Amber X OS Release Notes

Amber X OS 1.29.3

4/18/2023

New Features

• Indexing for SD cards.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Automatically enable organization for the initial 3 detected external partitions.
• Added more object categories that can be searched in the photo filter.
• Fixed an initial setup issue.
• Added OS log download function on the setup failure page.
• Re-exporting folders if the Amber link in Amber iX is deleted.
• Fixed Control Panel and File Explorer UI issues.
• Casting bug fixes and enhancements.
• Transcoding bug fixes and enhancements.
• Photo organization bug fixes and enhancements.
• Fixed a package update issue.

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Amber X OS 1.28.3

3/21/2023

New Features

• Control Panel - option to backup volume-encryption key to AmberCloud.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Added HEIC-format panorama support.
• Photo-indexer enhancements and bug fixes.
• Fixed an external drive indexing issue caused by special characters in the folder name.
• Album repair support with re-scanning function.
• Transcoding enhancements and bug fixes.
• Casting enhancements and bug fixes.
• File name search behavior enhancement.
• Fixed File Explorer issues.
• Notification contents update.
• Fixed an OS boot issue.
• Fixed a network issue caused by duplicate gateway IPs.

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Amber X OS 1.27.4

2/7/2023

New Features

• Control Panel User Page: External drive permission management for user accounts.
• Control Panel Indexing Service Page: File name search option.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Control Panel: Integrated External USB Drives into User and Local Common Folders.
• Control Panel: Indexing Service UI enhancements.
• Improved selfie/panorama/screenshot detection.
• Fixed external drive indexing issues.
• Casting enhancements and bug fixes.
• Fixed photo indexing issues.
• Fixed an initial setup issue.
• Fixed File Explorer and Control Panel UI issues.
• UI string update.
• Google Photos import improvements.
• Allowed users to remove imported albums from Cloud Import Manager. (compatible with mobile app 1.4.3)

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Amber X OS 1.26.7

1/4/2023

New Features

• Smart Albums OS backend support.
• Selfies/Panoramas/Screenshots categories OS backend support.
• Control Panel external drive indexing settings.
• File Explorer - folder size calculation support.
• About page.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Merged photo and video thumbnail settings.
• File Explorer People page enhancements.
• Fixed File Explorer issues.
• Transcoding improvements.
• Casting enhancements.
• Fixed external folder indexing issues.
• Fixed photo filter issues.
• Fixed indexer issues.
• Fixed Control Panel UI issues.
• Enhanced Cloud Import Service error handling.
• Fixed language cannot be changed in the recovery OS (hard reset UI).

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Amber X OS 1.25.4

11/23/2022

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Fixed a photo deletion issue.

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Amber X OS 1.25.3

11/14/2022

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Fixed File Explorer UI issues.
• Fixed Control Panel UI issues.
• Fixed casting issues.
• Video transcoding enhancements and bug fixes.
• Fixed an on-demand thumbnail generation issue.
• Fixed initial wizard time zone issues.

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Amber X OS 1.24.5

10/19/2022

New Features

• Backup Tool - Allow NTFS drives as the backup destination of Time Machine.
• OS support of portrait video casting for Chromecast and DLNA.
• OS support of indexing management for external drive folders.
• OS support of "Recently Added" photo filter.
• Control Panel - Third-party services support inthe Applications page.
• Added an account option to choose whether to logout or not after changing the password or account deletion.
• File Explorer - remember the file sort selection.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Video transcoding improvements.
• Added a Control Panel Service category and adjusted the menu.
• Fixed photo indexer issues.

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Amber X OS 1.23.3

9/5/2022

New Features

• Control Panel - DLNA Server settings for streaming device file navigation.
• Cloud Import Manager - iCloud albums import.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Added pet face detection to avoid grouping as people faces.
• Backup Tool enhancements and issue fixes.
• Fixed some File Explorer issues.
• Fixed some video transcoding issues.
• Fixed a casting issue.
• Fixed an NTFS drive cannot be registered issue.

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Amber X OS 1.22.5

8/18/2022

New Features

• SMB Recycle Bin support.
• Trigger transcoding when casting a portrait video. (UI message will be ready in Amber iX Mobile 1.0.x and Amber iX Desktop 1.47.x.)
• AI People - Auto regroup faces periodically to correct wrong face recognition results from the old algorithm.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Increase max internal and external photo indexing limit from 300K to 500K and max internal and external video indexing limit from 10K to 100K.
• Cloud Import Service - Fixed some iCloud import issues.
• File Explorer - Fixed some minor issues.

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Amber X OS 1.21.5

7/18/2022

New Features

• NA.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• General bug fixes.

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Amber X OS 1.21.4

7/7/2022

New Features

• Support iCloud photo import in Cloud Import Service.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Fixed an issue where iOS Facetime Live Photos do not show up on My Photos page after backup/upload.
• Fixed the Google Album import issue causing albums not to be displayed after import.
• Fixed some transcoding issues.
• Fixed some photo indexing issues.
• UI wording update.

