Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.27 is released

Software Rapid Photo Downloader
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Compared to 0.9.26, the big changes in this release are support for iOS devices (documentation) and support for running under WSL 2 (documentation).

This release is essential if you use Fedora 35. CentOS Stream 8 is now supported.

To install this version you will need to run the install script. In-place upgrades are not supported this time around.

All changes compared to 0.9.26:

0.9.27 (2021-12-12)

  • Purge calls to unmaintained Python package rawkit, which was an optional
    dependency.

  • Fix bug to always display the correct value for showing system directories
    when right-clicking on Photo and Video destinations, as well as This
    Computer.

  • When running under WSL 2, account for default value %USERPROFILE% when
    probing registry to determine Pictures and Videos user folder locations.

  • Add support for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS 8 to install.py script. Thanks to
    Neal Gompa for identifying the cause of a problem when querying dnf under
    CentOS Stream 8 and providing the fix for it.

  • Update Czech, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Polish, Russian and Spanish
    translations.

  • Correct Albanian language attribution in About dialog box.

  • Read in much larger chunk of RAF files on cameras to read metadata. This
    slows performance, but is necessary on newer RAF files, which have larger
    embedded JPEGs that are placed before the metadata in the file.

0.9.27b2 (2021-11-28)

  • Enable running under WSLg and WSL2 on Windows 11. Not all features are
    supported. See the
    program documentation.

  • By default only non-system directories are now shown in the directory
    listings for Photo and Video destinations, as well as This Computer. Right-
    click in the directory listings to enable showing all system directories.

  • The install.py script now updates the mime info cache, meaning the program
    should now appear as an option to handle photographic media in file
    managers when installed using this script.

  • Fix bug #1946407:
    another compatibility fix for Python 3.10 that 0.9.27b1 and 0.9.27a3 did not
    fully resolve.

  • Don’t crash when showing photo or video in file manager after right-clicking
    on thumbnail and no file is selected.

  • Update Albanian, Dutch and Swedish translations.

0.9.27b1 (2021-10-31)

  • Use Python module Show-in-File-Manager
    to display files in the operating system’s file manager. Linux distribution
    packagers: this is a required module.

  • New Python module requirement for Python versions earlier than 3.8:
    importlib_metadata.

  • All selected files will now be opened in the file manager when right-
    clicking on a photo or video in the main window and “Open in File Browser”
    is activated. Previously only the file being right-clicked on would be
    opened.

  • Fix bug #1946407:
    another compatibility fix for Python 3.10 that 0.9.27a3 did not fully
    resolve.

  • Fix bug #33
    SystemError: PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN macro must be defined for ‘#’ formats on
    Python 3.10. The solution is to install PyQt 5.15.6 or newer when using
    Python 3.10, which the install.py script now does.

  • Fix bug where downloading from a camera that was already in use would fail
    because generating an error message would cause an exception.

  • Disable viewing files still on a camera in the operating system’s file
    manager when on KDE.

0.9.27a3 (2021-10-10)

  • Fix bug #1946407: Work around apparent float to int conversion when calling
    Qt from Python 3.10 on Fedora 35 beta.

  • Fix bug #33: Files with unique identifier added via error handling are not
    marked as downloaded.

  • Add folder ‘Screenshots’ to list of ignored paths. Remove this folder from
    the list of ignored paths in the program Preferences dialog if you do wish to
    download from a path that contains this folder.

  • Fix bug #1924933: Exception when scanning device with problematic connection.

  • Fix bug #1909904: python3-libunity package dumps core on Fedora. The
    install.py script will now uninstall python3-libunity if it is found on the
    system, as using it causes a calling program like Rapid Photo Downloader to
    crash.

  • Include Python package setuptools in README.md listing of required of runtime
    packages. It has been required for some time, but the README did not specify
    it.

  • The install.py script will no longer install pyheif on Raspberry Pi OS
    because user feedback indicates pyheif fails to build on that OS. If pyheif
    does in fact build on your install of Raspberry Pi OS, you can install it
    using Python’s pip.

0.9.27a2 (2021-07-31)

0.9.27a1 (2021-07-27)

  • iOS devices are now accessed using a software library written specifically to
    communicate with iOS devices, libimobiledevice. Previously, gPhoto2 was used,
    but gPhoto2 is unreliable with iOS because it appears Apple does not follow
    the PTP standard. Please note that on some systems, it can take some minutes
    for the iOS device to appear after it has been plugged in.

    Distribution package maintainers should modify
    rapid-photo-downloader packages to include the following package
    dependencies:

    Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora:

    • libimobiledevice-utils
    • ifuse
    • fuse

    openSUSE:

    • imobiledevice-tools
    • ifuse
    • fuse

  • Python 3.6 is now the minimum Python version.

  • Update install.py script to correctly enable Power Tools repository on
    CentOS 8, and the Qt5 wayland package on Fedora and CentOS 8.

  • Update Albanian and Polish translations.

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