2026-08-27T19:17:24Z

IVSWikiBlue:

August 27th, 2026

'''Application'''
* Updated the logic of loaders so each page element displays their own loading element instead of on the entire page
* Fixed issue in Review that displayed empty user groups in the Author section when editing a recording
* Fixed issue in Review with freehand draw comments where editing a comment and clearing the text and saving it would appear to save the comment but still retain the text
* Fixed issue in Review for duration markers, freehand draw comments, and clipping tools where the selected minimum range would not go down to 2 seconds for videos with long durations
* Fixed issue in Admin > Templates that displayed an inconsistent set of error messages when creating/editing evaluation templates with the multipoint field type (again)
* Fixed issue in Admin > Templates that displayed broken images when exporting a template with images and re-importing it back in
* Fixed issue where BEAM recordings created in portrait orientation would upload to VALT as landscape-oriented
* Fixed issue where BEAM recordings created with audio clips would fail to play the audio clips back when uploaded to VALT
* Fixed API issue with the Create Schedule request where 409 conflict responses inserted too many quotation mark characters in the body

VALT 6.7.2-1

2026-08-27T19:08:08Z

IVSWikiBlue:

Network Requirements

2026-08-27T16:14:24Z

IVSWikiBlue:

{{Article - Manual | content =
{{Float | content = [[VALT Information | ⤺ Back to VALT Information]] }}
<h1>Introduction</h1>
{{Manual lvl 2 | title = Architecture and Terms | content =
Our software is built on the standard LEMP <em>(Linux, Nginx, MYSQL, and PHP)</em> architecture. The software has been designed to work on the latest LTS version of Ubuntu Linux. For networking purposes, there are 2 main components to the software application:
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<dl>
<dt>Application Server:</dt>
<dd>
This makes up the bulk of the application and consists of 3 primary components:
<ol>
<li><strong>PHP</strong> web pages being served up by the Nginx web server</li>
<li><strong>MySQL</strong> Database</li>
<li><strong>NodeJS</strong> messaging and control service</li>
</ol></dd>

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<dt>Media Server:</dt>
<dd>This portion of the application handles <u>all the communication with the cameras and video streams</u> being served out to the client PCs. It also handles all the recording and clip creation.</dd>
</dl>

{{Aside - Helpful | content = From a physical or virtual server perspective, the <b>entire server side software stack can be run on a single server</b>.}}

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For applications requiring <b>more than 50 cameras</b> or consisting of different departments the software can be broken out and additional Media Servers can be added.

<center>{{img - no_click | file = VALT Server Structure.png}}</center>
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<h1>Basic Configuration</h1>
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;border: 1px solid black; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: center; width: 200px; float: right">
<tr>
<th style="background-color:#282829; font-weight: bold; color: white">Key</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Always Required</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:#FFEBE5">🔓 SSL is Disabled</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:#E5FFEB">🔒 SSL is Enabled</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:#e5ecff">🔧 For Administration</td>
</tr>
</table>

{{Manual lvl 2 | title = Client to Application & Media Server(s) | content =
This table shows the ports that must be opened for client machines to speak to the VALT <b>Application</b> and <b>Media</b> servers. Use the key to understand when certain ports apply.

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<table class="network_ports_table">
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Service</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Disabled" style="background-color:#FFEBE5">
<td>🔓 TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Web Application</td>
<td>Client</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Disabled" style="background-color:#EFDBD5">
<td>🔓 TCP 1935</td>
<td>WS</td>
<td>Video Streaming</td>
<td>Client</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Enabled" style="background-color:#E5FFEB">
<td>🔒 TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Web Application</td>
<td>Client</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Enabled" style="background-color:#D5EFDB">
<td>🔒 TCP 444</td>
<td>WSS</td>
<td>Video Streaming</td>
<td>Client</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 8000</td>
<td title="Changes with SSL status (Enabled/Disabled).">HTTP/HTTPS*</td>
<td>Downloads/Wowza webserver</td>
<td>Client</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan=6>For Administration</th>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only for Administration" style="background-color:#e5ecff">
<td>🔧 TCP 22</td>
<td>SSH</td>
<td>SSH</td>
<td>Client</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only for Administration" style="background-color:#d5dcef">
<td>🔧 TCP 8088</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Wowza admin</td>
<td>Client</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
</tr>
</table>
}}

