v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich

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v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich

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Welcome

Hello everyone,

After:

• ~1,337 days,
• 271 releases,
• 78,000 stars on GitHub,
• 1,558 contributors,
• 31,500 members on Discord,
• 36,000 members on Reddit,
• 68 languages on Weblate,
• Surviving the controversial announcement about joining FUTO,
• Having overwhelming success and support from the community with the product keys model,
• Launching the Merch store,
• Attending our first FOSDEM,
• ...and before the release of GTA VI

We are thrilled to announce the stable release of Immich! 🎉

This has been a journey long in the making. So much has changed since the first commit on the project, all the way back in February, 2022. The project and team continue to grow, and today we’re proud to announce v2.0.0, our stable release. Stable signifies that we have now resolved a significant amount of technical debt. It also means we will be prioritizing compatibility and less effort will be required to keep Immich up-to-date. Finally, it means that the warning banner on the website has been removed! Along with this, we’re happy to announce a new version of the https://immich.app/ website.

For more specifics about the stable release, see our FAQs below.

Merch and DVD

To celebrate this release, we want to capture this moment in a nostalgic form, reminiscent of how software was distributed in our childhood - on a CD (or DVD, in this “case”). Introducing Immich Stable in physical form! You can find the link to the disk here

The disk comes with a fully bootable Immich instance, featuring a selection of curated photos chosen by the team. You can purchase the disk from our merch store, along with a client or server product key, to support and celebrate this milestone with us.

The merch store is also updated with retro-styled Immich designs, check it out in https://immich.store

Future plans

Now that Immich is stable, here are some of the things that we will be focusing on:

• Roadmap — There are still a few items on our roadmap that we want to complete before the year ends such as auto-stacking, and achieving feature parity between the web and mobile app. We also have plans to start work on improved stack support, better sharing, group management, and ownership improvements, as well as many other enhancements.
• Usage data — The team wants to understand how the software is used, so that we can make better, informed decisions as we design and build Immich. We want to collect that information in a non-invasive and transparent way. We plan to discuss it with the community and gather feedback from everyone to come up with the best solution.
• Backup services — We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.

Thank you

We cannot thank you enough for the support over the past three years. Community participation, from the first comments on the original reddit post, to the feedback when we joined FUTO, have contributed to the awesome product Immich is today. Thank you for joining us and believing in our mission to regain control over your most precious data. Here’s to many more years!

We'll also be hosting a Q&A livestream tomorrow, October 2nd, 2025 at 6 PM UTC. You can submit your questions here and subscribe for notifications when the livestream starts here.

Cheers,

The Immich Team

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FAQs

Will there be a live stream?

Yes. We'll be hosting a Q&A livestream tomorrow, October 2nd, 2025 at 6 PM UTC. You can submit your questions here and subscribe for notifications when the livestream starts here.

Do I still need backups?

Yes! A 3-2-1 backup strategy is still crucial. The team has the responsibility to ensure that the application doesn’t cause loss of your precious memories; however, we cannot guarantee that hard drives will not fail, or an electrical event causes unexpected shutdown of your server/system, leading to data loss. Therefore, we still encourage users to follow best practices when safeguarding their data. Keep multiple copies of your most precious data: at least two local copies and one copy offsite in cold storage. Additionally, we are starting to work on a cloud backup service to make backups easier.

When will v2.0.0 be available?

The Docker images for v2.0.0 will be pushed out a few hours after this post is released.

How can I update to v2.0.0?

You can follow the upgrade documentation, here.

What versioning strategy will Immich use?

Starting with v2.0.0, we will now follow semantic versioning.

What mobile app versions will work with v2.0.0?

Any v2.x.x version of the mobile app will work with any 2.x.x version of the server. For example, a mobile app on version v2.9.0 will continue to work with server versions: v2.0.0, v2.1.0, v2.3.1, etc.

Will new features continue to be released?

Yes. Immich will continue to build, develop, and release new features.

[mirkohubtv]

Huge congratulations to the Immich team! Excited to see v2.0.0 reach stable release — an amazing milestone for open-source and self-hosting

[felinusfish]

congratulations to the team at Immich (and by extension, FUTO)!! a well deserved victory for the open source community!!

[SomeRandomCpu]

[schuhbacca]

Which part? Ingesting large batches of photos can be very intensive, but day-to-day it's pretty minimal.

[coltenkrauter]

Just so you know, this thread is a celebratory milestone. 😉 🥳

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Performance has improved a lot compared to early versions. The team has been cutting down memory use with the Sync v2 overhaul, optimizing thumbnail pipelines and scalability, and fixing long-standing resource issues.

