Blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/announcing-imageglass-10-beta-2-101

Mirror link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/release-10-beta-159372334

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Changelog

🟢 New Features

1. HDR Support (#2121, #2148, #1430)

• Added setting EnableHdrToneMapping for toggling HDR processing
• HDR tone-mapping support for image formats: AVIF, JXL, HDR, EXR...
• Added new Image information tag to show HDR image info: HdrInfo

2. Native Vector Rendering

• Added support for rendering SVG, SVGZ format
• Added support for animated SMIL-based SVG
• Added setting EnableVectorRenderer to fallback to the raster rendering

3. Introduce ImageGlass.SDK library

• External tools, similar to ImageGlass.Tools library
  • Uses Out-of-process IPC
  • Registration via Tools setting in igconfig.json, same as version 9.
    For example, add exiftool as external tool for ImageGlass:

    {
     "ToolId": "Tool_ExifTool",
     "ToolName": "ExifTool",
     "Executable": "cmd",
     "Arguments": "/k exiftool.exe -fast -G -t -m -q -H \"<file>\"",
     "IsIntegrated": false,
     "Hotkeys": ["Alt+Q"]
    }

• Native codec plugin
  • Uses In-process native ABI
  • Plugin registration: Declare your plugin in a igplugin.json file, put it in %LocalAppData%\ImageGlass_10\_plugins\<your_plugin_dir> folder

    {
     "id": "Plugin_MyCodec",
     "name": "My Codec Plugin",
     "description": "Native plugin that exposes one codec to ImageGlass.",
     "version": "1.0.0",
     "author": "Your Name",
     "website": "https://example.com",
     "kind": "Codec",
     "executable": "MyCodecPlugin.dll",
     "supportedExtensions": ".foo;.bar"
    }

4. Redesigned Built-in Tools

• Crop Image
• Resize Image
• Frame Navigation
• Lossless Compression

5. Implemented features from v9

• Thumbnail persistent cache support with setting GalleryCacheSizeInMb
• Added settings
  • Loop navigation: EnableLoopBackNavigation and EnableLoopSlideshow
  • Preserve modified date on saving: EnablePreserveModifiedDate
  • Navigation buttons for viewer: EnableNavigationButtons
  • Option to load embedded image only: EnableOnlyLoadRawPreview, EnableOnlyLoadNonRawPreview, PreviewMinWidth, PreviewMinHeight
  • Mouse actions: MouseClickActions, MouseWheelActions
  • Background color: BackgroundColor, SlideshowBackgroundColor

🟡 Improvements

• All binary files are now signed
• Updated the installer type: MSIX for Windows builds, DMG for macOS, flatpak for Linux
• Library updates: MagickNET to v14.13.1, Avalonia 12
• Added support for multi-frame image formats: TIF, TIFF, FAX,...
• Added setting EnableGalleryShellThumbnail to disable usage of Windows thumbnails (#2301)
• Added support Motion Photos (#1927), use "Frame Navigation" tool to play the embedded video
• New image interpolation values for settings ImageInterpolationScaleDown and ImageInterpolationScaleUp
  • Nearest
  • NearestMipmapNearest
  • NearestMipmapLinear
  • Linear
  • LinearMipmapNearest
  • LinearMipmapLinear
  • CubicMitchell
  • CubicCatmullRom
  • Anisotropic

🔴 Bugfixes

• Fixed: Images with "and rotate CW" Orientation Metadata not displaying (#2309)
• Fixed: The program didn't always respect the "Maximum gallery cache size" setting (#1706)
• Fixed: Error when opening ImageGlass from Windows Search results (#2189)
• Fixed: Touch gestures sometimes opened context menu unexpectedly
• Fixed: Temp folder wasn't deleted when app closed
• Fixed: Clipboard data was empty after the app closes
• Fixed: Windows: Photo list did not loaded when opening file from desktop
• Fixed: Linux: Missing libraries in Linux build (#2320)
• Fixed: Mac: Avalonia Application quitted unexpectedly (#2304)
• Fixed: Mac: Font was not consistent

ImageGlass Roadmap Update – 2026:

Please read announcement at: #2287

New Contributors

• @philocalyst made their first contribution in #2310

Full Changelog: 10.0.0.314-beta-1...10.0.2.66-beta-2

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• @philocalyst

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📣 Blogpost

• Announcing ImageGlass 9.5

• ImageGlass 10 Beta 1 Is Here!