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{{Manual lvl 2 | title = Media Server(s) to Video Device(s) | content =
This table shows the ports that must be opened for the [[VALT_Devices|video devices]] to communicate with VALT. Video devices refers to hardware such as:
*[[VALT_Devices#PTZ_Cameras|Cameras]]
*[[VALT_Devices#Encoders|Encoders]]

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<table class="network_ports_table">
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Service</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Web Application/API</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>Camera</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 554</td>
<td>RTSP</td>
<td>Video Stream</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>Camera</td>
</tr>
</table>
}}

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<h1>Other Configurations</h1>
{{Manual lvl 2 | title = BEAM (Mobile Application) | content =
{{Aside | content = Only required for those who have purchased [[BEAM Main Page|BEAM]] licenses.}}

BEAM is an application that allows users to leverage devices, such as iPads and iPhones, as a mobile video endpoint. This includes the following features:
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;border: 1px solid black; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: center; width: 200px; float: right">
<tr>
<th style="background-color:#282829; font-weight: bold; color: white">Key</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:#FFEBE5">🔓 SSL is Disabled</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:#E5FFEB">🔒 SSL is Enabled</td>
</tr>
</table>
*<strong>Live streaming</strong> to VALT
*<strong>Recording</strong> sessions
*<strong>Uploading</strong> sessions

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<table class="network_ports_table">
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Service</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Disabled" style="background-color:#FFEBE5">
<td>🔓 TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>BEAM API/HTTP Upload</td>
<td>BEAM Device</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Disabled" style="background-color:#EFDBD5">
<td>🔓 TCP 1935</td>
<td>RTMP</td>
<td>Video Streaming</td>
<td>BEAM Device</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Enabled" style="background-color:#E5FFEB">
<td>🔒 TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>BEAM API/HTTPS Upload</td>
<td>BEAM Device</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Enabled" style="background-color:#D5EFDB">
<td>🔒 TCP 444</td>
<td>RTMP</td>
<td>Video Streaming</td>
<td>BEAM Device</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
</table>
}}

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{{Manual lvl 2 | title = ROAM Cart (Mobile Camera) | content =
{{Network Requirements - ROAM Carts}}
}}

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{{Manual lvl 2 | title = Online Updates | content =
<div style="float:right;margin-left: 20px; width: 305px;">{{Aside | content = Valid DNS servers are required to download updates.}}</div>
<div>This table outlines the required ports and repositories that must be accessible for VALT servers to download and install the <b>latest packages and updates</b>.</div>

{{hr - 2}}

<table class="network_ports_table">
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Package</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Ubuntu</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>http://us.archive.ubuntu.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Ubuntu</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>http://security.ubuntu.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>IVS</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>https://apt.ipivs.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Ubuntu Changelogs</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>https://changelogs.ubuntu.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Docker</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>https://download.docker.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Docker</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>https://docker.ipivs.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>NVIDIA</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>https://nvidia.github.io</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Smallstep</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>https://packages.smallstep.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Smallstep</td>
<td>Application & Media Server</td>
<td>https://pkgs.infra.smallstep.com</td>
</tr>
</table>
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{{Manual lvl 2 | title = Multiple Server Configurations | content = }}
{{Grid 2 | left = {{img - no click | file = Application Server and Media Servers.png | width = 230px}}
| right_width = 434px | right =
<div style="width:435px">{{Aside | content = Only required for installations where additional servers, acting as Media Servers, are present.}}</div>
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;border: 1px solid black; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: center; width: 200px; float: right">
<tr>
<th style="background-color:#282829; font-weight: bold; color: white">Key</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Always Required</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:#FFEBE5">🔓 SSL is Disabled</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:#E5FFEB">🔒 SSL is Enabled</td>
</tr>
</table> }}

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<table class="network_ports_table">
<caption>Application Server to Media Server(s)</caption>
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Service</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 22</td>
<td>SSH</td>
<td>OS</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Enabled" style="background-color:#E5FFEB">
<td>🔒 TCP 444</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming Engine</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Disabled" style="background-color:#FFEBE5">
<td>🔓 TCP 1935</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming Engine</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 8000</td>
<td>HTTP/HTTPS</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming Engine</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 8086</td>
<td>HTTP/HTTPS</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming Engine</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 8087</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming Engine</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
</tr>
</table>

<table class="network_ports_table">
<caption>Media Server(s) to Application Server</caption>
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Service</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 22</td>
<td>SSH</td>
<td>OS</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Disabled" style="background-color:#FFEBE5">
<td>🔓 TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming API</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr class="help" title="Required only when SSL is Enabled" style="background-color:#E5FFEB">
<td>🔒 TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming API</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 8086</td>
<td>HTTP/HTTPS</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming Engine</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 8087</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Wowza Streaming Engine</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>Application Server</td>
</tr>
</table>

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==Digital Wowza License==
This communication is required to verify valid Wowza Streaming licenses.

