Opencast 8 Changelog

Opencast 8.11

Released on April 6th, 2021

• [#2418] - Update Test Server Builds
• [#2416] - Restore "8.x specific fixes for the markdown generation code"
• [#2415] - Revert "8.x specific fixes for the markdown generation code"
• [#2409] - 8.x specific fixes for the markdown generation code
• [#2310] - Gracefully handle missing Shibboleth User References
• [#2261] - Handle broken encoding profiles without killing the ComposerService
• [#2253] - Configure POST api/groups access correctly
• [#2239] - Fix Typo in Branding Properties
• [#2214] - Validate Ingested DublinCore Catalogs
• [#2177] - Fix Sorting Series by Creators
• [#2071] - Properly configure AWS S3 distribution on startup by default

Opencast 8.10

Released on December 23rd, 2020

• [#2160] - Fix Ingest by Non-privileged User
• [#2049] - Endtime of segments fixed in the editor

Opencast 8.9

Released on December 8th, 2020

• [#2099] - Support faster playback rates in paella video player
• [#2087] - Move from Travis CI to GitHub Actions (8.x)
• [#2075] - Reduce IO Load When Starting a Workflow
• [#2068] - JDK Support proposal (2020-11-11) documentation for 8.x
• [#1988] - #1987 Admin UI event start filter datepicker timezone patch

Opencast 8.8

Released on November 19th, 2020

• [#2075] - Reduce IO Load When Starting a Workflow
• [#2072] - Update player.matomo.tracking.md
• [#2067] - Solves #2034 (Execute-once subprocess issue)
• [#2051] - Limit OpenMP Threads to Prevent Tesseract Blocking the System
• [#2040] - Drop user login log level
• [#2020] - Set the RFC 822 "Date" header field when sending an email (r/8.x)
• [#2008] - Speed up preview encoding
• [#1988] - #1987 Admin UI event start filter datepicker timezone patch
• [#1954] - Fix Paella Player assuming track is audio-only when it's actually video and audio
• [#1894] - Remove references to removed modules
• [#1891] - Creating a new series doesn't send user collections anymore
• [#1887] - Remove Dead OpenID Module

Opencast 8.7

Released on September 27th, 2020

• [#1851] - Fix conflict checking for scheduled events in multitenant systems
• [#1848] - Fix capture agent dropdown menus
• [#1837] - Adding bugfix from #1668 to 8.x
• [#1828] - Recommend https
• [#1827] - Clean up basic configuration
• [#1812] - Missing ACL after asset upload
• [#1786] - Removed servicewarnings endpoint
• [#1770] - Paella player should only list http(s) URLs in the download plugin
• [#1756] - Change markdown CI checks to bash
• [#1753] - Admin interface event API logs on user error
• [#1735] - Added reloading of filters in users page

Opencast 8.6

Released on August 5th, 2020

• [#1744] - Fix for issue 1616: User keep write permission on ACL template selection
• [#1720] - Corrected title of user delete button
• [#1711] - Fixes issue #1642: Drop-down menu does not disappear
• [#1662] - Update Studio from 2020-05-20 to 2020-06-25
• [#1639] - Don't raise a NPE when the workflow creator was deleted

Opencast 8.5

Released on June 15th, 2020

• [#1633] - Using ConcurrentHashMap for synchronizing LTI user login
• [#1622] - Fix LTI Without Persistence
• [#1620] - Fix Formatting
• [#1612] - Use normal file appender instead of RandomAccessFile for logging
• [#1611] - Fix LDAP Debug Logging
• [#1593] - Update paella to 6.2.7

Opencast 8.4

Released on May 22nd, 2020

• [#1593] - Update player Paella to 6.2.7
• [#1592] - Update Studio version to 2020-05-20
• [#1581] - Update Studio to 2020-05-14
• [#1578] - Add cutting to the default Studio workflow
• [#1570] - Partial import muxing fix
• [#1568] - Fix URL to Wowza documentation
• [#1565] - Avoids normal user to delete series with events when option series.hasEvents.delete.allow is set to false
• [#1550] - Be more lenient towards service failures
• [#1543] - 403 Logout Option
• [#1542] - Allow Admin UI Users to Access /
• [#1540] - Studio workflow should archive prepared versioned of videos
• [#1535] - Opencast server node name should be optional
• [#1534] - Admin UI systems filters should be accessible by the corresponding roles
• [#1532] - Fix race condition when creating or updating user references from LTI
• [#1516] - Studio encoding profile performance improved
• [#1515] - Studio-upload workflow should generate search preview images
• [#1509] - Allow anonymous access to static Studio files
• [#1508] - Fixed a typo in the Theodul Config
• [#1500] - Adding documentation on how to use the multiserver docker-compose
• [#1496] - Fix Adaptive Encoding
• [#1492] - Update Studio (for bug fixes) and add docs for Studio
• [#1488] - Make encoding profiles support odd widths/heights
• [#1479] - Fix Theodul quality selection

