windows settings (#1723)
• Fixed an issue where the image was blurry at 100% zoom (#1701, #1716, #1736, #1737)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass window was flickering when manually resizing Window Fit mode (#1720)
• Fixed an issue where user could not minimize ImageGlass window in Window Fit mode (#1741)
• Fixed an issue where ARM64 build did not work (#1717)
• Fixed an issue where user could not zoom the SVG image with WebView2 by mouse wheel due to JSON parsing error (#1743)
• Fixed an issue where frame size was not render correctly when viewing separately
• Fixed an issue where users could not save tool settings
• Fixed an issue where image was blinking when switching between images
• Fixed an issue where setting EnableImageTransition did not apply for Slideshow mode
• Fixed an issue where image file created by Save As function did not appear in the Gallery

🟣 Other updates for ImageGlass 9.0

• Published ImageGlass.Tools library v1.9070
• Published ExifGlass app v1.3

🟣 New contributor:

• @turbedi with PR #1746

Full Changelog: 9.0.7.1125...9.0.8.1208

ImageGlass 8.11.12.6 - QoL Update

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📝 Changelog:

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to v13.4.0

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass update prompt fails to recognize 64-bit Windows (#1712)
• Fixed an issue where clicking "Save" button from Crop tool triggers "Save as" instead (#1614, #1631, #1654)

Full Changelog: 8.10.9.27...8.11.12.6

ImageGlass 9.0.7.1125 - Official Release

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🪁 System Requirements

• Windows 10/11 64-bit, version 2004 or later
• .NET Desktop Runtime 8 (64-bit)
• WebView2 Runtime 64-bit v119.0.2151 or later

📝 Changelog (since ImageGlass 8.10)

Please read the blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/introducing-the-new-imageglass-version-9-88

📝 Changelog (since ImageGlass 9.0 RC):

🌱 New:

• Updated app icon and the built-in theme packs
• Added new setting LastOpenedSetting to save the last opened setting tab
• Added "Export language pack" in app settings > Language tab
• Added available image information tags in app settings > General tab

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to v13.4.0
• Corrected the ImageInterpolation setting value from SampleLinear to MultiSampleLinear. If you encounter error "Could not load user settings" after upgrading, you can edit the new value in igconfig.json file.
• Added Ctrl+W as an additional hotkey for closing the app (#1667)
• Now uses the toolbar background color for the window title bar when the backdrop style is set to None
• Will not reload the image if the folder contains only 1 image when users view the next/previous image
• Improved the opening time for Print Pictures dialog
• Improved the time taken to save image files
• Improved the opening time for image files larger than 16380 pixels by implementing PhotoSauce.MagicScaler to scale the image file
• Updated the image information on the title bar:
  • Now displays the rendered and actual image dimensions if the image file is larger than 16380 pixels
  • Used a vertical em dash (U+FE31) as the image info separator on the title bar
• App settings:
  • Moved the Slideshow background setting from the Appearance tab to the Slideshow tab
  • Added a tooltip for each textbox in the app settings to help the user input a valid value
  • Moved the position of the "Get help" button from the top right to the bottom left corner
• Updated the Quick Setup dialog to follow the user's language and theme settings

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass didn't save the Color profile setting (#1669)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass failed to remember its window's position when anchored (#1646)
• Fixed an issue where app settings window is not functional if the installed path contained an apostrophe (') (#1685)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass did not render correctly when using a theme pack with a transparency color
• Fixed an issue where opening a photo in single-instance mode caused random clicks on other apps
• Fixed an issue where pressing Ctrl+C multiple times resulted in an unhandled exception
• Fixed an issue where the user couldn't select an image area to crop when navigation buttons were visible
• Fixed an issue where layout buttons in the app settings were not updated when changing the select box or text box
• Fixed an issue where the language of the Aspect ratio in the Crop tool and the Image information on the title bar was not updated
• Fixed an issue where the zoom value is reset when viewing a single image frame
• Fixed an issue where Window Fit mode does not scale the window correctly when enabling Page Navigation tool is visible
• Fixed an issue where the buttons in the toolbar overflow dropdown does not show tooltip on hovering
• Fixed an issue where users cannot install language pack if "Language" folder does not exist (#1688)
• Fixed an issue where users cannot use "Kobe-Light" theme if the startup directory is not writable
• Fixed an issue where saving clipboard image crashes the app

