# Changelog All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html). Releases up to and including v0.9.2 are documented in the [GitHub releases](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/releases). ## [0.12.0] — 2026-08-23 ### Added - **The setup wizard seeds the home page with photographs** ([#518](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/518)). It always wrote `hero: []`, so a finished portfolio opened with a title and a list of album names and no image — on the one page that most needs to show a photograph. The covers of the albums just chosen are used, up to five, changeable in the admin panel afterwards. Best effort: if the lookup fails the install proceeds with an empty hero, as before. - **The album picker marks albums Immich does not consider shared** ([#515](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/515)). Not a warning and not a barrier — publishing them has always worked, because Immich ignores the `?shared=true` the list is fetched with. It is there so nobody publishes a private album unaware. The same appears in the config doctor as a warning. - **`mode:` sets the colour mode visitors land on** ([#512](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/512)). `dark` (the existing default), `light`, or `auto` to follow the visitor's operating system — in `settings.yaml` or under Settings › Theme. It is rendered onto `` server-side, so the first paint is already right. The admin panel's own light/dark switch previews your view and never decided what visitors saw, which is what made this necessary; a visitor's choice from the header toggle is still remembered on their device and still wins. - **`exif:` decides which EXIF groups a site publishes** ([#506](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/506)). Four switches — `camera`, `settings`, `location`, `caption` — in `settings.yaml` or under Settings › Portfolio Features. They govern all three places the data appears (grid hover, lightbox panel, album header), so those cannot disagree. Grouped rather than field-by-field on purpose: a list of individual field names is a small language of its own, for a choice people make in groups anyway. `exifOnHover` keeps its meaning and supplies the default for the three technical groups, so an existing `exifOnHover: false` still hides all of them. With every group off, the lightbox withdraws its info button and the `i` key instead of opening an empty panel. - **The lightbox lists its keyboard shortcuts under `?` or `H`** ([#501](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/501)). The viewer has always had keys — arrows, `i`, `Esc` — with nothing that wrote them down. There is deliberately no button and no first-run hint: a permanent control in the corner of a photograph costs every visitor something, and whoever tries `?` or `h` finds the list. `Esc` now unwinds one layer at a time, closing the panel before the viewer. - **`F` puts the lightbox into real fullscreen** ([#474](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/474)). The viewer covered the viewport but not the browser's own chrome, so every photo was shown inside a tab strip and a URL bar. `F` toggles it, the shortcut panel lists it, and `Esc` unwinds one layer at a time — shortcut panel, then fullscreen, then the viewer. Leaving the lightbox while fullscreen returns the page to normal instead of stranding the gallery there. Browsers without element fullscreen (iPhone Safari, which offers it for video only) do not advertise the key. - **The album covers on a subpage follow the grid setting** ([#460](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/460)). They were tiled two-up by a hardcoded CSS rule, so the site-wide `grid.columns` only ever reached the photo grids inside an album and the covers stayed enormous on wide screens. A subpage can also override the count and the spacing on its own, under Pages › _subpage_ › **Album Cover Grid**. Tablet widths show at most two covers per row, phones one, as before. `gap` deliberately does **not** follow the global setting: each theme preset picks its cover spacing as part of its look (1px `monograph`, 20px `studio-modern`), so only an explicit per-subpage `gap` overrides it. See [docs/gallery-config.md](docs/gallery-config.md#album-covers-on-a-subpage). **A site whose `settings.yaml` sets `grid.columns` to anything other than 2 will see its subpage cover grids change on upgrade.** That is the point of the change; to keep two-up covers, set `grid.columns: 2` on the subpage. ### Security - **The admin session token is bounded before it is parsed** ([#505](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/505)). A cookie longer than 512 characters is rejected outright. Reported as a memory-exhaustion DoS; the decode it named is only reached after the HMAC matches, which needs the signing key, so this is hygiene at the boundary rather than a fix for a reachable exhaustion — but a bound on untrusted input costs nothing. ### Fixed - **The setup wizard runs on a container with no environment variables** ([#519](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/519)). Its own API answered 500, because rate limiting resolved the client IP through `getConfig()`, which resolves `AUTH_SECRET`, which throws in production when none is set — and the secret the wizard is meant to _generate_ therefore had to exist before the wizard could run. That is the deployment `docs/deployment.md` recommends. `getClientIp()` reads the one value it needs straight from the environment now. - **A container with a broken `gallery.yaml` no longer restarts in a loop** ([#519](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/519)). `/api/health` is the Dockerfile's health