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PicView 3.1.4

PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable image viewer for Windows 10 and 11. It supports a vast range of image file types, including WEBP, GIF, SVG, PNG, JXL, HEIC, PSD and many others. Additional features includes viewing EXIF metadata, image compression, batch resizing, viewing images within archives and comic books, image effects, image galleries, and more. Available in portable and installable versions.

PicView 3.1.4 changelog:

What's new

  • Mouse Side Buttons Customization: You can now change how the mouse side buttons work. Choose to navigate file history or switch between directories. Find this setting under the Mouse tab in the settings window (#199).

Improvements

Directory Navigation:

  • Improved navigation between directories. If Search subdirectories is enabled, PicView moves to the next directory in the list; if off (or if there are no directories in the list), it navigates as before.
  • PicView now remembers your startup directory (including subdirectories) and restores it on the next launch.

Performance:

  • Preloader has been fine-tuned for better performance and lower memory usage.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect saved settings path when saving in portable mode (#213).
  • Corrected cases where keybindings and file history were not saved when there was no write permission.
  • Restoring the window from a maximized state now correctly keeps its position when auto-fit is enabled.
  • Fixed start-up menu text alignment and missing text issues.

Translations

  • Hebrew translation by @Y-PLONI (#212)
  • Hungarian translation by @JohnFowler58 (#209)
  • Japanese update by @coolvitto (#214)

Miscellaneous

  • Updated to Avalonia 11.3.1.
  • Now using ZLinq and ZLinq.FileSystem to reduce memory allocation and possibly improve performance.
  • Future versions managed via Scoop will now preserve configuration files (#15555).

Experimental settings (not yet available in the UI-edit UserSettings.json directly):

  • Disable the file watcher (not recommended, untested).
  • Choose preload amount and direction (forward/backward).