Release Notes 12.1.356 Patch 1
11 May 2026
A patch with a bit of personality. A new feature stepping out in early access, a few thoughtful enhancements, and the kind of small fixes that quietly clean up everyday rough edges.
What's New
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Live Surveillance: Cameras finally have a place at the table. Add and manage cameras, watch live feeds in a grid view with a LIVE indicator, sort the event feed, and organize cameras into folders with the same breadcrumbs and tiles you already know from DEMS. Camera state and surveillance alerts persist on the server, so a refresh no longer wipes the timeline. This one ships as Early Access, with steady improvements to follow as the feature finds its feet.
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Live Operator Dashboard: A single live view of what's happening across your cameras right now. See open alerts at a glance and the latest activity feed, with the view staying current as new events come in.
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Faster Object Tracking in Video Studio: Object tracking in Video Studio has had a real speed-up. The wait between drawing a box and seeing a finished track has shrunk to a fraction of what it was, and Studio stays responsive the whole time the tracker is running. If anything ever gets in the way, the system quietly handles the heavy lifting behind the scenes — same result, same quality, no interruption to your flow. See Track Objects Instantly in Your Browser.
Enhancements
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Studio Space also picked up a round of quality-of-life refinements that make working with dense scenes faster and a lot less fussy. Selection, resizing, zoom, and label visibility have all been smoothed out — less time fighting the canvas, more time finishing the work.
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When a transcoded rendition isn't MP4, the player now automatically falls back to the next playable rendition instead of failing. Older formats and edge cases continue to play.
Bug Fixes
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Merging detections and publishing in Studio used to drag, and on heavier content the publish step could hang outright. The flow has been smoothed out, and publish now wraps up cleanly and on time.
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Images uploaded into the chatbot were disappearing on page reload. They now persist through reloads, and publishing files uploaded through chat no longer fails intermittently.
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Print Chat was producing a misaligned layout — messages and report sections would crowd the page and overlap when printed. The output has been tidied up and now prints cleanly from top to bottom.