🟣 Other updates for ImageGlass 9.0

• Published ImageGlass.Tools library v1.9070
• Published ExifGlass app v1.3

Full Changelog: 9.0.6.1008...9.0.7.1125

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 RC 🌝

Please support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Requirements

🟢 Recommended

• Windows 10/11 x64 version 22H2
• .NET Desktop Runtime 8
• WebView2 Runtime x64 (required for App settings, Quick Setup, Check for Update, About dialog)

🟠 Minimum requirements

• Windows 10 x64 version 2004 (20H1)
• .NET Desktop Runtime 6

📝 Changelog:

ImageGlass 9.0 RC is the continuation of the version 9.0 beta 5,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.5.726.

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🟣 Breaking changes

• Changed default hotkey for:
  • Gallery (from H to G)
  • Go to (from G to F)
• Renamed setting AllFormats to FileFormats, SinglePageFormats to SingleFrameFormats
  • Remove the wildcard from the format
    • Before: "AllFormats": "*.jpg;*.png"
    • After: "FileFormats": ".jpg;.png"
    • This also applies for commands igcmd.exe set-default-viewer <formats> and igcmd.exe remove-default-viewer <formats>
• Renamed setting ToolbarItems to ToolbarButtons
• Renamed setting InfoItems to ImageInfoTags
• Renamed the Arguments of Tools setting to Argument
• Changed the Arguments type of MouseClickActions, ToolbarButtons from string to string[] (string array)
• Moved theme setting ShowTitlebarLogo to app setting ShowAppLogo

🟣 General changes

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.3.0
• Added support for .NET 8, ARM64 (experiment #1000) build
• Added new Color dialog that supports picking alpha value
• Added feature: File > New window
• Add setting DisabledMenus to disable menus of ImageGlass similar to v8
• Add setting EnableDebug to launch ImageGlass in debug mode
• Added .jxl into the list of non-animated formats by default, you can change it in the setting SingleFrameFormats
• Added default actions for mouse clicks similar to v8
• Added icon for toolbar button "Exit" (#1659 thanks to @xmha97)
• Fixed a vulnerability occurring with WebP files (CVE-2023-4863) (#1655)
• Fixed an issue where some formats are displayed with wrong orientation #1619
• Fixed an issue where mouse click action is not executed when the ToggleOff is empty
• Fixed an issue where Toolbar and Gallery background color are also updated when Backdrop style is None
• Fixed an issue where the Exiting Full screen mode does not restore the previous window modes (Frameless, Window fit)
• Fixed an issue where resetting the background in Settings > Appearance does not follow current theme background
• Fixed an issue where app settings UI does not load due to incorrect path of Icons folder (#1630)
• Fixed an issue when passing method name begins with IG_ causes error "Parameter count mismatch"
• Fixed an issue where setting IsIntegrated = false cause the 2nd instance of external tool cannot be launched
• Fixed an issue where pressing Alt+F4 does not close the window
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass cannot open some images (#1622)

🟣 Quick Setup dialog

• A new Out-of-box experience wizard that replaces First-launch configurations of v8
• Added 2 setting profiles: Standard user and Professional user
• Added setting QuickSetupVersion, set a value greater than 9 will prevent the Quick Setup dialog from showing.

🟣 App Settings

• Added new setting ShowAppIcon to toggle the ImageGlass icon on the title bar
• Added UI for setting ImageInfoTags
• Added UI for setting EditApps:
  • Allows to assign the editing app for multiple extensions:

    // in igconfig.json
    "EditApps": {
      // open .JPG and .PNG file with Photoshop
      ".jpg;.png": {
        "AppName": "Photoshop",
        "Executable": "path\\to\\photoshop.exe",
        "Argument": "<file>" // <file> is the current image path to pass to the 'Executable'
      }
    }

• Added UI for setting ToolbarButtons:
  • Supports drag and drop to arrange the order of the buttons
  • Supports drag and drop to add a button
  • Adds "Reset to default" button
  • Adds and edits custom toolbar button in JSON format
  • Adds action buttons to move up/down, edit, delete the toolbar button
    • Only the custom toolbar button is editable
• Added UI for File type associations setting:
  • Adds information for changing File extension icons
  • Adds information for Set/Remove default photo viewer
  • Adds UI for setting FileFormats
• Added a "Get help" floating button for quickly accessing documentation
• Improved UI for setting ZoomLevels:
  • Adds a checkbox Use smooth zooming
  • Adds a link button Load default zoom levels
• Removed "ImageGlass" on the file type when registering it as the default photo viewer (#833)

