VIMP 6.0.0

VIMP 6.0.0 brings numerous improvements “under the hood” as well as useful new functions. Find out more about the new release!

Important notes:

  • Find an overview of the new features in our VIMP 6.0 blog post.
  • Also read our technical notes containing important information of the upgrade.
  • This update requires version 15 of the SourceGuardian Loader. Click here for information on updating the SourceGuardian Loader for your Linux distribution.

 

Please download the new version within your personal download area.

 

Changelog:

  • New: Video annotations
  • New: Media type filter for media boxes
  • New: Column selection in the admin panel overviews
  • New: "Edited on" display in the user and media overview in the admin panel
  • New: Multi-client capability for livestreams added
  • New: Publishing options can be optionally hidden
  • New: Additional provision of the "displayName" in the API responses of the getUser method
  • New: Livestream preview in the admin panel
  • New: Added shortcut for editing chapter markers in the media actions
  • New: Support for uploading the SRT subtitle format
  • New: Video.js update
  • New: jQuery update
  • New: vimp tasks
  • New: Replacement of the SwiftMailer by the Symfony Mailer
  • New: Conversion of the admin panel template to TWIG
  • New: Performance improvement through delivery of static content via symlinks
  • New: Complete revision of media counting
  • New: Separate authorizations for embed variants
  • New: PHP minimum requirement raised to version 8.1
  • New: MySQL minimum requirement raised to version 8.0
  • New: Livestream activation/deactivation by owner
  • New: Purging of group members
  • New: Added option in admin panel to allow users to invite other users to groups
  • New: VIMP transcription extension (optional)
  • New: End of support of the Atlantic template
  • New: End of support for OpenID 2.0
  • New: End of support for the WebTV module
  • New: End of support for the Newsletter module
  • Improvement: Design adjustments
  • Improvement: Security optimizations
  • Improvement: i18n optimizations
  • Improvement: Revision of the "Direct upload to groups" functionality
  • Improvement: Optimization of the transcoding of videos with regard to rounding errors that can lead to black border pixels
  • Improvement: Optimization of the support of special characters in the search
  • Improvement: Complete revision of the i18n import task
  • Improvement: Revision of the permission task
  • Improvement: API responses of the search methods now return all media that the referenced user is allowed to access, no longer just their own
  • Improvement: Livestream optimizations
  • Improvement: Better font customization for subtitles in the player
  • Improvement: Enhanced validation when uploading subtitles
  • Improvement: Harmonization of the simple and advanced API search with the portal search
  • Improvement: Correction of the schema file call for media import
  • Improvement: Revision of the license key check
  • Fix: Issue with certain characters in SEO URL title fixed
  • Fix: Issue with automatic user role assignment when verifying users fixed
  • Fix: Issue with saving tags when editing media fixed
  • Fix: PHP warnings in installer fixed
  • Fix: Issue with recognizing already existing entries during i18n import fixed
  • Fix: Issue with special characters in search terms fixed
  • Fix: Issue with direct upload to albums fixed
  • Fix: Issue with batch upload with disabled preview image selection fixed
  • Fix: Issue with the function of restricting access to the specified web address with trailing slash fixed
  • Fix: Issue with assigning the default user role when creating new users via the admin panel fixed
  • Fix: Issue with deleting tags associated with livestreams fixed
  • Fix: Issue with uploading audio descriptions fixed
  • Fix: Issue with playing media with missing additional formats fixed
  • Fix: Issue with overwriting the favicon during VIMP update fixed
  • Fix: Problem with resetting the admin panel overviews fixed
  • Fix: Problem with the player display with audio descriptions in the admin panel fixed
  • Fix: Check for SourceGuardian installation in the check task extended to all editions
  • Fix: Issue with the validation of the start and end release date of livestreams fixed
  • Fix: Occasional problem with the assignment of subtitles to incorrect languages fixed
  • Fix: Issue with the display of vertical videos in the subtitle editor fixed
  • and other minor optimizations and improvements

 

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