Frigate 0.16.0 → 0.17.0

There are several breaking changes in this release, Frigate will attempt to update the configuration automatically. In some cases manual changes may be required. It is always recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading:

1. Simply copy your current config file to a new location
2. Stop Frigate and make a copy of the frigate.db file

• GenAI now supports reviews and object descriptions. As a result, the global genai config now only configures the provider. Other fields have moved under objects -> genai. See the new GenAI documentation.
• Recordings retention is now fully tiered. This means that record -> continuous and record -> motion are separate config fields. See the examples in the documentation.
• Some of the LPR models have been updated, and most users should manually switch to the small model, which performs well on both CPU and GPU. The large model is the same as 0.16's and is not as accurate as the upgraded small model in 0.17. Use large only if you live in a region with multi-line plates and you are having issues detecting text on them with the small model.
• strftime_fmt was deprecated in 0.16, and should now be fully removed from the config in 0.17. Date/time formatting is based on the language selected in the UI.
• The auto detection logic for camera resolution has changed. Some cameras fail to correctly advertise their resolution, and in previous versions, a default value was assumed that was not always correct. You may need to explicitly define detect resolution width and height for cameras in your config if Frigate hangs on startup.
• The exec, expr, and echo sources for go2rtc are now removed by default to reduce the security risk if an attacker has access to the configuration. This can be disabled using an environment variable GO2RTC_ALLOW_ARBITRARY_EXEC A separate configuration for this for HA addon users will come in a later beta. See the documentation.
• Nvidia GTX 900 series GPUs are no longer supported due to updates to ONNX Runtime