nomacs Portable Changelog

What's new in nomacs Portable 3.17.2297 Beta

Mar 4, 2024
  • New Windows build with updated AVIF and JPEG XL plugins.

New in nomacs Portable 3.17.2295 Beta (Mar 3, 2024)

  • New Windows build with updated AVIF and JPEG XL plugins.

New in nomacs Portable 3.17.2289 Beta (Oct 4, 2023)

  • This update should resolve CVE-2023-4863 (Heap buffer overflow in libwebp) in Windows build.

New in nomacs Portable 3.17.2285 Beta (Sep 12, 2023)

  • Option to close nomacs with middle mouse button (if enabled in settings)
  • QOI (Quite OK Image Format) support (enabled in Windows build, needs kimageformats 5.110 on Linux)
  • Possibility to build nomacs with Exiv2 0.28.0

New in nomacs Portable 3.17.2282 Beta (May 15, 2023)

  • Remove implicit auto-save.
  • Revert crop functionality.
  • Bundled JPEG XL plugin (Windows build only)
  • Updated AVIF plugin (Windows build only)

New in nomacs Portable 3.16.0.1709 (Jul 17, 2020)

  • Avif support
  • Cr3, pcx support added
  • Default system theme added
  • Edit: adds blur
  • Translations updated
  • Plugins: adds composite image plugin
  • Bug fixes
  • Updates:
  • Qt 5.14.2
  • OpenCV 4.3.0
  • quazip 0.8
  • LibRaw (nightly)

New in nomacs Portable 3.14.0.4805 (Mar 13, 2020)

  • HEIF/HEIC support added
  • metadata filtering added
  • start-up time reduced
  • bug fixes

New in nomacs Portable 3.12.0.4198 (Oct 22, 2018)

  • Recent files panel renewed
  • New icon theme
  • Improved drag&drop of thumbnail preview (copy/move/link)
  • Editable zoom levels
  • Fill transparent background with a color added
  • LAN client removed
  • Batch: original filename is added to the metadata
  • Frameless: multi-screen setup improved
  • SVG: resulting image size can be adjusted when converting
  • RLE compressed TGA support
  • Bug fixes
  • Updates quazip 0.7.6
  • Libraw 0.18
  • Exiv2 3.3.2

New in nomacs Portable 3.10.2.1916 (Jul 12, 2018)

  • nomacs 3.10.2 fixes issues with e.g. mng animations and adds a better implementation for multi-user systems.

New in nomacs Portable 3.10.0.1800 (Jul 2, 2018)

  • here are some highlights:
  • anti-aliasing improved
  • printing improved
  • print multiple pages from thumbnail preview
  • animiated WebP support
  • JPG compressed TIFFs supported
  • batch cropping added
  • PSD lib updated
  • new translations: Bosnian, Croation, and Serbian
  • Updates (Windows):
  • Qt 5.9.3 -> 5.11.0
  • OpenCV 3.3.1 -> 3.4.1

New in nomacs Portable 3.8.0.1170 (Nov 9, 2017)

  • New MSI installer (Windows)
  • Full PhaseOne Support (Monochrome)
  • RAW loader optimized (less RAM & speed-up)
  • RAW loading improved (pink pixels reduced)
  • Drag & Drop fixed (Linux)
  • Batch resize fixed
  • GPS link fixed
  • Translation downloader fixed

New in nomacs Portable 3.6.1.1108 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • We had to draft a Hotfix for translations were not loaded properly in nomacs 3.6.0. So if you already updated to 3.6 please update again to 3.6.1

New in nomacs Portable 3.6.0.1106 (Mar 23, 2017)

  • Image adjustments introduced
  • Exposure added
  • Batch
  • Improved profiles
  • Image adjustments added
  • Settings for batch plugins
  • Extended tab functions
  • Settings Editor
  • Icons for high DPI displays
  • Crash on exit fixed for Linux with Qt 5.7.1
  • Updates (Windows)
  • Qt 5.5.1 -> 5.7.0
  • OpenCV 3.1 -> 3.2

New in nomacs Portable 3.4.0.599 (Jul 22, 2016)

