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As promised, this update makes hardware transcoding and many other config options available to all users. A big thank you to all of our contributors, members, and sponsors, whose generous support has been and continues to be essential to the success of the project! :purple_heart:

What's new?

• Config: Additional options are now available to all users

This update resolves two recently reported issues and includes updated translations.

What's new?

• Sharing: Upload checks if files have been deleted
• CLI: Logging output is reduced in production mode
• Translations: Updated French

This service release makes the Nordic theme and the Hide People feature available to all users. It also changes the theme order in Settings so that the freely available themes come first.

What's new?

• Settings: Changed order in the theme dropdown so the freely available themes come first

With this major new release, you'll get a long list of new features and enhancements with a focus on performance, security, and file type support. In addition, our Plus Members can now register directly in the app to unlock additional features like vector graphics support and a new admin web UI for user and session management. Thank you to all contributors, members, and sponsors who made this possible!

What's new?

• UX: Improved user interface layout for right-to-left languages
• UX: Improved highlight and background colors in the cards view
• UX: Improved theme styles and search field contrast in Places
• UX: Navigation shows the total number of pictures without those under review
• UX: Enabled long-touch menu in photo viewer on iOS Safari
• PWA: Increased allowed length of app name on home screen
• PWA: Improved manifest.json for more reliable installation prompts
• Themes: Added "Carbon", "Neon", and "Nordic" based on colors from nordtheme.com
• Themes: Removed "Electra", "Moonlight", "Seaweed", and "Cyano"
• People: Ambiguous faces are skipped when matching to improve performance
• People: Entering names is faster with many faces tagged
• Search: Added id:... filter to find pictures by Exif UID, XMP Document ID or Instance ID
• Search: Increased batch size for better performance when loading results
• Search: Deleted albums are ignored when using the unsorted filter
• Search: Sepia colored pictures are excluded when using the mono filter
• Photos: Image orientation can be changed through the user interface
• RAW: Upgraded RawTherapee from v5.8 to v.5.9 to fix ProRAW support
• Videos: Improved player compatibility with browser plugins
• Videos: Improved preview image generation depending on duration
• Videos: Playback durations of less than one second can be indexed and displayed
• Videos: Added .dv to the list of known video file types
• Videos: Specific video and audio streams can be selected for transcoding
• Videos: Improved detection of HEVC support for Google Chrome
• Albums: Added extended search form with sorting options
• Albums: Fixed form field styles in the share dialog
• Albums: Double quotes in album names are replaced by Unicode characters
• Albums: Improved error handling and validation of query parameters
• Albums: "Download as zip" button is displayed on mobile screens
• Moments: Changed default sort order in the overview to "newest"
• Folders: Search is case-insensitive and uses wildcards for improved usability
• Metadata: GPS coordinates are normalized to be within a common range
• Metadata: Out-of-range altitude values are ignored to prevent indexing errors
• Metadata: Date defaults caused by software or camera bugs are ignored
• Metadata: Software name is displayed on the Files tab, if available
• Metadata: Valid year range in Exif data and filenames has been extended from 1990 to 1970
• Metadata: Scanned images are automatically recognized by device name
• Metadata: Added TakenAtLocal to YAML backups to prevent incorrectly restored times
• Metadata: Notes can be extracted from the Comment and UserComment fields
• Index: Improved performance by skipping updates when there are no changes
• Index: Improved performance when flagging hidden files
• Index: Added file format support for Adobe Photoshop PSD images
• Index: Added support for decoding JPEG XL and playing PNG animations
• Index: Corrupted JPEG images are automatically repaired if necessary
• Index: TIFF images with unsupported file format features can be converted
• Upload: Estimated time remaining is displayed in minutes and seconds
• Download: Added settings to choose which files to download by default
• Backups: Improved backup and restore commands to better handle large index dumps
• WebDAV: Enabled access to the originals and import folders in read-only mode
• WebDAV: Replaced client library to prevent incomplete uploads to other servers
• WebDAV: Download sync is prevented when read-only mode is enabled
• API: Search results can be sorted randomly to get a random set of pictures
• API: HEAD requests are now supported for frontend bootstrap paths
• CLI: Added file extension flag to the photoprism convert command
• CLI: Commands create thumbnails and convert files in deterministic order
• Config: Migrations are skipped if the same version has already been initialized
• Config: Use dynamic social preview image based on app name
• Config: Custom template path is not searched for files if not specified
• Config: Advanced settings include additional options for PNGs and vector graphics
• Config: Added advanced HTTP cache control options
• Config: Added option to stream videos over a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Docker: Ubuntu base image has been upgraded from v22.04 to v23.04
• Docker: MariaDB image and binaries have been upgraded from v10.9 to v10.11
• Podman: Added config examples for users of Red Hat-based Linux distributions
• Security: Improved bcrypt password support with explicit 72-character limit
• Security: Go has been updated to v1.20.3, which includes bug fixes and other improvements
• Translations: Added Afrikaans (South Africa) and Basque (Euskara)
• Translations: Updated Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Malay, Russian, Ukrainian and many others

PhotoPrism® Plus

• Auth: Admins can manage user accounts and active sessions through the web UI
• Index: Added file format support for SVG, AI, PS and EPS vector graphics

This service release includes compatibility fixes for MariaDB 10.10, the latest translations, a new theme, and updated dependencies.

What's new?

• UI: Added Electra theme
• MariaDB: Compatibility fixes for version 10.10
• Translations: Updated Czech and Estonian

This update includes video transcoding improvements and the latest translations contributed by our community.

What's new?

• Videos: Fixed installation of Intel Quick Sync drivers for hardware transcoding
• Videos: Added .m2ts to known file extensions
• Translations: Updated Chinese (Traditional) and Estonian

With this update you get the latest translations, updated dependencies, and two metadata bug fixes. Thanks to all who contributed!

What's new?

• Metadata: Bad Unicode strings are sanitized automatically
• Metadata: UTC can be overridden by local time with unknown zone
• MariaDB: Unsupported versions are allowed in "unsafe" mode
• Translations: Added Estonian
• Translations: Updated Polish, Italian, Korean, Romanian, and Chinese (Traditional)

This service release provides UX improvements for the photo editing dialog and includes the latest translations contributed by our community. Note that our guides now use the new docker compose command by default. If your server does not yet support it, you can still use docker-compose to start and stop your instance.

What's new?

• UX: Improved layout of form fields in photo edit dialog
• Account: Disabled "gender" dropdown when busy or in demo mode
• Docker: Changed "docker-compose" command to "docker compose"
• Translations: Updated Estonian, Hungarian, and Russian

A small update featuring improved NVIDIA GPU support, the latest translations contributed by our community, and updated dependencies.

What's new?

• NVIDIA: Added a ready-to-use docker-compose.yml config example
• NVIDIA: Updated FFmpeg parameters for hardware video transcoding
• NVIDIA: Updated install-gpu.sh script and related documentation
• Translations: Updated Chinese

With this update you'll get the latest translations contributed by our community, updated dependencies as well as a few minor bug fixes and improvements.

What's new?

• Index: Paths starting with _. and __ like __MACOSX are ignored
• Config: Updated new trusted proxy header options and command help
• MariaDB: Improved server version check on startup
• Security: Go has been upgraded to v1.19.3, which includes security fixes
• Translations: Updated Chinese, French, Norwegian Bokmål, and Romanian