Gallery or Menalto Gallery is an open-source project enabling management and publication of digital and other media through a PHP-enabled web server. Photo manipulation includes automatic , resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things. Albums can be organized hierarchically and individually controlled by administrators or privileged users.
History
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.
[ Gallery 3.0 is ready! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] Gallery 3.0.9 was released on June 28, 2013.
Since 2017, Gallery 3 development has continued on
Gallery Repository Support was transferred to the Gallery 3 Users Forum.
On November 14, 2021, Gallery 3 version 3.1.5 was released to include support for PHP 8.
Gallery 2 was publicly released on September 13, 2005.[ Gallery 2.0 Released! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] Gallery 2.3.1 included support for PHP 5.3 and was released on December 17, 2009.[ Gallery 2.3.1 (Skidoo) Released Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] Development of Gallery 2 ceased in 2012.
Gallery 1 was released in April 2001[ Official Gallery 1.0 release! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] and was developed for seven years, the last release being version 1.5.10 on November 21, 2008.[ Gallery 1.5.10 and 1.6-RC3 Released - Last G1 Releases from us! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.]
Gallery participated in the Google Summer of Code in 2006,[ 2006 Google Summer of Code Wrap Up Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] 2007,[ 2007 Google Summer of Code Wrap Up Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] and 2008.[ 2008 Google Summer of Code Projects Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] Gallery also participated in OpenUsability's Season of Usability in 2008[ Gallery2:Season of Usability 2008 Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] and 2009.[ Gallery3:Season of Usability 2009 Retrieved on November 29, 2010.]
In 2003, Gallery was SourceForge's October Project of the Month.[ Project of the Month, October 2003 Retrieved on November 29, 2010.]
Requirements
Gallery 3 Requires:
[ Gallery3:Requirements Retrieved on November 29, 2010.]
Controversy
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.
[ Thanks Adobe! Retrieved on November 29, 2010.] In 2019 Gallery 3.1.0 was released which replaced the Flash-based uploader with modern open source code.
Revival
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.
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.
Version 3.1.5 of Gallery 3 was released on November 14, 2021.
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