Download Google Picasa 3.9 build 136.17/3.9.14.34

Google has released an update to version 3.9 of Picasa. Picasa, which is available for Windows and Mac OS X, makes it easy to manage, edit and put photos online. The program offers options for straightening the horizon, adjusting the contrast and making a crop, among other things. There is also face recognition, which makes it possible, for example, to quickly show all photos that contain a specific person.

New in version 3.9 is, among other things, the possibility to share photos on Google’s social network Google+, where people can also be named directly in the photos. Furthermore, various new edits can be applied to images and it is possible to edit two images simultaneously, side by side. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in build 136.17:

• Closer integration with Online Contact Management.
  • Prevent loss of online contact information.
  • Added Refresh Contacts button for People Manager.
  • GMail contacts no longer created from local contacts.
  • Better merging or duplicate contacts.
  • For the same contact, ensure data from G+ supercedes GMail data.
• Better Face Tagging support.
  • Stop creating duplicate online contacts for text tags.
  • Improved auto-completion for tagging contacts.
  • Allow control of tag uploads on a per-contact basis.
  • Improved synchronization between local and online tags.
  • Fix some null-pointer crashes in face tagging related code.
  • Better avoidance and removal of duplicate shapes.
  • Added experimental feature to write all face tags to XMP.
• Preserve size settings for album upload as default for re-uploads.
• Fixed application hang due to deadlock in directory scanner.
• Fixed problems with album sync sometimes blocking images from upload.
• Fixed problems with album sync not recognizing local changes and uploading.
• Fixed errors handling PNG files with metadata errors.
• Fixed an application hang during shutdown.
• Fix crash during audio conversion portion of slideshow creation.
• Fix crashes that could occur while accessing Picasa database.
• Fix crashes occurring during memory allocation.
• Address security issue in parsing bogus BMP data. We would like to thank coolkaveh for reporting this issue to us.
• Address security issue in parsing bogus TIFF data.
• Internal changes to accommodate G+ API changes.

The following downloads are available:
Google Picasa 3.9 build 136.17 for Windows
Google Picasa 3.9.14.34 for Mac OS X