IPConfigure announces the release of Orchid Fusion VMS version 2.10.0 and Orchid Core VMS 2.10.0, both available for download now.  Orchid Fusion Cloud customers will see their cloud sites updated to version 2.10.0 within the next five business days.

Orchid Core VMS 2.10.0 was released on May 29, 2020.  This is a major release with several new features:

New Features:

• Advanced Settings allows administrators to update the Orchid Core VMS properties file from the web interface.
• Configurable database optimization interval to improve performance on larger Windows servers.
• Better visibility of camera and license count usage on Camera Configuration and Activation pages.
• Indicate when the viewing client’s timezone is different from the recording server’s timezone.
• Improve visibility of the “Clear Stage” button in the camera bag.
• Support for Ubuntu 20.04 servers.

Orchid Fusion VMS 2.10.0 was released on May 29, 2020.  This is a major release with many features.  Orchid Fusion VMS 2.10.0 makes a number of recent Orchid Core VMS features—including 360-degree camera de-warping, motion masking, and the advanced settings editor—available in the Orchid Fusion VMS user interface.

New Features:

• Sign in using Azure Active Directory authentication.
• Sign in using FreeIPA authentication.
• Mixed authentication modes: administrators may enable external authentication providers and local users simultaneously.
• Orchid Fusion VMS now performs a database backup before software upgrade.
• Orchid Fusion VMS now supports updating the properties file settings of Orchid Core VMS servers through an Advanced Settings page.
• Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Ubuntu 20.04 servers.
• Indicate when the viewing client’s timezone is different from the recording server’s timezone.
• Improve visibility of the “Clear Stage” button in the camera bag.
  Better reporting of error conditions for offline Orchid Core VMS servers.
• 32-bit ARM installers now support installation on 64-bit ARM devices.
• Orchid Fusion VMS can now dewarp fisheye cameras.
  • Interactively view fisheye cameras with Perspective dewarp mode.
  • Flatten the entire view of the fisheye camera with Panorama dewarp mode.
  • Export dewarp player package for saving and sharing fisheye archives.
• Orchid Fusion VMS now supports configuring motion detection settings!
  • Users can interactively configure regions to ignore motion activity.
  • Users can configure the sensitivity of the motion detector.
• New and improved video player.
  • Refreshed all of the player and PTZ controls.
  • Statistics are more informative and better organized.
  • Low-bandwidth mode now makes use of WebSockets.
  • Pausing streams now properly displays the final frame.
  • Low-bandwidth streams on mobile are now higher quality.
• Orchid Fusion VMS now supports click-to-center PTZ with supported ONVIF cameras.
• New and improved activation process.
  • Orchid Core VMS servers that are connected to the internet can now be activated in one step by entering the activation code.
• The Orchid Core VMS ‘System Report’ page now provides information regarding storage device failures and Orchid Fusion VMS registration events.
• The Orchid Core VMS ‘Retention Policy’ page now better accounts for motion-only recording streams.
  • Current Disk Utilization now shows both the total duration of video and the number of calendar days recorded.
• Improve Orchid Core VMS server health awareness on the servers page.
  • Servers not in a healthy state now have an alert badge indicating the current state.
  • Orchid Fusion VMS now reports degraded Orchid Core VMS servers.
  • Orchid Fusion VMS now clearly indicates when attached Orchid Core VMS servers are less than the required minimum version.
  • Sorting by server health is now improved.

New & Improved Online Manuals

Orchid Core VMS manuals are now available by way of our new online documentation platform at https://www.ipconfigure.com/manuals. 

The new manuals have the same great content but are now fully browser-centric, mobile-friendly, and even feature a built-in search engine.  If you like the old PDF manuals, those are still available, too!

Orchid Fusion VMS 2.10.0 manuals will be available in the coming weeks at the same location.