Opencast 4 Changelog

Opencast 4.5

Released on Oktober 30, 2018

• [NOJIRA] - Fix wrong example in publish-configure documentation
• [MH-13075] - make ACL entries unique prior to running ACL comparisons
• [MH-13068] - workflow delete instance stability improvement
• [MH-13055] - Stop making events with no ACL public on ingest
• [MH-13032] - Asset Upload fix for missing reset()
• [MH-12953] - stop loading editor.json twice
• [NOJIRA] - Update the release process docs

Opencast 4.4

Released on May 31, 2018

• [MH-12923] - ServiceRegistry does not close db connction
• [MH-12841] - Opencast is ignoring permissions
• [MH-12840] - LTI user provider may allow LMS admins to become Opencast admins

Opencast 4.3

Released on March 28, 2018

• [MH-12774] - Fix differences in provided security configurations
• [MH-12773] - Fix that non-admins cannot add new assets
• [MH-12772] - Fix acces to assets for non-admins
• [MH-12789] - Remove tabs and trailing spaces in LTI tools
• [MH-12790] - Make LTI respect player configuration

Opencast 4.2

Released on March 14, 2018

• [MH-12766] - Metadata view and edit roles where at some places set incorrectly
• [MH-12765] - Navigating through series in the series details modal causes failing attempts to save ACLs
• [MH-12758] - Changing the ACLs does not trigger AssetManagerDecorators
• [MH-12747] - Heartbeat is broken
• [MH-12745] - Fix heartbeat config logging
• [MH-12743] - OAIPMH-Republish-Operation tries to republish to ASW3
• [MH-12728] - Add LAST-MODIFIED to ical event properties
• [MH-12727] - OptimisticLockException on worker node can cause jobs to be stuck in DISPATCHING state
• [MH-12725] - Series/Events ACL update causes scheduled recordings in the series/the events to disappear from CA calendar
• [MH-12717] - Series metadata update causes scheduled recordings in the series to disappear from CA calendar
• [MH-12711] - XACML Parser should be more robust
• [MH-12707] - Fix problem with non-strict mode in URL-Signing
• [MH-12706] - Old zombie workflows cannot be stopped, suspended etc.
• [MH-12668] - Update admin ui build pipeline
• [MH-12651] - Scheduling repeating events through Admin UI is very slow

Opencast 4.1

Released on Februar 7, 2018

• [MH-12695] - Improve Synchronization in WorkflowService
• [MH-12689] - Flickering filter: When loading the page, all filters briefly appear and disappear again
• [MH-12687] - Date filters not working
• [MH-12685] - Performance issue in filters
• [MH-12682] - TimelinePreview Concurrency Problem
• [MH-12676] - List provider service implementation is not thread-safe
• [MH-12673] - Content-Type is not set for JavaScript files
• [MH-12664] - Ensure series can be deleted
• [MH-12662] - Special characters in modal window titles are double-escaped
• [MH-12657] - Users of non-admin groups cannot create events
• [MH-12652] - Scheduler service needs to restrict queries to episodes owned by it
• [MH-12641] - Asset manager conflict checks are very slow
• [MH-12638] - Migration bundle needs to have a higher runlevel
• [MH-12637] - Remove event id from episode DC catalog during migration
• [MH-12632] - Make index rebuild robust
• [MH-12631] - Drop the ORGANIZER field from the ical feed
• [MH-12627] - Start Task copies files into workspace
• [MH-12620] - Document ActiveMQ memory requirements
• [MH-12610] - Navigating through events in the event details modal causes failing attempts to save ACLs
• [MH-12609] - As a user, I expect scheduling of events to be working
• [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-12602] - External API gives 500 error for migrated series that do not have creator field
• [MH-12601] - Fast Workflow Does Not Attach Series Metadata
• [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-12476] - Delay start of job dispatching on startup
• [MH-10016] - Cannot Change Default Workflow

