v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich

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v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich

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Welcome

Hello everyone,

After:

• ~1,337 days,
• 271 releases,
• 78,000 stars on GitHub,
• 1,558 contributors,
• 31,500 members on Discord,
• 36,000 members on Reddit,
• 68 languages on Weblate,
• Surviving the controversial announcement about joining FUTO,
• Having overwhelming success and support from the community with the product keys model,
• Launching the Merch store,
• Attending our first FOSDEM,
• ...and before the release of GTA VI

We are thrilled to announce the stable release of Immich! 🎉

This has been a journey long in the making. So much has changed since the first commit on the project, all the way back in February, 2022. The project and team continue to grow, and today we’re proud to announce v2.0.0, our stable release. Stable signifies that we have now resolved a significant amount of technical debt. It also means we will be prioritizing compatibility and less effort will be required to keep Immich up-to-date. Finally, it means that the warning banner on the website has been removed! Along with this, we’re happy to announce a new version of the https://immich.app/ website.

For more specifics about the stable release, see our FAQs below.

Merch and DVD

To celebrate this release, we want to capture this moment in a nostalgic form, reminiscent of how software was distributed in our childhood - on a CD (or DVD, in this “case”). Introducing Immich Stable in physical form! You can find the link to the disk here

The disk comes with a fully bootable Immich instance, featuring a selection of curated photos chosen by the team. You can purchase the disk from our merch store, along with a client or server product key, to support and celebrate this milestone with us.

The merch store is also updated with retro-styled Immich designs, check it out in https://immich.store

Future plans

Now that Immich is stable, here are some of the things that we will be focusing on:

• Roadmap — There are still a few items on our roadmap that we want to complete before the year ends such as auto-stacking, and achieving feature parity between the web and mobile app. We also have plans to start work on improved stack support, better sharing, group management, and ownership improvements, as well as many other enhancements.
• Usage data — The team wants to understand how the software is used, so that we can make better, informed decisions as we design and build Immich. We want to collect that information in a non-invasive and transparent way. We plan to discuss it with the community and gather feedback from everyone to come up with the best solution.
• Backup services — We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.

Thank you

We cannot thank you enough for the support over the past three years. Community participation, from the first comments on the original reddit post, to the feedback when we joined FUTO, have contributed to the awesome product Immich is today. Thank you for joining us and believing in our mission to regain control over your most precious data. Here’s to many more years!

We'll also be hosting a Q&A livestream tomorrow, October 2nd, 2025 at 6 PM UTC. You can submit your questions here and subscribe for notifications when the livestream starts here.

Cheers,

The Immich Team

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FAQs

Will there be a live stream?

Yes. We'll be hosting a Q&A livestream tomorrow, October 2nd, 2025 at 6 PM UTC. You can submit your questions here and subscribe for notifications when the livestream starts here.

Do I still need backups?

Yes! A 3-2-1 backup strategy is still crucial. The team has the responsibility to ensure that the application doesn’t cause loss of your precious memories; however, we cannot guarantee that hard drives will not fail, or an electrical event causes unexpected shutdown of your server/system, leading to data loss. Therefore, we still encourage users to follow best practices when safeguarding their data. Keep multiple copies of your most precious data: at least two local copies and one copy offsite in cold storage. Additionally, we are starting to work on a cloud backup service to make backups easier.

When will v2.0.0 be available?

The Docker images for v2.0.0 will be pushed out a few hours after this post is released.

How can I update to v2.0.0?

You can follow the upgrade documentation, here.

What versioning strategy will Immich use?

Starting with v2.0.0, we will now follow semantic versioning.

What mobile app versions will work with v2.0.0?

Any v2.x.x version of the mobile app will work with any 2.x.x version of the server. For example, a mobile app on version v2.9.0 will continue to work with server versions: v2.0.0, v2.1.0, v2.3.1, etc.

Will new features continue to be released?

Yes. Immich will continue to build, develop, and release new features.

[mirkohubtv]

Huge congratulations to the Immich team! Excited to see v2.0.0 reach stable release — an amazing milestone for open-source and self-hosting

[felinusfish]

congratulations to the team at Immich (and by extension, FUTO)!! a well deserved victory for the open source community!!

[SomeRandomCpu]

Is the performance better than previous versions, because it used to be a resource hog

[schuhbacca]

Which part? Ingesting large batches of photos can be very intensive, but day-to-day it's pretty minimal.

[coltenkrauter]

Just so you know, this thread is a celebratory milestone. 😉 🥳

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Performance has improved a lot compared to early versions. The team has been cutting down memory use with the Sync v2 overhaul, optimizing thumbnail pipelines and scalability, and fixing long-standing resource issues.

Recent releases also highlight this:

• v1.133.0 introduced VectorChord (replacing pgvecto.rs), described as faster, more stable, and using less RAM. It also improved the web timeline and fixed thumbnail caching issues on mobile.
• v1.132.0 removed TypeORM on the server side and moved to a new schema tool + SQLite on mobile, reducing startup lag and improving performance on large libraries.
• v1.143.0 enabled concurrent hashing on mobile for higher throughput and reduced bottlenecks. It also fixed a SQLite concurrency crash that caused freezes.
• Ya, there is more...

