IMatch 2025 Video and Release Notes Available as a Preview

[Mario]

I've finished the release notes for the upcoming major release of IMatch and made them public.

Check out the IMatch 2025 - What's New overview page, which has a video showcasing the highlights in IMatch 2025.

The release notes offer a detailed list of all new features, enhancements, changes and bug fixes :

https://www.photools.com/release-notes/

You'll find many requests made by you here in the community implemented in this version.

I've put a lot of work and effort into this new release. Countless hours. No sunshine. No food. No beer! Just work.

I'm sure every user will find something that allows him to work faster or easier or "do more" with this release. Sometimes even a small enhancements can save users hours of work or make IMatch work smoother.

Looking at the release notes, it's strange that a feature that required weeks or even months of work can be summarized in a single paragraph or two in the release notes

[mopperle]

Waiting for the final release.

[axel.hennig]

No beer!

Lucky you... healthy life! 

[Jingo]

I hope the release of 2025 allows you many beers and many hours of sunshine!

[Mario]

I hope the release of 2025 allows you many beers and many hours of sunshine!

Probably not. I prefer wine over beer and I live in Germany, which does not have that much sun in Winter. No sun reaches my cave anyway.

I'm looking forward to a bit more when the initial launch stress is over.

[axel.hennig]

I will definitely use this:

[Mario]

I will definitely use this:

I think this will be used by many users. It was requested, discussed and I've implemented it.

The tricky thing was that this directly affects the "face matching" when IMatch tries to assign persons to faces.
This is optimized to the hilt, the database system calling into my code to perform the vector math to match face fingerprints. Excluding persons on that level without ruining performance was a bit challenging.

But, like many things, this is faster in IMatch 2025 than it was ever before.

[loweskid]

Just out of interest, does AVX2 have any impact on IMatch?

I can't get Photoshop upgrades any more - it says I need AVX2 for the new AI features.  A bit annoying as I'm still paying the same subscription but I'll need to upgrade my computer next year as it won't install Win11 either.

[Mario]

IMatch requires only AVX, which is around for a decade (see hardware and software requirements). It's the oldest of the vector math extensions.
I could squeeze out a bit more performance with AVX2 or newer vector technology, but that's not that widely available. And building multiple IMatch versions for different processor technologies is not worth the overhead.

[ben]

Can't wait for the peek view 

[medgeek]

No beer!

Oh, no! Say it ain't so...