The wait is over - Coppermine 1.5.8 [stable] is here

[Αndré]

It is with great pride that the Coppermine community announces to the world the immediate availability of Coppermine 1.5.8 stable. As a community of contributors, we have been through celebrations and tribulations. We have had fun, and we have worked hard. We have learned from and helped one another. What started two and a half years ago has grown into what we believe to be the finest PHP photo gallery yet.

People have contributed enormous amounts of time and energy to make Coppermine 1.5.x what it is today. Developers and contributors have collaborated over long distances, around the clock, enthusiastically contributing to the project! Hours writing code combined with intense discussions on everything from usability to extensibility have defined many developers' lives over the last two and a half years. It is not only the developers that have been hard at work but you the community. Without your help testing, translating, requesting features, contributing themes and plugins, supporting others and much more we could never have come this far.

Feature Rich

Over the years the community has contributed modifications and ideas that have added fantastic functionality to Coppermine. We have taken the best of these and added them to the core making this the most complete release yet.

    • Built in Captcha engine
    • Built in Watermark engine
    • New Upload Interface
    • Improved Groups control
    • Improved Category Management tool
    • Drag and drop sorting of albums
    • Improved Search engine
    • New core 'Curve' theme
    • Improved image tagging
    • Enhanced plugin engine.

Documentation

Good documentation is equally as important as good code and the new Coppermine manual has come of age. It is now a mighty tome covering almost everything you will ever need to know about getting your gallery running and then maintaining it. Many hours of work have gone into the docs so if you have questions please take time to review them before asking questions on the forum.
The documentation is an ever growing beast so if you find something that is missing or needs changing then we would love your suggestions or contributions.

Installation

    • Package Download
    • A fresh Installation
    • Upgrading from an older version

Translation

Once again the community have risen to the challenge. Coppermine now supports a number of languages but we would love to see many more. If you have the language skills then please share your abilities with the community. If often takes just one person to begin translation for others to follow and very quickly we can bring Coppermine to a whole new audience. If you start a translation keep uploading what you have so others can also contribute.

There is a new translation guide that ships with cpg1.5.x that is mandatory to read for potential translators as well as the translation announcement thread "[Help wanted]: Translations for CPG1.5.x".

How else can I help?

With a new plugin engine we are looking forward to seeing what the imaginative Coppermine community can bring us. We have always been amazed by your efforts so keep them coming. The new Curve theme will also hopefully spawn many new community contributions. CPG 1.4.x has an amazing variety of themes and we would like to see 1.5.x surpass that.

Supporting the many users of Coppermine is also a task that everyone can get involved with. The dev team is small but the community is huge. So give yourself a warm fuzzy feeling by helping those in need. Sometimes the smallest tips can make the biggest difference.

What will happen to 1.4.x?

With all the new features of 1.5.x the development team have decided that only security fixes will be applied to 1.4.x in the short term. However, there will come a time when 1.4.x will be laid to rest. While we have yet to decide on a firm date for this to happen expect support to be withdrawn in around 6 months. With all the new features that 1.5.x brings we firmly believe most users to want to upgrade long before then.

Many Thanks

We would like to thank the whole community for all their efforts over the years. Without your time and expertise we could never have come this far.

We would also like to thank Bytemark for providing the project with their excellent hosting services. A busy website such as this requires a reliable server and we have not been let down.

Sourceforge are also high on the list of people we would love to buy a pint or two for. Without their repository many free, open source projects such as ours would struggle to survive.

What has been changed since the release of cpg1.5.6?

• Fixed setting default language with language manager (thread)
• Changed form token generation - removed trouble maker parameters (thread)
• Fixed language manager issue for language files with underscore (thread)
• Set moderator group to '0' for all albums to avoid problems for people who used that feature before it was dropped (thread)
• Fixed ecard if no intermediate picture is present (thread)
• Added Estonian language file (user contribution)
• Update 'last visit' time if it's a 'remember me' session (thread)
• Added Slovak language file (user contribution)
• While deleting non-images, delete the corresponding custom thumbnail if exists
• While renaming non-images, rename the corresponding custom thumbnail if exists
• While renaming files, check if there will be no conflicts before doing anything
• Added plugin hook 'token_criteria'
• Fixed missing CSS class cpg_summary and icon replacement leading to broken output of help boxes on config screen (thread & thread)
• Fixed possibility for users to edit their files in public galleries if disabled in config (thread)
• Disable the possibility for guests to enter file details by default (thread)
• Fixed error message when regular users try to delete their albums in public categories
• Re-organizing zip archives inside docs folder
• Adding documentation about plugin config options
• Fixed issue when reset file ratings (thread)
• Fixed empty values for 'reason' in 'report to administrator' email (thread)
• Fixed category view when albums with keywords are present (thread)
• Changed type of plugin hooks 'theme_thumbnails_wrapper_start/end' from 'filter' to 'action' and adjusted English documentation accordingly (thread)
• Added search terms to the title of the thumbnails page (thread)
• Added Japanese language file (user contribution)
• Adding boxes to config documentation for defaults, max, min, recomended and record name
• Display Coppermine news always in an iframe (thread)
• Fixed error message for non existing categories (thread)
• Replaced wrong link in update.php (thread)
• Added language table population section to update script to stop cpg1.4.x upgrades seing only Luxemburgish and Mexican as available langauges
• Updated Turkish language file (user contribution)
• Show password prompt if user tries to access file in password protected album directly
• Added Brazilian language file (user contribution)
• Fixed uploading to password protected albums in public categories (thread)
• Changed default values for user galleries category (thread)
• Fixed album visibility issue with user galleries (thread)
• Changed fix for category alpha sorting
• Fixed a critical error with the most viewed meta album
• Updated French language file (improvement and corrections)
• Allow higher port numbers for the site url config setting
• Fixed display of swf files in Firefox (thread)
• Fixed resizing of watermark backup images (thread)
• Fixed category permissions for secondary user groups (thread)
• Fixed issue when editing user albums (thread)
• Fixed issues with usergal_alphatabs plugin (thread & thread)
• Fixed line breaks in contact form emails
• Removed outdated FAQ items
• Updated Hungarian language file (user contribution)
• Fixed pre-population of user name on comments form (thread)
• Fixed timeout issue when fetching remote files (thread)
• Fixed thumb sharpening (thread)
• Place new comments form accordingly to sort order of comments (thread)
• Added Danish language file (user contribution)
• Added default value for 'user_profile6' during user creation (thread)
• Fixed HTML validation issue for german lang files - replaced & by &
• Updated plugin manager documentation (thread)
• Added Hungarian language file (user contribution)
• Fixed pagination for user manager (thread)
• Updated Finnish language file (user contribution)

The Coppermine team