ViMP 4.4.0
ViMP 4.4.0 contains a bunch of new features and improvements. Upgrade now!
Important notes:
- Find an overview of the new features in our ViMP 4.4 blog post.
- Also read our technical notes containing important information of the upgrade.
Please download the new version within your personal download area.
Changelog:
- New: Interface for the transcoding webservice (incl. GPU transcoding)
- New: User role permissions for livestreams
- New: Time-controlled publishing of livestreams
- New: Automatic role mapping for SAML
- New: Email notifications can be enabled per user account
- New: oEmbed support
- New: Access to API description can be disabled via role permission
- New: API method addMediumCount added
- New: API method getMediumTranscodingProgress added
- New: API method editMedium now also allows to replace files
- New: API method getMedium now also supports identification of media by media key
- New: Indication of running transcodings in the media list
- New: Transcoding optionally with VBR instead of CBR
- New: Transcoding option max_muxing_queue_size adjustable
- New: More statistics in the dashboard
- New: Status of free media space in dashboard
- New: Logfile manager in the backend
- New: Search field in the channel media management
- New: Manual sorting option for channel media
- New: Pagination for channel media management can be disabled
- New: Optional more compact view for channel overview
- New: Wowza load balancer support
- New: Webchannel function completely rewritten and extended
- New: Enable comments per medium
- New: PDF fullscreen display
- New: Configuration options for Google Sitemap
- New: Search for category names
- New: Configuration options for the available cookie consent categories
- New: Optional protection of download links
- New: Task clean-mediafiles to clean the filesystem and the database from orphaned entries
- New: Simulation mode for the clean-userdata task
- New: Two-step deletion of e-learning media
- New: More backend role permissions
- New: Matomo embed player tracking without cookie (optionally)
- New: Video.js implementation for learning videos
- Improvement: Reworked sub-category navigation layout
- Improvement: Improved display of chapter markers
- Improvement: Optional unification of API response for only one element
- Improvement: Adaption of default media formats
- Improvement: Better catching of Apache errors
- Improvement: Unification of the naming of hidden links
- Improvement: Rearrangement of various configuration options
- Improvement: Default status for new user roles is now "legal"
- Improvement: Various usability optimizations in the backend
- Improvement: Adjusted message when editing uploaded but not yet transcoded e-learning media
- Improvement: Marking of group and album mandatory fields
- Improvement: Forwarding after login
- Improvement: Faster thumbnail generation
- Improvement: Video.js volume is maintained when switching pages
- Fix: Problem with predefined values for custom media and user fields fixed
- Fix: When copying question catalogs, an error occurred in certain cases
- Fix: Issue with playing learning videos with Firefox fixed
- Fix: Start date could be after end date with time-controlled publication
- Fix: Sporadic problem with unexpected session loss when resuming playback after page change fixed
- Fix: Error when switching the thumbnail view in the favorites list fixed