Opencast 17 Changelog

Changes marked with * were also included in 16.x.

Opencast 17.5 (2025-06-27)

• [#6728] - Allow to select three or more tracks
• [#6827] - Fix Matrix Room Topic Update*
• [#6822] - Fix episode id roles in series of search service index
• [#6818] - Replace video.ethz.ch links with OC explore & adjust docs dashboard
• [#6792] - Deselecting a series may result in loss of access to the event
• [#6813] - Remove series load in paella player
• [#6742] - Splitting the Changelog into Multiple Files and other Minor Docs Improvements
• [#6789] - Tobira URLs improvement
• [#6811] - Update r/17.x Editor to 17.x-2025-06-19
• [#6809] - Disable icla check for opencastproject user
• [#6802] - Add support for extra data in adopter registration
• [#6791] - Fix jwt validation failures when using ECDSA algorithms
• [#6524] - Add index migration script
• [#6795] - Explain that WhisperC++ autoencode is an Opencast feature
• [#6793] - Fix minor markdown doc warnings
• [#6733] - Add filters to series list query for admin ui
• [#6702] - Fix whispercpp operation when using the language from metadata
• [#6750] - Wait for Opensearch on Opencast boot*
• [#6783] - Paella security fix: Paella Player can load configuration files from arbitrary servers*

Opencast 17.4 (2025-05-26)

• [#6741] - Update Admin UI to 17.x-2025-05-24
• [#6738] - Update 17.x Editor to 17.x-2025-05-23
• [#6729] - Fix documentation regarding dummy capture agent configuration
• [#6561] - Add graphql event filter option
• [#6562] - Remove mentions of SysV Init scripts
• [#6633] - Enable partial matching in SearchRestService
• [#6637] - Workaround for "laggy" servers table in admin ui
• [#6688] - Document Search index rebuild when enabling episode id roles
• [#6681] - Allow Opensearch to be in yellow state*
• [#6661] - Update to Studio 2025-04-30 (important bug fix)
• [#6653] - Add search endpoint to trigger single event index update

Opencast 17.3 (2025-04-17)

• [#6641] -
• Update Admin UI release to 2025-04-17
• [#6615] - Update Studio to 2025-04-02
• [#6616] - Fix series table sorting for organizers column
• [#6573] - Include Job ID in Job Error
• [#6628] - Update Asset Manager Java API Documentation
• [#6627] - Improve Performance of Metrics Endpoint
• [#6614] - Improved Paella player Matomo plugin documentation and default config
• [#6584] - Fix 500 response for editor endpoints
• [#6578] - Fix adopter statistic breaking on non-set metadata
• [#6577] - Prevent errors when shutting down Opencast
• [#6576] - Handle workflows without creator
• [#6575] - Add asset manager endpoint to trigger event index update
• [#6632] - Add isOnline to admin ui service endpoint
• [#6631] - Remove additional mailing list references
• [#6581] - Set sender value in sent emails if set*
• [#6621] - Properly handle Tobira harvest of events with streaming-only tracks*
• [#6431] - Avoid NPEs during wowza retraction*
• [#6549] - Don't fail removal on already deleted workflow
• [#6548] - Log Publications Blocking Event Deletion
• [#6547] - Log ID of event failing in scheduler index rebuild
• [#6550] - Fix use of bitwise instead of logical operator
• [#6556] - Update admin interface to 2025-03-20
• [#6563] - Document OpenSearch analysis-icu plugin install in Debs
• [#6559] - Document OpenSearch plugin upgrade when using RPMs
• [#6558] - OpenSearch, not Opensearch
• [#6557] - Improve upgrade documentation

Opencast 17.2 (2025-03-20)

