PhotoQt v4.9.1

Published: 6th of May, 2025

PhotoQt 4.9 had a lot of exciting changes and additions. Unfortunately there were also some bugs that slipped through. This release, v4.9.1, fixes a whole range of them making PhotoQt better than ever before.

The major bug fixes and improvements in this new release include:

The settings manager converted changed integer value to a fixed value of 1 every time.
Adding, deleting, and editing shortcuts no longer overwrites other shortcut groups.
Thumbnails behave more as expected with proper focus on active thumbnail when a folder is loaded and improved scrolling behavior
The status info, quick actions, and window buttons will not overlap each other but move out of each others way whenever necessary.
Any context menu dynamically adjusts its size (up to a limit) if the containing entries contain text that is very long
Interpolation of small images has been reverted to the pre-4.9 experience.
On Windows, if the image is shown on top, the window will once again have a proper title bar and min/max buttons.

These are just a few of the 25 individual bug fixes and improvements in this version, you can find a more complete list in the Changelog. To catch more of such bugs going forward before releasing a new version, a formalized pre-release testing checklist has been set up. Of course, this does not mean that there wont be any bugs going forward, but this will certainly help a lot in catching many of them before they are ever live.

The next release will be v5.0, and the main focus of that release will be to add a variation of PhotoQt's interface that integrates better into desktop environments. To this end, there will likely a beta release, v4.9.9, before the final v5.0 release to help with some more widespread testing of such rather major changes. Keep an eye out for an announcement to that end closer to the next release being done. You can track the progress on this work in issue #282 over on GitLab.

Get involved

I love to hear from people using PhotoQt. In order to get in touch with me for feedback/support/etc., the best way to do so is by opening an issue over in the GitLab repository: https://gitlab.com/lspies/photoqt

If this is not an option for you, then you can also always send me an email: (you need to enable javascript to see the email address)

If you want to help PhotoQt, there are a few ways you can get involved:

Join the translation team over on Crowdin. If your language is missing you can simply request it directly on Crowdin or send me an email and I can add it to the project.
Give feedback of what you like/don't like, or what you think is missing from PhotoQt. To give feedback, send me an email or open an issue on GitLab.

If you are considering supporting PhotoQt by donation, please consider donating to the humanitarian relief in Ukraine instead, for example to the Ukrainian Red Cross.

Enjoy PhotoQt,

Lukas

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