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Ant Media Server

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Velocity2.5

Self-hosted and cloud ultra-low-latency live streaming server with WebRTC, SRT and RTMP support

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Ant Media Server 3.2 adds WHEP playback, Prometheus metrics and plugin installs from the dashboard.

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◆Current state
Ant Media Server is a self-hosted streaming server spanning WebRTC, RTMP, SRT, HLS and LL-HLS. 3.2.0 on November 13, two months after 3.1.0, adds WHEP signalling, a Prometheus metrics endpoint with a matching Grafana dashboard, app and plugin installation from the dashboard, SRT passphrases and a new stream-source ingest manager. Its 43 bug fixes are mostly about SRT, RTSP and LL-HLS stability, plus restoring plugin files after an upgrade.
◆Where it's heading
The 2026 releases moved from adding protocols and codecs (SRT restreaming, AV1, RTSP output) toward running the server as operated infrastructure: monitoring, plugin management from the panel and upgrade-safe plugins. WHEP joins standard WebRTC signalling, and the MoQ library update shows the team tracking the next streaming transport, though only as a library and CDN test so far.
◆Prediction
Expect 3.2.x patches for the SRT and plugin fixes that ship in volume with each minor; whether MoQ becomes a usable output is not clear from these notes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    3.2.0: WHEP, Prometheus metrics and dashboard plugin installs

    3.2.0 adds WHEP signalling, Prometheus and Grafana monitoring, dashboard app and plugin installs, and SRT passphrases, with 43 fixes concentrated on SRT, RTSP and LL-HLS stability. It extends 3.1's rebuilt panel into a place to operate the server, not only configure it.

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  2. 2mo ago

    New management panel, RTSP output and multi-audio SRT ingest

    3.1.0 is the largest release of the year: a rebuilt management panel, an RTSP output plugin, multi-audio SRT ingest into HLS and WebRTC, and an upgrade to Java 21. It extends the 3.x focus on broadcast-grade protocol coverage, with a long list of SRT, HLS and cluster bug fixes.

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  3. 6mo ago

    3.0.3 maintenance build with no listed changes

    A maintenance build published a day after 3.0.2 with no change notes, only package names. Nothing user-visible is documented.

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  4. 6mo ago

    3.0.2 code quality and stability build

    A code-quality and stability build that also bumps internal versions toward 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT. No user-facing changes are listed.

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  5. 6mo ago

    3.0.1 adds AV1 and removes deprecated APIs

    3.0.1 adds AV1 codec support, hardware H.265 decoding and an HSTS header, and removes deprecated methods in a change the notes flag as possibly breaking. It also patches eight dependency CVEs, the clean-up that opened the 3.x line.

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  6. 9mo ago

    Restream to SRT, local license server, on-demand playlists

    2.17.1 adds restreaming to SRT endpoints, a local license server for offline deployments, and playlists that start and stop with viewer demand. It is the first step of the SRT work that 3.1.0 later extended to multi-audio ingest.

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