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Latest Release

  • Orchid Fusion VMS 25.6.0

    Automatic timezone switching, shareable stage links, enhanced RTSP proxy, and much more.

  • Orchid Recorder 25.6.0

    Improved timezone support, shareable Stage links, and more.

You'll need
Orchid Fusion VMS

Orchid Fusion VMS integrates multiple Orchid Recorder locations into a unified system, providing a cohesive view across all sites. This integration streamlines operational workflows, enhances scalability, and maximizes security effectiveness throughout your organization.

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Orchid Recorder

Orchid Recorder centralizes live and recorded video from all cameras into one hub, facilitating efficient monitoring and detailed incident reviews. It serves as a critical tool for managing surveillance effectively and responding promptly to security challenges.

Release 25.6

Architecture
Windows 64-bit
Ubuntu (modern)for LTS versions 24.04 through 16.04
Ubuntu (legacy)for version 14.04 LTS
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxalso CentOS and Fedora
Debian ARM 64-bitfor aarch64 architecture devices
Debian ARM 32-bitfor armhf architecture devices
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Version 25.6.0

Orchid Fusion VMS

Automatic timezone switching, shareable stage links, enhanced RTSP proxy, and much more.

Released on 2025-06-24

  • Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS now provides improved support for systems that span multiple timezones.
    • Users can now select to view the Stage Timeline in the timezone of a specific Recorder.
    • Time displayed throughout the application now indicates timezone.
    • Administrators can enable a new mode for automatically changing the Timeline timezone based on the current players in view.
  • Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS now supports sharing Stage Links.
    • Users can build a Stage, copy the Stage Link to the clipboard, and share with other Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS users.
    • Stage Links will preserve the Stage layout and playback time.
  • A new standalone Fusion RTSP Proxy adds support for AV1 and H265 formats, allowing for more flexibility, greater reliability, and smoother updates.
    • The legacy embedded proxy can be re-enabled using the rtsp.provider property.
  • Improve the System Alerts edit dialog to use an updated server/camera selection component.
  • Fix issue where camera stream status was not properly updating on the Servers page.
  • Fix issue where UI would not display correctly when creating a Camera Group.
  • Fix issue where contextual menu would not be fully visible on Camera Groups page.
  • Fix issue where Thumbnail Search could display thumbnails from the day previous to the currently selected one.
  • Fix issue where searches on Event Subscriptions would sometimes show incorrect results.
  • Fix issue where searching for tags on the Manage Tags page was case-sensitive.
  • Fix issue where toggling a Player between Low Bandwidth Mode and WebRTC would cause an unrelated Player to flicker.
  • Fix issue where search terms were unable to be added if filters that used the same string were already applied.
  • Fix issue where resource tag tables would not account for tag values when sorting alphabetically.
  • Fix issue on the Stage where users could trigger Player buttons while dragging them to new Stage Cells, resulting in a broken state.
  • Fix issue where a recorder's Version Information was incorrectly displaying Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS's Open Source Acknowledgements.
  • Fix issue on DatePicker and Export calendars where dates could be incorrectly marked as having archives present.
  • Fix issue where Players could incorrectly indicate slow network conditions.
  • Fix issue where timeline label would not display correctly at mobile sizes.
  • Fix layout issues on the Delete Tag dialog table.
  • Fix issue where resource tables would reset page size when search and filters displayed no results.
  • Fix issue where initiating bulk license changes would not correctly display the Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS user in the recorder audit logs.
  • Fix issue where granular permissions could incorrectly override Recorder administrator privileges for a user.
  • Fix issue where the recorder Retention Policy tab would report incorrect disk utilization for cameras that did not have recordings within the last 24 hours.
  • Fix issue where multiple Camera Tag or Server Tag dialogs could appear simultaneously.
  • Get the URL and Session ID for use with RTSP Proxy.
    • GET /orchids/{id}/rtsp-info
  • New lightweight beta endpoints for camera groups, cameras and orchids.
    • GET /groups/lite
    • GET /orchids/lite
    • GET /orchids/cameras/lite
  • The deprecated /sessions/login/google endpoint is now removed.
    • POST /sessions/login/google
  • New beta endpoints for global configuration.
    • GET /configuration
    • GET /configuration/camera-tag-rules
    • GET /configuration/server-tag-rules
    • GET /configuration/camera-tag-rules/rules/{id}
    • GET /configuration/server-tag-rules/rules/{id}
    • POST /configuration/camera-tag-rules/rules/validate
    • POST /configuration/server-tag-rules/rules/validate
  • Add new properties to GET /about endpoint response:
    • greetingAllowPreAcceptance
    • fusionTimezoneModeDefault
  • New installs of Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS on Windows now use port 8080 as the default port.
  • Administrators can now configure the Terms & Conditions greeting to display on every user login.
  • Orchid Hybrid/Fusion VMS now installs an additional service for handling RTSP Proxy functionality.
Version 25.6.0

Orchid Recorder

Improved timezone support, shareable Stage links, and more.

