Opencast 3 Changelog

Opencast 3.7

Released on Oct 16, 2018

• [MH-12982] - 3.0 database upgrade error
• [MH-13022] - Fix LTI highly trusted keys being discarded
• [MH-13034] - Add lis_person_sourcedid back as LTI source field for the username
• [MH-13082] - Fix LTI security vulnerability and refactor LTI and OAuth classes
• [MH-13152] - Reduce Workflow Messages, backport of Lars fix for >=r/5.x
• [MH-13156] - Set the auth scheme to digest for inter-server communication

Opencast 3.6

Released on May 31, 2018

• [MH-12910] - When switching between branches with different module naming schemes, the git tree is left unclean sometimes
• [MH-12860] - Opencast does not build at DEBUG logging level
• [MH-12841] - Opencast is ignoring permissions
• [MH-12840] - LTI user provider may allow LMS admins to become Opencast admins
• [MH-12830] - Fix mvn site generation
• [MH-12743] - OAIPMH-Republish-Operation tries to republish to ASW3
• [MH-12441] - Fix multi-server configuration docs and config details
• [MH-12091] - Create a Capture Agent digest user with its own role

Opencast 3.5

Released on February 6, 2018

• [MH-12620] - Document ActiveMQ memory requirements
• [MH-12606] - Using "Start Task" with a workflow containing an embedded script in the configuration which somehow modifies the input parameters does not update those values properly
• [MH-12582] - Editor WOH should not encode videos unless it is strictly necessary (to save time and resources)
• [MH-12495] - Job dispatching with loads needs optimization
• [MH-12487] - Add job load settings to the default encoding profles
• [MH-12399] - Oaipmh Retract very slow

Opencast 3.4

Released on December 4, 2017

• [MH-12588] - Stream Security Leaks Secrets
• [MH-12587] - ActiveMQ config ships with 3rd party tool enabled by default
• [MH-12532] - The bundle workflow-workflowoperation creates (and leaves) temporary files in/tmp
• [MH-12516] - Oversize job acceptance logic is incorrect
• [MH-12505] - composer operations need to set job load from profile load when creating jobs
• [MH-12501] - Incorrect logging in inbox scanner
• [MH-12496] - Feeds point to removed embed player
• [MH-12494] - JMX bean unregistration causing stack traces in unit tests
• [MH-12478] - Waveform filenames are not unique
• [MH-12471] - Workspace Cleaner Minor Fix
• [MH-12464] - Job dispatching can be slowed down excessively by host loads query
• [MH-12439] - WorkspaceCleaner Should Clean All Files
• [MH-12437] - Admin UI ng fails mvn clean install if the node_modules exists
• [MH-12435] - Race condition when workspace file deletion removes collection
• [MH-12430] - Update Crowdin translations for r/3.x
• [MH-12422] - Adjust documentation to new Crowdin Opencast project
• [MH-12421] - Job dispatching halts because of http connection hang
• [MH-12415] - Improve performance of /api/events?withpublications=true
• [MH-12363] - org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser is not thread safe
• [MH-12000] - Cross-tenant URL signing
• [MH-11361] - date in engage is the creation date, not the recording date
• [MH-11042] - Admin UI NG tests fail in +5:30 timezone

Opencast 3.3

Released on September 21, 2017

• [MH-12383] - Upgrade/Unify Library Versions
• [MH-12413] - Don't present the user a previous/next item button if there is no previous/next item
• [MH-12405] - Catastrophic Oveload in Calendar generation
• [MH-12400] - Player: Embed Links disabled
• [MH-12393] - Retract workflow fails if run when a video is being played (with nfs storage)
• [MH-12389] - Set operation to failed when setting workflow to failed on exception path
• [MH-12386] - Update Postgresql Connector
• [MH-12384] - Catch possible NPE in FileSupport.delete()
• [MH-12366] - authorization-manager depends on download-impl
• [MH-12365] - Losing ActiveMQ connection spams the logs
• [MH-12364] - /broker/status endpoint returns incorrect 204 when ActiveMQ is shut down
• [MH-12362] - Less verbose logging for ExportWorkflowPropertiesWOH
• [MH-12360] - Race condition in workspace collection add and delete
• [MH-12359] - Milliseconds trim bug in videoeditor-workflowoperation formatTime() javaScript
• [MH-12358] - Only 6 series were displayed on the distribution node
• [MH-12353] - Theodul player does not load reliably after restart
• [MH-12350] - Recreate adminui-Index stops, if Asset of Event ist missing
• [MH-12329] - File copy can fail with jetty timeout
• [MH-12326] - Reduce log level for IllegalStateException in StaticResourceServlet
• [MH-12317] - AdminUI create every 5 seconds stats request and may crash on heavy server load
• [MH-12303] - Sort the REST endpoints alphabetically
• [MH-12131] - Migrate documentation of capture agent communication protocol to markdown
• [MH-12085] - Make file upload in Admin UI more flexible
• [MH-11768] - Timeline preview images

