New

• #9991 [Flussonic] Our implementation of Let’s Encrypt was re-worked to support ACME v2. Creating SSL certificates with Let’s Encrypt now works, including multiple domains certificates.

Fixed

• #9934 [Flussonic] Streams with authorization are now played without a 403 error, and the token is present again in stream URLs.
• #9880 [Flussonic] Publication to Flussonic via RTSP now works.

New

• #9747 [Watcher] You can now enable collecting motion events from a camera via Onvif by clicking Collect Events in camera settings.
• #9974 [Watcher] The data about detected motion events can be downloaded as a CSV file.
• #9767 [Mobile Watcher] The app now saves the last used login and operator ID and pre-fill the fields at next logging in.
• #9089 [Agent] Flussonic Agent supports HiWatch DS-I214W cameras.

Improved

• #7744 [Watcher] The information about a stream (MediaInfo) and warnings are now displayed in the player in the Watcher UI.
• #8133 [Watcher] The streamers page was joined with the cluster health page, and the pages were re-worked.
• #9810 [Watcher] Mosaics were moved into Organizations and only the users who can edit cameras within an Organization can modify mosaics now.
• #10068 [Watcher] When you add a user to an Organization, you can now use the search box.
• #10137 [Watcher] The total number of cameras in an Organization is now displayed in the list of Organizations.

Fixed

• #10041 [Watcher] It is now possible to open a camera from the Agents section.
• #10134 [Watcher] Camera search results now show only those organizations and folders where the camera was added.
• #10216 [Watcher] The map now shows all cameras with coordinates configured.
• #10230 [Watcher] You can now add cameras to the map by clicking the place on the map where a cameras is located.
• #10246 [Watcher] Searching the list of events from cameras now works.
• #7777 [Watcher] The link in the emails to the password restore page is now clickable.
• #8368 [Watcher] The ‘flussonic-watcher’ package is now present in the RPM repository.
• #9914 [Watcher] On the camera settings screen, the camera coordinates no longer disappear.
• #9976 [Watcher] Cameras no longer fail (with the AssertionErr message) to be saved.
• #9989 [Watcher] The issue with Watcher failing to display cameras on the map was resolved.
• #10015 [Watcher] The Notifications page now shows camera names.
• #10020 [Watcher] The installation script was updated for better support of Debian and Ubuntu Docker images.
• #10035 [Watcher] Watcher now correctly determines the main source of a stream automatically.
• #10053 [Watcher] Now all screens support submitting requests by pressing Enter.
• #10060 [Watcher] The installation no longer fails because of missing ‘GLIBC’ package required by ‘flussonic-python’.
• #10064 [Watcher] User settings for camera list viewing (tiles or the list) now stored for a user.
• #10126 [Watcher] The list of users in the Users section is shown correctly now.
• #9672 [Mobile Watcher] After permissions for a camera were modified, the user was redirected to the login screen at an attempt to view that camera.

New

• #8593 [Watcher] You can now edit the camera’s network settings (including DHCP, IP address, gateway, and NTP servers).
• #9103 [Watcher] The administrator can send messages to subscribers by using a new screen in the Watcher UI.
• #8859 [Watcher] The presets feature is ready: an Organization administrator can create presets of camera settings, these presets then can be chosen when adding cameras in the system.
• #8384 [Watcher] The icon that opens the list of received messages was added in the header next to Account.
• #9617 [Watcher] Setting up video image properties, such as brightness and contrast, via Onvif was added to the UI.

Improved

• #9514 [Watcher] Searching for users is now possible with the call ‘api/v2/organizations/NAME/users?search=SEARCH_WORD’.
• #8961 [Watcher] Now camera presets are available on the camera editing screen in the Camera Presets section.
• #9492 [Watcher] Searching for users in an Organization can now be done in the UI.
• #9541 [Watcher] Granting users permissions to cameras is now easier with the camera search box on the ‘Access to cameras’ tab of user settings.
• #9943 [Watcher] Watcher now supports PostgreSQL 12.

Fixed

• #9443 [Watcher] In some cases, removing a user from an Organization resulted in completely deleting them from Watcher.
• #9450 [Watcher] Removing a user from an Organization did not revoke their permissions to view cameras of that Organization in Tile mode.
• #9489 [Watcher] The page ‘vsaas/embed?token=1’ now works.
• #7286 [Mobile Watcher] The issue with camera preview images on some Android versions was resolved.
• #8582 [Watcher] The button ‘Add camera’ was removed from the UI in demo mode.
• #8967 [Watcher] The new permission system: The list of Organizations for a user is now displayed on the user settings page.
• #8975 [Watcher] The new permission system: Now all your changes to the user settings on all tabs are saved only when you click Save.
• #9000 [Watcher] When a user tries to delete an Organization that has cameras and users, Watcher now shows a warning that all of them will be deleted, and deletes them together with the Organization.
• #9127 [Mobile Watcher] The issue with MP4 fragments of an archive failing to download was resolved.
• #9212 [Watcher] The new permission system: Users without permissions for adding cameras and users now cannot see the corresponding buttons.
• #9253 [Watcher] The new permission system: Now users cannot create and edit Organizations unless they have special permissions.
• #9437 [Watcher] Mosaics now always fit the screen.
• #9662 [Watcher] The new permission system: The pagination for camera list (displaying cameras from more than one folder) is now correct.
• #9789 [Watcher] The new permission system: Users who can edit Organization Users could also create Organization Users.
• #9868 [Watcher] Now after logging in users are redirected to the certain section of the UI if it was specified in the URL.
• #9918 [Watcher] The default folder of an Organization was displayed in another Organization.