probe and reported 503 when the config could not be parsed. Restarting cannot fix a YAML typo, and the app is still serving the setup screen and `/admin`, which is where the fix happens. It answers 200 with `status: "setup"` instead. An unreachable Immich keeps its 503. - **An ID that is not a UUID is dropped instead of becoming the zero UUID** ([#517](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/517)). `validateUuid()` logged "(Ignored for build/setup)" and returned `00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000`, which then travelled on as a real asset ID and came back 400 from Immich — so a leftover placeholder turned the home page into "Something went wrong" while the log claimed it had been ignored. Now it is: one fewer hero image, one album not published, an album falling back to its Immich cover — each with a warning naming the entry. **A copied `gallery.yaml.example` therefore yields page structure and no albums**, since its IDs are placeholders. That is the honest outcome; replace them with real album IDs. - **A malformed `gallery.yaml` shows the setup screen instead of a 500** ([#516](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/516)). The site gate resolves the password through `getConfig()`, which throws on a config it cannot parse — inside `proxy.ts`, before `app/layout.tsx` could fall back to `getConfigOrNull()`. One typo became a bare "Internal Server Error" on every route, with nothing naming the file. - **The About link no longer points at an empty page** ([#518](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/518)). `about.enabled` defaults to on, but `content/about.md` does not exist until someone writes it, so a fresh install shipped a navigation entry leading nowhere. The link now needs the file as well. - **A gallery finished through the setup wizard is no longer empty until the next restart.** While the install was unfinished the album list was fetched, filtered against the still-empty allowlist, and the resulting `[]` was cached — and the wizard's cache invalidation runs in the install route's own module instance, so it never reached the one the page render used. The list is not cached while setup is unfinished. - **`content/gallery.yaml.example` is valid YAML again.** It carried two `subpages:` keys, so js-yaml refused the file — and README, CONTRIBUTING and the setup screen all tell a new user to copy exactly that file, which meant a fresh installation answered HTTP 500 on every route. The two blocks are now one list, and a test loads both shipped examples through the config pipeline so this cannot come back. - **Corrected three claims in `.env.local.example`.** It advertised Zod validation (Zod is not a dependency), described a fallback from `AUTH_SECRET` to `IMMICH_API_KEY` that does not exist, and left `AUTH_SECRET` commented out — which in production stops the server from starting and in development regenerates a random secret on every restart, invalidating every image URL. It is now set, with a command to generate one. - **The README's command for reading the setup token works.** `docker compose logs immich-folio` names the container, not the service, and fails with "no such service". - **Long values in the lightbox info panel no longer run into their label** ([#514](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/514)). The rows are `space-between` with no gap, so a value that left no free space simply touched its label — `CAMERALEICA CAMERA AG LEICA Q3`. The rows carry a gap now, and the camera name drops a maker the model already spells out, so a Leica reads `LEICA Q3` and a Nikon `NIKON Z 6` instead of saying the brand twice. - **The lightbox info panel is readable in light mode** ([#511](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/511)). The EXIF panel and the shortcut list paint their own dark surface but took their text and border colours from the site theme, so in light mode they rendered dark text on a dark panel. Both now carry their own light-on-dark colours, as the caption line always did. The rest of the lightbox chrome still follows the theme, because the overlay behind it does too. - **`grid.gap` reaches every theme** ([#513](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/513)). `minimal`, `editorial` and `monograph` hardcoded the column spacing on `.photo-grid`, so the Gap Spacing control did nothing in those presets — while the row spacing followed it, leaving columns and rows visibly out of step. Each preset now declares its spacing as a default that an explicit `grid.gap` overrides. **An unset `gap` is now the preset's own spacing rather than a flat 12px.** That is what those three presets already rendered horizontally, so the visible change is that their rows finally match their columns. Sites that set `gap` are unaffected, and `classic` and `studio-modern` keep the 12px they had. - **The Immich description can be switched off** ([#506](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/506)). It was served regardless of `exifOnHover`, on the grounds that a caption is editorial rather than metadata — which made it the one field an operator could not hide, while Immich descriptions are exactly where people keep private notes and whatever a decade of cataloguing software left behind. It is now a group like any other. - **The album header no longer picks a camera at random** ([#509](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/509)). The date and the camera/lens line were read off the first asset that happened to carry EXIF, so an album shot on three bodies advertised whichever one sorted first — and changing the album's sort mode changed the claim. The line now appears only when the whole album agrees on one body