{{Aside | content = Only required for servers utilizing an electronic Wowza key. Servers with a physical Wowza key do not need access to the licensing servers.}}

<table class="network_ports_table">
<caption>Media Servers to Wowza Licensing Servers</caption>
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>wowzalicense-all.wowzamedia.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>wowzalicense1.wowzamedia.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>wowzalicense2.wowzamedia.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>wowzalicense3.wowzamedia.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 80</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>Media Server</td>
<td>wowzalicense4.wowzamedia.com</td>
</tr>
</table>

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==VALT Cloud==
VALT Cloud is a hybrid solution that requires an on-premise server and a cloud server.

The cloud server is the Application Server. This hosts the website where users will access the application.

The on-premise server is a Media Server. This hosts the camera streams and recordings.

The on premise media server will establish a connection to the VALT AWS Private Cloud. All traffic will flow through this connection. This connection requires the following ports:

<table class="network_ports_table">
<caption>On-Premise Media Server to Cloud Application Server</caption>
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>UDP 500</td>
<td>On-Premise Media Server</td>
<td>Cloud Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>UDP 4500</td>
<td>On-Premise Media Server</td>
<td>Cloud Application Server</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GRE</td>
<td>On-Premise Media Server</td>
<td>Cloud Application Server</td>
</tr>
</table>

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VALT Cloud utilizes Let's Encrypt to provide SSL certificates. The On-Premise Media Server must be able to communicate with the following websites to request the certificate:

<table class="network_ports_table">
<caption>Let's Encrypt</caption>
<tr>
<th>Port</th>
<th>Protocol</th>
<th>Source</th>
<th>Destination</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>On Premise Media Server</td>
<td>https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TCP 443</td>
<td>HTTPS</td>
<td>On Premise Media Server</td>
<td>https://route53.amazonaws.com</td>
</tr>
</table>

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[[Category:VALT]]

VALT 6.7.0-1

2026-08-27T15:03:52Z

IVSWikiBlue:

August 17th, 2026

'''New Technical Requirements'''
* VALT 6.7 requires network access to three new repositories:
** <b>https://nvidia.github.io </b>
** <b>https://packages.smallstep.com </b>
** <b>https://pkgs.infra.smallstep.com </b>

'''New Application Features'''
* Transcription
** Speech-to-Text Transcription: added the ability to automatically transcribe recordings using an on-premise, GPU-accelerated transcription service, in addition to the existing AWS option
*** Added an "Auto Transcribe" group right; recordings by users in an enabled group are queued for transcription automatically when a recording finishes
*** Transcripts generate caption (VTT), plain-text, and word-searchable files, and can also be run on demand from the Review page

* Observe
** Added 12-cell (4x3 and 3x4) and 16-cell (4x4) multiview grid layouts on the Observe page and in recording playback
** Added per-camera motion detection, allowing motion detection to be enabled or disabled per camera within a room
** Added the ability for each user to choose between Compass (wheel) and Joystick PTZ control modes as a personal preference
** Added support for BEAM devices in saved Views on the Observe page
** Added sharing-link controls that allow guests to add comments on the Observe page
** Raised the maximum number of devices per room to 16
** Added a configurable camera offline/online alert delay

* Review
** Added Playlists: compile multiple recordings into a single playlist and play through them in sequence from the Review page
*** Playlists appear in the recordings list and thumbnail views
*** Added a combined playback timeline that tracks progress across the recordings in a playlist
*** Playlists can be set to loop, repeating from the first recording after the last
*** Playlists can be shared with other users, who receive a notification when a playlist is shared with them
** Added the ability to download multiple camera views as a single zip file
** Added bulk recording management: multi-select on the Review page to share or change the author of multiple recordings at once
** Added a PDF/CSV format menu to the single-item Export button on the Recordings and Schedules lists
** Comments
*** Added freehand drawing comments: users can draw annotations directly onto a recording during review
**** Drawings scale with and stay attached to the correct position on the video
**** Includes freehand, line, and shape tools with a dedicated drawing toolbar
**** Drawings can be edited after saving and created alongside a file attachment
*** Added tagged users' display names to comment tags, and mention search now matches on both username and display name

