"meta_data" corrupted text on table "ngg_pictures" ?

Greetings.

I’m using the latest NG version (2.0.66.29) and after uploading a new gallery I noticed that the “meta_data” field on table “ngg_pictures” stop saving data as a serialized array.

Before it would store something like:

a:17:{s:5:”width”;i:640;s:6:”height”;i:427;s:4:”full”;a:2:{s:5:”width”;i:640;s:6:”height”;i:427;}s:9:”thumbnail”;a:4:{s:5:”width”;i:120;s:6:”height”;i:90;s:8:”filename”;s:33:”thumbs_851-Alexandra-e-George.jpg”;s:9:”generated”;s:21:”0.21434600 1406810041″;}s:8:”aperture”;b:0;s:6:”credit”;b:0;s:6:”camera”;b:0;s:7:”caption”;b:0;s:17:”created_timestamp”;s:25:”30 de Julho de 2014 15:51″;s:9:”copyright”;b:0;s:12:”focal_length”;b:0;s:3:”iso”;b:0;s:13:”shutter_speed”;b:0;s:5:”flash”;b:0;s:5:”title”;b:0;s:8:”keywords”;b:0;s:5:”saved”;b:1;}

Now the values stored are like this:

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

I roled back to NG version 2.0.66, went to “Manage Gallaries”, entered the gallery with the corrupt “meta_data” entries, selected all images and chose the option “Import Metadata” > “Apply”. The “meta_data” field became again a serialized array, with useful data I need to work on some custom theme functions.

I wonder if this is a new feature, but i’m more inclined to say it is a BUG. I did spend some hours digging in the NG code, but couldn’t find the “culprit”… ??

Thank you for all the work and i hope you fix this.

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