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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/MohamedBassem on 2025-07-20 15:11:02+00:00.
Hello!
Excited to announce Karakeep's 0.26 release today brought to you by 20 different contributors, and 95 commits! For those who don't know karakeep, it's a bookmark manager where you throw in whatever you find in the internet and it makes retrieving them back a breeze.
This release adds comprehensive usage stats, reader mode, search history, S3 support, and much more!
๐ Usage Stats
Get some detailed insights about your karakeep usage and collected bookmarks! Sharing mine here as an example, though pretty sure I'll be humbled by some of the hoarders in this subreddit.
๐ฐ Reader Mode
Linkwarden's last release included a beautiful looking reader view (Daniel is doing a great job there) which got me jealous, and prompted me to revamp karakeep's reader view as well!
๐ Recent Searches
The search bar now shows suggestions from your previous searches.
๐ค User Management
This release adds a ton of new user management features. Email verification, forget password, account deletion, per user quotas, user invitation system and a revamped sign in and signup page.
๐ป Server Management
This release also adds some features to ease the management of your instance. Optional S3 storage for assets which has been a long requested feature. Also Prometheus integration (if you're taking your homelab that seriously), API rate limits, and WAL mode for the db (which you probably should enable).
๐ And more
There's a ton of other fixes and improvements (full changelog here). Some of the stuff that are worth mentioning are:
- Reddit posts now get better banners from the images of the hoarded post.
- Official proxy support for people in countries with restricted internet access.
- More lenient JSON parsing for LLM responses so that you don't need to beg your models to output only the JSON.
- Removed some issues that was causing the inference and crawler workers to get stuck. And we migrated to playwright which will hopefully enable better stealth mode.
This release is also big for me personally. Today I'm announcing a private beta for the managed karakeep offering (link in the release notes). As I mentioned in the release notes, Karakeep wouldn't be where it is today without this self-hosting community. Karakeep was born because of this community and will remain a self-hosting first product. However, I want to also make it accessible for those who aren't geeky enough for that specially after Pocket shutting down. And if it ends up working out, maybe it'll make some money to fund the project's development.
Hope you enjoy the new release!