We have launched a new showcase album of [url=/gallery/demosites/]Gallery 2 Demo Sites[/url]. There are many great Gallery 2 sites out there with a huge variety of themes, modules, customizations and embedded environments that we want you to see! This new feature of our website is powered by Gallery 2 using the Link Items, Rating, New Items modules, and a custom module with the submission form for new entries. The album shows newly submitted items first and is then sorted by rating. Please vote for your favorites to bring them to the top! This replaces our simple [url=/forum/g2_demo_sites]forum topic[/url] to list sample sites of our users.

The Gallery website has upgraded to the latest and greatest, Drupal 4.7.2. Among the new features, you'll notice an improved form for forum posts with a resizable text area and some options collapsed by default, an easier interface for attachments, and some new [url=/filter/tips]bbcode[/url] tags. Under the hood we get a newly redesigned search engine and code changes that make some site customizations easier to implement. It was a significant effort to migrate our custom code to this release, but the improved design should make future upgrades a bit easier. We've also been able to give some of our work back to the Drupal project, particularly in the comment_upload, privatemsg and bbcode_wysiwyg modules.

Please report any new site issues [url=/forum/drupal_4.7_issues]here[/url].

In November 2005 Christopher Negus published Linux Toys II (ISBN: 0-7645-79995-9), the followup to the original Linux Toys book published in 2003.

The Gallery team is honored to be amongst other open source projects like MythTV, Damn Small Linux, Icecast and LTSP to mention some of the other projects featured in the book.

The Gallery team is proud to announce the students that have been selected to participate in the 2006 Summer of Code. We are very pleased by the quality of the applications for the selected projects, and are really looking forward to working with these students over the summer. Thank you to all the students who sent proposals, and all the mentors who volunteered to participate!

iPhotoToGallery is an iPhoto plugin that simplifies getting photos from iPhoto into Gallery, written by Zach Wily. It is a totally cool way to get your photos from your desktop into your Gallery. For the past 3 years, Zach has been developing and supporting for free. Last month he took the next step and made it open source. Check it out! If you use it and like it, make a suggestion, submit a patch or give him a donation!

Now that the 2.1 release is safely out the door and we've completed migrating to Subversion, it's time to get serious about the 2.2 release. Several of the developers met a couple of weeks back and created a Gallery 2.2 Roadmap. We'd like to use this release to address some of the issues that users have raised with Gallery, while still getting it into your hands as soon as possible. This means that we've chosen some key aspects of the product to focus on, and have specifically chosen not to focus on other parts. This doesn't mean that we don't care about them, it just means that we have to prioritize how we spend our resources. Things that are not picked up in this release will have a higher priority in the next one. Take a look and tell us what you think!