#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.

#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.

#1413 Fixes the thumbnail generation for local images. They are now cached again.

Option 1: Use shared links. This is already available and will support albums with up to 150 images.

Option 2: I integrated the new Google Photos Picker. It allows you to select images from Google Photos and upload them to local webspace or an AWS S3 bucket.

If youre using Google Photos Accounts and you want to use the new Google Photos Picker in the File Upload dialog, please install the *Google Photos Picker API"-library to your Google App. You might need to refresh your Google Photos account in Event Gallery to grant the necessary permissions.

#1393 The upload allows to select if the uploaded image should be resized or not. The components options contain two new settings in the image-tab to enable the resizing by default and to set a size in px.

#1399 The file upload provides a new option. In combination with the existing Google Photos Accounts, you can select your files from Google Photos albums and upload them to local webspace or AWS S3 buckets.

#1392 The Event Module has now two new configuration fields to override the default sorting of Events

#1390 Fixes the broken pagination in Events in Joomla 5.1.3 and removes unneeded URL parameters from the paging URLs.

#1395 Paging in categories views did not work if that happened in a sub-category. It jumped back to the parent category.

#1396 In generated thumbnails, the EXIF information got broken due an outdated library. The update is in place and generated thumbnails contain the right EXIF now

#1406 In some cases, the Flickr-URLs are not created correctly and therefore not shown in the front end.

#1368 fixes the strange coloring for configuration radio buttons in some cases and add color to drop down lists which contain global/no/yes choices. That should make getting an overview of the current configuration easier.

#1387 If JPEG thumbnails for S3 are generated, they get stored as WebP-files. This bugfix corrects this and stores them correctly as JPEG images. Browsers are pretty tollerant when it comes to image formats and file names. You could regenerate your thumbnails or leave it like it is. New uploads are correct automatically.

#1347 If a module was loaded standalone, the lightbox contolls where not translated.

#1390 Fixes the broken pagination in Joomla 5.1.3

#1365 improve the performance when filtering Events in a menu item by tags.

#1373 allow links in Event titles and descriptions. This will no longer break the list of Events.

#1349 fixes an issue with Flickr albums causing exceptions if they contain a video, and youre not using Flickr accounts.

#1360 fixes the PayPal Adaptive integration even if it is deprecated. It threw an exception due the Joomla 5 migration.

#1370 Flickr: fixes the authentication to access private Flickr albums. This was broken due the need of providing more data for API-requests.

#1372 Flickr: sometimes Flickr uses a different image ratio for the original image and the thumbnails. This leads to distored images in Event Gallery.

#1381 fixes exception when using the content plugin with an image that does not exist.

#1332 remove pixel-based icons in the backend. They had been there for 14 years, the usage of an icon font is more modern.

#1333 use the lightbox for image is the backend. It is finally possible to click on a thumbnail and see the larger image version in a lightbox.

#1343 added a fallback for the case a template has the funny idea of replacing data-title with data-bs-title everywhere, even in places it should keep its fingers from. As a result, even in this case, the title will appear in the lightbox again.

#1342 The module for the latest event can show the latest images, too. Now it can do this with different layouts without throwing an exeption.

#1346 With at least Joomla 5.1 RC2 there was an issue submitting the Event form with a non-english backend.