Opencast 14: Release Notes

Opencast 14.6

Opencast 14.6 is a minor release. This release includes bug fixes and improvements.

See changelog for a comprehensive list of changes.

Opencast 14.5

Opencast 14.5 is a minor release. This release includes bug fixes and improvements.

The analyze-mediapackage WOH was extended so it will also create variables regarding the existence of elements of a certain flavor and tag (example: captions_source_hastag_archive). These new variables are not created by default.

See changelog for a comprehensive list of changes.

Opencast 14.4

Opencast 14.4 is a minor release. This release includes bug fixes and improvements.

See changelog for a comprehensive list of changes.

Opencast 14.3

The off-schedule release of Opencast 14. This release includes fixes from Opencast 13.10 release, see release notes of Opencast 13.10

Additionally, the following changes are part of this release.

See changelog for a comprehensive list of changes.

Opencast 14.2

Opencast 14.2 is a minor release. The release fixes corrupt zip headers in the distributed jar files and elasticsearch package imports. This was causing Opencast to fail at startup in combination with a recent OpenJDK security update.

The alternative to updating to this release is to run Java with -Djdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true. Setting this will disable the new security check.

Additionally, the following changes are part of this release.

See changelog for a comprehensive list of changes.

Opencast 14.1

Opencast 14.1 is a minor release, containing documentation improvements and Paella Player 7 trimming URL parameter fix. For more details, make sure to check out the documentation.

See changelog for a comprehensive list of changes.

Opencast 14.0

New Admin UI

Opencast 14 brings with it a new version of the Admin UI. The new Admin UI continues with the same look and feel, but uses new technologies under the hood. It strives to be robust and easy to develop for, while having all the same functionality users expect from the old UI.

For now, the new Admin UI has not quite reached those goals yet. Therefore, it is not enabled by default and marked as beta. If you wish to try it out, you can easily do so by going to https://your-opencast/admin-ui/index.html (don't worry if it looks like nothing has changed, the look is really similar :)). If you find any issues, please report them at GitHub project issue board.

For notes on how to set the new Admin UI as your default, check Admin UI.

Features

Improvements

Behavior changes

Release Schedule

Date Phase
May 15, 2023 Cutting the release branch
May 15, 2023 Translation week
May 30, 2023 Public QA phase
June 22, 2023 Release of Opencast 14.0

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