LightCraft Release Notes

0.4.0

Oct 8 · Thu

OpenNavo editorial

Fixes preview flicker, export protection and raw camera metadata; improves radial masks, adds restoration from Recently Deleted and introduces face-region and People-view support.

What's Changed

fix(ui): eliminate preview flickering when hovering presets and profiles by @benlukka in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/137
Windows on ARM64: release builds, PE header check, install test on ARM64 hardware by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/141
Issue #134: Exports: atomic without fsync; Copy import verifies against the probe hash by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/143
Issue #136: Windows: use DX12 by default, honour WGPU_BACKEND, never let GPU init block startup by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/144
Issue #138: DNG: apply the file's own camera-profile look (HueSatMap, LookTable, ToneCurve) by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/145
Fonts: use craft-fonts as an optional build input; move the Japanese fonts out by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/149
Tests: snapshot-determinism test asserts both runs settled by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/151
Issue #148: Raw: read white balance, black level and crop of pre-2017 Sony ARWs by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/158
Export: protect originals imported through differently named symlinks by @storybored379 in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/152
feat(ui): improve radial mask resizing and rotation by @kywk in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/155
Issue #150: Raw: NEF colour from the camera JPEG; 12-bit NEF black level by @treyreynolds in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/165
Restore from Recently Deleted; re-adding a deleted photo shows where it is by @cruzer45 in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/177
CR3: full-size preview and metadata from the container by @cruzer45 in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/178
docs: add star history chart to README by @coygeek in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/179
CLI: the connect hint names the port it actually tried (#167) by @itsmunzir in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/192
Faces: read face regions from XMP, show them in the loupe, and a People view by @voshart in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/170
LR-BEHAV-LOCALIZE: a language table, Simplified Chinese, and per-script font fallback by @lzjtugjc in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/184
M16: add Traditional Chinese UI, menus and stock preset localization by @sakamoto824 in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/198
LR-PROF-CAMERACOLOR: camera-look hue table, chroma curve and per-model camera profiles by @haraldh in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/201
LR-PROF-CAMERACOLOR: built-in ILCE-7M4 camera profile by @haraldh in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/202
M12: SAM 3 Object and Describe masks (pure Rust, Metal) by @GuintherKovalski in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/162
Rename PrintCraft to PdfCraft by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/219
Tests: fix three FreeBSD-flaky headless UI tests by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/199
M16.1: complete navigation arrowheads by @MusseJusse in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/221
Smart albums: File Path rule field by @nledford in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/239
Library: switching libraries no longer shows the old library's sidebar by @nledford in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/225
Sidebar: collapsible Albums, Local, By Date and Keywords sections by @nledford in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/242
Library: Random sort with a stable seed and Reshuffle by @nledford in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/217
Export: clear error when there's no export folder (instead of "Access is denied") by @DWAA1660 in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/238
Docs: fix release, sibling, and command references by @agorevski in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/241
Build: resolve a relative CRAFT_FONTS_DIR against the workspace root by @Ndsanes in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/222
i18n: add Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) UI translation by @RicSchonfelder in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/228
LR-BEHAV-LOCALIZE: fill the zh-hans catalog to match zh-hant by @Ndsanes in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/223
Tests: pass on Windows (path separators, temp folder inside home, one GPU edge pixel) by @voshart in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/207
Issue #212: Raw: keep vendor white balance when writing DNG by @Gremiger in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/235
LR-IMP-FORMATS: Panasonic RW2 / Leica RWL / Panasonic RAW in every raw format, with the RW2 camera look by @XRTce in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/215
Fetch: the model downloader becomes its own crate (no behaviour change) by @voshart in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/210
Packaging: add a Nix flake (nix build / nix develop) by @anarion80 in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/206
Decode Sony downsized lossless ARWs (4:2:0 / 4:2:2) by @bogusyogi in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/213
Thumbnails: faster requests, reject stale preview work (+ bundled fixes split out) by @radialmonster in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/243
GPU: faster warp coverage mask, warp formulas written once (depends on #243) by @radialmonster in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/246
Web: time raw preview decodes with web_time so wasm doesn't panic by @andrewyao in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/248
CI: pick build jobs from available RAM, not installed RAM by @radialmonster in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/249
About: contributor and model credits compiled in (grab bag + table, self-submitted names) by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/252
Release: FreeBSD, Flatpak x86_64/aarch64, AppImage zsync updates; README Downloads by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/302
README Downloads: where to get it, then builds (Windows first) by @echelon in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/306

New Contributors

@benlukka made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/137
@kywk made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/155
@treyreynolds made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/165
@cruzer45 made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/177
@coygeek made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/179
@itsmunzir made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/192
@voshart made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/170
@lzjtugjc made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/184
@sakamoto824 made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/198
@haraldh made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/201
@GuintherKovalski made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/162
@MusseJusse made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/221
@nledford made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/239
@DWAA1660 made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/238
@agorevski made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/241
@Ndsanes made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/222
@RicSchonfelder made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/228
@Gremiger made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/235
@XRTce made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/215
@anarion80 made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/206
@bogusyogi made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/213
@radialmonster made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/243
@andrewyao made their first contribution in https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/248

Full Changelog: https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/compare/v0.2.1...v0.4.0

Scope: These are full official cross-platform release notes. Platform-specific changes retain their upstream scope.

Source: https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/releases/tag/v0.4.0 Homebrew version evidence: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/l/lightcraft.rb

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