Frigate NVR Updates: 0.18 Ships, 0.19 Begins
Frigate shipped its 0.18.0 release on September 12th, closing out a cycle that included interface cleanup and a bug fix around save attempt handling, while early groundwork for the 0.19 cycle has already opened with build and CI changes.
Duration: PT1M59S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-09-12T13:15:31Z
- Audio duration: PT1M59S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning. It's September 12th, and this is Frigate NVR Updates.
The headline today is a release. Version 0.18.0 merged this morning, and it's the capstone on a short but focused run of pre-release cleanup work.
Two PRs from hawkeye217 set the stage. PR 24243 refactored the Notices and System Health pane, touching the app, API, and dispatcher layers - the kind of broad interface work that typically happens right before a release to make sure status and health reporting is solid for users. It went through a full review with…
Both of those fed directly into PR 24249, the 0.18.0 release itself, merged by blakeblackshear with support across camera, detector, and config documentation areas. That's your signal: the health pane rework and the save attempts fix were release hardening, not unrelated side work.
The second theme is what comes next. Just after 0.18 landed, NickM-27 opened PR 24251, labeled "0.19 Early Work." It's already touching build infrastructure - CI, the Makefile, Docker file, and the Go2rtc install step. That's foundational plumbing, not a feature. Worth watching as the next cycle takes shape, since…
What's next: expect 0.19 work to keep building out from that…
Nearby episodes from Frigate NVR Updates
- Face Recognition Gets a Rework and a Quick Follow-Up Fix
- Birdseye Flexibility Fix
- Visibility and Resilience Improvements
- Weekly Recap - System Health, Exports, and Hardware Reliability
- Fixing What's Broken at the Edges
- Interface Polish and a Hardware Decode Warning
- Export Flexibility and GPU Stability Fixes
- System Health Gets a Rework