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LibrePhotos

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Self-hosted photo management service with automatic tagging

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LibrePhotos 1.6 redesigns the app and admits its Docker images sent usage data to Microsoft.

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◆Current state
LibrePhotos went from 1.2.0 to 1.6.0 between late September and November 9. Releases 1.3 to 1.5 unified tagging and search on OpenCLIP, wrote edits back to files and added library and per-person sharing. Release 1.6.0 redesigns every page, puts face review one click from the People page, caps automatic tags at five confident ones, adds a year-in-photos recap, and fixes security problems in sharing and user management. It also discloses that the 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 Docker images sent model and hardware telemetry to Microsoft, and now keeps error reports on the server until an admin shares them.
◆Where it's heading
The cadence has held at roughly one feature release every two weeks, with each one aimed at families sharing one server rather than single users. The 1.6 telemetry disclosure and opt-in error sharing show privacy defaults becoming part of the release notes, not just security fixes.
◆Prediction
Expect a 1.6.x patch soon given the pattern of quick fixes after each minor release, and continued work on face review and multi-user sharing.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    LibrePhotos 1.6.0: redesign, face review, fewer wrong tags

    A full visual redesign, a face-review counter on the People page, at most five confident tags per photo and a yearly recap. The release also fixes sharing and user-management security bugs and stops the telemetry the 1.5 Docker images sent, continuing the multi-user focus of 1.5.

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  2. 13d ago

    LibrePhotos 1.5.1: SQLite upgrade fix, faces on turned photos

    Finishes a 1.4.0 upgrade step that kept failing on SQLite, places faces from turned photos on the actual face, and stops repeat prompts about unmatched face tags. A quick repair after the large 1.5.0 release.

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  3. 16d ago

    LibrePhotos 1.5.0: library sharing, Places map, 360° photos

    Adds sharing of a whole library or one person, albums others can add to, a Places map, 360° photos, faster face labelling and a self-updating Windows app. It also tightens public pages and sharing, and turns the earlier multi-user groundwork into something a family would notice.

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  4. 23d ago

    Prebuilt Windows wheels for the backend

    A build artifact release of prebuilt wheels for the backend's requirements. There is nothing for users here.

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  5. 27d ago

    LibrePhotos 1.4.0: edits reach your files, search filters

    Tags, captions, locations and rotations can now be written back to files, and photos can be bulk re-dated or placed. Search filters, album Collections and an Archive also arrive, plus a Finish the upgrade card that runs post-update work from the app.

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  6. 1mo ago

    LibrePhotos 1.3.0: one OpenCLIP model, faster, security fixes

    Tagging and semantic search move to a single OpenCLIP model, the speed work from backend experiments lands in Django, and two code execution bugs are fixed. It simplifies the stack while closing the most serious security items in this run.

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