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Latest Release

  • Orchid Fusion VMS 26.3.0

    Monitor (read-only administrator) users, Orchid AI performance and tracking improvements

  • Orchid Recorder 26.3.0

    Monitor (read-only administrator) users, Orchid AI performance and tracking improvements

You'll need
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.

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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 26.3

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
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Orchid Recorder 26.3.0
Orchid Recorder 26.3.0
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Version 26.3.0

Orchid Fusion VMS

Monitor (read-only administrator) users, Orchid AI performance and tracking improvements

Released on 2026-03-13

  • Orchid VMS introduces a new Monitor user role for system wide view-only access.
    • Administrators can create and manage Monitor users within the improved Permission Group configuration.
    • Monitor users have view-only access to the entire system and may be given additional global camera permissions.
  • The Orchid Recorder Analytics Service for AI now supports hardware video decoding using Intel Quick Sync Video.
    • Recording servers with a compatible Intel processor will automatically use the chipset's hardware acceleration for stream decoding within the analytics service.
    • Hardware decoding can be disabled using the analytics.gst.element_ranks Orchid Recorder property.
  • Orchid VMS AI now includes object tracking for improved accuracy, high framerate rendering, and event storage.
  • System administrators can now configure an Orchid Hybrid VMS property to change the layout of the Sign In page to prioritize Single Sign On.
  • The IFrame player now displays timezone offset information and can be optionally hidden.
  • The Preview Player on the Camera Configuration page now displays timezone information.
  • External Event Subscriptions now display the publicly accessible Webhook URL when viewing through the management UI.
  • Orchid VMS now has new and improved bulk camera operations.
    • Administrators can now select all cameras on a Recorder and are not limited to just the cameras visible on the Camera Configuration page.
    • Administrators can now disable/enable and recover cameras in bulk on a Recorder.
  • Camera summary information in the Cameras Page, Servers Page, and Camera Bag now displays details about the default stream.
  • The Camera Bag view mode now persists across sessions.
  • System administrators can now configure an Orchid Hybrid VMS property to set the default SMTP From-Address for all Orchid VMS emails.
  • Orchid VMS now provides warnings about Recorder Impairments that indicate reduced functionality of the Orchid Recorder.
    • Recorder Impairments indicate that a Recorder's core functionality is operational, while ancillary features could be operating with reduced capability.
    • A Recorder Impairment is now displayed if Smart/AI Search is unavailable, or if the Smart/AI searchable event history was pruned early due to storage capacity issues.
  • The Stream Configuration section will now display a warning if a Secondary stream's aspect ratio does not match the Analytics stream's aspect ratio, which results in mis-aligned detection regions.
  • Orchid Hybrid VMS now retains preview images of a camera's Default stream rather than the Analytics stream.
  • Improve support for Keenfinity/Bosch cameras.
  • Orchid Recorder service restarts caused by an upgrade or an Advanced Settings change will now indicate a reason on the Server Stop events on the System Reports page.
  • System administrators can now add, remove, and list Recorder server tags using the Orchid Recorder command line interface.
  • Orchid Recorder will no longer prune any archives when all cameras are disabled on the recorder.
  • Administrators can now update camera retention settings for offline and disabled cameras.
  • Improve performance of heatmap requests.
  • Improve storage characteristics of the Orchid Recorder Smart Search database to ensure its maximum size is limited under all conditions.
  • Improve performance of Smart Search and AI timeline event requests.
  • Forensic Timestamps now default to local server time, instead of UTC.
  • Timeline events would occasionally fail to display on page load.
  • Download progress events on the Library page would repeatedly cause the view to reset to the first page.
  • The Stage Calendar Picker would navigate to the incorrect time when selecting times that cross Daylight Savings Time.
  • Editing an ONVIF Event Subscription whose source camera was deleted would result in a broken dialog.
  • Sub-admins with the Registrar ability could inadvertently revoke Recorder administrator privileges from groups even if the Sub-admin was not a member of those groups.
  • The Motion Alert video clip downloader would not automatically retry video downloads that failed due to network failures.
  • Recorder Directives would be submitted to and processed by Recorders even after they were unregistered from Orchid Hybrid VMS.
  • Disabling and re-enabling a camera would result in the Audit Log incorrectly indicating that Secondary streams were deleted and created.
  • User session tokens were visible in the Recorder Audit Logs.
  • Frame ripping would frequently fail for video archives that contained gaps in footage.
  • The Orchid Recorder Windows installer would cause the service to enter a crash loop if the Windows VC Runtime installer failed. Such failures now cause the installer to fail early and revert to the previous installation.
  • Orchid Recorder would occasionally crash due to camera streams that would fail to stop.
  • The Orchid Recorder Smart Search database was subject to vulnerabilities described in CVE-2025-12818 and CVE-2025-12817.
  • Orchid Recorder would crash under heavy load associated with heatmap requests.
  • Added property smtp.address.from.default to the following endpoints:
    • /service/about
    • /service/about/config
  • The beta endpoint /groups/lite searchTerm parameter must now include a search field.
    • Supported fields are server.name, camera.name, camera.ip and group.name.
    • May supply searchTerm parameters in the query
  • Added new property tzIANA, Orchid Recorder IANA time zone name, to the following endpoints:
    • GET /orchids
    • POST /orchids
    • GET /orchids/time
  • tzIANA is a new supported field name in the exclude and include parameters for GET /orchids
  • Camera previews endpoints return preview images from the default stream:
    • GET /orchids/{id}/cameras/{cameraId}/preview
    • GET /orchids/{id}/cameras/{cameraId}/preview/small
    • GET /orchids/{id}/cameras/{cameraId}/preview/large
  • Orchid Hybrid VMS support for Ubuntu 16.04 is planned to be deprecated in the 26.6 release.
Version 26.3.0

