Gallery has switched its revision control system from CVS to Subversion to take advantage of Sourceforge's latest offering. Subversion is faster and more featureful than CVS and should increase our development velocity, which means that you get a better product, faster. For those of you who are using Gallery via CVS, we've created a page in the Codex that explains how to use Subversion including how to migrate over from CVS. If you don't know what CVS is, then you won't have to worry about this.

The migration to SVN was a bumpy road. With almost six years of source code history tipping the scales at over 3 GB, the Gallery repository is the largest one that Sourceforge has migrated so far. There were many problems along the way, but thanks to the tireless efforts of Alan Harder from our dev team and some key support from David Burley at SourceForge.net, we persevered.

I, for one, welcome our new revision control overlords!

Gallery is pleased to partcipate in the 2006 Google Summer of Code. The Summer of Code is a program, funded by Google, to essentially give students a paid internship with Open Source projects.

The Gallery team learned a lot from participating in last year's Summer of Code, and enjoyed working with Google and the students on their fantastic projects. We look forward to another great Summer of Code, and can only imagine the types of exciting projects students will accomplish this time.

Gallery 2.1.1 is now available for download! This bugfix release resolves problems with Postgres7, Oracle and DB2. It also includes minor bugfixes for the imageblock module and fixes some very rare permission issues in the toolkit (archiveupload, dcraw, ffmpeg, imagemagick, netpbm, zipcart) modules. New in this release is the Gallery2 Preinstaller. This nifty tool is a tiny download that will download and unpack Gallery2 on your server for you -- saving you tons of download and upload time. This is very useful if you're using ftp. Download 2.1.1 now and if you have problems, please report them in the Gallery 2 forums!

Note: Due to a packaging issue, the imageblock module was falsely reporting an integrity error. This is ok -- but we've released 2.1.1a packages to fix this problem for future downloads. 2.1.1a is exactly the same as 2.1.1 with this one issue fixed.

Gallery 1.5.3 is now available for download. This release is primarily a bug fix release, but it also includes an important security fix. The fixes:

• Security: Not all user input was correctly sanitized for JavaScript injection. (Thanks to Aditya Mooley at adityamooley@sanisoft.com for reporting this and giving us plenty of time to fix it!)
• HTML is allowed again in various places. (title, caption, comments)
• Weird space around images inside the border that appeared in 1.5.2 is gone.
• Proper order of items when uploaded in IE and Opera.
• Language Mode 2 works again.
• Several other minor things.

We recommend all Gallery 1 users upgrade to 1.5.3 to keep their Gallery as secure as possible. Download Gallery 1.5.3 from the Gallery Download Page.

Did you know that there is a Russian version of the Gallery website? Were you aware that there is a whole community site about integrating Gallery into PHP-Nuke and phpBB2? And a whole other community site about integrating into Wordpress? And much much more!

There are many fun and interesting projects and communites related to Gallery. We've set up a related sites page that lists many of the interesting ones that we've come across in the past few years. Take a look at what's out there and play with some of the cool toys! If you're working on something that you think deserves to be on that page, let us know!

Gallery 2.1 (Blackjack) is now available for download! This release is a substantial improvement over Gallery 2.0 in both features and performance. We've added 10 new modules supporting features like RSS, ratings, permanent links, Picasa and Google Sitemaps. We've made many changes to the core framework to reduce code size and improve our performance, and this release includes page level caching which can provide a profound performance increase in most situations. This release has also received a professional security audit. See what else is new and then download now! If you're upgrading from an older release of Gallery 2, you should read the upgrading notes first. Upgrading is quick and easy, but if you're upgrading from 2.0 there are a few things you should know first. As always before you ask for help, please, please read the README -- we've made an effort to answer all of your questions there. Especially read the known issues section. Then head on over to the Gallery 2 Forums and let us know what you think! Thanks for your continued support!