immich-folio/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented here.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning. Releases up to and including v0.9.2 are documented in the GitHub releases.

[0.15.0] — 2026-09-19

Security

• Full-size originals no longer carry their GPS position to anonymous visitors (#558). The image proxy streamed ?size=original straight from Immich. An asset token authorises the image, not the size, so a thumbnail token read from the public HTML plus ?size=original returned the untouched file — GPS coordinates and camera model included — to anyone. That went around two deliberate protections: /api/exif only ever hands out city and country, and /api/map quantises coordinates on the server.

  The metadata is now overwritten with zeros rather than cut out: JPEG APP1 (EXIF/XMP), APP13 (IPTC) and comments, and the Exif and mime items of AVIF/HEIC/HEIF containers. The pixel data stays bit-identical — re-encoding would cost quality — and the file length stays constant, which keeps Content-Length valid and every absolute offset in an AVIF iloc box correct. The JFIF header and the ICC colour profile are kept on purpose: dropping the profile would shift colours, which is a rendering change, not a privacy one. A format that cannot be parsed safely falls back to the preview instead of being passed through, because silently passing it through was the bug. The per-album download route is unchanged — it is an explicit opt-in and gated on its own. See the upgrade notes: this needs an IMAGE_CACHE_VERSION bump to reach browsers that already cached an original.

• Next.js 16.3.1 → 16.3.5 (#571, #566). npm audit reported 16.3.1 as critical (GHSA-p293-qw3h-jr36, unauthenticated RCE on Windows-hosted servers). The shipped image runs on Linux and was not exposed, but the move stays within the minor. A high-severity advisory for js-yaml, which parses gallery.yaml at runtime, landed in the same week and is resolved in the lockfile. npm audit is clean.

Added

• Diagnostics is a page: /admin/diagnostics, with an alt-text report (#579). The doctor used to be a modal. It is now a page that lists the findings that want a look first, groups the passed checks into connection, security and content, and gathers backups and cache clearing that were spread over two other places. Every finding links to its fix — an admin route where the fix lives in the panel, a docs section where it is an environment variable or the volume — instead of a severity pill that looked like a button and did nothing. A finding about a single album opens the page it is published on and marks its tile.

  The new alt-text report answers a question nothing answered before. Folio's alt text is the Immich description, used only while Photo Description is on; a photo without one rendered with an empty alt, silently. The report lists the published photos without a description, by album, with links into Immich. It is deliberately kept out of the status badge: most libraries have gaps, and a badge that never turns green stops being read.

• Markdown links in journal quote attributions (#563, by @lancetm714). Quote text -- [Source](https://…) now renders a link, like the quote body and captions already did. It reuses the same renderer, so the URL scheme allowlist applies unchanged.

• The Backup Manager restores journal entries and the About page, including deleted journal entries (#581). Deleting a journal entry was a bare file delete — the one irreversible action in the journal was the one without a way back — and the Backup Manager only knew gallery.yaml and settings.yaml, so the journal and About backups that saves did write could not be restored from the panel at all. A delete now keeps a copy first and is refused if that copy cannot be written; the manager gains About and Journal tabs, and a deleted entry comes back under its old slug. Deleted and pre-restore snapshots are exempt from the ten-backup rotation.

Fixed

• Settings no longer discard unsaved edits when you switch sections (#582). Each settings section is its own route, and the editor was rendered by the section page, so it remounted on every switch: change the site title, open another section, and the edit was gone — no warning, the save bar simply vanished. The editor now lives in the settings layout, which stays mounted. There is one "Save Changes" bar for all sections, saving settings.yaml and about.md together, and the leave-page warning now covers About edits too, which it never did.

• The subpage Live Preview shows the page the site renders (#583). The drawer drew its own banner and tiles in admin styling and knew nothing of the theme preset, the cover grid columns, the caption bar or the header kicker. It now renders the public page's own markup, styled by the preset, sized by the same cover-grid calculation, laid out at desktop width and scaled into the drawer.

• Portrait photos render as portrait tiles (#565, #572, by @ImScheinox). Most cameras store a portrait frame in landscape pixels plus an EXIF orientation flag, and Immich's API reports the unrotated dimensions. The aspect ratio ignored the flag, so in masonry, justified and editorial-flow every portrait frame got a landscape tile and the masonry grid lost its stagger. Orientations 5–8 now swap width and height. (The same bug was fixed again independently in #576; that was reverted in #577 so the fix lands under the person who found it first.)

