Release Notes for v0.30.0

We're excited to announce the next major release of immich-go, bringing significant improvements to testing infrastructure, enhanced filtering capabilities, and better stability across the board. This release includes comprehensive end-to-end testing, new asset filtering options, and important bug fixes that improve the overall user experience.

✨ New Features

• Enhanced Asset Filtering: Added support for filtering assets by city, country, state, camera make, model, and tags in the from-immich command
• Album and People Filtering: New options to filter assets by specific albums, people, and exclude partner's photos
• Search Suggestions: New GetSearchSuggestions method for improved search functionality
• Copy Asset Feature: Introduced CopyAsset method for asset duplication (replacing deprecated ReplaceAsset)

🚀 Improvements

• Unified Asset Tracking: Implemented a new FileProcessor system for consistent asset tracking and event logging across all adapters
• E2E Testing Framework: Added comprehensive end-to-end tests for upload and archive commands with automated Immich server setup
• Adapter Migration: Migrated folder, Google Photos, and from-immich adapters to the new FileProcessor design for better performance and consistency
• Error Handling: Improved error handling in multipart uploads and server communications
• CLI Consistency: Standardized flag naming and added persistent flag support for better subcommand inheritance
• Configuration: Enhanced configuration file support with better serialization and validation
• Documentation: Updated command documentation with comprehensive examples and improved readability

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Race Condition Fix: Resolved race condition in uploadAsset function that could cause upload failures
• E2E Test Stability: Fixed various E2E test issues including server readiness checks, Windows compatibility, and user provisioning
• API Compatibility: Updated API calls to use newer endpoints and improved error handling
• Date Range Validation: Added validation to ensure date ranges are logically consistent
• File Extension Handling: Fixed MP4 extension handling and improved file type detection
• CI/CD Improvements: Enhanced workflow reliability and reduced false positives in automated checks

💥 Breaking Changes

• Flag Renaming: Renamed --server-errors flag to --on-errors for consistency
• API Changes: Updated replaceAsset method to use assets/copy endpoint instead of direct replacement
• Configuration Structure: Some internal configuration structures have changed for better serialization

🔧 Internal Changes

• Code Refactoring: Extensive refactoring to improve code maintainability and remove technical debt
• Dependency Updates: Updated Go dependencies and CI/CD tools to latest versions
• Test Infrastructure: Added E2E test tasks to pre-commit checks and improved test coverage
• Documentation Generation: Enhanced automated documentation generation and release notes process
• CI/CD Optimization: Streamlined workflows with conditional E2E testing and improved branch validation

What's Changed

• v0.29.0 by @simulot in #1164
• chore(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #1094
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #1095
• feature: improve documentation and developer experience by @simulot in #1171
• chore(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 8 to 9 by @dependabot[bot] in #1170
• chore(deps): bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #1169
• feature: unified asset tracking and event logging system by @simulot in #1179
• chore: update Go dependencies by @simulot in #1180
• feature/fix CLI flag inconsistencies in documentation by @simulot in #1181
• feature: add e2e tests for from-folder by @simulot in #1183
• docs: add release notes for v0.30.0 with new features, improvements, bug fixes, breaking changes, and internal updates by @simulot in #1184
• release: v0.30.0 by @simulot in #1185

Full Changelog: v0.29.0...v0.30.0