and one lens, and the date spans a range when the photos do. - **The lightbox watermark honours the configured opacity** ([#508](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/508)). The docs and the admin slider express it as a fraction (`opacity: 0.5`), but the lightbox divided by 100 anyway — so a configured `0.9` rendered as `0.009` and was invisible, and the workaround of writing `90` came back as "9000%" in the admin panel. The fraction is now used as written; a value above 1 is still read as a percentage so those workarounds keep working, and the panel writes the fraction back on the next save. Its slider reaches 100% instead of stopping at 80%. - **A deployment with credentials but no `gallery.yaml` no longer reports "System Degraded"** ([#507](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/507)). A missing `gallery.yaml` and missing Immich credentials were one and the same `needsSetup` flag, and the Immich client returned `null` on that flag before ever reaching the network. The admin panel showed the server as disconnected, the album pickers refused with "Immich not configured" — so the panel could not create the very file it was waiting for — and nothing at all appeared in the log. The two faults are now separate: with credentials present, Immich is contacted and the admin pickers work, the badge reads "Setup Incomplete" and names what is missing, and an unreachable Immich is logged instead of being swallowed. - **The first-run setup token is printed at startup**, not on the first visit to `/install`. An operator who set `ADMIN_PASSWORD` and went straight to `/admin` never triggered it and found nothing in `docker logs`. The setup screen now points at the wizard as well. - **A failing site no longer renders a blank page.** `app/error.tsx` is rendered _inside_ the root layout, so it could never catch the layout itself throwing — and the layout is what reads the configuration and the request headers. The new `app/global-error.tsx` replaces the whole document with a readable message and a retry, self-contained so it works without the stylesheet or the theme variables. ### Changed - The package is named `immich-folio` instead of `immich-lightbox`, which it had kept from before the rename. Only visible when working on the source. ## [0.11.0] — 2026-08-15 ### Added - **Journal** ([#432](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/432)). A section for photo essays and travel stories at `/journal`, with its own index, cover images, reading times and drafts. Entries are plain Markdown in `content/journal/`, written either by hand or in the new **Journal Studio** — a split-screen block editor with a resizable divider and a live preview of the real page. Photos are inserted through the asset picker rather than by typing UUIDs. A `/journal` link appears in the navigation as soon as one published entry exists; drafts stay visible to a logged-in admin only. Entries can carry their own password. See [docs/journal.md](docs/journal.md). - **About page editor and toggle** ([#446](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/446)). Portrait, name, location, gear list and biography are edited under admin Settings › About, which writes `content/about.md`. `about.enabled: false` in `settings.yaml` takes the page offline without deleting it. - **Per-album photo order, independent of Immich** ([#414](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/414)). A `sort` key per album — `immich`, `newest`, `oldest`, `filename` or `manual` — so a curated series can have a narrative order without changing the archive. `manual` is a pinned prefix: only the photos you place by hand are listed, everything else follows in the Immich order, and the admin panel has a drag & drop editor for it. - **Experimental portfolio features** ([#431](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/431)). Marked experimental in the schema and the UI: - `justified` grid layout — every row fills the width at one shared height, aspect ratios intact - `cover` hero style — a fullscreen splash with the site title and a single **Enter** link - `hidden: true` subpages — reachable by direct link, absent from the navigation (unlisting, not access control) - per-album `grid` overrides, merged over the subpage and global grid - per-album `coverPosition` — the focal point for the cover crop - `navLinks` — external `http(s)` links appended to the header navigation - **First-run setup wizard at `/install`** ([#419](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/419)). A fresh deployment can now be configured from the browser: connect to Immich, optionally pick albums, name the site. Credentials are verified against the Immich server before anything is written, so a typo cannot produce an "installed" site that loads no photos. The wizard is gated by a one-time token printed to the server log — a deployment is reachable before it has any configuration, and without the gate whoever found the URL first could configure it. Credentials land in `content/install.json` (mode `0600`, admin password stored as an scrypt hash); environment variables continue to take precedence, so rotation still works by setting a variable. Configuring everything by hand remains fully supported. - **Custom favicon upload** in admin Settings › General ([#422](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/422)). SVG, PNG, ICO or JPEG, stored in the writable `content/` volume and served through `/api/favicon` with a policy that stops an uploaded SVG executing script. A Reset button restores the bundled default. ### Changed - **`studio-modern` is the default theme preset**, replacing `studio`. It is now listed first in the docs, the setup wizard and the admin