PhotoPrism

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