Introduction
This article summarises recent software and firmware releases, new product launches and EOL notices for retiring products.
2024
EdgeVis Client 8.7.2 released (12th December 2024)
Updates the included Microsoft C++ Redistributable to latest release to resolve an occasional crash
EdgeVis Firmware 8.7.1 released (6th December 2024)
Adds support for Globalsat GPS devices BU-353N and BU-353N5
Resolves an issue with EVVR-1RL that caused an upgrade from v8.6 to fail and cause boot issues.
Resolves a crash using ONVIF M cameras when configured to remove images from meta-data.
Improves modem reliability when used with private APN SIMs or GPS.
Fixes an issue where some ONVIF cameras would find v8.7 would not correctly enable PTZ capabilities.
Improvements to ONVIF S support for some specialist cameras (e.g. 360 Vision cameras, Sonic Mini camera).
EdgeVis Client 8.7.1 released (6th December 2024)
Users were unable to switch inputs with version 8.7.0 clients and pre-V8 servers
Latest security updates
EdgeVis 8.7 released (24th October 2024)
Support for ONVIF Profile M video analytics
A new Digital Barriers Object Detector video analytic
VMS Gateway is now supported on Red Hat and part of standard EdgeVis Releases!
EdgeVis Server has been rebranded!
BW600 8.2.1 released (2nd September 2024)
Resolves an issue with docking that could occur on some units when a SIM card was installed.
The user interface now references Video Manager instead of Video Vault.
Fixes an issue where the chroma could be swapped during local archive playback.
EVVR-1 end-of-life (6th August 2024)
End-of-life notice issued
EdgeVis Server 8.6.2 released (12th June 2024)
Adding an output stream with the same name as the encoder could cause a server error if it was not added in the first position.
An Internal Server Error could be reported in some cases when adding a second output stream.
EdgeVis Video Router, HD-IP200, HD-IP470, EdgeVis MiniCam 8.6.1 released (12th June 2024)
An issue was identified where the encoder was vulnerable to losing EFI boot options, which resulted in an error of 'No bootable disk'. A change has been made to ensure that the encoder creates an EFI fallback boot option to ensure this cannot occur.
VMS Gateway 8.3 released (23rd April 2024)
ONVIF Profile S Support for Safezone-2D triggers
New HTTPS web security improvements
Image previews within your VMS
On-the-fly configuration of Virtual ONVIF Devices
Improved logging and error states
EdgeVis 8.6 released (17th April 2024)
VPN support that allows your encoder to behave as a Wireguard VPN peer
Increases in maximum output video streams for EdgeVis Video Router 4 and 4RL
Changes to encoder configuration options
Improvements in streaming performance
2023
EdgeVis 8.5.3 released (19th December 2023)
Introduces WPA3 support for encoders
Includes over significant 20 bug fixes across all components
HD-IP250 end-of-life (30th November 2023)
End-of-life notice issued
VMS Gateway 8.2 released (7th November 2023)
Major VMS compatibility improvement
Wider compatibility testing
User interface improvements
EdgeVis EVVR-4RL launched (20th October 2023)
A new LAN-only higher temperature range encoder has been released. This encoder support 8 camera inputs and 8 output EdgeVis streams.
EdgeVis EVVR-1R launched (20th October 2023)
A new higher temperature range 4G encoder has been released. This encoder supports 1 camera input and 1 output EdgeVis stream.
EdgeVis 8.5 released (3rd August 2023)
Major upgrades to how our encoders and clients handle security.
Updates to EdgeVis Server to make licensing easier including trials and auto assignments of body worn licences.