🟣 Viewer component

• Displays more details on the viewer when ImageGlass cannot open image file

🟣 Gallery component

• Fixed an issue where thumbnail cache is always reset (#1647)
• Fixed an issue where thumbnail cache size limit does not follow setting GalleryCacheSizeInMb (#1647)

🟣 ImageGlass Tools

• Changed the tool config Arguments to Argument:

  // in igconfig.json
  "Tools": [
    {
      "ToolId": "Tool_MyDemoApp", // a unique ID
      "ToolName": "My Demo app", // name of the tool
      "Executable": "path\\to\\the\\DemoApp.exe",
      "Argument": "<file>", // <file> is the current image path to pass to the 'Executable'
      "Hotkeys": ["X", "Ctrl+E"], // press X or Ctrl+E to toggle the tool
      "IsIntegrated": true|false // true: if the tool supports 'ImageGlass.Tools'
    }
  ]

🟣 Other updates for ImageGlass 9.0 RC

• Published ImageGlass.Tools library v1.9060 to support .NET 8
• Published ExifGlass app v1.2

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
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ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.6.1008_RC_x64_net7.zip	2AE9FB5F94BE4A293A241FDD3C6D8E15A1504B33
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.6.1008_RC_x64_net6.zip	0C3E0364C1213C77544B12ACC458D1835238D6FB
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ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.6.1008_RC_arm64_net8.zip	B71C540A5378994B6FEE789052E26C5C07C18B9D

Full Changelog: 9.0.5.726...9.0.6.1008

ImageGlass 8.10.9.27 - WEBP vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863)

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📝 Changelog:

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to v13.3.0

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed a vulnerability occurring with WebP files (CVE-2023-4863) (#1655)
• Fixed an issue where user cannot click the toolbar buttons when the window is inactive (#1202, #1363)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass displays NEF files in wrong orientation (#1619)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass could not display TIF files due to invalid tag 34031 (#1617)

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.10.9.27_x64.msi	61EF57B22ED21CCCD8454D8FC9A402A17D8DC168
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.10.9.27_x64.zip	0AF64D67E4095E914A97B6056AC34843098FA5FB
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.10.9.27_x86.msi	6FD5819BDF1B5BAD7111EDF25BF4C3B88ED5185B
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.10.9.27_x86.zip	5DCECC9CC746DFB2B3793F4A1B0BB02F5454C4E4

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 4 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 5 was already released.
• Version 9.0 RC was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.

🎐 ImageGlass 9.0 minimum requirements

• 🆕 Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) - 64-bit
• 🆕 .NET Desktop Runtime 6
• 🆕 WebView2 Runtime x64

Full Changelog: 8.9.6.9...8.10.9.27

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 5 🌕

⚠ Notes

This is the final beta release of ImageGlass version 9. Features and settings may still be changed when the official version 9 is released.

To follow the progress of version 9 RC, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/16.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• 🆕 Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) - 64-bit
• 🆕 .NET Desktop Runtime 6
• 🆕 WebView2 Runtime x64

📝 Changelog:

ImageGlass 9.0 beta 5 is the continuation of the version 9.0 beta 4,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.4.416.

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🟣 Breaking changes

• Change app settings and app registry from per-machine to per-user:
  • App settings: Use %LocalAppData% folder (previouly, it was %AppData%) to save user setting file igconfig.json when ImageGlass does not have write permission in its startup folder
  • App registry: Use HKEY_CURRENT_USER (previously, it was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) for registering file type associations, app protocol (#1581)
• Updated the argument naming of the settings ToolbarItems, Tools from Argument to Arguments.

