🚀 Why Upgrade to Flussonic 25.09?

✔ Smarter Monitoring & Proactive Alerts with new triggers for stream availability, flapping streams, and enhanced input monitoring for faster issue detection.

✔ Expanded Publishing & Playback Options featuring WHIP publishing improvements, RTSP server for Iris DVR, and faster RTSP playback without DVR overhead.

✔ Stronger Security & Wider Compatibility with ClearKey DRM for DASH, UI localization, and a more stable, fault-tolerant telemetry backbone.

✔ A More Powerful Watcher Experience with deep links, episode sharing, organization management, and a redesigned player for mobile and web.

✔ Unified Platform & Reliability through tested interconnect tokens, improved backups, and a massively enhanced Watcher backend for future features.

Upgrade now for a more intelligent, reliable, and feature-rich streaming ecosystem!

Media Server 25.09

🆕 What’s New

🌐 WebRTC & Publishing

WHIP Publishing Enhancements (#29469): WHIP now supports lost packet retransmission and FEC for Opus frames, improving publish stream resilience.

Publish Media Aliases (#50252): New functionality to create aliases for publish streams.

###🔒 Security & Compatibility

ClearKey DRM for DASH (#48521): Added support for ClearKey encryption in DASH streams.

UI Localization (#53167): Added the ability to localize the Media Server user interface.

📺 DVR & Archive

RTSP Server for Iris DVR (#51576): Added an RTSP server capability to Iris DVR.

Subtitle Support in DVR Export (#50979): Added support for subtitles in fragmented MP4 DVR exports.

💬 Client Area

Ticket Response Indication (#46142): Added an indicator to tickets that a response from the client is expected.

##✅ Improvements & Fixes

• Performance & Configuration: config_external now combines multiple requests into a single HTTP call (#38123). Improved DVR copy option reconfiguration (#41557).
• Playback & Compatibility: Improved RTSP playback compatibility for clients like VLC (#53408). Added dvr=false option for faster RTSP playback without collecting DVR ranges (#51957). Improved EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY and EXT-X-DATERANGE HLS tag handling (#49849, #51846).
• Deprecations: Cluster RTSP 302 redirect has been deprecated (#52543). Intel Quick Sync (QSV) transcoder has been deprecated (#53667).
• New Service Alerts: Added alerts for disk space usage, service operations, and playback metrics logging to improve incident response (#53964, #53786, #54061).
• Platform Stability: Fixed corrupted Elasticsearch indices and downtime in mobile metrics collection (#53988, #54055). Enhanced overall telemetry stability (#53247).
• Data Storage: All in-memory data is now stored in Redis for improved persistence (#50064).
• Monitoring: Added support for Jaeger v2 tracing (#52890).
• Authorization: Fixed an error when viewing archive from a previous streamer (#53255).

MCaster 25.09

🆕 What’s New

📊 Monitoring, Alerts & Analytics

Input Availability Alerts (#48352): New alert triggers when the number of bad or offline streams increases by a specified percentage.

Flapping Stream Alert (#52269): Introduced a new alert type specifically for detecting unstable, flapping streams. Configurable alert triggering times added.

Graph Value Sorting (#53273): Graphs displaying multiple metrics can now be sorted from highest to lowest value.

Ad Cue & SCTE-35 Metrics (#53866, #53897): Added new metrics for ad cue accuracy in the multiplexer and the number of SCTE-35 announces from the transcoder.

🔐 Interconnect Tokens (#53566, #52827): Tested implementation of tokens for authorizing interconnections between Flussonic systems.

##✅ Improvements & Fixes

• Transcoder & Ad Handling: Improved work with SCTE-35 ads and fixed ad timings (#52912, #53267). Fixed transcoding of r210 pixel format sources (#53363).
• Bitrate & Metrics: More accurate bitrate calculation for each track in a stream (#52690). Improved input_switches counter on stream inputs (#51471).
• Retroview & Monitoring: Enhanced Retroview with new logs, negative min_buffer metric support, and improved stability (#53576, #53227, #53766). Optimized chart data queries to prevent timeouts (#53474).
• Optimized chart data queries to prevent timeouts (#53474).
• API & Logging: Motion events now conform to the Media Server API scheme (#52440). Full implementation of allowed DVR ranges (#52499). Removed unnecessary log alert messages (#52419).
• Enhanced Backups & Data Reliability: Multiple improvements for more reliable database backups, monitoring recovery speed, and data retention (#53747, #53751, #53943, #53963).
• Stability & Control: Disabled automatic Flussonic reconfiguration by Central (#44205). Fixed interaction between Central and Flussonic for event processing (#53522).

Watcher 25.09

🆕 What’s New

###📱 User Experience & Mobile

Deep Links & Mobile App (#53549, #53575, #53950): Added deep links to open the Watcher and VSAAS.io apps directly without a browser. Improved mobile interaction.

Redesigned Player & Episodes (#53315, #53316, #53322): Added a new toolbar, action buttons, and an updated episode screen view. Added an extra player for each episode.

Episode Sharing (#52620, #52623, #53313): Users can now share episodes with a link.

Favorite Episodes (#53899, #54065): Mark and manage your favorite episodes.

Manual Episode Save (#53942): New tool to manually save episodes.

🏢 Organization & Access Management

Organization Management (#52972, #53087): Create, edit, and manage organization settings. Added a search filter for organizations (#52677).

User Invites (#53553, #53594, #53612): Invite users to your organization with configurable permission levels via invite links.

Camera Permissions (#53744, #53756): Manage camera viewing permissions within organizations.

🔧 Platform & Infrastructure

Spanish Language Support (#52845, #53658, #53659, #53854): Added full Spanish locale support across the UI and backend.

Wi-Fi & Firmware API (#49035, #50985, #51532, #53962): Enhanced network management and implemented API to schedule camera firmware updates.

Security & Stability (#53479): Enhanced overall platform security and stability for future feature development.

🤖 Video Analytics & Integration

Vehicle Event Details (#53063): Added facing side data to vehicle detection events.

Wildberries Integration (#52988): Added an endpoint to get a camera screenshot for integration.

Debugging Tools (#53874): Added a tool for debugging notifications from camera detections.

💬 Client Area

Motion Detection Chart (#53525): Added a chart for detected motion count on the Input Monitoring Summary dashboard.

✅ Improvements & Fixes

• Login & Auth: Fixed multiple login issues on mobile apps and improved stability (#44699, #48428, #51156, #53896). Improved SMS code input (#54116).
• Video Analytics & Playback: Improved license plate recognition accuracy and handling (#53102, #53104). Fixed archive playback issues for specific cameras (#53147). Fixed videoanalytics handling of non-standard resolutions (#54128).
• Performance & Stability: Migrated databases and services for better performance and stability (#53001, #53749). Drastically improved deployment and request speeds (#53645, #53646). Fixed memory leaks (#52826).
• UI/UX Refinements: Numerous fixes for the mosaic view, player timeline, filters, pagination, and episode selection (#53455, #53678, #53107, #53110, #54108).
• Camera Management: Fixed issues with camera activation, updating, and editing titles in the new interface (#53140, #54111, #53353).