Immich 1.122, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution, introduces HDR video support, auto server URL switching, custom email templates, and more.
The app will complain if the server has an incompatible version. Have had it happen a few times, but usually two or three minor versions difference should be okay.
Just don’t let it go too stale, I recommend updating it a few days or a week after a release gets made, since sometimes there are patches for important stuff released the next day or so after a minor one. That being said what I do is I have an RSS feed for their releases so I get a notification when a new release has been made and can check the changelog for important information, most of the times it’s just bumping the version on the .env file.
I’m thinking about self hosting my photo library, do I have to keep it up-to-date constantly to keep compatibility with the android app?
Nope, they recommend against updating without carefully studying the changelog
The app will complain if the server has an incompatible version. Have had it happen a few times, but usually two or three minor versions difference should be okay.
Just don’t let it go too stale, I recommend updating it a few days or a week after a release gets made, since sometimes there are patches for important stuff released the next day or so after a minor one. That being said what I do is I have an RSS feed for their releases so I get a notification when a new release has been made and can check the changelog for important information, most of the times it’s just bumping the version on the .env file.
Could I automate the upgrades?
With good backups, rollbacks in case of issues should be trivial.
Yup, watchtower will auto update docker containers for you.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into it!