# Frigate v0.18.0-beta2 — 0.18.0 Beta 2

- Product: Frigate (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/frigate)
- Vendor: Frigate
- Date: 2026-07-26
- Version: v0.18.0-beta2
- Original notes: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases/tag/v0.18.0-beta2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/frigate/releases/v0.18.0-beta2
- Labels: Pre-release

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- **security** — Bound REGEXP evaluation with a per-eval timeout to prevent ReDoS on the database thread
- **security** — Fix JWT exp claim to use max_age per JWT_SESSION_LENGTH and prevent a new token being issued on logout
- **changed** — GenAI now supports multiple providers with a mapping of keys to provider setups and a new roles field defining what tasks each provider will be used for
- **changed** — Frigate no longer saves annotated JPEG snapshots to disk, only clean unannotated WebP snapshots are stored in /media/frigate/clips/
- **removed** — The clean_copy configuration option has been removed as clean snapshots are always saved when snapshots are enabled
- **changed** — The snapshots.quality default has changed from 70 to 60 reflecting the switch from JPEG to WebP encoding
- **changed** — The /api/events/<id>/snapshot.jpg endpoint now honors timestamp, bounding_box, crop, height, and quality query parameters for both in-progress and completed tracked objects
- **fixed** — Fix Gemini tool calling and catch an OpenAI error in GenAI
- **changed** — Expose whether a GenAI provider supports embeddings
- **changed** — Clean up llama.cpp and use the API key when configured in GenAI
- **changed** — Restrict the semantic search tool to English on JinaV1
- **fixed** — Resolve friendly names against the correct camera and render zones with friendly name plus ID in the chat prompt
- **fixed** — Convert face recognition crops to RGB before embedding and catch faces that become empty after cropping
- **changed** — Runtime camera toggles now persist across config saves and re-apply overrides on save/delete without re-broadcasting
- **fixed** — Stop dropping batched add/remove config updates in object processing
- **fixed** — Always clean up embeddings so they don't outlive their events
- **fixed** — Prune object filters for unsupported labels when cleaning tracked objects
- **fixed** — Add -vaapi_device to the birdseye restream vaapi encode preset so hwupload can init on ffmpeg 8
- **fixed** — Resolve export hwaccel args global value against the correct config path
- **fixed** — Zone editing now disables the ID field when a zone is referenced in any required_zones

##### Images

- [ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.18.0-beta2](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pkgs/container/frigate/1066920071?tag=0.18.0-beta2)
- [ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.18.0-beta2-standard-arm64](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pkgs/container/frigate/1066918792?tag=0.18.0-beta2-standard-arm64)
- [ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.18.0-beta2-tensorrt](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pkgs/container/frigate/1066906308?tag=0.18.0-beta2-tensorrt)
- [ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.18.0-beta2-rk](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pkgs/container/frigate/1066929055?tag=0.18.0-beta2-rk)
- [ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.18.0-beta2-rocm](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pkgs/container/frigate/1066911168?tag=0.18.0-beta2-rocm)
- [ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.18.0-beta2-tensorrt-jp6](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pkgs/container/frigate/1066885434?tag=0.18.0-beta2-tensorrt-jp6)
- [ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.18.0-beta2-synaptics](https://github.com/users/blakeblackshear/packages/container/frigate/1066949997?tag=0.18.0-beta2-synaptics)

##### Changes since Beta 1

###### Security
- GHSA-q8jx-q884-jcq9: bound REGEXP evaluation with a per-eval timeout to prevent ReDoS on the database thread
- Fix JWT `exp` claim (use `max_age` per `JWT_SESSION_LENGTH`) and prevent a new token being issued on logout

###### Backend
- GenAI: fix Gemini tool calling, catch an OpenAI error, expose whether a provider supports embeddings, clean up llama.cpp and use the API key when configured, and restrict the semantic search tool to English on JinaV1
- Zones: resolve friendly names against the correct camera and render zones with friendly name + ID in the chat prompt
- Face recognition: convert crops to RGB before embedding and catch faces that become empty after cropping
- Runtime camera toggles: persist across config saves, re-apply overrides on save/delete without re-broadcasting, and stop dropping batched add/remove config updates in object processing
- Embeddings and event cleanup: always clean up embeddings so they don't outlive their events, and prune object filters for unsupported labels when cleaning tracked objects
- Various autotracking and ONVIF fixes
- Add `-vaapi_device` to the birdseye restream vaapi encode preset so hwupload can init on ffmpeg 8
- Resolve export hwaccel args global value against the correct config path
- Don't report auto-populated object/audio filters as camera overrides
- Derive stale replay cameras from bounded directory listings to avoid scanning all clips at startup
- Improve error messages for Intel GPU stats
- Fix notification test button being blocked by websocket auth
- Replace deprecated `openvino-dev` with a modern package for OpenVINO model generation
- Ensure preview and review directories are valid after deleting a camera from the UI
- Handle indefinite events when a segment needs to forcibly be ended for a camera
- Bump sqlite-vec to 0.1.9
- Documentation updates

###### Frontend
- Zone editing: disable the ID field when a zone is referenced in any `required_zones`, and delete all `required_zones` references when the zone is deleted
- Exports: center the multi-camera export range on the current playback position and fix a crash when camera group icons are invalid
- Motion search/preview: fix motion-preview playback rate and don't stay on the page when the flow is cancelled
- Improve the classification model edit dialog (edit enabled/save_attempts, plus state/motion/interval configs)
- Show a numeric keyboard on mobile for number-specific fields in Settings
- Fix the birdseye reordering widget in Settings
- Update several object icons for Frigate+ 2026.2
- Pin react-zoom-pan-pinch to fix History zooming reset
- Fix minor export/review activity calendar timezone handling bug
- Various frontend tweaks and fixes (logger i18n, scrollbar, overflowing text, etc.)

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