This week, Immich – the popular Google Photos alternative that continues to ignore my desperate pleas for tags on mobile – announced it's switching to release candidates as the team prepares its v3 update (mobile non-destructive editing, workflows, and the ability to use it as a gallery app on Android).

Leveraging release candidates is a welcome reprieve from the project's usual update cadence, which often sees a major release followed by 2-3 subsequent bug fixes (1, 2, 3) within the time span of just a few days.

As someone who combs through thousands of releases a week, I've never found Immich's update practices to be much of a bother – despite having made it all the way to v1.144.1 before making the jump to v2.

For my own internal purposes, I bucket the various projects I follow into one of several categories based on timing and execution:

• By the Book: Projects that release at a steady cadence with intuitive versioning. Home Assistant is a great example, with early monthly releases followed by a handful of bug fixes throughout the month.
• Short Burst: Projects that occasionally drop a major release followed by a short burst of bug fixes before going dark for several weeks or months (<– Immich sits here).
• Rapid Fire: Projects that very frequently release major and minor releases (usually an indicator of AI assistance or vibe coding). The now defunct Huntarr was a great example of this, and modern projects like Poznote and Yuvomi follow a similar trend.
• Group Chat: Projects that manage multiple apps in a single repository, making their release feeds noisy and a bit of a headache. Ente and Posthog are the biggest culprits in this category.
• Strong, Silent Type: Projects that don't share any notes in their release feeds (Grav is a good example from this past week).
• Personality: Projects that have fun with their releases, like Passbolt's release names/songs or BentoPDF's dad jokes.
• Off the Grid: Projects that don't publish releases and utilize a CHANGELOG.md file for release notes because they're losers.

In other news and activity:

• Fluxer, the promising open source Discord alternative that gained popularity earlier this year, released new mobile clients and shifted internal development back to the project's public repos
• Fox announced it's buying Roku for $22 billion
• Anthropic announced it's training 1,000 people to travel across the U.S. to teach non-technical people how to vibe code
• Epic Games released Lore, an open source version control platform for video game developers
• Oracle halved the resources for users of its free tier
• Hetzner's price increases announced back in May went into effect on Monday
• Allbirds (shoes) is following through on its commitment to becoming an AI company and has officially renamed itself to Smartbird
• A developer's compromised credentials set an AI agent loose on Fedora's bug tracker
• Somebody figured out how to host an electronic banned book library from virtually anywhere via WiFi smart light bulbs

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