PhotoPrism

This update adds a scheduler so you can easily create database backups and re-index your library at regular intervals. It also includes many updated dependencies and support for ICC color profiles, which especially benefits Apple iPhone and professional users working with color spaces other than sRGB. 🎨

Missing user interface translations have been generated with the help of DeepL and Google Translate. Native speakers are welcome to help us improve them, if necessary.

Important Changes

• If you keep the default settings, daily database backups will be automatically created, with up to 3 backup files being retained. This is to prevent the available storage space from filling up. We recommend setting the corresponding config options before installing the update if you want to disable scheduled backups, keep more backup files, or prefer a specific time for creating backups. The previously available --disable-backups flag has been deprecated in favor of these finer-grained options.
• In order to preserve ICC color profiles and reduce memory usage, new thumbnails will be generated with the libvips image processing library. You can run the photoprism thumbs -f command in a terminal to regenerate your existing thumbs as needed, or delete the storage/cache/thumbnails folder and then re-index your library. To continue using the native image processing library, set PHOTOPRISM_THUMB_LIBRARY to "imaging" in your compose.yaml or docker-compose.yml configuration file. If you build from source or use one of our binary installation packages, the system on which you build and/or run PhotoPrism must have libvips >= 8.10 installed.

What’s new?

• Colors: Added libvips support to preserve ICC profiles in thumbnails
• Search: Clicking on a timestamp finds pictures taken on the same day
• Search: Added a sort option to order search results by picture title
• Review: Photos are automatically approved when adding them to an album
• People: Faces tagged on private or archived pictures will be ignored
• Index: *.thm thumbnail files are not used as primary image anymore
• Index: Added a config option for scheduling automatic library rescans
• Index: Improved recovery of metadata from sidecar YAML files
• Upload: Improved ETA display when using the web upload dialog
• Backups: Added config options for creating backups at regular intervals
• Moments: Background worker no longer creates backups to avoid disk activity
• Docker: Upgraded base image from Ubuntu 23.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Security: Go has been updated to the latest stable release v1.22.3
• Translations: Updated Chinese (traditional), Danish, French, and German

Screenshots

The Advanced Settings tab has been restructured and a Backup section has been added, so that you can enable and disable database and YAML file backups from the user interface (additional controls are planned for a future release):

Installation Packages

The packages attached to this release are intended for experienced users and maintainers of third-party integrations only, as they require manual configuration and do not include tested system dependencies. Since we are unable to provide support for custom installations, we recommend using one of our Docker images to run PhotoPrism on a private server or NAS device.

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