Opencast 8: Release Notes

Features

• The adminworker distribution is no longer available.

Improvements

• Media package elements retrieved from the asset manager (e.g. using “start task”) now always get tagged archive even when they have not been tagged thus before.

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

Aditional Notes About 7.4

Opencast 7.4 brings a performance fix for some queries in the search API that can cause Opencast to run out of memory.

This release also gives back a patch that was in version 6.x that allows to filter capture agent roles for ACLs and fixes the date cell of the events overview table in the admin UI.

Finally, Opencast 7.4 also brings an update to the CAS security example that was out of date.

Release Schedule

TBD