What's new in Bloom 3.8.0
Oct 10, 2023
- 3.8.0 resolves login issue
- General improvements
New in Bloom 3.7.0 (Mar 29, 2021)
- Bloom 3.7.0 fixes an issue creating new albums for groups
- Added an intermediate screen after changing the account used in the top drop down in order to avoid refresh issues
- Improve Exif dialog size
New in Bloom 3.6.0 (Mar 29, 2021)
- Bloom 3.5.6 support for new Facebook API changes: no longer allows creating new albums because of new Facebook API restrictions - Bloom will redirect you to your browser to create a new album and then you can add the photos to the album in Bloom
- Minor improvements
New in Bloom 3.5.4 (Jun 5, 2020)
- Bloom 3.5.4 improves UI experience but only letting the user create a new album for groups, pages and not his individual profile
- Improves downloding albums UI experience for overwriting existing folders
- Improves image thumbnail navigation and stability
New in Bloom 3.5.3 (Feb 24, 2020)
- Bloom 3.5.3 resolves login issues due to new Facebook API changes
New in Bloom 3.5.2 (Mar 10, 2019)
- resolves issues after Facebook permissions changes, now Facebook disallows uploading to personal accounts. Windows 64 and Mac are only supported now
New in Bloom 3.5.1 (Aug 26, 2018)
- Bloom 3.5.1 resolves issues after Facebook permissions changes, now Facebook disallows uploading to personal accounts.
- Dropped support for Windows 32 bits and Linux. Windows 64 and Mac are now only supported
New in Bloom 3.5.0 (Aug 22, 2017)
- Adds ability to upload to and download from Facebook groups
- Resolves Facebook API issue when accessing albums
New in Bloom 3.4.8 (Oct 21, 2016)
- resolves an issue with Facebook API changes with accessing photos and an issue with upload video size. It brings improvements in Exif handling.
New in Bloom 3.4.7 (Dec 4, 2015)
- Resolves issue with uploading multiple videos: some titles and descriptions disappear when clicking back and forth between videos
New in Bloom 3.4.6 (Dec 3, 2015)
- Resolves issue with uploading videos: entered titles are not brought over to Facebook
- Improves video uploading UI: disable text fields when no video is selected
- Increase the number of rows of the description text field for video and photo uploads.
New in Bloom 3.4.5 (Nov 12, 2015)
- Fixes downloading albums with special characters.
- Adds compatibility with Windows 10
New in Bloom 3.4.4 (Jun 2, 2015)
- Fixes upload videos bug caused by Facebook API changes.
- Improves video upload UI dialog
- Improve robustness of log out process
New in Bloom 3.4.3 (Jun 1, 2015)
- Fixes authentication bug caused by Facebook API changes.
New in Bloom 3.4.2 (Mar 2, 2015)
- Improves the display of different accounts a user has access to by adding the category for ex. an app page, photographer, etc.
- Changes wording of privacy 'Everyone' to 'Public' to match Facebook naming convention.
New in Bloom 3.4.1 (Dec 15, 2014)
- Sort list of albums by creation date
- Fixes bug introduced by Facebook that limits albums to 50 and photos to 100
New in Bloom 3.4.0 (Aug 25, 2014)
- Improved Exif support, you can now choose to display Exif sections and tag names or not and sort in any order you want.
- You can now use IPTC fields for ex. Caption or Headline as you wish and in the order you want.
New in Bloom 3.3.2 (Jul 25, 2014)
- Fixed the following error some users were getting: There was an error executing the request java.lang.NullPointerException
- Improve errors tracability.
New in Bloom 3.3.1 (Jul 10, 2014)
- Improves Export options
- Fixes the issue of uploading photos to the same album
New in Bloom 3.3 (Dec 27, 2013)
- Adds the ability to convert image formats. Formats supported are: JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF. The conversion uses all your CPU cores
- Adds the ability to upload JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF images.
- Fixes the language bug that occurred on locales other than English, French or Spanish.
- Fixes opening browser on Ubuntu.
- Improves saving window position
- Improves robustness and stability of application for handling image formats
New in Bloom 3.2 (Oct 8, 2013)
- Fixes the 'Cannot Create JVM' issue that occured sometimes on Windows 64 bits.
- Adds the ability to increase the memory allocated to Bloom, therefore loading larger images is possible:
New in Bloom 3.1 (Oct 8, 2013)
- Big improvements in Exif import: now can import all properties, certain directories or custom tags.
- Support for viewing albums of Facebook pages
- Added the ability to rotate and delete pictures from the view image window
- Improved caption support in the view image window
- Fixed adding caption to multiple photos.
- Support for larger image sizes: tested images from Nikon D800, Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Fuji X-Pro, Olympus EM-5, Leica M9, PENTAX K-5 II, Panasonic DMC-GX7, Ricoh GR, SIGMA SD1, Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c
- Other bug fixes
New in Bloom 3.0.9 (Oct 8, 2013)
- Added support for larger image sizes
New in Bloom 3.0.8 (Oct 8, 2013)
- Corrected activation issue.
- Corrected language issue.
- Corrected name of program on Windows.
