4.6.0

Version 4.6.0

New Features

• Dual Stream Plugin
  • New plugin for playback of dual stream content
  • Allows switching between layouts during playback
• Content Security
  • Adds control of content security options for libraries and playlists
  • Added password and user restrictions for content and playlists
  • Option to "OR" multiple restrictions
  • Security menu options to control content security at System, Institution, Organization and Library levels
• Localization support
  • Addition of date/time formatting and language user preferences
  • Addition of Spanish (Mexican) translations for portal and plugin
• Watch to Ingest Migration Utility
  • New utility for migration of watch directory workflows to ingest directory workflows
  • Supports migration of multiple workflows at Library, Organization and/or Institution levels
• Addition of "Auto-Publish" to Library Playlist
  • Simplifies setup and publishing of content to a Library playlist
• CAS/Shibboleth Identity Providers group support
  • Adds management of Groups for CAS and Shibboleth Identity Providers
  • Allows login restriction by defined Groups

Improvements and Fixes

• Upgrade to .NET Framework 4.6.2
• Addition of "Popular" content section to Portal
• Consolidation of Ensemble Video services
  • All legacy Service jobs have been migrated to quartz-based Service V2
  • Replaced legacy Service w/ Service V2
  • Processing improvements to increase stability
  • Support for load-balancing
• JW Player version upgrade to 7.10.7
• Ensemble Studio
  • Support for dual stream content
  • Addition of High and Low transcoding profiles
• CAS/Shibboleth Identity Providers
  • Fixed CAS role attribute handling to support list of roles
  • Added user-friendly error pages
• Ingest Directory
  • Added support for shadow files
  • Fixes for logging and performance
• LMS/CMS integrations
  • Support for search string, category and result count in Playlist embed options
  • Support for LTI Content-Item Message
• Fix for Caption Search in IE 11/Edge
• Removal of Flowplayer support
• Fix to remove bad line breaks in newly uploaded DFXP/TTML caption files

Hotfixes

Hotfix 1

• Fix for Studio recordings deletion
• Fix for Trim

Hotfix 2

• Fix for Thumbnail on demand generation
• Fix for permalink loading

Hotfix 3

• Fix for embed 'Captions On By Default' option

Hotfix 4

• Fix for Playlist preview when there are restrictions set on playlist
• Fix for content status update
• Fix for Playlist permalink web address restriction

Hotfix 5

• Fix for Studio license validation

Hotfix 6

• Fix for failure to persist modified user settings
• Fix for portal login not respecting user's "Landing Page" preference
• Fixed rendering of responsive content url in non-responsive playlist embed
• Fix to properly display branded logo in Dropbox when authenticated
• Fixed restriction validation handling in API for Portal channels and content download
• Web/app/web.config fix for disabled i18n module due to static compression of resource files (update needs to be applied manually)

Hotfix 7

• Fix for Ensemble Studio device validation when using special characters
• Fix for Ensemble Studio device IP address trim
• Fix in Service config for processing of Ingest Directory shadow files (needs to be manually applied)

Hotfix 8

• Fix for web address restrictions for individual content item permalink
• Fix for portal categories page if user is logged as LDAP user (not auto-provisioned)
• Improved processing of Ingest Directory shadow files

Hotfix 9

• Fix for Editor role - delete operation shouldn't be supported
• UI improvement for new security
• Fix for MAC issues related to DateTime formats

Hofix 10

• Additional UI improvement for new security
• Fix for LCS publishing
• Fix for RTSP pull live recording

Hotfix 11

• Performance fixes to reduce Session locking
• Automatic Captions update to remove upstream media after job completion
• Updated DotNetCasClient library version with fix for potential redirect loop
• Fixed url handling regression in AST job submissions
• Portal Load Improvement

Hotfix 12

• Fix for issues causing intermittent playback failure in plugin
• Fix for Live Stream player 404 issue in case when Live Stream is not active
• Fix for dual content fixed iframe embed thumbnail sizeFix for dual content fixed iframe embed thumbnail size

Hotfix 13

• Fix for displaying portal comment section for not provisioned users
• Fix for tracking playback for not provisioned users and displaying full name for User Viewing Details report
• Fix for timeout when attempting to bulk caption

Hotfix 14

• Update for Security restrictions

Hotfix 15

• Fix for reporting performance issue potentially causing sql timeouts
• Fix for Shibboleth regression in hotfix 13 requiring all mapped attributes to be sent during authentication
• Fix for live stream upload when agent or credits are present on live stream item

Hotfix 16

• Fix for Upload Handler performance related to issue with mPlayer data folder filling up

Hotfix 17

• Fix for Dual content audio sync issue
• Fix for Dual recording processing when stream interruption occurs
• Fix to handle filenames with illegal characters during upload

Hotfix 18

• Minor fix for Studio volume handling when switching between single view and PIP

Hotfix 19

• Fix for security vulnerability.
• Fix for Studio recurrent recordings (start processing)
• Fix for Dual Content recording (sql deadlock on streaming API)
• Fix for Daylight Saving Time conversion to UTC (Studio, Dropbox, Content)
• Player upgrade to 7.12.3 (fix for captions in Firefox and Safari)

Hotfix 20

• Fix for Dual Content initial volume mute setup

Hotfix 21

• Fix for creating organizations if Live Stream/Live Capture/Ensemble Studio workflows doesn’t exist anymore on the institution level
• Fix for deleting organizations if they are created with errors caused by missing Live Stream/Live Capture/Ensemble Studio workflows on institution level
• Fix for displaying reporting data caused by time zone in combination with Date Range picker

Hotfix 22

• Fix for reports exporting using the latest Mozilla Firefox
• Fix for reports content duration

Hotfix 23

• Fix for regression in content copy.

Hotfix 24

• Fix for Live Streaming reporting

Hotfix 25

• Fix for Dual Streaming (SQL deadlock issue)

Hotfix 26

• Fix for security vulnerability
• RTMP streaming forced for audio on IE browsers
• Studio fixes for Dual content processing
• Studio fix for Monthly, Weekly and Bi-Weekly schedule recurrence
• Studio fix for Daylight Saving Time adjustment that is affecting schedule recurrent recordings