Opencast 8.3

Released on March 26th, 2020

• [#1492] - Update Studio (for bugfixes) and add docs for Studio
• [#1489] - Workaround early lti session timeout
• [#1488] - Make encoding profiles support odd widths/heights
• [#1487] - Fix Studio login redirect
• [#1485] - Custom Roles for LTI users
• [#1483] - Read published files direct from filesystem if possible (completed)
• [#1482] - Create JpaUserReference for LTI user (backport)
• [#1480] - Preserve ACL On Workflow Errors
• [#1479] - Fix Theodul quality selection
• [#1478] - Studio upload optimized workflows
• [#1476] - Fix Studio Redirect discarding GET Parameters
• [#1475] - Fix Theodul Matomo plugin after configuration data structure change
• [#1473] - Move OC Studio configuration to etc/ui-config and update Studio
• [#1468] - Studio in admin-presentation

Opencast 8.2

Released on March 14th, 2020

• [#1458] - Fix Image Extraction At Position Zero
• [#1457] - Image Extraction Without Stream Duration
• [#1454] - Fix HLS on iOS
• [#1448] - Adding link to community workflow repository to the markdown docs
• [#1446] - Disable 2 more instances of jmxremote param, #1445
• [#1441] - Remove databasemigration for Opencast 7
• [#1436] - integrate opencast studio
• [#1433] - Series ACLs not propagating to individual events
• [#1414] - Gracefully crash if there is no password stored
• [#1409] - Asset Upload Title
• [#1408] - Simplify Asset Upload Workflow
• [#1399] - Gracefully Fail Hash Verification
• [#1364] - Temination state service test
• [#1359] - Fix workflow dropdown in start task
• [#1327] - Video Segemntation On Short Videos
• [#1301] - Fix event delete with existing publications
• [#1248] - Fix conflict detection for non-admin users and for multiple events

Opencast 8.1

Released on January 29, 2020

• [#1341] - Spring Framework Dependency Specification
• [#1340] - LDAP User Directory Dependencies
• [#1339] - Add Missing Karaf Features
• [#1338] - Sakai User Directory Dependencies
• [#1328] - AngularJS Components 1.7.9
• [#1326] - Fix Image Extraction From Short Videos
• [#1321] - Fix URL Parameters in Theodul Player
• [#1300] - Allow Root In Bower
• [#1299] - Fix AWS WOH OSGI dependencies
• [#1266] - Allow capture agent users to read properties of series

Fixed Security Issues

• CVE-2020-5231 – Users with ROLE_COURSE_ADMIN can create new users
• CVE-2020-5206 – Authentication Bypass For Endpoints With Anonymous Access
• CVE-2020-5222 – Hard-Coded Key Used For Remember-me Token
• CVE-2020-5230 – Unsafe Identifiers
• CVE-2020-5229 – Replace MD5 with bcrypt for password hashing
• CVE-2020-5228 – Public Access Via OAI-PMH

