CHANGELOG.md

Moonfire NVR change log

Below are some highlights in each release. For a full description of all changes, see Git history. Each release is tagged in git.

Backwards-incompatible database schema changes happen on on major version upgrades, e.g. v0.6.x -> v0.7.x. The config file format and API currently have no stability guarantees, so they may change even on minor releases, e.g. v0.7.5 -> v0.7.6.

v0.7.17 (2024-09-03)

• bump minimum Rust version to 1.79.
• in UI's list view, add a tooltip on the end time which shows why the recording ended.
• fix #121: iPhone live view.
• update to hyper and http version 1.0. In the process, no longer wait for pending HTTP requests on shutdown. This just extended the time Moonfire was running without streaming.
• upgrade to Retina 0.4.10, adding support for recording MJPEG video. Note major browsers do not support playback of MJPEG videos, however.

v0.7.16 (2024-05-30)

• further changes to improve Reolink camera compatibility.

v0.7.15 (2024-05-26)

• update Retina to 0.4.8, improving compatibility with some Reolink cameras. See retina#102.

v0.7.14 (2024-04-16)

• Many UI improvements in #315 from @michioxd. See the PR description for full details, including screenshots.
  • dark/light modes
  • redesigned login dialog
  • live view: new dual camera layout, more descriptive layout names, full screen option, re-open with last layout and camera selection
  • list view: filter button becomes outlined when enabled
• Fix #286: live view now works on Firefox! Formerly, it'd fail with messages such as Security Error: Content at https://mydomain.com/ may not load data from blob:https://mydomain.com/44abc5dc-750d-48d1-817d-2e6a52445592.

v0.7.13 (2024-02-12)

• seamlessly merge together recordings which have imperceptible changes in their VideoSampleEntry. Improves #302.

v0.7.12 (2024-01-08)

• update to Retina 0.4.7, supporting RTSP servers that do not set a Content-Type in their DESCRIBE responses

v0.7.11 (2023-12-29)

• upgrade some Rust dependencies. Most notably, Retina 0.4.6 improves camera compatibility.
• update frontend build and tests from no-longer-maintained create-react-app to vite and vitest.

v0.7.10 (2023-11-28)

• build docker images again
• upgrade date/time pickers to @mui/x-date-pickers v6 beta, improving time entry. Fixes #256.

v0.7.9 (2023-10-21)

• systemd integration on Linux
  • notify systemd on starting/stopping. To take advantage of this, you'll need to modify your /etc/systemd/moonfire-nvr.service. See guide/install.md.
  • socket activation. See ref/config.md.

v0.7.8 (2023-10-18)

• release as self-contained Linux binaries (for x86_64, aarch64, and armv8 architectures) rather than Docker images. This minimizes hassle and total download size. Along the way, we switched libc from glibc to musl. Please report any problems with the build or instructions!

v0.7.7 (2023-08-03)

• fix #289: crash on pressing the Add button in the sample file directory dialog
• log to stderr again, fixing a regression with the tracing change in 0.7.6.
• experimental (off by default) support for bundling UI files into the executable.

v0.7.6 (2023-07-08)

• new log formats using tracing. This will allow richer context information.
• bump minimum Rust version to 1.70.
• expect camelCase in moonfire-nvr.toml file, for consistency with the JSON API. You'll need to adjust your config file when upgrading.
• use Retina 0.4.5.
  • This version is newly compatible with rtsp-simple-server v0.19.3 and some TP-Link cameras. Fixes #238.
  • Fixes problems connecting to cameras that use RTP extensions.
  • Fixes problems with Longse cameras scottlamb/retina#77.
• expanded API interface for examining and updating users:
  • admin_users permission for operating on arbitrary users.
  • GET /users/ endpoint to list users
  • POST /users/ endpoint to add a user
  • GET /users/<id> endpoint to examine a user in detail
  • expanded PATCH /users/<id> endpoint, including password and permissions.
  • DELETE /users/<id> endpoint to delete a user
• improved API documentation in ref/api.md.
• first draft of a web UI for user administration. Rough edges expected!
• moonfire-nvr login --permissions now accepts the JSON format documented in ref/api.md, not an undocumented plaintext protobuf format.
• fix #257: Live View: select None Not Possible After Selecting a Camera.
• get rid of live view's dreaded ws close: 1006 error altogether. The live view WebSocket protocol now conveys errors in a way that allows the Javscript UI to see them.
• fix #282: sessions' last use information wasn't getting persisted.
• improvements to moonfire-nvr config, thanks to @sky1e.

v0.7.5 (2022-05-09)

• #219: fix live stream failing with ws close: 1006 on URLs with port numbers.
• build Docker images with link-time optimization.
• bump minimum Rust version to 1.60.
• #224: upgrade to Retina 0.3.10, improving compatibility with OMNY M5S2A 2812 cameras that send invalid rtptime values.

v0.7.4 (2022-04-13)

• upgrade to Retina 0.3.9, improving camera interop and diagnostics. Fixes #213, #209.
• #217: no longer drop the connection to the camera when it changes video parameters, instead continuing the run seamlessly.
• #206: fix teardown Sender shouldn't be dropped: RecvError(()) errors on shutdown.

v0.7.3 (2022-03-22)

• security fix: check the Origin header on live stream WebSocket requests to avoid cross-site WebSocket hijacking (CSWSH).
• RTSP connections always use the Retina library rather than FFmpeg.

v0.7.2 (2022-03-16)

