Zoph 1.8

Zoph 1.8 and Zoph AI 1.8 are available for download. I have released Zoph 1.8, in php source format as well as Docker images.

It has been 8 months since the last Zoph release. Unfortunately I faces a few issues during the making of this release.

One, it turned out that XMP wasn't as much a standard as I thought it was and implementing the XMP Write feature did make that painfully clear. What one program would happily read, another program would simply ignore. This didn't only cost a lot of time but also gave my motivation a bit of a hit, because the feature wasn't going to be as useful as I had imagined.

Besides that, I also faced some hardware issues with my server, which caused my development environment to be down for several weeks at a time. But eventually, I finished this release with a few nice improvements and bugfixes.

In this version, Mapbox has been removed in favour of MapLibre. Mapbox was becoming less-and-less open source and was beginning to bug me to provide a billing address and limiting access to the free tier. Maplibre is a true open source fork of Mapbox. If you had previously selected Mapbox as your mapping provider, you may need to go into the configuration and choose Maplibre after the update.

Maplibre also has a lot of additional ways to display the map, I have added "countries" view, (see the screenshot below) but would like to add more in the future. Feel free to submit ideas, if you have them.

I have also released a new version of Zoph AI. This is only a rebuild with updated software versions, no new features or other changes.

The full changelog can be found in the changelog. You can download Zoph from the Gitlab site.

Zoph Docker images are available from Docker Hub, Docker Hub (Zoph AI) and Gitlab.