Opencast 8.0

Released on December 17, 2019

• [#1292] - Release notes for Opencast 8.0
• [#1290] - Fix for MP3 with embedded image
• [#1286] - Fix Role For Assets Quick Access
• [#1278] - Editor Thumbnail Default
• [#1274] - Update Security Configuration
• [#1269] - Fix processing of odd video width
• [#1256] - Remove publishedhours default statistics provider
• [#1245] - AngularJS 1.7.9 Security Update
• [#1216] - Simplify Editor URL Signing
• [#1212] - Update paella player to 6.2.4
• [#1207] - Enable Browser Tests
• [#1206] - Temporarily Ignore Failing Test
• [#1203] - Warn about using H2
• [#1202] - Overhaul RPM Installation Guide
• [#1199] - Fix Crowdin Upload
• [#1197] - Fix Theodul Embed Configuration
• [#1167] - Migrate IBM Watson transcription to shared persistence
• [#1153] - Keep generated SMIL for partial tracks
• [#1151] - (#1008): Better crop detect test #1085
• [#1146] - Remove unnecessary global package-lock.json
• [#1141] - Consider file extension of uploaded asset
• [#1134] - Do not use stack-overflow logo
• [#1131] - Issue1123 TEMP FIX for Paella Player Build error
• [#1110] - Build failed on captions-impl tests for non english OS
• [#1108] - Fix external API versioning for EventsEndpoint
• [#1103] - Fix PostreSQL Support
• [#1102] - Clean-up Fast Testing Workflow
• [#1101] - Filter jobs by transcription service provider ID
• [#1073] - close esc function for new event and new series modals
• [#1067] - Publication Button show fix
• [#1100] - Player Scroll/Zoom Overlay
• [#1098] - Fix displaying tracks with no tags in player
• [#1095] - Add a new optional date_expected column to the transcription job table
• [#1094] - Smarter etc/ hints in documentation
• [#1093] - Provide access to file contents in the WFR
• [#1091] - Remove inaccurate url-pattern ${element_uri}
• [#1090] - Elasticsearch access_policy field increased in size
• [#1086] - Fix CI Builds (Crop Tests)
• [#1084] - Fix Player ID Parameter Parsing
• [#1082] - Docs readme extended.
• [#1079] - Remove Workflow Operations from Worker
• [#1078] - Fix database docs
• [#1075] - Remove State Mapping “Importing”
• [#1074] - Navbar icons toggle
• [#1071] - Fix Pull Request Template
• [#1070] - Temporarily Ignore Service Registry Test
• [#1066] - Major developer docs update
• [#1065] - Remove the RoleProvider.getRoles() method
• [#1063] - Only events with write access
• [#1062] - start on used port
• [#1059] - Hide Column Stop By Default
• [#1058] - Custom LTI Series Tool Styles
• [#1057] - Update ESLint
• [#1055] - Move to GitHub Issues
• [#1053] - Update mustache
• [#1052] - Update bootbox
• [#1050] - && MH-13425 - Feeds-Tab / adds a new tab in series properties.
• [#1048] - Add an optional build step to clean easily clean the frontend caches
• [#1047] - ServiceRegistry not updating database correctly when dispatching jobs
• [#1044] - clean node, node_modules and bower_components folders
• [#1042] - Update Admin Interface JS Test Libraries
• [#1041] - Update ESLint
• [#1039] - paella can filter which tracks to load depending on the user's device
• [#1037] - Update paella player to 6.2.0
• [#1034] - Update Translation Key for Published Hours
• [#1033] - Direct link to assets tab
• [#1030] - Configure max open files
• [#1029] - Update admin interface JS libraries
• [#1028] - Update Engage JS Libraries
• [#1027] - Update Markdownlint
• [#1023] - fix invisible icon for specific zoom level
• [#1022] - Automatic publication of streaming URLs
• [#1021] - Moving mediapackages needs to handle missing version information
• [#1020] - Logging
• [#1016] - Update Deprecated EqualsUtil.hash(…)
• [#1015] - IDEA Settings
• [#1014] - Don't start opencast on a used port
• [#1009] - Shell information for developer distribution
• [#1008] - Crop service
• [#1007] - Update several JS libraries
• [#1006] - Improve metadata handling in backend
• [#1005] - Fix dropdown menus
• [#1004] - eslint 6.1.0
• [#1003] - Update karma
• [#1001] - Access org properties from publish-configure WOH
• [#998] - Concat Operation Graphics
• [#997] - Update Development Process Documentation
• [#996] - Update commons-text
• [#995] - Composer Should Not Overwrite Files
• [#994] - Added name of the configuration file where properties of login details are modified
• [#992] - switch to compatible file type filter definitions
• [#990] - Upgrade chromedriver
• [#985] - Update grunt-concurrent
