For those unfamiliar, Immich is a self-hosted photo and video manager, similar to Google Photos, etc.

In the short time I've been using Immich, they've already more or less addressed my main concern, which was around shared albums. Now all I really need is for the option to display select shared albums in a user's main feed.

Some key changes from this version that I thought were neat:

We are very pleased to release the next big milestone towards better sharing: people can now be shared!

As a user you can share people with another user in your cluster group

Lastly, by allowing cross-user merging, you can now merge a face from your own assets with people shared with you from other users. This is especially helpful if you didn't want to re-run facial recognition after joining a cluster group before. Now, after setting up bi-directional sharing, users can manually link people together.

In an effort of making Immich more joyful to use, we are introducing memories for people's birthdays.

If it's the birthday of a person in your library, Immich will now celebrate that with a special memory featuring previous birthdays.

After a long list of optimizations, ML is both significantly faster and uses less memory. This affects every backend, including CPU inference. However, the level of improvement varies by model and backend. Cases where certain backends (such as OpenVINO) produced wrong outputs at times should be resolved.