Release Notes

This page lists user-facing changes. If you are troubleshooting, record both the Viewu App version and the Viewu Server version.

Viewu App

2.23

• Release date: 2025-12-16
• Improved responsiveness and reliability (threading and UI polish)
• Better behavior on LAN HTTPS with self-signed certificates:
  • When a streaming path fails, Viewu can fall back to downloading and playing locally
• Event exports: save event clips as MP4 files (Files app → Viewu folder)
• Log view improvements (more actionable diagnostics)
• Timeline navigation improvements (quick day filter)

2.20

• Release date: 2025-12 (exact day not recorded)
• Support for Frigate auth on port 8971
• Support for Cloudflare-secured NVR connections using custom auth headers
• Support for Cloudflare-secured MQTT connections using custom auth headers
• Support for JWT bearer token authentication

0.2.5

• Release date: 2025-11-13
• Added support for Frigate 16 (previously up to Frigate 14)
• Small various UI tweaks

0.2.1

• Release date: 2024-06-22
• Official App Store release

0.2.0

• Release date: 2024-06-09
• Added Notification Manager screen (create templates and pause notifications)
• Added the ability to push template configuration to Viewu Server

Viewu Server

3.5

• Release date: 2025-11-13
• Misc settings change to support notifications for Viewu App 0.2.5

0.2.9

• Release date: 2024-06-22
• Support for managing notifications for multiple iOS devices
• Docker compose arguments and Notification Manager values are saved and do not require resync after restart
  • Note: after updating the server image, you may need to resync once

0.2.5

• Release date: 2024-06-09
• Added support for managing notification templates from within the Viewu app