• [#983] - Update ESLint
• [#978] - Mh 13617 Duplicate encoding profiles for PrepareAV/SelectStreams
• [#973] - Don't consider raw fields updated
• [#972] - Improve setting values from dublin core catalog
• [#971] - NOJIRA: Add ALTER to necessary MySQL permissions
• [#970] - Fix hello-world modules
• [#968] - Resolution Based, Conditional Encoding
• [#967] - Introduce general CatalogUIAdapter
• [#966] - Update frontend-maven-plugin
• [#965] - Update Logger
• [#964] - Update Checkstyle
• [#963] - Update Paella Build Dependencies
• [#962] - Update Chromedriver
• [#961] - Update autoprefixer to 9.6.0
• [#960] - Update Markdownlint
• [#959] - Update Admin Interface Test Framework
• [#957] - Clean-up Static Resource Servlet
• [#956] - Re-introduce Prepare AV
• [#954] - Fix bundle versions
• [#952] - Cleanup workflows
• [#951] - More Dependency Checks…
• [#950] - Tag elements retrieved from asset manager
• [#949] - Termination State Service to integrate with AWS AutoScaling Lifecycle
• [#948] - add health-check endpoint
• [#945] - -publication
• [#943] - color "blue" for links in the admin ui
• [#942] - Theodul player ui config
• [#941] - More dependency fixes
• [#937] - Workflow Condition Parser Location
• [#936] - Drop distribution-service-streaming
• [#935] - Drop Distribution “adminworker”
• [#934] - Drop Migration Distribution
• [#931] - Assembly Configuration
• [#929] - Check dependencies at build time
• [#928] - Admin Interface Browser Tests
• [#927] - Metadata Transfer Operation
• [#926] - Remove unused code
• [#925] - Media Module Dependency Management
• [#924] - Jettison Dependency Management
• [#923] - Introduce ESLint to Media Module
• [#922] - Support for exclusion pattern for URL signing
• [#921] - Officially support URL signing keys that handle multiple URL prefixes
• [#920] - Streaming Module Cleanup
• [#919] - Fix dependencies for statistics- and workflow-condition-parser
• [#918] - Remove module 'dataloader'
• [#917] - Remove obviously unused classes
• [#908] - Admin interface dependency update
• [#906] - Media Module Configuration
• [#899] - Fix Login Page
• [#898] - Fix Spelling of Flavor
• [#895] - Update Tesseract Code
• [#894] - NOJIRA Speed up statistics api tests
• [#893] - Dependency Fixes
• [#892] - Drop Custom Logger Configuration
• [#891] - Unnecessary LineReader
• [#890] - NOJIRA: Remove statistics provider configs
• [#889] - Limit accepted file types when uploading assets
• [#887] - Collect and visualize published hours of video
• [#885] - Rework workflow conditions, add string data type
• [#883] - Remove inclusion of non-existent scripts in Admin UI
• [#882] - Navigation of statistics broken
• [#881] - JavaScript Dependency Management
• [#880] - Improve icons and wording in video editor
• [#879] - statistics csv export
• [#876] - Add Hourly Data Resolution For Statistics
• [#874] - Role support for workflows
• [#872] - Remove pseudo-mechanism for workflow definition registration
• [#869] - Remove unused method WorkflowDefinition.isPublished
• [#865] - Empty node name causes exception
• [#864] - Multitenancy support for workflows
• [#863] - Improve URL signing performance
• [#862] - add single step event deletion
• [#861] - Add option to configure state mappings for workflows
• [#860] - Remove unused fields from search index
• [#858] - Improve navigation in video editor when zoom is active
• [#857] - resume on past table page when leaving video editor
• [#854] - move ingest-download Operation to worker
• [#851] - Highlight main table rows on hover
• [#850] - Add node name to host registration as a UI searchable alternative to hostname
• [#849] - Upgrade Admin Interface Libraries (Including AngularJS)
• [#848] - Remove method canLogin from interface User
• [#847] - Fix License and Documentation Links
• [#846] - Automatically Launch Logs for dist-develop
• [#842] - Harmonizing the column names
• [#841] - Expand log messages to add error detail
• [#834] - Introduce basic statistics visualization capabilities
• [#831] - userprovider for the d2l brightspace LMS
• [#826] - url query string incorrect
• [#825] - Remove leftover service
• [#824] - Use Username In Workflows
• [#823] - Automatic caption using Google speech to text api
• [#816] - Change the default composer job load from 0.8 to 1.5
• [#784] - Admin UI new event media upload progress bar
• [#757] - Timelinepreviews process first one only