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Amber X OS 1.20.4

6/1/2022

New Features

• OnlyOffice document viewer and editor OS support and option in Control Panel.
• Add a new "Food" category in AI object detection.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Improved photo indexing performance.
• Trigger force pre-transcode when adding videos to albums.
• Fixed several video transcoding issues.
• Enhanced HEIC 1080p image transcoding quality.
• Fixed slow-motion video playback issues.
• Fixed a photo color distortion issue.
• Add j2k family to the image support list.
• Control Panel - Optimized Indexing Service UI.
• Backup Tool - UI enhancements.
• Updated English and Traditional Chinese UI text strings.

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Amber X OS 1.19.4

5/11/2022

New Features

• Supports iOS slow-motion video transcoding. 
• Cloud Import Service - Supports album import from Google Photos.
• Backup Tool - Supports backup task progress.
• Disabled the AFP file service by default, please use Samba file service for Apple Time Machine instead.
• Security updates.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Uses SMB protocol for Time Machine service.
• Fixed several external drive-related issues.
• Fixed several Backup Tool issues.
• Fixed several photo deletion issues. 
• Fixed several video transcoding issues. 
• Fixed several indexing service issues.

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Amber X OS 1.18.3

4/13/2022

New Features

• Support Sonos speakers to access Amber X via Samba.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed a video playback issue.
• Fixed a photo indexing issue for large amounts of photos.

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Amber X OS 1.17.4

3/28/2022

New Features

• New Backup Tool feature which allows users to backup files from the external drives to Amber X or vice versa.
• OS support for the inclusion of external drive photos in albums.
• Samba and AFP support for external drive.
• Add time zone setting configuration in the setup wizard.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Support for on-demand thumbnail generation on non-indexed drives.
• Bug fixes for media-related services.

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Amber X OS 1.16.5

2/23/2022

New Features

• Face recognition support for the registered external USB storage.
• Samba support for Time Machine backup and samba version upgrade to v4.14.12. 
• OS support of app file path display of deleted files in the Recycle Bin.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Fix several Time Machine backup issues.
• OS support of enlarging max photos in an album from 500 to 2000.
• File indexing performance improvement.
• Improves photo indexing of indexing drive.
• Fix several photo EXIF information fetching issues.
• Fix several file duplicate issues.
• Enhanced system memory management.

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Amber X OS 1.15.6

1/21/2022

New Features

• Video playback and download for shared albums.
• On-demand thumbnail generation for non-indexing folders.
• Cloud Import Manager - indicate file names that failed to be imported.
• Support Apple ProRes format.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix some issues caused by abnormal shutdowns.

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Amber X OS 1.14.5

12/9/2021

New Features

• Support for Smart Transcoding.
• iOS live Photo Backup Support.
• In-App Support for adding Photos and Videos to albums via File Explorer.
• Provide a new Overview page to list all indexed files in the Control Panel.
• Provide complete Photo indexer, Video indexer, and AI control options.
• Open WPA3 encryption type in the Control Panel WiFi settings page.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Control Panel Volume page Encryption UI enhancement. 
• OS volume decryption UI Enhancement.
• Casting Enhancements. 
• Video Thumbnail Generation Enhancements.

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Amber X OS 1.13.3

10/29/2021

New Features

• Support AI keyword search for Amber iX apps.
• Control Panel - Add Rescan function on the WiFi page.
• File Explorer - Support multiple file selections for recycle bin restoration.
• File Explorer - Support Share, Copy and Download for object photos.
• File Explorer - Indicate new faces recognized on the File Explorer People page. 

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Initial setup wizard UI enhancement for volume encryption.
• Allow symbols $ and ^ to be in the file name.
• Support incremental share in File Explorer and not keep sending emails to existing shares when editing the share.
• Fix several photo indexing issues including those caused by abnormal photo years.
• Fix several transcoding issues.
• Shorten system booting time.
• Multi-language translation update.

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Amber X OS 1.12.4

10/1/2021

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Hide EFI system partition of external drive to avoid user confusion.
• System resource usage improvement.
• Fix several photo de-dup and photo deletion issues.
• Remove format j2k/jp2000 from the image support list.
• Fix several transcoding issues.
• Fix several Samba issues.
• Fix an album casting via HDMI issue.

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Amber X OS 1.11.7

8/25/2021

New Features

• File Explorer - Add orientation information on the photo detail information panel.

Bug fixes and enhancements

• Fix Control Panel WiFi configuration related issues.
• Fix some failures to get EXIF info from HEIC images.
• General performance improvements.

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Amber X OS 1.10.5
8/12/2021

Bug fixes and enhancements

• Fixed an issue with OS logs upload issue.
• Fixed a file upload error after accepting Amber's invitation.

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Amber X OS 1.10.4