* Reports
** Added new report types
*** Duration Marker report: lists duration-marker comments with their measured durations and a summary graph
*** Camera Assignment report (admin): visualizes the flow of Media Server to Camera to Rooms/Views
*** Cronbach's Alpha report: computes per-field reliability scores across evaluations
** Redesigned the Home page Reports widget with an updated layout, support for comment and recording-time reports, an edit menu, and automatic refresh after edits

* Schedules
** Added a default schedule duration

* Administration
** Added many-to-many SSO group mapping: a single SSO group mapping can now be matched against multiple attribute values, giving more flexible control over how SSO (SAML) users are assigned to VALT user groups
** Added the option to keep or delete synced users when deleting an LDAP sync schedule
** Templates
*** Added a Multipoint question field to evaluation templates, with configurable rows, columns, and score values
*** Increased character limits on template text fields

'''Application Changes and Fixes'''
* Observe
** Improved talkback audio quality with additional noise-gate, residual-noise, and de-hiss processing
** Fixed issue that displayed two left side panels for guests accessing a room or view's shared link

* Review
** Fixed ROAM recording upload playback on macOS, and corrected visibility and status updates for uploaded recordings
** Comments
*** Added a loading indicator and an empty-state placeholder to the user-mention list in recording comments

* Schedules
** Added notifications when minutes are added to or subtracted from an active schedule
** Prevented deleting the last remaining room from a schedule
** Fixed issue when creating/editing a schedule that always showed the first-created camera in VALT as an option to set a PTZ preset for in the Control section, even if it was not a PTZ camera

* Reports
** Added a success notification after a report is created
** Fixed issue that allowed users to select all rooms when filtering by custom rooms instead of only the rooms they have access to
** Fixed issue that generated a new report object with a new UUID when updating a report's report type instead of re-using the same report entity with the updated report type

* Administration
** Enabled admins to add a user to an empty group directly using the Add button when the group is selected
** Refreshed the platform-access section of user-group settings and added a "Clear all" control for time intervals
** Added a notice on retention settings when a value is out of date and content will be deleted soon
** Enlarged and made the announcement content field resizable
** Removed the deprecated "edge camera" device type, which is no longer a supported device
** Templates
*** Added a guard that prevents importing evaluation templates exported from a VALT version older than 6.5, and stamps the source version into template exports
*** Added a feature that includes the VALT site version in the default filename when exporting a template
*** Added a conflict warning when two users attempt to save the same evaluation template at the same time
*** Fixed various evaluation and information template editing and validation issues
*** Fixed issue that did not import an information template's duration field and value when importing templates from a JSON file

* User Interface
** Added dark-theme styling to the 404 page
** Fixed various iPad and tablet issues with streaming, playback, and control sizing

'''Security'''
* Fixed an issue where comments and related data on a shared recording could be viewed or added by an anonymous guest when the sharing link did not permit it
* Enforced evaluation edit permissions so only the authorized author can modify an evaluation
* Hid evaluation scores from users without the view-scores permission

'''Accessibility'''
* Completed a WCAG accessibility audit across the application, adding keyboard operability for custom interactive controls, accessible labels and corrected ARIA attributes on form controls, discernible text for icon-only buttons and links, and valid list semantics for menus and lists

'''Technical Changes'''
* Updated Frameworks and Packages
** Web Docker image: OS Alpine Linux 3.23.5
** Web Docker image: Symfony version 7.4.14
** Web Docker image: Composer version 2.10.1
** Web Docker image: PHP version 8.5.9
** Web Docker image: Node version 22.22.3
** Wowza Docker image: Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.11.0+24
** Wowza Docker image: Java version 21.0.11
** RabbitMQ Docker image: RabbitMQ version 4.2.9
** Redis Docker image: Redis version 8.6.5
* Added a local Speech-to-Text service container and a serialized heavy-job queue that processes GPU transcription jobs one at a time
* Added Wowza GPU detection to report transcription capability per media server
* Set the default stream type to WebRTC for new streams
* Added password authentication for the Redis service
* Rebuilt the nginx image on the Docker-Hardened Image base
* Added new deployment container images (Speech-to-Text, Redis init, RabbitMQ init) to the build pipeline
* Added a new Docker container for managing Axis cameras' SSL certificates

