Frigate NVR Updates: Idle CPU Cuts and Security Patches
Merged PR 24652 sharply reduces idle CPU from AI and video thread pools, with no coordinated pattern across the rest of the activity. An open security patch and a docs version bump round out the period.
Duration: PT1M58S
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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: 2026-10-14T13:29:28Z
- Audio duration: PT1M58S
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Good morning, it's October 14th, 2026, and this is your Frigate N V R update.
The activity does not point to one coordinated effort, but one change carries most of the impact: a fix for wasted C P U cycles from machine learning and video libraries.
In PR 24652, merged as commit B 79 E 043, the team targeted two sources of thread pool spinning. First, the O N N X Runtime kept intra-op threads spinning for about a second after each run, so any C P U enrichment running once per second or faster kept most cores busy. On a 16-thread machine, a face recognition call…
Second in the same PR, output and embedding processes now run Open C V single-threaded, matching the existing camera tracking process. A four-camera birdseye redraw at 1080 P dropped from nearly 14 milliseconds of C P U to 4, and full-frame conversion in enrichment dropped from 23 to under 3 milliseconds, at a cost…
Separately, PR 24658 opened security patches touching authentication, camera access, and app setup. No merge details are available yet, so scope and risk remain uncertain for developers and operators.
Finally, PR 24654 bumped the version in docs, a routine housekeeping step.
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