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slug: 2023w35
title: "Development: 2023 - August"
authors: [niaz]
tags: [release]
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I want to answer two questions: What is the best way to implement automatic image captioning and what systems are the users of LibrePhotos are using?

Fill out this questionnaire, to help me out! https://forms.gle/vJjzxwpXf5vwTm9v9

**Upstream:**

- 🚀 LibrePhotos: You can now export server stats
- ✨ Docs: New docs for photo list, exif fields, thumbnails, dev environment and delete feature
- ✨ Frontend / LibrePhotos: Updated a lot of dependencies
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Added an env to know the current version
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Add reasonableness check for filename parsed dates (Implemented by [EricInBj](https://github.com/EricInBj))
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Fix marking a favorite, when writing to sidecar was enabled (Implemented by [XanderStrike](https://github.com/XanderStrike))
- ✨ LibrePhotos: Remove deprecated endpoints
- ✨ LibrePhotos: New summary endpoint
- ✨ 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 the public photos page
- 🔨 Frontend: Fixed the social graph
- 🔨 Frontend: Fixed a case where the Sign-Up button would not appear
- 🔨 Frontend: Fix hover text in face dashboard
- 🔨 Frontend: Fix duration in album modal
- 🔨 Frontend: Fix user album deletion text
- 🔨 Frontend: Fix saving timestamps
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed an edge case in migration 0027
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed upload setting, when using prod
- 🔨 LibrePhotos: Fixed multiple edge cases when reading face regions from exif

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**New Issues:**

- 💡 Edit Person details - edit name ([Link](https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/1002))

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