Picasa 2.5 build 32.94

Google have slipped out another quick update to Picasa 2.5, taking it to build 32.94.

The public release notes just show a new date and build number, without any details of the change, but the PicasaWeb readme carries brief information:

September 15, 2006
Picasa 2.5, Build 32.94

This update fixes bugs with saving to disk, uploading to Picasa Web Albums, and with CD burning.

Thanks for all of your great feedback and bug reports! Let us know if you run into any problems with this update.

(via the Blogoscoped forum thread).

New users downloading Picasa are still being directed to an old 2.1 version, but the 2.5 version is gradually rolling out via automatic update.  (The automatic update, and indeed the manual update via the menu option "check for updates online", deliberately does not offer upgrades to everyone at once, to avoid stressing the download servers).

Update: Michael Herf, Picasa engineering manager, adds some more detail:

32.94 is rolling out to picasaweb users starting tonight, and it has fixes to this issue. We've fixed a connection issue due to Google Web Accelerator, added more reliable connection detection, and figured out some proxy bugs.

If Internet Explorer can see picasaweb, we're really hoping Picasa will be able to upload to it in this new build.