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This update features search UX improvements, a new Docker base image based on Debian 12 "Bookworm", as well as fixes for recently discovered issues. Front- and backend translations in numerous languages have been added and updated. Thanks to all involved!

What is new?

• File Formats: Added native support for WebP images and animated GIFs
• UX: RAW files are skipped by default when downloading photos and ZIP archives
• Auth: Passwords must have at least 8 characters to mitigate brute-force attacks
• Search: User interface and database performance optimizations
• Search: Fixed occasional lag when entering queries in the search toolbar
• Search: Improved album:... filter supports numeric names, albums:.. also AND/OR
• Search: Improved camera:... and lens:... filters accept names in addition to IDs
• Search: Added square:yes and landscape:yes filters
• Albums: "Add to album" dialog preloads more names for auto-completion
• Albums: Album names are shortened if necessary to avoid errors when saving
• Albums: Fixed accidental creation of duplicates by pressing Enter multiple times
• People: Improved logging and fixed potential issues with matching unrecognized faces
• Places: Number of pictures rendered on the map has been limited to 500,000
• Library: Added button to clear log history in Library > Errors
• Library: RAW previews and the number of actual files are shown under Originals
• Library: Disabled hidden files warning while indexing as it can be misleading
• Index: Fixed errors when re-indexing libraries with archived photos
• Index: RAW and video conversion commands run in a virtual home directory
• Thumbnails: Reduced default JPEG quality from 92 to 85 to optimize storage and loading
• Metadata: Manual local time changes are always preserved when reindexing
• Metadata: Fixed Exif orientation flag when converting HEIF/HEIC images to JPEG
• Metadata: Fault-tolerant parsing of timestamps from Exif and JSON sidecar files
• Metadata: Improved parsing of two-digit years in original file paths
• Metadata: Exif IFD1 tags with existing IFD0 values are ignored to improve standard compliance
• Metadata: Brute-force search is skipped by default if no Exif headers were found in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and HEIF files
• Metadata: SubSecDateTimeOriginal and SubSecCreateDate timestamps are preferred
• WebDAV: Up- and download sync can no longer be enabled at the same time to prevent unexpected behavior
• WebDAV: Added timeout/retry settings and improved handling of sync errors
• WebDAV: Fixed sharing videos and uploading automatically created albums
• CLI: Renamed --config-file to --defaults-yaml and improved command help
• CLI: Added short names for common config flags, e.g. -i for --wakeup-interval
• CLI: Run photoprism show tags to display metadata tags and supported standards
• CLI: Run photoprism show formats to display supported media and sidecar file formats
• CLI: Run photoprism show filters to display a search filter overview with examples
• Config: Improved FFmpeg parameters for Intel QSV hardware transcoding
• Config: Added NVIDIA hardware video transcoding support for sponsors
• Config: Added --disable-raw flag to disable indexing and conversion of RAW files
• Config: Added --resolution-limit option to skip high-resolution images when indexing
• Docker: New Debian 12 "Bookworm" base image with FFmpeg 4.4.1 and Darktable 3.8.1
• Docker: Added default users and groups for enhanced video transcoding compatibility
• Translations: Added Swedish, Romanian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Malay, and Croatian

The new Docker images for this release are based on Debian 11 "Bullseye" and include many updated dependencies such as Darktable 3.8. Behind the scenes, the build process has also been improved so that it will be easier to provide standalone packages in the future.

What is new?

• Auth: New login screen with more space for buttons, links, and legal information
• Metadata: Redesigned file details tab in the edit dialog
• Metadata: Support for Zulu formatted timestamps in Exiftool JSON and XMP
• Sharing: Fixed upload of complete albums via WebDAV
• Sharing: Manual WebDAV upload of video and RAW files
• iOS: Fixed multi-select via long touch in Safari PWA mode
• API: Added cache control header for faster thumbnail loading
• Config: Simplified configuration of Unix domain socket database connections
• Config: Added --imprint and --imprint-url to display legal information in the footer
• Docker: Automatic installation of compatible CPU and GPU drivers
• Translations: Updated all front- and backend locales

You can now join us on translate.photoprism.app to help translate the UI!

