Picasa 3.9.0 Build 136.17 [more=Build 136.17 - March 14, 2012 Release Notes]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 of 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 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 occuring 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 accomodate G+ API changes.[/more]