• ImageGlass Roadmap Update – 2026

📌 Changelog

New features

• Added DPI to image information tags, kudo to @Poley4229 for #2299
• Added setting to auto-switch to sibling directory when reaching the end of image list, kudo to @ThingOfNull for #2298

Improvements

• Updated Magick.NET to v14.13.0

Bugfixes

• Fixed: App window shrank progressively every time it was opened on a secondary monitor (#2061)
• Fixed: Error when opening ImageGlass from Windows Search results (#2189)

🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 New Contributors

• @Poley4229 made their first contribution in #2299
• @ThingOfNull made their first contribution in #2298

Full Changelog: 9.4.1.15...9.5.0.515

Contributors

• @ThingOfNull
• @Poley4229

ImageGlass 10 beta 1

📣 Blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/imageglass-10-beta-1-is-here-99

Mirror link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153024357

🖥️ Supported platforms

• Windows 10/11 64-bit, version 1809 (build 17763) or later
• macOS ARM64
• Linux X64

📺 Introduction videos

• Introducing ImageGlass 10 Beta 1 - Cross-platform Support: https://youtu.be/57-ZYdU1SYI
• Run ImageGlass 10 Beta 1 on macOS: https://youtu.be/f5cyb9uu9vU
• Run ImageGlass 10 Beta 1 on Linux (Zorin OS): https://youtu.be/2IBmu-EqbMQ

📦 Download

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Purchase ImageGlass 9 Store version to support this project:

🛣️ ImageGlass Roadmap Update – 2026:

Please read announcement at: #2287

You can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version:


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📣 Blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/announcing-imageglass-9-4-97

i️ Note: The MSI installer is sponsored by Opera. During UI setup, some users may see an optional Opera browser offer to help support ImageGlass. This offer does not appear with MSI command-line installs.

📌 Changelog

🟡 Improvements

• Updated Magick.NET to v14.10.1
• Renamed the folder of the portable releases (ZIP files) from ImageGlass_<version>_<architecture> to ImageGlass_<architecture>

🔴 Bugfixes

• Fixed: ImageGlass was crashed on Windows 10 LTSC 2021 Compatibility and could not run, thanks @nomoemptypointer (#2251)
• Fixed: Typo error for image interpolation method: "Antisotropic" => "Anisotropic" (#2250)

New Contributors

• @nomoemptypointer made their first contribution in #2242

Full Changelog: 9.4.0.1120...9.4.1.15

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• @nomoemptypointer

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📣 Blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/announcing-imageglass-9-4-97

i️Note: The MSI installer is sponsored by Opera. During UI setup, some users may see an optional Opera browser offer to help support ImageGlass. This offer does not appear with MSI command-line installs.

📌 Changelog

🟢 New features

• Added support for viewing relative path of the embedded image in SVG format when using WebView2 (#2198)
• Added non-UI setting: MinDimensionToUseWIC = 16000 to define the minimum image dimension to use WIC decoder instead of Magick.NET (#2168)
• Added .HIF extension to the default file extensions list (#2174)

🟡 Improvements

• Upgraded to .NET 10
• Updated Magick.NET to v14.9.1, resolved CVE issues: CVE-2025-53015, CVE-2025-55004, CVE-2025-55154, CVE-2025-55298, CVE-2025-62594
• Updated libwebp to v1.6
• Updated the behavior of "Set default photo viewer" function to respect the per-user installation (#2187)
• Updated the app to show error message while rendering image
• Updated the GIF animator to set frame delay as 10ms if this value is 0
• Updated font size of Web UI windows (Quick Setup, Settings, About, Check for Update) to follow system font size
• Improved dark mode for native controls