• Text meets WCAG AA contrast in every preset (#571, #580). --text-muted, which carries hero subtitles, section labels, album metadata and footer links, was below 4.5:1 in all fourteen theme blocks — as low as 2.33:1 in monograph. It was recomputed against both background tokens with hue and saturation untouched, so the warm greys stay warm. A follow-up replaced the opacity dimming that sat on top of those tuned tokens (footer Impressum link, /impressum headings, the editorial hero subtitle). An axe audit across all seven presets went from 129 failures to 0 in light mode. npm run audit:contrast runs that audit against a running site.

• The admin panel works from the keyboard (#571). The focus signal was a 1px border change at 2.37:1; there is now a real focus ring on :focus-visible. The asset picker, album picker, backup manager and proofing modal were mouse-only — no Escape, focus left behind, Tab walking out into the page — and now share one dialog hook with focus trapping and restoration. Eight admin selects gained an accessible name.

• Light mode no longer paints dark text on dark surfaces (#562, by @lancetm714; #571). Nine CSS tokens were read but never defined, so they fell back to dark-theme defaults. The proofing bar and its Share & Export modal were about 1.05:1 in light mode; journal cards had no visible edge; essays fell back to the browser's generic fonts instead of the theme's.

• The proofing bar floats again with page transitions on (#560, by @lancetm714). The page fade-in animated a transform, and animation-fill-mode: forwards kept it applied forever. Any transform — even the identity — makes an element the containing block for position: fixed descendants, so the selection bar and its modal scrolled away with the page. The fade is opacity only now.

• Album titles on studio-modern cover cards are readable in light mode (#578). The cover's dominant colour — its loading placeholder — was set on the whole card, so studio-modern's caption bar took the photo's colour under dark text. It now sits on the image box only.

Internal

• Dependency updates: React 19.3.0, @playwright/test 1.63.0, actions/upload-artifact 7 (#574, #573, #567). axe-core is a direct devDependency for the contrast audit.

Upgrade notes

Bump IMAGE_CACHE_VERSION when you deploy this release. Image URLs are served immutable with a one-year cache, so an original a browser already fetched keeps its metadata in that cache after the upgrade. Changing IMAGE_CACHE_VERSION changes every image URL and is the only thing that reaches those caches. If it is not set yet, set it to anything:

IMAGE_CACHE_VERSION=2

No configuration schema changed; there is nothing else to migrate. An original that already left your server cannot be recalled.

[0.14.0] — 2026-08-30

Added

• npm run doctor — the config doctor in the terminal (#521). The doctor shipped in v0.12.0 as a panel in /admin. That is the wrong place for the case it is best at: a deployment that will not come up, where there is no panel to open and no admin password to get past. The same checks now run from a terminal — AUTH_SECRET, whether the YAML parses, whether Immich answers the three calls Folio depends on, whether every published album still exists and is shared, whether a password is still plaintext or an unusable bcrypt hash, and whether content/ can be written.

  It runs in the shipped image too, which is where it matters:

  docker compose exec folio npm run doctor
  

  The exit code is the worst thing it found — 0 clean, 1 warnings, 2 errors, 3 the doctor itself could not run — so it can gate a deployment script. No secret is ever printed, only whether something is set.

  Two findings are reported rather than judged, and say so under their own NOTES heading instead of being counted as passed checks: TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS, which can only be measured against a real request, and content/ writability, which is tested as whoever typed the command — on a Docker deployment that is not the user the app writes as, so the report names both and points back at docker compose exec. An unwritable path stays a plain error when the CLI does run as the owner.

  No check was reimplemented: the CLI calls the same functions as the panel and only gathers their inputs differently. It needs no new dependency either — Node strips the types itself, which works because those checks import nothing.

• CI loads the admin panel in a real browser. A Playwright spec walks all fourteen admin routes against a production build and fails on an error boundary, a missing page body, or anything thrown during hydration. It exists because of #542: a temporal-dead-zone error at module evaluation took the whole panel down while the type check, the build and the unit tests all stayed green — none of them evaluates a client module in a browser, which is the only place that bug is visible. The spec was checked against the bug: with it reintroduced, the run names every broken route and reports the original Cannot access 'THEME_INFO' before initialization.

Changed

• The admin panel has a form-field layer (#533). Nothing changes on screen; this is about what the panel costs to change. It had grown 171% in thirty days, and three files were two thirds of it. Every field was hand-written markup: the toggle card existed as fourteen copies, the five card pickers as five hand-rolled grids, and the grid editor as two 58-line blocks differing only in which config key they wrote. A new setting cost twenty lines of copied markup, and changing how a field looks meant editing it fourteen times.