Opencast 4.0

Released on December 8, 2017

• [MH-12597] - When reindexing, some events may incorrectly be displayed as "Scheduled" instead of "Processed" or "Failed"
• [MH-12596] - Video Editor Ignores Workspace
• [MH-12594] - Description field in metadata editor doesn't handle newlines properly
• [MH-12591] - AssetManager reindex produces "No organization found!" warnings
• [MH-12590] - Fix Workflow WOH Workspace Mock
• [MH-12589] - Fix Timelinepreview Dependencies
• [MH-12588] - Stream Security Leaks Secrets
• [MH-12587] - ActiveMQ config ships with 3rd party tool enabled by default
• [MH-12583] - Reduce frequency of index rebuild messages for comments and asset manager
• [MH-12579] - Simplify XACML Handling
• [MH-12578] - Color of Crosslinks Makes Tables Look Noisy
• [MH-12574] - Audio keeps playing when leaving the playback or editor page
• [MH-12573] - Unprivileged users cannot delete events
• [MH-12572] - Dependency Fixes
• [MH-12570] - Admin UI Regressions And Minor Bugs
• [MH-12569] - Don't fail hard if attempting to distribute a non-track media package element to streaming server
• [MH-12568] - EditableSingleValue Has Focus Issues
• [MH-12567] - Index Service Dependencies
• [MH-12566] - Remove Unused Participation List Provider
• [MH-12560] - Streaming media distribution does not work in a distributed cluster
• [MH-12559] - CSS: Delete And Retract Dialogs For Events Are Messed up
• [MH-12558] - CSS: Buttons in Confirm Modals Too Big
• [MH-12557] - CSS: Checkbox Alignment in Tables
• [MH-12556] - Video Editor CSS Enhancements
• [MH-12554] - Downloading translations from Crowdin doesn't work anymore
• [MH-12553] - As an administrator, I want to configure the order in which the different adaptive streaming video qualities are listed
• [MH-12552] - The "delete" button in the Admin UI may leave the "preview" artifacts undeleted
• [MH-12551] - Redo changes of MH-11660 that got lost in means of a regression
• [MH-12550] - hasActiveTransaction is triggered permantly for edited jobs
• [MH-12548] - Matterhorn Kernel Test Issues
• [MH-12547] - Group related settings in custom.properties
• [MH-12546] - 3.x to 4.0 upgrade is ugly
• [MH-12545] - Multi Value Editable Loses Value on Blur
• [MH-12543] - Adjust Log Level During Build Time
• [MH-12542] - Fix Ingest Service API Dependencies
• [MH-12541] - Events not searchable after migration if event was subject to a workflow with two publish-engage operations
• [MH-12540] - Add documentation for WOH failing
• [MH-12539] - Add documentation for WOH include
• [MH-12537] - Admin UI Asset upload: Order Assets as listed in properties file (vs alphabetical)
• [MH-12535] - Add language support for Hebrew
• [MH-12534] - Broken Labels In Default Workflow
• [MH-12532] - The bundle workflow-workflowoperation creates (and leaves) temporary files in /tmp
• [MH-12529] - External API returns negative Event duration
• [MH-12526] - External (LDAP) users cannot not see their own role (ROLE_USER_XXXX) in the access policy of the events they create.
• [MH-12525] - Non-admin users cannot modify ACLs in their own events
• [MH-12523] - "Submit" button in retract modal is always disabled
• [MH-12522] - Improve Waveform Service Dependency Specification
• [MH-12520] - Duplicate Series When Double Clicking Create Button
• [MH-12519] - Improve Admin-NG Dependency Specification
• [MH-12518] - Ugly exception appears in stdout/Karaf console
• [MH-12517] - Some job data is not copied correctly
• [MH-12514] - Opencast Allows Multiple Simultaneous Workflows For Same Media Package
• [MH-12513] - MigrationService fails
• [MH-12512] - Frontend-Maven-Plugin configuration is missing the mandatory "versionRange" parameter
• [MH-12511] - Deleting an event with inconsistent search index state doesn't work
• [MH-12510] - System doesn't recover from ActiveMQ downtime
• [MH-12507] - Textanalyzer Has Nondeclared Dependencies
• [MH-12503] - Log statements do not require Object or String arrays to provide 3 parameters or more
• [MH-12500] - Fix incorrect usage of method "URL#getFile()"
• [MH-12499] - Admin UI event tools dialog can't be closed with the close button
• [MH-12498] - External API: Cannot get series if description field is empty
• [MH-12497] - Improve usability of admin UI forms
• [MH-12492] - AssetManager endpoint return server error on assets, which the user not allowed to read
• [MH-12489] - Failed test: MySQL DDL Scripts (Update) 
• [MH-12488] - Publish worklow always fail
• [MH-12480] - Waveform Operation Should Have Tests
• [MH-12479] - Waveform Operation Should Not leave Files In Workspace
• [MH-12475] - Make mimetypes consistent
• [MH-12470] - Prematurely deleted scheduler properties lead to undeletable events
• [MH-12469] - Auto Update OAIPMH republishes deleted Events
• [MH-12467] - Scheduled event fails due to not finding a workflow definition to use
• [MH-12465] - Propagate Changes of Series Extended Metadata to Events and OAI-PMH
• [MH-12463] - Hyphens in event/series search return no results
• [MH-12456] - Clean Up PathSupport
• [MH-12455] - FFmpeg does not terminate when Opencast is shut down
• [MH-12454] - PathSupport.changeFileExtension does not properly handle files with no extension
• [MH-12453] - TimelinePreview Path Handling
• [MH-12451] - Lock file utility method should throw exceptions
• [MH-12450] - Clean up *EncoderEngine code
• [MH-12449] - Ensure temporary files are deleted on composer failure
• [MH-12448] - Remove unconfigured send-mail WOH
