History¶

0.9.1 (Unreleased)¶

UI:

Add details to observation page: identifications, comments, annotations, observation fields, and tags
Startup:
- Add welcome dialog for first launch to show observation download progress
- Add (optional) locale selection to welcome dialog
- Improve UI responsiveness and stability while background tasks are running
- Improve performance of loading observations (both background download and UI updates)
- Resume previously interrupted observation downloads
Menus:
- Add menu item to open app data/config dir (Tools > Open App Directory)
- Add menu item to check for newer stable release (Help > Check for Updates)
- Add menu item to submit a bug report (Help > Bug Report)
QoL:
- Add collapsible side panel for taxonomy search
- Add icon on thumbnails to indicate pending/unwritten tags available
- Add colored indicators on thumbnail metadata icons to show specific types of pending metadata changes (taxonomy/observation/geo/embedded tags/sidecar)
- Update layout and scaling to accommodate smaller screens
- Default to dark mode
- Re-read settings.yml if manually changed on disk before opening settings menu
Error handling:
- Add icon and error text tooltip for images + metadata that failed to load (typically corrupt files)
- Add global error handler hook to show dialog for unhandled exceptions

CLI:

Packaging/Setup:

Data & dependencies:
- Include locale data in PyInstaller packages
- Update packaged taxonomy db with iNaturalist data from March 2026
- Include database migrations for future SQLite db updates
- Upgrade to Qt 6.10
Artifacts:
- Build pacman package for Arch Linux
- Build AppImage package for other Linux distros not covered by other formats (replaces snap package)
- Include wheel in GitHub release artifacts (for pre-release testing)
- Automate Windows installer build with Inno Setup (replaces Actual Installer)
Packaging bugfixes:
- Fix an issue recovering from a failed db setup
- Fix issue with first-time installation on Windows
- Fix PyPI package with unresolvable constraints when installed with pip
- Fix Gatekeeper-related issues with macOS DMG image (but may still require manual un-quarantining; see installation guide)

Other Bugfixes:

Fix several multithreading issues potentially leading to segfaults
Fix cancelling queued background tasks on app exit (observation/taxon/image downloads, etc.)
Fix issue with canceling other background tasks when canceling taxonomy load
Fix missing common name at root of hierarchical keywords
Fix missing subspecies in hierarchical keywords
Fix handling malformed file:// URIs where path is parsed as netloc

UI:

Add tab for browsing user’s observations
When an observation is selected, show a summary of basic observation details on main screen
Display observation count and leaf taxon count on taxon info cards
Add support for displaying and searching common names in any language supported by iNaturalist.org
- Uses the locale setting from settings menu
- The packaged taxon DB only contains english names, but a full version can be downloaded here
Add dialog to prompt for username on first startup

CLI:

Split CLI into subcommands:
- tag: Main tagging features
- refresh: Refresh tags for previously tagged images
- setup: install shell completion + taxonomy database
Add 3 verbosity levels (nt -v[vv])
Update nt tag -p to accept directories and glob patterns
Add support for alternate XMP sidecar path format, if it already exists
Support selecting a sidecar file directly (instead of via an associated image file)
Support selecting any file type with an associated sidecar (e.g., for RAW image files)
- Works with individual paths or glob patterns, but not for directories

Metadata:

Add support for GPS positional accuracy
Add support for alternate XMP sidecar path format, if it already exists (basename.ext.xmp instead of basename.xmp)
In refresh mode, check for taxonomy changes and update tags with the new taxon (1:1 changes only)

Database:

Update packaged taxonomy db with iNaturalist data from June 2024
Include data for most commonly observed taxa with PyInstaller packages and platform-specific installers
Pre-compute ancestor IDs, child IDs, iconic taxon, observation count, and leaf taxon count based on RG observations from GBIF export
Preserve photo order when loading observations from db
When updating taxon record from API, don’t overwrite pre-computed stats with null values
Add menu button to reset database (Tools > Reset database)

Rebuilt UI from scratch using Qt
Build local taxon and observation database for partial online access and better performance
Build local taxon text search database for fully offline (and much faster) taxon autocomplete
Add CLI taxon autocomplete search
Add fullscreen image viewer
Add full bi-directional conversion between iNat API results and Darwin Core XMP metadata
Add recent and favorite image directories
Build Windows installer, macOS .dmg, and PyInstaller artifacts for all platforms
Add GPS metadata
Many performance improvements, bugfixes, etc.

Improved image drag-and-drop, and support recursively adding images from subdirectories
Initial packaging with PyInstaller
Add tab for user-observed taxa
CLI improvements and options
Add more data models and move these to pyinaturalist
Add caching improvements and merge into requests-cache
Add progress bar for loading taxon data and images
Multithreading for better performance with loading taxon data and images
Update to Kivy 2
Improvements for docs, CI/project config, bugfixes, etc.