  ToggleCard, OptionGrid and GridOverrideFields replace those copies; the subpage and album drawers moved out of PageBuilder.tsx, which went from 2,290 lines and 46 characters of indentation to 1,153 and 22; and admin.css — 4,855 lines in one file — became a load order over twenty sheets named after what they style. The CSS class names are untouched throughout, which is what kept the appearance out of it.

  Two things were deliberately left undone rather than half-done: adopting or deleting the custom Listbox (a product decision about a keyboard model, not a mechanical one), and a Field wrapper that would generate an id and wire htmlFor — no admin label does today, so clicking one does not focus its input. Both are written down on the issue.

Fixed

• grid.gap moves both axes, and two presets get their spacing back (#513). The earlier fix changed the hardcoded column-gap in editorial, minimal and monograph into a --grid-gap default, but left the hardcoded margin-bottom sitting a few lines below it in the same three files. In the masonry layout that margin is the row spacing — a column-count layout has no row-gap — so the setting moved the columns and left the rows pinned. It now derives from --grid-gap like everything else. monograph keeps its rows deliberately looser than its columns, so it derives the ratio instead of the value.

  The same change also declared --grid-gap: 12px on the base grid, which meant classic and studio-modern — which asked for var(--grid-gap, 20px) — never reached their fallback and silently rendered at 12px from v0.12.0 on. Both declare their 20px outright now, as the other presets do.

  Verified in a browser rather than by reading the cascade: for all seven presets, an explicit gap of 50px produces 50px on both axes (60px rows for monograph), and with no gap set each preset renders its own intended default.

• The dashboard status badge's colour and words agree (#539). The badge decided its colour and its label through two separately-ordered nested ternaries over the same four inputs, and they disagreed in two states: with Immich unreachable and the config doctor warning, the colour matched the warning first and stayed neutral while the words read "System Degraded"; and a refresh that followed an earlier error left the badge red under "Checking...". Both are now decided together, most serious first, so a condition cannot be added to one and forgotten in the other.

• The journal editor warns before you close it with unsaved work (#538). It tracked unsaved changes and used them to drive its save button, but registered no beforeunload handler — so closing the tab mid-entry discarded the work silently, while the same action in the page builder or the settings editor asked first. Those two carried the guard as a copy each; all three now share one, so a fourth editor cannot quietly be the next to forget it.

• Editing an essay paragraph no longer strips its italics and links (#537). The essay block editor rendered its textarea from a stripped copy of the paragraph — it turned <strong> into ** and replaced every other tag, <em> and <a> included, with nothing — and then wrote that stripped text straight back on the next keystroke. Touching a paragraph destroyed its markup. The transform was a partial re-implementation of the serializer, which converts the HTML back to markdown on save and handles <em> correctly, so there was nothing to convert in the editor at all. It now shows the value raw, as the journal editor already did for the same data.

• The admin panel's switches and pickers announce their state. The toggle cards and the five card pickers — theme preset, photo frame, hero style, layout, aspect ratio — showed which option was active by colour alone, with no aria-pressed, so a screen reader read a row of buttons without saying which one was on. SettingRow already announced itself; the cards beside it did not. Fixed while giving the panel a form-field layer (#533), which is what made it one change instead of nineteen.

[0.13.0] — 2026-08-25

Added

• Discoverability: site URL, robots.txt, sitemap.xml and JSON-LD (#472). A portfolio that cannot be found is a portfolio nobody sees, and there was no way to write any of it because nothing knew the site's own address. url: in settings.yaml, editable under Settings › SEO, with SITE_URL as a fallback. Without one the sitemap stays empty and the JSON-LD is omitted rather than guessing a host: a wrong absolute URL is worse than a missing one.

  What may appear in a listing is decided by one pure function, so a sitemap cannot become the leak nobody notices — it excludes protected and hidden subpages, protected albums, journal drafts, and the case easiest to miss: public albums sitting under a protected or hidden subpage, which are not reachable and whose names would otherwise be published. A locked site yields nothing at all. Paths are percent-encoded, so an album named in a non-Latin script produces a valid URL rather than an IRI the sitemap protocol will not accept.

