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Release Notes

4.54.0​

Gallery 4.54.0 covers the changes shipped after v4.53.0 through v4.54.0.

Search and filters​

  • The global search palette is now the main search entry point from the top navigation.
  • Free-text palette searches apply to the current page when possible, including Photos, Shared Spaces, and Map.
  • Query recents now rerun searches directly, and the page sort control is available beside the top search trigger.
  • Searchable page controls moved into the cmd+k flow, replacing the old page-specific search bars.
  • Album detail pages and the album asset picker now support the full filter panel with album-scoped suggestions.
  • Map marker counts and map timeline results now respect active filters and smart-search queries.
  • Smart search keeps the VectorChord index path for person filters and avoids secondary tie-break ordering that can force slow sequential scans.
  • Smart search rating filters are inclusive minimum-rating filters, and filter suggestion rating facets remain monotonic.

Memories​

  • Rule-based memories were added alongside classic On this day memories.
  • Birthday memories are generated from people with birthdays and enough qualifying photos.
  • Recent-trip memories are generated from location patterns that differ from the user's recent home baseline.
  • Rule memories include server-defined titles and subtitles for web and mobile clients.
  • Nightly generation tracks a separate rule-memory cursor, deduplicates by rule key, and caps rule memories per user per day.

Imports and metadata​

  • Google Photos Takeout import now handles .supplemental-metadata.json sidecars, localized Google Photos root folders, duplicate-index sidecars, edited variants, and sidecars that omit the media extension.
  • Google Takeout album detection avoids non-Photos Takeout services in mixed exports.
  • XMP sidecar copy works when the target asset is stored under an S3 relative key.

Storage and downloads​

  • Large S3 archive downloads no longer open all object streams at once, avoiding socket exhaustion and stalled ZIP downloads.
  • Archive appends are serialized so S3-backed downloads finish reliably.
  • Deleting a user now cleans up user-scoped disk directories or S3 object prefixes.
  • S3 relative-path handling was audited across copy and cleanup paths.

Migration and release maintenance​

  • The switch-back-to-Immich script now accounts for upstream migrations that Gallery has pulled in after the Immich tag it is based on.
  • The mobile release workflow rejects version overrides that do not use a v prefix.