VALT 6.7.0-1

2026-08-27T15:01:36Z

IVSWikiBlue:

August 17th, 2026

'''New Technical Requirements'''
* VALT 6.7 requires network access to three new repositories:
** <b>https://nvidia.github.io </b>
** <b>https://packages.smallstep.com </b>
** <b>https://pkgs.infra.smallstep.com </b>

'''New Application Features'''
* Transcription
** Speech-to-Text Transcription: added the ability to automatically transcribe recordings using an on-premise, GPU-accelerated transcription service, in addition to the existing AWS option
*** Added an "Auto Transcribe" group right; recordings by users in an enabled group are queued for transcription automatically when a recording finishes
*** Transcripts generate caption (VTT), plain-text, and word-searchable files, and can also be run on demand from the Review page

* Observe
** Added 12-cell (4x3 and 3x4) and 16-cell (4x4) multiview grid layouts on the Observe page and in recording playback
** Added per-camera motion detection, allowing motion detection to be enabled or disabled per camera within a room
** Added the ability for each user to choose between Compass (wheel) and Joystick PTZ control modes as a personal preference
** Added support for BEAM devices in saved Views on the Observe page
** Added sharing-link controls that allow guests to add comments on the Observe page
** Raised the maximum number of devices per room to 16
** Added a configurable camera offline/online alert delay

* Review
** Added Playlists: compile multiple recordings into a single playlist and play through them in sequence from the Review page
*** Playlists appear in the recordings list and thumbnail views
*** Added a combined playback timeline that tracks progress across the recordings in a playlist
*** Playlists can be set to loop, repeating from the first recording after the last
*** Playlists can be shared with other users, who receive a notification when a playlist is shared with them
** Added the ability to download multiple camera views as a single zip file
** Added bulk recording management: multi-select on the Review page to share or change the author of multiple recordings at once
** Added a PDF/CSV format menu to the single-item Export button on the Recordings and Schedules lists
** Comments
*** Added freehand drawing comments: users can draw annotations directly onto a recording during review
**** Drawings scale with and stay attached to the correct position on the video
**** Includes freehand, line, and shape tools with a dedicated drawing toolbar
**** Drawings can be edited after saving and created alongside a file attachment
*** Added tagged users' display names to comment tags, and mention search now matches on both username and display name

* Reports
** Added new report types
*** Duration Marker report: lists duration-marker comments with their measured durations and a summary graph
*** Camera Assignment report (admin): visualizes the flow of Media Server to Camera to Rooms/Views
*** Cronbach's Alpha report: computes per-field reliability scores across evaluations
** Redesigned the Home page Reports widget with an updated layout, support for comment and recording-time reports, an edit menu, and automatic refresh after edits

* Schedules
** Added a default schedule duration

* Administration
** Added many-to-many SSO group mapping: a single SSO group mapping can now be matched against multiple attribute values, giving more flexible control over how SSO (SAML) users are assigned to VALT user groups
** Added the option to keep or delete synced users when deleting an LDAP sync schedule
** Templates
*** Added a Multipoint question field to evaluation templates, with configurable rows, columns, and score values
*** Increased character limits on template text fields

'''Application Changes and Fixes'''
* Observe
** Improved talkback audio quality with additional noise-gate, residual-noise, and de-hiss processing
** Fixed issue that displayed two left side panels for guests accessing a room or view's shared link

* Review
** Fixed ROAM recording upload playback on macOS, and corrected visibility and status updates for uploaded recordings
** Comments
*** Added a loading indicator and an empty-state placeholder to the user-mention list in recording comments

* Schedules
** Added notifications when minutes are added to or subtracted from an active schedule
** Prevented deleting the last remaining room from a schedule
** Fixed issue when creating/editing a schedule that always showed the first-created camera in VALT as an option to set a PTZ preset for in the Control section, even if it was not a PTZ camera

* Reports
** Added a success notification after a report is created
** Fixed issue that allowed users to select all rooms when filtering by custom rooms instead of only the rooms they have access to
** Fixed issue that generated a new report object with a new UUID when updating a report's report type instead of re-using the same report entity with the updated report type