• Slideshow mode in the lightbox (#473). s cycles off → 3s → 5s → 10s → off, so a gallery can run unattended at an exhibition, a fair booth or on a second screen. No configuration and no button: the speeds live in the key itself, and a permanent control in the corner of a photograph costs every visitor something. Any deliberate move — arrow key, nav button, swipe — stops it, since someone reaching for an arrow has taken over. Under prefers-reduced-motion the photograph appears instead of fading and scaling in, because a running slideshow is exactly the repeated motion that preference is about.

• Download the original, opt-in per album (#475). download: true on an album offers the file from the lightbox, on a button and on d. Off everywhere by default and opt-in per album on purpose: a public portfolio must not start handing out full-resolution originals because one client gallery needed to.

  The route re-checks rather than inheriting the image proxy's assumptions — the album must be on the allowlist, must have opted in, must have its password gate satisfied, and the asset must actually belong to it, which is what stops one enabled album's URL being edited into a download of anything in the Immich instance. The gate check follows the whole route to the album, so an album with no password of its own, reachable only through a subpage that has one, cannot be downloaded until that subpage is unlocked. Every refusal answers 404, so the response never reveals which check failed.

• Copy a link to the photo on screen (#478). Positional permalinks already existed — the grid writes #photo-N and restores it on load — but nothing told a visitor they could share one. Now there is a button, and c.

  The clipboard is not assumed: navigator.clipboard is undefined outside a secure context, and a self-hosted portfolio reached over plain http on a LAN is exactly that, so the link appears in a selected field instead of the button appearing to do nothing. The link is positional, as gallery.yaml.example documents — reordering an album moves where a shared link lands.

• Previous / next album at the foot of an album (#483). An album detail page ended nowhere: a visitor reached the last photograph and had only the back link, so the sequence the photographer arranged stopped being a sequence. The order comes from whatever list the visitor just came through rather than an ordering of its own — a "next" that disagreed with the grid they were looking at a moment ago would be worse than no control at all. Neighbours do not wrap around, so reaching the end is visible as the end.

• The Immich asset description becomes image alt text (#484). Grid and lightbox images rendered alt="" throughout while the description was already flowing to the client as an editorial caption. It is gated on the caption EXIF group rather than served unconditionally: that switch exists because the description is the one field that can hold private notes, and an alt attribute publishes it to crawlers exactly as a visible caption would. An absent description leaves alt="" — the correct markup for a decorative image, rather than inventing filler text.

• Location precision, per album or per subpage (#469). location: exact | city | country | hidden. The map is the only public GPS surface, and a public album's marker sat at the mean of its photographs' coordinates — for an album shot in one place, a garden, a studio, a client's home, that mean is that place. Nobody chose that; it followed from the camera writing GPS.

  Coordinates are quantised server-side against a fixed global grid — city to 0.05°, country to 1° — rather than jittered per request, which could be averaged away by asking twice. The place name is reduced with the position, so a marker rounded to a 1° cell is not still labelled with the town. The lightbox info panel follows the same setting: an album set to hidden, which asks to be absent from the map entirely, no longer tells anyone who clicks "Info" where the photograph was taken. Where one marker merges several albums, the strictest setting among them governs the whole marker.

• The admin panel says when a newer release exists (#496). Self-hosted software that never mentions a new release gets run for months on an old version, and there have already been security releases. The running version comes from package.json, the latest from the GitHub releases API, one request a day, riding on the status call the dashboard already makes.

  Discreet by design: a row in the status list, not a banner, which only turns into a link when there is something newer. It fails quietly in every direction — no network, a rate limit, a changed payload — and a tag that is not a version is rejected rather than read as one, so a date-style release tag cannot announce an update that does not exist.

• A Help tab in the admin panel, starting with the image viewer. The lightbox's keys are deliberately unadvertised to visitors, but that also left the site owner with no way to learn that the slideshow, the copy-link and the download exist at all — and a feature nobody can find is not shipped. Help lists the viewer's shortcuts, notes the ones that are conditionally absent, and explains the two that need it. The labels are read from the same dictionary the viewer uses, so what the help promises is what a visitor is shown.

• A subpage's album covers get their own grid (#523). coverGrid sizes the cover tiles and nothing else; grid keeps the global < subpage < album precedence for the photos. Until now a subpage had a single grid key that both consumers read, so a gap typed into the field labelled Album Cover Grid silently retuned every photo grid on the page and overrode Settings › Grid.

  A gallery.yaml written before the split has no coverGrid, so the covers fall back to grid and such a page renders exactly as it did. The page builder seeds the new cover fields from the old value, so the drawer reflects what the page really renders and the first save writes the two out separately.

