Frigate NVR Updates: Critical Bug Fixes and Memory Leak Patches
Nine pull requests merged today addressing critical crashes in birdseye custom logos, WebSocket memory leaks, and broken event cleanup that was causing disk space exhaustion.
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- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT1M52S
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Good morning. This is Frigate NVR Updates for March 16th, 2026.
Today we saw nine merged pull requests from contributor ryzendigo, all targeting critical stability issues.
The most significant fix addresses birdseye crashes when using custom logos without alpha channels. The code was unconditionally indexing the alpha channel, causing crashes with grayscale or RGB images. This has been resolved with proper format detection.
A related fix corrects swapped shape indices in logo placement that was breaking non-square custom logos.
On the infrastructure side, a WebSocket memory leak in the WebRTC player has been patched. The component was creating new WebSocket connections on re-renders without closing previous ones, leading to connection exhaustion.
A critical bug in event cleanup has been fixed where orphaned camera snapshots and clips were never being deleted from disk. The cleanup iterator was being consumed by debug logging, leaving the actual deletion loop with no events to process. This was causing gradual disk space exhaustion.
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