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Orchid Fusion VMS 26.9.0
Daylight Saving Time improvements, camera reports, PTZ return to home, and Workflow action throttling
Orchid Recorder 26.9.0
Daylight Saving Time improvements, camera reports, PTZ return to home, and Workflow action throttling
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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.
And you'll need
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 26.9
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
2026-09-25Orchid Fusion VMS
Version 26.9
Orchid VMS Release Notes
Daylight Saving Time improvements, camera reports, PTZ return to home, and Workflow action throttling Daylight Saving Time improvements, camera reports, PTZ return to home, and Workflow action throttling
Orchid Fusion VMS 26.9.0
Released on 2026-09-25
Orchid Recorder 26.9.0
Released on 2026-09-25
Orchid Fusion VMS
- Orchid VMS now handles daylight saving time changes throughout the application.
- Users can shift between Orchid Recorder IANA timezones on the stage.
- Time selectors on the stage including the export and library dialog now properly indicate daylight saving time shifts.
- New and improved timezone selector panel within the player.
- Older Orchid Recorders will continue to operate only with timezone time offsets.
- Orchid VMS now allows users with administrative privileges to generate and download a report of all cameras registered in the system.
- Users can select which camera fields to include in the report and download a CSV file.
- Orchid VMS now has PTZ return-to-home functionality.
- Users can configure a home position for each PTZ camera registered.
- PTZ cameras can then be configured to return to the home position after PTZ inactivity.
Orchid Recorder
- Orchid VMS now handles daylight saving time changes throughout the application.
- Users can shift between Orchid Recorder IANA timezones on the stage.
- Time selectors on the stage including the export and library dialog now properly indicate daylight saving time shifts.
- New and improved timezone selector panel within the player.
- Older Orchid Recorders will continue to operate only with timezone time offsets.
- Orchid VMS now allows users with administrative privileges to generate and download a report of all cameras registered in the system.
- Users can select which camera fields to include in the report and download a CSV file.
- Orchid VMS now has PTZ return-to-home functionality.
- Users can configure a home position for each PTZ camera registered.
- PTZ cameras can then be configured to return to the home position after PTZ inactivity.
Orchid Fusion VMS
- Workflow Improvements
- Webhook actions are now signed, allowing consumers to verify the authenticity of messages.
- System administrators can now customize the HTML template used in email actions by configuring an Orchid Fusion VMS property.
- Workflows now provide better warnings around incorrect configurations that will never result in any action.
- Workflow actions can now be throttled to reduce alert spam.
- Workflow triggers can now be configured only to fire when motion or AI activity has occurred for a set period of time.
- Recorder Administrators can now manage maps and camera groups where they have administrative access to all cameras within the group.
- Orchid Recorder now limits the number of simultaneous export requests. The system defaults to a maximum of 25 simultaneous exports and can be configured by administrators.
- Orchid Recorder now automatically tags recorders with a new 'gpu' tag if they have the GPU and CUDA support package installed.
- The Descriptive Search page now filters servers that are not capable of the search functionality.
- Improve browser WebRTC support for H265 streams.
Orchid Recorder
- Workflow Improvements
- Webhook actions are now signed, allowing consumers to verify the authenticity of messages.
- System administrators can now customize the HTML template used in email actions by configuring an Orchid Fusion VMS property.
- Workflows now provide better warnings around incorrect configurations that will never result in any action.
- Workflow actions can now be throttled to reduce alert spam.
- Workflow triggers can now be configured only to fire when motion or AI activity has occurred for a set period of time.
- Recorder Administrators can now manage maps and camera groups where they have administrative access to all cameras within the group.
- Orchid Recorder now limits the number of simultaneous export requests. The system defaults to a maximum of 25 simultaneous exports and can be configured by administrators.
- Orchid Recorder now automatically tags recorders with a new 'gpu' tag if they have the GPU and CUDA support package installed.
- The Descriptive Search page now filters servers that are not capable of the search functionality.
- Improve browser WebRTC support for H265 streams.
Orchid Fusion VMS
- Orchid Fusion VMS would fail to install or upgrade on some Linux configurations due to sudo privilege escalation issues.
- Users signed in to Orchid Recorder using SSO would have incorrect permissions applied if permission changes were applied while they were logged out.
- Orchid Fusion VMS Debian installers would fail to enable packaged services.
- Audio talkdown to IDIS, Innotech, and Luminys cameras would fail.
- Some Pelco cameras would fail to record and prevent Orchid Recorder services from stopping gracefully.
- Updating workflow triggers could result in unnecessary stream restarts.
- Cameras with invalid or corrupt audio streams could prevent WebRTC streaming.
- Orchid Recorder could stall during archive retention cleanup due to re-cataloging video files from ungraceful shutdowns.
- The Orchid Recorder service could fail to stop if the archive retention cleaning process was stalled.
- Linux systems with certain hostname configurations could cause the Orchid Recorder Smart Search database to fail to start.
- Orchid Recorder would fail to fire triggers for events that had activity during a workflow schedule, but were started before the set schedule.
- The Orchid Recorder would incorrectly report an impairment if an unsupported GPU was installed and the CUDA support package was not installed.
- On MacOS Chrome, paused players added to the stage would not properly display the paused frame.
- Preview images that failed to load on the Descriptive Search page would incorrectly display as a small dot preventing users from accessing additional context and actions.
