🚀 Why Upgrade to Media Server & MСaster 25.08?

✔ Stable WebRTC & HLS Playback with fixed UDP ports and consistent bandwidth data for smoother streaming.

✔ Enhanced Monitoring & Alerts featuring Layouter CPU tracking, multiplexer dashboards, and reduced alert noise for better troubleshooting.

✔ Smarter Ad & SCTE-35 Handling with frame-accurate ad insertion, IDR frames at ad breaks, and improved SCTE35 sync for seamless transitions.

✔ Stronger Security & Access Control with temporary tokens, on_play auth, and disk quotas to prevent storage overflows.

✔ Faster Operations & Automation via batch stream updates, layout preview endpoints, and optimized telemetry for efficient scaling.

Upgrade now for rock-solid streaming, smarter workflows, and deeper insights! 🚀

Media Server 25.08

🆕 What’s New

🌐 WebRTC & Network

Fixed UDP Ports for WebRTC (#49931) Transcoded streams now include consistent BANDWIDTH and AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH values in HLS playlists

📊 Monitoring & Analytics:

Layouter CPU Monitoring (#50351) 
Track CPU utilization across layout engine instances for optimized resource allocation.

📺 Transcoding:

Non-Capturing Stream Previews (#51961) 
View live streams even on standby streamers not actively capturing content.

DVR Disk Quotas (#52448)


Enforce storage limits to prevent archive overflows with disk_usage_limit.

Auth Enhancements (#52509, #52678)

• New on_play authorization method
• Temporary token generation/management for secure short-lived access

✅ Other Improvements and Fixes

• Deprecated session_log option (#33982)
• Enhanced log system monitoring for better service stability (#52271)
• Added muted autoplay option for browser compatibility (#52405)
• Increased Retroview service stability (#52514)
• Improved playback telemetry recording monitoring (#52760)
• Corrected config PUT requests for objects with missing discriminator fields (#43998)
• Resolved low resolution in embed.html publishing (#49382)
• Optimized disk cache loading process (#49798)
• Fixed mosaic archive playback (#51586)
• Properly closed stalled sessions with handlers (#51690)
• Corrected iOS 18.4/18.5 timestamp handling (#52125)
• Fixed DVR-player muted autoplay behavior (#52229)
• Fixed transcoder package updates (#52450)
• Restored access to tracks-v1a1/index.m3u8 (#52475)
• Restored missing icons in embed player (#52574)
• Added allow_export option to DVR player component (#52658)
• Corrected play/pause behavior (#52836)
• Corrected archive download dropdown functionality (#53066)
• Prevented invalid episodes (opened_at=0) in database (#51312)
• Fixed dynamic_streams_list visibility (#52460)
• Changed context cancellation errors to 499 status (#52607)

MСaster 25.08

🆕 What’s New

📊 Monitoring & Analytics:

** Multiplexer Dashboard (#52688)** New dedicated interface for monitoring multiplexer operations and stream packaging health.

** Filterable Error Heatmaps (#52820)
** Focus troubleshooting by displaying only selected streams in the Top-N error heatmap within Input Monitoring.

**Alerts Dashboard Documentation (#52231)
** Comprehensive guide added for configuring and managing the Alerts Dashboard.

Telemetry Resilience (#50967) 
Enhanced fault tolerance and error detection during telemetry data ingestion.

Reduced Alert Noise (#52631) 
Outgoing alerts now exclude redundant information for clearer notifications.

**Monitoring Page Stability (#51660)
** Resolved potential 500 errors when accessing monitoring interfaces.

📺 Advertising & Transcoding:

**SCTE35 Splice Structure (#52211)
** Improved handling of ad markers for frame-accurate insertion.

**IDR Frames at Ad End (#52254)
** Transcoder now injects IDR frames when transitioning from ads to main content for seamless playback.

Batch Operations (#52190, #52193)

• streamers_batch_update: Modify multiple streamers via single API call
• Layout preview endpoints: Validate batch configurations before deployment

Layouter State Logging (#52776)


Debug layout decisions with detailed operational logs.

