Self-Host Weekly (19 June 2026)

Bug fixes and performance improvements

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This week,Immich– the popular Google Photos alternative that continues to ignore my desperate pleas for tags on mobile –announced it's switching to release candidatesas the team prepares itsv3 update(mobile non-destructive editing, workflows, and the ability to use it as a gallery app on Android).

Leveraging release candidates is a welcome reprieve from the project's usual update cadence, which often sees amajor releasefollowed by 2-3 subsequent bug fixes (1,2,3) within the time span of just a few days.

As someone who combs throughthousandsof releases a week, I've never found Immich's update practices to be much of a bother – despite having made it all the way tov1.144.1before making the jump to v2.

For my own internal purposes, I bucket the various projects I follow into one of several categories based on timing and execution:

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