VALT 6.7.0-1

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August 17th, 2026

New Technical Requirements

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
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