Opencast 8: Release Notes

Features

• Improved integration of external statistics providers (InfluxDB)
  • Hourly scale for data exports
  • Visualization of statistics in the Admin UI
• Limit accepted file types when uploading assets
• Support for exclusion pattern for URL signing
• Add option to configure state mappings for workflows
• Assembly configuration
• Multi-tenancy support for workflows
• Role support for workflows
• Video-crop service
• Paella Player 6.2.4
• Multiple audio tracks support on Paella Player
• Feeds-tab: adds a new tab in series properties for ATOM and RSS Feeds
• Custom LTI series tool styles
• Show only events with write access in the Admin UI
• Access org properties from publish-configure WOH
• Resolution based, conditional encoding
• Termination State Service to integrate with AWS AutoScaling Lifecycle
• Health check endpoint
• Officially support URL signing keys that handle multiple URL prefixes
• Support for exclusion pattern for URL signing
• User-provider for the d2l Brightspace LMS
• Provide access to file contents in the Working File Repository
• Automatic caption using Google speech to text API
• Admin UI: new event media upload progress bar
• Opencast Plug-in features for Karaf
• Single step delete of events

Improvements

• Resume on past table page when leaving video editor
• JavaScript dependency management
• Highlight main table rows on hover
• Reduces job payload size in database
• Improved URL signing performance
• ingest-download operation moved to worker
• Media Module configuration now in the organization configuration file
• Sensible names for hosts instead of URLs
• Improved icons and wording in video editor
• Improved delete-event submit button
• Extended the ingest-download-woh
• Tag elements retrieved from asset manager
• Improve navigation in video editor when zoom is active
• Switch to compatible file type filter definitions
• Improved setting values from Dublin Core catalog
• Don't start Opencast on a used port
• ESLint used in Theodul Core
• Theodul Player scroll/zoom overlay to use shift + scroll wheel zoom
• Removed State Mapping "Importing"
• Hide column "Stop" by default
• Fixed Workflow Index rebuild ACL handling
• Reduced memory needed for Workflow Index rebuild
• Ansible script documentation
• Automatic publication of streaming URLs
• S3 compatibility - Endpoint configuration for Amazon S3 alternatives added
• Theodul player ui config
• Re-introduce ability to avoid data loss during ingest

Configuration changes

• etc/org.opencastproject.adminui.cfg has a new option retract.workflow.id which contains the id of the workflow used to retract events when deleting.

API changes

• Removed REST endpoints for modifying workflow definitions
  • DELETE /workflow/definition/{id}
  • PUT /workflow/definition

Release Schedule

Date	Phase
October 1st 2019	Feature Freeze
Nov 4th - Nov 10th 2019	Translation week
Nov 11th - Nov 24th 2019	Public QA phase
December 17th 2019	Release of Opencast 8.0

Release managers

• Karen Dolan (Harvard University DCE)
• Rüdiger Rolf (Osnabrück University)