• introduce a configuration file /etc/moonfire-nvr.toml; you will need to create one when upgrading.
• bump minimum Rust version from 1.53 to 1.56.
• fix #187: incompatibility with cameras that (incorrectly) omit the SDP origin line.
• fix #182: error on upgrade from schema 6 to schema 7 when a camera's onvif_host is empty.
• API bugfix: in the GET /api/ response, include ext streams if configured.
• fix #184: Moonfire NVR would stop recording on a camera that hit the live555 stale file descriptor bug, rather than waiting for the stale session to expire.
• progress on #70: shrink the binary from 154 MiB to 70 MiB by reducing debugging information.

v0.7.1 (2021-10-27)

• bugfix: editing a camera from nvr config would erroneously clear the sample file directory associated with its streams.
• RTSP transport (TCP or UDP) can be set per-stream from nvr config.

v0.7.0 (2021-10-27)

• schema version 7
• Changes to the API:
  • Added fields to the GET /api/ response:
    • serverVersion
  • Altered fields in the GET /api/ response:
    • session was moved into a new user object, to support providing information about the user when authenticating via Unix uid rather than session cookie (a planned feature). session.username is now user.name; session.csrf is now user.session.csrf. user.id and user.preferences have been added.
    • signals.source is now signals.uuid. The UUID is now expected to be unique, where before only (source, type) was guaranteed to be unique.
    • camera.config has been altered and extended. onvifHost has become onvifBaseUrl to allow selecting between http and https.
    • camera.description was moved to camera.config.description. (This might have been an oversight; now it's only possible to see the description with the read_camera_configs permission. This field can be re-introduced if desired.)
    • stream.config has been altered and extended. rtspUrl has become url to (in the future) represent a URL for other streaming protocols. The record boolean was replaced with mode, which currently may be either absent or the string record.
  • Added POST /api/users/<id> for altering a user's UI preferences.

v0.6.7 (2021-10-20)

• trim whitespace when detecting time zone by reading /etc/timezone.
• (Retina 0.3.2) better TEARDOWN handling with the default --rtsp-library=retina (see scottlamb/retina#34). This means faster recovery after an error when using UDP or when the camera's firmware is based on an old live555 release.
• (Retina 0.3.3) better authentication support with the default --rtsp-library=retina (see scottlamb/retina#25).

v0.6.6 (2021-09-23)

• fix #146: "init segment fetch error" when browsers have cached data from v0.6.4 and before.
• fix #147: confusing nvr init failures when using very old versions of SQLite.
• fix #157: broken live view when using multi-view and selecting the first listed camera then selecting another camera for the upper left grid square.
• support --rtsp-transport=udp, which may work better with cameras that use old versions of the live555 library, including many Reolink models.
• send RTSP TEARDOWN requests on UDP or with old live555 versions; wait out stale sessions before reconnecting to the same camera. This may improve reliability with old live555 versions when using TCP also.
• improve compatibility with cameras that send non-compliant SDP, including models from Geovision and Anpviz.
• fix #117: honor shutdown requests when out of disk space, instead of retrying forever.
• shut down immediately on a second SIGINT or SIGTERM. The normal "graceful" shutdown will still be slow in some cases, eg when waiting for a RTSP UDP session to time out after a TEARDOWN failure. This allows the impatient to get fast results with ctrl-C when running interactively, rather than having to use SIGKILL from another terminal.

v0.6.5 (2021-08-13)

• UI: improve video aspect ratio handling. Live streams formerly worked around a Firefox pixel aspect ratio bug by forcing all videos to 16:9, which dramatically distorted 9:16 camera views. Playback didn't have the same workaround, so anamorphic videos looked correct on Chrome but slightly stretched on Firefox. Now both live streams and playback are fully correct on all browsers.
• UI: better error messages on live view when browser is unsupported, sub stream is unconfigured, or sub stream is not set to record.
• upgrade to retina v0.1.0, which uses SET_PARAMETERS rather than GET_PARAMETERS as a RTSP keepalive. GW Security cameras would ignored the latter, causing Moonfire NVR to drop the connection every minute.

v0.6.4 (2021-06-28)

• Default to a new pure-Rust RTSP library, retina. If you hit problems, you can switch back via --rtsp-library=ffmpeg. Please report a bug if this helps!
• Correct the pixel aspect ratio of 9:16 sub streams (eg a standard 16x9 camera rotated 90 degrees) in the same way as 16:9 sub streams.

v0.6.3 (2021-03-31)

• New user interface! Besides a more modern appearance, it has better error handling and an experimental live view UI.
• Compile fix for nightly rust 2021-03-14 and beyond.
• Fix incorrect prev_media_duration_90k calculation. No current impact. This field is intended to be used in an upcoming scrub bar UI, and when not calculated properly there might be unexpected gaps or overlaps in playback.

v0.6.2 (2021-03-12)

• Fix panics when a stream's PTS has extreme jumps (#113)
• Improve logging. Console log output is now color-coded. ffmpeg errors and panics are now logged in the same way as other messages.
• Fix an error that could prevent the moonfire-nvr check --delete-orphan-rows command from actually deleting rows.

v0.6.1 (2021-02-16)

• Improve the server's error messages on the console and in logs.
• Switch the UI build from the yarn package manager to npm. This makes Moonfire NVR a bit easier to build from scratch.
• Extend the moonfire-nvr check command to clean up several problems that can be caused by filesystem corruption.
• Set the page size to 16 KiB on moonfire-nvr init and moonfire-nvr upgrade. This improves performance.
• Fix mangled favicons (#105)

v0.6.0 (2021-01-22)

This is the first tagged version and first Docker image release. I chose the version number 0.6.0 to match the current schema version 6.