Release Notes

r20

2025.06.04

New features, Improvements

• Significant speed up of listing folders and overall responsiveness
• Licence checking is turned on by default.

All systems upgraded to r20 or later will require licence activation from this release onward.

Bug fixes

• Large file upload memory problems fixed
• Reference image timestamping optimized not to show black thumbnails
• Logs are kept after system restart
• Administrators are now prevented from deleting their own accounts
• Phone number gets saved when adding new user
• Internal server error on deleting folder with subfolder fixed
• User duplication fixed
• Permissions are handled on UI (only show buttons with appropriate permissions)
• Delayed connection between BAPI and VS fixed
• Await folders API requests before poll it again fixed

Known issues

• Users of Viewer, Manager and Historical Manager roles can only reach the UI by deleting the /#/login part of the URL after a successful login. This is a temporary issue that will be fixed in the next release.

r19

2025.05.22

New features

• New Query Types:

  • Measure Vehicle Speed
  • Heatmap (preview)
  • Find faces (preview)

• User management

• Time series chart visualization for Object Counting
• Face recognition (preview)
• Image set management (preview)

Bug fixes

• Both video storage and metadata kafka storages has been optimized to keep target storage size (smaller segment size, more frequent clean up)

r18

2025.04.30

New features

• New Query Type: Dynamic Advanced Object Search. Enables building complex use cases involving two objects directly from the UI. Examples:

  • Detect red light running cars
  • Detect cars not yielding for pedestrians
  • Near miss detection
  • Tailgating

• Version number displayed on UI

• Technical name has been added for cameras and videos

Bug fixes

• Restarting live queries on flink service service restart
• Camera reconnect file handle leak fixed
• Fixed issues with Webhook and Milestone XProtect integration
• Resolved cases where the "Unable to load image" error appeared on the UI despite the image being accessible

r17

2025.04.14

New features

• Feature vector storage optimization with feature vector back reference
• Imageset API
• Improved contextual Free Text Search accuracy: Not only index the object itself, but how it interacts with the environment (preview).
• Significant improvement on the tracking algorithm (e.g.: improved accuracy with Traffic Counting)

Bug fixes

• 20 GB file upload limit configured on all services (up from 10GB for the storage)
• Camera reconnect file handle leak relaxed

r16

2025.04.09

New features

• Licence handling:
  • Licence enforcement
  • Activation process
• Simplified query view
• New Query Types:
  • Object Presence with Absence of Another
  • Loitering
  • Object Detection
  • Stopped Object Detection
  • Started Object Detection
• New Classifiers:
  • Color classifier (for any object type)
• Rest API validations
• "uquery" removed from container names

Bug fixes

• Session expiration
• Speed up showing detections (backend parallelization, video storage rate limitation)
• Classifier naming and descriptions unified
• Query Type naming and descriptions unified

Braking API changes

• Minor change to [POST]/v3/folders/{parentId} and [PUT]/v3/folders/{id} endpoints. The string in the JSON request is now wrapped in an object.

r15

2025.03.17

New features

• New UI is the default
• User login implemented
• Minimum detection confidence can be set
• Result presentation speed up
• Various minor UI improvements
• Quality of life improvements
• Linkable pages

Bug fixes

• Default confidence cutoff has been set to decrease false alert rate
• Corrupt video writing error fixed
• Improved video codec support

r14

2025.03.04

New features

• Fully functional new UI

r13

2025.02.27

New features

• Inference resource calculation for adding RTSP streams (for supported GPUs)

Bug fixes

• New UI result view was not available in some cases
• Unexpected video storage topic deletion

r12

2025.02.25

• Start/Stop video and recording added to API*
• REST API v1 has been removed
• Introducing Updater tool - supports update from r10
• New, high performance indexer and video storage
• Upload file size limit raised to 20GB.
• New Query Types:
  • Near Miss Detection
  • PPE Detection in Area
  • PPE Detection at Entrance
  • Object taken v1
• New user interface preview (accessible under <host>/new)
  • Nested folder structure (list/add/remove folders)
  • New one step video upload: indexing starts automatically
  • New one step RTSP add: indexing starts automatically
  • Video listing
  • Video details
  • Query listing
  • Results view

* Not fully implemented yet. The feature is available in the API, but videos are not stopped or started. The feature will be fully implemented in the next release.

Before you update

Make sure to delete the following files before you update to r12:

/var/lib/u-query/backend_api_db
/var/lib/u-query/flink
/var/lib/u-query/kafka
/var/lib/u-query/video_storage
/var/lib/u-query/zookeeper

r11

2025.01.28

• REST API v3
• Milestone XProtect integration
• New Query Types:
  • Hazardous area
  • Loitering

r10

2025.01.16

• HTTPS support
• Downloadable query types
• Anonymizer toolchain
• Configurable storage path
• REST API v3 preview (v1, v2 still available)

r9

2024.12.20

• Introducing REST API v2 (v1 still available)
• Introducing Ansible-based installation (manual installation still available)
• Automatic indexer registration (no explicit registration is needed)
• Multiple object selection for dynamic queries
• New FSLs:
  • Face mask
• New Query Types:
  • Tailgating (preview)
  • Multi-line cross detection (preview)

r8

2024.12.11

• New FSLs:
  • Hands up detector
• Dynamic Query Types
• New Query Types:
  • Object counting (preview)
  • Traffic counting (preview)
• Integration:
  • Webhook - currently only in dynamic query types

Before you update

Make sure to delete the following files before you update to r8:

/var/lib/u-query/app_db
/var/lib/u-query/backend_api_db
/var/lib/u-query/flink
/var/lib/u-query/kafka
/var/lib/u-query/video_storage
/var/lib/u-query/zookeeper

r7

2024.11.25

• TestRTSP endpoint: get a frame and stream metadata without adding videos
• Video thumbnail view improvements (landscape and portrait modes)
• Live query memory issue fix (allowing long-running live queries)
• Live query execution optimization (allowing several parallel live queries)
• User's guide for Generic Object Search and Advanced Object Search
• Minor UI fixes

r6

2024.11.11

• Real-time result presentations
• Auto-scrolling timeline view
• Hardware calculator

r5

2024.10.28

• Result presentation:
  • Table view
  • Timeline view
  • Short video playback

r4

2024.10.14

• Multiple filters in Advanced Object Search with join logic
• Result presentation:
  • Detection view

r3

2024.09.30

• Advanced Object Search (filter by video, date, object type, object attributes and object movement)
• Support for upper body-based FSLs
• FSLs:
  • PPE helmet
• Support for live queries
• File upload
• Minor fixes and improvements

r2

2024.08.06

• Initial Application release
• Generic Object Search via Application
• FSLs
  • Gender
  • Person on the phone
  • Emergency vehicle

r1

2024.06.26

• Initial release
• Back-end API
• Generic Object Search (via API)