🔴 Bugfixes

• Fixed: Could not drag-n-drop gallery thumbnail after renaming the viewed image
• Fixed: Individual color channel views were not rendered properly in a certain scenario (#2195)
• Fixed: Could not print and page through a multipage TiffG4 if it has file extension FAX (#2182)
• Fixed: Gallery bar was crashed in certain cases when loading thumbnails (#2217)
• Fixed: Changing View channels after rotate caused image display stretched and cropped (#2220)
• Updated DXControl to v4.2.0 to attempt to fix the issue that causes Win32Exception (0x8899000C) (#1970, #2092, #2171), kudo to @ArchangelWTF

Full Changelog: 9.3.2.520...9.4.0.1120

⛳ Other Updates

• Published ExifGlass app v1.10
• Sneak peak of ImageGlass 10 preview 1
  

Contributors

• @ArchangelWTF

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📌 Changelog

🟢 New features

• Added support for viewing relative path of the embedded image in SVG format when using WebView2 (#2198)
• Added non-UI setting: MinDimensionToUseWIC = 10000 to define the minimum image dimension to use WIC decoder instead of Magick.NET (#2168)
• Added .HIF extension to the default file extensions list (#2174)

🟡 Improvements

• Upgraded to .NET 10 RC1
• Updated Magick.NET to v14.8.2, resolved CVE issues:
  • CVE-2025-53015
  • CVE-2025-55004
  • CVE-2025-55154
  • CVE-2025-55298
• Updated libwebp to v1.6
• Updated the behaviour of "Set default photo viewer" function to respect the per-user installation (#2187)
• Updated the app to display error while rendering image
• Updated the GIF animator to set frame delay as 10ms if this value is 0

🔴 Bugfixes

• Fixed: Could not drag-n-drop gallery thumbnail after renaming the viewed image
• Fixed: Individual color channel views were not rendered properly in a certain scenario (#2195)
• Fixed: Could not print and page through a multipage TiffG4 if it has file extension FAX (#2182)
• Updated DXControl to v4.2.0 to attempt to fix the issue that causes Win32Exception (0x8899000C) (#1970, #2092, #2171), kudo to @ArchangelWTF

Full Changelog: 9.3.2.520...9.3.2.912-beta

🎏 Theme Pack Highlights

New beautiful theme packs from @mdapm9di:

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• SyncUI-Dark: https://imageglass.org/theme/syncui-dark-mdapm9di-46
• SyncUI-White: https://imageglass.org/theme/syncui-white-mdapm9di-55

⛳ Other Updates

• Published ExifGlass app v1.9

Contributors

• @ArchangelWTF
• @mdapm9di

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Meet ImageGlass at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 — Open Source Spotlight

👉🏻 Seeking Feedback: Replacing MSI installer with MSIX

📣 Blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/announcing-imageglass-9-3-94

📌 Changelog

🔴 Bugfixes

• Fixed: Could not open image when ShouldUseExplorerSortOrder setting is not enabled (#2142)
• Fixed: Opening a folder opened the "last" image in the folder instead of the "first" image (#2139)

Full Changelog: 9.3.1.518...9.3.2.520

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♨ Binary updates

• 17/05/2025: Updated the binary files to fix an issue where the app failed to launch after upgrading from older version (#2142)

👉🏻 Seeking Feedback: Replacing MSI installer with MSIX

📣 Blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/announcing-imageglass-9-3-94

📌 Changelog

🟡 Improvements

• Updated app shortcut to Start Menu\Programs folder (#2135)
• Updated behaviour of "Set Default Viewer" not to use per-machine scope for portable mode (#2131)

🔴 Bugfixes

• Fixed: ImageGlass crashed and failed to launch when other third-party apps that use IShellView API are opening (#2137, #2140)
• Fixed: ImageGlass crashed in certain cases on Windows Server (#2132)
• Fixed: Could not use "Save As" after cropping image (#2138)

Full Changelog: 9.3.0.514...9.3.1.518

🎉 This release marks the 15th anniversary of ImageGlass — thank you for your continued support!

