A major release: Noodle Gallery moves onto the Immich v3.0 foundation — the largest base upgrade to date, up from 2.7.5 — with every Noodle feature preserved on top. It lands alongside a security and correctness audit that hardened shared-space access across 22 test-first slices, plus a mobile shared-space parity pass that brings faces, people, person detail, and filter facets to viewers on the phone.
v5.0.0 is a drop-in upgrade — your photos, database, and settings carry over untouched. Point your .env at the new major, then pull.
Bump the version tag in your .env:
Pull the new images and restart:
Database migrations run automatically on first start. Back up your database before a major upgrade — the install guide has the full walkthrough.
Noodle Gallery v5.0.0 rebases the whole fork onto the Immich v3.0.1 base — a major jump from v2.7.5. Seventeen upstream schema migrations (audit log, device IDs, album membership, and the video, plugin, integrity, and workflow tables) are now part of the foundation, with the fork's own migrations reconciled on top, branding reapplied across renamed files and nine new translation keys, and the revert-to-Immich path re-verified against the new base.
The photo editor is now on your phone. Crop, rotate, and adjust right in the mobile app — the same non-destructive tools as the web, with your originals always preserved.
Your photos are full of text — receipts, signs, whiteboards, screenshots. The mobile viewer now recognizes it, so you can select and copy the words straight out of an image instead of retyping them.
Videos start playing the moment you tap them. Gallery streams on the fly and adapts quality to your connection — smooth on a phone over cellular, crisp on a laptop over fibre — with no wait for a download or a pre-transcode.
A new view sorts your library by when photos arrived rather than when they were taken, so a fresh import, an AirDrop, or a just-restored backup lands right at the top where you expect it. On web and mobile.
Play any album or day as a full-screen slideshow straight from your phone — a simple, lean-back way to hand the device around the table and let the memories play.
The v3.0 base brings more that Noodle Gallery now inherits: an early look at Workflows for drag-and-drop automation, using Gallery as your Android system gallery, a faster timeline for very large months, a smoother unified video player, sturdier Android background backup, uploading straight into an album from the phone, and choosing the size of the photos you share.
The per-user minimum-faces preference is now honored on the shared-space People list and stats, resolved once per request, so the People-page count always matches the list instead of falling back to the machine-learning default.
Realtime HLS transcoding is fixed for S3-primary installs: the ffmpeg input is materialized once per session via a local passthrough or temp download, cached and reused across seeks and quality switches, and cleaned up exactly once on every teardown path.
The audit's remaining findings landed as red-first, test-guarded fixes: a masked owner favorite in shared-space sync, filter-suggestion visibility aligned with search, a branded loading spinner and a real command-palette Server Stats route, the trimmed takeout upload payload, correct mobile intent routing, and more.
The mobile app now shows an asset's people on photos shared through a Space — matching web — by fetching them from the server for assets the viewer doesn't own, instead of reading only the owner-scoped local sync database.
The mobile global People page now lists people who appear only through shared Spaces, sourced from the server's shared-space-inclusive, access-projected list and re-sorted client-side — with a graceful fall back to the local list when offline.
Tapping a shared-space person on mobile now opens their photos instead of an empty "0 items" page, routing the detail timeline through the membership-gated shared-space assets endpoint exactly like web.
The mobile filter and search sheet now populates People, Places, Tags, and Cities for a viewer whose visible photos are all shared-space, by threading the shared-spaces flag into the facet and search calls the web filter panel already used.