Opencast 3.2

Released on August 16, 2017

• [MH-12347] - Opencast generates invalid XML catalogs when a "default" (empty) Namespace is used.
• [MH-12345] - Ingest fails because /recordings/{id}/acls returns 500 if event has not ACLs
• [MH-12342] - A "Scanner" instance in the ExecuteServiceImpl class is not properly closed: possible resource leak
• [MH-12333] - Feed generator separates lists of tags incorrectly
• [MH-12327] - CAS Authentication is not working
• [MH-12324] - Reduce frequency of index update messages for rebuilds
• [MH-12318] - Remove Webconsole Default Installation
• [MH-12316] - IllegalStateException: Committed
• [MH-12315] - Database Query of Users from UserlistProvider is very slow
• [MH-12311] - Update Admin UI build tools
• [MH-12307] - OAI-PMH REST endpoint docs fix
• [MH-12305] - Admin UI should stop polling event stats if the event tab isn't shown
• [MH-12288] - Set default max idle time if not configured and log key pool parameters
• [MH-12280] - Create an Opencast group for Sakai instructors
• [MH-12278] - NullPointerException in CleanupWorkflowOperationHandler
• [MH-12275] - MH-12261 / Avoid race condition between index and cleanup operations
• [MH-12271] - MH-12261 / Update WFR put action to update files atomically
• [MH-12270] - Don't swallow unknown SMIL exceptions
• [MH-12263] - MH-12261 / FileSupport > link - copy file action should use overwrite argument (Throws FileFileAlreadyExists)
• [MH-12261] - Race condition leads to FileAlreadyExistsException and FileNotFoundException
• [MH-12079] - Misleading logging in some indexing message receivers
• [MH-12007] - Revive the Execute Service
• [MH-11542] - Failed test: Process video after cutting (Safari)
• [MH-10650] - Intermittent failure to detect hard links when starting a cluster
• [MH-10523] - Misleading exception parameter in getFileFromCollection

Opencast 3.1

Released on July 14, 2017

• [MH-12296] - getSeries Performance Issue
• [MH-12295] - Update Karaf to 4.0.9
• [MH-12291] - Remove obsolete Speech Recognition API
• [MH-12279] - As a user, I expect the video editor to correctly visualize the audio track
• [MH-12253] - Example workflows are inconsistent in Formatting and Configuration of Publication Options
• [MH-12215] - Extended metadata should be applied on event create wizard
• [MH-12157] - Series index query performs bad on system with many series
• [MH-11742] - Document criteria for inclusion and exclusion of translations

