V2023.11.0-alpha.1 released

[mrm]

Finally, we’re graduating away from prealpha!

Note that this build has only been validated on Ubuntu and docker. Windows is still experimental, and macOS support is coming in the next build.

How do I get it?

PhotoStructure for Desktop

click “check for updates” from the menu bar.

PhotoStructure for docker-compose

1. docker-compose down
2. change your image to photostructure/server:alpha
3. docker-compose pull
4. docker-compose up -d

PhotoStructure for Node

1. shut down PhotoStructure
2. git checkout alpha
3. ./start.sh

What’s changed?

/ Exclusion globs have been simplified

• Exclusion glob patterns are now applied both in and out of libraries: the
  excludeGlobsInLibrary setting (introduced last build) was confusing, and
  has been deleted.

• The disableIgnorableFilters setting was renamed to
  omitDefaultExcludeGlobs, but does the same thing: if set to true, users
  start with an empty set of exclusion globs, and use excludeGlobsAdd to
  build up whatever set of patterns they want.

• See the discord chat for details

Additional improvements

• Video transcodes in prior builds had a 2 minute timeout (due to a
  misapplication of a default argument), which would slow down larger video
  imports because transcode operations would timeout incorrectly and retry
  (causing the system to bog down with the same ffmpeg operation multiple
  times)

• ffmpegHwaccel can now be safely kept at auto–PhotoStructure will
  attempt the transcode with -hwaccel=auto, but if that fails (due to
  missing hardware support for the necessary codecs, for example), we’ll
  automatically re-try that transcode operation without a -hwaccel argument.

• Asset.durationMs is now properly copied from AssetFile variations up to
  Asset. Prior builds could have missing duration timestamps in tag galleries.

  Note that this is backfilled partially by a database migration that will be
  applied automatically, as well as a step that invalidates all asset files
  (and assets) that are videos and missing .durationMs.

• Fixed ./start.sh warnings and errors related to python disttools and
  setuptools

• Fixed version health check
  bug
  where running a newer version than what is advertised as being available was
  marked as being “out of date”. Also added channel advice if a more stable
  channel is providing a newer release.

• ./photostructure info --version-check is now a whole thing, and invalidates prior cache.

• Open Graph headers were simplified: we now only send one video or image
  entry, using the closest available prerender to openGraphTargetWidth.
  Previews seem to work properly now at least on Apple iMessages.

• New checkBasenameMatches setting (defaults to true) adds Yet Another
  asset file’s existing-asset adoption search strategy. This is a minor
  deduplication improvement, and doesn’t seem to adversely impact import
  speed.

• Docker images now include a proper set of labels:

[tkohhh]

Happy Alpha day!!!

I think you duplicated the contents of your post… there are two “What Changed” sections.

[iamphotocat]

I updated my podman image and started with previous yaml file, everything seems fine, but I noticed this in update section of health check (green checks everywhere):

You are running PhotoStructure for Docker version 2023.11.0-alpha.1
The latest published alpha build is version 2.1.0-alpha.7
Last checked just now (2023-11-09T06:13:07.554Z)

[mrm]

Thanks for the heads-up, @iamphotocat !

I added the channel-versions.json publishing step to the release script just now, so within a day your cache should expire and you should see this (if you reload web):

If you want, you can also use ./photostructure info --version-check. Details about the info tool are here:

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