✅ Other Improvements and Fixes

• Fixed unrealistic bitrate values on dashboard (#48453)
• Preferred labels now satisfy required label conditions (#52974)
• Resolved Layouter stream "rattling" (#52896)
• Added layout.inference filtering to streams_list (#52404)
• Fixed stream detail display from transcoder heatmap (#52906)
• Fixed layout metadata (created_at/change_reason) updates (#50778)
• Corrected preferred_labels_better_match behavior (#50797)
• Optimized stream statistics collection speed (#50980)
• Enhanced Retroview dashboard/alert persistence (#52589)
• Improved playback metrics recording fault tolerance (#52765)
• Fixed Retroview dashboard availability (#52511)
• Removed conditions causing 400 errors in alerts dashboard (#52395)
• Improved MPEG-TS packet timing for smoother IAT (#52199)
• Enhanced SDI Dektec input frame timing with drift compensation (#52222)
• Improved MPEG-TS metrics for Teledis Analyzer (#52348)
• Synced SCTE35 ad markers to keyframes (#52673)

Watcher 25.08

🔎 Why Upgrade to 25.08?

✔ ** Prevent Storage Overflows**: New disk quota controls let you set percentage-based limits to avoid unexpected downtime.

✔ ** Secure Large-Scale Deployments**: VSaaS.io login and token workflows provide flexible, audit-ready authentication for distributed teams.

✔ ** Eliminate Streaming Disruptions*: RTSP cluster fixes and pickup point features ensure reliable playback across your infrastructure..

✔ ** Simplify Administration**: Domain-aware interfaces and organization tools accelerate management of multi-site deployments.

🆕 What’s New

💾 Storage Management

** Disk consumption limits (#42256, #52447)** Added maximum disk usage percentage setting for streamers.

###🔒 Authentication & Security

** VSaaS.io login (#45410)** New login method added.

** Token-based auth (#52507)** Added query/play token auth for Wildberries iframe integration.

** Token refresh (#52764)** Implemented token refresh for embed playback.

** Improved auth screen (#52792)** Added operator ID info and auto-paste from last session.

💻 User Interface

Organization management (#52821, #52939, #52962) Create and filter organizations.

Admin stream lists (#52389) Now display domain info with domain filtering.

Preset information (#52728) Added preset data for cameras .

New map page (#32584) Interactive map interface

📹 Streaming & Playback

Pickup point features (#52242, #52244) Stream previews and downloads from pickup points.

RTSP/HLS sharing (#52247) For Wildberries integration.

Fragment downloads (#52874) New endpoint for video/audio fragment downloads

Improved previews (#52942) Updated stream preview functionality

📡 Integration & API

Wildberries API (#52881) Now returns img_url for every stream.

Messages API (#52232, #52253) Added filters and PUT request for message properties.

New endpoints (#52323) Activated new messages endpoints

✅ Improvements & Fixes

• A new page with a map is now available (#32584)
• Now you can use our script to get a SSL certificate (#43731)
• Fixed long reconnect intervals causing some license plates to not register (#44897)
• Fixed mobile app login issues (#45468)
• The camera settings page for organizations is now available (#48258)
• Implemented multi-editing on organization camera settings (#49418)
• Video context search provides more accurate results for people/vehicles (#49891)
• Fixed crash in streams list (#51213)
• Added messages page (#51214)
• Video analytics now supports AMD GPUs via Vulkan API (#51775)
• Improved screen sharing and fixed screen sharing button (#51958)
• Fixed display of demo access link (#52036)
• Collect metrics from SDK net requests (#52054)
• Added SDK logging network events plugin (#52055)
• Fixed archive download issues on Android 14+ (#52082)
• Updated authorization flow for new API (#52100)
• Improved login stability and performance (#52101)
• Added method to edit multiple cameras (#52249)
• Now you can filter streams by domain ID (#52430)
• Improved ranking of video context search results (#52436)
• Fixed camera activation via vsaas.io (#52547)
• Fixed device search for non-WiFi cameras (#52564)
• Fixed video player rotation crash (#52576)
• Added operator_id in info.json (#52636)
• Fixed camera list display in device search (#52663)
• Motion detection events now require explicit human detector enablement (#52693)
• Improved overall app performance (#52697)
• Player now continues playback after app reopen (#52703)
• Updated video download alerts with more options (#52894)
• Added pagination to zones list (#52905)
• Fixed streams previews (#52942)
• Updated streams refresh logic during playback (#52944)
• Fixed zone filtering in dropdowns (#52946)
• Added API key copy button (#52995)
• Improved phone number login stability (#53050)