Frigate NVR Updates: Closing Out 0.18 Beta Rough Edges
The team pushed documentation fixes and a fix for a 0.18 regression that permanently killed camera preview generation once cleanup deleted an empty preview directory. A third open PR is collecting miscellaneous fixes ahead of stabilizing the 0.18 beta.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
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- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-07-23T13:15:39Z
- Audio duration: PT2M10S
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Good morning. It's July 23rd, 2026, and this is Frigate NVR Updates.
The main story today: 0.18 beta stabilization is in full swing, with one confirmed regression fix and a broader cleanup effort still open.
Start with the preview bug, PR 23784 from teajaysee. In 0.18, the recording cleanup process got more aggressive about removing empty directories — including the per-camera preview folder. Problem is, nothing recreated that folder afterward. So once cleanup deleted it, every hourly preview export failed silently,…
Second theme: documentation debt is getting paid down. Josh Hawkins's PR 23787 rolled in a batch of doc fixes — backend tweaks, refreshed internationalization strings, generative AI configuration notes, a new section on config overrides, a common errors guide, and steps for rebuilding a corrupted database. None of…
Third, PR 23790, also from hawkeye217, is still open and gathering miscellaneous fixes touching camera-specific handling and go2rtc integration. No merge yet, so treat anything in that scope as unstable until it lands.
What's next: watch for more 0.18 regression reports tied to cleanup and file lifecycle logic — the preview bug suggests other…