Release Notes
v7.0.1 (01.04.2025)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Improved Tracking of Fast-Moving License Plates | Resolved an issue that affected the accuracy of tracking fast-moving license plates, ensuring better consistency for fast moving vehicles in a video. |
v7.0.0 (01.04.2025)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Feature | Upgraded Redact-Infer | Updated our models with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 4.0.0. Introduced a new-generation license plate detection model that delivers higher accuracy, especially for challenging cases like trucks and motorcycles. |
| Bug Fix | Enhanced Face Detection Reliability | Resolved an issue affecting internal image handling to improve face detection results. |
v6.7.0 (04.02.2025)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Accurate Disk Space Reporting | Resolved an issue where available disk space was sometimes displayed incorrectly, ensuring clearer and more reliable error messages. |
| Improvement | Optimized Model Performance | Updated our models for improved processing efficiency and compatibility. |
| Improvement | Upgraded Redact-Infer | Updated our models with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 3.4.0. Note: This update requires NVIDIA drivers version 555 or higher. |
v6.6.0 (11.12.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Updated Job Processing | Improved messaging to reducing the chances of interruptions and ensuring smoother job processing. |
| Bug Fix | Increased Stability for Video Processing | Resolved an issue causing jobs to get stuck when using multiple splitters or aggregators, improving stability and efficiency in processing configurations. |
| Bug Fix | Improved DNAT License Plate Reliability | Fixed inconsistencies in anonymization for license plates, ensuring more dependable results across all video types. |
| Improvement | Enhanced Security | Addressed and fixed critical vulnerabilities in the Redact pipeline to enhance the security and reliability. |
v6.5.0 (12.11.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Updated Overlay Output Format | Changed the overlay output format from APNG to TAR files containing PNG frames to improve support for large video files and prevent corruption issues. |
| Improvement | Clearer Error Messaging | Improved error messages for consumption reporting issues, providing more descriptive feedback to help identify and address problems effectively in case of expired license. |
| Improvement | Performance Optimisation for Large Files | Enhanced the performance of the video processing pipeline by reducing CPU bottlenecks and improving processing speed. |
v6.4.0 (10.09.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Security updates | Fixes to known vulnerabilities and dependency version updates. |
| Improvement | License plate detection model update | Face detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 3.3.0. Improved the detection accuracy for license plates on trucks and motorcycles. |
| Bug Fix | Memory Usage for Large Files | Fixed memory usage issues in the Redact pipeline, ensuring smoother and more efficient processing of large video files without overloading system resources. |
| Bug Fix | Memory Issues for Overlay Processing Large Videos | Resolved out-of-memory issues when processing large video files (over 50 minutes and at least FHD resolution) with overlays. |
v6.3.0 (29.07.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Faster blur processing for 4K videos | Enhanced the processing speed for high-resolution video frames, ensuring a smoother experience when working with 4K content. |
| Improvement | Optimized disk space usage | Improved our archive processing to reduce unnecessary disk space usage, resulting in more efficient storage management. |
| Update | Renamed full body blur parameter | Updated the name of the full body blur parameter for better clarity and ensured no disruption to existing API integrations. The parameter is now called 'full_body_determination_threshold'. |
v6.2.0 (02.05.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Maintaining archive file names | Users working with archived files can now retain the original names of the files after processing. |
v6.1.0 (05.04.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Feature | Added new PII detection | Users with updated licenses now can have access to Full Body Blur (FBB) capabilities in the Precision Blur service & Full body Mask in Mask service. This feature is available with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 3.1.0. |
| Feature | Added new service (experimental) | Introducing the Mask service, an experimental addition to our service offerings. Mask service for PIIs like full body, faces, and license plates, it blacks out pixels like a censor bar. This feature is available with release of new gpu container Redact-gpu 3.1.0. |
| Improvement | Redaction quality improvement | Updated tracking service for more accurate and consistent results. |
| Bug Fix | Bug related to vertical videos | Now that the issue has been resolved, users can process vertical videos (such as those recorded on a camera phone) without experiencing any distortion or unintended alterations. |
v6.0.1 (01.02.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | DNAT improvements | DNAT improvements bringing better face rotation tolerance, face naturalness, and higher processing speed. |
| Improvement | Security updates | Fixes to known vulnerabilities. |
| Feature | Extract service retired | Extract service retired due to availability of redaction areas as replacement. |
v5.15.1 (24.01.2024)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Security updates | Fixes to known vulnerabilities, security improvements, and dependency version updates. |
v5.15.0 (30.11.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Bug related to video splitting | Users will experience improved video splitting without disruptions, ensuring that the output videos maintain the same frame rate as the source material. |
v5.14.0 (30.10.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Addressed a critical issue related to the INSUFFICIENT STORAGE error unit | Users will now experience more user-friendly error messages, allowing for quicker identification and resolution of storage-related issues. |
| Improvement | Face detection model update | Face detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 2.7.0.Improved security: aligning with best practices and upgrading the security status. |
v5.13.0 (19.09.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Bug related to the post-processing of detector when using multiple GPUs | the redact-infer container now operates seamlessly within a multiple GPU environment. This means that user can fully leverage the power of multiple GPUs without encountering the previous error , ensuring a smoother and more efficient workflow. |