• [MH-12447] - OAI-PMH autorepublish fails if series was deleted
• [MH-12446] - Do not leave ZIP files in workspace when a Workflow fails
• [MH-12445] - underlying code showing on metadata source tab when creating event
• [MH-12443] - editing event changes status from scheduled to finished
• [MH-12442] - Maven site is broken
• [MH-12436] - Add Christian Greweling to Comitters list
• [MH-12431] - Update Crowdin translations for r/4.x
• [MH-12428] - Performance Issue In Event Metadata
• [MH-12427] - Submit button in Editor typo
• [MH-12423] - Date Parse Error When Changing Certain Metadata
• [MH-12420] - Update frontend-maven-plugin
• [MH-12417] - Poor performace on scheduler /recordings/calendars
• [MH-12411] - Database user requires additional permissions
• [MH-12409] - Conductor logs ClassCastException when receiving DeleteSnapshot
• [MH-12407] - "The task could not be created" message by starting task on multiple events
• [MH-12406] - Splitting in the video editor while a video is playing causes time jump
• [MH-12401] - Video editor segment times stay blank (timing)
• [MH-12399] - Oaipmh Retract very slow
• [MH-12396] - Cannot select filter two times in a row from dropdown
• [MH-12395] - REST: Handle Scheduling Conflict
• [MH-12394] - Video editor allows the submission of an event with no active segments
• [MH-12390] - Gracefully handle unregistration of non-existing host
• [MH-12385] - Ingest Code Cleanup
• [MH-12382] - As a system administrator, I want to see the capture agent configuration in the user interface, so that I don't need to look into the database directly
• [MH-12380] - External API v1.0.0 Broken Due To StartDate Format Change
• [MH-12372] - Make waveform service more flexible by allowing pre- and post-filters to be configured
• [MH-12366] - authorization-manager depends on download-impl
• [MH-12365] - Losing ActiveMQ connection spams the logs
• [MH-12356] - As an administrator, I'd like to resolve or delete comments in workflows by comment reason only
• [MH-12355] - Include Wowza Adaptive Streaming Module in Opencast
• [MH-12354] - Admin UI Video Editor wont let you edit segements at the end
• [MH-12352] - Include support for user Groups in LDAP
• [MH-12350] - Recreate adminui-Index stops, if Asset of Event ist missing
• [MH-12349] - Exception handler should not throw an IO exception on deleting temporary directory
• [MH-12348] - As an administrator, I want to use the "send-email" WOH with multiple recipients and also use the CC and BCC fields
• [MH-12346] - Publications are not shown in the admin interface
• [MH-12330] - The series WOH only updates the series' title and ID on the episode's catalog, but sometimes more fields should be updated
• [MH-12328] - Update AngularJS from 1.3.x to 1.4.x
• [MH-12325] - Maven warning when building r/3.x
• [MH-12314] - As a developer, I expect the Admin UI tests being skipped if I build Opencast using -DskipTests
• [MH-12312] - Event Counter For "Today"
• [MH-12309] - Use Matching FontAwesome Icons
• [MH-12304] - Configurable Notification Durations
• [MH-12302] - Do Not Warn About Default Configuration
• [MH-12289] - Publish extended metadata to OAI-PMH
• [MH-12287] - prevent reload of Admin UI when opening the editor
• [MH-12286] - As an Opencast admin, I want to set workflow properties from an external script
• [MH-12284] - Unprivileged users cannot upload any files when creating or editing a theme
• [MH-12283] - Support MPEG DASH in Player
• [MH-12278] - NullPointerException in CleanupWorkflowOperationHandler
• [MH-12274] - Ingest service REST endpoint should be verbosable and expect input UTF-8 encoded
• [MH-12266] - As a user, I expect metadata changes to be propagated to third-party applications
• [MH-12259] - Ingest-download WOH fail on downloading publication elements
• [MH-12258] - Update angular-translate to version 2.15.2
• [MH-12250] - Synchronize Dublin Core date created and start date in DC temporal
• [MH-12242] - Theodul: Quality selector does not display/load
• [MH-12234] - Cleanup WOH does not remove all files as it should do
• [MH-12227] - As a user, I don't want to be informed about services not being working correctly
• [MH-12223] - Oaipmh Publish is very slow
• [MH-12200] - Improve LDAP integration after the changes brought by MH-12016
• [MH-12196] - Use a date and time picker instead of separate inputs for date and time in admin UI
• [MH-12191] - Add support for automated captions/transcripts (IBM Watson)
• [MH-12168] - As a user, I need cross-page links that help me to work more efficiently
• [MH-12166] - As a user, I'm not willing to perform that many clicks to actually use the filters
• [MH-12111] - Require Java 8
• [MH-12104] - As a producer, I want to access assets of my tenant while a workflow is running
• [MH-12099] - Wrong started date/time on workflow details view
• [MH-12082] - Contribute Asset Manager/Scheduler work (ETH)
• [MH-12052] - As an Administrator, I'd like to know that ActiveMQ is running properly
• [MH-12000] - Cross-tenant URL signing
• [MH-11703] - Service error states not immediately visible in admin UI
• [MH-11458] - Update translations from crowdin
• [MH-11274] - Workflow Operations of Scheduled Event are not editable
• [MH-11195] - Ability to Search on part of a Series Identifier, instead of just exact match
• [MH-11042] - Admin UI NG tests fail in +5:30 timezone
• [MH-10156] - Misspelling in LtiLaunchAuthenticationHandler.java