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MK.IO Beam Release Notes
MK.IO Beam 1.13.0.7
21st August 2026
New features
- Addition of an RT (reliable transport) failover group for high availability distributed deployments
- Manual CPIX key rotation
MK.IO Beam 1.12.0.7
17th July 2026
New features
- Essentials UI for new customers only
- Ability to change the audio line-up on a Receiver service without interruption in the video output for SDI output only
- Null Packet Removal from Multiplexer transport stream output bitrate allowing users to remove NULL packets (PID 0x1FFF) from the MPEG transport stream output
MK.IO Beam 1.11.0.4
2nd July 2026
New features
- SMPTE ST 2110 end to end latency reduced to match SDI performance
- Packager - CPIX key and credential support
- Support for multiple UHD ST2110 outputs on a single Mellanox card
MK.IO Beam 1.10.0.2
29th May 2026
New features
- Add Support for 100G ST 2110 Network Card in MK.IO Beam
- Add support for ConnectX-6 Lx EN Adapter Card
- Make 3pp software persistent over upgrade
- Ability to enter a Stream ID for a SRT session
MK.IO Beam 1.9.0.5
24th April 2026
New features
- Configuration of IP settings of bonded interfaces on the UI
- Creation and deletion of VLAN interfaces on the UI
- Configuration of IP settings of VLAN interfaces on the UI
- Configuration of route metrics on the UI to allow support for multiple default gateways
- Configuration of jumbo frames on the UI to simplify configuration of JPEG-XS encode
- Configuration of static routes on the UI
- 8 tuners supported on the 4-port RF input card (Digital Devices SX8)
- Add information from Dell SupportAssist to Beam support package
MK.IO Beam 1.8.0.3
27th March 2026
New features
- Add H.264 High to the list of Contribution codecs
- Removal of the four service limitation for SMPTE ST 2110 output
- Support for down conversion modes: 1080i to 720p, 1080P to 720P, 720P to 1080i, UHD to 1080i, UHD to 1080P, UHD to 720P
- Beam with distributed headends including Packaging
- Static routes configuration now retained on upgrade
MK.IO Beam 1.7.0.4
27th February 2026
New features
- ST2022-6 output over IP
- UI configuration support for HTTPS Proxy
- Add Support for Multi-Payload SMPTE ST 2110-40 VANC Reception
- Reception – support for super low delay mode for 1080i video sources
- Packager redundancy in Beam using a failover group
- MK.IO should pick up RF cards from Beam appliances and add them to the ‘Device’ page similar to ‘IP’ and ‘SDI/ASI’
- BEAM with HA Head ends - Support for Multiplexer redundancy
MK.IO Beam 1.6.0.5
30th January 2026
New features
- Support for router control for headend deployments of MK.IO Beam
- HDR/SDR custom Look-up Table (LUT) upload and selection
- It is now possible to enable/disable Packaging on the MK.IO Beam UI
- CPIX integration using HMAC for live events and linear channels
- Include alarms exposed to Prometheus so they can be viewed on a remote Grafana instance
- Support for UHD decode over SMPTE ST 2110 output
- BEAM with HA Head ends - Support for Packager and EL on separate servers
- Provide HTTPS access to Packaged output
- Splicing now supported in Distributed Head end deployments
MK.IO Beam 1.5.0.4
27 November 2025
New features
- Introduction of the X20 server
- Live to live splicing is now supported
- Support for backup and apply of device configurations from MK.IO
MK.IO Beam 1.4.0.3
31 October 2025
New features
- Support for high availability headend deployments with Live Encoding
- Support for SD resolutions with SMPTE ST 2110 output
- Improvements to decode latency
- Bonding capability for all ports
MK.IO Beam 1.3.0.0
9 October 2025
New features
- Introduction of X40 server
- Support for multiple CI option cards in a single chassis
- Software decode supports HDR to SDR dynamic range conversion
- Software decode support for additional sub-sampled resolutions for 720p- and 1080i-based content
- Support for running MK.IO Beam in a VM for controller use cases on ESXI virtualization
- Support for installing the MK.IO Beam software ISO via BMC or iDRAC
- PTP, clock source and IGMP parameters can be configured on the UI
- Network status information available on the UI
MK.IO Beam 1.2.0.1
5 August 2025
New features
- Introduction of C30 and H70 servers
- Server pair 1+1 redundancy for headends
- Support for multiple Digital Devices RF input cards in a single chassis
- Receiver service support for AMD CPUs
- Simplification of JPEG-XS encode configuration
- Support for ASI output on Dektec DTA-2127
MK.IO Beam 1.1.0.2
23 June 2025
New features
- Support for E50 and E60 servers for contribution encode and headend use cases.
- 4:2:2 8-bit and 10-bit progressive and interlaced H.264 and H.265 HD software encode.
- RF input and SDI output via Dektec DTA-2127 RF input option card.
- 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 H.265 UHD software decode.
- 4:2:2 10-bit SMPTE ST 2110 output with software decode.
- The Dektec DTA-2178 8-port SDI option card is now supported with reception. It is possible to output up to 8 baseband outputs with one Dektec DTA-2178 card and more with multiple DTA-2178 cards.
- Hostname, IP, NTP, firewall zones, DHCP and DNS parameters can be configured on the MK.IO Beam web UI.
- New “Super Low” decode delay mode introduced for lower latency decoding.
- Server health monitoring now available.
- Support for active-backup redundant bonded network management interfaces.