immich update has breaking changes

Hot take? This should have been a major version update.

https://semver.org/

Good share. I saw the nudge in the mobile app, but I didn't realize there was breaking changes and upgraded in the middle of the night before bed (what the hell was I thinking???). Spent a good extra hour trying to figure out why.

Key take away, the pgvecto.rs version needs to be upgraded. If you are using docker, update the docker-compose.yml. If you're not, upgrade your pgvector.rs version first. 🙏

Thanks for the heads up!

I got Immich running last week and it's impressive.

The only thing I yearn for is a way to get the pictures to easily display on the cloaed-source frame we have.

Anyone know of a way to automatically email pictures added to an Immich album?

Thanks for posted. I didnt even notice. I just blindly did a pull. Lesson learned.

I don't understand. Why are they so specific in the Docker Compose? Why not just have a Docker that pulls the latest of each package without requiring the user to copy long strings?

I'm using the Immich app from TrueNAS, how do I properly update it? Or is it being taken care off by TrueNAS?

Edit: I asked on the TrueNAS discord for help and someone who already updated their Immich figured out how to fix the installation afterwards. I copy&paste the guide here:

This guide assumes that Heavyscript is installed and pgAdmin.
https://github.com/Heavybullets8/heavy_script
https://truecharts.org/charts/stable/pgadmin/

• Upgrade Immich to v.1.95.1.

• If Immich fails to deploy check the logs heavyscript pod --logs immich. If the logs complain that indexes need to be deleted continue with this guide.

• Access the shell for the postgres pod heavyscript pod -s immich.

• Select the postgres pod.

• Inside the pod run env and record the password. Then type exit to exit the pod.

• Get the DNS address and port for Immich postgres pod. heavyscript dns -a

• Launch pgAdmin and right-click on Servers select Register > Server.

• In the Connection tab put the hostname and port from step 6. The username is immich and use the password from step 3.

• Once connected create a backup by expanding Servers > Immich > Databases and right-click on immich then select Backup.... Follow the prompts to create a backup.

• Right-click on immich and select Query Tool.

• Use the following query to delete your indexes.

    FROM pg_index X JOIN
         pg_class I ON I.oid = X.indexrelid JOIN
         pg_am A ON A.oid = I.relam
    WHERE A.amname = 'vectors';

• Stop Immich with heavyscript heavyscript app --stop immich.

• Once all pods have scaled down start Immich heavyscript app --start immich.

The SQL query will complain about a syntax error but it will work regardless. It just takes some time to redeploy immich.

Credit goes to @verbalsiegeengine on Discord

For someone freshly interested in self hosting, what does breaking changes with respect to immich really mean? Does it mean that if I upgrade to this version, I have to rebuild my library, face tags etc? Or does it mean that things might stop working and some files might need to be changed, upgraded manually and things may get awry in doing so.

Literally was setting this up yesterday. Good thing I didn't finish yet ..

Cool - was trying to get set up with v1.94, but had real trouble getting pgvecto-rs to work properly, pgvector seems much more stable and better supported and was a breeze to get running

Lol - Immich is one of those stacks that I let Watchtower auto-upgrade. I don't consider it mission critical if it breaks and it takes me a day or so to notice it (all my photos and videos are also backed up using Syncthing).

I've gotten used to just going to the repo if the error message for the container doesn't immediately lead me to the fix.

Fuck... late for me. Thanks watchtower... wonder if this means an update will fix it or it's just dead and needs manual intervention