December 3, 2021

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

November 30, 2021

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 💎

November 28, 2021

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

November 27, 2021

When possible, location estimates now include a latitude and longitude. Photos load faster when you open them in Places, and the viewer sorts them by distance. Time zone handling has been completely reworked, in particular for UTC. The Docker base image has been upgraded to Ubuntu 21.10, which ships with Darktable 3.6 among other updated dependencies.

What's new?

• UX: Redesigned splash screen based on theme colors
• Places: Viewer loads faster and sorts photos by distance instead of date
• Places: Less frequent estimates to reduce background activity
• Places: Normalized names of states, oceans, and lakes
• Places: Updated location data from OpenStreetMap
• Places: State albums are grouped by country name
• Folders: Path names are searched in addition to titles
• People: Improved face detection performance
• People: Fixed naming faces in non-primary files
• People: Optimized matching of children's faces
• RAW: Upgraded Darktable to 3.6.0
• Metadata: Improved estimates and UTC time zone handling
• Metadata: Altitude is indexed even if coordinates are missing
• Auth: Usernames are not case sensitive anymore
• CLI: Added --force flag to photoprism optimize command
• CLI: Improved parameter and command descriptions
• Config: Improved docker-compose.yml examples
• Translations: Added Bahasa Indonesia and Hungarian
• Translations: Updated Polish and Italian

For our sponsors and contributors:

• CLI: Run photoprism places update to retrieve updated location details
• Config: Set PHOTOPRISM_APP_ICON to choose an alternative PWA icon

October 18, 2021

What's new?

• UI: Updated Lavender theme
• Places: Fixed maps initialization after reload in non-public mode
• Search: Added live and raw:true filters as alternative to type:…
• Search: Added faces:new alias for face:new
• Config: Maximum background worker interval has been increased to 7 days
• Security: Added Content-Security-Policy header to prevent framing attacks
• Translations: Updated Russian and Slovak

Early-access feature for our sponsors and contributors:

• UI: New Vanta dark theme ✨

October 10, 2021

What's new?

• Translations: Fixed German frontend typo
• Translations: Updated all backend locales

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.

October 9, 2021

What's new?

• UX: Improved wording of search result notifications
• UX: Fixed sidebar navigation on small screens
• Users: Show name and email in sidebar navigation
• Folders: Directory names listed in .ppignore are ignored
• Config: Allows bypassing low memory suggestion
• Docs: Updated about page
• Translations: Updated all frontend locales

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.

October 7, 2021

What's new?

• People: Improved stability and performance of new faces overview page
• Index: Duplicate error logs caused by broken JPEG files have been removed
• UX: Enhanced visibility of file errors in the edit dialog files tab
• CLI: Revised descriptions of commands and configuration flags

Early-access feature for our sponsors and contributors:

• People: Recognized faces can be hidden on the overview page

October 2, 2021

What's new?

• People: Enhanced UI / UX for renaming and merging faces
• People: Improved face detection accuracy
• Labels: Improved photo count accuracy
• Covers: Thumbnails load and update faster
• Search: Finds titles when query is too short for full-text index
• Search: name:… filter ignores path and extension
• Videos: Optional Intel GPU hardware transcoding support
• Index: Automatic cleanup of orphaned file entries
• Logs: Updated log messages for improved readability
• Translations: Updated German and French
• Docker: Simplified installation of TensorFlow with AVX / AVX2 support
• Docker: Entrypoint script uses prefixed environment variables, UID and GID are deprecated

September 25, 2021

What's new?

• Recognizes faces so that specific people can be found
• UX: Improved UI design, navigation, and wording
• Search: Omit full text index if query is too short
• Search: Added keywords:…, subjects:…, and albums:… filters
• Places: Internationalized maps incl RTL support
• Labels: Added photo counts to overview page
• Albums: Fixed share expiration date in form label
• Calendar: Empty month albums are hidden
• Viewer: Photos will be updated when search filters change
• Index: Ignore Synology @eaDir folders
• Import: Ignore dot files listed in .ppignore
• Upload: Added more detailed error logs
• Videos: Skip related images when downloading
• Videos: Added .mp as known MP4 file extension
• Videos: Default to UTC as metadata time zone
• Exiftool: Enabled large file support
• Metadata: Improved Exif parser with cycle detection
• Metadata: Support for long projection type names like transverse-cylindrical
• Config: Added RAW file extension blacklists for Darktable and RawTherapee
• Config: Added disable options for image classification and facial recognition
• Config: Added support for non-root site URLs
• Config: Added content delivery network URL option
• MariaDB: Set explicit table engine, charset, and collation
• MariaDB: Added log message for old versions with broken table name resolution
• Docker: Added HOME env for Darktable & RawTherapee
• Docker: Single multi-arch image for AMD64, ARM64, and ARMv7