New Welcome Dialog and Website Adjustments · Release Candidate 6 to 17

After some weeks of holidays and sickness related hiatus, with this final release candidate, we are performing some final adjustments to the welcome dialog, in order for it to work properly in the post-beta phase. It is now possible to choose between the free version, an Aspect Pro trial and loading an existing license.

At the same time, we've removed the download form from the website and instead integrated it as an optional part of the welcome dialog. This enables all users, no matter whether they downloaded from the website, or from some other source, to request a trial license for Aspect Pro, as well as registering to the newsletter (which will always stay focused on important news).

Trial licenses are valid for 120 days, so that it's possible to try out the Pro features for an adequate amount of time, even for someone who is only occasionally busy with organizing photos. After the trial expires, the application will simply fall back to the free version.

Other Notable Improvements

Apart from fixing a number of issues discovered in the previous release candidate, we've continued to improve performance, most notably during startup and shutdown of the application.

As always, the change log contains the full list of changes.

Update Feb. 20 · Release Candidate 7

We fixed some additional issues that were discovered in RC-6. See the change log for the list of changes.

Update Feb. 22 · Release Candidate 8

After discovering a regression in RC-7 in the change to handling deleted files, this is a quick update, again including a number of additional fixes. See the change log for the list of changes.

Update Mar. 06 · Release Candidate 9

This release fixes another batch of recently discovered issues and improves the handling of corrupted or inaccessible disk caches. See the change log for the list of changes.

Update Mar. 14 · Release Candidate 10

The server version received a number of fixes and enhancements, making it more reliable and improving status reporting. Also, a few issues in the handling of external editors have been resolved, as well as some other UI issues. See the change log for the list of changes.

Update Mar. 21 · Release Candidate 11

Continuing the work of improving the server version stability and performance, this release fixes a number of issues, especially in terms of memory use and performance when cloning or synchronizing large libraries. Some of the fixes apply to both, the server and the desktop version, as well as the iOS app. See the change log for the full list of changes.