Orchid Recorder

Monitor (read-only administrator) users, Orchid AI performance and tracking improvements

Released on 2026-03-13

  • Orchid VMS introduces a new Monitor user role for system wide view-only access.
    • Administrators can create and manage Monitor users within the improved Permission Group configuration.
    • Monitor users have view-only access to the entire system and may be given additional global camera permissions.
  • The Orchid Recorder Analytics Service for AI now supports hardware video decoding using Intel Quick Sync Video.
    • Recording servers with a compatible Intel processor will automatically use the chipset's hardware acceleration for stream decoding within the analytics service.
    • Hardware decoding can be disabled using the analytics.gst.element_ranks Orchid Recorder property.
  • Orchid VMS AI now includes object tracking for improved accuracy, high framerate rendering, and event storage.
  • System administrators can now configure an Orchid Fusion VMS property to change the layout of the Sign In page to prioritize Single Sign On.
  • The IFrame player now displays timezone offset information and can be optionally hidden.
  • The Preview Player on the Camera Configuration page now displays timezone information.
  • External Event Subscriptions now display the publicly accessible Webhook URL when viewing through the management UI.
  • Orchid VMS now has new and improved bulk camera operations.
    • Administrators can now select all cameras on a Recorder and are not limited to just the cameras visible on the Camera Configuration page.
    • Administrators can now disable/enable and recover cameras in bulk on a Recorder.
  • Camera summary information in the Cameras Page, Servers Page, and Camera Bag now displays details about the default stream.
  • The Camera Bag view mode now persists across sessions.
  • System administrators can now configure an Orchid Fusion VMS property to set the default SMTP From-Address for all Orchid VMS emails.
  • Orchid VMS now provides warnings about Recorder Impairments that indicate reduced functionality of the Orchid Recorder.
    • Recorder Impairments indicate that a Recorder's core functionality is operational, while ancillary features could be operating with reduced capability.
    • A Recorder Impairment is now displayed if Smart/AI Search is unavailable, or if the Smart/AI searchable event history was pruned early due to storage capacity issues.
  • The Stream Configuration section will now display a warning if a Secondary stream's aspect ratio does not match the Analytics stream's aspect ratio, which results in mis-aligned detection regions.
  • Orchid Fusion VMS now retains preview images of a camera's Default stream rather than the Analytics stream.
  • Improve support for Keenfinity/Bosch cameras.
  • Orchid Recorder service restarts caused by an upgrade or an Advanced Settings change will now indicate a reason on the Server Stop events on the System Reports page.
  • System administrators can now add, remove, and list Recorder server tags using the Orchid Recorder command line interface.
  • Orchid Recorder will no longer prune any archives when all cameras are disabled on the recorder.
  • Administrators can now update camera retention settings for offline and disabled cameras.
  • Improve performance of heatmap requests.
  • Improve storage characteristics of the Orchid Recorder Smart Search database to ensure its maximum size is limited under all conditions.
  • Improve performance of Smart Search and AI timeline event requests.
  • Forensic Timestamps now default to local server time, instead of UTC.
  • Timeline events would occasionally fail to display on page load.
  • Download progress events on the Library page would repeatedly cause the view to reset to the first page.