Fixed

• Albums whose name is written in CJK are reachable again (#522). The slug was built by dropping every character outside [a-z0-9], so a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic or Greek name was reduced to nothing at all. The album's link then pointed at /, clicking it went nowhere, and because no album lookup was ever attempted there was nothing in the log to explain it. Slugs now keep any letter or digit, whatever the script, and fold Latin diacritics as before (Café still becomes cafe). An album whose name has no letters at all — one written purely in emoji — falls back to its id, so it stays reachable and two of them no longer collide.

  Generating a usable slug was only half of it: Next hands a catch-all route segment to the page still percent-encoded, so /家族相册 arrived as %E5%AE%B6... and matched no album even once the slug was right — the album link rendered, and opening it produced an empty page. Incoming slugs are now decoded once at the route boundary, and matched in both their composed and decomposed Unicode form, so a slug typed or pasted into the address bar resolves too.

• The lightbox controls are one bar instead of five anchors. Reported against studio-modern: the link, favourite and info controls sat on top of the photo counter, and pressing Info made its label grow into the favourite button beside it. Both followed from the same cause — each control positioned itself with a hard-coded offset, so a button that changed width walked into its neighbour and a conditionally absent one left a hole. They now sit in one flex row, which cannot collide with itself.

[0.12.0] — 2026-08-23

Added

• The setup wizard seeds the home page with photographs (#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). 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). 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 <html> 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). 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). 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). 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). 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.

  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). 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). 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). /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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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.

  Correction. Two claims above were wrong: the row spacing did not follow the setting in those three presets, and classic and studio-modern did not keep what they had — they dropped from 20px to 12px. Both were fixed later; see the entry under Unreleased.

• The Immich description can be switched off (#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). 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). 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). 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). 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.
• About page editor and toggle (#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). 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). 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). 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). 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:

  # 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) — /admin/pages, /admin/journal, /admin/settings/<section>, /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).

• Design system gaps in the admin panel are closed (#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), matching the admin panel (#415, #416, #418).

• The sample journal story ships as a template, not a live entry (#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) 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). 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, #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, #456, #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). 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). 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). The previous pass stripped <script> tags, on*="…" handlers and the literal javascript: — a denylist, and trivially bypassable: an unquoted onerror=, single-quoted handlers, <svg onload=…> and javasjavascript:cript: (the replacement recombines) all reached dangerouslySetInnerHTML. With escaping there is nothing left to enumerate.
• Journal file paths are contained (#432), frontmatter escaping is fixed, and two regexes with polynomial backtracking were replaced by linear scans.
• The admin session signing key is derived with scrypt (#432) rather than a plain digest, and the key cache is keyed on its inputs instead of on a digest of them.
• Asset tokens are length-capped before decoding (#423). decodeAssetId() passed arbitrary-length URL input straight to Buffer.from(…, 'base64url'), so a huge crafted token could exhaust memory or throw RangeError despite the surrounding try/catch. A real v2 token is ~110 characters; anything over 256 is now rejected outright.
• Next.js 16.3.0 — picks up the fix for CVE-2025-13465 in Next's vendored lodash (#402).

Internal

Nothing user-facing; recorded so the next release notes are complete.

• CI annotates unformatted files in a PR without blocking it (#424). Prettier is configured as an eslint error but had never run in CI, so part of the tree predates it. Failing on that would make a PR red for merely touching an old file; reformatting the tree in one commit would bury every future diff in churn. The check runs over the files a PR changes and warns.

• Dependency PRs now target dev, and CI runs on pull requests to dev as well (#411). The workflow previously triggered on main only, so a PR against dev carried no checks at all. CONTRIBUTING.md and the PR template now state the target branch (#412) — it was nowhere documented before.

• scripts/screenshots.ts type-checks against sharp 0.34 and 0.35 (#410). sharp arrives transitively through Next, and 0.35 moved from export = to ESM: the module namespace stopped being callable and the factory moved to .default. The Next bump above would otherwise have broken npx tsc --noEmit.

• Prettier was run across the tree (#450), and the eslint errors that pass uncovered were cleared (#451). The formatting churn is in one commit of its own, so it does not sit inside a feature diff.

• Dev-dependency bumps: prettier 3.9.6, eslint 9.39.5, @types/leaflet 1.9.22, and github/codeql-action v4.