I run it on my own server and I have no complaints... It’s fast, responsive, and seemingly efficient.

[chadneu]

About time. It's been so long without an update that I thought immich was abandoned.

(im not serious)

[TASelwyn]

Stable 🥳

[simonbuehler]

this is the legit successor of the AOL CDRom

[kaysond]

Are the warning messages on the docs supposed to go away too?

[JPar99]

No because its self hosted! Every self hosted project comes with warnings

[ireun]

Select at 'next' not 'latest' in the dropdown at top, it'll be gone ;)

[Wh1rr]

Congrats!!!🥳

[hitech95]

Since last few updates (1.14X) the app get stuck when opening I have to force close it and open it again.

[schuhbacca]

Please make a help support thread in the discord 🙂

[RestartB]

Nice - congrats! 🥳🎉

[wispdevon]

Amazing news!!!

[JPar99]

Congrats guys! What an achievement!

[trevordavies095]

This is great news!! Congrats to everyone

[tantalusblank]

Congrats to the team! 🎉🎉 Been eagerly awaiting this one

[sr20kschmitz]

Congrats!

[thebino]

Added my long overdue contribution by buying a server licence. 💰
So greatful for all your work, hopefully I'll start contributing soon.
Love all the work you've done. Keep going ❤️‍🔥

[regerohan]

Thank you for creating and maintaining such a beautiful software.

A big thanks to everyone who contributes. :D

[ToFu2244]

Could you please add a floating version tag, such as 'v2', so that we can pin the major version in Docker Compose? Currently, the only options are a specific version, such as v2.0.0, or the latest release, which may introduce breaking changes again when it jumps to v3.

[fwsmit]

Could you add an rss feed to the blog? Yes, people are still using rss :)

[Fvbor]

Yes! RSS isn´t dead! RSS is still great!

[FrankTheReal]

Thank you so much to the whole Immich team and all contributors for the incredible work you’ve put into this project. Your dedication to open source and self-hosting makes a huge difference, and I’m grateful to be part of this community. Congratulations on this milestone, and here’s to the future of Immich! 🎉🚀

[MDeca001]

Congrats on reaching such a milestone! You're building an amazing and feature-rich product!
The retro CD is such a neat and fun idea, I'm seriously considering it! Both because you 100% deserve all the support and because I love fun gadgets like that!
Congratulations again and happy developing!

[arthurschmid]

I'm experiencing an upgrade problem after using the Docker & VectorChord instructions from https://docs.immich.app/install/upgrading. My previous version was 1.133

Docker compose went without any issues, and ps shows healthy processes, but now I get a DNS error:

Host Not Found
DNS error (the host name of the page you are looking for does not exist) or Server did not accept the connection.

Please check that the host name has been spelled correctly.

docker ps -a shows

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
77a792f862e2 ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:release "tini -- /bin/bash -…" 9 minutes ago Restarting (1) 48 seconds ago immich_server
b9e097311738 ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0 "/usr/local/bin/immi…" 9 minutes ago Up 9 minutes (healthy) 5432/tcp immich_postgres
2a5d77db7593 ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:release "tini -- python -m i…" 17 minutes ago Up 17 minutes (healthy) immich_machine_learning
80712cb9d831 redis:6.2-alpine "docker-entrypoint.s…" 6 months ago Up 6 months (healthy) 6379/tcp immich_redis

Any pointers what I could do? Thanks!

[AFumi39]

Great!!!
Finally, the first stable version!!! 🎉
Thank you for all the hard work! 🎊

There're just 3 little things that I think should be mandatory for a stable version of Immich:

• Image rotation on web: a really basic web image editor that let you change the orientation of the image should be present
• Auto include new albums on Android: as now, Android app let you select all the local albums to sync, and that's good. Bu if you add a new local album, you have to open Immich App, go to the backup settings and select the new albums to be synced. That's not good, a flag that automatically include every new album that is created, is a thing that can't be missed
• Default TZ: as now, the TZ for the images is present only if the "DateTaken" EXIF tag is present, or if the GPS coordinates are present. So all the WhatsApp (for example) images are stored with UTC time. A default TZ per user (or per server) should be used if "DateTaken" and "GPS" EXIF tags are missing

I think that with these 3 things the release can really be considered a stable version 😊

[DrSlump74]

Hi, great news, congratulations!
I have a question about the update. My docker-compose has this database image:
ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.3.0-pgvectors0.2.0
While you recommend using this one:
ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0
Should I just follow your instructions without hesitation, or do I need to perform some other steps before modifying the database image?
Thanks

[thegabriele97]

Finally! Waiting now for editor and, most important at least for me, #165

[Altharion1]

Congratulations !! I've been using Immich for 2 months now and it already seemed very stable, so I didn't understand why it wasn't :)

[romm]

Congratulations on this awesome milestone! 🥳

Can't wait to see what you'll bring in the future!

[kondi06]

Great, I hope there will finally be an option to disable albums from the timeline view, which will make the timeline contain only what is needed.

[HELPY4]

OOOO LET'S GOOOO FOLKS

[aksdb]

~1,337 days

Hehe. Nice.

Congrats and thanks for the ride so far! For an "unstable" product, it was quite well-working and flawless already.