#1666 In the backoffice you can enter a comment to an order which is only visible for backoffice users.

#1667 Adding a new view for order statistics. This page is experimental. Let me know if that content is useful for you or you need more data.

#1679 Removed the Google Photos migration tool. Google Photos access via API is not working for nearly a year, so the migration tool will no longer work. Note: Google Photos Shared pages are not affected here!

#1680 The CLI interface now allows publishing new Events and skip the processing of existing Events with new command line parameters. Example: "joomla.php eventgallery:sync -o=true"

#1676 Avoid the error "The number of variables must match the number of parameters in the prepared statement" with some database drivers.

#1678 The zip file for the images of an order which can be created in the Event Gallery backend added the file extension .jpg sometimes twice.

#1665 Import the Guided Tour only in Joomla 5/6 to avoid errors while installing Event Gallery on Joomla 4.

#1664 New email template could cause an exception if now attachments had been selected.

#1658 A little z-index for the icons on images is required. Otherwise, the description overlay makes a click on the cart/sharing icons impossible.

#1653 Fixes the handling of IPTC-Data if they contain specific characters.

#1657 A broken German language file leads to a broken Event Edit Page in the backend

#1658 Z-Index for Sharing-Icons container was unnecessarily high

#1659 The category list is capable of showing filtered links to published/unpublished/trashed items. But this does not work with Event Gallery yet. Those links are now hidden.

#1353 support multiple URLs for Google Photos with Shared Links. This will help to get around the need to creating multiple Events because of the limitation in the number of images which can be scraped from one URL.

#1652 The recursive displaying of Events in categories did not work.

#855 Switching all SQL statements to prepared statements. This will increase the level of security when it comes to SQL injection.

#1633 massive rework of the add2cart page. Improved the UI for selecting the right format for an image.

#1634 The cart and checkout review has a new UI.

#1634 The mini-cart has a new UI.

#1635 The share dialog has a new UI.

#1636 Replace the dialog/overlay with the modern HTML elemenet dialog.

#1637 Image List Layouet: Do not add the first image with a higher row height if it is the only image in that row. This typically looks not so good on mobile or in modules in the sidebar.

#1638 The edit-buttons on the checkout review page are now buttons instead of ugly links.

#1639 Updated Stripe SKD to version 19.1.0

Removed the Flickr settings in the main options completely. This has moved to the Flickr Account-section of Event Gallery. A global value for Flickr Secret was removed from the previous version, but the config option was still available.

The HTML/CSS of the cart/checkout pages has changed. It leverages now the latest Bootstrap form definitions. If you use the default Joomla template or any other Bootstrap 5-based template, you’re fine. If not, please double check the cart/checkout pages.

If you use Flickr but did not create a Flickr Account in Event Gallery, then this is madatory now.

#1617 Selling videos is not possible. For this, there are new configuration options for image types to define if an image type is compatible with images and/or videos.

#1618 Improve the form layout of the cart and the address page by using modern Bootstrap CSS. It is included in the default Joomla template.

#1608 removed the configuration option for loading uncompressed css/js. Since 5.5.0 those files are no longer part of the install package, to this option can crash your site.

#1609 the dialog for the image content plugin where you can select folders and images has now two independently scrollable panels.

#1585 improve dark mode support of the cards in the cart and checkout process.

#1619 ordering videos from Flickr is now possible using the download shipping method. The original video file is provided for download after purchase.

improved PHP 8.4 support

#1626 remove the global configuration parameter for Flickr and the default Flickr key. If you want to use Flickr, create at least one Flickr account in Event Gallery. Reminder: Flickr Pro is required to get sufficient data from the Flickr API.

#1627 improve the buttons on the mnitcart, cart and checkout review page.

The database format changed for Flickr Events. Clear the cache for Flickr in Event Gallery. Itll automatically refresh the data from Flickr and populate the new fields.

#1606 the Event Module has now a new option to controll the behavior of the last image in case the imagelist layout is used. You can define if the last image should fill the remaining space or if its size is limited.

catch up with a change in how Google renders a shared page. The video detection was broken. Not videos are detected correctly until the next change.

#1605 Flickr can deliver thumbnails in 3k and 4k length of the longer edge of an image. Event Gallery supports that now and can deliver a higher quality of images in the lightbox.

