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Immich

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Self-hosted photo and video backup solution with mobile apps

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Immich's v3.2 RC ships a new search UI and face clustering, advancing self-hosted photo discovery.

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◆Current state
Immich is in active release cadence: v3.0 landed workflows, plugins, mobile editing, HLS streaming, and OCR; v3.2 is now in its third RC with a new search UI, face cluster groups, and a rebuilt search API. The RC turnaround pace suggests the team is in cleanup mode ahead of a stable release. It's a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with a large community of contributors across server, mobile, and web.
◆Where it's heading
The product is moving from Google Photos parity toward differentiation through extensibility and AI-assisted organization. Workflows and plugins opened the automation surface in v3.0; the new search UI and cluster groups in v3.2 close the discovery gap. That combination — automation plus better semantic search — is the basis for a self-hosted photo library that replaces cloud products in daily use rather than just archiving them.
◆Prediction
v3.2 stable will ship within days given the current RC pace. After that, expect the workflow engine to get additional triggers and actions, and possibly AI-assisted album creation tied to the new cluster groups and search API.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    v3.2.0 RC3: bug fixes before stable release

    Third v3.2 RC addresses a handful of bug fixes — file path unlinking, OpenAPI type errors, album date formatting, face detection on edited assets, and mobile Freezed class issues. Standard RC stabilization work; nothing user-visible beyond the bugs themselves.

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  2. 1mo ago

    v3.2.0 RC2: search UI and face merge bug fixes

    Second v3.2 RC tightens bugs around person merging and the new search UI introduced in rc.1 — face editor coordinates on unloaded video, face ownership on merge, and mobile map timeline state. Entirely corrective.

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  3. 2mo ago

    v3.2.0 RC1: new search UI, face cluster groups, memories view

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    The first substantive v3.2 RC lands a new search UI, a rebuilt search API, face cluster groups, and a dedicated memories view — three independent AI-assisted organization features arriving together. This follows the v3.0 architectural overhaul and represents the product's first major push on discovery beyond raw browsing.

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  4. 2mo ago

    v3.2.0-rc.0: fix: build release branch images instead of re-tagging main (#31064)

    v3.2.0-rc.0 was a CI/CD fix — building release branch images rather than re-tagging main. No user-visible change; the RC numbering was essentially skipped in practice.

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  5. 4mo ago

    v3.0.0 RC3: webhook actions and bug fixes

    Third v3.0 RC delivers minor enhancements (keyboard video seeking, webhook workflow action) plus a round of bug fixes across mobile and server. In the context of the large v3.0 feature set, this is stabilization.

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  6. 4mo ago

    v3.0.0 RC2: bug fixes ahead of stable release

    Second v3.0 RC is pure bug fixes — album sharing, mobile memory refresh, locked folder behavior, and timezone handling. Standard pre-release cleanup following a major version bump.

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