Version 6.6.6

docs/releases.md

@@ -30,6 +30,84 @@
 
 ## Version 6
 
+### v6.6.6 😈
+
+Released on Jun 11, 2025
+
+#### Spicy change: Photo and Album relationships, Colour palette extraction and more!
+
+Evil number, spicy changes. This release brings a big turn in the way photos and albums are related to each other.
+Before version 6.6.6, a photo could only be in one album at a time. This was a willing decision aimed at simplifying the way
+photos were accessed and rights were handled. As a result, duplicates would effectively be duplicated rows in the database, which in itself, does not pose a problem of storage.
+However, as I was implementing one of the coming feature: a *Timelines* page, it became clear that this was not going to be usable.
+Duplicates would be displayed successively in such page and it would be impossible to distinguish them. This became the main reason for this change.
+
+While doing this change, it also became clear that legacy ids for albums could no longer be preserved.
+As a result, we dropped the legacy ids for albums and photos. This means that the remnants of API v1 are now completely gone.
+
+This release also brings the support of two new languages: Arabic and Dutch. The later is still in early steps as we are still using the Left-to-Right (LTR) layout,
+but we are planning to also add Persian (fa) and with it a full Right-to-Left (RTL) display.
+
+We also added a registration page, which you can enabled/disable in your settings.
+
+Finally for the great supporters of Lychee we added two new feature:
+
+- The ability to create user-groups. This functionality is currently hidden behind a feature flag, but we are planning to make it available soon.
+  This will allow you to create groups of users and share albums with those groups, simplifying the sharing process.
+- The extraction of the dominant colour palette from photos (you will need to enable it in your settings).
+
+
+#### Most notable changes
+
+`SE` refers to functionalities that are aimed at the Supporter Edition.
+
+* `new` #3387 : Dutch translations by @ildyria.
+* `new` #3396 : Arabic support by @ildyria.
+* `new` #3388 : Support space in search terms by @ildyria.
+  > You can now search for terms with spaces, to do so, you will need to use quotes around the search term.
+* `new` #3383 : Add option to disable slideshow by @ildyria.
+  > One of our user requested the ability to disable the slideshow mode in the photo view.
+  > Well here it is! Available as an option in the settings page.
+* `new` #3384 : Add registration page by @ildyria.
+  > Registration is disabled by default, but you can enable it in the User Management section of the settings page.
+* `new` #3379 : Add option to override the album visibility for smart and tag albums by @ildyria.
+  > By default, smart albums and tag albums are respecting the access rights of the user to select the pictures.
+  > One of our user requested the ability to override this visibility constraint. This option is now available in the settings page. 
+* `SE` #3406 : Add User-groups by @ildyria.
+  > User Groups are coming, as they do not provide value for the moment, they are hidden behind a feature flag.
+* `SE` #3409 : Add color extraction from pictures. by @ildyria.
+  > This option is available in the image processing section of the settings page.
+  > It allows you to extract the 5 dominant colours from photos. We provide two different engines for this:
+  >  
+  > - Slower: `league` does a full sampling and use ciede2000DeltaE for colour distance calculation.
+  > - Faster: `farzai` uses spot sampling and k-mean distance.
+* `new` #3359 : Refactoring photo-album relation by @ildyria.
+  > As explained in the introduction, this is a big change which allows a photo to be in multiple albums at the same time instead of being duplicated.
+  > We are looking forward to the possibilities this opens up for the future.
+* `new` #3375 : Drop legacy id by @ildyria.
+   > Not a big change, but this may impact some of the users who relied on old sharing links.
+
+#### Other boring changes
+
+`klo` refers to *Keep the Light On*. In other words, basic software updates.  
+
+* `klo` #3374 : Remove "unjustified" photo layout option from code by @ildyria.
+  > Long overdue change, unjustified layout had been removed already in version 5. This is cleaning legacy code.
+* `klo` #3355 : Remove dependency on parent-id and directly extract from the url by @ildyria.
+  > Necessary for the change of the photo-album relationship.
+* `fixes` #3386 : Fix 500 when the imagick config file does not exists by @ildyria.
+  > Version 6.6.5 introduced a check to see whether imagick was properly configured to support pdf.
+  > This check was not working on windows servers as the imagick config file was not present and resulted in a 500 crash.
+  > We fixed it. 
+* `klo` #3390 : Add copilot instructions by @ildyria.
+  > While we are not active AI users, we provide some guidelines for contributors who feel like vibe coding on Lychee.
+* `new` #3389 : Compact left menu by @ildyria.
+  > As we add more and more functionalities, the left menu was getting a bit crowded. This reduces the spacing to avoid having scroll bar. 
+* `klo` #3356 : Refactoring LiveMetrics to avoid photo.album_id requirement. by @ildyria.
+  > Necessary for the change of the photo-album relationship.
+* `klo` #3426 : Minor documentation improvements by @ildyria.
+
+
 ### v6.6.5
 
 Released on May 27, 2025
@@ -56,8 +134,7 @@ This small release fixes an indexing bug in the timeline view mode and adds a fe
 - An annimation when switching images in the photo view.
 - A proper login page instead of a modal.
 
