Hey everyone, Daniel here!

A lot has happened since the v5.3.0 post, so let's skip the version numbers and go straight to what's new.

What is Reitti? "Reitti" (Finnish for "route") is a self-hosted, privacy-first alternative to Google Timeline. It turns raw GPS points into visits, trips and a timeline of your life — stored exclusively on your own infrastructure.

First things first: a security fix

@kgaut responsibly reported a vulnerability in the setup flow: on an already-configured instance, the setup filter could be bypassed to grant admin rights. Fixed in v5.3.2, with tests added. If you've been skipping updates, now is a good time to catch up.

The main page, reworked

The date selection element drew its fair share of critique over the months, and honestly, the critique was fair. This release finally tackles it:

• Pick your date picker style. In Map Settings → Date Picker Style you can now switch to a traditional picker with one or two plain input fields instead of the band.
• Type your way through time. On the main page, just start typing a date: your locale's format, a range like 2025 - 2026, or simply today and yesterday. A popup appears showing what Reitti understood. As a heavy keyboard user myself, this is my favorite little addition in a long time.
• One clean bar at the top. The time scrubber is no longer a floating panel that jumps around the screen, and the action buttons moved into the same bar. The main page finally has a much calmer look.

Street Photos: step into your own tracks

The feature I'm proudest of this month: Reitti now integrates with Panoramax, the open, community-built answer to Google Street View. Enable the Street Photos layer, click a photo sequence along your tracks, and look around at street level. Walk the route, pan around, and finally see the places your timeline only ever showed as dots.

Take your timeline back

• No-Visit Zones: draw a boundary around your bus stop or the post office queue and Reitti will never create a visit there again. Deleted visits now stay deleted (suppressed, restorable anytime) without touching your raw data.
• Smoothed view mode: stationary GPS jitter filtered out, and a Kalman filter on the move. All render-time only; your raw coordinates stay 100% intact.
• Custom start of day: your 2 AM walk home belongs to the evening it felt like, not to the calendar. This also keeps your Memories intact as one story.

Smarter tracking for battery savers

Many of you run trackers like OwnTracks in significant move mode. The tradeoff: your phone reports when something happens, then goes quiet. On such sparse data, the stay detection would occasionally miss the stationary stretch and record a trip instead of a visit. The new stay-detection algorithm recognizes stationary periods in sparse data, so the visit is detected correctly, including its duration. No settings change needed on your phone.

Other updates

• 40x faster H3 cell updates when importing into spatial coverage
• Redis/Valkey over Unix sockets (REDIS_SOCKET)
• Upgrades no longer break pending background jobs
• Workbench polish: precise point selection, calmer hover-panning
• Immich integration: album filters (show photos from one album instead of the whole library) and per-user photo sharing. Per-user photo sharing means you decide per user whether photos are included when you share your location data: tracks visible, photos private, or the other way around.

🎁 Stickers!

A little something on the fun side: I designed and ordered real Reitti stickers, and they've arrived. Seeing the project as something you can hold in your hand was a surprisingly good feeling. 49 sets are up for grabs, completely free: email daniel@dedicatedcode.com with subject REITTI STICKERS and your shipping address, and I'll send one over. I ship worldwide as a standard letter, so it doesn't matter where you live. Address is used for shipping only and deleted afterwards. Details (and photos) in the Ko-fi post.

Community & Support

• GitHub: Report issues & view source
• Docs: https://www.dedicatedcode.com/projects/reitti/latest/
• Release discussion: v5.6.0 discussion
• RSS: releases feed
• IRC: #reitti on libera.chat
• Support: Ko-fi

As always, I'm curious how you use Reitti so feel free to share your setup and stories in the comments. ❤️

AI Disclosure

• Implementation (Assisted): AI helps me generate boilerplate and work through specific problems, but the bulk of the code is written by me.
• Documentation (Assisted): I use AI as a writing tool to get docs and release notes into an appropriate state. The content, structure and decisions are mine.

— Daniel

Been running Reitti for months and it just keeps getting better and better. Keep up the good work!

Awesome work

Thank you 🙏

Thank you 🙏 I am trying my best.

I think I've broken something..

Tried removing the tile-server directory, but it still says it's unheathly. I'll try debugging more tomorrow.
Gosh dang it, I knew updating at night wasn't a good idea

Hi Estebiu, i am sorry for the trouble. Lets try to find out what the problem is. The tile-cache is a simple nginx container. I never experienced any problem with it.

• From which version did you upgrade?
• Any mounted directories for the tile-cache?

I upgraded two weeks ago. I don't exactly remember when.
No mounted directories.
Now that I think about it, the map wasn't showing up before either. I though it was just my mobile connection that was bad. Yes, I do upgrade my docker containers from my phone when traffic is gridlocked.
Anyway, doing a 'docker system prune a' when the containers are down, and then putting them back up, doesn't fix things either..

Tried it a few times but apparently my phone transmits so spotty location data that reitti can't use it properly... Tried two different apps I think..

Plus I don't think I understand how to edit the tracks...

But regardless, good work!

Reitti should work with a couple of different tracking setups. The latest release improves the handling of apps that track only when movement is detected.

If you tell me your setup and the settings of the app, I could try to help you make it work.

Thank you 🙏

Need to update my install first :D I think I installed it as LXC and not as docker, so can't do a simple pull^^

Will report back tho!