Self-Host Weekly (23 May 2025)

Weekly Highlights

The Immich team dropped a new single update this week titled Hot Summer Release (despite it not currently being summer in either hemisphere) that introduces some major database changes. Consider yourself warned to read the release notes before upgrading.

If you missed it, selfh.st (and my ongoing satirical feud with the Immich team) was also recently featured on Ars Technica, where I had the opportunity to sit down and chat about the current self-hosting landscape from the perspective of someone regularly immersed in it. (Once again fooling someone into believing I know what I'm talking about.)

Give it a read and let me know if you disagree with any of my takes:

Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.

We interview Ethan Sholly of the selfh.st podcast/newsleter/directory.

Ars TechnicaKevin Purdy

In other news:

• Dawarich (location tracking) and DocuSeal (document signing) celebrated their first and second birthdays this week
• Authelia pulled a fast one on everyone with an ominously titled blog post (which has since been updated) announcing their OpenID Connect certification
• Home Assistant announced they're dropping support for Core and Supervised installation methods (note: no impact to container installations)
• Some Tailscale users learned the importance of enabling Tailnet Lock and device approvals
• Appwrite announced the launch of Appwrite Sites, which will allow projects to develop, build, and deploy their apps and sites directly within the ecosystem

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

We are now OpenID Certified™

This is a very important and exciting milestone for the Authelia project.

AutheliaAuthelia

Deprecating Core and Supervised installation methods, and 32-bit systems

This deprecation will help focus support efforts and streamline development.

Home AssistantFranck Nijhof

Microsoft closes 9-year-old feature request, open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux

WSL has also recently added official support for both Fedora and Arch distros.

Ars TechnicaAndrew Cunningham

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Use the shuf command to quickly generate random numbers, leveraging the 'i' and 'n' flags to specify number ranges and the amount of numbers to return:

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