Version 25.05

This release enhances system observability, playback resilience, and platform scalability — ensuring a smoother and more capable video infrastructure for your operations.

🎬 Flussonic Media Server

This release boosts monitoring, playback, and transcoding capabilities of your server.

New Features

Player recovery: damaged timeline sections are now skipped gracefully for the better viewer experience (#49242). Now our DVR player doesn't stop playback if it hits an error. After an unsuccessful attempt to play, the player will jump to the next segment that is available for playback.
JPEG2000 support: you can now receive and transcode JPEG2000 video over MPEG-TS (#11643).
New performance Insights: identify server bottlenecks with new Top N problematic servers chart on server_stats (#49094).
Playback telemetry: an output monitoring dashboard gives you full visibility into stream delivery quality (#49646).
Live preview control: set custom sizes for live stream preview images—great for tailoring UI and UX (#2912).
Security enhancement: initial support for HTTP Digest Access Authentication—safer client request validation (#6169).
SSL Improvements: fullchain certificate support via Let's Encrypt API—stronger SSL handling and configuration flexibility (#46286, #49308).
Input Monitoring: new SDI error metrics enhance input reliability tracking (#47082).
Platform Compatibility: Roku resolution filtering is now available for stream optimization (#48415).
DVR Event Tracking: watch disk-level DVR changes in real-time (#49264).
Scheduler Alerts: stay proactive with alerts for high load conditions (#49390).
GPU Telemetry: visualize GPU usage on the server_stats dashboard (#49436, #49571).
ACME UI: easier certificate issue debugging in the admin panel (#50341).

Fixes & Improvements

Improved H264 parser, closed captions transcoding, and timeline rendering (#45165, #49037, #50091).
Fixed LL-HLS multitrack switching on Safari (#48088).
Enhanced DVR MP4 export, source switching, and error visibility (#49338, #49961, #50051).
New telemetry for player events, inputs, and DRM/ad injection metrics (#49680, #50037, #50382).
Numerous bug fixes in packaging, NDI bridging, ONVIF, and Teledis Analyzer integrations (#50114, #50355, #50397).

🌐 Flussonic Central

This release enhances stream distribution logic, scalability, and system stability—especially in Kubernetes-based deployments.

New Capabilities

Bandwidth-Aware Layouter: Avoid overload by balancing based on total bandwidth usage (#31512).
Smart Load Balancing: Separate strategies for playback and publishing (#41895).
Frame Preview Support: Improved episode management with full-frame previews (#50002).

Improvements

Component Scalability: Central is now modular, improving horizontal scalability in large-scale deployments (#45611, #50187).
Faster Config Handling: Optimizations for memory use and multi-instance setup (#49848, #49890).
Improved Error Handling: Cleaner diagnostics and issue isolation (#50046).

Fixes

Streamer config validation, database compatibility checks, and episode expiration edits are now reliable (#49717, #50016, #50216).
Fixed layout regeneration triggers and agent command side effects (#50316, #50384).

🔍 Flussonic Watcher

Watcher gets a big usability and stability boost—especially for vsaas.io users. More control, better diagnostics, and a smoother experience across web and mobile.

Major New Features

vsaas.io enhancements: login autofill and user onboarding improvements (#45410, #46415).
Stream event visibility: now shows whether events are actively being received (#50032).
Bandwidth allocation: Specify the exact bandwidth limits to avoid overloading streamers (#50214, #50231).
Episode previews: display full frame previews in the UI (#49895).
Camera access control: enforced permissions when adding cameras (#50485, #50486).

Improvements

API v3 upgrades: streamlined stream and config handling, better performance (#49578, #46186, #48524).
Enhanced telemetry and diagnostics: resource metrics, error tracking, firmware management (#49993, #49904, #49905).
Firmware update stability and flexible packaging formats for future updates (#49777, #49905).
Streamlined development environment to boost feature delivery speed (#50209).

Key Fixes

Stream and episode playback stability, rewind functionality, and smoother reconnects (#49995, #50011, #50123).
Timeline improvements: sync with real time, event marking, and player fixes (#50339, #50519, #50334).
Bug fixes across login, pagination, archive downloads, memory leaks, and error handling (#44897, #50066, #50613, #50326).

🚀 Ready to Upgrade?

This 25.05 release empowers you with enhanced visibility, smarter load distribution, stronger authentication, and a smoother user experience—from server to stream to screen.

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Let us know if you need help with your upgrade or want a demo of the new features!