PhotoVault image organizer

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.2.beta1

Notes:
The biggest change in Photovault 0.2 is support for external volumes:
Previously Photovault could only manage images stored in its own
database. While this is OK when importing new images it was not
convenient way to work with large existing archives since Photovault
created a new copy of each image file and thus doubled disk usage.

In Photovault 0.2 this can be solved by defining the existing archive
directory as an external volume. THen Photovault stores only metadata
and a thumbnail of the photos in its database. The actual image files
are accessed from original directory.  Photovault will also track any
changes or additions made to the external volume directory.

 
BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY

Due to external volume support the database schema used by Photovault
has changed in 0.2 series.  If you open a database created with
earlied version Photovault will automatically convert the database
schema. This can take significant amount of time if there are lots of
existing images in the database.

Using old 0.1 version after upgrading is not recommended since making
changes with it may leave database into inconsistent state.

REQUIRED SOFTWARE

Photovault needs Sub Java JRE 1.5 and Java Advanced Imaging libraries
to work. You can download both from Sun web site.

0.2.beta1 should work also woth JRE 1.4. However, this has not been
thoroughly tested yet so JRE 1.5 is recommended.

Photovault can use either Apache Derby or MySQL as metadata
store. Derby is included in this release; if you want to use MySQL
instead you need to download it from www.mysql.com.

Changes:
0.2.beta1:

New features
- update indexed dirs
- status bar shows indexing status

Bug fixes
- JUnit test cases work also in non-Windows environment
- Support for Java 1.4
- Fixed case sensitivity problem with MySQL server running 
  in Unix/Linux environment
- Fixed error in error handling when logging in with incorrect 
  password 

0.2.alpha1
- Shortcut keys for moving between images in the same folder
- Use launch4j for starting Photovault (instead if NSIS)