Blue Iris full changelog

Blue Iris 6.0.1.4 released Dec 21, 2025 (New Release)

Optional built-in AI processing using YOLOv8 ONNX models. Optional face recognition when humans are detected and license plate OCR when vehicles are detected.
Registry location for all AI settings moved from OptionsAI to AI
The default faces and plates folders are now C:Blue IrisAIfaces and plates
Edit the coco.names files in C:BlueIrisAImodels to localize object names. A hyphen is used before the name to ignore specific objects completely to prevent useless clutter.
An option on the clips view right-click Move menu to move to Known Faces. This is a convenient way to use a camera to take portraits of family members or automatically saved unknown faces and move them into the Known Faces folder.
Visit Settings/AI/Faces in order to sync the face database and OK to restart the AI.
DB repair will tolerate manual movement of files between recording folders without losing DB metadata

Blue Iris 6.0.1.3 released Dec 19, 2025 (New Release)

Optional built-in AI processing using YOLOv8 ONNX models. Optional face recognition when humans are detected and license plate OCR when vehicles are detected.
Registry location for all AI settings moved from OptionsAI to AI
The default faces and plates folders are now C:Blue IrisAIfaces and plates
Edit the coco.names files in C:BlueIrisAImodels to localize object names. A hyphen is used before the name to ignore specific objects completely to prevent useless clutter.
An option on the clips view right-click Move menu to move to Known Faces. This is a convenient way to use a camera to take portraits of family members or automatically saved unknown faces and move them into the Known Faces folder.
Visit Settings/AI/Faces in order to sync the face database and OK to restart the AI.
DB repair will tolerate manual movement of files between recording folders without losing DB metadata

Blue Iris 6.0.1.2 released Dec 18, 2025 (New Release)

Optional built-in AI processing using YOLOv8 ONNX models. Optional face recognition when humans are detected and license plate OCR when vehicles are detected.
Registry location for all AI settings moved from OptionsAI to AI
The default faces and plates folders are now C:Blue IrisAIfaces and plates
Edit the coco.names files in C:BlueIrisAImodels to localize object names. A hyphen is used before the name to ignore specific objects completely to prevent useless clutter.
An option on the clips view right-click Move menu to move to Known Faces. This is a convenient way to use a camera to take portraits of family members or automatically saved unknown faces and move them into the Known Faces folder.
Visit Settings/AI/Faces in order to sync the face database and OK to restart the AI.
DB repair will tolerate manual movement of files between recording folders without losing DB metadata

Blue Iris 5.9.9.99 released Nov 25, 2025 (New Release)

Added:
H.265 re-encoded output option
Changed:
Updated to new build environment, latest encoder/decoder versions
H.264/H.265 hardware encoding/decoding for both Nvidia and Intel; some stream
incompatibilities have been observed with Nvidia, and this is being evaluated

Blue Iris 5.9.9.98 released Nov 6, 2025 (New Release)