* Administration
** Enabled admins to add a user to an empty group directly using the Add button when the group is selected
** Refreshed the platform-access section of user-group settings and added a "Clear all" control for time intervals
** Added a notice on retention settings when a value is out of date and content will be deleted soon
** Enlarged and made the announcement content field resizable
** Removed the deprecated "edge camera" device type, which is no longer a supported device
** Templates
*** Added a guard that prevents importing evaluation templates exported from a VALT version older than 6.5, and stamps the source version into template exports
*** Added a feature that includes the VALT site version in the default filename when exporting a template
*** Added a conflict warning when two users attempt to save the same evaluation template at the same time
*** Fixed various evaluation and information template editing and validation issues
*** Fixed issue that did not import an information template's duration field and value when importing templates from a JSON file

* User Interface
** Added dark-theme styling to the 404 page
** Fixed various iPad and tablet issues with streaming, playback, and control sizing

'''Security'''
* Fixed an issue where comments and related data on a shared recording could be viewed or added by an anonymous guest when the sharing link did not permit it
* Enforced evaluation edit permissions so only the authorized author can modify an evaluation
* Hid evaluation scores from users without the view-scores permission

'''Accessibility'''
* Completed a WCAG accessibility audit across the application, adding keyboard operability for custom interactive controls, accessible labels and corrected ARIA attributes on form controls, discernible text for icon-only buttons and links, and valid list semantics for menus and lists

'''Technical'''
* Updated Frameworks and Packages
** Web Docker image: OS Alpine Linux 3.23.5
** Web Docker image: Symfony version 7.4.14
** Web Docker image: Composer version 2.10.1
** Web Docker image: PHP version 8.5.9
** Web Docker image: Node version 22.22.3
** Wowza Docker image: Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.11.0+24
** Wowza Docker image: Java version 21.0.11
** RabbitMQ Docker image: RabbitMQ version 4.2.9
** Redis Docker image: Redis version 8.6.5
* Added a local Speech-to-Text service container and a serialized heavy-job queue that processes GPU transcription jobs one at a time
* Added Wowza GPU detection to report transcription capability per media server
* Set the default stream type to WebRTC for new streams
* Added password authentication for the Redis service
* Rebuilt the nginx image on the Docker-Hardened Image base
* Added new deployment container images (Speech-to-Text, Redis init, RabbitMQ init) to the build pipeline
* Added a new Docker container for managing Axis cameras' SSL certificates

VALT 6.7.0-1

2026-08-27T15:00:59Z

IVSWikiBlue:

August 17th, 2026

'''New Technical Requirements'''
* VALT 6.7 requires network access to three new repositories:
** https://nvidia.github.io
** https://packages.smallstep.com
** https://pkgs.infra.smallstep.com

'''New Application Features'''
* Transcription
** Speech-to-Text Transcription: added the ability to automatically transcribe recordings using an on-premise, GPU-accelerated transcription service, in addition to the existing AWS option
*** Added an "Auto Transcribe" group right; recordings by users in an enabled group are queued for transcription automatically when a recording finishes
*** Transcripts generate caption (VTT), plain-text, and word-searchable files, and can also be run on demand from the Review page

* Observe
** Added 12-cell (4x3 and 3x4) and 16-cell (4x4) multiview grid layouts on the Observe page and in recording playback
** Added per-camera motion detection, allowing motion detection to be enabled or disabled per camera within a room
** Added the ability for each user to choose between Compass (wheel) and Joystick PTZ control modes as a personal preference
** Added support for BEAM devices in saved Views on the Observe page
** Added sharing-link controls that allow guests to add comments on the Observe page
** Raised the maximum number of devices per room to 16
** Added a configurable camera offline/online alert delay

* Review
** Added Playlists: compile multiple recordings into a single playlist and play through them in sequence from the Review page
*** Playlists appear in the recordings list and thumbnail views
*** Added a combined playback timeline that tracks progress across the recordings in a playlist
*** Playlists can be set to loop, repeating from the first recording after the last
*** Playlists can be shared with other users, who receive a notification when a playlist is shared with them
** Added the ability to download multiple camera views as a single zip file
** Added bulk recording management: multi-select on the Review page to share or change the author of multiple recordings at once
** Added a PDF/CSV format menu to the single-item Export button on the Recordings and Schedules lists
** Comments
*** Added freehand drawing comments: users can draw annotations directly onto a recording during review
**** Drawings scale with and stay attached to the correct position on the video
**** Includes freehand, line, and shape tools with a dedicated drawing toolbar
**** Drawings can be edited after saving and created alongside a file attachment
*** Added tagged users' display names to comment tags, and mention search now matches on both username and display name

