Frigate NVR Updates: Stability Fixes for 0.18 Beta
The 0.18 beta line continues to receive targeted stability fixes, from PTZ and camera UI bugs to a new fix for motion search timestamps at recording boundaries, reflecting a release cycle focused on polish rather than new features.
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: 2026-08-04T13:17:24Z
- Audio duration: PT2M9S
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Good morning, it's August 4th, and here's your Frigate development briefing.
The overarching theme today is stabilization ahead of the 0.18 release. Nearly every change on the table is a targeted bug fix rather than new functionality, and that pattern is worth remembering as this beta cycle matures.
Start with PR 23892 from Josh Hawkins, merged yesterday. It bundles several fixes: manual PTZ relative moves were permanently stopping object detection, a real problem for anyone using pan-tilt-zoom cameras. It also fixes a UI bug where switching cameras in the live streams and known plates sections left stale…
Hawkeye217 followed up quickly with PR 23898, opened just hours after the previous one merged, touching the Frigate dictionary, Go2rtc, and HomeKit integration. Coming right on the heels of 23892, this reinforces that the team is actively chasing down loose ends across multiple subsystems as 0.18 beta stabilizes.
The third theme is data correctness in search. PR 23902, from contributor Ersaoktaviannn, addresses a motion search bug where timestamps could fall outside valid bounds at recording boundaries. The fix updates the function that converts stream time to absolute time,…
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