v1.130.0

Highlights

Welcome to release v1.130.0 of Immich. After almost three weeks of brewing, we are happy to bring you the new version, which is packed with features, performance enhancements, and UX improvements to boost the app's experience; we hope you will like it. Please take a look at some of the highlights below.

• Folder view in the mobile app
• Better person naming interface on the web
• External library scan performance
• Faster performance and lower memory footprint for the timeline on the web
• Remember the text search mode
• Machine learning improvements
• Jump-to-timeline enhancement

Folder view in the mobile app

You can now use the folder view in the mobile app. It can be accessed from the Library page under the quick links section. We hope this helps users with the browsing experience of a large external library.

Better people naming interface

On the web, the naming interface has been redesigned to allow users to quickly add and edit a person’s name without clicking through several buttons and prompts.

External library scan performance

The external library scan code has been rewritten from the ground up. It uses every trick in the book to improve performance, including moving logic to SQL, reducing filesystem calls, and batching asset imports. You can expect a 10x to 100x performance gain when scanning external libraries.

Some numbers:

• An initial library scan with 19k assets: 1m40s down to 9 seconds
• An initial library scan with 500k assets now takes 1m58s.
• An initial library scan with >5M assets now takes 6m50s. This library size was virtually impossible before.
• Idle rescan with 22k assets, i.e., scanning a library that has not changed: 1m22s now down to below 10 seconds

This change also increases the reliability of library scans. Note that this performance gain only relates to the library scan itself — sidecar discovery, metadata extraction, and thumbnail generation still take the same time.

Possible breaking change: If you use creative exclusion patterns for your libraries, please check if these are still respected and report any issues to us.

Web timeline improvements

The timeline has been “virtually” rewritten to be significantly faster while using much less memory. Scrolling, scrubbing, and resizing the window are all snappier than ever. The web experience on a mobile device has also been improved with more responsive scrubbing and smaller thumbnails to fit more assets on the screen.

ROCm and RKNPU acceleration for machine learning

Machine learning can now be configured to use AMD GPUs and Rockchip NPUs, making Smart Search and Face Detection jobs much faster than on the CPU. See the documentation on how to set it up!

Note: the ROCm image is massive at over 30GiB uncompressed, so please make sure you have enough disk space for it.

Remember the text search option.

The search input now remembers and displays the last choice from the three available text search modes: context, file name, and description.

Jump-to-timeline enhancement

We added a button to quickly locate a photo on the timeline from all the detail viewers (not from the main timeline) in the mobile app.

New search models

Smart search can be even smarter now with a series of new models:

• ViT-B-16-SigLIP2__webli
• ViT-B-32-SigLIP2-256__webli
• ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-256__webli
• ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-384__webli
• ViT-L-16-SigLIP2-512__webli
• ViT-SO400M-14-SigLIP2__webli
• ViT-SO400M-14-SigLIP2-378__webli
• ViT-SO400M-16-SigLIP2-256__webli
• ViT-SO400M-16-SigLIP2-384__webli
• ViT-SO400M-16-SigLIP2-512__webli
• ViT-gopt-16-SigLIP2-256__webli
• ViT-gopt-16-SigLIP2-384__webli

Not sure which model is right for you? We added tables showcasing each model’s estimated memory usage, speed, and quality by language so you can make a more informed decision, along with more detailed steps on how to use them. Check it out here!

Support Immich

If you find the project helpful, you can support Immich by purchasing a product key at https://buy.immich.app or purchase our merchandise at https://immich.store

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• feat(mobile): Folder View for mobile by @arnolicious in #15047
• feat(mobile): locate in timeline by @YarosMallorca in #16722
• feat(ml): ML on Rockchip NPUs by @yoni13 in #15241
• feat(ml): rocm by @mertalev in #16613
• feat: timeline performance by @midzelis in #16446
• feat(web): make asset grid row height responsive by @midzelis in #16970
• feat: mobile-web improvements - scrubber by @midzelis in #16856
• feat(web): support long-press selection on mobile web by @midzelis in #16906