  • Batch UI reworked
  • Batch Profiles added
  • Cropping to metadata
  • RGB to Gray improved
  • Crash on delete fixed
  • Slow thumbnail rendering fixed
  • Start-up time improved
  • RAW/PSD orientation fixed

New in nomacs Portable 3.2.0.175 (Apr 28, 2016)

  • Plugin framework redesigned
  • New preferences
  • Undo & History dock added
  • Statusbar improved (e.g. zoom level)
  • All Icons are SVG (UHD monitors)
  • Compression added to Batch
  • Image transitions extended (swipe)
  • Logging added
  • Recent files cleaned

New in nomacs Portable 3.0.0.0000 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • New online installer.
  • Full SVG support.
  • Quick Launch added.
  • Tiny planet option added.
  • Batch processing improved.
  • Signed executable.
  • Libraries updated – Qt 5.5, OpenCV 3.
  • Command line arguments added.
  • Zoom control improved.
  • nomacs learned two new languages – Bulgarian and Ukrainian.
  • New plugin: Page Extraction – detects and/or crops document pages

New in nomacs Portable 2.4.6.3048 (Aug 18, 2015)

  • Folder ScrollBar added again (and updated)
  • Various crashes are fixed now (metadata saving/displaying)
  • Sorting fixed
  • And some minor bug fixes

New in nomacs Portable 2.4.4.2179 (Apr 16, 2015)

  • New features include:
  • Improved batch processing (you can now add images from multiple folders)
  • New Metadata HUD panel (you can dynamically choose entries)
  • nomacs respects your default proxy settings (e.g. when updating)
  • The portable version ships with a qss file (so you can customize almost everything)
  • The most important fixes are:
  • Default strings are now translated
  • Linux file sorting is (hopefully) fixed by now
  • Gamma correction for rescaling is now 16 bit (smooth gradients)
  • Zoom to Fit added (replaces ‘Reset Zoom’)
  • Saving of multiple tabs
  • UTF-8 encoding for image notes
  • General stability improvements

New in nomacs Portable 2.4.2.32767 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Image Manipulations are fixed now (black images on e.g. gamma)
  • Resize with gamma correction (black images if gamma was checked)
  • Crash fixed (if reload occurred after an image resize)
  • Batch Processing fixed
  • GIF movie toolbar fixed
  • Translations updated

New in nomacs Portable 2.4.0.32767 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Batch processing (you can try it by clicking Tools > Batch Processing)
  • Image tabs (open multiple images within different tabs)
  • Thumbnail preview improved (copy/paste delete/rename is now supported)
  • Zoom panel improved (you can now chose a specific zoom level)
  • Olympus RAW added
  • Convert to grayscale added (thanks to shreelock)
  • Faster directory loading (especially if you have many images in a folder)
  • Gesture improvements
  • Saving of images from archives (e.g. zip, docx) is now supported
  • File sorting improved (Unix-based systems only)
  • Stability improvements

New in nomacs Portable 2.2.0.29524 (Nov 11, 2014)

  • Reading images from ZIP (+ Office Documents e.g. docx, xlsx, pptx)
  • Metadata panel (displays all metadata of an image)
  • Thumbnail panel layout (Vertical or Undock)
  • Notes (you can now take and display notes which are written to the image metadata)
  • Private mode which does not save any settings including recent files
  • Option which disables check for updates
  • Option which disables logging of recent files/folders
  • Additional RAW files added (including Pentax [PEF], Samsung [SRW], Hasselblad [3FR] and Sigma [X3F])
  • JPG2000 read/write fixed for large files (windows with setup only)
  • Resize dialog fixes
  • File order fixed for Linux/Unix
  • Segfault fixed if ‘fast thumbnail preview’ is checked

New in nomacs Portable 2.0.2.27053 (Jul 31, 2014)

  • portable version always keeps settings (settings are not written to the registry anymore)
  • plugin download for nomacs portable
  • AppData is not written to home directory (sorry for that, you can delete this folder without any side effects)
  • layout fixes in recent folders/files
  • translation updates fixed
  • thumbnail saving fixed