• [#6528] - Revert org.apache.santuario upgrade
• [#6542] - Don't fail theme index rebuild if user does not exist
• [#6537] - Fix stt attach operation
• [#6530] - Fix circular reference
• [#6321] - Adds sorting parameter to series ltitools
• [#6501] - Respect order of sort parameters for search queries
• [#6486] - Fix endpoint /ingest/addPartialTrack
• [#6487] - GraphQL bug fixes and chore
• [#6499] - Use system user for repopulate search index*
• [#6492] - Check acl against search entity
• [#6517] - Fix uncleaned merge conflict*
• [#6440] - Fix outright javadoc errors
• [#6491] - Wait for OpenSearch cluster state yellow or green
• [#6473] - Update maven version used by maven wrapper
• [#6426] - Fixing SFA pattern for search and livestream*
• [#6484] - Replace Ubuntu 20.04 with 22.04 for GHA work*
• [#6490] - Fix search index rebuild*
• [#6434] - Handle Opencast starting up before index is available*
• [#6438] - Fix manual trigger in create release workflow
• [#6430] - Set wf variables for silent tracks in silence detection WOH
• [#6461] - Allow sorting events by UID
• [#6439] - Update karaf 4.4.7

Opencast 17.1 (2025-01-23)

• [#6432] -
• Update to admin interface release 2025-01-21
• [#6429] - Fix OCR transcriptions in Paella player*
• [#6362] - Add "Show for new or existing" attribute to asset upload options
• [#6388] - Update editor to version 2025-01-08
• [#6385] - Allow live events to be published by the CA user*
• [#6379] - Fix security config to actually make /tobira/version public
• [#6384] - Drop Paella Dependabot Batcher
• [#6419] - Remove superfluous slash in endpoint URL when loading series from Engage UI
• [#6363] - Fix partial retract streaming elements*
• [#6367] - Segment preview image URL fixed for Tobira*
• [#6233] - Handle content id being null for playlist entries*
• [#6381] - Search Service Index Rebuild fails when done on the presentation node*
• [#6415] - Document OpenSearch plugin requirements
• [#6364] - Refactor isAuthorized utility function
• [#6241] - Editor: Unify endpoints for saving
• [#6390] - Fix jQuery mime type
• [#6328] - Fix incorrect episode count in LTI series tool*
• [#6361] - Allow removing subtitles
• [#6317] - Add tobira series endpoint to remove paths

Opencast 17.0 (2024-12-04)

• [#6309] - Remove duplicate dependency declaration
• [#6307] - Use legacy rest-docs per default
• [#6261] - Fix restdocs
• [#6248] - Auto-encode audio track for Whisper
• [#6247] - Allow generating subtitles in the background
• [#6239] - Make developers explain why they target legacy
• [#6235] - Remove mentions of the old admin interface
• [#6234] - Remove unnecessary login redirect
• [#6188] - Ask developers to provide test configuration for pull requests
• [#6187] - Fix integration tests, distribution upload and demo server update
• [#6178] - Document Matrix Space
• [#6144] - Add useful videos to documentation
• [#6140] - Add tips for pull request review to documentation
• [#6098] - Replace AngularJS based login page
• [#6097] - Code readability improvements
• [#6091] - Add more admin-UI Tobira endpoints
• [#6087] - Stop generating feed previews
• [#6059] - Auto-generate list of committers
• [#6054] - Add me (LukasKalbertodt) to committers list in docs
• [#6052] - paella: add preview portrait image. Fix #5917
• [#6051] - Release Schedule for OC 17
• [#6049] - Paella fix: Track captions have priority over attachments captions.
• [#6048] - Remove contributors from main pom.xml
• [#6039] - Update themes default
• [#6038] - Remove unnecessary tag operation from fast workflow
• [#6028] - Add waveform option filter mode
• [#6023] - Adding a Filter to filter Events according to their is_published state
• [#6019] - Prevent NullPointerException in ACL parser
• [#6018] - Use JSON instead of XACML for ACL templates
• [#6014] - Replace aai spring junit class runner
• [#6010] - Feature request: terms of use for new user
• [#5995] - Logging and other nitpicks
• [#5965] - Remove old admin interface
• [#5959] - Fix log format strings
• [#5958] - Remove redundant groupId declarations
• [#5949] - Fix sporadic port binding errors in tests
• [#5946] - LTI translation strings
• [#5940] - Fix paella dev server
• [#5876] - Microsoft Azure transcription service refactoring
• [#5875] - Add changelog note about Tobira harvest API
• [#5872] - Remove duplicates in .gitignore
• [#5871] - Fix 500 error in workflow service REST endpoint "update" (fixes #5870)
• [#5869] - Fix for event state when workflow is paused when rebuilding ES index (fixes #5868)
• [#5865] - Remove obsolete version field from docker-compose files
• [#5862] - Remove prepared flavor
• [#5855] - Fixed bug: tag-engage workflow failes when event is not published
• [#5831] - Update ESLint
• [#5830] - ESLint nitpicks in the lti module
• [#5766] - GraphQL API - Technology Preview
• [#5763] - Bump java version to 17
• [#5759] - Add SERIES.WRITE_ONLY list provider
• [#5758] - Move multiple series title check logic
• [#5668] - Refactor jaxrs and OpenAPI support
• [#5413] - Add search index sort multi field
• [#5056] - Allow episode ID based access control via roles

