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Self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)

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Alternative to: google timeline, google maps timeline, google location history

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1.10.0

2026-07-15

⚠️ Important: ⚠️ there are some changes to defaults in the docker-compose.yml for self-hosted users. You may want to adjust environment variables to reduce memory usage or increase concurrency. See the “Changed” section below.

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Added

  • Poster Studio: design a printable poster of your travels in a full-screen studio opened from Map v2, with live preview, theme and layout presets, text controls, and PNG/PDF export. Posters can be saved to a server-rendered gallery or — in the future releases — ordered as a print via Stripe. Self-hosters: the Docker image grows by ~100 MB for the server-side renderer, and gallery rendering is unavailable on 32-bit ARM (armv7) hosts.
  • New API endpoints GET/POST/DELETE /api/v1/demo_data to check, load and remove demo data, enabling demo-data onboarding in the mobile app.
  • New API endpoints GET/PATCH /api/v1/settings/mobile for syncing mobile app settings between devices (most recent write wins). The existing settings API now also accepts maps.distance_unit and merges the maps hash instead of replacing it, so partial updates no longer wipe other map settings.
  • Map v2 now reopens at your last viewport instead of the zoomed-out globe when the selected date range has no data to fit.
  • Custom map colors: pick from theme presets or edit individual color tokens for the map, and a reorganized, collapsible Settings tab to manage them.
  • The classic map (v1) now shows a dismissible banner announcing its retirement in August 2026, plus — when your family shares location — a second banner noting that family location history is only visible on Map v2. Dismissals are remembered per browser.

Changed

  • The default self-hosted stack now idles about 20% lighter (app container 452 → 325 MB, whole stack 843 → 690 MB): docker-compose.yml defaults to one Puma worker (WEB_CONCURRENCY=1) and 3 background job threads (BACKGROUND_PROCESSING_CONCURRENCY=3) — raise either env var for busier instances — and jemalloc now returns freed memory to the OS promptly. Installations that already set these variables are unaffected (#3119).
  • Deleting a point on Map v2 now removes it instantly and restores it if the delete request fails.
  • During replay, photos now stack up as a tilted, Polaroid-style pile in the top-left corner as the playhead reaches them (newest on top, up to five shown); click a photo to open it. The pile stays in sync as you play, scrub, or rewind, and works on map, trip, and public shared-trip replays.
  • Toggling the photos layer during a running replay now adds or removes its photos live (corner pile and map markers) — previously photos only appeared if the layer was enabled before starting the replay.
  • Replay panel: a new recenter & follow button. The camera follows the moving marker during playback; dragging the map turns following off, and the button re-centers and resumes it.
  • The replay panel no longer shows the per-day point count.
  • GET /api/v1/points is significantly faster over large date ranges: slim responses are built from a single SQL query (~5× faster, byte-identical output), the bounding-box filter runs as a single PostGIS predicate, and repeat requests answer 304 Not Modified via ETags. Map v2 and the monthly stats map both use this path (#3026).
  • Public shared-trip pages now query Immich/Photoprism once per view instead of twice: the photo search result is briefly cached and reused.

