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slug: 2023w26
title: "Development: 2023 - June"
authors: [niaz]
tags: [release]
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**Upstream:**

- 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now save captions (Implemented by [abdulasiraj](https://github.com/abdulasiraj))
- 🚀 LibrePhotos: Support reading XMP face metadata
- 🚀 LibrePhotos: Uploading does not need CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS anymore
- ✨ Frontend: Clicking on the image icon in Face Dashboard now displays the original photo
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Face Dashboard now re-renders less, which should lead to a better experience
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Unknown - Other Faces, will now get matched to a person, if the confidence is larger than 50%
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Finding confidence values for faces is now faster
- ✨ Frontend: Logo linking to home
- ✨ Frontend: Documentation is now linked in the sidebar
- ✨ LibrePhotos: django-admin now contains all models
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Performance improvements for a couple of endpoints
- ✨ Frontend: A lot of fetching was refactored to RTK (Implemented by [sickelap](https://github.com/sickelap))
- ✨ LibrePhotos: A lot of new and improved translations from the community
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed opening shared albums resulting in a blank page
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed empty names of persons
- 🔨 Frontend: Fixed Videos don't show the player and left/right arrows are missing
- 🔨 Frontend: Videos are now viewable in the light box in FaceDashboard
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed a Timeout when loading persons with a lot of faces
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed Timestamps not generating for IMG_20230101_A.jpg
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed reading of exif data from .jxl files

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**New Issues:**

- 🐛 UserViewSet returns too much information for regular users ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/893))
- 🐛 Compose container renaming broken as described in docs ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/889))
- 🐛 Unable to browse and scan Nextcloud Directories ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/888))
- 🐛 Running Calculate Clip Embeddings doesn't work on read only files ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/887))
- 🐛 Sharing high amounts of pictures with other user(s) fails ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/880))
- 🐛 Face training is ineffective ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/879))
- 💡 Allow external process to signal file addition ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/900))
- 💡 Add "move face to unknown - other" and "delete face" options to image browser ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/896))
- 💡 Add hability to download albums ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/895))
- 💡 Improve docker image versioning ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/894))
- 💡 Docs on memory requirements ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/892))
- 💡 Ability to back up face scoring models ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/883))

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