* Reports
** Added new report types
*** Duration Marker report: lists duration-marker comments with their measured durations and a summary graph
*** Camera Assignment report (admin): visualizes the flow of Media Server to Camera to Rooms/Views
*** Cronbach's Alpha report: computes per-field reliability scores across evaluations
** Redesigned the Home page Reports widget with an updated layout, support for comment and recording-time reports, an edit menu, and automatic refresh after edits

* Schedules
** Added a default schedule duration

* Administration
** Added many-to-many SSO group mapping: a single SSO group mapping can now be matched against multiple attribute values, giving more flexible control over how SSO (SAML) users are assigned to VALT user groups
** Added the option to keep or delete synced users when deleting an LDAP sync schedule
** Templates
*** Added a Multipoint question field to evaluation templates, with configurable rows, columns, and score values
*** Increased character limits on template text fields

'''Application Changes and Fixes'''
* Observe
** Improved talkback audio quality with additional noise-gate, residual-noise, and de-hiss processing
** Fixed issue that displayed two left side panels for guests accessing a room or view's shared link

* Review
** Fixed ROAM recording upload playback on macOS, and corrected visibility and status updates for uploaded recordings
** Comments
*** Added a loading indicator and an empty-state placeholder to the user-mention list in recording comments

* Schedules
** Added notifications when minutes are added to or subtracted from an active schedule
** Prevented deleting the last remaining room from a schedule
** Fixed issue when creating/editing a schedule that always showed the first-created camera in VALT as an option to set a PTZ preset for in the Control section, even if it was not a PTZ camera

* Reports
** Added a success notification after a report is created
** Fixed issue that allowed users to select all rooms when filtering by custom rooms instead of only the rooms they have access to
** Fixed issue that generated a new report object with a new UUID when updating a report's report type instead of re-using the same report entity with the updated report type

* Administration
** Enabled admins to add a user to an empty group directly using the Add button when the group is selected
** Refreshed the platform-access section of user-group settings and added a "Clear all" control for time intervals
** Added a notice on retention settings when a value is out of date and content will be deleted soon
** Enlarged and made the announcement content field resizable
** Removed the deprecated "edge camera" device type, which is no longer a supported device
** Templates
*** Added a guard that prevents importing evaluation templates exported from a VALT version older than 6.5, and stamps the source version into template exports
*** Added a feature that includes the VALT site version in the default filename when exporting a template
*** Added a conflict warning when two users attempt to save the same evaluation template at the same time
*** Fixed various evaluation and information template editing and validation issues
*** Fixed issue that did not import an information template's duration field and value when importing templates from a JSON file

* User Interface
** Added dark-theme styling to the 404 page
** Fixed various iPad and tablet issues with streaming, playback, and control sizing

'''Security'''
* Fixed an issue where comments and related data on a shared recording could be viewed or added by an anonymous guest when the sharing link did not permit it
* Enforced evaluation edit permissions so only the authorized author can modify an evaluation
* Hid evaluation scores from users without the view-scores permission

'''Accessibility'''
* Completed a WCAG accessibility audit across the application, adding keyboard operability for custom interactive controls, accessible labels and corrected ARIA attributes on form controls, discernible text for icon-only buttons and links, and valid list semantics for menus and lists

'''Technical'''
* Updated Frameworks and Packages
** Web Docker image: OS Alpine Linux 3.23.5
** Web Docker image: Symfony version 7.4.14
** Web Docker image: Composer version 2.10.1
** Web Docker image: PHP version 8.5.9
** Web Docker image: Node version 22.22.3
** Wowza Docker image: Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.11.0+24
** Wowza Docker image: Java version 21.0.11
** RabbitMQ Docker image: RabbitMQ version 4.2.9
** Redis Docker image: Redis version 8.6.5
* Added a local Speech-to-Text service container and a serialized heavy-job queue that processes GPU transcription jobs one at a time
* Added Wowza GPU detection to report transcription capability per media server
* Set the default stream type to WebRTC for new streams
* Added password authentication for the Redis service
* Rebuilt the nginx image on the Docker-Hardened Image base
* Added new deployment container images (Speech-to-Text, Redis init, RabbitMQ init) to the build pipeline
* Added a new Docker container for managing Axis cameras' SSL certificates