digKam, KDE’s image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0.
This version of @digikam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.
https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-11-16-8.5.0_release_announcement/
I used DigiKam to face tag all my photos as I wanted a solution that wasn’t reliant on Google/Apple and kept the face data in the photo’s file. I thought it worked very well. I do wonder about whether I should just give up though and use a service.