Release Notes

Bloom 3.8.0

9/10/2023

• 3.8.0 resolves login issue
• General improvements

Bloom 3.7.1

30/03/2021

• 3.7.1 resolves a minor issue with adding captions to images

Bloom 3.7.0

28/03/2021

• 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

Bloom 3.6.0

29/11/2020

• 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

Bloom 3.5.4

4/06/2020

• 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 downloading albums UI experience for overwriting existing folders
• Improves image thumbnail navigation and stability

Bloom 3.5.3

23/02/2020

• Bloom 3.5.3 resolves login issues due to new Facebook API changes

Bloom 3.5.2

10/03/2019

• Bloom 3.5.2 resolves login failure after Facebook implemented changes in the login dialog

Bloom 3.5.1

25/8/2018

• 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

Bloom 3.5.0

20/8/2017

• Adds ability to upload to and download from Facebook groups
• Resolves Facebook API issue when accessing albums

Bloom 3.4.8

20/10/2016

• Resolves Facebook API issue when accessing photos
• Fixes bug in upload video size
• Brings improvements in Exif handling, uploading videos

Bloom 3.4.7

3/12/2015

• Resolves issue with uploading multiple videos: some titles and descriptions disappear when clicking back and forth between videos

Bloom 3.4.6

2/12/2015

• 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.

Bloom 3.4.5

10/11/2015

• Brings compatibility with Windows 10
• Fixes downloading albums with special characters.

Bloom 3.4.4

1/6/2015

• Fixes upload videos bug caused by Facebook API changes.
• Improves video upload UI dialog
• Improve robustness of log out process

Bloom 3.4.3

31/5/2015

• Fixes authentication bug caused by Facebook API changes.

Bloom 3.4.2

1/3/2015

• 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.

Bloom 3.4.1

13/12/2014

• Sort list of albums by creation date
• Fixes bug introduced by Facebook that limits albums to 50 and photos to 100

Bloom 3.4.0

9/7/2014

• 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.

Bloom 3.3.2

9/7/2014

• Fixed the following error some users were getting: There was an error executing the request java.lang.NullPointerException
• Improve errors tracability.

Bloom 3.3.1

9/7/2014

• Improves Export options
• Fixes the issue of uploading photos to the same album

Bloom 3.3

26/12/2013

• 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

Bloom 3.2

7/10/2013

• 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: Mac has no limit (maximum of 75% of total RAM), limited to 1024MB for 32 bits JVMs (Windows and Linux), .

Bloom 3.1

8/09/2013

• 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

Bloom 3.0.9

19/08/2013

• Added support for larger image sizes
• Corrected activation issue on Mac.

Bloom 3.0.8

28/07/2013

• Corrected activation issue.
• Corrected language issue.
• Corrected name of program on Windows.

Bloom 3.0.5

26/07/2013

• Corrected activation issue on Windows
• Corrected image viewing label
• Increased size of thumbnails

Bloom 3.0.3

1/06/2013

• Added Linux support
• Performance improvements in loading images
• Fixed update message even if version didn't change

Bloom 3.0.2

26/05/2013

• Added privacy for video uploads
• Added automatic update check, on by default
• Fixed video upload link after upload
• Fixed re-ordering of photos

Bloom 3.0.1

14/05/2013

• Fixes the video upload defect

Bloom 3.0

12/05/2013

Bloom:

• Brings compatibility with new Facebook API
• Saves the security token for ease of use

Bloom PRO brings even more features:

• Adds the ability to upload large image sizes and to configure the image size wanted
• Adds ability to upload to Facebook pages

Bloom 2.9.1

20/09/2010

• Fixes the upload photos to an existing album bug

Bloom 2.9.0

18/07/2010

• 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

Bloom 2.8.0

15/03/2010

• 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

Bloom 2.7.1

20/01/2010

• Fixes the upload of certain photos for some users. Facebook photos and albums are now Strings instead of integers or longs previously.

Bloom 2.7.0

13/01/2010

• 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

Bloom 2.6.0

26/10/2009

• 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.

Bloom 2.5.1

08/08/2009

• Fixed bug in friends' list introduced by Facebook changes.

Bloom 2.5

03/07/2009

• 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.

Bloom 2.1

25/04/2009

• 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.

Bloom 2.0

28/02/2009

• 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

Bloom 1.9

20/01/2009

• Bug fixes and UI improvements

Bloom 1.8

11/01/2009

• Adds the ability to specify album privacy.
• Improves loading of thumbnails on Mac and Linux File choosers
• Added an uninstaller on Windows

Bloom 1.7

14/12/2008

• 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).

Bloom 1.6

09/08/2008

• 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

Bloom 1.5

14/07/2008

• Critical bug fix when the application wouldn't start if the machine has an non English or French Locale
• Corrects tagging.

Bloom 1.3

21/06/2008

• 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

Bloom 1.4

28/06/2008

• 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

Bloom 1.3

21/06/2008

• 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

Bloom 1.2

19/06/2008

• 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

Bloom 1.1

01/06/2008

• 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

Bloom 1.03

11/03/2008

• 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

Bloom 1.02

01/03/2008

• Bug in Mac OS X

Bloom 1.01

27/02/2008

• Corrected bug: Customize About, Preferences, Quit for Mac

Bloom 1.0

27/02/2008

• First release