Version 5.7

The release notes will tell you what’s new in each version, and any changes that you must be aware of when upgrading. For reference, Vidispine ticket numbers are printed as (#1234).

5.7.1

2021-07-13

Improvements

  • Add support for rendering 59.94 framerate video timelines (#4920).
  • Improve IMF 2020 XSD support (#4913).
  • Improve deletion speed of items whose metadata is referenced in many places (#4912).
  • Improve metadata update speed if it’s referenced by a large number of entities (#4897).
  • Indexing optimization of high-load metadata patterns (#4894).
  • Support parsing FinalCut xml with sequence reference (#4887).
  • Be able to parallelize bulky metadata migration (#4846).

Bug fixes

  • Database migration error on MySQL and SQL Server (#4917).
  • Incorrect SCC ROLL_UP parsing (#4903).
  • Job finished notifications not been processed for a long time (#4900).

5.7

2021-05-27

Baton QC Service Support on VidiNet

It’s now possible to use the Baton QC service if you are running VidiCore on VidiNet. For more information, please refer to VidiNet. (#4840)

New features

Improvements

  • Indexing and search performance improvements (#4881).
  • Improve metadata retrieval speed with inherited metadata (#4849).
  • Make it possible to choose directory traversing algorithm (#4824).
  • Optimize job startup speed (#4808).
  • Be able to use the storage external id when registering a file (#4786).
  • Support IMF schema ST 2067-2:2020 (#4741).
  • Be able to set com.vidispine.service.quorum via configuration properties (#4728).
  • Only start decoder when it is actually needed in NLEJob (#4027).

Bug fixes

  • VSA cannot connect to Spectra BlackPearl share (#4851).
  • Search Cursor changes each time at the end of the search result (#4823).
  • Not able to search for metadata field group with space in name (#4758).
  • Fix missing Content-Length header from the APInoauth thumbnail and poster endpoints (#4743).
  • Facet search not returning results in timed metadata (#4734).
  • File retains inherited deletion-lock even after detached from item/shape (#4708).
  • Fix incorrect Waveform URI not using the apiNoauthURI setting (#4624).

Transcoder fixes

  • Memory leak regression in deinterlacefilter (#4864).
  • Item sequence render conform job gives unexpected result when average framerate is off (#4784).
  • Scenechange thumbnailPlugin results in thumbnails with SAME scene (#4337).

Upgrading from 5.6

  • Solr: No changes to the documents. Re-indexing is not required.