First 3.1 alpha

• Basic Exif editing
• Enhanced Exif filtering
• Mass/auto renaming
• Interactive file collision resolution on copy/move
• Filter images by tags
• New image filters for "warm", "cold" and brown
• Much better support for external viewer window (starting with "it no longer crashes")
• Modular translation files
• Bring back the irregular grid for the compact mode (instead of two square displays)
• Nicer viewer toolbar (secretly also configurable)
• Basic screenshot editing (annotate, blackout and encircle)
• Code cleanup
• Fixed some bugs
• Probably added new ones instead

Almost equal to the final beta except for a fixed bug when wrapping slideshows and some translations.

Some small bugfixes

• align collation between model and fs and preserve setting
• account for rotation when sliding images around
• upscale preview to match image
• update image info overlay when loading image from thumbviewer
• fix tag subset selection logic
• lazy inode watching

• Last new features:
  • filter for colors, colorfulness and brightness
  • take an image list from stdin and
  • support bangs to invoke external commands (locate, find, baloo, tracker, …) to generate image lists from the path bar
  • allow phototonic to run as singleton (ie. subsequent starts remote-control the existing process)
• Some UI tweaks
  • most notably removed various questionable auto-scale options for sane defaults and dynamic adjustment
• More code clean-up
• Fixed bugs (mostly just introduced ones) - and I just realized one more (but completely uncritical and it's too late now)

3rd and last alpha release

• lots of code cleanup and bugfixes
• the biggest changes are that
  • the filter now operates on the view instead of reloading the directory
  • the duplicate search incorporates histogram similarity to find potential duplicates
  • the filesystem is monitored and updated on external changes (new images saved by gimp show up automatically)
• animated zoom and rotation and multithreaded color correction and also transactions (move/delete) are aplied to the thumbnail cache
• I hopefully didn't introduce too many bugs…

• Proper thread usage - snappier behavior, less crashes
• Reviewed the entire tag handling
• lot's of fixes when using the viewer as preview (including the crop rect)
• Improve colorizing performance
• sort by exif date
• lots of UI tweaks and bug fixes
• introduced a couple of bugs (likely)

There're probably glitches but it's not gonna explode into your face.

Pay close attention on destructive actions (deleting stuff) and always remember:
There's only two kind of people in the world.

• Those who have backups and
• Those who have concepts of a plan for backups