Release Notes#

Current Release#

Version: 1.2.2
Release Date: 06 Oct 2025

Features:.

Enhanced Helm Chart with RWOnce support and additional stability improvements.
Introduced initial VSS CLI for streamlined command-line operations.
Enabled persistent embeddings in VDMS to maintain state across container restarts.
Implemented search result grouping by tags for improved organization and filtering.
Updated unit tests to cover new features and recent code changes.
Addressed vulnerabilities flagged by Trivy and dependabot scans.

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Known Issues/Limitations:

EMF and EMT are not supported yet.
Video Summarization with mini_cpm model not working on Xeon® 4 and Xeon® 6 machines.
Occasionally, the VLM/OVMS models may generate repetitive responses in a loop. We are actively working to resolve this issue in an upcoming update.
HW sizing of the Video Search or Video Summarization pipeline is in progress. Optimization of the pipelines will follow HW sizing.
VLM models on GPUs currently support only microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct.
The Helm chart presently supports only CPU deployments.
Known issues are internally tracked. Reference not provided here.
how-to-performance document is not updated yet. HW sizing details will be added to this section shortly.
Sometimes during search, the response is not instantaneous. However, users can use the refresh button to fetch the results.
Directory Watcher service only supported in Search only mode.

Version: 1.2.1
Release Date: 29 Sept 2025

Features:

Unified search and summarization functionality for streamlined user experience.
New UI for new combined use case.
API updates to support combined use case.
Enhanced video management with support for tags on upload and search.
Improved text embedding capabilities within the MME service.
Introducing Search Alerts and Directory Watcher for proactive monitoring on search use-case.
TopK search results now available in the UI for faster result filtering
Helm Chart for the combined application.
All application containers now run in non-root mode.
Fix for high RAM consumption when the application is running in combined mode.
Bug Fixes: Resolved multiple issues from previous builds to ensure stability and performance.

HW used for validation:

Known Issues/Limitations:

EMF and EMT are not supported yet.
RWOnce PVC access mode not supported.
Video Summarization with mini_cpm model not working on Xeon® 4 and Xeon® 6 machines.
Occasionally, the VLM/OVMS models may generate repetitive responses in a loop. We are actively working to resolve this issue in an upcoming update.
HW sizing of the Video Search or Video Summarization pipeline is in progress. Optimization of the pipelines will follow HW sizing.
VLM models on GPUs currently support only microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct.
The Helm chart presently supports only CPU deployments.
Known issues are internally tracked. Reference not provided here.
how-to-performance document is not updated yet. HW sizing details will be added to this section shortly.
In standalone search only mode, the tags feature on query is not working.
Sometimes during search, the response is not instantaneous. However, users can use the refresh button to fetch the results.
Directory Watcher service only supported in Search only mode.

Version: 1.2.0
Release Date: 04 August 2025
Features:

This is an incremental release on top of RC4.1 providing fixes for issues found on RC4.1 The notes provided under RC4.1 apply for this incremental release too.
Issues fixed are listed below:
- Updated docker and helm to public registry.
- Updated tags for the helm and docker images.
- Sanity for deployment on EMT.
Limited support for EMT 3.0 based deployment. CPU-only configuration supported.
Images for all required microservices uploaded and available on Docker registry.

Version: RC4.1
Release Date: 29 July 2025
Features:

This is an incremental release on top of RC4 providing fixes for issues found on RC4. The notes provided under RC4 apply for this incremental release too.
Issues fixed are listed below:
- Error message is displayed on the UI when invalid video is uploaded in both Video Search and Video Summarization modes.
- Only mp4 format is supported currently. For other formats, error message is displayed on the UI.
- Fix to ensure that the sample application can be shutdown in a terminal different from the one in which it was started.
- A few minor documentation issues have been fixed.
- Provided a means to manage the PVC in values.yaml file.
- Fixed an issue where video summarization progress is kept in the pipeline manager service even if the specific video summary is deleted
- Issues around tag handling for videos has been fixed.
- Trouble shooting section updated with observed useful information.
- Enabled a minimum configuration of Video Summarization to work on older Xeon configurations. Note that there is no official support for versions of Xeon earlier than Xeon 4.

Version: RC4
Release Date: 18 June 2025
Features:

Added Helm chart for Video Search and Summarization.
Streamlined microservices names and folder structure.
Updated documentation.
Reuse of VLM services with updates for Metro AI suite.
Addressed various issues and bugs from the previous builds.
Unified Video Search and Summarization Use Case: Integration of search and summarization capabilities into a single deployment experience. Users can select the use case deployment at runtime.
Elimination of Datastore Microservice Dependency: Simplified architecture by removing reliance on the datastore microservice.
Nginx Support: Added compatibility for both Helm and Docker Compose-based deployments.
Streamlined Build, Deployment and Documentation: Introduction of a setup script to simplify service build and deployment processes.

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