V1.0.0-beta.14 released

mrm · August 5, 2021, 7:36pm

What’s in it?

Bugfixes and stability improvements:

PhotoStructure could fail to launch on case-insensitive filesystems due to userdir merging code. Thanks for the report, awojtas and bjarte!
Cleanup jobs (like removing old logfiles, image caches, and readdir caches) are properly scheduled now. Thanks for the bug report, bdillahu!
opened-by lockfiles from prior versions are automatically cleaned up (to avoid these errors).
Library write tests were run more often in beta.13, but any network fileshare hiccups could cause PhotoStructure to shut down. We now only run the write test once, at startup, only on the main process. Thanks for the reports, tkohh and awojtas.
Cross-volume database backups could fail, causing PhotoStructure to shut down after several hours. This was from beta.13 switching from fs-extra.move() to fs.rename(), and was reverted in beta.14.
/ Is your library stored on a remote volume? The new maxSyncFileJobsWhenRemote (which defaults to 2) should avoid overwhelming the I/O on slower NASes, which can cause sync to crash (especially when PhotoStructure is running on high-core-count servers). See this post for more details. Thanks for the idea, Mike!
Added movflags +faststart to the default ffmpegTranscodeArgs. Thanks for the suggestion, Zirro!

How do I install it?

https://forum.photostructure.com/t/version-1-0-0-beta-3-reporting-for-duty/615#installation-instructions

Any unfinished issues?

Déjà vu from beta.13, unfortunately (I wanted to release the launch-crash bugfix out asap):

Search is broken (I’ll get this fixed asap)
Paths in the asset info panel may have rendering issues
Tag reparenting doesn’t seem to work properly on rebuilds.
Sync resume (after pause) on mac via the menubar (not the main window nav button) doesn’t seem to support “resume” properly
Bug reporting via Sentry is broken

Where should I report bugs?

Reply here, or create a new bug, or post to the discord: whatever is more convenient for you.

awojtas · August 5, 2021, 10:55pm

So far so good! -

Long delay when starting - gone
Test library which wasn’t starting on b13 is now starting

bvwelch · August 5, 2021, 11:54pm

thank you! I was about to report the cannot write problem but you already have fixed it!

harrisc · August 6, 2021, 12:54am

On Windows 10 Desktop I checked for upgrades and download started automatically as reported by a notification. I then got a notification that there was a problem. I tried to catch the notification but missed it.

I checked for upgrade again and the file was downloaded and upgrade started. Admin permission was requested and granted. The program did not automatically start. I did wait 2 minutes and started the program manually.

tkohhh · August 6, 2021, 12:57am

Updated! Looking forward to confirming that the crashing problem is gone so I can get back to testing syncing new files!

Thanks, as always, for all of your excellent work!!!

mrm · August 6, 2021, 1:14am

UGH DARN. I’m hoping that the shenanigans from the beta-13 launch crash may have borked things? I don’t really have any other tricks up my sleeve for that issue.