# 🚀 Wowza Streaming Engine 4.10.0 Released: Features, Security Patches & Transcoder Updates

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**Created:** [May 18, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-4-10-0-released-features-security-patches-transcoder-updates/102827 "2026-05-18T07:56:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vihari\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@Vihari\_Kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Vihari_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-4-10-0-released-features-security-patches-transcoder-updates/102827/1 "2026-05-18T07:56:11Z")

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Hello Everyone,

The latest **Wowza Streaming Engine 4.10.0** update is officially live! This release delivers enhanced performance and optimization across core streaming components, improved reliability for video transcoding workflows, and modernized security patches. Developers will also enjoy an upgraded experience with the public REST API documentation and the general availability of the **MainConcept Easy Video API (EVA)**.

Check out the official [Wowza Streaming Engine 4.10.0 Release Notes Here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-4-10-0-release-notes).

Key Improvements & Performance Optimizations

- **MainConcept Easy Video API (EVA):** Officially moved out of beta and is now available for General Availability (GA).

- **Enhanced Transcoding:** Improved stability and performance for transcoder overlays, alongside better reliability for transcoder session starts.

- **High-Resolution Streaming:** Wowza Streaming Engine can now seamlessly handle higher-resolution and higher-complexity input frames.

- **Stream Target & Origin Optimization:** Optimized stream target implementations as well as live and VOD HTTP-origin applications.

- **Variable Bitrate (VBR) Support:** Improved transcoder functionality with VBR source-streams.

- **Protocol Enhancements:** Added the `<SRTListener>` block to enhance secure

- **Developer API:** Public-facing [REST API documentation](https://developer.wowza.com/docs/wowza-engine/rest-api/openapi) is now fully available to streamline your development workflow.

## Deprecations & Removed Packetizers

To streamline the media server software, the following deprecated legacy playback features and packetizers have been permanently removed in version 4.10.0:

- **Adobe HDS Packetizer:** `sanjosestreamingpacketizer`

- **Microsoft Smooth Streaming Packetizer:** `smoothstreamingpacketizer`

- **Deprecated Smooth Streaming Properties:**

## Bug Fixes & OS Compatibility

- **Linux Ingest Fix:** Resolved a critical WSE transcoder failure during ingest initialization (`Cannot enable executable stack` error) affecting modern Linux distributions including **Ubuntu 25.04+, Debian 13, Fedora, and Arch Linux**.

- **Cloud Templates:** Updated the default `Application.xml` template for live and VOD applications deployed specifically within AWS cloud images.

- **RTSPS Playback:** Fixed intermittent TLS errors during RTSPS playback that previously impacted customers utilizing secure RTSP pull workflows.

## Critical Security Patches & CVE Fixes

This release includes important security updates to safeguard your streaming server environment against vulnerabilities:

- Resolved [CVE-2026-24734](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24734) affecting Apache Tomcat.
- Resolved [CVE-2026-29145](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29145) by updating Apache Tomcat to version 10.1.53.
- Resolved [CVE-2025-68161](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68161) related to log4j version.
- Resolved [CVE-2026-22732](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22732) (updated Spring Security Core 6.5.9 and Spring 6.2.17)
- Resolved [CVE-2025-2223](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-2223) security vulnerability.
- Updated OpenSSL to 3.5.5 on Windows Wowza Streaming Engine installation.

Regards,  
**Vihari Kumar**  
Technical Support Engineer  
**Wowza** | The solution you start with, the partner you scale with.

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