Release Notes - Lap v0.2.1

Lap v0.2.1 focuses on broader platform support, faster thumbnail loading, better image format coverage, and safer library maintenance tools.

🚀 Highlights

Added native Windows ARM64 builds alongside the existing Windows x64 installer. (#85)
Added and improved HEIC/HEIF/HIF support on Windows and Linux through libheif integration. (#78, #84)
Added custom database location support plus database backup and restore tools in Settings. (#89)
Improved thumbnail loading performance, especially on Windows, with batch IPC, base64 thumbnail caching, viewport-priority loading, and smarter preload behavior.
Added touchscreen and touchpad gesture support, including Windows touchpad pinch-to-zoom in the image viewer. (#87)
Added support for remembering the last image position when closing the app. (#61)
Added Taken / Created / Modified date sorting options and clearer calendar sort hints.

Fixed poor performance when opening an album. (#73)
Fixed HEIC thumbnail and preview issues, including still-image stream selection and preview cropping on Windows/Linux.
Fixed thumbnail fallback behavior for decode failures and small images.
Fixed trash reliability and improved file operation error reporting. (#68)
Fixed Shift range selection in multi-select mode and ensured Esc no longer exits multi-select unexpectedly.
Fixed JPEG path handling issues around platform-specific filesystem APIs.
Fixed the File Info map panel so it does not shrink below its minimum height.
Improved duplicate cleanup defaults by preferring the earliest created file as the keep item.

Many thanks to everyone who reported issues, tested Windows and Linux builds, and helped improve large-library performance.

Thank you for using Lap!