Shotwell 0.32.0 Image Viewer Adds Support for JPEG-XL, AVIF, and WebP Images
Shotwell 0.32.0 is here to introduce support for new image formats, including AVIF, WebP, JPEG-XL, CR3, as well as more variants of HEIF/HVEC. It also introduces the ability to manually tag people in images, and the devs note the fact that automatic detection and recognition of people can now be enabled during compile time.
The graphical user interface has been updated as well in this release to add support for HiDPI displays for the image viewer, support for multiple accounts for publishing services, and simpler handling of hierarchical tags.
Update (by Roy)
Original here:
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Jens Georg: Shotwell 0.32.0
Hello everyone, as “teased” over on discourse, April 22nd saw the release of Shotwell’s new stable version, 0.32.0.
New features include:
- More image formats: AVIF, CR3, HEIF/HVEC, JPEG XL & WebP
- Some initial geographical data handling (The map display will likely return in 33)
- Multiple libraries and settings that are isolated from each other
- Support of more than one account for publishing services
- Manual tagging of persons
- Automatic detection and recognition of persons can be enabled during compile time
- HiDPI support for the image viewer
- Simpler handling of hierarchical tags
The new version should pop up on flathub soon, and if you were subscribing to the GNOME nightly version, I would also recommend to switch to the flathub version, the GNOME nightly version will start to become quite unstable soonish.
OMG Linux:
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Shotwell Photo App Now Supports AVIF, HEIC & WebP
The biggest one? We of this update Shotwell now supports more image formats. This includes AVIF and HEIF/HVEC/HEIC (which will be familiar to iPhone users), as well as JPEG XL, CR3, and the increasingly ubiquitous WebP.
Late coverage:
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Shotwell 0.32.0 Released with HEIF/HEVC, WebP Support [Ubuntu PPA]
Shotwell image organizer released version 0.32.0 a few days ago. Here's how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04 via PPA. After a few years of 0.31.x development releases, Shotwell 0.32 was finally released as new stable series. Compare to v0.30.x, it features: Webp, AVIF, HEIF/HEVC, CR3, JPEG-XL images support.