Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Release Prep Meets Frontend Overhaul
Frigate shipped the 0.18.0 release and immediately opened 0.19 development, while a major face recognition rework and a wave of frontend modernization landed in parallel. Thirty pull requests and thirty supporting commits this week trace a clear handoff from stabilizing the current release to laying groundwork for the next one.
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- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-09-14T16:05:51Z
- Audio duration: PT3M20S
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This is Frigate NVR Updates, covering September 7th through September 14th.
Thirty pull request activity items and thirty additional commits this week. The headline story is a release turnover: 0.18.0 shipped, and 0.19 early work opened right behind it, meaning the project is now juggling stabilization and next-cycle groundwork at the same time.
Start with detection hardware. PR 24327 renames the Hailo 8L detector key to simply "Hailo" and adds support for the Hailo device itself, aiming to cut confusion for anyone configuring that accelerator. Alongside it, PR 24270 proposes a new detector plugin for the Axelera Metis NPU, and PR 24259 removes the aging…
The second theme is face recognition and detection accuracy. PR 24236 revamps face recognition with a new detector model, and PR 24238 fixes a bounding-box clamping bug in the YuNet face detector that could produce negative coordinates at frame edges. PR 24246 also fixes trimming logic in save attempts for custom…
Third, the frontend got real structural attention from Josh Hawkins. PR 24326 migrates the web app to ESLint 10's flat config, cleaning up years of accumulated lint suppressions in the process. PR 24243 refactors the…
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Nearby episodes from Frigate NVR Updates
- Dependency Cleanup and AI Description Reliability
- 0.19 Groundwork and a Frontend Cleanup Push
- 0.18 Ships, 0.19 Begins
- Face Recognition Gets a Rework and a Quick Follow-Up Fix
- Birdseye Flexibility Fix
- Visibility and Resilience Improvements
- Weekly Recap - System Health, Exports, and Hardware Reliability
- Fixing What's Broken at the Edges