Cimmich
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Releases
Every public release since the Build Week submission, newest first. Full notes for each one live in the repository.
Community Preview 18
Preview 18 makes the Refresh workflow, first-run path, Person tabs, model boundary and tested platform status match the verified product.
| Surface | What changed |
|---|---|
| Matching | Refresh one person after every correction. Cimmich rebuilds that person's Core matching set from confirmed Face evidence and searches again under the current calibrated policy. |
| Archive Health | One place for archive checks. Exact copies, possible duplicates, folders, rotation, photo backups and database backups stay demand-loaded and inspectable. |
| Photo viewer | The visible tabs match the guide. Photos, Identity, Details, Connections and Documents lead the Person workspace. |
| People | Matching ownership stays explicit. Optional providers supply observations and embeddings. Cimmich remains the matcher and owner-governed decision system. |
| Search and summaries | The first run follows the product. Settings, Library connection and Connect your existing Immich library are named exactly. |
| Install and operations | Claims stay inside proof. The guided path is tested on macOS and Linux Docker hosts. Windows remains untested. |
Community Preview
Eighteen preview tags, of which seventeen were published. Preview 5 was cut as an internal operability candidate and never released.
| Release | Date | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| preview 18 | 19 Aug 2026 | Exact Refresh and repository launch truth. The release now matches the current Refresh policy, Person tabs, first-run route, provider boundary and tested platform status. |
| preview 17 | 19 Aug 2026 | Verified beginner installation and matching guide. Single-bundle checksums, guided database-backup Compose, direct product routes and fictional matching captures are verified together. |
| preview 16 | 19 Aug 2026 | Correct public product and operator truth. Cimmich is named as the matcher, Windows paths are untested rather than disproven, optional Immich jobs are separated from face matching, and the independent backup scan uses the configured install. |
| preview 15 | 19 Aug 2026 | Compact photo-viewer repair. People and Context remain visible and clickable below 640 px, and the 320 px Face bulk-edit journey opens the correct Cimmich photo context. |
| preview 14 | 19 Aug 2026 | Immutable release rebuild. Preview 13's product convergence was repackaged as a new named release while preserving the earlier release artifacts. |
| preview 13 | 19 Aug 2026 | Current product convergence. Archive Health, Folder Check, Rotation review, backup checks, person-level Refresh, Immich visual search, summaries and current People refinements arrive together on schema 142. |
| preview 12 | 18 Aug 2026 | Read-only Immich boundary and matching continuity. Organise moves to Cimmich-owned decisions with exact Undo, new Face evidence takes priority, and the public demo route and provider setup are repaired. |
| preview 11 | 18 Aug 2026 | People and Archive Health refinements. Compact review controls, clearer privacy and empty-scope language, and denser bounded folder/duplicate evidence. |
| preview 10 | 17 Aug 2026 | Demand-loaded Archive Health checks. Expensive duplicate and version analysis moved behind explicit review actions so ordinary library use stays quick. |
| preview 9 | 13 Aug 2026 | Photo navigation and matching continuity. Previous and next return to the viewer with pointer and arrow keys. Archive-wide matching scores each eligible face against the active reference set again. Possible-people suggestions now need consensus across a group rather than one representative face. |
| preview 8 | 11 Aug 2026 | Photo privacy and portable operations. Standard and Personal exclude higher-ranked photos before any thumbnail, timeline bucket or renderer mounts. Backup, restore and portable export share one checksum operator across GNU and macOS. |
| preview 7 | 10 Aug 2026 | Faster review and archive organisation. URL-backed filters for privacy tier, tags, labels, places, events and things. Bulk organise applies labels and turns folders into reviewed album manifests with exact undo. |
| preview 6 | 7 Aug 2026 | Self-contained public installation. Both the ordinary Compose path and the guarded installer build the API and UI from checked-in source. |
| preview 5 | 7 Aug 2026 | Operability candidate, not published. Five real-browser journeys, a redacted doctor diagnostic, and multi-architecture images with an SBOM. |
| preview 4 | 6 Aug 2026 | Repository trust and conventional installation. Production Compose moved to root compose.yaml, documentation put manual Compose first, DEVELOPMENT.md explained the tooling split, and CI began blocking growth in oversized files. |
| preview 3 | 6 Aug 2026 | Projected-photo viewer repair. |
| preview 2 | 6 Aug 2026 | Filming-findings repair. Identity tagging no longer appears to save when the photo has not been written, and photo info state no longer carries into a different photo. |
| preview 1 | 5 Aug 2026 | Complete memory companion preview. People, pets, places, things and documents get distinct photo-led homes. Events gain folder admission and review. Bounded to macOS and Linux, single-owner local use. |
Public Beta
Six patches between 23 and 26 July, closing with people review, real matching operations and pets.
| Release | Date | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| beta patch 6 | 26 Jul 2026 | People review, real matching operations and pets. |
| beta patch 5 | 24 Jul 2026 | Beginner install bundle and guided setup documentation. |
| beta patch 4 | 24 Jul 2026 | One-time historical embedding repair. |
| beta patch 3 | 24 Jul 2026 | Truthful face-processing progress. |
| beta patch 2 | 24 Jul 2026 | Restored public-beta face processing. |
| beta patch 1 | 23 Jul 2026 | Owner-operable visibility controls. |
Where it started
| Release | Date | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0-build-week | 22 Jul 2026 | The OpenAI Build Week submission, preserved exactly as entered. |
Everything after 22 July is maintained-product work. None of it revises or expands what was submitted, and the Build Week tag still resolves to the exact tree that was entered.
The underlying archive problem, the identity and matching research, the semantic-search exploration and an experimental Immich-derived UI seed all predate Build Week. The prior-work boundary is recorded in the repository.
Summaries are condensed from the tagged public changelog and the release index. Full notes, schemas, compatibility and artifacts live there.