A release for Global People, typed filters in the search bar, live filter suggestions, direct S3 media delivery, people diagnostics, HEIC thumbnail reliability, mobile fixes, and the shared-space face-recognition hardening that makes large collaborative libraries safer.
See Global People, inline search filters, upload safeguards, and the rest of the v4.56.0 release in one walkthrough.
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Adds an access-scoped face identity layer so the same person can appear once across personal assets and timeline-enabled Spaces, with identity-aware people pages, filter suggestions, global search rows, metadata inheritance, representative face selection, and optional face statistics.
Lets the global search bar accept typed filter tokens for people, tags, dates, locations, cameras, media type, favorites, ratings, and album state, then serializes the committed filters into Photos and Spaces URLs.
Shows cursor-aware filter suggestions for person, tag, country, and city tokens, canonicalizing the active token without navigating away from the current search flow.
Supports redirecting original and thumbnail delivery directly to S3-compatible storage with signed response metadata, preserved original filenames, and ranged playback probing. If you use S3 redirect mode, you may need to enable bucket CORS for your Gallery origins.
Adds opt-in people and space-people face totals, lazy diagnostic breakdowns, person-detail face counts, and named-visible-people statistics for admins who need recognition progress visibility.
Publishes phase-one server and machine-learning telemetry for app-level aggregates, with a documented monitoring dashboard for operators.
Reconciles shared identities after member joins, evidence changes, uploads, and mixed merge flows so accessible people dedupe without leaking inaccessible profile data.
Reworks shared-space recognition jobs to page large rebuilds, suppress conflicting forced runs, and keep recognition fanout durable across many spaces.
Splits identity backfill into phases and queues targeted rematches so stale shared-space face jobs can be retried without one large fragile batch.
Repairs stale space face identity links for linked-library people while preserving legacy pet matching and linked-library scope boundaries.
Queues person metadata backfills after identity backfills, preserves inherited names, and requeues paused shared-space face jobs after repair.
Improves city filtering with capped lists, selected-city preservation, context-aware city lookups, stale-request guards, and failure handling.
Adds the missing album-state filter so users can find assets that are not part of any album.
Anchors the global search dropdown, preserves committed search text, and clears modal search state correctly after submission.
Adds reverse shared-space lookup indexes and defers full local sync until after initial remote sync, avoiding long mobile cold-start stalls.
Submits mobile filter searches from the keyboard and hides Live Photo motion videos inside mobile Spaces.
Adds the manifest, preflight, batch planning, audits, status, and continuation commands used to keep Gallery rebased safely on upstream Immich.
Keeps the switch-back migration check current, promotes install links in the README, and refreshes Gallery social and branding assets.
Decodes HEIC thumbnails through the image pipeline so iPhone originals render consistently across generated thumbnails and profile image crops.
Ignores stale asset job writes when a newer asset version has already been processed, preventing late background work from overwriting fresher metadata.
Makes person search case-insensitive and aligns inline person-filter suggestion identifiers so typed filters resolve the expected person rows.
Keeps shared-space people ordered after renames, softens person matching during clean identity resets, and allows lower auto-classification thresholds where libraries need them.
Refreshes the mobile albums tab without clearing the provider and restores the Android media-management channel used by mobile upload and cleanup flows.
Adds a face queue job-type breakdown and keeps legacy queue polling lightweight, making recognition backlogs easier to inspect during large shared-space rebuilds.