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PennAve, the dynamic web photo gallery application for F-Spot users has just released version 0.4. Among the new and enhanced features of this version are:

* Lost-Modified is sent on images allowing them to be cached
* On systems that support the canvas tag, we do some nice canvas drawing for
the stacked images on the main page.
* all XML is now placed in a namespace
This means that there are changes required for any customized XSLT that
you may use on your site. In particular, the top level elements are
now pa:tagBrowse and pa:photoView.
* Lots of fixes for UTF-8, hopefully we got them all
* A brand spanking new user interface that doesn't suck nearly as much as
the previous one.
* Ability to do server side translation of XSLT files by setting
xsltRender=True in the global section of the configuration file.
* Ability to show the default version of an image instead of the original
version by setting defaultImage=True in the configuration file.
* Upgraded to CherryPy 3.0
* Almost all navigation now possible without JavaScript
* Lots of small bug fixes.

PennAve, the dynamic web photo gallery application for F-Spot users has just released version 0.3. Among the new features of this version are:
* customizable start page
* slide show mode
* RSS feeds
* improved speed
* ability to browse all sub tags under a tag at the same time
* some nice new graphical glitz

I'm pleased to release PennAve 0.2. This is the first official release of the new version of PennAve which serves as a web frontend to the F-Spot photo management application. If you use F-Spot, you'll love PennAve. Please try this release out and let me know what you think.

After letting PennAve languish for quite some time, I've revived the project. As before PennAve is still written in Python and utilizes the Python Imaging Library for on the fly scaling of images and creation of thumbnails. However, rather than reinventing the wheel, the new version of PennAve utilizes the user interface and database provided by F-Spot to manage all your photos. All descriptions and tags are read out of the F-Spot photos.db file now. That's right, putting your entire F-Spot photo collection on the web is now as simple as copying over your photo.db file and making it so your web server can access your pictures.... read more