PhotoPrism has released an update to its self-hosted photo management application. The May release introduces a redesigned Info Sidebar in the full-screen viewer. Users can now edit metadata, albums, and labels directly within the viewer, eliminating the need to exit the image view for editing.
Face management has been expanded within the viewer sidebar. Users can now manually mark and assign faces missed by automatic detection, integrating face correction and tagging into the main browsing workflow instead of limiting these actions to dedicated edit screens.
Moreover, PhotoPrism has replaced its legacy Pigo face detector with an ONNX-based detection pipeline. In light of this, the vision.yml configuration now accepts mixed-case model names, removing the previous lowercase-only restriction and allowing model identifiers from Hugging Face, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible catalogs to be used as written.
Media handling has been improved as well, with video transcoding now supporting Vulkan hardware acceleration via FFmpeg 8, and image handling includes a native HEIC/AVIF reader with libheif upgraded to version 1.21.2. The release also adds support for layered TIFF and Adobe Photoshop PSD images.
Search and labeling have been enhanced, too: the label filter now supports AND and NOT operators, and label handling includes support for homophones and homophone-aware lookups. Plus, the release resolves duplicate-label issues that could occur during label renaming or when creating case and punctuation variants in the edit dialog.
Server-side updates include zstd compression support and pre-compressed frontend bundles for faster loading. PhotoPrism also resolves a nil-database race in asynchronous count and cover update goroutines, improves worker auto-configuration based on CPU core count, removes default HTTP and HTTPS ports from base URLs, and adds logging for long-running processes.
WebDAV interoperability has been improved with enhanced timeout and cancellation handling, Depth-1 fallback diagnostics, and support for servers that only allow PROPFIND requests with a depth of 1. The settings dialog now also allows users to update credentials for existing WebDAV services.
For container deployments, the project has upgraded its Docker base image to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” as the recommended way for running PhotoPrism, while manually downloadable packages are intended for experienced users and third-party integration maintainers.
For additional details, visit the changelog.
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