Version 2.2.6

RawCull Changelog: v2.2.4 → Latest Commits

🚀 Version 2.2.6

To be updated on Apple App Store.

🗂️ Redesigned Burst Groups

• Added a dedicated Burst Groups home screen.
• Organized burst tools and review categories into a clearer workflow.
• Added compact burst cards with improved visual separation.
• Added Clean View, showing only the highest-ranked frames from each burst.
• Added inline expand and collapse controls with hidden-frame counts.
• Improved Reviewed and Deferred state handling.
• Reviewed bursts now collapse automatically while deferred bursts remain available.

🔍 Dedicated Burst Review Workspace

• Added a focused workspace for reviewing one burst at a time.
• Added a large image stage, filmstrip navigation, file information, ratings, tags, and burst actions.
• Added controls for marking bursts reviewed, deferring decisions, comparing candidates, and setting a manual pick.
• Added quick navigation between frames and burst groups.
• Improved JPEG, RAW, focus-mask, and AF-point inspection during burst review.

⌨️ Expanded Keyboard Controls

• Added P and N for previous and next burst frames.
• Added G to advance to the next burst group.
• Added arrow-key navigation throughout burst review.
• Added keyboard access to zoom, image sources, focus overlays, ratings, picks, and rejection.
• Added B for keeping the best candidate on the burst comparison screen.
• Clarified that P means previous frame during burst review; use 0 to keep a frame neutral.

🖼️ Improved Culling Grid

• Improved burst-group presentation inside the main culling grid.
• Added clearer burst headers and direct group actions.
• Improved selection behavior while working with grouped images.
• Improved transitions between the burst home, grouped grid, review workspace, and comparison screen.
• Simplified toolbar controls for burst-oriented workflows.

ℹ️ New About and Shortcut Guide

• Redesigned the About window with adaptive, color-coded cards.
• Grouped shortcuts by Browse, Burst Groups, Image Preview, Zoom Preview, Manual Comparison, Burst Review, and App Commands.
• Added visual keycaps and contextual shortcut descriptions.
• Added accessibility labels for shortcut sections and commands.
• Made the About window scrollable and resizable.

🧪 Reliability and Testing

• Added tests for burst keyboard navigation.
• Added tests for grouped-grid selection and burst actions.
• Added coverage for rating behavior and burst-review state transitions.

🛠️ Version 2.2.5

🛡️ Safer File Copying

• Prevented failed folder selections from silently reusing an older security-scoped bookmark.
• Added stronger source and destination validation before starting a copy.
• Replaced the shared include-list file with a unique file for each copy operation.
• Prevented rsync from starting when the selected-file list cannot be created.
• Improved handling of filenames containing rsync filter characters.
• Added cleanup for temporary copy-operation files.
• Improved error reporting when copy preparation fails.

🖼️ Culling and Burst Workflow Improvements

• Improved grouped-image presentation in the culling grid.
• Added clearer separation between individual burst groups.
• Added collapsible burst groups and compact ranked-frame presentation.
• Improved Reviewed, Deferred, and manual burst-decision state handling.
• Improved multi-selection and primary-selection consistency.
• Improved rating-filter consistency between the toolbar, visible grid, and keyboard navigation.

🔬 Comparison and Focus Analysis

• Added per-photo zoom, pan, focus-mask, and AF-point state in comparison views.
• Prevented interaction state from leaking between comparison candidates.
• Improved comparison scrolling and selection synchronization.
• Debounced comparison selection updates during horizontal scrolling.
• Improved protection against stale comparison image refreshes.
• Corrected sharpness sampling around expanded Gaussian blur boundaries.
• Updated RawParserKit integration and RAW diagnostic handling.

⚡ Performance and Concurrency

• Added culling-grid render caching to reduce repeated grouping and lookup work.
• Improved cancellation and stale-result protection for asynchronous operations.
• Improved thumbnail and embedded-JPEG extraction task handling.
• Improved similarity-ranking and catalog-state synchronization.
• Added additional cancellation checks around focus-mask and sharpness processing.
• Improved progress-state ownership for extraction and cache-warming operations.

💾 Ratings and Persistence

• Improved saved-rating lookup and update performance.
• Corrected rating persistence during multi-photo operations.
• Improved extraction selection based on tagged and rated photos.
• Improved state restoration when reopening catalogs.
• Improved JSON persistence behavior and reduced unnecessary work on the main actor.

🧰 Settings and Diagnostics

• Improved settings reset and save behavior.
• Improved cache-setting validation.
• Moved additional RAW diagnostic work away from the main UI path.
• Improved memory and progress diagnostics.

🧪 Expanded Test Coverage

• Added copy-startup and file-list safety tests.
• Added comparison display-state tests.
• Added culling-grid selection and coordination tests.
• Added extraction-selection tests.
• Expanded rating, cache, RAW loading, and sharpness-scoring tests.

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