ImageGlass 15th anniversary

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📣 Blogpost: https://imageglass.org/news/announcing-imageglass-9-3-94

📌 Changelog

🔵 New Requirements

This version is now self-contained (#1427) — it no longer requires the .NET Desktop Runtime to run.
Minimum system requirements:

• Windows 10/11 64-bit, version 1809 (build 17763) or later
• (Optional) WebView2 Runtime 64-bit v119.0.2151 or later (for enhanced SVG support)

🟢 New Features

• Invert Colors: Quickly invert image colors with a single click (#2048)
• New Format Support: Added support for SVGZ, JXR, HDP, and WDP image formats (#1047, #2066)
• Live Photo Support: View motion/live photos embedded in JPEG files (#1927)
• Explorer Sort Order V2 (#404, #544, #635, #1683, #2024, #2093):
  • Full compatibility with Explorer's sort orders, including search result ordering
  • Supports following sort order from saved search file: .search-ms
  • Supports refreshing the image list with Explorer's sort order
  • Limitation: The Explorer window or tab must be open (it can be minimized)

🟡 Improvements

• Upgraded to .NET 9
• Updated Magick.NET to v14.6
• Updated "Set default photo viewer" feature to use per-machine level (#1938 #2102 #1855)
• Updated HEIC format read setting MaxChildrenPerBox up to 500 to suppress error "Memory allocation error: Security limit exceeded" (#2099)
• Updated SVGs viewed via WebView2 to display checkerboard backgrounds only within the image bounds (#2076)
• Updated Frame Navigation tool to remember its last-used state between sessions (#2072)
• Disabled "Window Backdrop" setting for Windows 10 (#2083)
• Disabled "Use Explorer sort order if possible" for the Standard user profile in Quick Setup dialog
• Added "Use Explorer sort order if possible" to the "Loading orders" context menu
• Removed the deprecated setting: "Enable image transition" in Settings > Image > Image loading
• Improved thumbnail extraction of Gallery Bar

🔴 Bugfixes

• Fixed: Rapid zooming with the mouse wheel misaligned the focus point
• Fixed: Image Booster did not preload images before switching between images (#1482)
• Fixed: Could not change "Toolbar icon size" and "Image quality" setting (#2058, #2059, #2070)
• Fixed: App crashed when opening Crop tool and Color Picker tool on a second monitor with different DPI (#1758, #1868, #2063)
• Fixed: The Copy button in the Color Picker didn't fit within the modal boundaries (#2062)
• Fixed: JPEG XL HDR images on a non-HDR-system appeared dark and dull (#1677)

Full Changelog: 9.2.0.1208...9.3.0.514

⛳ Other Updates

• Published ExifGlass app v1.8

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Updates

• Added ImageGlass_9.2.1.324_net9_x64.zip which is built against .NET 9

Changelog:

This is a beta release of ImageGlass 9.3, to address these issues: Milestone v9.3.

• Updated the "Use Explorer sort order if possible" feature #404
  • Adds support for following sort order from saved search file: .search-ms
  • Improves algorithm foreground window detection for file drag-n-drop and single instance mode
  • Attempts to fix issue "Interface unknown (0x800706B5)" #2100
• Updated "Set default photo viewer" feature to use per-machine level #1938 #2102 #1855
• Removed redundant setting: Settings > Image > Image loading "Enable image transition" (EnableImageTransition)
• Disabled "Window Backdrop" setting for Windows 10 #2083
• Updated "Quick Setup" dialog to disable "Use Explorer sort order if possible" setting for Standard user profile
• Fixed: Quickly zooming by mouse wheel could not keep the focus point correctly

System Requirements 🆕

This version is a self-contained release that runs independently and does not require .NET Desktop Runtime.
Here are the new requirements:

• Windows 10/11 64-bit, version 1809 (build 17763) or later
• Optional: WebView2 Runtime 64-bit v119.0.2151 or later

Full Changelog: 9.2.1.216...9.2.1.324-beta