Opencast 3.0

Released on June 13, 2017

• [MH-12257] - HttpsFilter is not called before OAuthProviderProcessingFilter
• [MH-12255] - OC cannot add PyCA capture agent when server ending with /
• [MH-12252] - LTI default launch goes to the wrong URL for sample tool
• [MH-12249] - Media Module: Paging forgets search parameters
• [MH-12248] - Capture Calendar Modification Caching Implementation is very Inefficient
• [MH-12247] - Archive Synchronization fix doesn't working in >=2.3
• [MH-12235] - WOH partial-import: No track matching smil Track-id
• [MH-12230] - Notifications appear again although the user has closed them
• [MH-12228] - player controls: use dropup instead of a dropdown if controls are below the video
• [MH-12226] - Add documentation about configuration of publication channel names and icons
• [MH-12222] - As a user, I don't want an empty tab be presented to me since I don't necessarily understand, what that means
• [MH-12221] - As a user, I expect meaningful placeholder texts in the filter selection components
• [MH-12213] - Internal distribution fails if download url is not default
• [MH-12211] - As a service provider, I need to be able to deal with multiple users that have the same name
• [MH-12207] - Incorrect comment identifiers in some workflows
• [MH-12205] - Update version of javax.ws.rs - jsr311-api
• [MH-12204] - Rearrange the config
• [MH-12202] - ProxyMiddleware does ignore host port
• [MH-12199] - 3.x release notes mention "comprehensive" LDAP support, which is not (yet) true
• [MH-12198] - Remove outdated file location in LDAP documentation
• [MH-12197] - IllegalStateException: Response is committed
• [MH-12195] - Unprivileged users cannot view media package element details on Recordings->Events->"Event Details"->Assets->Media
• [MH-12193] - OAI-PMH distribution fails on adaptive streaming artifacts
• [MH-12189] - Sakai userdirectory provider is not properly bundled
• [MH-12183] - Theodul does not load
• [MH-12181] - As a course admin, I want to allow roles in the UI for ACLs that match a pattern
• [MH-12180] - Cannot specify ValuefFor probe-resolution woh
• [MH-12174] - The Admin UI temporarily displays wrong table content because data is not cleared upon page navigation
• [MH-12173] - The Admin UI temporarily displays wrong table content because data requests are not cancelled
• [MH-12170] - Safari does not display metadata once entered
• [MH-12169] - As a user, I expect search strings to match non-word boundaries in searchable dropdown lists
• [MH-12167] - As a user, I need to be able to search for values offered by the filters, so that I actually find the value I am looking for
• [MH-12156] - Fix version of matterhorn-engage-theodul-plugin-custom-piwik
• [MH-12153] - Reduce Database Space usage
• [MH-12149] - Upgrade Elastic Search to 1.7.6
• [MH-12148] - Undocumented Archive WOH Requirements
• [MH-12147] - TOC links in REST docs overlap
• [MH-12142] - As a system administrator, I would like a documented hint that the user running Opencast needs RW access to the optional storage directory
• [MH-12141] - As service provider, I want to restrict access granted to tenant administrators
• [MH-12138] - Added release notes
• [MH-12137] - AWS S3 tries to distribute attachments from OAI-PMH distribution
• [MH-12133] - OAI-PMH Tests Fails Regularly
• [MH-12130] - Filters set by selecting a category in the dashboard are not shown
• [MH-12128] - REST docs are too eager to check for a valid value
• [MH-12126] - Fast workflow needs AWS distribution to default to false.
• [MH-12124] - Cutting a video multiple times results in multiple smil/cutting catalogs
• [MH-12121] - Update grunt-ng-annotate to 3.0.0 and grunt-contrib-uglify to 2.2.0
• [MH-12120] - pub service oaipmh wants distribution api
• [MH-12117] - As an adopter I would like to get collect data with Piwik
• [MH-12115] - Republish Metadata to OAI-PMH fails
• [MH-12113] - Update outdated comment about the "lifecycle-mapping" plugin in the main pom.xml
• [MH-12112] - Update Node Version
• [MH-12110] - frontend-maven-plugin is executed on every module
• [MH-12109] - Creating comments does not work anymore
• [MH-12108] - Set Workflow Variables Based On Resolution
• [MH-12104] - As a producer, I want to access assets of my tenant while a workflow is running
• [MH-12103] - As a producer, I want to be able to execute WOH partial-import on archived sources
• [MH-12102] - Add Workflow Variables Based On Media Properties
• [MH-12084] - The class "AsyncTimeoutRedirectFilter" swallows almost all the exceptions
• [MH-12074] - Remove workflow MissedCaptureScanner and MissedIngestScanner
• [MH-12073] - Typo in rest_docs entry box
• [MH-12070] - Order the event counters to reflect the event lifecycle
• [MH-12067] - Initial REST Docs Search
• [MH-12066] - Missing feature.xml Installation
• [MH-12065] - Fix bundle info REST endpoint description
• [MH-12064] - Handle missing meta.abstract gracefully
• [MH-12060] - Simplify Default WOH
• [MH-12056] - As an Administrator, I'd like to add some custom roles for managing access
• [MH-12055] - Update REST Documentation Template