[0.10.0] — 2026-08-10

Added

• Photo Essay mode — storytelling pages with an RSC markdown parser and fullbleed/pair layouts, plus a visual essay block builder in the admin panel.
• Client proofing — favorite selection with compact URL bitmasking and an export modal.
• Subpage enable toggle — deactivate a subpage without deleting it.
• SEO — configurable subpage title template, metadata descriptions, and generateMetadata on the about page.
• New theme preset studio-modern. The Leica language of studio rebuilt around the precision grotesque Archivo, with IBM Plex Mono for every piece of photographic metadata. Hairline rules, zero radius, an indexed hero navigation with album counts, an always-visible caption bar under album covers, and a film-edge EXIF strip in the lightbox. Selectable in the admin panel, the dev toolbar, and content/settings.yaml. See docs/theming.md.

Security

• GET /api/admin/analytics now requires an admin session.
• Docker images are scanned with Trivy on every publish; results land in the GitHub Security tab.

Changed

• Album sort order now mirrors the Immich timeline (#350). Albums were sorted by fileCreatedAt, the capture instant in UTC. Immich sorts its timeline primarily by localDateTime — the capture time in the photographer's local zone — and uses fileCreatedAt only as a tie-breaker. The two keys are identical for the vast majority of albums; they diverge for albums spanning time zones, where the order shown in Immich Folio no longer matched the Immich UI. The sort keys were changed accordingly, and unparseable dates now fall back to 0 instead of NaN (a NaN comparator makes sort() free to return any permutation).

Fixed

• Cache staleness — ?fresh=1 bypass, an admin diagnostic banner for albums Immich returns empty, and revalidation after admin saves.
• Admin status panel reported two faults that were not faults (#341). settings.yaml was treated as mandatory although getConfig() falls back to defaults without it, so anyone running with only a gallery.yaml saw a permanent "Config Integrity: Degraded". Only a file that exists and cannot be parsed counts as degraded now. A failed status request was also rendered as if it were a result — an expired admin session looked identical to a real outage — so there is now a third state for "the check did not run".
• Lightbox showed its photo counter twice. The counter renders a screen-reader label ("Photo 3 of 53") alongside the compact display ("3 / 53"), but .sr-only was not defined in any stylesheet, so both strings were visible on top of each other.
• Docker — health check targets 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, base image moved to node:22-alpine.
• The Trivy scan never ran. The publish workflow referenced aquasecurity/trivy-action@0.29.0, but that repository's tags carry a leading v, so the job failed during action setup — before the image was built. No image was published for the first v0.10.0 attempt, and no scan had run since the step was introduced. The action is now pinned to a commit SHA (#409).
• Docs — the "nature / travel journal" example in docs/theming.md used a preset named botanica that does not exist; copying it produced an Unknown theme preset error. It now uses editorial.
• Map page ignored the theme. app/map/map.css referenced custom properties that never existed (--font-heading, --font-body, --border-color, --radius), so the map title, popups, and container fell back to browser defaults instead of the configured fonts, borders, and radius. This affects every preset — the map now picks up the theme like the rest of the site.

Upgrade notes

No migration is required. No configuration schema changed, and the six existing presets render exactly as before. Pull the new image, restart, done.

Rolling back after switching presets needs one edit. If you select "Studio Modern" and later downgrade to a version that predates it, the theme.preset: studio-modern left in content/settings.yaml is a preset the older version does not know, and config loading fails with:

Unknown theme preset "studio-modern". Valid presets: studio, minimal, editorial, classic, noir, monograph

Set theme.preset back to one of the listed presets in content/settings.yaml before downgrading. /admin stays reachable if you hit this, so the change can also be made after the fact.

If you copied docker-compose.override.yml.example, update your health check by hand. The example now uses wget -O /dev/null instead of --spider, but your own docker-compose.override.yml is not tracked by git, so pulling the new version does not touch it — and a health check defined there overrides the one baked into the image. --spider does not read the response body and disconnects mid-RSC-stream; when that abort coincides with a slow render after CACHE_TTL expiry, Node tears down the TransformStream controller while Next.js is still writing into it:

TypeError: controller[kState].transformAlgorithm is not a function

Replace "--spider" with "-O", "/dev/null" in your override file:

healthcheck:
  test: ['CMD', 'wget', '--no-verbose', '--tries=1', '-O', '/dev/null', 'http://127.0.0.1:7211/']

A full GET checks the same thing without the race. Installations without an own health check need no action — the image ships the fixed one.