- Error responses when searching on the Descriptive Search page would not provide any user feedback.
- Orchid Recorder would incorrectly display camera information on the Servers page, requiring a page refresh to resolve this issue.
Orchid Recorder
- Orchid Fusion VMS would fail to install or upgrade on some Linux configurations due to sudo privilege escalation issues.
- Users signed in to Orchid Recorder using SSO would have incorrect permissions applied if permission changes were applied while they were logged out.
- Orchid Fusion VMS Debian installers would fail to enable packaged services.
- Audio talkdown to IDIS, Innotech, and Luminys cameras would fail.
- Some Pelco cameras would fail to record and prevent Orchid Recorder services from stopping gracefully.
- Updating workflow triggers could result in unnecessary stream restarts.
- Cameras with invalid or corrupt audio streams could prevent WebRTC streaming.
- Orchid Recorder could stall during archive retention cleanup due to re-cataloging video files from ungraceful shutdowns.
- The Orchid Recorder service could fail to stop if the archive retention cleaning process was stalled.
- Linux systems with certain hostname configurations could cause the Orchid Recorder Smart Search database to fail to start.
- Orchid Recorder would fail to fire triggers for events that had activity during a workflow schedule, but were started before the set schedule.
- The Orchid Recorder would incorrectly report an impairment if an unsupported GPU was installed and the CUDA support package was not installed.
- On MacOS Chrome, paused players added to the stage would not properly display the paused frame.
- Preview images that failed to load on the Descriptive Search page would incorrectly display as a small dot preventing users from accessing additional context and actions.
- Error responses when searching on the Descriptive Search page would not provide any user feedback.
- Orchid Recorder would incorrectly display camera information on the Servers page, requiring a page refresh to resolve this issue.
- Get HMAC key used for signing webhooks
- GET /eta/secrets/webhook
- Added workflow ETA connections for triggers, action sets and schedules
- GET /eta/triggers/{id}/connections
- GET /eta/action-sets/{id}/connections
- GET /eta/schedules/{id}/connections
- Added an optional workflowIds query parameter to workflows list endpoint
- GET /eta/workflows
- ETA action sets list endpoints returns summaries without action metadata
- GET /eta/action-sets
- Added optional throttle and id to ETA action sets requests
- GET /eta/action-sets
- POST /eta/action-sets
- GET /eta/action-sets/{id}
- PATCH /eta/action-sets/{id}
- Added activity duration to object and motion detection sources for ETA triggers
- GET /eta/triggers
- POST /eta/triggers
- GET /eta/triggers/{id}
- PATCH /eta/triggers/{id}
- The sessions endpoint now accepts only Trusted Issuer JWT authentication and rejects all other auth types:
- GET /sessions
- The database faults endpoint now interprets its time range as UTC rather than server local time:
- GET /server/database-faults
- Analytics status now reports GPU statistics, including per-GPU compute and video-decode utilization and a VRAM breakdown. Absent when no supported GPU is present:
- GET /analytics/status
- The Offline Bundle export manifest now includes tzIANA (the Orchid Recorder IANA timezone), version (the Orchid Recorder version the export was generated from), and minRecommendedPlayerVersion (the minimum Offline Player version recommended for the bundle):
- GET /streams/export
- Added beta support for driving a camera's PTZ so that a user-drawn box fills the frame, on cameras with a supported PTZ driver:
- POST /cameras/{cameraId}/position/box-zoom
- Camera PTZ capabilities/features now report a beta boxZoom field indicating whether the camera supports box zoom:
- GET /cameras
- Added analytics.hasDescriptiveSearchEmbeddings to stream objects, indicating whether the stream's current archives can be descriptively searched:
- GET /cameras
- Added support for saving, retrieving, and removing a camera's PTZ home position:
- GET /cameras/{cameraId}/position/home
- PUT /cameras/{cameraId}/position/home
- DELETE /cameras/{cameraId}/position/home
- Added support for configuring an idle timeout after which a camera automatically returns to its PTZ home position:
- GET /cameras/{cameraId}/position/home/config
- PUT /cameras/{cameraId}/position/home/config
- Added support for immediately returning a camera to its PTZ home position:
- POST /cameras/{cameraId}/position/home/return
- The stream export endpoints now reject requests when too many exports are already in progress:
- GET /streams/{streamId}/export
- GET /streams/{streamId}/export/time-lapse
Orchid Offline Player 26.9
Architecture
Windows
MacOSfor Intel (x86-64) processor
MacOSfor Apple Silicon (ARM) processor
Linux
2026-09-25Orchid Offline Player
Version 26.9
Orchid Offline Player Release Notes
Improved Daylight Saving Time handling
Orchid Offline Player 26.9.0
Released on 2026-09-25
- The Offline Player now displays the current version.
- The Offline Player now indicates if users should update to the latest version based on the minimum version recommended by an offline bundle.
- The Offline Player has improved timezone handling that accounts for daylight savings time.
- Bundles that are exported from newer Orchid Recorders will allow selecting IANA timezones that account for DST shifts.
- Older Orchid bundles are still compatible, but will continue to operate only with timezone time offsets.
- On MacOS, users can now directly open the Offline Player by opening files with the '.orchid' extension.
- The Offline Player can now be preloaded with a bundle when opening using the CLI by providing the bundle path.
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