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Upstream:

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now download a new image captioning model called BLIP
• ✨ Frontend: Shared album will now be visible in URL, which allows for deep-linking. (Implemented by sickelap)
• ✨ Frontend: Tons of maintainability issue fixed by sickelap
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Progress of downloading models is now visible in the logs
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Updated around a bunch of dependencies and updated language strings from the community
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Download of pictures should work now, even if the zip file is large. Fixed by AnkurPrabhu

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Upstream:

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: Machine Learning models will now get downloaded on the first scan and saved within the protected_media folder. This reduces the size of the cpu based image by 50%, which should make updating faster.
• 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now see the available space on the sidebar on the right!
• 🚀 Frontend: You can now filter by photo and by video (Implemented by AnkurPrabhu)
• 🚀 LibrePhotos: ONNX is now available as an ML execution engine
• 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now select the image caption model you want to use
• ✨ Frontend: Search query will now be visible in URL, which allows for deep-linking. (Implemented by sickelap)
• ✨ Frontend: Tons of maintainability issue fixed by sickelap
• ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Updated around 40 dependencies
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Face recognition should now work on the GPU image
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed an issue, where public photos with no timestamp breaks settings

New Issues:

• 🐞 Nextcloud integration does not work (Link)

• 💡 Zoom out to display more thumbnails in the gallery (Link)

• 🐞 Possible issue while Scanning with Network Mount? (Link)

• 🐞 Cuda initialization error in latest GPU backend (Link) Details section on public page (Link)

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Upstream:

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now choose a different geocoding provider (Implemented by sickelap)
• 🚀 LibrePhotos: We now provide an image with GPU support. Follow these instructions
• ✨ Frontend: You can now remove a face from a person in the ligthbox
• ✨ Frontend: You can now rename or remove a person in the face dashboard
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Removed startup warnings
• ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed the place tree
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed a couple of issues when downloading server stats
• 🔨 Frontend: Refetch photodetails when generating a caption
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed more edge cases when reading face regions from exif
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed an issue, where the same face would be detected twice

New Issues:

• 💡 Album tags (Link)

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Upstream:

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now export server stats
• ✨ Docs: New docs for photo list, exif fields, thumbnails, dev environment and delete feature
• ✨ Frontend / LibrePhotos: Updated a lot of dependencies
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Added an env to know the current version
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Add reasonableness check for filename parsed dates (Implemented by EricInBj)
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Fix marking a favorite, when writing to sidecar was enabled (Implemented by XanderStrike)
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Remove deprecated endpoints
• ✨ LibrePhotos: New summary endpoint
• ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed opening shared albums resulting in a blank page
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed empty names of persons
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed the public photos page
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed the social graph
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed a case where the Sign-Up button would not appear
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix hover text in face dashboard
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix duration in album modal
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix user album deletion text
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix saving timestamps
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed an edge case in migration 0027
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed upload setting, when using prod
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed multiple edge cases when reading face regions from exif

New Issues:

• 💡 Edit Person details - edit name (Link)

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Upstream:

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: Deprecated redis and redis-rq with django-q2

django-q2 will give us a lot of new possibilities. The most important one is, that the queue will actually be remembered. In the future the queue can be modified and has native options for cron jobs.

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: More settings for face detection and face clustering

There are five new settings, which you can tweak, to make it better fit your dataset. I hope that there will be a couple of people who will try out all the different settings, so that we can find better defaults :)

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: Scanning uploaded photos happens automatically when completed
• ✨ Frontend: Load top groups first in PhotoListView
• ✨ Frontend: Fetching photoDetails was refactored to RTK
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Upgraded all dependencies
• ✨ Frontend: Upgraded alot of dependencies
• ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed videos don't play when navigating to "Sharing" - "Shared with you" (...)
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed videos as cover_photos in sharing
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed scrolling down leaves empty spaces and invalid page
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed bad album alignment on mobile view
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed nextcloud import
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed people thumbnails
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed long running jobs not starting
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed reading of exif data from .jxl files

New Issues:

• 🐛 Video previews hangs when listing a huge amount of videos (Link)
• 🐛 Drop-down menu judders (Link)
• 🐛 Error creating Matpotlib cache (Link)
• 🐛 Documentation Website Update (Link)
• 🐛 Sharing high amounts of pictures with other user(s) fails (Link)
• 🐛 Face training is ineffective (Link)
• 💡 Optimize counter tiles on library page for mobile view (Link)
• 💡 Add scan progress to library page (Link)
• 💡 Allow to upload photos directly to user albums (Link)
• 💡 Add Folders as an Photos view (Link)
• 💡 Allow remembering credentials on login page (Link)
• 💡 Add birthdate and other info for a face (Link)
• 💡 Make faces be a possibility in more than one person in case of mistake (Link)
• 💡 Remove face when looking at a photo if wrongfully assigned (Link)
• 💡 Filter by Video/Photos on main screen (Link)
• 💡 Switch to maplibre-gl and map provider (Link)
• 💡 Allow users to upload media to shared albums (Link)
• 💡 Increase max number of heavyweight workers (Link)

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Upstream:

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now save captions (Implemented by abdulasiraj)
• 🚀 LibrePhotos: Support reading XMP face metadata
• 🚀 LibrePhotos: Uploading does not need CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS anymore
• ✨ Frontend: Clicking on the image icon in Face Dashboard now displays the original photo
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Face Dashboard now re-renders less, which should lead to a better experience
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Unknown - Other Faces, will now get matched to a person, if the confidence is larger than 50%
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Finding confidence values for faces is now faster
• ✨ Frontend: Logo linking to home
• ✨ Frontend: Documentation is now linked in the sidebar
• ✨ LibrePhotos: django-admin now contains all models
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Performance improvements for a couple of endpoints
• ✨ Frontend: A lot of fetching was refactored to RTK (Implemented by sickelap)
• ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed opening shared albums resulting in a blank page
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed empty names of persons
• 🔨 Frontend: Fixed Videos don't show the player and left/right arrows are missing
• 🔨 Frontend: Videos are now viewable in the light box in FaceDashboard
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed a Timeout when loading persons with a lot of faces
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed Timestamps not generating for IMG_20230101_A.jpg
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed reading of exif data from .jxl files

New Issues:

• 🐛 UserViewSet returns too much information for regular users (Link)
• 🐛 Compose container renaming broken as described in docs (Link)
• 🐛 Unable to browse and scan Nextcloud Directories (Link)
• 🐛 Running Calculate Clip Embeddings doesn't work on read only files (Link)
• 🐛 Sharing high amounts of pictures with other user(s) fails (Link)
• 🐛 Face training is ineffective (Link)
• 💡 Allow external process to signal file addition (Link)
• 💡 Add "move face to unknown - other" and "delete face" options to image browser (Link)
• 💡 Add hability to download albums (Link)
• 💡 Improve docker image versioning (Link)
• 💡 Docs on memory requirements (Link)
• 💡 Ability to back up face scoring models (Link)

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Upstream:

• 🚀 Frontend: New profile page (Implemented by jcalado )
• 🚀 Frontend: New admin page (Implemented by jcalado )
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Add five new languages (Arabix, Hungarian, Portugues Brazil, Slovak and Urdu)
• ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fix scan will not add JPG photos when set to readonly (Implemented by sickelap)
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Raw images are not getting scanned (Implemented by sickelap)
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Automatically created photo albums do not open
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Failure reading exif tags: Multiple tag issues returned, invalid use case
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Crash on Create Embed Clip
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Scan job exits with exception Internal Server Error: /api/jobs/ on ARM
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: [CRITICAL] WORKER TIMEOUT on ARM
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: "Calculate Clip Embeddings" looks completed but in fact is not
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Calculate Clip Embeddings stuck (like #758?)
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix i18n label when missing credentials
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix photoset immutability
• 🔨 Frontend: Sort persons alphabetically
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix Nextcloud types

New Issues:

• 🐛 Photos are not uploading through the web interface (Link)
• 🐛 sklearn ValueError: Expected 2D array, got 1D array instead: (Link)
• 💡 Tell the algorithm when it found something that's not a face (Link)
• 💡 Make face preview of OG photo either wide or zoom in on the face (Link)
• 💡 Open original photo from faces tab (Link)
• 💡 Add memories (Link)
• 💡 Android App to give notification for memories (Link)
• 🐛 With latest library dashboard with French language button are too small or non-responsive (Link)

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Breaking change: You have to add CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS with the URL you want to access it from in order to upload assets and if you want to access the Django admin panel / silk / swagger

Upstream:

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: We now support Motion Photos from Samsung and Google Phones (Implemented by sickelap)
• 🚀 Frontend: New library page (Implemented by jcalado )
• ✨ Frontend: Migrate directory list to RTK (Implemented by sickelap)
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Move to Django 4 and psycopg3
• ✨ Docker: Use Ubuntu lunar
• ✨ Docker: Add libjxl to dependencies
• ✨ Docker: Bump to python 3.11, should give a performance boost
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Django Admin now accessible under api/django-admin
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Cluster size will now increase with increase of faces
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Bubble up exceptions more consistently
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Only calculate hash once (Implemented by savvasdalkitsis)
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Improve /api/person performance
• ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fix nextcloud job scheduling (Implemented by sickelap)
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Do not show hidden photos as a cover image for auto album
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Use BigInt for size, fixes a crash in scan photos
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Sort directories alphabetically
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Ensure that only persons for a given user are loaded in FaceListView
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fix scanning behavior when rescanning a photo
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Always ensure that a cluster has a user
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Remove people without faces when clustering
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fix error handling when categorizing photos
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fix FirstTimeSetup when there is also a deleted user in the system
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fix delete
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fix check files
• 🔨 Frontend: Do not show "finished task" twice
• 🔨 Frontend: Count faces correctly
• 🔨 Frontend: Truncate text in ModalPersonEdit
• 🔨 Frontend: Show more useful values in worker logs
• 🔨 Frontend: Invalidate UserList when you create a new user
• 🔨 Frontend: Don't scroll when LightBox is open
• 🔨 Frontend: Allow downloading images from lightbox
• 🔨 Frontend: Center Lightbox image by overriding getTransform
• 🔨 Frontend: Do not allow zooming for videos
• 🔨 Frontend: Handle invalid token more gracefully
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix album sharing
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix header for shared albums
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix avatar in sharing dialog
• 🔨 Frontend: Keep mobile footer consistent
• 🔨 Frontend: Rerender less in FaceDashboard
• 🔨 Frontend: Remove cookies on logout
• 🔨 Frontend: Fix padding and scroll issues in PhotoListView
• 🔨 Frontend: Sort persons alphabetically (Implemented by Nerodacles)

New Issues:

• 💡 Allow Users to Select Different Face Thumbnail (Link)
• 💡 Ditch the predatory Mapbox for something that actually has a free tier (Link)
• 🐛 Auto album generation stuck (looks like #584) (Link)
• 🐛 Problem with Nextcloud import (Link)
• 💡 Access to photo folders owned by other users (Link)
• 🐛 Default timezone not being applied (Link)
• 🐛 "Calculate Clip Embeddings" looks completed but in fact is not (Link)
• 🐛 Errors in new Web UI (Link)
• 🐛 Face dashboard displays a totally empty page on the latest dev (Link)
• 🐛 Scan crashes on character '\udceb' (Link)
• 💡 Added Assets processed by Rescan all Photos in Response (Link)
• 🐛 Calculate Clip Embeddings stuck (like #758?) (Link)
• 🐛 Undesired popup appears (Link)
• 💡 Document secret.key (Link)
• 💡 IPTC support? (Link)
• 💡 Switch from FAISS to pgvector (Link)
• 💡 Replace square_thumbnail_small with thumbhash (Link)
• 🐛 Unable to display picture / run video from detail tab (original file) if accentuated : error 404 (Link)
• 🐛 Scan keeps failing (Link)

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Upstream

• 🚀 LibrePhotos: We now have a new docs page!
• 🚀 Mobile: Added downloading image to local storage
• 🚀 Mobile: Implemented backing up photos
• 🚀 Mobile: Implemented to remove backed up images
• 🚀 Mobile: Show local images
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Improve test coverage (Implemented by sickelap)
• ✨ Mobile: List rendering now faster
• ✨ Docs: Added docs for uploading images
• ✨ Docs: Added docs for job system
• ✨ Docs: Added docs for settings
• ✨ Docs: Updated features for Google Photos and Immich (Implemeted by WhiteHatRootkitJedi and justadri)
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed ARM64/PyTorch Fatal Python error: Illegal instruction
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed import of RAW (.NEF) files
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed a bug, where removing missing images would get stucl
• 🔨 Mobile: Login does now work correctly with case-sensitive usernames

New Issues:

