Shotwell 0.29.3

A new Ubuntu snapshot with Face Recognition Feature

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Hunter's comment

Shotwell 0.29.3 brings a number of improvements to the fore, enhancing the user interface and overall stability of the application. But it’s the return of Shotwell’s face detection feature to the master branch that excites me most in this release. This (optional) extra might help make it easier to organise and sort through photos based solely on who is in them.

A bug to improve facial recognition is already open on the project’s Gitlab page and number of good suggestions have been put forward, like showing “okay/cancel” buttons for auto-detected faces on the image itself, beside the corresponding face(s). :

Other changes in this unstable series snapshot — due to arrive in the Stable build this autumn — include: