Paste/upload photos & videos, Bug fixes

New features

• Paste/upload photos and videos from clipboard
• Adopts URLSessionDelegate method to update upload progress bars
• Help pages displayed in appropriate views instead of at app launch

Bug fixes

• Updates pwg_token when checking session with server
• Fixes Select button not hidden after selecting all available images and tapping on Upload
• Fixes background colour of Select button in .none state
• Fixes toolbar not hidden when returning to the local albums view
• Fixes potential crash by adopting Int16 type in UploadProperties
• Fixes uploaded file no deleted after successful transfer when the user has no admin rights
• Fixes upload request status set to "uploading" before resuming upload tasks
• Replaces type of date attributes of the Upload entity to fix crashes encountered when bridging NSDate / Date
• Cancels all remaining tasks related to the same upload request after success to prevent duplicates
• Fixes UI frozen for a moment when storing new place name
• Fixes UI frozen for a moment when requesting several series of uploads
• Fixes sharing representative instead of video when the video frame is small
• Fixes crash occurring when deleting uploaded images
• Avoids image recompression when removing private metadata
• Excludes "assign to contact" activity when sharing video
• Fixes call to login view in background thread
• Fixes crash occurring in the absence of local images

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Improved Upload UI, Bug fixes

The interface of the Upload view has been updated to clarify its use, in particular with regard to the selection of photos, the accessibility to the Camera Roll (iOS 14) and the removal of photos uploaded from the Camera Roll.

Bug fixes
• Fixed download of original images which were re-generated
• Fixed rare crash occurring when displaying the list of albums in Photos
• Fixed rare crash occurring before changing the default album
• Fixed wrong determination of images which can be removed from the Camera Roll
• Fixed a crash occurring when presenting Photo Library album content in some circumstances
• Fixed the horizontal positioning of headers of photos sorted by day, week or month on some devices in landscape mode

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Photo Library access, Help views

• Control which photos and videos Piwigo can access
• Tips and tricks for better exploiting the app
• Bug fixes

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Background uploading

• Background uploading (requires the uploadAsync extension or Piwigo 11 or later)
• Minor bug fixes and improvements of the interface

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Photos in random order, Bug fixes

New option presenting the photos and videos in random order.

• Bug fixes

• Fixes cache management issues
• Fixes issue encountered when connecting in HTTPmode
• Fixes rare crash occurring when sorting photos/videos
• Fixes crash occurring when several tags have been deleted on the server
• Fixes crash occurring when displaying non-initialised favorite album
• Fixes crash occurring when editing URL or credentials after failed login attempt
• Fixes crash occurring on some iPhone models before displaying login view in landscape mode

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New upload management

• New upload management featuring faster Photo Library access, image and upload batch settings, persistent storage of requests, "Wi-Fi only" option, Low Power Mode dependency, animated progress bars
• Negotiate multipath protocol when possible (Wi-Fi / cell)
• [+] button replaced with new buttons bringing more advanced capabilities
• About ⅓ of code converted from Objective-C to Swift
• Bug fixes

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Self-signed certificates, insecure connections

• Warns the user when:
  • a website has a certificate that is not valid,
  • before establishing an insecure connection
• Caches server response when sharing photos
• Improves cache management by allowing to cache images on disk only.
• Improves Piwigo server error reporting.
• Improves user interface

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Chinese, Russian, Spanish, video playback bug fix

• Chinese Simplified, Russian and Spanish translations
• Fixes a video playback issue on some servers

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Edit properties of a batch, Prefix file names

• Edit properties of a selection of photos
• Change creation date of a photo or video
• Option for prefixing file names before upload
• Minor bug fixes and improvements of the interface

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Favorites, Manual sort, Create albums

• Displays Favorites images
• New option for presenting images sorted manually
• Allow Community users to create sub-albums
• Suggests recent albums when copying/moving images and moving albums

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