Version 2.2.6

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Version 2.2.6 on RawCull

Version 2.2.6

RawCull Changelog: v2.2.4 → Latest Commits

🚀 Version 2.2.6

🗂️ Redesigned Burst Groups

🔍 Dedicated Burst Review Workspace

⌨️ Expanded Keyboard Controls

🖼️ Improved Culling Grid

ℹ️ New About and Shortcut Guide

🧪 Reliability and Testing

🛠️ Version 2.2.5

🛡️ Safer File Copying

🖼️ Culling and Burst Workflow Improvements

🔬 Comparison and Focus Analysis

⚡ Performance and Concurrency

💾 Ratings and Persistence

🧰 Settings and Diagnostics

🧪 Expanded Test Coverage