The speed improvement here alone would justify a new release, and makes Pixie a viable solution when dealing with thousands of thumbnails - something important to both people with digital cameras and web designers. View modes have been added. Different users like different UI's for their image managers, so you can now select between different user interface modes. A File Manager style is in the works that provides a directory tree to the left of the image that should be ready by 1.0. Directories now support more file manager operations.
Directories automatically detect changes in the filesystem.
Most importantly, this means deleteing, moving, or copying files in the thumbnail manager now gives more consistent reloading. The directory tree now supports D'nd. File properties are now managed via dialogs provided by the more powerful ones in the KDE libraries. A new thumbnail size, Huge, has been added. The folder path input in the thumbnail manager can now accept wildcards and filenames instead of just paths.