Release notes

Xpiks 1.7.4 - Latest version

Overview. Released October 31, 2024. Full version: 1.7.4.1

• Add large preview option for grid and list modes
• Functionality to add directory with all subdirectories
• New plugin integrations into context menus for Title, Description and Keywords
• Ability to select or change video frame as video preview
• Functionality to rename the artwork file from Xpiks
• Show upload history summary per agency
• Show compatibility warnings for agencies when uploading
• Add functionality to export previews
• New search filter for last added files
• Functionality to sort files by created date (from metadata)

Xpiks 1.7.3

Released Sep 7, 2023.

• Improve stability of batch auto-keywording
• Fix duplicate vector attachments to previews
• Automatically normalize FTP filenames when needed
• Fix auto-keywording for TIFF files
• Notify about cloud upload start failures
• Preserve order of files when adding
• Allow importing CSV data from preview files
• Fix incorrect CSV format warning when importing
• Fix plugin settings lost during plugin update
• Do not review duplicates with empty metadata
• Security and stability improvements
• Improve license management
• Added “RAW” files support
• Show histogram for images
• Improve saving files reliability
• Allow partial cloud uploads
• Fix modified status not updated for vectors

Xpiks 1.7.2

Overview. Released May 28, 2023.

• Option to use the maximum bandwidth for upload for certain hosts
• Improved upload UI
• Option to skip normalizing filenames for FTP upload
• Upload support for Vectorstock
• Allow canceling upload to individual hosts
• Show the upload failure reason in the upload report
• Show the exact amount of skipped uploads due to Upload History
• Functionality to add preset to selected artworks
• Allow deleting preset group with all attached presets
• Option to create preset only for the current session
• Functionality to create a preset from artwork keywords
• Allow appending and prepending text to Title/Description
• Add empty/ready file selection options
• Possibility to set color tag from the single artwork edit view
• Option to use the filename as a description
• Allow applying QuickBuffer to multiple artworks
• Ability to zoom in/out in a single artwork editing view
• Ability to customize detected warnings
• Improve metadata reading and writing speed
• Option to show larger previews in keywords suggestion
• Support for image auto-rotation based on Orientation metadata
• Use natural sorting for filenames with numbers
• Functionality to show exported CSV files in folder
• Functionality to move artworks to another folder
• Add the option to have light preview background
• Support for reading/writing video metadata with previews
• Render vector file from embedded preview (without external preview file)
• Show onboarding progress for new users
• Functionality to duplicate a CSV export plan
• Show specific error messages from license activation errors
• Warning when closing unsaved Keywords Suggestion

Xpiks 1.7.1

Overview. Released May 31, 2022.

• Ability to upload via Xpiks Cloud
• Speedup local upload to a single host
• Plugin to translate to and from 26 languages
• Plugin to track user cloud uploads
• Add functionality to delete the license
• Add ability to reset host upload settings to defaults
• Allow to Find-and-Replace to a list of keywords
• Ask for user email to start a trial
• Allow limited CSV export plans for free plan users
• Allow limited presets for free plan users
• Improve filename matching when using CSV import
• Improve upload history accounting for changed files
• Fix upload progress stalled after upload is retried
• Fix hang on Windows when Delete Keywords is used
• Fix crash of translation plugin load on Windows
• Add Thai translation
• Fix plugins update process
• Improve keywords suggestion reliability
• Fix upload to Vecteezy
• Improve reliability of saving metadata to EPS
• Improve retrying uploads reliability

Xpiks 1.7.0

Overview. Released Sep 16, 2021. Full version: 1.7.0.4

• Add support for plugin marketplace
• Plugin for automatic keywording
• Plugin for creating keywording orders
• Plugin for creating model releases
• Plugin for trimming keywords
• Plugin for tracking rankings on microstocks
• Add Greek translation
• Keywords suggestions using reverse image search
• Add exiftool replacement on macOS due to Perl being deprecated
• New updates installer on Windows
• Functionality to find similar images in keywords suggestions
• Keywords suggestions support for videos
• Ability to change the order of upload hosts
• Ability to save Title to IPTC:Headline (for iStock upload)
• Ability to add Copyright metadata
• Make app notifications less obtrusive
• Add support for PNG

Xpiks 1.6.0

Overview. Released Sep 13, 2020. Full version: 1.6.0.16

• Background upload support
• Fail-safe mode of generation video previews
• Support for custom FTP directories for upload
• New warnings for EPS filesize
• New warnings for vector preview size
• Spelling suggestions in keyword editing dialog
• FTPS support
• Custom CSV export columns
• Metadata import from CSV
• Show latest blogposts and tutorials on start
• Support form within the app
• Upload history for artworks
• SVG files support
• Settings synchronization
• Color tags for artworks
• Support thresholds for local thumbnails cache
• Ability to reupload failed files with one click
• Smart preset groups for recently added and used
• Option to keep presets sorted alphabetically
• Add suggested keywords with Ctrl + click
• New translations to Czech and Romanian
• Automatic suggestions for helpdesk

Xpiks 1.5.5

Released Nov 21, 2019. Full version: 1.5.5.9

• Xpiks is notarized for macOS
• Update openSSL libraries on Windows
• Add help links in dialogs
• Enable upload hosts scrolling during upload
• Fix potential issue with thumbnails generation
• Fix keywords blinking too often
• Set forced left to right orientation

Xpiks 1.5.4

Released Jul 20, 2019.

• Fix CSV filenames mismatch with uploaded files
• Fix updater on Windows not starting
• Fix upload timeout issues
• Fix Windows update issues
• Fix EPS metadata writing
• Improve upload reliability on slow connections
• Fix EPS backups created always

Xpiks 1.5.3

Released Jun 22, 2019.

• Beta support for saving metadata to EPS files
• Support for skipping vector previews on upload
• Use Adobe Stock instead of Fotolia for keywords suggestion
• Manage preset groups functionality
• Manage translation dictionaries functionality
• Shutterstock search results now include also editorial
• Improve FTP upload speed
• Remove warning about duplicate keywords in Title and Description
• Fix issue with CSV file format for Shutterstock
• Fix for loading suggestion thumbnails from end
• Fix for switching to next/prev artwork not working from edit fields
• Fix issue with exiftool path in Linux

Xpiks 1.5.2

Released Jun 11, 2018.

• Autocompletion in Presets window
• GDPR-related privacy consent question
• Consolidate filenames for upload
• Improved stock upload options
• Fixes for handling of corrupted internal database
• Fix for stock suggestions sometimes not available

Xpiks 1.5.1

Released Mar 4, 2018.

• Added Italian translation
• Fix for default CSV plans being not usable
• Fix for warnings not updated after editing
• Fix for artwork grid filtering positioning
• Fix for Upload dialog host Title issues
• Option to have portable settings in Xpiks
• Show links from More menu on bigger screens
• Fix for video previews of files larger than 2GB
• Ability to mouse move full size image in single view
• Basic drag’n’drop functionality for keywords

Xpiks 1.5.0

Released Jan 14, 2018.

• Support for Video files
• Words semantic analysis (duplicates detection)
• Presets groups and autocompletion
• Session management
• CSV export
• New shiny UI
• Automatic metadata import support
• Directories filtering
• New languages: Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish and Turkish