VALT 6.7.0-1

August 14th, 2026

New Application Features

• 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
• 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 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 a Multipoint question field to evaluation templates, with configurable rows, columns, and score values
• Added the ability to download multiple camera views as a single zip file
• 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
• 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
• Added bulk recording management: multi-select on the Review page to share or change the author of multiple recordings at once
• Added a default schedule duration
• Added tagged users' display names to comment tags, and mention search now matches on both username and display name
• Increased character limits on template text fields
• Added a PDF/CSV format menu to the single-item Export button on the Recordings and Schedules lists
• 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

Application

• Improved talkback audio quality with additional noise-gate, residual-noise, and de-hiss processing
• 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 conflict warning when two users attempt to save the same evaluation template at the same time
• Added notifications when minutes are added to or subtracted from an active schedule
• Prevented deleting the last remaining room from a schedule
• 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
• Added dark-theme styling to the 404 page
• Added a loading indicator and an empty-state placeholder to the user-mention list in recording comments
• Removed the deprecated "edge camera" device type, which is no longer a supported device
• Fixed ROAM recording upload playback on macOS, and corrected visibility and status updates for uploaded recordings
• Fixed various evaluation and information template editing and validation issues
• 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

• 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 new Docker container for managing Axis cameras' SSL certificates.