Frigate NVR Updates: Batch Config Bug Fixed
A single grab-bag fix release, PR 23736, patched a subtle camera config race condition alongside several smaller UI and authentication bugs, and a follow-up PR 23755 is already open to continue the cleanup.
Duration: PT2M9S
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: 2026-07-18T13:13:15Z
- Audio duration: PT2M9S
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Good evening, and welcome to Frigate NVR Updates for July 18th, 2026.
Tonight's top story is a fix for a config update bug that could crash object processing when adding a camera. That's the headline out of PR 23736.
Here's what was happening: when a camera was added, the system republished enabled-state updates for every previously toggled camera at the same time. The object processing component handled these updates with exclusive if-or-else logic, so it could only act on one type of update per batch. The add would get…
The second theme is smaller quality-of-life fixes bundled into the same release. Face detection now handles images that end up empty after cropping. The motion search page no longer traps users who cancel out of a workflow. A websocket authentication check was blocking the notification test button from working, and…
Worth noting: PR 23755, opened right after 23736 merged, is tagged as more miscellaneous fixes for the same 0.18 beta line, touching profiles, recordings, exports, and the API. It's linked to issue 23754, so there's at least one known follow-up problem still being worked through.
What to remember: if you're running 0.18 beta, this batch config fix is…
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