This Week in Self-Hosted (28 February 2025)

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This Week in Self-Hosted

Another week, another major release from the self-hosted project everyone loves to hate. The team behind the popular cloud storage platform Nextcloud introduced v31 and Hub 10 to the community this week, touting deeper integration across its ecosystem and performance improvements (including thousands of tweaks) to its UX. And say what you want about the project based on your own personal anecdotes, but their fight against big tech is undeniably a net positive for the self-hosted and open-source communities.

I also pushed some significant updates to selfh.st/apps this week, including bookmarks support (via local browser storage), new sort options, and a cool new way to easily share custom views using a vanity URL I recently acquired (I apparently hate vowels). To see it in action, click here --> slfh.st/fEaOs <– for a custom view of the apps added to the directory this past week.

Other activity from the week you might be interested in:

• Plex announced the discontinuation of its Watch Together feature (check out Jellyfin and Neko for similar alternatives)
• The Immich team released a new mascot and Rickrolled users in the release notes of their latest update
• An interesting Reddit post of useless automations from Home Assistant users

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Nextcloud Hub 10 – your unified, modular digital workspace - Nextcloud

Welcome Nextcloud Hub 10 - reinforced performance, deeper integration, and dozens of new features that will make your day easier!

NextcloudMikhail Korotaev

MongoDB Announces Acquisition of Voyage AI to Enable Organizations to Build Trustworthy AI Applications

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Bitwarden recognized in G2’s Best Software Awards for 2025 | Bitwarden

Bitwarden ranks among the best in G2’s 2025 Best Software Awards, earning top spots in security, customer satisfaction, and overall excellence. Backed by real user reviews, this recognition highlights trust and reliability in password management.

Bitwarden

Apollo joins the Works With Home Assistant Program

Adding three devices, including their community favorite presence and air quality multisensors.

Home AssistantMiranda Bishop

Software Updates

AliasVault v0.12.0 Email Aliases

New Chrome browser extension for easy creation and autofilling, allow users to delete their own accounts, optional IP logging

Bugsink v1.3.0 Error Tracking

Introduced 'FileEventStorage' as an optional method for storing data, issues list pagination, thousands-separators for counts, support for CORS

Dockcheck v0.5.6 Container Updates

Synchronous update checking for heavily improved performance/speed

Fladder v0.6.0 Jellyfin Frontend

Download files and copy stream URLs, reworked responsive layout, additional playback state details, improved episode status indicators, Windows installer

Frigate Notify v0.4.3 Notifications

Support for notifications via Apprise, retry intervals for retrieving Frigate snapshots, updated notification templates

GameVault v1.15.0 Gaming

Cloud saves, retrieval and installation of community themes, added community themes repository link to the settings

GoToSocial v0.18.0 Fediverse

Support for status editing, push notifications, global CSS customization, domain permission subscriptions, login button, granular stats controls, post backdating

HabitTrove v0.2.0 Habit Tracking

Multi-user support with permissions, share habits and wishlist items with other users, show tasks and habits in dashboard, show tasks in completion streaks

Hasty Paste v2.0.0 Pastebin

Incompatible with prior versions after complete rewrite, SSO support, visibility options, customizable paste slugs, expirations

Immich v1.127.0 Photos and Videos

Manual face tagging and deletion, persistent memories, search by rating on web

Maybe v0.4.0 Personal Finances

Overhauled and simplified web interface, CSV import improvements

Mealie v2.7.0 Recipes and Meals

Improved startup times, redesigned recipe info card, improved shopping list UI, better scraping and additional agents

Meme Search v1.1.5 Search Engine

10x reduction in Docker image size, customized host names and ports for easier deployment, smaller default text-to-image model, UX improvements

Movary v0.64.0 Media Tracking

Updated internal Docker HTTP port from 80 to 8080

Music Assistant v2.4.0 Music Streaming

Native support for podcasts and audiobooks, new providers, built-in DSP configurable by player, support for external audio sources

PhotoPrism v2025-02-23 Photos

Updated user interface, hybrid photo and video viewer, redesigned edit dialog, immersive 3D Earth view in Places