New

• #8412 [Flussonic] Flussonic can pass through to MPEG-DASH subtitles in the TTML format.
• #8763 [Flussonic] An API call like the following can fetch information about only the specified streams: curl /flussonic/api/media?name=STREAMNAME1,STREAMNAME2
• #8814 [Flussonic] Flussonic now supports the GS (Cifra) DRM (drm gsdrm keyserver=...;).
• #9013 [Flussonic] A new button, Enable SSH Access, in the Upload debug section of the Flussonic UI allows you to give our support team access to your Flussonic Media Server.
• #8748 [Player] The player at embed.html?realtime=true now supports bitrate switching and viewing for MSE video content.

Improved

• #7816 [Flussonic] We refactored parsing of the transcoder configuration.
• #8742 [Flussonic] Flussonic can control publication from a browser via WebRTC to Flussonic so that the browser will adapt its bitrate according to the channel bitrate.

Fixed

• #4450 [Flussonic] The issue with unsynced audio and video after transcoding with Intel QuickSync was resolved.
• #5681 [Flussonic] The 404 error when a stream coming from a HLS source was played via DASH was fixed.
• #5856 [Flussonic] At bitrate selection the player showed bitrates with excessive precision.
• #6064 [Flussonic] The issue with audio from a SHOUTcast source not sounding good enough in Flussonic was resolved.
• #6111 [Flussonic] The issue with ingesting H.265 and H.265+ streams via RTSP was resolved.
• #6830 [Flussonic] hls2:// no longer fails to pass User-Agent.
• #6961 [Flussonic] The API call /api/stream_health/STREAMNAME now returns the 404 error if the stream STREAMNAME doesn’t exist in Flussonic.
• #7104 [Flussonic] Shaka Player v2.5.0-beta had issues with playing back DVR if DASH was used.
• #7323 [Flussonic] M4S streams could become broken after transcoding.
• #8381 [Flussonic] The status ‘waiting for stream’ was displayed for all unavailable static streams, even for streams with non-existing source.
• #8460 [Flussonic] The issue with some HEVC streams losing quality and with GPU processing doubled channels was resolved.
• #8463 [Flussonic] GOP in transcoded streams could vary despite using the option g=, which caused different length of chunks in HLS streams.
• #8490 [Flussonic] The transcoder UI offers more fps values to choose from.
• #8559 [Flussonic] The option allow_subtitles sometimes did not work correctly for HLS sources played on LG TV models.
• #8596 [Flussonic] Video captured by Flussonic from Decklink capture cards now comes without artifacts.
• #8597 [Flussonic] The issue with Flussonic failing to ingest H.265 stream was resolved.
• #8638 [Flussonic] The API call api/dvr/delete did not work if a stream had the copy option.
• #8723 [Flussonic] Streams with AC3 audio were not played on some Smart TV devices.
• #8749 [Flussonic] For streams that have file:// and m4s:// sources, now switching between the sources takes no time.
• #8765 [Flussonic] The UI now displays custom auth backend settings for a stream and allows editing them.
• #8777 [Flussonic] The transcoder UI wrote external=true to the conifg for CPU transcoding settings.
• #8781 [Flussonic] Fixed the issue of 19.07 with mosaic view failed with the ‘remote_node_failed’ error.
• #8813 [Flussonic] The Flussonic UI did not work if the config contained the web_script directive.
• #8817 [Flussonic] The issue with HLS playlists containing incorrect bitrates for a multi-bitrate stream was resolved.
• #8867 [Flussonic] The first selection of the GPU in the transcoder UI is now saved correctly in the configuration file (`deviceid`).
• #8912 [Flussonic] In v19.05 and higher, if the `push udp://` directive contained the option `cbr`, then the stream failed to be played.
• #8698 [Flussonic] The auth_backend directive did not process 301/302 redirects.
• #4739 [Player] The DVR player (embed.html?dvr=true) now works in Microsoft Edge.
• #4864 [Player] The player with the realtime option (embed.html?realtime=true) now works in Internet Explorer.
• #5034 [Player] The player embed.html and the DVR player (embed.html?dvr=true) now support Internet Explorer 11.
• #5668 [Player] The player in Chrome stopped responding when the user jumped to another time point.
• #7299 [Player] If a stream is unavailable, the DVR player now shows a correct message when the user tries to switch to live.
• #7931 [Player] The player paused itself after the autoplay policy was applied.
• #8055 [Player] MSE-LD player failed to play live video containing audio tracks.
• #8325 [Player] In mobile apps, the player failed to play DVR archives.
• #8361 [Player] DVR playback stopped at the end of an hour.
• #8648 [Player] The player now performs seek accurately in Safari.