Released on 2025-06-24

  • Orchid Recorder now allows users to change the timezone of the Timeline bar between the Recorder's configured timezone and the user's local timezone.
  • Orchid Recorder now supports sharing Stage Links.
    • Users can build a Stage, then copy the Stage Link to the clipboard and share with other Orchid Recorder users.
    • Stage Links will preserve the Stage layout and playback time.
  • Orchid Recorder now supports G.711 alaw audio.
  • Improve service restart logic on Linux to now insert delays of increasing length between consecutive unplanned server restarts.
  • Improve licensing check to better support installing Orchid Recorder within Docker.
  • Improve support for Tapo cameras.
  • Improve ONVIF autodiscovery support for Speco cameras.
  • Improve the Windows installer upgrade process to prevent premature restarts.
  • Improve CPU utilization related to Smart Search database maintenance.
  • Fix issue where camera stream status was not properly updating on the Cameras page.
  • Fix issue where searches on Event Subscriptions would sometimes show incorrect results.
  • Fix issue where Players could incorrectly indicate slow network conditions.
  • Fix issue where search terms were unable to be added if filters that used the same string were already applied.
  • Fix issue where toggling a Player between Low Bandwidth Mode and WebRTC would cause an unrelated Player to flicker.
  • Fix issue on the Stage where users could trigger Player buttons while dragging them to new Stage Cells, resulting in a broken state.
  • Fix issue where the ONVIF Media V2 API was unintentionally being used for Axis AV1 cameras.
  • Fix issue where Thumbnail Search could display thumbnails from the day previous to the currently selected one.
  • Fix issue with Thumbnail Search showing results for the wrong day on the calendar indicator.
  • Fix issue with Thumbnail Search showing results at times which have not yet occurred.
  • Fix issue where modifying a Primary Stream while a camera was offline would result in an unexpected camera state.
  • Fix a potential SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-1094) in PostgreSQL by updating to version 14.18.
  • Fix issue where service restart health tracking information was inadvertently deleted after the Recorder service had been running for more than 30 days.
  • Fix issue with configuring camera-side motion detection on newer Hanwha cameras.
  • Fix issue where export and playback of secondary streams was inadvertently disabled when a camera was disabled.
  • Fix issue resulting in recording packet loss due to bursty traffic from cameras.
  • Fix issue where timezones were not reported as abbreviated names on Windows.
  • Fix issue where WebRTC playback would intermittently fail to stream.
  • Fix issue where the Retention Policy page would report incorrect disk utilization for cameras that did not have recordings within the last 24 hours.
  • Fix issue where multiple Camera Tag or Server Tag dialogs could appear simultaneously.
  • Orchid Recorder's API specification now follows OpenAPI 3.0.
  • Timezone is now reliably reported across platforms as an abbreviated name, with a GMT offset fallback:
    • GET /time-extended
  • New beta endpoints for retrieving and setting the System timezone:
    • GET /system/time/options
    • POST /system/time
  • The timestamp format for External Event messages is now configurable:
    • POST /events/metadata/external/{id}
  • The archive per-day endpoint now allows a timezone offset to be supplied as a query parameter:
    • GET /archives/per-day
  • Beta endpoints related to upcoming Bulk Configuration features have been removed:
    • PUT /cameras/tags/config
    • GET /cameras/tags/config
    • PUT /triggers/config
    • GET /triggers/config
    • PUT /triggers/mapping
    • GET /triggers/mapping
    • PUT /schedules
    • GET /schedules
  • New Beta endpoints for reporting resource attributes and operators to be used in future automated Tag operations:
    • GET /cameras/tags/attributes
    • GET /servers/tags/attributes
  • AV1 support for Axis cameras will now be automatically detected if the provided ONVIF credentials support camera API access.

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