Self Photos 0.8.5 Release Notes

✨ New Features

• 🎨 New themes and first-launch guide: Choose from new themes and follow the guide to add photo folders
• 📱 Album-based backup: Use the original phone album name for backup folders
• 📂 Local file operations: Rename files, create folders, and remove photos from a person

🚀 Improvements

• 🧭 Improved navigation: Search opens in a dialog, with clearer filters and menus
• 🗂️ Better source browsing: The folder tree remembers its expanded state, adjusts its width, and skips single-child folders
• 🖼️ Better photo browsing: Group photos by day, resize person cards, and navigate dates more easily
• 🔔 Clearer feedback: Fewer repeated notifications, with improved first-scan guidance and error details
• 🖥️ Window close behavior: Closing the window keeps the app in the Windows system tray or macOS menu bar
• 🔄 Local photo sync: Check photo folders at startup and scan only changed directories
• 🧠 Improved background recognition: Schedule face and vision tasks together to reduce resource use
• ✅ Easier multi-select: Clearer selection states for photos and people; drag-select across groups and from blank areas on the People page
• 👤 Person management: Clear a person’s name and enjoy clearer selection styling on person cards

Self Photos 0.8.4 Release Notes

✨ New Features

• 🗄️ Cache management: The Settings > Advanced > Cache page now supports viewing statistics for and deleting thumbnails/cache, changing the cache location, and migrating thumbnails
• 🗑️ Deduplication page upgrade: Added a left folder sidebar for easier categorized browsing, a new “Keep only files in folder” option, and icons for sorting and selection
• 📂 Folder drag-and-drop: Folders can now be dragged directly into the app to add them as scan paths
• 📋 Copy to clipboard: Files can now be copied to the clipboard, with the shortcut adjusted to ctrl/cmd+c
• 🖱️ Thumbnail size adjustment: Thumbnail size can now be controlled with ctrl/cmd + mouse wheel and two-finger pinch on Mac trackpads
• ⌨️ New shortcuts: Added [ and ] shortcuts to toggle the navigation bar and the info panel
• 🔧 System maintenance: Added a “Fix thumbnails” feature under Advanced > System Maintenance
• ℹ️ Home page info: The home page now shows the version number and detailed system info, with quick access to the log folder

🚀 Improvements

• ⚡ Faster thumbnail generation: Thumbnail generation on Windows is now 3x faster
• 🎬 Faster video thumbnails: Video thumbnail generation on macOS is now 6x faster
• 📡 SMB stability: Improved the stability of all SMB operations
• 🧠 Face recognition compatibility: On Windows, the face runtime now detects DirectX capability and automatically falls back to CPU when it’s insufficient
• 🎞️ Live Photo parsing: Live Photos are now correctly recognized and parsed locally
• 🖼️ Preview experience: The preview position is now preserved as much as possible when resizing the window; the hover-preview Live Photo icon stays visible after playback finishes
• 🗑️ Deduplication page performance: Optimized the performance of rendering results
• 💬 Copy and prompts: Added an “Add folder” entry on the home page, improved the person merge prompt, and improved error messages when moving to trash fails
• 🔗 About page: The official website download link is now always displayed

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• 🕐 Date grouping: Fixed an issue where photos were grouped under the wrong date
• 🍎 macOS: Fixed an issue where the system Photos Library was being scanned
• 🌍 Geolocation: Fixed an issue with extracting location information
• 🔑 Shortcuts: Fixed a bug with the Enter key event in the Add SMB panel
• 🖼️ Thumbnails: Fixed an issue where cropped face candidate avatars were rotated 90 degrees
• 🔗 Links: Fixed the link to the official website’s Releases page

Self Photos 0.8.3 Release Notes

🚀 New Features

• ✍️ Text-to-image search: New text-to-image search capability
• 📋 Copy/Move: Files and folders now support copy and move operations

✨ Improvements

• ⚡ Search filter performance: Optimized the performance of search filter conditions
• 📅 Period filter: “Period” filter now only includes results with EXIF metadata
• 🎨 Data source styling: Improved data source folder styling
• 📦 Auto-select on locate: Automatically selects the photo after locating in the data source

Self Photos 0.8.2 Release Notes

🚀 New Features

• 🎛️ Combined filtering: New combined filters, available across multiple pages
• 🖼️ Info panel: View photo/video details with quick jump to their album or people
• 📄 Video & screenshot pages: Dedicated pages for videos and screenshots for clearer browsing

✨ Improvements

• 🪟 macOS visuals: More refined frosted-glass effects
• 🔍 More accurate EXIF parsing: Improved photo metadata parsing
• 📦 Locate in folder: Automatically selects the corresponding photo/video after locating
• 🖱️ Folder right-click exclude: Confirmation dialog before excluding via right-click to avoid mistakes
• 📐 Window resize optimization: Browsing position stays stable when resizing the window
• 📁 SMB messaging: Clearer hint when a share name cannot be detected

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fix exclude rule dirty data: Bug where exclusion rules missing an include parent path prevented deletion

Self Photos 0.8.1 Release Notes

🚀 Improvements

• 📅 Timeline optimization: Smart grouping by month, hover to show calendar view
• 📱 Phone backup page UI rework: Interaction redesign; improved firewall permission prompt
• 🔄 APP backup sync favorites/albums: Added phone favorites and album sync support (requires latest APP version)
• 🖱️ Locate in folder: New feature to locate a photo in its containing directory
• 👤 People page statistics: Show photo count on the people page
• 🏷️ Album source display: Album list shows the source phone from which it was synced
• 📦 Backup migration optional: When changing storage path or configuration on a device, optionally migrate old data

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fix Windows drive letter detection: Attempt to resolve the error when retrieving drive letters on Windows
• Fix large video upload error: Fix backup failure for large video files from the APP
• Fix dot-prefixed file filtering: Auto-filter files starting with . during scan to prevent incorrect photo imports
• Fix issue: Fix unstable APP reconnection after PC network changes
• Fix hover preview residue: Fix hover preview not disappearing during fast scrolling
• A series of other fixes

Self Photos 0.8.0 Release Notes

New Features

• Face Recognition: Brand-new face recognition feature that intelligently identifies faces in photos
• Waterfall Layout: New waterfall layout for photo browsing, delivering a more immersive experience

Improvements

• Map panel now displays a timeline

Bug Fixes

• Fixed log output formatting issue