• Fixed Downloading a SmartAlbum results in crash (#652)
• Fixed htaccess IfModule for PHP7 (#653)

• New Hide mouse pointer in full screen mode (#620)
• Improved Smoothing rotation of album (#626)

• Fixed Search stopped working because of an undefined index error (#605)
• Fixed Better next/previous photo check to prevent an error when opening an album with only one photo

• Improved Rotate and flip images with GD based on EXIF orientation (Thanks @qligier, #600)
• Improved Enter/leave fullscreen-mode by (not) moving the mouse for one second (Thanks @hrniels, #583)
• Improved Prefetch the medium photo instead of the big one (Thanks @Bramas, #446)
• Improved Added "session" to required extensions (#579)
• Improved Added warning if Imagick is not installed/enabled (Thanks @hrniels, #590)
• Fixed Don't assume that gd_info exists when running diagnostics (Thanks @hrniels, #589 #565)
• Fixed Sidebar showing up in smart albums when navigating back from the photo-view

• Improved Added indexes to SQL fields to improve query execution time (Thanks @qligier, #533)
• Improved Protocol-relative URLs for open graph metadata (#546)
• Improved Remove metadata from medium-sized images and thumbnails (Imagick only) (#556)
• Improved Reduce quality of medium-sized images (Imagick only) (#556)
• Improved orientation-handling with Imagick (#556)

• New share button when logged out (#473)
• New Import of IPTC photo tags (Thanks @qligier, #514)
• New Added reset username and password to FAQ (#500 #128)
• Improved Removed will-change from the main image to improve the image rendering in Chrome (#501)
• Improved scroll and rendering performance by removing will-change
• Improved Open Facebook and Twitter sharing sheet in new window
• Improved EXIF and IPTC extraction (Thanks @qligier, #518)
• Fixed broken URL in Update.md (#516)
• Fixed error 500 on database connect error (Thanks @tribut, #530)

Warning: It's no longer possible to update from Lychee versions older than 2.7.

Warning: Plugins which use the plugin API of Lychee must be updated to work with the new back-end.

Notice: It's no longer possible to edit the thumb quality in the database.

Notice: It's no longer possible to disable the creation of medium-sized photos when Imagick is installed on the system.

This updates includes a huge rewrite of the back-end. We are now using namespaces and the singleton pattern for Settings::get(), Database::get() and Plugins::get(). Everything is way better documented thanks to PHPDoc comments. Ugly # comments have been replaced with the more known //. Unused functions are gone and returns are more strict. We also added a handy module to output messages. Failed database updates and invalid queries will be saved to the log.

• New Empty titles for albums
• New Share albums as hidden so they are only viewable with a direct link (#27)
• New Log failed and successful login attempts (Thanks @qligier, #382 #246)
• Improved error messages and log output
• Improved The search shows albums above photos (#434)
• Improved Album id now based on the current microtime (#27)
• Improved Back-end modules and plugins
• Improved Database connect function and update mechanism
• Improved Default photo title now "Untitled"
• Improved Move to next photo after after moving a picture (#437)
• Improved Return to album overview when canceling album password input
• Improved URL import now accepts photo URLs containing "?" and ":" (Thanks @qligier, #482)
• Improved Replaced date by strftime to simplify date translations (Thanks @qligier, #461)
• Fixed Missing icons in Safari 9.1
• Fixed duplicate uploads (Thanks @qligier, #433)
• Fixed incorrect escaping when using backslashes
• Fixed session_start() after sending headers (#433)
• Fixed error when deleting last open photo in album
• Fixed Photo sometimes not loading when visiting directly
• Fixed Move album, merge album and switch album/photo menus no longer show empty titles for untitled albums/photos

• Improved Disabled dragging for thumbnails
• Improved Avoided unnecessary devicePixelRatio checks by using srcset for all thumbnails
• Improved Avoided devicePixelRatio check by using srcset for the imageview image
• Improved Don't show log and system information when logged out (Thanks @Bramas, #421)
• Fixed Swipe-gestures on mobile devices

• Improved Lychee update site now with SSL (#317)
• Improved Set undefined vars, remove unused vars and code that cannot be reached (Thanks @mattsches, #435)

• Internal changes and updated dependencies
• New PHP-version-check now requires PHP >= 5.5
• New Preloading of big photos (#185)