Version 26.01

Flussonic Media Server 26.01

Release date: January 17, 2026

Major features

NMOS & ST-2110

• Flussonic Media Server streaming nodes are now fully discoverable via NMOS, enabling seamless operation in ST-2110 environments under centralized remote management.

GPU-accelerated thumbnails

• Added GPU-based thumbnail generation, allowing hundreds of streams to be processed using a single GPU.
• Introduced thumbnail delivery via M4F, eliminating the need to run multiple thumbnailer instances in a cluster. This makes large-scale IP camera deployments significantly more efficient.

4K SDI output improvements

• Improved Decklink push support for Blackmagic 8K Pro cards.
• Updated Decklink libraries for BM 15.2 driver compatibility.
• Fixed handling of fractional FPS in Decklink push. Together these changes improve stability and accuracy for 4K SDI delivery.

CMAF & low-latency streaming

• CMAF packetizer now produces chunks with more accurate duration.
• CMAF playback is fully synchronized with DVR, enabling seamless switching between DVR playback and ultra-low-latency HLS.

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Moderate importance features

• Added SRT retransmission counter to push telemetry.
• Dektec push is now implemented as an external application, reducing Media Server load.
• Added support for HTTP 301 redirects from Flussonic configuration backends.
• New COPY_CONFIG_FROM environment variable for Docker images to copy a pre-generated read-only config before startup.
• Reduced prebuffer size in MPEG-TS muxer to ensure more predictable latency.
• Reverse proxy integrated into Coder firmware, allowing network configuration even without a running streamer.
• New API to verify whether episode records match recorded DVR ranges.
• Kubernetes operator now correctly assigns labels to created pods.

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Minor fixes and improvements

• Extended allowed length of top-level domains in SSL configuration.
• Fixed system statistics collection on some Linux kernel versions.
• Improved robustness of /streams API when encountering malformed Unicode.
• MPEG-TS decoder now safely stops parsing on unexpected scrambled packets.
• Added MPEG-TS error counters (errors_ts_pat, errors_ts_pmt).
• Added metrics for input stream errors (404, 403, 500).
• Improved visibility of stream input stop reasons.
• Improved handling of AAC/Latm audio with non-zero tail bits.
• Updated firmware for Gigabyte R182-340.
• Improved handling of invalid alarm and motion data from cameras.

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Flussonic Central 26.01

Release date: January 17, 2026

Major features

Golang SDK

• Introduced the official Flussonic Golang SDK.
• SDK is now automatically published.
• Added a demo application.
• SDK supports streaming of episodes.

The SDK provides unified access to Flussonic Media Server, Central, Watcher, and other Flussonic APIs: https://github.com/flussonic/go-flussonic

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Improvements and fixes

• Added support for vehicle_color and vehicle_model fields for vehicle identification.
• Fixed DNS-related endpoint errors.
• Added support for human-type episode detectors.
• Enabled centralized management of operator pod labels via spec.
• Fixed validation of episodes without appearance.box.
• Improved inference server health checks to avoid false negatives.
• Improved Central Layouter observability on vsaas.io.
• Improved Layouter log path validation.
• Fixed external_episodes_list to return HTTP 499 when the client aborts the request.
• Improved cleanup of expired episodes in the database.
• Reduced log noise from Episodes Fetcher.
• Improved Layouter rules for multistream agents.
• Fixed filter handling in streamer_dynamic_streams_list.

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Flussonic Watcher 26.01

Release date: January 17, 2026

Major features

Low-latency playback

• iOS player now supports LL-HLS, significantly reducing latency and improving playback smoothness and stability.

Vehicle analytics

• Video analytics now detects vehicle color.
• Vehicle episodes include color and model information.
• Added search filters by vehicle color and model.
• Events display recognized vehicle color with filtering support.
• Added vehicle_color_confidence_level filter to control search accuracy.

Timeline & navigation

• Timeline now visually distinguishes:

  • unknown or unloaded ranges (gray),
  • confirmed no-archive ranges (red).

• Added frame-by-frame navigation on the timeline.

• Added hotkeys for frame-by-frame seeking with OS-specific key hints.

• Fixed jump-to-live behavior at archive boundaries.

NVR support

• Introduced the concept of NVR (Network Video Recorder).
• Users can manage NVRs directly in Watcher.
• Added NVR edit screen.
• Added episode synchronization between NVR and cloud.

An NVR is a remote Watcher instance capable of local recording and playback, while still providing full cloud access to Watcher features.

Ingest & reliability

• Videolink now supports v4l2 HDMI ingest on Rockchip boards, allowing HDMI screens to be used as sources.
• Added push notifications when cameras go offline.

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Moderate importance features

• Added debug panel with player metrics and statistics in Android and iOS apps.
• Added infinite scrolling to the camera list.