d2phap/ImageGlass 8.4.1.22

ImageGlass Kobe 8.4.1.22

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⚡ Breaking and Important changes

1. New app behaviors to set by default in Settings > General > Others:

• Continue running background when the app is closed.
  
• Start with OS.
  

2. First-launch configuration setting value updated:

• New value: FirstLaunchVersion="8.4" (old value is FirstLaunchVersion="5")
  
• To bypass this dialog, you need to set FirstLaunchVersion value in igconfig.xml (or igconfig.default.xml, or igconfig.admin.xml) to the value that greater or equal 8.4.
  
• This is because ImageGlass 8.4 introduces privacy policy that need user's attention.
  

3. Introduce Spider service:

• From version 8.4, Spider sponsors ImageGlass by integrating their service into ImageGlass. This service is enables by default.
  
• End-users will be notified about the privacy policy of this service in the First-launch configuration dialog, and they can decide what to do with it in Settings > Privacy tab. Privacy policy details: https://imageglass.org/privacy.
  
• You can read more about this service, and learn how to totally disable, remove, or exclude it in your own ImageGlass distribution at: https://imageglass.org/docs/spider-service.
  

📝 Changelog:

🌱 New:

• New app behaviors to improve startup time:
  
  • Adds an option: "Continue running background when the app is closed" to minimize the app window to system tray menu when user closes ImageGlass (#1196). To truly exit the app, right-click on ImageGlass tray icon, select Exit; or use Main menu > Exit (Shift+ESC).
    
  • Adds an option: "Start with OS" to auto-run ImageGlass when Windows starts and stay in system tray (#1205).
    
• Added an option to play sound when a number of images change (#1199), thanks to @AutomationBoi.
  
• Added new shortcut to close ImageGlass: Ctrl+W (#1172).
  
• Added Privacy tab to Settings dialog, and Privacy tab to First-launch configuration dialog.
  
  • Changed FirstLaunchVersion value in settings from 5 to 8.4.
    
  • If you upgrade ImageGlass from version 5, you will be notified about Privacy in First-launch configuration dialog.
    
  • If you newly install ImageGlass, you will go through all steps of First-launch configuration dialog.
    
• Added support for QOI image format.
  

🔮 Improvements:

• Improve software security, all binary files are now signed (#97).
  
• Updated Magick.NET to 8.6.1.
  
• Added extensions icons for JXL, HEIF, CR3, AVIF, B64, QOI (#1183).
  

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue that the viewing image disappears when changing color channels (#1175).
  
• Fixed an issue that when editing image from the clipboard, ImageGlass ignores the editing app from Settings > Edit, always uses MS Paint (#1139).
  
• On Windows 11, fixed an issue that the default editing function throws error because of the changes of Windows associated programs (#1160). ImageGlass is now using MS Paint to edit by default on Windows 11.
  
• Fixed several issues that the image is corrupted while being saved when users navigate to other images or close the app by disabling the UI when the app is busy (#566, #1097, #1120, #1134).
  

🥒 Checksums:

File | SHA-1
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ImageGlass_8.4.1.22_x64.msi | d56b80abaf5523d2cb7da33093ba1dc5a6d6f3de
ImageGlass_8.4.1.22_x64.zip | 23e19b95260df320e9715a79085234b5f1185fef
ImageGlass_8.4.1.22_x86.msi | 74edefa7daf8066de532d3249a3863847fac6bbd
ImageGlass_8.4.1.22_x86.zip | 52160341f6aa7eae21929b1409844661bea85198

🛣 Roadmap for ImageGlass 9

We are planning to migrate ImageGlass to .NET 6 from version 9 which is scheduled some time in 2022.
If you are unable to install .NET 6, you can stay with ImageGlass 8.