Proxmox Helper Scripts Deployment

New Scripts: Authelia, ByteStash, Jupyter Notebook, Outline, Pelican Panel, Pelican Wings, VictoriaMetrics, web-check, wger

Snipe-IT v8.0.0 Asset Tracking

Custom fields on check-in/checkout, UI breadcrumbs, improved tooltips, arbitrary notes for assets, saved custom report templates

Upvote RSS v1.1.0 RSS Aggregation

Support for Mbin (federated content aggregator and microblogging platform), optimized Docker image for significantly decreased size

New Software

Aegis 2FAuth Importer Authentication

Python-based tool for migrating encrypted Aegis 2FA backups to 2FAuth

Asset Development

Package for managing assets in Laravel applications

Email Verifier Email

High-performance email validation platform

Fileway File Sharing

Real-time file transfer service via web browser or CLI

ggallery-nanogallery2 Photos

Template for generating photo galleries based on nanogallery2

GoCron Task Scheduling

Task scheduler with a GUI

Kaneo Project Management

Project management platform focused on simplicity and efficiency

Libredesk Customer Support

Self-hosted customer support desk

LinkBuddy Bookmarks

Unofficial mobile client for Linkding

OmniTools Tools

Web app offering a variety of online tools to simplify everyday tasks

Open Playground LLMs

Playground for experimenting with and fine-tuning LLMs

OpenCloud Cloud Storage

Secure file sharing and collaboration (OCIS fork)

Plauna Email

Privacy-focused service for categorizing e-mails

Posteria Media Artwork

Web-based media poster management system

Probly Spreadsheet

AI-powered spreadsheet application combined with Python data analysis capabilities

PushBase Notifications

Web push notification registration and management platform

Scrobblex Scrobbling

Scrobble Plex data and rankings to Trakt via webhooks

Share to Wanderer Trail Tracking

Unofficial mobile companion app for uploading tracks to Wanderer

SSL Track Certificate Monitoring

SSL certificate expiration monitoring

Status Page Monitoring

Simple monitoring status page built with PHP and MySQL

SuhaibServer Reverse Proxy

Reverse proxy designed to simplify TLS and mTLS management

Telescope Logs

Web-based log viewer for ClickHouse databases

Toutui Audiobooks

Text-based Audiobookshelf client for Linux

Wingfit Fitness Tracker

Minimalist fitness app for tracking workouts and PRs

Zane Ops Deployment

Self-hosted platform for hosting static sites, web apps, databases, and CRON jobs

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Project Updates

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Papermark Document Sending

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Community Content

Self-hosted Stalwart email server

Self-hosted Stalwart email server. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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How to self-host a simple, static blog on a Raspberry Pi with Jekyll, Docker and Cloudflare ·

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Bye Bye Google/Apple Photos, Hello Immich

There are lots of reasons for wanting to run your own photo storage site, it might be the monthly fees or the invasive AI policies, whatever it is Immich has you covered and I’m seriously impressed by this open source tool, and yes it runs on the Pi perfectly!

Pi SourceRic

Content Spotlight: Upvote RSS

Meet Upvote RSS, a self-hosted RSS feed generator for popular social aggregation sites like Reddit, Hacker News, and Lemmy. With Upvote RSS, users can easily create their own curated feeds of subreddits, HN post types (Best, Top, New, Ask, etc.), and Lemmy communities based on configuration options that include post scores, thresholds, and number of posts per day. Users also have the ability to specify the content to be included in each feed item (score, article content, comments) as well as filters for NSFW or older posts.

Upvote RSS can be easily installed via Docker and does not require any additional services, although Reddit users will need to register their own app on the platform for API access.

Links: Source Code, Website

What I'm Watching

• Open Source Self Hosted Teamviewer Replacement | Lawrence Systems
• Get ready for the Nextcloud Hub 10 premiere! | Nextcloud
• FASTEST Way to Host Your Website with Linux and Docker! | Christian Lempa
• Replace Traefik? Caddy Proxy with SSL Certificates | Jim's Garage

Command Line Corner: ;

Use ; to run multiple commands in succession (unlike last week's && tip, the second command will run regardless of the first's success):

/$ mkdir test_folder; cd test_folder
/test_folder$ _

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