Fixed

  • Family location history now actually shows up on Map v2: the history endpoint read coordinates from the legacy latitude/longitude columns, which are empty on instances that only store the PostGIS lonlat value, so nothing was drawn. Coordinates are now derived from lonlat (#2977)
  • Declining the “Move the visit here?” prompt when picking a distant place for a Map v2 visit no longer renames the visit to that place.
  • Place visit detection no longer leaves an empty duplicate visit behind when a new point bridges two previously separate visits at the same place — they are now merged into one. The nightly re-scan also leaves confirmed visits untouched, so a new nearby point can no longer pull points out of a visit you already confirmed.
  • Re-evaluating anomalous points now refreshes the map immediately instead of occasionally serving a cached copy of the points until the next change.
  • Raw data archival: reading archived raw_data back works again (it silently returned nothing before), archive chunks are labeled with the points’ actual month, archives are verified at write time, and the previously broken points:raw_data:archive/archive_full rake tasks work again.
  • Raw data archival, continued: re-importing a duplicate point with different raw_data now detaches it from its stale archive so the newer data can’t be cleared away, and clearing archived data now waits out a 7-day cooling window. Restores are reported under the restored metric label instead of removed — update dashboards reading points_total{operation="removed"} accordingly.
  • User data exports now include archived raw_data as plain gzip files, so an export can be imported on a different instance (previously the archives were encrypted with the exporting instance’s key and unreadable elsewhere).
  • Creating, updating, or deleting a user in Settings no longer shows a blank “HTTP ERROR 422” page when validation fails — the admin is redirected back with a message explaining what went wrong (e.g. password too short) (#3051)
  • Email delivery no longer times out with providers that use implicit TLS (SMTP port 465, e.g. many hosted mail services): set SMTP_SSL=true to enable it, and it is enabled automatically when SMTP_PORT=465. STARTTLS remains the default for all other ports (#3068)
  • Points on Map v2 can no longer be moved by accident: dragging a point now requires enabling the new “Edit points” toggle in the layers panel. The toggle resets on every page load, so points stay put unless you deliberately turn editing on (#3060)
  • The family “Location history” toggle is clearer: the settings page now explains it is distinct from live location, powers the recent-track view on Map v2, and only shares points recorded after enabling it. The default history window grew from 24 hours to 7 days, so newly-shared members show a useful track.
  • Place-based visit suggestions now work for users whose distance unit is kilometres — an integer-rounding bug set the detection radius to zero. Self-hosters on kilometres: the first nightly run after upgrading processes your whole history at once; on large databases raise PLACE_VISITS_THROTTLE_SECONDS beforehand to make it gentler (#2963)
  • The nightly place-visit job now only processes points that don’t yet belong to a visit and pauses briefly between places, so it no longer saturates the database and delays incoming location uploads. The pause is tunable via PLACE_VISITS_THROTTLE_SECONDS (default 0.1) (#2963)
  • Opening “View on map” for an import on Map v2 now shows only that import’s points, instead of every point within the import’s date range (#2734)
  • Place and area visit detection no longer silently finds zero visits for users whose distance unit is kilometers (the search radius was being truncated to 0 by integer division) (#3031).
  • Points added retroactively through the API or trackers (with timestamps in the past) now get their routes generated, instead of only connecting after a manual data recalculation (#3036).
  • Photoprism photo imports no longer fail with an HTTP 400: the after/before filters are now sent as plain YYYY-MM-DD dates, as recent Photoprism requires (it rejects the full timestamps shipped in 1.9.2). Results are still bounded in-app by the exact end timestamp, and a blank start date no longer breaks the import (#3034).

💙 This release is supported by Steven B., James Manolios, chenrik, aldumil, derpderpington, Chippie, dint, jhalpern, Lex Fradski, Schlufo, cyberswan.at, craftyklaus, Andre, hogenf, naraxius, Embrace, martin4861, Alex, evetters, GregF, Jon Coffee, Lukas, Robbie G, Kilian, Hans G, Chris, tabaha, Andre, Michael C, Chris, Jonah B., Dante, daallex, Tanner A., Milien M., Mathias, Travis S., Matthew F., Johnathan D., bleibdirtroy, no1etal, dixet, Bailey J., Alex D., Benjamin M., Daniel A., Florian, BeeHappy, ChemistryDachshund, OrangeWindies, Michelangelo V., Edward, Erazem Z., Denis Abt, Tony G., Andrew D., Lomky, Osamu Y., Linus T., Christian C., Sebastian, Jan K., Nathan T., Max G., Lars N., Karol B., Konstantin, Johannes H., t3hero, g3lin, Tim, Philipp M., Brand K., Pablo F. M., Jon H., fkB, Mikael, Dániel A., Hai_Tsung, ShooTex, GreenTentacle, PinkahPandah, David, Ken, Denna G., Andre, Hendl91, Jon H., MrRed, Arkadiusz Z., Jake, Bator T., Alex J. H., eps-dev, twiggu, Dragan V., Jerome G., Sheya B., ArnyminerZ, Gustav B., higgs01, Frank F., F. J. Kruz, Jon D., Alexander J. H., Daniel D., Gonzalo M., Ricardo T., Christof Z., Narrator, JohnSmith21, smartbert, A.M., Matthew Z., Dror T., Jonathan K., Kyle C., Mario B., Albin H., Phillip S., Bernd, Tom, Brett J., Nick O., greeting7416, Dick, Brian R., Henning, Markus, TheSlimShady, Andrew M., Mason B., Chance, GoogilyBoogily, Dragon, Oliver, HexitNiels, Michael G., Pablo A., Leo L., Daniel D., DSKun, Ross, Andre K., Jonathan K., Erik K., on Patreon and KoFi 💙

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich/compare/1.9.2…1.10.0

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