🟣 General changes

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.2.0
• Removed igcmd10.exe utility
• Added support for reading grayscale DNG images (#1575)
• Added support for showing file thumbnail when dragging from Windows to ImageGlass (.NET 7 build on Windows 11)
• Added new commands for igcmd.exe utility: install-languages, install-themes, uninstall-theme
• Improved DPI and text scaling for menu
• Improved the direction of the menu dropdown when it's open
• Improved keyboard parser with better accuracy (#1612)
• Improved the stability of Share dialog
• Added setting SlideshowImagesToNotifySound to let user determine the number of images to play notification sound in slideshow mode
• Fixed an issue where user could not start slideshow due to incorrect command line prefix
• Fixed an issue where the image is sometimes not displayed after a very quick navigation
• Fixed an issue where orientation of HEIC format is displayed wrong (#1551)
• Fixed an issue where NEF files appear darker with colors less saturated (#1577)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass displays NEF files in wrong orientation (#1478)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass could not display TIF files due to invalid tag 32932 (#1583) and tag 34031 (#1617)
• Fixed an issue when triggering custom hotkeys such as Alt and key causes windows error sound to play (#1613)

🟣 Add UI for App Settings

• Added support for changing user settings for:
  • Tab General
  • Tab Image
  • Tab Slideshow
  • Tab Edit: except for the EditApps setting
  • Tab Viewer
  • Tab Toolbar: except for the ToolbarItems setting
  • Tab Gallery
  • Tab Layout
  • Tab Mouse: except for the MouseClickActions setting
  • Tab Tools
  • Tab Language
  • Tab Appearance
• Resolved an issue where settings are hidden on high DPI screen (#793, #1266)
• Resolved an issue where emoji characters are not rendered in Settings window (#1220)
• Resolved an issue where user does not see the changes when pressing "Apply" button (#623)
• Resolved an issue where the Settings UI is reset when switching tabs (#482)

🟣 Viewer component

• Added support for touch guestures:
  • Supports zooming image by 2 fingers (#591, #739, #1611)
  • Supports panning image with inertia by 1 finger (#591)
  • Supports opening context menu by long tap
• Added support for custom zoom levels via setting ZoomLevels (#1563).

🟢 Added a new Webview2 viewer component using HapplaJs library

• Supports scaling SVG (#421), animated SVG (#1098), interactive SVG files
• Supports opening image by dropping files from desktop
• Supports navigation arrow buttons according to the setting
• Supports showing in-app message
• Supports customizing MouseWheel action
• Supports customizing MouseClick action (right button)
• Supports zooming features:
  • All zoom modes
  • Zoom by hotkeys
  • Set custom zoom
  • Follow zoom levels setting
• Supports panning features:
  • Pan by hotkeys
  • Follow pan speed setting
• Other features may just work, except for Rotation, Flipping, Color picker, Cropping, Page navigation, Copy image data, Print, Set as Desktop/Lock screen, View image channels, Export image frames, ...
• Added an option to switch back to the native viewer component:
  • Open Settings > Viewer
  • Uncheck the option Use Webview2 for viewing SVG format (or set UseWebview2ForSvg to false in igconfig.json).
• When ImageGlass window is minimized, the Webview2 viewer component will be suspended to consume less memory similar to MS Edge's sleep mode.

🟣 Toolbar component

• Added support for adding external tool as toolbar button using the tool ID
• Improved Main menu position to make sure it does not cover the toolbar when the toolbar is at bottom
• Fixed an issue where user cannot use custom image path for toolbar icon (#1554)
• Fixed an issue where user cannot click the toolbar buttons when the window is inactive (#1202, #1363)
• Fixed an issue where tooltip overlaps the hovered button when the gallery's position is not on top

🟣 Gallery component:

• Added support scrolling thumbnails by swipe guesture (#753)
• Added support for resizing gallery by dragging the separator in vertical layout
• Added support for saving the last size of gallery component (#1502)
• Added support for displaying scrollbars with dark mode
• Improved gallery layout scaling according to system text size setting
• Improved click action to only allow to use the left mouse for image navigation
• Fixed an issue where the dragged thumbnail is still selected after mouse is released
• Fixed an issue where thumbnail's tooltip is still showing after leaving the thumbnail
• Fixed an issue where tooltip overlaps the hovered thumbnail when the gallery's position is not at bottom

🟣 Tooltip component

• Added supports for dark mode
• Added supports round corner on Windows 11
• Added supports for using accent color for tooltip title
• Improved tooltip size and text scaling according to system text size setting

🟣 ImageGlass Tools

• Added support for CIELAB color space for Color Picker tool (#1543)
• Added support for setting topmost state of tool window according to ImageGlass window
• Added support for assigning hotkeys for external tool in Tools section in igconfig.json file:

  // in igconfig.json
  "Tools": [
    {
      "ToolId": "Tool_MyDemoApp", // a unique ID
      "ToolName": "My Demo app", // name of the tool
      "Executable": "path\\to\\the\\DemoApp.exe",
      "Arguments": "<file>", // file path to pass to the tool
      "Hotkeys": ["X", "Ctrl+E"], // press X or Ctrl+E to open/close the tool
      "IsIntegrated": true|false // true: if the tool supports 'ImageGlass.Tools'
    }
  ]

• Improved the built-in tool window readability by increasing opacity to 95% (from 85%) in inactive state
• Fixed an issue where the second ImageGlass instance cannot open the external tool if other instances already open it

🟣 Other updates for ImageGlass 9.0 beta 5

• Published ImageGlass.Tools library v1.9050
• Published ExifGlass app v1.1

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.5.726_Beta-5_x64_net6.zip	CEDD125A9581B91D487018C71331D1C867A43B56
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.5.726_Beta-5_x64_net7.zip	1545D69391F99686E0189CAC0549B891C1D14ED5

Full Changelog: 9.0.4.416...9.0.5.726

ImageGlass Kobe 8.9.6.9 (updated)

♨ Updates

• 09/06/2023: Updated the binary files (and hash codes) to fix broken auto-update.

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📝 Changelog:

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to v13.1.3
• Added support for reading grayscale DNG images (#1575)

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass always opens using nearest-neighbor zoom (#1549)
• Fixed an issue where NEF files appear darker with colors less saturated (#1577)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass displays NEF files in wrong orientation (#1478)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass could not display TIF files due to invalid tag 32932 (#1583)

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x64.msi	13C10937298DE6FC0F6F0EFFD4C06FBCCFC3BC07
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x64.zip	F8149236EEF50CC4726DBEB34721BF6B6F294D64
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x86.msi	821944971EC2881B1E40D79CC88D22994953F9D0
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x86.zip	AC5C43C76A64F68B71F535D4E65515867B6DBC52

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 4 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 5 is under development.

🎐 ImageGlass 9.0 minimum requirements

• 🆕 Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) - 64-bit
• 🆕 .NET Desktop Runtime 6
• 🆕 WebView2 Runtime x64

Full Changelog: 8.8.4.4...8.9.6.9

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 4 🌔

⚠ Notes

This is the beta-4 release of ImageGlass version 9. Features and settings may still be changed when the official version 9 is released.

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 5, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/15.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• .NET Desktop Runtime 6
• 🆕 WebView2 Runtime x64
• 🆕 Windows 10 64-bit

📝 Changelog:

ImageGlass 9.0 beta 4 is the continuation of the version 9.0 beta 3,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.3.1225

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🟣 General changes

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.0.1.
• Improved ImageGlass startup time and latency by enabling ReadyToRun compilation.
• Showed Color space and Color profile info on the title bar.
• Added basic support for animated APNG format (#396).
• Fixed a bug where ImageGlass cannot load image with CMYK color space. Error message: "Operation is not valid due to the state of the object".
• Fixed a bug that caused memory leak during loading image.
• Skipped file existence check while loading image files into the list (#585).
• Changed the prefix for passing app setting as command-line from - to /. Example: ImageGlass.exe /EnableFrameless=true.

🟣 Theme component

• Added support for auto-switching theme according to system's dark/light mode (#434).
  • Splits the setting Theme into DarkTheme and LightTheme.
  • Loads LightTheme if system light mode is on, otherwise ImageGlass uses DarkTheme.
• Removed accent color in theme config.
• Added new icons for toolbar: Play, Pause, Export.

🟣 Viewer component

• Improved frame animation (GIF, WEBP, ...)
  • Adds support for hardware acceleration.
  • Supports playing, pausing or viewing a single frame of image.
  • Adds basic support for playing animation for all animated formats using MagickNET, such as APNG.
• Made the navigation arrow buttons clickable on whole left and right areas (#1472).

🟣 Thumbnail bar component

• Shows Color space and Color profile info on the thumbnail's tooltip.

🟣 Image Booster component

• Reduced memory usage when loading non-transparent image.
• Enabled basic support for all animated formats using MagickNET.
• Cached metadata to improve loading image.