Screenshots :sparkles:

Login Screen

We've generated missing translations with the help of DeepL and Google Translate. Native speakers are invited to help us improve those if needed. Learn how to contribute.

What is new?

• Minimum memory requirements have been reduced to 3 GB
• Photos: Fixed buttons in full screen view
• People: Fixed typo that prevented face matching optimization
• Moments: Improved update performance on MariaDB
• Translations: Pre-translated missing UI messages

What is new?

• Auth: Logout redirects to base URI instead of site root
• Videos: Excluded streaming from gzip compression
• Videos: Fixed Content-Type header and streaming in Safari
• Folders: Fixed search query string substitutions and sanitation
• UI: Updated information and links in Settings > About
• UI: Improved bootstrap template rendering performance

Based on our zero bug policy, this update focuses on bug fixes, security, and UX improvements for search filters, metadata, and the indexer. In addition, one of the merged pull requests may improve face recognition performance on smaller devices and with large libraries.

What is new?

• People: Improved update performance on MariaDB
• People: Improved contrast of person selection menu
• Albums: Private pictures are excluded from download as zip
• Search: Improved query parser for additional security
• Search: Added uid:... search filter to find photos by uid
• Search: keywords:... filter does not exclude stopwords anymore
• Index: Original filenames can be extracted from Exiftool JSON
• Index: More accurate and resilient handling of related files and photo stacks
• Live Photos: HEIF is used to create primary JPEG instead of a MOV still image
• Metadata: Reduced log level for missing Exif data from warn to info
• Metadata: Increased size of projection and color profile fields to 40 characters
• Backups: Improved help for config options and CLI commands
• Help: Fixed reverse proxy documentation links
• Config: Added Apple Video Toolbox hardware transcoding support for macOS
• Config: Added /opt/photoprism to search path for asset and storage folders

PhotoPrism is not directly affected by the Apache Log4j vulnerability. Logs may still contain messages that can cause harm if consumed by an unpatched Java application. As a precaution, this release includes additional rules and filters to validate user input.

What else is new?

• Sharing: Fixed album link redirect on shared domains
• Import: More helpful warning when another import is already running
• Docker: ARMv7 image for 32-bit processors and operating systems

Starting with this release, the regular multi-arch Docker image is 64-bit only. A 32-bit version of our stable release for older devices is offered separately. This frees up development and backend infrastructure resources with minimal impact.

What's new?

• Based on Go version 1.17.5, which includes important HTTP/2 and network security fixes
• People: Concurrent updates are no longer possible to prevent inconsistencies
• Places: Additional logs to detect invalid GPS coordinates in metadata
• SQLite: Reduced routine maintenance log levels and fixed migration warnings
• Thumbnails: Apple Display P3 profile support for more accurate colors
• Translations: Updated French

Since the funding goal required to make all features and maps generally available has not been reached, early-access features have been renamed to sponsor features in this update. Offline and high-resolution street maps remain free for everyone, while hybrid, topographic and outdoor maps are now a sponsor feature. We believe this is fair. A big thank you to all our sponsors and contributors!

What's new?

• CLI: Improved parameter and command descriptions
• CLI: Reset command optionally also deletes files in the cache folder
• Config: Improved docker-compose.yml examples

What's new?

• Videos: Live photos page has been added to the sub-navigation
• Albums: Manually created albums are sorted by name, with favorites first
• Places: Improved location details in border regions and near Paris
• PWA: Updated app icons, style is now also applied to the user interface

For our sponsors and contributors:

• UI: New Abyss and Gemstone dark themes 💎

Official support for MySQL 8 is discontinued with this update as it's not feasible to perform a full test before each release. We recommend upgrading to MariaDB 10.6 or later. PostgreSQL support is planned for 2022 without a specific release date yet.

What's new?

• CLI: photoprism migrate --failed will re-run previously failed migrations