Adds the support for Facebook's new security permissions
Fixes the defect where photos were uploaded to an existing album would end up in a new different album.
Added the Only Me option to the privacy options
Stability improvements
Bloom 2.8.0
15/03/2010
Adds cover flow: the ability to view photos by pressing on the SPACE button, ESCAPE dismisses
the preview, the RIGHT and LEFT arrows are used to navigate between photos
Increase the upload photos size to 720 pixels
Added Spanish translation thanks to Francisco Viollaz
Added the ability to choose the default file dialog directory (in the Preferences menu)
Added the ability to save photos from the thumbnails list
Added the ability to locate the added images in the file manager (Explorer, Finder)
Performance improvement when viewing albums
Fixes the caption defect: when selecting a photo with a caption then selecting other photos,
the other photos captions get overwritten
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
Bug in Mac OS X
Bloom 1.01
27/02/2008
Corrected bug: Customize About, Preferences, Quit for Mac