New

• #4575 [Flussonic] To back up and restore Flussonic configuration is now possible using the web UI.
• #8134 [Flussonic] A new API call /flussonic/api/dvr/delete for forcibly deleting a specified fragment of a DVR archive. Locked intervals are also deleted by this call. This call supports local DVR and DVR copied to remote storages.
• #8170 [Flussonic] Flussonic issues the event udp_pusher_does_not_fit_cbr and a log message if a stream sent via UDP has a too high bitrate that causes buffer overflow.
• #7535 [Watcher] Running Watcher in cluster mode is possible on a single server now.
• #7594 [Watcher] Flussonic Watcher is now installed via the flussonic-watcher package, and Flussonic Media Server and PostgreSQL are automatically installed with it. Also, the tool for working with Watcher database /opt/flussonic/contrib/watcher comes with Watcher.
• #8016 [Watcher] You can add a custom favicon for your Watcher (in Settings > Branding). The size 32x32px is supported.
• #8306 [Watcher] The custom color scheme of the UI is now based on a limited number of basic colors that you can easily change in Settings > Branding, and all other colors are calculated automatically based on those basic colors.
• #8383 [Agent] Flussonic Agent supports SpezVision cameras.

Improved

• #7933 [Flussonic] The list of GPUs was added to the output of the API call /api/server. GPUs are shown in the transcoder_devices section.
• #7981 [Flussonic] UI changes: Transcoder options are now on the Transcoder tab, and the thumbnails options were moved to Output.
• #8138 [Flussonic] The text representation of transcoder options in the UI now shows all settings that were selected by using the drop-down lists.
• #8395 [Flussonic] The UI option ‘Speed up the transcoder by running it as part of Flussonic’ makes the transcoder run in the same process with Flussonic Media Server (the default behavior is when the transcoder runs in a separate process). Use it with caution.
• #8432 [Flussonic] The url_prefix settings is no longer used in the master HLS playlist but only in per-bitrate playlists. This is useful for streaming via CDN.
• #8144 [Watcher] Access Log now shows the IP address in the Event Info column for all logging in actions (either failed or successful).
• #6687 [Watcher] The user settings and user profile pages now contain the ‘Phone’ field.
• #8223 [Watcher] The preferred UI settings are now stored permanently on the server for longer than a user session: the UI language and display mode for camera lists in Cameras, Users, Groups, Favorites, and when adding a camera to a group.
• #8438 [Watcher] The Experimental dashboard is now always enabled (the corresponding check box no longer appears in Settings).
• #8455 [Watcher] The list of Flussonic Agents shows a camera name for each Agent and allows you to go to camera settings
• #8246 [Mobile Watcher] In event filters you can choose a camera from a drop-down list.

Fixed

• #7441 [Flussonic] The transcoding of m4f sources was fixed.
• #8250 [Flussonic] A lot of ‘mpegts_decoder:1116’ messages were in the log, caused by internal issues.
• #8251 [Flussonic] In version 19.04 a mosaic view (merging a number of streams) could become corrupted due to a memory leak.
• #8274 [Flussonic] Streams with PCMU audio received from IP cameras were not played.
• #8285 [Flussonic] Broadcasting MPEG-TS streams via UDP could in some cases cause memory leaks.
• #8295 [Flussonic] The Save button in text representation of the transcoder settings is now displayed correctly.
• #8424 [Flussonic] DASH improvements.
• #8459 [Flussonic] Transcoder improvements: better playback of transcoded streams via some protocols and players.
• #8508 [Flussonic] A special command-line utility for publishing video was renamed into /opt/flussonic/contrib/rtmp_push.
• #8526 [Flussonic] The Input tab shows if DVB subtitles recognition is turned on or off (corresponds to ‘dvbsubs_ocr’ in the configuration file).
• #7258 [Watcher] Access Log now shows correct IP addresses of users who logged in from the mobile app.
• #8156 [Watcher] User experience with selecting dates in DVR was improved.
• #8269 [Watcher] The API v1 ignored the ‘is_admin’ field.
• #8299 [Watcher] Camera list (2x2) display when the window is resized was fixed.
• #8360 [Watcher] Backup tool bugfixes.
• #8396 [Watcher] Fixed PTZ controls that did not work in v19.05.
• #8434 [Watcher] The list of actions in camera’s menu is unified for all list view modes.
• #8440 [Watcher] Fixed PTZ buttons appearance.
• #8220 [Player] Video in embed.html DVR player could twitch when the preview picture that appeared near the edge of the screen went beyond the screen.
• #8428 [Player] In Safari, the player now plays DVR and live correctly.
• #8289 [Mobile Watcher] On Android 7 and 9 the menu did not respond to tapping.
• #8314 [Mobile Watcher] Logging in on iOS devices with Touch ID support was fixed.

• #8082 [Watcher] The support for the SQLite database engine is completely stopped.
• #8402 [Watcher] From version 19.06 the old UI is no longer used. Updated Watchers receive the new UI with no option to switch to the old one.