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Without any fanfare, Picasa is now offering build 18.84 for download, instead of the build 18.77 which was originally released. This release is not (yet) being rolled out via Picasa's inbuilt automatic check for updates - if you are running build 18.77 then the update check reports that no updates are available, but if you go to the site and redownload, you will get the new version.

Apparently the new release went out to some beta testers with a readme detailing the changes from the previous build, but there is no such file provided with the download. As far as I can tell, mostly through moderator posts in Picasa's support forums, this build has the following changes:

• a fix for the severe database corruption that occurs when you set Picasa to scan a whole disk for images - the symptoms of this were that after scanning the disk, Picasa would then report that no images were found. Note: This seems to have fixed my particular database corruption, though I have seen reports of some others still having corrupted databases with the new build
• a number of fixes to do with the inability to write CDs
  
• a fix for the deletion of pre-existing pal files
• a fix for an export issue that was causing Gimp and eBay to not like some exported pictures
• addition of 16 bit PSD support
  

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