Dependency updates

• [6291] - Build(deps): bump cookie and express in /modules/lti
• [6290] - Build(deps-dev): bump webpack from 5.95.0 to 5.96.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6289] - Build(deps): bump globals from 15.10.0 to 15.11.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6288] - Build(deps): bump @eslint/js from 9.12.0 to 9.13.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6285] - Build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugin-plugin from 3.11.0 to 3.15.1 in /modules/metrics-exporter
• [6282] - Build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1 in /modules/db
• [6281] - Build(deps): bump org.owasp.esapi:esapi from 2.5.3.1 to 2.5.5.0 in /modules/db
• [6279] - Build(deps-dev): bump @babel/preset-env from 7.25.7 to 7.26.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6277] - Build(deps-dev): bump eslint from 9.12.0 to 9.13.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6276] - Build(deps-dev): bump html-validate from 8.24.1 to 8.24.2 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6275] - Build(deps-dev): bump @babel/eslint-parser from 7.25.7 to 7.25.9 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6274] - Build(deps-dev): bump @playwright/test from 1.47.2 to 1.48.2 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6273] - Build(deps-dev): bump express from 4.21.0 to 4.21.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6272] - Build(deps-dev): bump @types/jest from 29.5.13 to 29.5.14 in /modules/lti
• [6271] - Build(deps): bump i18next from 23.15.2 to 23.16.4 in /modules/lti
• [6269] - Build(deps): bump react-select from 5.8.1 to 5.8.2 in /modules/lti
• [6267] - Build(deps-dev): bump @types/react-dom from 18.3.0 to 18.3.1 in /modules/lti
• [6266] - Build(deps): bump react-i18next from 15.0.2 to 15.1.0 in /modules/lti
• [6265] - Build(deps-dev): bump @types/react from 18.3.11 to 18.3.12 in /modules/lti
• [6264] - Build(deps): bump iframe-resizer from 5.3.1 to 5.3.2 in /modules/lti
• [6263] - Build(deps-dev): bump @types/node from 22.7.4 to 22.8.6 in /modules/lti
• [6258] - Build(deps): bump http-proxy-middleware from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 in /modules/lti
• [6240] - Build(deps): bump org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server from 9.4.52.v20230823 to 9.4.55.v20240627 in /modules/rest-test-environment
• [6230] - Build(deps): bump org.checkerframework:checker-qual from 3.33.0 to 3.48.0 in /modules/db
• [6229] - Build(deps-dev): bump @babel/eslint-parser from 7.25.1 to 7.25.7 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6228] - Build(deps-dev): bump @babel/core from 7.25.2 to 7.25.7 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6227] - Build(deps-dev): bump html-validate from 8.24.0 to 8.24.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6226] - Build(deps): bump paella-core from 1.49.5 to 1.49.7 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6225] - Build(deps): bump eclipselink.version from 2.7.14 to 2.7.15 in /modules/metrics-exporter
• [6224] - Build(deps-dev): bump eslint from 9.11.1 to 9.12.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6223] - Build(deps-dev): bump @types/react from 18.3.5 to 18.3.11 in /modules/lti
• [6222] - Build(deps): bump eslint-plugin-headers from 1.1.2 to 1.2.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6221] - Build(deps-dev): bump @babel/preset-env from 7.24.5 to 7.25.7 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6220] - Build(deps): bump @eslint/js from 9.11.1 to 9.12.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6219] - Build(deps): bump i18next from 23.15.1 to 23.15.2 in /modules/lti
