Gallery Project

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Gallery Project
Developer(s)Bharat Mediratta, Brad Dutton
Stable release
3.1.5 / November 14, 2021
Repositorygalleryrevival.com
Operating systemCross Platform
PlatformPHP
LicenseGPL
Websitegallery.menalto.com

Gallery or Menalto Gallery is an open-source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a PHP-enabled web server. Photo manipulation includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things. Albums can be organized hierarchically and individually controlled by administrators or privileged users.[1]

History[edit]

Gallery 3 is the current release of Gallery. It is a complete rewrite of Gallery 2 intended to be small, intuitive, fast, and easily customizable. Gallery 3.0 was released on October 5, 2010.[2] Gallery 3.0.9 was released on June 28, 2013.[3] Since 2017, Gallery 3 development has continued on GitHub.[4] Support was transferred to the Gallery 3 Users Forum.[5] On November 14, 2021, Gallery 3 version 3.1.5 was released to include support for PHP 8.[6]

Gallery 2 was publicly released on September 13, 2005.[7] Gallery 2.3.1 included support for PHP 5.3 and was released on Dec 17, 2009.[8] Development of Gallery 2 ceased in 2012.

Gallery 1 was released in April 2001[9] and was developed for seven years, the last release being version 1.5.10 on November 21, 2008.[10]

Gallery participated in the Google Summer of Code in 2006,[11] 2007,[12] and 2008.[13] Gallery also participated in OpenUsability's Season of Usability in 2008[14] and 2009.[15]

In 2003, Gallery was SourceForge's October Project of the Month.[16]

Requirements[edit]

Gallery 3 Requires:[17]

Controversy[edit]

In 2010, Gallery announced the use of some proprietary Adobe tools to build some components of Gallery 3 in Adobe Flash. Several users expressed great concern that proprietary software was being used in an open-source project and that Flash components were being included in an open-source package. A rebuttal to the controversy included a disclosure that Adobe Flash objects had previously been used for file uploading functionality in Gallery only seemed to further ignite the controversy.[18] In 2019 Gallery 3.1.0 was released which replaced the Flash-based uploader with modern open source code.[6]

Revival[edit]

In June 2013 the developers of Gallery 3 released version 3.0.9 code-named "Chartres" and in June 2014 announced that they would suspend further development of Gallery 3.[19] The GPL license allowed for continued development by others or the creation of a fork of Gallery based on the existing code. In 2019 a group of long-time Gallery 3 users developed and released Gallery 3.1.1 to keep the program viable on servers running PHP 7 and 8 which also included additional technical and feature improvements.[6] Version 3.1.5 of Gallery 3 was released on November 14, 2021.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Gallery3:Features - Gallery Codex".
  2. ^ Gallery 3.0 is ready! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  3. ^ "Gallery 3.0.9 security release | Gallery".
  4. ^ https://github.com/bwdutton/gallery3%7CGallery Repository
  5. ^ "Gallery 3 Users - Google Groups".
  6. ^ a b c "Gallery the Revival". galleryrevival.com.
  7. ^ Gallery 2.0 Released! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  8. ^ Gallery 2.3.1 (Skidoo) Released Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  9. ^ Official Gallery 1.0 release! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  10. ^ Gallery 1.5.10 and 1.6-RC3 Released - Last G1 Releases from us! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  11. ^ 2006 Google Summer of Code Wrap Up Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  12. ^ 2007 Google Summer of Code Wrap Up Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  13. ^ 2008 Google Summer of Code Projects Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  14. ^ Gallery2:Season of Usability 2008 Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  15. ^ Gallery3:Season of Usability 2009 Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  16. ^ Project of the Month, October 2003 Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  17. ^ Gallery3:Requirements Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  18. ^ Thanks Adobe! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.
  19. ^ "Gallery is going into hibernation". galleryproject.org. Retrieved June 30, 2014.

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