New in nomacs Portable 2.0.0.25807 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • new features include:
  • nomacs now supports plugins (windows only for now)
  • Recent Files/Folders on start-up
  • Threaded file loading/saving
  • UPnP support that allows for detecting nomacs in WLAN networks
  • Remote control via WLAN/LAN
  • Fading for fullscreen/slideshow
  • Option for syncing all actions
  • Auto file updating (without locks)
  • Full exif support on linux (fixes issue #192)
  • White list to automatically connect with your computers
  • Gamma correction on down sampling (fixes #322)
  • New (improved) cacher
  • Improvements in the Thumbnail Preview

New in nomacs Portable 2.0.0.22628 Beta (Apr 2, 2014)

  • Threaded file loading/saving
  • UPnP support that allows for detecting nomacs in WLAN networks
  • Option for syncing all actions
  • Auto file updating (without locks)
  • Full exif support on linux (fixes issue #192)
  • White list to automatically connect with your computers
  • Gamma correction on down sampling (fixes #322)
  • New (improved) cacher
  • Improvements in the Thumbnail Preview

New in nomacs Portable 1.6.4.18501 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • Auto Adjustment/Auto Normalization/Invert Image functions added
  • Flip (Horizontally/Vertically) functions added
  • Recursive Folder Scan
  • Fast(er) RAW loading with embedded thumbnail extraction
  • save for web dialog – that allows for easy resizing and saving
  • the window position is remembered even if the window was snapped previously
  • a Run button is added to the new Open With dialog – hence it is similar to the old one

New in nomacs Portable 1.6.0.15868 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • New features are:
  • Grid View for Thumbnails
  • Image Mosaicing Tool
  • Gif Player (Pause Animated Images and View Frame by Frame)
  • Customizable Mouse Wheel
  • French Translation
  • and we fixed all bugs reported (except for 5 bugs).

New in nomacs Portable 1.4.0.12405 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Customizable Shortcuts
  • Folder Preview - Color Encoded Folder Scrollbar
  • New Image Formats - WebP, PSD, TGA, (JPEG2000 not WinXP)
  • Add New Image Formats
  • Support Additional Mouse Keys
  • Ignore Raw Images if JPG is Present
  • New Translations - Italian, Slovene, Czech, Serbian, Portuguese

New in nomacs Portable 1.2.0.11412 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Support for DNG format
  • EXIF data can be read for UTF-8 files (Windows only)
  • Open With starts custom executables again
  • Drag&Drop works directly after installing (no administrator privileges)
  • dpi is now saved when changing it in the resize dialog
  • resize dialog does not crash for 40k x 30k images
  • translations updated & Serbian translation added

New in nomacs Portable 0.4.0.8890 RC (Nov 7, 2012)

  • new features include:
  • Caching images – results in very short loading time
  • Thumb run-through – fast folder preview
  • Save widget state – widgets remember if they were displayed the last time
  • Additional supported formats - *.mrw (Minolta Raw) and *.rw2 (Panasonic Raw)
  • Improved RAW display - colors are now more intensive
  • Go To – you can jump to whatever file you like using the new Go To dialog (CTRL+G)
  • Unattended installation parameters - improves batch installation for Windows
  • bug fixes:
  • RAW images for Linux - nomacs did not load raw images with libraw > 0.14.0
  • Save dialog – is now a native OS dialog -> speed up
  • *.bmp save – error message removed
  • Transparency & edit – handling of transparent images (e.g. crop) is corrected
  • a bunch of small fixes

New in nomacs Portable 0.3.0.5036 Beta (Mar 5, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Open with dialog
  • Image cropping
  • Resize image
  • Pseudo Color function
  • Frameless windows
  • Translations
  • Basic support for stereo images (*.mpo, *.jps, *.pns)
  • Improvements:
  • Full unicode support for filenames
  • Start-up time improved
  • Performance improvements for images loaded from network drives

New in nomacs Portable 0.1.2.1005 Alpha (Sep 1, 2011)

  • bug fixes
  • synchronized viewers can now be arranged on the screen
  • thumbnail scrolling is now easier (with mouse wheel)