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Early in the day on the 17th of September 2026, the server hosting PhotoQt, PreviewQt, and a few other personal websites was compromised. The compromise was detected not much later that same day, with the server being shut down right away. After isolating the server completely (from all inbound and outbound traffic), it was restarted and an analysis was done to reconstruct what happened before removing the compromise.

Another update of PreviewQt is ready. With an updated way of handling plugins for its various formats, PreviewQt now supports up to 234 different file formats. New formats in this version include ICC color profiles, Windows DLL/EXE, office documents, SQLite database files and more.

About a month after the last release, this is a smaller bug fix release. With less available time to work on PhotoQt over the summer overall, this delivers the bugs that have been fixed already.

Another few weeks have passed and a wide range of changes and improvement have found their way into PhotoQt. This release focuses almost entirely on improving the performance and reliability of existing code, with most of the code revisited, some of it restructured for easier maintenance, and all of it touched up for improvements all around.

Almost three months have passed, time for another update of PhotoQt with many improvements, bug fixes, and a few additions. One major focus of this release (and also the next one) is improving the overall performance of the various parts of PhotoQt, starting with the image plugins.