- Use of IP.Board internal and alternative cache stores to reduce overhead
- ACP language abstraction
- IP.Gallery has been converted to a component from a module
- Redesigned ACP interfaces for managing categories, post form, and groups
- Post form fields automatically insert into the post form and image view page without manual skin edits
- Import/export of media types to allow sharing of media type codes
- Zip import capabilities for members
- Latest images honor permissions accurately / Improved recursive latest image and count handling for albums and categories
- Image dimensions display on fileview
- Slimmed templates, better use of foreach and other html logic to make skinning easier
- Added "Forum style" for album listings
- Various image listing pages use the global settings (as opposed to hard-coded 9 image display)
- Internal code overhaul - reduced queries, reduced number of queries in SQL cache files, less template files loaded
- Improved search - search capabilities expanded, search results use image listing format
- Improved full image popup options: show in new window, show in popup, use IPB attachment (Gallery 2.1) style, and lightbox integration capabilities
- Added ability for members to choose default sorting for albums when creating them, added sort options to album view
- Notification option for new comments to an image (with ability to subscribe during image submission)
- Notification options for new images in a category or album
- Control panel to manage notification options
- Ability to view more than last 10 comments (view all, 10 per page, ordered by submission date desc)
- Ability for administrators to disable private albums
- Added easy bbcode options to image view page
- Added ability to set an image as your avatar
- Redesigned image view page slightly to clean it up a little
- Added ajax controlled photostrip navigation
- Added ability to find all images by a user from the Gallery tab in profiles
- Ability to moderate albums, including move images to and from albums, hide and unhide images in albums, pin and unpin images in albums, etc.