New Development Release: Qdig 20060107

This release fixes the compatibility issue that arose with the release of PHP 5.0.5, adds the ability to ignore files and/or directories using Perl-compatible regular expressions, and introduces a next-image prefetch feature to improve gallery navigation speed.

Notes:

This release fixes a compatibility issue that arose with the release of PHP 5.0.5, as well as adding a couple of features.

The PHP authors made some obscure changes that broke a lot of existing code, unfortunately including two lines of code in Qdig. Under previous versions of PHP the two lines don't generate so much as a Notice, which would indicate a

• possible* run-time error. Suddenly the two lines crash the

script with a Fatal Error under PHP 5.0.5. Ouch.

You can now have Qdig ignore image files and/or directories using Perl-compatible regular expressions.

Finally, this release introduces a new image-prefetch feature, where a small Javascript function downloads the next image after the page has loaded, hopefully resulting in the image being cached, which will speed up page-to-page performance. (Thanks to Kim Bille for the help on this feature.)

Changes:

• Now invoking `convert' using /bin/nice to prioritize CPU usage.
• Added ability to ignore directories by Perl-compatible regular expression.
• Added ability to ignore files by Perl-compatible regular expression.
• Adapted to new syntax requirement to avoid Fatal Errors in PHP >=5.0.5.
• Added image-prefetch feature to improve performance (method suggested by Kim Bille).

See CHANGELOG.txt for a complete list of changes.

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