  • The Stage Calendar Picker would navigate to the incorrect time when selecting times that cross Daylight Savings Time.
  • Editing an ONVIF Event Subscription whose source camera was deleted would result in a broken dialog.
  • Sub-admins with the Registrar ability could inadvertently revoke Recorder administrator privileges from groups even if the Sub-admin was not a member of those groups.
  • The Motion Alert video clip downloader would not automatically retry video downloads that failed due to network failures.
  • Recorder Directives would be submitted to and processed by Recorders even after they were unregistered from Orchid Fusion VMS.
  • Disabling and re-enabling a camera would result in the Audit Log incorrectly indicating that Secondary streams were deleted and created.
  • User session tokens were visible in the Recorder Audit Logs.
  • Frame ripping would frequently fail for video archives that contained gaps in footage.
  • The Orchid Recorder Windows installer would cause the service to enter a crash loop if the Windows VC Runtime installer failed. Such failures now cause the installer to fail early and revert to the previous installation.
  • Orchid Recorder would occasionally crash due to camera streams that would fail to stop.
  • The Orchid Recorder Smart Search database was subject to vulnerabilities described in CVE-2025-12818 and CVE-2025-12817.
  • Orchid Recorder would crash under heavy load associated with heatmap requests.
  • Added support for bulk camera operations:
    • PATCH /cameras
    • DELETE /cameras
  • Added beta support for ingesting external subscription events via HTTP GET:
    • GET /events/metadata/external/{subscription-id}
  • Added Recorder Directives status to discoverable endpoint response, as well as via a new endpoint:
    • GET /discoverable
    • GET /trusted/issuer/directives
  • Added analytics target processing framerate, processing throughput percent, and camera name to analytics status:
    • GET /analytics/status
  • Additional endpoints support global read-only access for users with the Monitor permission:
    • GET /events/metadata
    • GET /events/metadata/subscriptions
    • GET /events/metadata/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}
    • GET /events/metadata/subscriptions/tags
    • GET /server/properties/confirmed
  • Auth types microservice-session and os are now reflected in audit logs:
    • GET /audit/logs
    • GET /audit/logs/export
    • GET /audit/users
  • Trusted Issuer backchannel no longer accepts any authentication other than the Trusted Issuer's JWT:
    • /trusted/issuer/backchannel
  • New server events indicate when the Trusted Issuer WebSocket has connected or disconnected:
    • GET /events/server
  • IPC_SERVER_STOP server events now include the reason for the stop, when it is system-initiated:
    • GET /events/server
  • IPC_SERVER_START server events now include the exit code from the last server termination:
    • GET /events/server
  • Object detection regions reported over the WebRTC datachannel during playback may now include an object id, and also indicate whether the object was in motion:
    • /service/streams/webrtc
  • Object detection regions are now sent as smooth 30 fps interpolations in playback, when the object was consistently tracked over the interval:
    • /service/streams/webrtc

Orchid Offline Player 26.3

Architecture
Windows
MacOSfor Intel (x86-64) processor
MacOSfor Apple Silicon (ARM) processor
Linux
2026-03-13Orchid Offline Player
Orchid Offline Player 26.3.0
Orchid Offline Player 26.3.0
Orchid Offline Player 26.3.0
Orchid Offline Player 26.3.0
Version 26.3.0

Orchid Offline Player

First release.

Released on 2026-03-13

  • Orchid Offline Player UI updates.

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