Selfhosted
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil.
-
No spam.
-
Posts are to be related to self-hosting.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you're providing a link.
-
Submission headline should match the article title.
-
No trolling.
-
Promotion posts require active participation, with an account that is at least 30 days old. F/LOSS without a paywall has exceptions, with requirements. See the rules link for details. Tags [CBH] or [AIP] are required, see the links in Rule 8 for details.
-
AI-related discussions and AI-involved promotional posts have additional requirements for tagging, as noted in Rule 7 and the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules post, and find example disclosures here.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
view the rest of the comments
I bet you could use AI summarize all the changes. LOL
spoiler
Breaking changesThe biggest upgrade risks are removal of API v1 compatibility, dropping support for API version 9, dropping Python 3.10, removing support for document and thumbnail encryption, removing pybzar as a barcode reader, and changing the pre/post consume scripts so they no longer accept positional arguments.
There’s also a change that decouples OCR control from archive file control, plus a refactor of advanced database settings to allow more user configuration. Search and indexing
A major headline item is replacing the Whoosh search backend with Tantivy, along with unifying text search around Tantivy.
The release also adds a number of search-related improvements, including better fuzzy matching, highlighting in title/content searches, better handling of special characters and CJK text, and fixes for date/query compatibility during the migration. AI and document intelligence
Paperless-ngx v3 adds a larger AI feature set: Paperless AI, remote OCR with Azure AI, support for Ollama embeddings, direct LLM language selection, LLM timeout and context settings, and a revamped AI vector store approach.
It also includes fixes and safety improvements around AI indexing, chat, embeddings, and permissions, suggesting this area was a big focus of the release. Documents and workflow
The release introduces document file versions, sharelink bundles, a document parser plugin framework, and several workflow enhancements like more actions and trigger filters.
There are also new or improved document-management behaviors such as moving to trash, password removal actions, better merge dialogs, live document updates, saved view sharing, and more detailed document attributes. UI and tasks
The task system was redesigned, with a new Tasks UI, task summaries in system status, and better monitoring access.
On the frontend side, the release updates Angular to v22, moves toward zoneless reactive behavior, improves mobile search behavior, refines thumbnails and image loading, and generally modernizes the UI. Performance and storage
Performance work is a major theme: there are database indexes for common query patterns, SQLite tuning, faster imports/exports, memory reductions in document importing, and indexing optimizations.
The release also standardizes checksums on SHA256, improves bulk operations, and adds a variety of backend and file-response fixes that should help reliability and speed. Practical impact
For a fresh install, v3.0.0 mainly means newer architecture, better search, and more AI/document features. For an existing install, the main things to watch are the breaking changes around API compatibility, Python version, encryption support, and the search/index migration from Whoosh to Tantivy.