🟣 Features

• Added support for updating the viewing image folder in real time:
  • Updates the viewing image, thumbnail when it's changed by third-party app.
  • Updates the thumbnail bar when image file is deleted, added, renamed.
  • Added an option to disable it by setting: EnableFileWatcher.
• Added Edit image with external editor:
  • Added setting EditApps, example:

    // in igconfig.json
    "EditApps": {
      ".png": {
        "AppName": "Paint.NET",
        "Executable": "C:\\paint.net\\paintdotnet.exe",
        "Argument": "<file>"
      }
    },

  • Added options what to do after the external editor is launch AfterEditingAction:
    • Nothing: Do nothing (default).
    • Minimize: Minimize ImageGlass window.
    • Close: Close ImageGlass app.
• Added feature: Export image frames
  • Moves the function to igcmd.exe with command export-frames.
  • Shows exporting progress and status.
  • Added a button to cancel the on-going export progress.
  • Added a button to open output folder after the export is done.
• Added feature: Rotate image (only for non-animated format).
• Added image transformation features:
  • Supports image rotation.
  • Improves performance of image flipping / ratation by using hardware acceleration.
  • Shows asterisk * on title bar next to the image name to indicate there is unsaved change.
  • Displays "Save..." / "Save as..." button on toolbar if the image is changed.
• Adds native support for animated Webp format (#1466) using libwebp.dll v1.3.0:
  • Supports hardware acceleration.
  • Fixed: Quality of animated Webp is reduced (#1526).
  • Supports saving image as Webp, including animated format (#1477).
• Supports for saving TIFF, GIF as multiple frames.
• Improves ImageGlass Slideshow view:
  • Removed support for multiple slideshow views
  • Added support for changing slideshow image list when user changes it in the main view.
  • Made slideshow view togglable.
  • Added support for new window modes in slideshow view.

🟢 New window modes

• Frameless mode
  • The window corners are rounded by default.
  • Hold SHIFT and drag to move the window.
• Window fit mode
  • Disables Maximize button of the window.
  • Improve performance when user zooms the image.
  • Added support for all zoom modes in Window mode.
• Window modes combination for the main view and slideshow view:

  Mode	Full screen	Frameless	Window fit
  Full screen	✅	❌	❌
  Frameless	❌	✅	✅
  Window fit	❌	✅	✅

🟢 Layout customization

• Added support for layout customization using setting Layout (#318) for:
  • Toolbar with setting Toolbar,
  • Thumbnail bar with setting Gallery,
  • Contextual toolbar with setting ToolbarContext.
• Supports Toolbar position: Top, Bottom.
• Supports Thumbnail bar position: Top, Bottom, Left, Right.
• Allows to change control's order if they are in the same layout position.
• Example:
  • Default layout:

    // in igconfig.json
    {
      // default layout
      "Layout": {
        "Toolbar": "Top", // Toolbar is at top
        "Gallery": "Bottom;0", // thumbnail bar is at bottom
        "ToolbarContext": "Bottom;1", // contextual toolbar is at bottom, above thumbnail bar
      },
    }

  • Layout: toolbar and thumbnail bar at top, contextual toolbar at bottom

    // in igconfig.json
    {
      "Layout": {
        "Toolbar": "Top;1", // Toolbar is at top, below thumbnail bar
        "Gallery": "Top;0", // thumbnail bar is at top, above the toolbar
        "ToolbarContext": "Bottom", // contextual toolbar is at bottom
      }
    }

🟢 New Color picker tool

• Shows cursor location on the viewing image.
• Clicks to pick the pixel color.
• Adds support for color formats: RGB, HEX, CMYK, HSL, HSV.
• Adds buttons to copy color code.
• Adds Settings window with options to show alpha value for each color format.

🟢 New Page navigation tool

• Supports for viewing separate image frame.
  • Non-animated formats (TIFF, ICO,...).
  • Animated formats (GIF, WEBP, APNG,...).
• Respects the size and orientation of the image frame (#1077).
• Exports all frames.

🟢 External tools support

• You can download external tools at https://imageglass.org/tools.
• Created https://github.com/ImageGlass/ImageGlass.Tools library for other 3rd-party apps to communicate with ImageGlass via IPC message events.
• Sends events to the external tools using ImageGlassEvents.
• Sends EnableWindowTopMost as a command-line argument to request the external tool window to be top most.
• Uses ToolSettings setting to store settings of the built-in tools (Crop tool, Color picker) instead of Tools.
• Added support for adding external tools to ImageGlass Tools menu with setting Tools and assigning the tool's hotkeys with setting MenuHotkeys.
• Shows "Tool not found" dialog to allow user to select executable path of the tool.
• For more details, please refer to https://github.com/ImageGlass/ImageGlass.Tools.