preset cards, and it is what a site renders with when no preset is configured. **This changes the appearance of an existing site only if it never picked a theme** — that is, no `content/settings.yaml`, or one without a `theme.preset` key. Anything with an explicit preset is untouched. To keep the previous look, set it explicitly: ```yaml # content/settings.yaml theme: preset: studio ``` Three code paths fell back to a hard-coded `'studio'` (no settings file at all, a settings file without a `theme` key, and a `theme` object that overrides properties without naming a preset). They now share one `DEFAULT_PRESET` constant, with a test covering all three so they cannot drift apart again. - **Every admin area has its own URL** ([#432](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/432)) — `/admin/pages`, `/admin/journal`, `/admin/settings/
`, `/admin/analytics` — so a section can be bookmarked and the back button behaves. The auth gate and the panel chrome moved into the layout, and no longer re-run on every tab switch. A floating save bar keeps Save reachable without scrolling ([#426](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/426)). - **Design system gaps in the admin panel are closed** ([#432](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/432)). Several classes were referenced but never defined — every input used a class no stylesheet had, the Analytics bars had no fill, and all grid previews collapsed to the same height. The album sort dropdown is now a themed listbox rendered in a portal, so it no longer clips inside modals. - **The last emojis in the public frontend are SVG icons** ([#445](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/445)), matching the admin panel ([#415](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/415), [#416](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/416), [#418](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/418)). - **The sample journal story ships as a template, not a live entry** ([#443](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/443)). It is `content/journal/sample-story.md.example`, so a fresh install does not publish someone else's story — and since the asset IDs in it belong to no server, the template ships without any. - **A gallery with no albums is now a valid, rendered state** ([#421](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/421)) instead of an error — the setup wizard can finish without picking one, and albums can be added later in `/admin`. - **The Immich URL may end in `/api`** without breaking every request ([#421](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/421)). The suffix was appended unconditionally, producing `.../api/api`. ### Documentation - **README documents the setup wizard**, what it writes, and that `content/install.json` holds credentials — so a backup of `content/` is understood to include your Immich API key. The Docker examples no longer mount `content/` read-only: the wizard, the admin panel and the backup rotation all write into it, and `:ro` silently breaks all three. - **Contributors are credited in the README.** - **The documentation was brought back in line with `dev`** ([#452](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/452), [#453](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/453)). The README is restructured and `studio-modern` is documented as the default preset, which it had already become in the code. - **The journal guide has screenshots** ([#455](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/455), [#456](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/456), [#457](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/457)). The one guide describing a visual editor had no picture of it. `scripts/screenshots.ts` gained a `journal` section that writes throwaway entries from real albums, shoots the index, a rendered entry, the entry list and the studio — including its draft and password states and the Story Settings form — and deletes them again, so a run never leaves a demo story on a live site. ### Fixed - **Client proofing ignored its own configuration** ([#454](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/454)). The photo grid mounted the proofing provider unconditionally, so the favourite hearts, the selection bar and the export modal appeared on every album on every site. `proofing.enabled` in `settings.yaml`, a subpage's own `proofing:` flag and `allowMailto` were all parsed, validated — and never read. They are honoured now, with precedence subpage → global: a subpage's flag wins in either direction, and a page reached without one follows `proofing.enabled`. **What changes for an existing site.** `proofing.enabled` defaults to `true`, so albums keep their proofing controls and most sites see no difference. Two cases do change: a site that set `proofing.enabled: false` finally gets what it asked for, and **photo essays no longer show the controls unless their subpage sets `proofing: true` explicitly** — a published story is not an album handover, so the global default deliberately does not reach into essays. Journal entries never show them. - **Journal photos did not render** ([#432](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/432)). Photo blocks resolved to nothing, headings sat further left than the body text, fullbleed photos bled only to the left, photo pairs forced both images to equal width regardless of their real shapes, the preview claimed 3:2 for every photo, and the lightbox had neither keyboard control nor navigation inside a journal entry. ### Security - **Journal author markdown is escaped, not filtered** ([#432](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/432)). The previous pass stripped `