New in Bloom 3.0.5 (Oct 8, 2013)
- Corrected activation issue on Windows
- Corrected image viewing label
- Increased size of thumbnails
New in Bloom 3.0.3 (Jun 29, 2013)
- Performance improvements in loading images
- Fixed update message even if version didn't change
New in Bloom 3.0.2 (May 28, 2013)
- Added privacy for video uploads
- Added automatic update check, on by default
- Fixed video upload link after upload
- Fixed re-ordering of photos
New in Bloom 3.0.1 (May 15, 2013)
- Fixes the video upload defect
New in Bloom 3.0 (May 15, 2013)
- Brings compatibility with new Facebook API
- Saves the security token for ease of use
New in Bloom 2.9.1 (Jan 12, 2011)
- Fixes the upload photos to an existing album bug
New in Bloom 2.9.0 (Jan 12, 2011)
- Adds the support for Facebook's new security permissions
- Fixes the defect where photos were uploaded to an existing album would end up in a new different album.
- Added the Only Me option to the privacy options
- Stability improvements
New in Bloom 2.8.0 (Mar 23, 2010)
- Adds cover flow: the ability to view photos by pressing on the SPACE button, ESCAPE dismisses the preview, the RIGHT and LEFT arrows are used to navigate between photos
- Increase the upload photos size to 720 pixels
- Added Spanish translation thanks to Francisco Viollaz
- Added the ability to choose the default file dialog directory (in the Preferences menu)
- Added the ability to save photos from the thumbnails list
- Added the ability to locate the added images in the file manager (Explorer, Finder)
- Performance improvement when viewing albums
- Fixes the caption defect: when selecting a photo with a caption then selecting other photos, the other photos captions get overwritten
New in Bloom 2.7.1 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixes the upload of certain photos for some users. Facebook photos and albums are now Strings instead of integers or longs previously.
New in Bloom 2.7.0 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Improves the quality of uploaded photos by employing a new multi-step bicubic algorithm.
- Fixes the defect were users were not able to use the application, the famous 'Please login to Facebook first'.
- Fixes the defect where you wouldn't be able to tag yourself.
- Fixes the defect where uploads failed because of special characters in the album name.
- Adds a log file to log errors. Logging can also be enable with -Ddebug=true
New in Bloom 2.6.0 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Adds the ability to customize the imported IPTC metadata
- Fixes the proxy server support
- Enlarges the photo caption text area for a better user experience
- Adds the support in the help for Snow Leopard and Windows 7.
New in Bloom 2.5.1 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixed bug in friends' list introduced by Facebook changes.
New in Bloom 2.5 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Increases the number of photos an album can contain to 200.
- Adds the ability to upload videos
- Improved user experience when uploading photos and videos, each byte transferred is displayed in a progress bar.
- Improved performance when loading images.
New in Bloom 2.1 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Adds the ability to import a photo exif information such as the camera model, aperture, shutter speed, focal length.
- Improves the UI of the album display panel
- Improves Mac OS X integration: native dmg installer, better file dialog and closing app will still show it in the doc.
- Improved File Dialog on Windows which is now resizable.
- Minor fixes.
New in Bloom 2.0 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Improved Login, uses current logged in Facebook session
- Adding a caption can now be done in the large image view mode.
- Bug fixes relating to uploader stuck at 1%
- Performance and stability improvements in photo list and image display window
New in Bloom 1.9 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Bug fixes and UI improvements
New in Bloom 1.8 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Adds the ability to specify album privacy.
- Improves loading of thumbnails on Mac and Linux File choosers
- Added an uninstaller on Windows
New in Bloom 1.7 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Ability to add photos in offline mode and then Log In
- Quality of generated uploaded images improved.
- Ability to delete photos in image view mode
- UI improvements to the image view mode
- Performance improvements
- Stability improvements
- Support of lower resolutions such as Netbooks
- Better integration with the native platform by using the native Filechooser
- Windows 64 support (Vista 64 and XP 64).
New in Bloom 1.6 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Added the ability to download albums
- Added the ability to sort photos by name, date the picture was taken, modification date and size
- Added the ability to remove a photo while viewing it
- UI Improvements and better user experience
- Fixed the upload to an existing album
New in Bloom 1.5 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Critical bug fix when the application wouldn't start if the machine has an non English or French Locale
- Corrects tagging
New in Bloom 1.4 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Added the ability to upload more than 60 photos, these will be added to other albums.
- Improved the user experience of the upload process
- UI Improvements
- Tagging now includes the full name of the person
New in Bloom 1.3 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixed the order of photos when uploading
- Improved the upload reliability if some photos are not uploaded or if the user cancels the upload process
New in Bloom 1.2 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Added support for authenticated Proxy servers
- Fixed the logout process and the relogin process
- Look and feel improvements
- Added personalization features
- Added the ability to choose between a secure and a non secure connection
- Added the support for the French language
New in Bloom 1.1 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Improved the upload speed by 2x
- Improved the overall performance
- Added the ability to view friends' photos
- Added a filmstrip panel for image viewing
- Added the ability to upload photos to an existing album
- Fixed the location and description bug
- Improved tagging
- Improved user experience
New in Bloom 1.0.3 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixed bugs when rotating images and uploading them
- Fixed the bug when the upload dialog was not being shown after uploading some pictures and re-uploading again
- Changed the way Bloom creates thumbnail by using temporary files instead of normal files
- Fixed some bugs related to actions being disabled/enabled
New in Bloom 1.0.2 (Feb 10, 2010)
New in Bloom 1.0.1 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Corrected bug: Customize About, Preferences, Quit for Mac