version 1.1.5

Meme Search v 1.1.5 release notes

updated 02-20-2025

Major updates and quality of life improvements, image to text model additions, UX enhancements, and local build/test upgrades made to the Pro version of the app including:

Quality of life updates:

• 10x reduction in Docker image size for app services
• Easier custom setup of the for local NAS, Portainer, Unraid, etc.,
  use with newly enabled customize hosts names and ports
• new smaller (200M - 10x smaller than previous) cutting edge default image-to-text model added for faster local processing on most machines

New image to text models:

• 4 new cutting edge image to text new models added ranging in size from 200M to 2B parameters
• moondream2 updated to version 2.0

UX improvements:

• new model selection panel added in Settings allowing for choice of image-to-text model at will (illustrated below)

• new grid view added to both home and search pages for a broader view of your memes (illustrated below)

Improved local builds and testing:

• new local build compose file for building and testing locally docker-compose-pro-local-build.yml
• new test database added to image-to-text service for more comprehensive testing
• new local docker compose files added for easier local building and testing
• gh action test and build scripts refactored for easier (local) testing

See the README.md and CHANGELOG.md for further details on updates and bugfixes.

New Pro Version 1.0 Release!

New Pro Version 1.0 Release!

The Pro version of Meme Search introduces the following new features:

1. Auto-Generate Meme Descriptions

   Target specific memes for auto-description generation (instead of applying to your entire directory).

2. Manual Meme Description Editing

   Edit or add descriptions manually for better search results, no need to wait for auto-generation if you don't want to.

3. Tags

   Create, edit, and assign tags to memes for better organization and search filtering.

4. Faster Vector Search

   Powered by Postgres and pgvector, enjoy faster keyword and vector searches with streamlined database transactions.

5. Keyword Search

   Pro adds traditional keyword search in addition to semantic/vector search.

6. Directory Paths

   Organize your memes across multiple subdirectories—no need to store everything in one folder.

7. New Organizational Tools

   Filter by tags, directory paths, and description embeddings, plus toggle between keyword and vector search for more control.

1.1.3 release

• Ability to use Nvidia GPU inside Docker Container added to compose file + other helpful cleanup from @thijsvanloef
• new action for docker build / docker-compose now pulls image from ghcr repo by default thanks to @jasonyang-ee
• docker build size roughly cut in half thanks to staged build commit by @StroescuTheo

1.1.2 release

• A new "refresh index" button has been introduced to update the index when images are added or removed from the data/input image directory, affecting only the newly added or removed images.

• Core tests added for query, imgs modules, add images re-indexing, remove image re-indexing