Release Notes
Bloom 2.7.1
20/01/2010
- Fixes the upload of certain photos for some users. Facebook photos and albums are now Strings instead of integers or longs previously.
Bloom 2.7.0
13/01/2010
- Improves the quality of uploaded photos by employing a new multi-step bicubic algorithm.
- Fixes the defect were users were not able to use the application, the famous 'Please login to Facebook first'.
- Fixes the defect where you wouldn't be able to tag yourself.
- Fixes the defect where uploads failed because of special characters in the album name.
- Adds a log file to log errors. Logging can also be enable with -Ddebug=true
Bloom 2.6.0
26/10/2009
- Adds the ability to customize the imported IPTC metadata
- Fixes the proxy server support
- Enlarges the photo caption text area for a better user experience
- Adds the support in the help for Snow Leopard and Windows 7.
Bloom 2.5.1
08/08/2009
- Fixed bug in friends' list introduced by Facebook changes.
Bloom 2.5
03/07/2009
- Increases the number of photos an album can contain to 200.
- Adds the ability to upload videos
- Improved user experience when uploading photos and videos, each byte transferred is displayed in a progress bar.
- Improved performance when loading images.
Bloom 2.1
25/04/2009
- Adds the ability to import a photo exif information such as the camera model, aperture, shutter speed, focal length.
- Improves the UI of the album display panel
- Improves Mac OS X integration: native dmg installer, better file dialog and closing app will still show it in the doc.
- Improved File Dialog on Windows which is now resizable.
- Minor fixes.
Bloom 2.0
28/02/2009
- Improved Login, uses current logged in Facebook session
- Adding a caption can now be done in the large image view mode.
- Bug fixes relating to uploader stuck at 1%
- Performance and stability improvements in photo list and image display window
Bloom 1.9
20/01/2009
- Bug fixes and UI improvements
Bloom 1.8
11/01/2009
- Adds the ability to specify album privacy.
- Improves loading of thumbnails on Mac and Linux File choosers
- Added an uninstaller on Windows
Bloom 1.7
14/12/2008
- Ability to add photos in offline mode and then Log In
- Quality of generated uploaded images improved.
- Ability to delete photos in image view mode
- UI improvements to the image view mode
- Performance improvements
- Stability improvements
- Support of lower resolutions such as Netbooks
- Better integration with the native platform by using the native Filechooser
- Windows 64 support (Vista 64 and XP 64).
Bloom 1.6
09/08/2008
- Added the ability to download albums
- Added the ability to sort photos by name, date the picture was taken, modification date and size
- Added the ability to remove a photo while viewing it
- UI Improvements and better user experience
- Fixed the upload to an existing album
Bloom 1.5
14/07/2008
- Critical bug fix when the application wouldn't start if the machine has an non English or French Locale
- Corrects tagging.
Bloom 1.3
21/06/2008
- Fixed the order of photos when uploading
- Improved the upload reliability if some photos are not uploaded or if the user cancels the upload
process
Bloom 1.4
28/06/2008
- Added the ability to upload more than 60 photos, these will be added to other albums.
- Improved the user experience of the upload process
- UI Improvements
- Tagging now includes the full name of the person
Bloom 1.3
21/06/2008
- Fixed the order of photos when uploading
- Improved the upload reliability if some photos are not uploaded or if the user cancels the upload
process
Bloom 1.2
19/06/2008
- Added support for authenticated Proxy servers
- Fixed the logout process and the relogin process
- Look and feel improvements
- Added personalization features
- Added the ability to choose between a secure and a non secure connection
- Added the support for the French language
Bloom 1.1
01/06/2008
- Improved the upload speed by 2x
- Improved the overall performance
- Added the ability to view friends' photos
- Added a filmstrip panel for image viewing
- Added the ability to upload photos to an existing album
- Fixed the location and description bug
- Improved tagging
- Improved user experience
Bloom 1.03
11/03/2008
- Fixed bugs when rotating images and uploading them
- Fixed the bug when the upload dialog was not being shown after uploading some pictures
and re-uploading again
- Changed the way Bloom creates thumbnail by using temporary files instead of normal
files
- Fixed some bugs related to actions being disabled/enabled
Bloom 1.02
01/03/2008
Bloom 1.01
27/02/2008
- Corrected bug: Customize About, Preferences, Quit for Mac
Bloom 1.0
27/02/2008