Focus 05 · Library care & family

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What we're shipping, and what shipped to get here.

Focus 05In progressStarted September 19, 2026

Library care & family

Keeping a large library worth browsing: cleanup tools, family relationships, and richer editing for the people you share with.

4 of 7 shipped
Release
October 18, 2026

v5.9.0

Release candidate 1 puts new tools in your hands: the image editor gets an Adjust tool, face review shows the photo's context and works from the keyboard, and Space editors can use other members' photos in space albums. Mobile fixes the rotation, map and update-link bugs. Underneath, it keeps the rc.0 rebuild of Gallery as a separate layer on top of Immich, on the Immich v3.3.3 base.

6Highlights6Features3.3.3Immich base5.8.0Since
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Coming next3
Headline
Library CleanupIn progress

A daily rewind and cleanup queues that surface the blurs, duplicates and near-misses so a large library stays browsable.

Headline
Family treeIn progress

Family relationships derived from unions and projected per viewer, so a shared space can show how everyone is related.

Also improving
  • Faces & people cleanupPlanned
October 18, 2026

Face review with context

facespeoplereviewkeyboard

Reviewing a face suggestion now shows the photo's date, place, camera, albums and who else is in it, and every verdict has its own key.

Face review with context
October 18, 2026

Adjust tool

editorexposurefilm negativesnon-destructive

The image editor gets an Adjust tool: exposure, contrast, saturation and invert, previewed live and saved beside your crop, rotate and mirror edits.

Adjust tool
October 7, 2026

Edit members' photos in Spaces

spaceseditingpermissionsactivity feed

An Owner or Editor of a Shared Space can now fix the photos other members put there: rotate and crop, correct the date and location, add a description, a rating or a tag. The photo's owner sees who changed what.

Edit members' photos in Spaces
October 7, 2026

Personal favorites

favoritesspacesprivacyweb + mobile

Favoriting is now yours. Anybody who can see a photo can heart it, Space viewers included, and nobody else sees your hearts or can change them.

Personal favorites
Focus 04CompletedJun 17 → September 19, 2026

Spaces

Making shared spaces work like organized libraries.

Release
September 10, 2026

v5.7.0

The floor moves. v5.7.0 rebases the whole fork onto the Immich v3.2.2 base: 378 upstream commits folded in under every Gallery surface, the largest base jump since the v5.0.0 cutover. Most of what arrives with it is visible. Memories gets a rebuilt page on the web and, for the first time, a list of its own on your phone, served from the API so the Space-shared memories the lane above it already shows are in there too. The map grows a "Show photos in this area" button that turns whatever you have panned to into a timeline. Workflows keep a per-run log you can open when a rule did not do what you expected, and a tag can now be the thing that starts one. Two upstream additions stay out. Immich's new group sharing is removed, settings surface and all, because Shared Spaces already does that job; its new search is rejected at all four dispatch points, because the request shape carries no shared-space arm. The command palette stays the search.

5Highlights17Features3.2.2Immich base5.6.0Since
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September 4, 2026

Space album folders

spacesalbumsorganizationweb + mobile

Nest a Shared Space's albums inside folders. Group them by continent, trip or year, drag them where they belong, and give a space with twenty albums a shape every member can follow.

Space album folders
September 4, 2026

Pet recognition

AIpetsDINOv2open weights

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.

Pet recognition
August 24, 2026

Generated memories

memoriesautomaticpeopleplaces

Nine new kinds of memory, each on its own day of the month: a month recap, a season, a place you were on this date, a person you have not seen in a while, the videos you forgot you shot.

Generated memories
August 24, 2026

Workflows for Shared Spaces

automationspacesalbumsrules

Let a workflow file photos into a Shared Space for you: into the space itself, or straight into an album inside it, created on the spot if it does not exist yet.

Workflows for Shared Spaces
August 13, 2026

Face suggestions

peoplefacesrecognitionspaces

Face recognition plays it safe and skips the close calls. Gallery brings those near-misses back to you, one face at a time, on the person page where they belong.

Face suggestions
August 13, 2026

Face cleanup

peoplefacesadmincleanup

When recognition does get it wrong, a console finds the mixed-up clusters and lets you re-home every face, guided by a scan or by hand on anyone you pick.

Face cleanup
August 13, 2026

Contextual filters

searchfiltersmetadataURL state

Click any metadata value in the photo viewer (camera, lens, place, date, tag, filename) and the surface you are already on filters down to match.

Contextual filters
July 30, 2026

Workflows

automationrulestriggersalbums

Teach your library to file itself. Build rules that run the moment a photo arrives: archive the screenshots, album the drone shots, lock the scans.

July 19, 2026

Space albums

albumsspacescollaborationweb + mobile

Bring whole albums into a Shared Space. Link an existing album or create a new one inside the space, and every photo lands on a dedicated Albums tab for every member, on web and mobile.

Space albums
Focus 02CompletedMar 19 → March 24, 2026

Better sharing

Turning Gallery from a personal library into a shared one. Shared spaces came first, then groups and bulk add.

March 24, 2026

Bulk add to Spaces

spacesbulkbackground job

Add your whole library to a Shared Space in one click. A background job handles hundreds of thousands of photos.

Bulk add to Spaces
March 23, 2026

Spaces filtering

discoveryfilteringspaces

Filter a Space timeline by date range, people, location, camera and tags.

Spaces filtering
March 23, 2026

Connected libraries

librariesspacesadmin

Link an external photo library to a Shared Space and thousands of photos appear at once.

Connected libraries
March 21, 2026

User groups

collaborationsharing

Make named, color-coded groups and invite a whole group to a Space or an album in one click.

User groups
March 19, 2026

Shared Spaces

collaborationfamiliesweb + mobile

One timeline for photos that live across several people, phones and group chats, without forcing everyone into one account or one owner.

Shared Spaces
Focus 01CompletedMar 5 → March 10, 2026

Launch sprint

The launch baseline: migration, storage, editing, and pet detection.

March 10, 2026

Google Photos import

migrationgoogle takeout

A guided wizard imports your Google Takeout archive straight from the browser. No CLI.

Google Photos import
March 6, 2026

Pet detection

AIRF-DETR

Gallery finds the cats and dogs in your photos. That is the groundwork pet recognition uses to tell one from another.

Pet detection
March 5, 2026

Image editing

non-destructivebatchmobile

Rotate, crop and adjust without leaving the gallery. Edits are non-destructive, and thumbnails refresh themselves.

Image editing
March 5, 2026

S3-compatible storage

AWS S3MinIOR2Backblaze

Keep your photos on any S3-compatible provider: AWS, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2 or Wasabi.

S3-compatible storage
Noodle Gallery launch
March 5, 2026
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