• [6218] - Build(deps): bump globals from 15.9.0 to 15.10.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6212] - Bump eclipselink.version from 2.7.14 to 2.7.15 in /modules/db
• [6210] - Bump org.apache.servicemix.bundles:org.apache.servicemix.bundles.xalan from 2.7.2_3 to 2.7.3_3 in /modules/db
• [6206] - Bump webpack-dev-server from 5.0.4 to 5.1.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6205] - Bump babel-loader from 9.1.3 to 9.2.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6204] - Bump html-validate from 8.21.0 to 8.24.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6203] - Bump eslint from 9.10.0 to 9.11.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6202] - Bump @playwright/test from 1.46.1 to 1.47.2 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6200] - Bump i18next from 23.14.0 to 23.15.1 in /modules/lti
• [6199] - Bump @eslint/js from 9.10.0 to 9.11.1 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6198] - Bump react-i18next from 15.0.1 to 15.0.2 in /modules/lti
• [6197] - Bump iframe-resizer from 5.3.0 to 5.3.1 in /modules/lti
• [6195] - Bump @types/jest from 29.5.12 to 29.5.13 in /modules/lti
• [6194] - Bump @types/node from 22.5.4 to 22.7.4 in /modules/lti
• [6193] - Bump react-bootstrap from 2.10.4 to 2.10.5 in /modules/lti
• [6192] - Bump react-select from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 in /modules/lti
• [6190] - Bump markdownlint-cli from 0.41.0 to 0.42.0 in /docs/guides
• [6182] - Bump webpack from 5.93.0 to 5.95.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6180] - Bump rollup from 2.75.7 to 2.79.2 in /modules/lti
• [6167] - Bump @eslint/js from 9.8.0 to 9.10.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6166] - Bump @types/node from 22.0.2 to 22.5.4 in /modules/lti
• [6164] - Bump path-to-regexp and express in /modules/lti
• [6165] - Bump serve-static and express in /modules/lti
• [6162] - Bump body-parser and express in /modules/lti
• [6163] - Bump send and express in /modules/lti
• [6159] - Bump serve-static and express in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6158] - Bump eslint from 9.4.0 to 9.10.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6154] - Bump iframe-resizer from 4.4.5 to 5.3.0 in /modules/lti
• [6137] - Bump org.slf4j:slf4j-reload4j from 1.7.36 to 2.0.16 in /modules/db
• [6135] - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.4.3 to 3.7.0 in /modules/db
• [6134] - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin from 3.21.2 to 3.25.0 in /modules/db
• [6133] - Bump axios from 1.7.2 to 1.7.7 in /modules/lti
• [6132] - Bump i18next from 23.12.2 to 23.14.0 in /modules/lti
• [6129] - Bump react-i18next from 15.0.0 to 15.0.1 in /modules/lti
• [6128] - Bump @types/react from 18.3.3 to 18.3.5 in /modules/lti
• [6126] - Bump @babel/eslint-parser from 7.24.6 to 7.25.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6125] - Bump html-validate from 8.18.2 to 8.21.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6124] - Bump paella-slide-plugins from 1.48.0 to 1.48.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6123] - Bump @playwright/test from 1.44.1 to 1.46.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6120] - Bump globals from 15.8.0 to 15.9.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6118] - Bump org.slf4j:slf4j-api from 1.7.36 to 2.0.16 in /modules/metrics-exporter
• [6117] - Bump com.google.guava:guava from 32.1.3-jre to 33.3.0-jre in /modules/metrics-exporter
• [6115] - Bump org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 in /modules/metrics-exporter
• [6113] - Bump webpack from 5.76.1 to 5.94.0 in /modules/lti
• [6110] - Bump micromatch from 4.0.5 to 4.0.8 in /modules/lti
• [6078] - Bump underscore from 1.13.6 to 1.13.7 in /modules/engage-ui