🌟 Enhancements

• feat(mobile): Navigate back on memories by @YarosMallorca in #16545
• feat: enable PMTiles protocol support by @savely-krasovsky in #16629
• feat(web): allow horizontal scrolling in memory lane by @lukashass in #16647
• refactor(server): group async calls in metadata extraction by @mertalev in #16450
• feat(server): library refresh go brrr by @etnoy in #14456
• feat(server): normalize extensions in storage template by @mmomjian in #16667
• refactor: stream asset ids for library queue jobs by @jrasm91 in #16666
• refactor(server): use constant for external library batch size by @etnoy in #16685
• feat(mobile): search on people page by @YarosMallorca in #16696
• feat: log before running migrations by @bo0tzz in #16703
• feat(mobile): person age on photo properties by @YarosMallorca in #16728
• feat(server): read Android and Sony video camera make/model by @Snowknight26 in #16678
• feat(web): remember search context by @AdamT20054 in #16614
• feat(web): show birthdate on person page by @YarosMallorca in #16772
• feat(web): Show full date when hovering over photos date groups by @Snowknight26 in #16561
• feat(web): exposed a job to manually trigger database backup procedures by @l0ll098 in #16622
• feat(web): better person naming interface by @alextran1502 in #16631
• feat(web): Add keyboard shortcut selection on grid by @knechtandreas in #16713
• feat: better library rename UX by @jrasm91 in #16837
• fix(mobile): change share icons for consistency by @YarosMallorca in #16904
• feat(server): version command for immich-admin #9611 by @abhinav96 in #16924
• fix(mobile): Make icons consistent (all outlined) by @ferraridamiano in #17028

🐛 Bug fixes

• fix(web): hide scroll right button when scrolled to the right in memory lane by @lukashass in #16656
• fix(mobile): remain on albums tab after album deletion by @YarosMallorca in #16698
• fix(mobile): fix notification icon not displaying properly by @YarosMallorca in #16710
• fix(web): Update people-card favorite position by @viki53 in #16746
• fix(server): adjust type of person.birthDate by @ngc7293 in #16628
• fix(server): set the dev server restart policy of the dev server container to match the other containers by @NicholasFlamy in #16753
• fix(server): set unit test timezone to UTC by @etnoy in #16805
• fix(docs): logo not loading dark theme variant in production by @NicholasFlamy in #16820
• fix(web): update search results when searching from info panel by @Snowknight26 in #16729
• fix(web): fixed formatting of video length by @YarosMallorca in #16829
• fix: immich ui toggles and switches by @jrasm91 in #16834
• fix(mobile): back gesture in asset selection page from an album by @ExceptionsOccur in #16449
• fix(web): asset selection on memories page is broken by @knechtandreas in #16759
• fix(server): set pixel format when scaling and not tonemapping by @mertalev in #16932
• fix(server): /api/stacks does not handles primaryAssetId query param by @dimatakoy in #16868
• fix(web): date alignment on timeline by @YarosMallorca in #16961
• fix(web): reset selection state when adding assets to a album by @dimatakoy in #16880
• fix(web): removed merge person with itself by @YarosMallorca in #16987
• fix(web): fix View in Timeline not working for stacked assets by @Snowknight26 in #16993
• fix(web): clicking away closes context menu by @ben-basten in #16989
• fix(mobile): selectedIcon not set when the device is landscape by @ferraridamiano in #17027
• fix(mobile): show new local assets in offline mode by @alextran1502 in #16817
• fix(web): not autoplay after moving playhead on paused video by @YarosMallorca in #17038
• fix(web): fix escape key not closing video player after seeking by @Snowknight26 in #16860

📚 Documentation

• docs: fix typos by @nick322 in #16636
• docs: reading existing face tag metadata is supported currently by @skatsubo in #16662
• fix(docs): remove /api from README by @mmomjian in #16692
• fix(docs): edge case when restoring dump that is unreadable as current user by @mmomjian in #16758
• docs: update unraid installation steps by @jensenhuangyankai in #16766
• docs: model benchmarks by @mertalev in #17036

🌐 Translations

• chore(web): update translations by @weblate in #16252
• chore: change k which stood for 1000 to more understandable notation of kbit/s by @sarunas-zilinskas in #16734

New Contributors

• @savely-krasovsky made their first contribution in #16629
• @nick322 made their first contribution in #16636
• @rrrockey made their first contribution in #16630
• @skatsubo made their first contribution in #16662
• @viki53 made their first contribution in #16746
• @jensenhuangyankai made their first contribution in #16766
• @sarunas-zilinskas made their first contribution in #16734
• @l0ll098 made their first contribution in #16622
• @abhinav96 made their first contribution in #16924
• @viharm made their first contribution in #16877
• @dimatakoy made their first contribution in #16868
• @luigi311 made their first contribution in #17059

Full Changelog: v1.129.0...v1.130.0