#1584 Ajax Layout - selecting the first image based on the hast in the url works again

#1554 Refreshed the style of thumbnails. They do now have rounded corners and a slight drop shadow. That might cause some trouble with your customization. Please double-check and adjust after installing this release.

#1555 Reduced the number of generated thumbnails. By default, those sizes are generated now: 160, 320, 512, 720, 1024, 1440, 1600

#1563 Uploading MP4 files was not possible if images are pre-calculated.

#1462 The imagelist layout for Events in the Events-module has a new parameter to control the behavior of the last line in the layout. You can now select if the last row should be stretched over the full width or not.

#1463 Allow selecting a default Event Type in the components configuration. This setting is used for preselecting the right folder type when creating a new Event.

Some minor improvements for light/dark mode in the upload, sync database and thumnbail creator.

Bug Fixes

#1464 some images can contain EXIF-data which will make the upload or reading image metadata fail. This is handled now gracefully.

#1456 Breakpoints are configurable in the component and modules. This will avoid the need for custom CSS to just change the size of thumbnails or the number of items per row. Check the manual for details.

#1455 remove Google Photos Import since it will no longer working after Google changes the API access.

#1457 under rare conditions an error like MimeType not in in allowed list image/jpeg, image/gif, image/png, image/webp, video/mp4 could show up for local images. This is fixed.

#1458 the content plugin did not output alt-attributes for single images.

#1456 Breakpoints are configurable in the component and modules. This will avoid the need for custom CSS to just change the size of thumbnails or the number of items per row. Check the manual for details.

#1455 remove Google Photos Import since it will no longer working after Google changes the API access.

#1451 Adding a CLI extension to migrate from Google Photos to local storage or S3 storage. Check https://www.svenbluege.de/blog/updates/217-oops-they-did-it-again-changes-to-the-google-photos-api-integration for details. Do the change until 25.3.2025!

#1436 Introducing a new plugin to support the web service API going forward. The first use case is the tracking of image hits. An image hit is counted when the lightbox is opened. This behavior can be disabled in the components options and applies only to local and S3 images.

#1437 Adding better support for dark mode by fixing the CSS classes for select boxes.

#1439 The checkout review page now includes an additional checkbox. While it is labeled as a newsletter opt-in by default, you can repurpose it for other uses by simply modifying the localization keys. The selected value is stored with the order for future reference. The default mail template for order confirmation contains this option if the user selects the opt-in switch.

#1449 restore compatibility with the current state of Joomla 6

#1432 Avoid overriding the regular fontawesome CSS and uglify other parts of the page - second try!

#1431 Google Photos will be no longer supported after May 2025 because Google will make their images unaccessible through their API. If you need to migrate, this is a pain. With this version, I added a link on the list of Events which allows you to copy the Event and download all the images to your local webspace.

#1433 A new button on the Event page in the backend can be used to reset the hit counter for an Event.

#1432 Avoid overriding the regular fontawesome CSS and uglify other parts of the page.

#1424 At the Event you can define user groups to allow the download of the original image. That selection is improved to easily see if the global component configuration is used and to allow reverting event-specific settings.

#1417 The lazy loading of images was improved to avoid too many requests to the server without a need. Images are much lazier than before.

#1418 The search for orders in the backend will now search for orders having a file or folder with the search term.

#1419 Allow the order status field to have user-defined colors to improve usability.

Updated Glide, the JS framework for the slides to the latest version https://github.com/glidejs/glide/releases/tag/v3.7.1

#1426 Use the X-platform icon instead of the legacy Twitter icon.

#1429 Update to Fontawesome 6.

#1430 adding LinkedIn sharing button.

#1414 In rare cases, the pagination in an event was broken if this event was assigned within a category hierarchy.

#1553 A new button in the download log section allows to delete the download log.

#1514 Avoid a PHP warning message is a menu item is not correctly configured.

#1552 Handle exceptions for download attempts for deleted images.

#1509 improved image loading behavior in the lightbox. A source set is now used to load better-fitting image sizes on different devices. This will also increase the zoom ability. Images from Google Photos, pulled in via Shared Pages, will benefit here the most.

The transition when opening a lightbox from a cropped image has improved and avoids jumping from the cropped image to the large image.

#1489 fixing exessive logging for handling shared pages from Google Photos. If you want to clean up, check the Joomla /logs folder. You can delete the log files which have a 'com_eventgallery_googlephotossharedpage.log' in them manually if you like.