Recent releases also highlight this:

• v1.133.0 introduced VectorChord (replacing pgvecto.rs), described as faster, more stable, and using less RAM. It also improved the web timeline and fixed thumbnail caching issues on mobile.
• v1.132.0 removed TypeORM on the server side and moved to a new schema tool + SQLite on mobile, reducing startup lag and improving performance on large libraries.
• v1.143.0 enabled concurrent hashing on mobile for higher throughput and reduced bottlenecks. It also fixed a SQLite concurrency crash that caused freezes.
• Ya, there is more...

I run it on my own server and I have no complaints... It’s fast, responsive, and seemingly efficient.

[chadneu]

About time. It's been so long without an update that I thought immich was abandoned.

(im not serious)

[TASelwyn]

Stable 🥳

[simonbuehler]

this is the legit successor of the AOL CDRom

[kaysond]

Are the warning messages on the docs supposed to go away too?

[JPar99]

No because its self hosted! Every self hosted project comes with warnings

[ireun]

Select at 'next' not 'latest' in the dropdown at top, it'll be gone ;)

[Wh1rr]

Congrats!!!🥳

[hitech95]

Since last few updates (1.14X) the app get stuck when opening I have to force close it and open it again.

[schuhbacca]

Please make a help support thread in the discord 🙂

[RestartB]

Nice - congrats! 🥳🎉

[wispdevon]

Amazing news!!!

[JPar99]

Congrats guys! What an achievement!

[trevordavies095]

This is great news!! Congrats to everyone

[tantalusblank]

Congrats to the team! 🎉🎉 Been eagerly awaiting this one

[sr20kschmitz]

Congrats!

[wall03]

ironically waiting until v2.0.1 for them to iron out the bugs. May just be me being used to the unstable versions! Good job guys

[coltenkrauter]

Haha, yep, waiting for the first patch release is a safe bet with basically all software.

[athornfam2]

Yeah, I actually just updated from 1.42.1 to 1.44.1 myself. Waiting until the initial bugs get cooked.

[bo0tzz]

There's no point in waiting, 1.144.1 -> 2.0.0 had basically no changes and so won't have introduced any new bugs to be fixed in a patch release.

[rodneyosodo]

Congrats to the Immich team on the stable release 🎉
Can’t believe I hung in there for this long — totally worth it 🙌

[Hantick]

Best software for self hosted image cloud :)

[0xskynet]

@Hantick Yup, I run few self-hosted apps in my homelab and share with family. This is the most used and loved software in my bucket.

[molnarti]

will there be any impact on the release cycle? maybe a second release channel with more frequent updates? i still want breaking changes now and then, hope they will come

[Todd1561]

Congrats to the team! Even in the "unstable" period this has been an amazing product. I use Immich everyday, continually shocked how feature-rich and polished this system is. Keep up the good work!

[npty]

congrats to the team for the first stable version release!

[maxhomann]

You people are AMAZING!! I am so stocked and happy to see, that others share this passion for data ownership.
Thank you for all your time and effort!

[dasschneckenkollektiv-coder]

Best😃

[gvillo]

Amaaaazingggg!! Is it recommended now to enable auto update docker instance? Like watchtower...

[appu-sm]

Congrats 🎉🎉
Keep up the good work, Hail open-source

[CZchk]

Great improvement, import runs fine, some pictures are not recognized correct, but majority is fine

Does anyone know how I can during the import create new librarys based on the imported folder name?

[greenlogles]

Great improvement, import runs fine, some pictures are not recognized correct, but majority is fine

Does anyone know how I can during the import create new librarys based on the imported folder name?

Try this one https://github.com/Salvoxia/immich-folder-album-creator

[sma33in]

Congratulations on the first stable release!!! Thank you for all the effort you’ve put into building such an amazing piece software Immich!!

[oregonpillow]

I'm crushed by this. I found deep, profound excitement in the breaking changes you can only experience by running the latest tag. I've tried deep sea diving and base jumping but nothing even compares. It was good while it lasted.

[CarlvO]

I'm a bit late to the party but... YAY!!!

I've been using Immich for over a year. It's been amazing to see it grow and get better and better. I had been trying to get rid of the other photo app that cannot be named and every time I thought I had the right product I came out disappointed. Then I installed Immich and was blown away. It runs pretty well on a Raspberry Pi4 and aside from one glitch (yes, I know, it was not stable) it has been pretty rock solid.

My thanks to all of the people involved in the development of this great piece of software. It is truly one of the jewels in the crown in the real of Open Source.