This update features search UX improvements, a new Docker base image based on Debian 12 "Bookworm", as well as fixes for recently discovered issues. Front- and backend translations in numerous languages have been added and updated. Thanks to all involved!

What is new?

• File Formats: Added native support for WebP images and animated GIFs
• UX: RAW files are skipped by default when downloading photos and ZIP archives
• Auth: Passwords must have at least 8 characters to mitigate brute-force attacks
• Search: User interface and database performance optimizations
• Search: Fixed occasional lag when entering queries in the search toolbar
• Search: Improved album:... filter supports numeric names, albums:.. also AND/OR
• Search: Improved camera:... and lens:... filters accept names in addition to IDs
• Search: Added square:yes and landscape:yes filters
• Albums: "Add to album" dialog preloads more names for auto-completion
• Albums: Album names are shortened if necessary to avoid errors when saving
• Albums: Fixed accidental creation of duplicates by pressing Enter multiple times
• People: Improved logging and fixed potential issues with matching unrecognized faces
• Places: Number of pictures rendered on the map has been limited to 500,000
• Library: Added button to clear log history in Library > Errors
• Library: RAW previews and the number of actual files are shown under Originals
• Library: Disabled hidden files warning while indexing as it can be misleading
• Index: Fixed errors when re-indexing libraries with archived photos
• Index: RAW and video conversion commands run in a virtual home directory
• Thumbnails: Reduced default JPEG quality from 92 to 85 to optimize storage and loading
• Metadata: Manual local time changes are always preserved when reindexing
• Metadata: Fixed Exif orientation flag when converting HEIF/HEIC images to JPEG
• Metadata: Fault-tolerant parsing of timestamps from Exif and JSON sidecar files
• Metadata: Improved parsing of two-digit years in original file paths
• Metadata: Exif IFD1 tags with existing IFD0 values are ignored to improve standard compliance
• Metadata: Brute-force search is skipped by default if no Exif headers were found in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and HEIF files
• Metadata: SubSecDateTimeOriginal and SubSecCreateDate timestamps are preferred
• WebDAV: Up- and download sync can no longer be enabled at the same time to prevent unexpected behavior
• WebDAV: Added timeout/retry settings and improved handling of sync errors
• WebDAV: Fixed sharing videos and uploading automatically created albums
• CLI: Renamed --config-file to --defaults-yaml and improved command help
• CLI: Added short names for common config flags, e.g. -i for --wakeup-interval
• CLI: Run photoprism show tags to display metadata tags and supported standards
• CLI: Run photoprism show formats to display supported media and sidecar file formats
• CLI: Run photoprism show filters to display a search filter overview with examples
• Config: Improved FFmpeg parameters for Intel QSV hardware transcoding
• Config: Added NVIDIA hardware video transcoding support for sponsors
• Config: Added --disable-raw flag to disable indexing and conversion of RAW files
• Config: Added --resolution-limit option to skip high-resolution images when indexing
• Docker: New Debian 12 "Bookworm" base image with FFmpeg 4.4.1 and Darktable 3.8.1
• Docker: Added default users and groups for enhanced video transcoding compatibility
• Translations: Added Swedish, Romanian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Malay, and Croatian