Release Notes · September 5, 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 features23 commits

Feature Launches

8 features
Sharing & Collaboration

Nested Folders for Space Albums

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 navigate.

AI & Automation

Individual Pet Recognition

Your two dogs stop being one shared “dog” entry and become Cocoa and Biscuit — running on three pet re-identification models we trained ourselves 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…

Try it on mobile

Get the v5.6.0 beta on your phone

Join the iOS TestFlight or sideload the Android APK, then point the app at your own server.

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