| Improvement | Face detection model update | Face detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-infer 2.6.1.This update is designed to enhance detection performance in data domains characterised by low light conditions and the conversion from RAW data format. Please be aware that as a result of these improvements, there may be slight adjustments to the optimal threshold values for non-standard domains. |
v5.12.0 (20.07.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Significant enhancement to the aggregator service | improve the performance and responsiveness of the aggregator service but also enhance the overall user experience. These enhancements will further streamline your video processing workflows and reduce any delays in frame aggregation specifically for larger videos. |
| Bug Fix | Redact Start Time Correction | This correction ensures that speed benchmark results are more accurate and reliable, allowing you to have a better understanding of system performance. |
| Bug Fix | The proper generation of AVI. files when processing videos with audio streams | AVI videos with audio streams will now be processed and returned in their correct AVI format. This fix enhances the overall usability of our product and ensures that video processing remains reliable and consistent. |
v5.11.2 (14.06.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| New feature | Added support for Korean License plates replacements | Deep Natural Anonymisation (DNAT) service now supports replacements for Korean license plates. This feature is only available in API version 4. |
| Improvement | Face detection model update | Face detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 2.5.0. This update will help to reduce the False positive rate for specific data sets containing blurry regions. The optimal threshold values for non-standard domains may be slightly altered. |
v5.10.0 (04.05.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| New feature | Added support for opus audio codec | Audio from videos encoded with the Opus audio codec will be processed unaltered. |
| New feature | Added filename to the status endpoint | The status endpoint will contain the name of the input file. This feature is only available in API version 4. |
| New feature | Added Japanese license plates replacement | Deep Natural Anonymization (DNAT) service now supports replacements for Japanese license plates. This feature is only available in API version 4. |
| Improvement | License plate detection model update | License plate detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 2.4.0. The optimal threshold values for non-standard domains may be slightly altered. |
v5.9.0 (30.03.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Fixed colors changing after redaction. | Redacted images showed different colors than the source image. |
| Bug Fix | Aspect ratio of videos taken from phones are changed. | When posting a video from an Iphone the aspect ratio changed. |
v5.8.0 (07.03.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Improved handling of larger files. | Memory handling in case of large file has been improved to use less memory. |
| Bug Fix | Fixed a bug where larger files could cause errors. | Uploading large files could cause memory usage increase to the limit and eventually cause an error. |
v5.7.0 (09.02.2023)
| Type | Description | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Bug Fix | Fixed bug where metadata information was lost during processing. | When anonymizing avi files, the metadata would not visible on Windows and the anonymized video could not be played with Windows Media Player. This is now fixed. |
v5.6.0 (04.01.2023)
- Improved large file support
- Improved overall stability
v5.5.0 (06.12.2022)
- Added possibility to report consumption through Reverse proxy
- Fixed bug with OpenCV that would cause some data to fail
v5.4.1 (16.11.2022)
- Correction for archives output to always return frames in RGB colorspace
- Improved stability for longer videos
- Fixed bug that would cause aspect ratio to change in specific cases
v5.4.0 (31.10.2022)
- Resolve the issue of missing last frames when processed as archive for large files
- Added filename to the On-Prem UI
v5.3.0 (05.10.2022)
- Improve error messaging for redact "heath" endpoint
- Faster processing by improved startup time for services
- Improved status service with a health REST endpoint
- Improved status service to receive new job information
- Improved performance for face detector
v5.2.1 (08.09.2022)
- Service to export log by customer
- Fixed bug to resolve pipeline failure due too many file open
v5.2.0 (31.08.2022)
- Added LP confidence final score in the label output
- Improved LP detector
v5.1.0 (30.06.2022)
- Improve efficiency of tracking service
- All occurrences of the env vars are removed
v5.0.0 (18.05.2022)
- Removed configurable concurrency
- Improve blurring function speed
- Service refactoring and consolidation
- Deprecate error endpoint
- Fixing multiple bugs including issues related to extremely large and small files
v4.4.1-253 (17.02.2022)
- Fix deletion of artifacts to avoid disk space issues which cause large files to be stuck
- Increase service start time to avoid Kafka re-balancing during start up
- Improved LP detector
- New micro-service messaging format
v4.2.0-244 (18.10.2021)
- Fixed issues with messaging timeouts
- Removed race condition in video aggregation
- Fixed bounding box errors
- Refactored consumption reporting
v4.1.0-243 (20.09.2021)
- New retries and timeouts for GRPC clients
- Increased processing speed
- Better error handling for the death of redact-gpu container
v4.0.0-242 (20.08.2021)
- Improved stability
v3.3.1-237 (03.06.2021)
- Improved stability
v3.3.1-233 (01.04.2021)
- Improved stability
v3.3.0-212 (10.03.2021)
- Added support for parallel upload of large files
- Improved product usability by removing legacy options
person,analytics,block_portraitsflag - Renamed
IPS_DL_NUM_PROCStoGPU_CONCURRENCY - Renamed
IPS_NUM_PROCStoCPU_CONCURRENCY - Fixed race condition in video encoding
v3.2.1-211 (23.02.2021)
- Improved stability
v3.2.1-210 (13.02.2021)
- Improved UI persistence
- Improved input/output consistency of custom labels
- Fixed speed issue with custom labels
- Fixed handling of spaces in video names
v3.2.0-209 (25.01.2021)
- Added support for reprocessing using custom labels
- Added persistence to UI
- Improved stability
v3.1.1-208 (07.12.2020)
- Added experimental support for custom face_determination_threshold
- Added quicktime support for HEVC encoded videos
- Improved disk usage during processing
- Improved scalability of handling incoming http requests
- Improved stability
v3.0.0-190 (11.11.2020)
- Improved stability
- Improved color consistency for synthetic license plate replacements (DNAT)
- Added experimental support for custom lp_determination_threshold
v3.0.0-188 (30.10.2020)
- Improved bounding box format for metadata endpoint (direct JSON response)
- Misc fixes and improvements
v3.0.0-187 (20.10.2020)
- Added API endpoint for downloading metadata
- Added “Constant Rate Factor” (CRF) parameter for video encoding
- Improved focus/usability of API endpoints (removed endpoints for stream outputs and meta data embedding)
v3.0.0-186 (09.10.2020)
- Misc fixes and improvements
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