Release notes · September 9, 2026

Noodle Gallery v5.6.0

The release that gives two piles a shape. A Shared Space is filled by several people at once, so it outgrows a flat album list faster than anything you organise alone — album folders now nest as deep as you like, with covers, counts and a breadcrumb, and editors drag albums where they belong. On the other side of the library, your pets stop being one shared “dog” entry: dogs and cats become individual identities you can name, merge and browse beside the people, on a People page you can now filter to People or Pets. The detector underneath was swapped for RF-DETR at the same time, taking species recall from 84.8% to 98.1%, ending the occasional dog reported as a bear, and narrowing detection to the only two species that can actually be individuated. Around them: search you can start from the surface you are standing on — with a mode switch you can finally see and tap — memories that stop duplicating each other and finally speak your language, and a Space album download that includes what everyone else contributed.

v5.5.0 to v5.6.08 features25 commits

Feature Launches

8 features
AI

Individual Pet Recognition

Your two dogs stop being one shared "dog" entry and become Cocoa and Biscuit. The three pet re-identification models behind that are ours, trained here and published as open weights.

People, Pets, or Both

The People page gains an All / People / Pets filter, so a library full of both stays readable.

The Same Filter Inside a Space

The All / People / Pets filter reaches the three surfaces that still could not filter: the web space People tab and both mobile People pages.

Search Here

A magnifier now sits beside the Years/Months/All selector on the four surfaces whose search is already scoped: the album page, the Space timeline, the Space album page and Photos.

The Search Mode, Where You Can See It

Switching between Smart, Metadata, People and Places needed either Ctrl+/ or a click on a pill buried in the palette footer — neither reachable on a phone, and the inline search bar showed…

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