Frigate NVR Updates: A Second Face Recognition Model Arrives — Twice
Contributor zaolin submitted the same AdaFace face-recognition addition as two separate pull requests, while smaller fixes tightened dependency declarations and translations landed from the community.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-07-28T13:17:20Z
- Audio duration: PT2M1S
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Good morning. It's July 28th, 2026, and here's your Frigate development briefing.
The top story today is really one story submitted twice. Contributor zaolin opened two pull requests, numbers 23843 and 23842, both proposing to add AdaFace as an alternative to the existing ArcFace model for face recognition. AdaFace is a research model designed to handle low-quality, surveillance-style footage…
Second theme: dependency hygiene. Contributor mweinelt's PR 23841 explicitly declares the HTTPX library with HTTP/2 support in the wheel requirements file. The change is small, but it closes a gap where HTTPX was already in use without being pinned directly — the kind of fix that prevents subtle build or runtime…
Rounding things out, PR 23846 is the regular translation sync from Hosted Weblate, updating community-contributed strings across settings and dialog areas. Routine, but keeps the interface current for non-English users.
What's next: keep an eye on which AdaFace pull request survives review — 23843 or 23842 — since only one should move forward, and check whether the HTTPX dependency fix needs a matching update anywhere else it's consumed.
That's your briefing for July 28th. Back…