-
-`klo` refers to *Keep the Light On*. In other words, basic software updates.  
+#### Most notable changes
 
 * `new` #3351 : Add go home link on error page by @ildyria
   > When directly accessing a photo or album without permission or which does not exists, we customized the error page 

src/components/widgets/Announcement.astro

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
     >NEW</span
   >
   <a
-    href="https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/releases/tag/v6.6.5"
-    class="text-slate-200 hover:underline dark:text-slate-200 font-medium">Lychee 6.6.5 is now available! »</a
+    href="https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/releases/tag/v6.6.6"
+    class="text-slate-200 hover:underline dark:text-slate-200 font-medium">Lychee 6.6.6 is now available! »</a
   >
   <a
     target="_blank"

src/components/widgets/Footer.astro

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ const { socialLinks = [], secondaryLinks = [], links = [], footNote = '', theme
         <div class="mb-2">
           <a class="inline-block font-bold text-xl" href={getHomePermalink()}>{SITE?.name}</a>
         </div>
-        <div class="text-sm text-muted flex gap-1">
+        <div class="text-sm text-muted flex flex-wrap gap-1">
           {
             secondaryLinks.map(({ text, href }, index) => (
               <>

src/content/post/2025-06-11-version-6-6-6.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+---
+publishDate: 2025-06-11T17:00:00Z
+author: ildyria
+title: 'Version 6.6.6 and what is next?'
+excerpt: Why is version 6.6.6 special? What is next on the roadmap for Lychee?
+image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1660262848906-319f55766d2b?q=80&w=3474&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D
+category: Release Notes
+tags:
+  - lychee
+  - blabla
+  - Supporter Edition
+  - v6
+---
+
+Five days ago, we looked back on what we have accomplished over the past six months.
+
+#### What is special about version 6.6.6?
+
+Today, we are happy to announce the release of Lychee [version 6.6.6](https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/releases/tag/v6.6.6). An ill-fated version number which marks a brutal change in the way Lychee binds photos to albums.
+We are moving from "*a photo can only be in a single album*" to "*a photo can be in multiple albums*".
+
+To "*render unto Caesar*", [Matthias Nagel](https://github.com/nagmat84) was the first to suggest it, and I was not convinced that it was a good idea.
+It has always been a feature that I thought was not needed, and I was afraid that it would complicate the codebase.
+Now having worked on creating a timeline view, I can see how useful it is to have a photo in multiple albums: it avoids duplication.
+
+While invisible to the user, this architecture change has a big impact. By having the relation a photo has a unique album,
+it makes it possible to do a file mapping between the photos/albums in Lychee and the files/folders on the backend.
+While this is not implemented, it could be seen in the future to be made possible as this has been a long-standing complaint from some of our users.
+By moving to a many-to-many relation between photos and albums, this mapping is no longer an "easy" task, but we believe the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
+
+#### Improved way of working with stacked pull requests
+
+Having so many changes in the codebase in parallel makes it hard to keep track of what is going on, what needs to be reviewed, etc.
+To make it easier on our reviewers, we use [stacked pull requests](https://www.stacking.dev/). The idea being that each pull request builds on top of a previous one.
+This way the changes are smaller and thus easier to review.
+
+The first drawback of this approach is that if you use the strategy squash-and-merge, you are facing some issues.
+
+- While the CI guarantees that if you merge from bottom to top into the main branch, you will not have any issues.
+  It quickly goes sideway as conflicts between commits are bound to happen and need to be resolved.
+  The easy way to avoid this is to collapse the stack into a single commit once all the PR are approved before merging into main. 
+- The second issue is that because of squash-and-merge, you will need to rebase to ensure a nice linear stack and propagate changes up.
+  A review on the bottom with change requests will impact the PR above it. There are no easy solution to this but some git wizardy.
+  I will admit that `git reset --soft xxx` has become one of my best friend.
+
+And finally, the last drawback of this approach is the growing number of PR waiting to be merged. In itself it is not to annoying but GitHub
+does not provide a good visual overview of the state of the stack. For this reason, to increase the visibility of the changes, we have created
+a new [new page](https://pr.lycheeorg.dev/) to list all the open pull requests in a stack and their status.
+Of course as per open-source tradition, the source code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee-Pull-Requests).
+
+A stack is automatically recognized by following the branch naming-convention `feature-name/pr-name`: all the pull requests that start with the same `feature-name/` are part of the same stack.
+With this, we hope to make it easier for our reviewers to keep track of the changes and for our users to see what is coming next.
+
+#### A bit of help, please?
+
+If you speak Spanish, we would love to take a bit of your time to help us double check the Spanish translation of Lychee.
+The pull request is available on [GitHub: #3398](https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee/pull/3398), just add comments to the lines that need to be changed and we will take care of the rest.
+
+As always, this release would not have been possible without the help of our supporters and hard work of our reviewers.
+If you would like to help or join us, we are always looking for more contributors.
+Please reach out to us on our [Discord](https://discord.gg/JMPvuRQcTf).

