VIMP 5.5.0
VIMP 5.5.0 has been released! Read more about the great new features and improvements!
Important notes:
- Find an overview of the new features in our VIMP 5.5 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: New Video Editor
- New: Group roles
- New: Automatic assignment of channel roles by VIMP roles
- New: Channel-based approval workflow
- New: List of media to be shared in the frontend
- New: New housekeeping tasks to delete media and users after a defined inactivity period
- New: Configuration of the default embed player resolution
- New: Enable change of DN in LDAP configuration
- New: Custom Ajax component for media boxes in mobile view
- New: Optional ability to share the player embedded on a blank page
- New: Approval of learning media now also possible in the frontend
- New: Media overview in admin panel can be sorted by file size
- New: Configuration of the active media filters
- New: Date filter can be deactivated
- New: New housekeeping task to remove videos from the continue watching list after a definable period of time
- New: Disabling the share box for private media
- New: Media is displayed on the edit page as well
- New: Media status of the media is displayed in the media browser of the channels
- New: Delete user-defined thumbnails again directly in the upload form
- New: Search for playlists in the frontend as well as via the API
- New: Support for PHP 8.2
- New: support for PHP versions lower than 7.4 has been removed
- New: Inclusion of playlists in search results lists
- New: Wowza Loadbalancer configuration also takes effect for audio streams
- Improvement: Collation can be defined for single database queries
- Improvement: Minor design and layout adjustments
- Improvement: Recalculation of media file sizes moved to recalculate task
- Improvement: WebM and WebP formats added to supported default formats
- Improvement: Javascript files are no longer delivered via the framework but directly
- Improvement: Template configuration has been moved to the template manager
- Improvement: Option to ignore the first and last 10 seconds of playback of a video for the continue watching list
- Improvement: E-learning certificates are sent from the portal email address instead of the email address of the owner of a learning course
- Improvement: Removal of the permalink from the share box for hidden media
- Improvement: Long category names are shortened depending on available space in the category menu
- Improvement: Long titles are shortened depending on available space in admin panel overviews
- Improvement: Increase of recording quality during screen recording
- Improvement: Optimization of chapter marker view
- Improvement: Optimization of portrait video view
- Improvement: Custom thumbnails are displayed in edit screens
- Improvement: Specification of optimal size for user-defined thumbnails
- Improvement: Option to skip recalculations and file permissions during update task
- Improvement: Optimized implementation of Video.js javascript files
- Improvement: Optimized implementation of media sharing in admin panel
- Improvement: Technical revision of the approval processes
- Improvement: Added information of location for custom fields in search results
- Improvement: Various accessibility optimizations
- Improvement: Ignore configuration variables in database if they do not exist in yml files
- Improvement: Mail templates now consider the "display name"
- Improvement: Chapter markers are activated with the minimum preset from now on
- Improvement: The category filter on the media overview pages is activated by default from now on
- Improvement: Optimized password input in the admin panel when creating a user
- Improvement: User ID is displayed in the user record view in the admin panel
- Fix: Load embed player after click no longer requires two clicks on play button
- Fix: Problem with displaying embed player with responsive embed fixed
- Fix: SEO URL title added to webcam and screen recording form
- Fix: Media delivery without framework call failed for password protected media
- Fix: Problem with correct embedding of videos with unusual aspect ratio at embed player fixed
- Fix: Problem with channel permissions in connection with multiple user roles fixed
- Fix: Problem with media approval fixed
- Fix: Problem with optional creation of M4V files fixed
- Fix: Problem with positioning of play button in player screen fixed
- Fix: Problem with breakpoint when displaying exactly 1000px fixed
- Fix: Problem with transcoding of videos with deactivated deinterlace option fixed
- Fix: Problem with disappearing Cooke banner descriptions fixed
- Fix: Problem with checking LDAP task for user import when user with same username but different email address exists
- Fix: Problem with filling user fields in user edit form of admin panel for external users fixed
- Fix: Problem with creating external users via API fixed
- Fix: Problem with logging in an unverified user via the master login through the API fixed
- Fix: Problem with database query of tags with supposedly same characters fixed
- Fix: Problem with creation of unneeded channel roles on fresh installations fixed
- Fix: Problem with creation of different MediaHashes when calling a hidden media during transcoding fixed
- Fix: Retrieval of a CSS file no longer needed fixed
- Fix: Problem with displaying and deleting client logos in admin panel fixed
- Fix: Problem with mini player during subtitle editing fixed
- Fix: Problem with additional media attachments during batch upload fixed
- and other minor optimizations and improvements