Improving Image Loading Robustness · Release Candidate 5

With growing user numbers, we have been getting more frequent crash reports related to corrupted image files or images using particular features of the file format. Apart from fixing the reported issues, this release also adds a feature that detects and avoids image loading related crashes.

Whenever the application now crashes while an images was in the process of being loaded, the crash reporter will now list the image(s) and allows uploading them as part of the crash report. This will hopefully give us the chance to fix theses kinds of issues earlier in the future, as right now we are depending on someone reaching out to us directly.

In addition to this, the listed images will also be put on a block-list that ensures that the application will not attempt to load them again, avoiding additional crashes caused by the same images. You can review the list in the application's settings dialog. Entries can also be removed, for example after an update has been installed that might fix the crash.

The full list of changes for RC-3 can be found in the change log.

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