tags. Re-imports don't duplicate them, and bookmarks don't affect your distance statistics.

You can also share a trip privately with family members. It appears in their trip list with a read-only map, respecting sharing settings and privacy zones.

**Experimental MCP support**

Dawarich has a read-only MCP endpoint now. A compatible assistant can read a timeline of up to seven days, find your latest recorded location, and search your visits by place, city, country or area name.

It's available to every self-hosted user. The MCP tools cannot edit or delete data. If your client uses a cloud AI provider, the location data it requests goes to that provider, so your choice of client matters.

I know some Dawarich users integrate with their Hermes assistant, so that may come in handy :)

Setup and privacy details: [https://dawarich.app/docs/features/mcp/](https://dawarich.app/docs/features/mcp/)

**A few smaller things you'll probably notice**

Video Studio has a Fog of War mode and exact start/end time selection. Poster and video generation now load the route correctly when using tiled rendering.

Immich and PhotoPrism photo handling got fixes around timestamps, missing photos and archived images. City statistics now handle infrequent location reports better, and Simplified Chinese brings the interface to seven languages.

Geocoding configuration now lives under **Settings → Instance**, with a connection test and no redeploy needed. Environment variables still take precedence. There's also a **Send test email** button under General settings.

**An upgrade note worth reading**

Version 1.14.5 fixed a registration bypass affecting self-hosted versions 1.7.1–1.14.4: the mobile registration endpoint could create an account even when registration was disabled.

If you're running an affected version, upgrade to a patched release. For an internet-facing instance, also check **Settings → Users** for unexpected accounts. [Security advisory](https://github.com/Freika/dawarich/security/advisories/GHSA-x483-3xv3-vp52).

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**Mobile apps update**

We also updated mobile apps, and those are no small changes.

First of all, let me take a step back and provide you some broader context. It may be something new to our Android users, but on iOS we do have an ***optional*** subscription for self-hosters (all mentioned features are available for free with no extra payment to our cloud users), who want to support development. After subscribing user could easily import their GPX tracks from Apple Health (see screenshot below). I'm stressing the word "optional", because no data is being paywalled, the tracks from Apple Health can be extracted for free in other way, just less convenient, and imported to Dawarich without any limits.

[When it was released, I imported 435k points without a cough](https://preview.redd.it/rcndcndfo8uh1.jpg?width=588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88d9d40655f9bc788f672165ebb990b7493a7bf6)

Now, we added two more features to this subscription on iOS: rich widgets and importing geodata from Apple Photos to Dawarich. Mind you, there is a simpler daily widget that is available without this subscription. Again, see the screenshot below:

[Widgets are cool!](https://preview.redd.it/zesep77po8uh1.jpg?width=588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b66d846b81e2c2f20a61faa531dbe4ac9e0352d6)

Now, to Android. For the first time, it received the same subscription, except there is currently no way to easily import GPX tracks from Google Health Connect to Dawarich, so the subscription only provides two features: widgets and importing geodata from your photos. We wanted to add the third feature to Android as well, but this time Google did not allow us to release the app with it built in, referencing to the required permissions not being crucual for the app functionality. I hope we can add it eventually to Android as well.

**Important**: core functionality of our mobile apps is and will remain free, nothing that is already free will ever be hidden behind a paywall. We're seeing it as a way for our users to support development and get something nice and