ViMP 5.1.0
ViMP 5.1.0 is here! The new version contains many new features and improvements. Get informed now!
Important notes:
- Find an overview of the new features in our ViMP 5.1 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: Global playlist function
- New: Automatic video transcriptions
- New: Elastic Search support
- New: Creation of subtitles now also possible directly in the portal (without .vtt file upload)
- New: Multi-selectbox as custom media and user field
- New: LDAP task to import users from a directory service
- New: Livestream comments can be enabled or disabled individually per livestream
- New: Autosuggestions for usernames in private messages
- New: SAML support for AES-GCM
- New: WebTV outsourced to plugin
- New: Search function for backend configuration
- New: Drop PHP 7.0 support (at least PHP 7.1 is required)
- New: Smartphone templates "mobile" and "pacific_mobile" removed
- New: File sizes added to the media list in the backend
- New: Password protected media can be added to albums
- New: Possibility to mark all media at once when adding media in groups
- New: Ocean template defined as new default template
- New: Constrained and 2-Path Encoding (optional)
- New: Possibility to disable autosuggest for tags
- New: Possibility to disable display of username in frontend
- New: API method getInstalledLanguages
- New: Create hidden livestreams
- New: Possibility to add a static text in the e-learning overview page
- New: Listing of the latest media comments in the dashboard
- New: Filter for own and subscribed channels in the channel overview
- New: Livestreams can now also be deleted via the frontend
- New: Quality level selector for livestreams (if supported by streaming server)
- New: New configuration option for setting transcoding audio quality when VBR is enabled.
- Improvement: New configuration section "Data cleanup"
- Improvement: Option to keep the original aspect ratio of videos in the additional formats
- Improvement: Various performance improvements (backend lists, tags autosuggest, general database accesses)
- Improvement: Changed retrieval of ViMP news in the dashboard to Ajax to avoid possible timeouts
- Improvement: Resolutions of additional media formats optimized
- Improvement: Category covers can now be removed in the backend
- Improvement: Resetting dates in advanced search form
- Improvement: Minor design and layout improvements in the Ocean template
- Fix: Problem with sending emails when the username is the same as the user email address
- Fix: Approval emails have been sent twice sometimes
- Fix: Problem with default approval of media and blog posts fixed
- Fix: Incorrect status message when copying media with time-controlled publishing fixed
- Fix: Error when searching for media with time-controlled publishing fixed
- Fix: Error when sorting backend tables fixed
- Fix: Error fixed when creating new LDAP user if user-defined default fields were removed
- Fix: Fixed problem with visibility of livestream create button
- Fix: Problem with accepting certain formats in webcam recording fixed
- Fix: Problem with i18n default value in user role creation fixed
- as well as many smaller improvements and optimizations