Full Changelog: https://github.com/spupuz/VibeNVR/compare/v1.17.0...v1.17.1

v1.17.1 - Telemetry & Privacy Transparency

This release focuses on transparency, privacy, and configuration flexibility regarding the new Telemetry system, ensuring users have full control over what data is shared.

🛡️ Telemetry & Privacy

We have introduced a lightweight telemetry system to help improve VibeNVR. Transparency is our priority:

• What is it?
  We use Scarf to collect anonymous, aggregate usage data. This helps us understand the hardware distribution of our user base (e.g., "Do most users have GPUs?" or "Are most users on Linux or Docker Desktop?").

• What is collected?

  • No PII: We do not collect IP addresses, email addresses, names, or video content.
  • Hardware Metadata: Operating System, CPU Arch (x86/ARM), RAM size (rounded), and GPU availability.
  • App Metrics: VibeNVR version, active camera count, and rough event counts.

• Privacy First:

  • The telemetry data is completely anonymous.
  • You can Opt-Out at any time via Settings -> Privacy & Analytics or by setting telemetry_enabled=false in your database.

🚀 Improvements & Fixes

• Documentation: Updated README.md with a comprehensive "Telemetry & Privacy" section.
• Security Audit: Verified auth_service and media serving protections to ensure no unauthorized access to streams.

📦 Upgrade Instructions

To apply these changes, pull the latest image or code and rebuild:

git pull origin main
docker compose down
docker compose up -d --build

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