🟢 Introducing ExifGlass - a new ExifTool for ImageGlass

ExifGlass is a brand new EXIF metadata viewing app, designed to work seamlessly with ImageGlass 9, but can also be used as a standalone software on your computer. To use ExifGlass, you need to have ExifTool by Phil Harvey installed on your system.

For more details, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ExifGlass.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.4.416_Beta-4_x64_net6.zip	CCE6542B9952779972A50FF350984A6961A097D2
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.4.416_Beta-4_x64_net7.zip	1EFC8419A4364709A9EDAF60E51A2CC230DDCF9E

ImageGlass Kobe 8.8.4.4

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📝 Changelog:

🌱 New:

• Adds setting HideAppName in igconfig.xml to hide ImageGlass text on title bar.
• Adds support for showing "Tag ID" column for the Exif tool.

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.0.1.
• Uses Magick.NET to load animated WEBP if libwebp.dll does not found (#1526).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where non-animated transparent WEBP image does not display correctly.
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool window shows error before showing exif data (#1520).
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool does not show -H in the preview command (#1530).
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool throws error when using custom file format .fmt (#1530).
• Fixed an issue where language is reset to English after each update (#1523). This fix applies to next update (from v8.8.4.4 to v8.8+).

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x64.msi	2B8C0D6B8A990A29E3B87C683BE0383DCE130653
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x64.zip	A4ECA3122C893F7EBEE3EC2AABF5E5F7E8A6F404
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x86.msi	7A70FAD060AC55339C491A2E1B7CD48DD8191749
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x86.zip	68DC339943102C1F2FE6B8BF0FEBDB0C461EDAC1

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 4 is under development.
• From version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

Full Changelog: 8.8.3.28...8.8.4.4

ImageGlass Kobe 8.8.3.28 (updated)

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• 26/03/2023: Updated the license to make the registration for non-personal purposes optional, see https://imageglass.org/license.
• 24/03/2023: Updated the binary files (and hash codes) to fix the issue #1516: Zooming by hotkey in Window Fit mode does not work.

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📝 Changelog:

🌱 New:

• Adds setting DisabledMenus in igconfig.xml to disable ImageGlass features using menu name (#1498).
• Adds support for relative path of Exiftool in igconfig.xml file (#1208).
• Adds support for displaying and extracting Unicode characters from EXIF metadata (#1169).
• Adds a new confirmation dialog when the user overrides the current image to warn them about the limitations of ImageGlass regarding image saving (#1094).
• The About dialog now includes information about the ImageGlass license and privacy policy.
• The Check for Update feature has been improved to show more information about the update and check if the user's system can install version 9.0 in the future.
• Image saving has been updated to only work with supported formats listed in the "Write" column of the supported formats page (#1504):
  • If the user attempts to save an unsupported format, the "Save as..." dialog will be opened instead.
  • This change also affects other image saving-related features such as rotation, flipping, and cropping.

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.0.0.
• Improved loading speed for animated WEBP format (#1466) by directly using libwebp v1.3.0.
• Thumbnails are now automatically centered (#1049).
• Enhanced the corner radius of the toolbar, thumbnail bar, and menu to ensure optimal display on high DPI screens running Windows 11.
• Implemented rounded frameless window borders on Windows 11.

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where the user couldn't minimize the window in Window Fit mode (#1448).
• Fixed a bug that prevented ImageGlass from loading certain TIF files with invalid tags (#1181, #1454).
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool was not functional when using the default name of ExifTool: exiftool(-k).exe (#1178).
• Fixed an issue where images became corrupted during the save process, causing display errors when navigating to the next image or exiting the app (#1097, #1273, #1504).
• Fixed an issue where the "loading..." message always shows when viewing next images.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x64.msi	9DFFA4CF4690C2D5D4F87E976DD4E7333FFC4848
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x64.zip	ABA769BF454B16053BE062306B142660E10EAE98
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x86.msi	748A9BFF8C8AD85E7D616060F0160B1A7C6F6FA4
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x86.zip	AFF015F6B8DA5DB945BB4BD3B51225A184DD371E

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 4 is under development.
• From version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

Full Changelog: 8.7.11.6...8.8.3.28