Changelog

This changelog lists every released version of Media Organizer, the most recent first.

Version 1.4.1 – 19 September 2026

Fixed

• A scan could refuse to start for good with "a scan is already running", with neither starting, resuming nor cancelling getting out of it. Affected sites scan again after this update.

Version 1.4.0 – 19 September 2026

Added

• The options now show what the deep search found in which table, so tables that contribute nothing of their own can be taken out of it. That makes every scan faster.
• Mail Log, TranslatePilot and Barrierefinder are verified to hold no media references. They no longer appear under "incomplete coverage" and no longer block permanent deletion.
• New option “Time limit per image”: an image the server cannot finish within that time is skipped and listed as “Took too long”, instead of leaving the run hanging.

Changed

• The optimisation report can now be paged through. It used to show the first 500 findings and point at the command line for the rest.
• The closing stage of a scan now runs in steps like the rest of it. On large sites it could previously run for so long in one go that the server dropped the request.
• When the file list is filtered to a single state, the page title now names it. The "Files" and "Unreferenced files" entries were previously indistinguishable in the browser tab.

Fixed

• Very large images are now optimised many times faster with ImageMagick. A single large image could previously take so long that the server dropped the request and nothing happened at all.
• Files that no longer exist now show a placeholder icon in the overview instead of an empty preview image.

Version 1.3.1 – 18 September 2026

Changed

• When an optimisation fails, the message now names the reason and the way out. Technical details go to the site's log.
• After a run it now says how many images could not be optimised. Until now that was indistinguishable from a run that simply found nothing to save.

Fixed

• Without an image library on the server, optimisation reported every image as failed, one by one. It now says once what the actual reason is.
• The optimisation report offered images for optimisation even when the server cannot process them at all. It now says so.

Version 1.3.0 – 18 September 2026

Added

• Several images can now be optimised straight from “All files”: select them, then “Optimise” — instead of opening each one in the editor.

Changed

• The confirmation dialog now appears immediately, even for many large images.
• After an optimisation you return to where you started it — with the same filters and sorting as before.

Fixed

• Very large images are now optimised on servers with little memory too. Until now they were skipped as “too large”, in some cases from 12 megapixels upwards.
• After an update the new interface appears immediately. Until now the browser could still show the old version until the page was fully reloaded.

Version 1.2.0 – 12 September 2026

Added

• When something goes wrong technically, it is now recorded in the site's log. What gets recorded is set under “Log” in the options.

Changed

• If a scan step fails, the message now points at the log instead of showing a technical error line.
• Detail data of older scans is cleared away sooner. Only the latest scan is displayed anyway, which keeps the database smaller.

Fixed

• A large scan the scheduled task cannot finish in one run is now continued straight away instead of waiting for the next scheduled time.

Notes

• If you run the scheduler from a cron job: a run that could not finish a scan yet reports exit code 123. That is not an error.

Version 1.1.0 – 12 September 2026

Added

• While a scan runs, the dashboard shows what it is working on, what it has found so far, and how long it has been running.
• If a scan stops, its progress is kept: it can be resumed from the same place — in the backend, from the scheduled task, or on the command line.

Changed

• The scan works in small steps and therefore gets through on large websites and with providers that set a tight time limit. The step size is in the options under “Performance”.
• A repeat scan only reads the files that have changed since the last one, and is faster for it.
• The scheduled task carries a large scan through several runs; the notification arrives once it has finished.

Version 1.0.5 – 16 August 2026

Added

• The state "No longer present" shows in the file list which files have vanished. If one comes back, the next scan picks it up again.

Fixed

• Files deleted or renamed outside Joomla stayed in the reports and kept being counted, although they were no longer there.
• The links in the overview panel always led to the German manual. They now follow the configured language.
• The changelog on the dashboard always appeared in German, even with the backend set to English. It now follows the configured language.
• The panel shown after the installation named licence version 2. It now shows the GNU General Public License version 3 or later, as everywhere else.

Version 1.0.3 – 12 August 2026

Changed

• Some of the files shipped still named licence version 2. Everything now uniformly states the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
• The installation details were cleared of entries that had no effect, so that the package passes the review of the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Version 1.0.2 – 4 August 2026

Changed

• The extension is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. All details on licence, author and copyright are consistent.

Fixed

• The licence file shipped contained the text of version 2. It now contains the full text of version 3 with the name of this extension.

Version 1.0.1 – 31 July 2026

Added

• After an installation or update an overview panel appears with version, status and entry points to getting started, download key and manual.
• A click on "Enable updates" leads straight to the update sites, already filtered to missing download keys.
• The extension manager now shows the list of changes behind the version number.

Changed

• The descriptions of the package and of the extension profiles are now translatable.
• The message "installed successfully" is gone; the new overview panel replaces it.

Version 1.0.0 – 13 July 2026

Added

• Initial release.

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