• [6077] - Bump i18next from 23.11.5 to 23.12.2 in /modules/lti
• [6075] - Bump paella-core from 1.48.2 to 1.49.5 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6074] - Bump @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons from 6.5.2 to 6.6.0 in /modules/lti
• [6072] - Bump @types/node from 20.14.9 to 22.0.2 in /modules/lti
• [6071] - Bump iframe-resizer from 4.4.2 to 4.4.5 in /modules/lti
• [6070] - Bump react-i18next from 14.1.2 to 15.0.0 in /modules/lti
• [6069] - Bump @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core from 6.5.2 to 6.6.0 in /modules/lti
• [6068] - Bump @babel/core from 7.24.5 to 7.25.2 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6067] - Bump paella-basic-plugins from 1.44.7 to 1.44.10 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6066] - Bump paella-user-tracking from 1.42.2 to 1.42.5 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6065] - Bump webpack from 5.91.0 to 5.93.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [6063] - Bump @eslint/js from 9.6.0 to 9.8.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [6062] - Bump globals from 15.7.0 to 15.8.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [5987] - Bump react-bootstrap from 2.10.2 to 2.10.4 in /modules/lti
• [5986] - Bump @types/node from 20.13.0 to 20.14.9 in /modules/lti
• [5979] - Bump globals from 15.3.0 to 15.7.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [5978] - Bump @eslint/js from 9.4.0 to 9.6.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
• [5930] - Bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 in /modules/lti
• [5928] - Bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [5906] - Bump globals from 15.1.0 to 15.3.0 in /docs/checkstyle/eslint-config
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• [5902] - Bump css-loader from 6.11.0 to 7.1.2 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [5900] - Bump eslint from 9.2.0 to 9.4.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [5899] - Bump @playwright/test from 1.43.1 to 1.44.1 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [5896] - Bump @babel/eslint-parser from 7.24.5 to 7.24.6 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [5894] - Bump markdownlint-cli from 0.40.0 to 0.41.0 in /docs/guides
• [5893] - Bump sass from 1.76.0 to 1.77.4 in /modules/admin-ui-frontend
• [5892] - Bump chromedriver from 124.0.1 to 125.0.3 in /modules/admin-ui-frontend
• [5891] - Bump eslint from 9.2.0 to 9.4.0 in /modules/admin-ui-frontend
• [5890] - Bump html-validate from 8.18.2 to 8.19.1 in /modules/admin-ui-frontend
• [5889] - Bump iframe-resizer from 4.3.11 to 4.4.2 in /modules/lti
• [5888] - Bump @fortawesome/react-fontawesome from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 in /modules/lti
• [5887] - Bump axios from 1.6.8 to 1.7.2 in /modules/lti
• [5886] - Bump i18next from 23.11.3 to 23.11.5 in /modules/lti
• [5885] - Bump react-i18next from 14.1.1 to 14.1.2 in /modules/lti
• [5884] - Bump @types/node from 20.12.7 to 20.13.0 in /modules/lti
• [5883] - Bump @types/react from 18.3.1 to 18.3.3 in /modules/lti
• [5846] - Bump i18next-browser-languagedetector from 7.2.1 to 8.0.0 in /modules/lti
• [5826] - Bump copy-webpack-plugin from 11.0.0 to 12.0.2 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [5822] - Bump style-loader from 3.3.4 to 4.0.0 in /modules/engage-paella-player-7
• [5795] - Bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils from 3.3.0 to 4.0.1 in /modules/db
• [5704] - Bump joda-time:joda-time from 2.12.5 to 2.12.7 in /modules/metrics-exporter
• [5699] - Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin from 3.6.0 to 3.7.1 in /modules/db
• [5629] - Bump org.apache.santuario:xmlsec from 2.2.6 to 4.0.2 in /modules/db