Diffractor1.27.2 - Download

version 1.27.2

- **Three dates, each labelled** Original, Created and Modified are now separate and searchable, so an edit no longer moves a photo to the day it was retouched ([#184](https://github.com/diffractor/diffractor/issues/184)).
- **Panoramas and 360 photos** wide stitches sweep at full width, equirectangular files become a camera you turn by dragging, and `@panorama` finds them.
- **Items view settings without scrolling to the top** group, sort, media-type filter and *Show items in subfolders* open from the scroller ([discussion #251](https://github.com/diffractor/diffractor/discussions/251)).
- **The sidebar map is now a globe**, and the history chart spans your whole collection ([#175](https://github.com/diffractor/diffractor/issues/175)).
- **Verbose metadata reports what the file actually holds** unnamed tags kept, maker notes as directories, embedded thumbnail shown.
- **Security updates** expat 2.8.3 closes [CVE-2026-72522](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72522), plus libopenmpt, libarchive, libebml and sqlite.
- **Before you upgrade:** `taken:`, `when:`, `timeline:` and `c:` now mean Original, so saved searches may return different results. Every icon is redrawn.

Full detail: [docs/v-1.27.2.md](https://github.com/diffractor/diffractor/blob/master/docs/v-1.27.2.md)

version 1.27.2

Three dates, each labelled Original, Created and Modified are now separate and searchable, so an edit no longer moves a photo to the day it was retouched (#184). Panoramas and 360 photos wide stitches sweep at full width, equirectangular files become a camera you turn by dragging, and

version 1.27.1

- Fixed a **crash** affecting some users on startup.
- **Uses much less memory** while browsing and viewing.
- **Ratings and keywords cannot be lost to a locked sidecar** a `.xmp` that cannot be read is refused, not rebuilt from the edit alone.
- **Duplicate detection stops fading out** scrolling a video into view no longer clears its checksum.
- **Video plays in software rendering** with hardware acceleration off.

version 1.27.0

- **Improved UI, Zoom, rebuilt.** Hold to peek at full detail, or press `Ctrl+Space` for a proper zoom mode that stays put while you pan, compare, and move through your photos. Pinch, drag, double-tap, wheel, or use the corner navigator and the image sharpens as soon as you stop moving.
- **Search by where a photo was taken.** Type a city, a state, a country, or just click the map, and photos with only GPS coordinates now answer too. Diffractor no longer confidently attaches the wrong town name to a photo if it isn't sure, it says `Near X` with a direction instead.
- **Finds the same photo saved twice.** A resized copy, a re-export, a re-save, or one you rotated is now recognised as a duplicate even though the file name, size, and checksum are all different. Crops stay separate, and burst sequences and scanned pages don't produce false matches.
- **Related items actually finds related items.** It used to show duplicates only. Now it also shows photos from the same album, the same series, taken around the same time, and taken in the same place each in its own group, closest first.
- **Rename, Import, and Sync are easier to use and safer.** Each one now walks you through it, shows exactly what it is about to do to every file, and lets you decide what happens when a file already exists before anything is written. Copy and Move do this too, instead of quietly making a second copy.
- **Better photo editing.** Fix converging verticals, warm or cool an image, and let Auto color, Auto straighten, and Auto document do the first pass for you. Auto document sets the same crop and straighten sliders you'd use yourself, so you can nudge or undo any part of it and none of it freezes the window on a big RAW.
- **Faster, safer edits to your files.** Rating a RAW file no longer copies the whole file to record one star. Writes to network drives, OneDrive, and files another program has open now either work or tell you why they didn't, and never leave stray temporary files behind.
- **Now translated into 13 languages.** Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Chinese.
- **Multiple bugs fixed:**
- #189 mixed text sizes after changing the font size
- #232 a missing Calibri font flooded the log file
- #103 OneDrive reverted ratings and tags after syncing
- #207 writes to network drives failed and left temporary files
- #180 tagging a file another program had open froze Diffractor
- #78 videos displayed with the wrong aspect ratio
- #61 video locations never appeared on the map
- #219 Korean tags failed to display, add, or search
- #184 photos sorted by edit date instead of capture date
- #215 Explorer opened every folder in Diffractor

version 1.26.4

Small release with bug fixes and updates.

Fixes:

Korean (Hangul) tags and search now work correctly, including matching between the NFC and NFD forms used by different cameras and operating systems #219
Sidebar history chart now shows your full collection, with a configurable number of years in the Customize dialog #175
Folders starting with a dot (e.g. `.dtrash`) can now be excluded, even when the path is offline or not yet created #174
Fixed SHA256 hashing on 32-bit builds

New:

Genre now supports multiple `;`-separated values for search, grouping and autocomplete #117
Reads more EXIF metadata Artist, Software, and the Windows XP Title/Author/Keywords/Subject tags plus APEX aperture and shutter-speed fallbacks
Updated image libraries (libheif, libjpeg-turbo, libjxl, LibRaw, libde265, zlib-ng, minizip-ng) for better RAW and HEIF handling

Thanks to everyone who reported issues. I hope to work through more [issues](https://github.com/diffractor/diffractor/issues) in the tracker over the coming months.

version 1.26.4