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Dynamic Theme build 1.7.77 (1.7.77.0)

Released on June 28, 2023

Dynamic Theme changelog

What's new

Build 1.7.71 (1.7.71.0)

  • Custom fill color option when the picture fit option support it

Build 1.7.70 (1.7.70.0)

  • Text overlay is now supported for local picture too

  • Description of the local picture now uses EXIF metadata to be generated (when available)

Build 1.7.69 (1.7.69.0)

  • You can now incrust the description of the Bing and Windows Spotlight pictures in the picture itself! (#1 feature request since a while) with a good set of customization options

  • You can now pause the daily update of Bing/Windows Spotlight pictures for a specified time with automatic resume after the delay

  • You can now pause the daily update of your slideshow for a specified time with automatic resume after the delay

  • You can now use a specific time to update your background/lock screen with the slideshow feature

  • You can now update your background/lock screen with the slideshow feature each time a system 'user presence' event is detected

  • You can now update your background/lock screen with the slideshow feature each time a system 'startup' event is detected

  • When an action succeed/failed in the picture viewer, a temporary banner indicates the result

What's changed

Build 1.7.77 (1.7.77.0)

  • Bulgarian translation

  • Korean translation

  • Spanish translation

  • German translation

  • Romanian translation

  • Chinese (traditional) translation

  • Polish translation

  • Portuguese translation

  • Portuguese (Brazil) translation

  • Serbian translation

  • Serbian (Cyrillic) translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) persian translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) croatian translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) indonesian translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) italian translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) japanese translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) lithuanian translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) russian translation

  • Remove incomplete (partial) turkish translation

  • Microsoft Store Services SDK updated (version 10.2306.12002)

  • Tweaks the performance during the application loading

  • Improved algorithm for the picture's description overlay to better support small and medium-sized screens

Build 1.7.75 (1.7.75.0)

  • Chinese (simplified) translation

  • Optimized background and/or lock screen update when description overlay settings are updated

Build 1.7.74 (1.7.74.0)

  • Some performance optimizations

  • Ukrainian translation

  • Bulgarian translation

Build 1.7.73 (1.7.73.0)

  • Improved settings performance by loading asynchronously the available font families

  • Bulgarian translation

  • Dutch translation

  • Flemish translation

Build 1.7.71 (1.7.71.0)

  • Improved navigation when the user opens the application via a secondary tile and a subpage of the same category is already open

  • Improved reliability when settings are changed quickly few times

  • Korean translation

  • French translation

  • Polish translation

  • Portuguese translation

  • Portuguese (Brazil) translation

  • Serbian translation

  • Serbian (Cyrillic) translation

  • Flemish translation

  • Chinese (Traditional) translation

  • Chinese (Simplified) translation

Build 1.7.70 (1.7.70.0)

  • Improve reliability of the font color of the Bing or Windows Spotlight picture overlay text

  • Allow to use a font size up to 80 pixels in the picture overlay text settings

  • Improvement of the size (width) of the picture text overlay

  • Improved navigation management when a sub-page is opened and the main menu is selected/clicked again

Build 1.7.69 (1.7.69.0)

  • Windows 10 10.0.17763.0 is now the minimum version supported by the application

  • Windows UI Library updated to version 2.8.4

  • AppCenter Library updated to version 5.0.2

  • Unavailable lock screen settings in High Contrast mode are now hidden with an informational banner

  • Keep the last location of the file selector when a picture is manually saved

  • A limited connexion no longer raises an 'issue detected' message but a specific informational banner is displayed in each content page

  • The troubleshooting wizard is more accurate (more precise descriptions) when connection problems are detected

  • The troubleshooting wizard can be open directly from the picture viewer when there is a network issue

  • A specific notification is automatically raised after a few days when a limited connection is detected and impacts the proper functioning of the application

  • When the connection status changes, the troubleshooting wizard automatically updates its status

What's fixed

Build 1.7.77 (1.7.77.0)

  • Prevent the application to crash if the system network stack is in bad state

Build 1.7.75 (1.7.75.0)

  • One WinUI 2.8 regression that can crash the application randomly (related to the navigation control)

  • One WinUI 2.8 regression that can crash the application randomly (related to the choose folder control in 'Daily Bing' and 'Daily Windows Spotlight' pages)

  • A random crash related to the management of internal actions synchronization

Build 1.7.74 (1.7.74.0)

  • Wrong preview used in description overlay settings when one Bing picture and one WindowsSpotlight picture options are used

  • Incorrect cache management when a new local picture is manually set (need to be selected 2x to be set)

  • Incorrect management of actions synchronization when the background task of the application is runnung and the application is opened and used

  • Fixes to improve reliability when the user makes several rapid changes to selected option

  • Prevent the application to crash if the loading of the available font families throw a system exception

  • Random application crash related to the navigation control

Build 1.7.73 (1.7.73.0)

  • Prevent some application crash with the font families management

  • Enabling/disabling picture text overlay did nothing when a specific Bing or Windows Spotlight picture is used

Build 1.7.71 (1.7.71.0)

  • Uncomplete font families list

  • Prevent the application to crash if one or more invalid fonts are installed on Windows

Build 1.7.70 (1.7.70.0)

  • When the font size of the text overlay in the picture is large, the preview size no longer changes

  • Potential partial picture cache initialization when a same picture is used for both Background and Lock Screen options

  • Potential slideshow reliability issue when a same picture is used for both Background and Lock Screen options

  • Manual click on the update button when the slideshow option is used does not respect the pause status correctly

Build 1.7.69 (1.7.69.0)

  • Bad local currency decimal separator support for donation (PayPal) for some culture

Build 1.6.88 (1.6.88.0)

  • The UI can be truncated in some languages (troubleshoting wizard)

  • Bad UI alignment in the about page in narrow mode

  • If the application is opened from an 'update available' notification but there is no more, the interface could remain frozen indefinitely on the update page

  • If the application is opened from an 'update available' notification but there are no more updates, the interface might not reflect the actual state of the selected options

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