• [MH-12054] - Incorrect or misleading documentation about WOH conditional execution
• [MH-12049] - Update REST Documentation Overview
• [MH-12043] - Allow more then one additional authentication algorithms beside digest
• [MH-12038] - Fallback decoding for mediapackage date values in unixtime rather than W3CDTF
• [MH-12037] - NullPoiinterException when starting embedded Solr
• [MH-12035] - Setting Default Download Directory
• [MH-12034] - Make the UserAndRoleDirectoryService cache configurable
• [MH-12033] - Add indicator lights for capture agent status
• [MH-12032] - Add an authenticated ACL template
• [MH-12031] - Add additional docs for inspection WOH
• [MH-12029] - As a user, I want to use my existing AAI login for Opencast, too
• [MH-12023] - Make development builds faster
• [MH-12022] - /ingest/addTrackURL broken
• [MH-12019] - Ensure Test Files Are Deleted
• [MH-12017] - CoverImage WOH should provide metadata for recording start/end time
• [MH-12016] - Fix and improve user, group, role and provider handling
• [MH-12015] - Typo in External API role name
• [MH-12014] - Incorrect number of roles returned when limit is specified
• [MH-12013] - Contribute OAI-PMH work (ETH)
• [MH-12002] - Date & time format should be customizable in cover images
• [MH-11994] - UserIdRoleProvider should check user existence from user providers
• [MH-11993] - WOH partial-import should support output framerate
• [MH-11990] - Remove configuration file of removed module matterhorn-load-test
• [MH-11982] - As an Opencast administrator, I would like a dashboard counter for active recordings
• [MH-11979] - The video editor does not highlight the selected segment if it is cut
• [MH-11978] - Hotkeys for common tasks in Admin UI
• [MH-11977] - Remove Unused OSGI Bindings From IndexService
• [MH-11976] - Adjust DownloadDistribution Logs
• [MH-11975] - Update some maven plugins
• [MH-11971] - Update maven-surfire-test plugin to latest version
• [MH-11969] - Fullscreen button in embedded view of Theodul player missing after update to 2.2.4
• [MH-11967] - Publish internal fails on Distrubuted System Admin/Engage
• [MH-11965] - Update to Karaf 4.0.8
• [MH-11957] - Make availability check of WOH publish-configure configurable
• [MH-11956] - Allow fine-grained control of accurate frame count
• [MH-11954] - Fixing Javadoc Build
• [MH-11952] - HTML in Translations
• [MH-11944] - MH-11817 use keyboard shortcuts to control the editor
• [MH-11916] - Add convenience workflow instance variable to indicate whether a theme is involved
• [MH-11910] - WOH composite should be able to respect resolution of its input
• [MH-11904] - Missing IDClass Warnings
• [MH-11903] - Cannot Configure Authentication For Webconsole
• [MH-11902] - Update to latest 5.x MySQL connector
• [MH-11894] - Suppress context menu on video element
• [MH-11885] - Add support for search and filtering to Organization->Access Policies
• [MH-11881] - ArchiveRestEndpoint has conflicting endpoints
• [MH-11880] - Multiple issues with LDAP in branch 2.3.x
• [MH-11873] - org.ops4j.pax.web.pax-web-extender-whiteboard causes exception when shutting down
• [MH-11868] - redesign loginpages
• [MH-11861] - MH-11817 Change default view to editor in admin ui tools area
• [MH-11849] - Edit metadata fields by click inside and focus cursor in field
• [MH-11822] - Admin UI Video Editor - Improved Segment Controls
• [MH-11821] - Admin UI Video Editor - Comment and Metadata Editing
• [MH-11818] - Admin UI Video Editor - Improved playback and timeline
• [MH-11806] - Output Frame Rate on Concat Operation
• [MH-11797] - Upgrade Karaf to 4.0.6
• [MH-11796] - Add support for watermarks to themes
• [MH-11782] - MH-11780 Create configure-by-dcterm workflow operation handler
• [MH-11781] - MH-11780 Create tag-by-dcterm workflow operation handler
• [MH-11780] - As a developer I want to be able to manipulate a workflow based on metadata in the Mediapackage
• [MH-11766] - enhance REST Ingest/addTrack Ingest/addCatalog Ingest/AddAttachment to add tags
• [MH-11761] - Captions for player
• [MH-11732] - Make distribution and retraction efficient
• [MH-11719] - When configuring LDAP with default file things are broken
• [MH-11717] - MH-11713 Not possible to add external roles to an ACL through the admin UI
• [MH-11715] - MH-11713 Externally provisioned roles should not be persisted
• [MH-11713] - Users may have roles in Opencast which are granted from an external system (e.g. LMS)
• [MH-11684] - WOH silence does not support tags
• [MH-11474] - Assigning a user to a certain "ROLE_GROUP_<name>" role does not really put the user in such group
• [MH-11466] - Improve handling of long strings in cover images
• [MH-11379] - Service to distribute delivery files to AWS S3
• [MH-11229] - workflowoperation unit tests are incredible slow
• [MH-11036] - Adapt Fast Testing Workflow for Admin NG
• [MH-10871] - Sakai User Provider for Opencast-Sakai integration
• [MH-10819] - When creating a new event, metadata field can only be edited by clicking on the pencil icon
• [MH-10753] - Stale database connection causes job failure
• [MH-10310] - Add ERROR state for capture agent