• 🐛 Can share picture but not albums (Link)
• 🐛 [CRITICAL] WORKER TIMEOUT (Link)
• 💡 Support for google motion photos (Link)
• 🐛 Hidden file can be event album cover (Link)
• 💡 Add JXL file support (Link)
• 💡 ability to deselect subfolders for inclusion (Link)
• 🐛 No local photos (Link)
• 🐛 Scan job exits with exception Internal Server Error: /api/jobs/(Link)
• 💡 Implement backing up only certain locations (Link)
• 💡 Implement uploading images from the background (Link)
• 💡 Notify the user to activate MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (Link)
• 💡 Replace pylint, black and isort with ruff (Link)
• 🐛 Delete Missing Photos Stuck (Link)
• 🐛 Long name in face selection don't work well (Link)
• 🐛 The faces tab scrolling is very slow with huge amount of face to sort (Link)
• 🐛 In face tab when typing the name it says person already exist and can't see to this (Link)
• 💡 In faces tab, have the possibility to sort by more photos that match faces (Link)
• 💡 Implement viewing videos (Link)
• 💡 Migrate to TypeScript ([Link] (https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/762))
• 💡 Implement directory permission checker (Link)
• 💡 Single sourcing of state management and translations between frontend and mobile (Link)

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Upstream:

• 🚀 UhuruPhotos: Local photos now show up in main Feed. Also showing sync state (local/remote/synced) in preparation of full photo sync
• 🚀 UhuruPhotos: Choosing Camera folder if more than one folder exists inside DCIM folder
• 🚀 UhuruPhotos: Allowing user to set max memory and disk caches up to their device maximums
• 🚀 UhuruPhotos: Showing progress notification for full feed sync
• 🚀 UhuruPhotos: Showing current/total progress in notification for jobs
• 🚀 UhuruPhotos: Allowing user to cancel jobs from the notification from feed
• 🚀 UhuruPhotos: Showing local media in the photo map
• 🚀 LibrePhotos: It's now opt-in if you want your profile to be public (Implemented by sickelap)
• ✨ LibrePhotos: Improve testing tool chain and added tests (Implemented by sickelap)
• ✨ UhuruPhotos: Camera media are prioritised when scanning local media so they appear faster in the UI and in the feed
• ✨ UhuruPhotos: Showing both local and remote paths for media in Lightbox details
• ✨ UhuruPhotos: Hiding the refresh day button on feed for days with only local media
• ✨ UhuruPhotos: Opening app when tapping notification
• ✨ UhuruPhotos: Showing local media status (permissions and sync) on the main
• ✨ UhuruPhotos: Lightbox displays media sync status (synced/local/remote) when navigating
• 🔨 UhuruPhotos: Fixing bug with precaching thumbnails constantly restarting
• ✨ Translations: More Vietnamese, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Russian, German translations by stnokott, Vistaus, cyrasafia , hsa00000, J. Lavoie, BMN, Atalanttore, RandomHacks-Git, IhorHordiichuk, Nerodacles, renemadeira, zlo2k, gallegonovato and many more
• 🔨 LibrePhotos: Expose only relevant data when using /api/user/
• 🔨 Frontend: Searching for people works again (Implemented by Nerodacles)
• 🔨 Mobile: Login does now work correctly with case-sensitive usernames
• 🔨 UhuruPhotos: Fixed bug where local photo albums would have photos jump around showing up in wrong dates
• 🔨 UhuruPhotos: There was still a bug with precaching which should now be fixed. (thanks @ᓰᕵᕵᓍ for spotting it)
• 🔨 UhuruPhotos: Fixing notification icon
• 🔨 UhuruPhotos: "Do Not Ask Again" button in Feed actually remembers preference

New Issues:

• 💡 Update people thumbnails ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/759))
• 🐛 Calculate Clip Embeddings Stuck ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/758))
• 💡 Run librephotos from URL subdirectory ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/757))
• 🐛 LibrePhotos keeps restarting and cannot access pages ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/755))
• 💡 Better People searching ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/754))
• 💡 Add deduplication ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/753))
• 💡 Multiple scan directory ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/751))
• 💡 Video library filter ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/750))
• 💡 Manually detect/outline faces ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/749))
• 💡 Manually add people to a photo ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/748))
• 💡 feature flag support ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/747))
• 💡 Import already tagged faces with 3rd party software ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/746))
• 🐛 Scanning faces broken: get() returned more than one Cluster -- it returned 2! ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/745))
• 🐛 ARM64/PyTorch Fatal Python error: Illegal instruction ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/744))
• 🐛 Librephotos search is very inaccurate ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/742))
• 💡 Prefill the demo website ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/741))
• 🐛 can't scan ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/738))
• 💡 Download image to local storage ([Link] https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/737))
• 💡 Remove backed up images (Link)

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