src/navigation.js

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ export const headerData = {
           href: getBlogPermalink(),
         },
         {
-          text: 'Lychee Version 6 is Live!',
-          href: getPermalink('2024-10-26-v6', 'post'),
+          text: 'Version 6.6.6 and what is next?',
+          href: getPermalink('2025-06-11-version-6-6-6', 'post'),
         },
         {
           text: 'Current developments',
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ export const footerData = {
     { text: 'License', href: getPermalink('/license') },
     { text: 'Release Notes', href: getPermalink('/docs/releases.html') },
     { text: 'Privacy Policy', href: getPermalink('/privacy-policy') },
+    { text: 'Pull Request Dashboard', href: 'https://pr.lycheeorg.dev/' },
   ],
   socialLinks: [
       { ariaLabel: 'RSS', icon: 'tabler:rss', href: getAsset('/rss.xml') },

src/pages/get-supporter-edition.astro

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ const metadata = {
     tagline="the essentials and a few more"
     products={['Free', 'Lychee <span class="text-sky-600 dark:text-sky-300">SE</span>']}
     extra="<sup>*</sup> This table is summary of Lychee's functionalities and does not represent the large amount of configurations available.<br>\
-    <sup>**</sup> A lot of default values are still in English. Any pull requests with translation to your own language would help.<br>\
+    <sup>**</sup> Some languages are still untranslated. Any translations provided via <a class='text-sky-600 dark:text-sky-300 underline hover:text-sky-400 dark:hover:text-sky-500' href='https://weblate.lycheeorg.dev'>weblate</a> will be appreciated.<br>\
     <sup>***</sup> This option is not available on <span class='text-sky-600 dark:text-sky-300'>SE</span> as they are already hidden."
     specs={[
       {
@@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ const metadata = {
         available: [false, true],
         isV6: true,
       },
+      {
+        feature: 'Color palette extraction',
+        available: [false, true],
+        isV6: true,
+      },
 
       {
         feature: 'Album management',
@@ -289,6 +294,34 @@ const metadata = {
         available: [false, true],
         isV6: true,
       },
+
+      {
+        feature: 'Timeline',
+        isHeader: true,
+        isV6: true,
+        isSoon: true,
+      },
+      {
+        feature: 'Standalone page',
+        available: [true, true],
+      },
+      {
+        feature: 'Direct date access',
+        available: [true, true],
+      },
+      {
+        feature: 'With access control',
+        available: [true, true],
+      },
+      {
+        feature: 'Custom granularity',
+        available: [false, true],
+      },
+      {
+        feature: 'Custom format',
+        available: [false, true],
+      },
+
       {
         feature: 'User management',
         isHeader: true,
@@ -297,6 +330,11 @@ const metadata = {
         feature: 'Login with WebAuthn and Oauth',
         available: [true, true],
       },
+      {
+        feature: 'Registration page',
+        available: [true, true],
+        isV6: true,
+      },
       {
         feature: 'Access rights management per album',
         available: [true, true],
@@ -320,38 +358,20 @@ const metadata = {
         available: [false, true],
         isV6: true,
       },
-      {
-        feature: 'User groups',
-        available: [false, true],
-        isV6: true,
-        isSoon: true,
-      },
 
       {
-        feature: 'Timeline',
+        feature: 'User groups',
         isHeader: true,
         isV6: true,
-        isSoon: true,
-      },
-      {
-        feature: 'Standalone page',
-        available: [true, true],
-      },
-      {
-        feature: 'Direct date access',
-        available: [true, true],
       },
       {
-        feature: 'With access control',
-        available: [true, true],
-      },
-      {
-        feature: 'Custom granularity',
+        feature: 'Support group admin',
         available: [false, true],
       },
       {
-        feature: 'Custom format',
+        feature: 'Support group sharing',
         available: [false, true],
+        isSoon: true,
       },
 
 
@@ -386,6 +406,7 @@ const metadata = {
       {
         feature: 'Personal favourites',
         available: [false, true],
+        isV6: true,
       },
 
       {