Version 4.3

This page contains an overview of the new features in each release. For a full listing of the features, bug fixes and upgrade notes, please see the release notes.

4.3.5

Improvements

Bug fixes

  • Signiant transfers failing for large files.
  • Cannot delete group used in many ACLs on GlassFish.
  • Username parameter ignored for bulk item exports.

Transcoder fixes

  • Transcoder crash on aborted jobs.

4.3.4

Bug fixes

  • Deadlock on job start causing job to stop running.
  • Rejected shape import requests causing empty jobs to be created.
  • Configurable exclusive job step wait time. See jobExclusiveStepMaxWait.
  • Export job failing to find and copy file created from transcode step.
  • List item jobs not writing directly to S3.
  • List item jobs not finishing when listing by group.
  • FTP storage to empty directory does not work.
  • No thumbnails created for MTS files.

Transcoder fixes

  • Transcoder stuck on broken PDF.
  • Add option to fail if frame cannot be decoded.
  • Incorrect scaling of posters.

4.3.3

Bug fixes

  • Encrypt credentials in thumbnail resource URIs.
  • Storage rule supervisor repeatedly restarting due to a long running transaction, causing copy jobs not to start.
  • High JMS connection usage from storage supervisor.
  • Slow file system metadata updates causing growing imports to end early (Tunable growing file timeout.)
  • Slow library search due to rollbacks.
  • Cached search bigtext entries not always removed.
  • Solr searchers keeping GlassFish from shutting down.
  • Quote characters in a collection name generates broken access DOT graph.
  • Checksum not computed for file with %2B in name.

Server fixes

  • Checksum fails to compute for large files with vidispine-server.
  • No version available from vidispine-server –version.
  • Don’t put expired messages on the DLQ.

Transcoder fixes

  • Interlace flag not working for H.264.
  • Incorrect subclipping of MXF OP1a with index in footer.
  • Incorrect bit depth for AES3.
  • 32bit lpcm detected as 16bit.
  • Burnt in timecode text offset from text box.

4.3.2

This is a bug fix release with a large number of fixes. Notably:

  • Cached search documents not being removed from the big text table, causing it to grow over time.
  • The periodic update of a large library could cause library API requests and index updates to halt due to a locking issue.
  • New Relic users will now see web requests with transaction names that match the path used in the request, instead of the automatic name assigned by New Relic which tends to group requests to different endpoints together.
  • Speed ups when faceting on many fields with many matching terms.
  • When using SolrCloud the connection manager could abort long running requests, typically causing updates to Solr to fail.
  • Various bug fixes and improvements.

For the full list of changes, see the release notes.

4.3.1

RHEL 7 support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is now a supported. You may have already seen some EL7 RPMs in 4.3, but now the packaging of the transcoder has also been completed making EL7 the latest addition to the list of supported operating system.

System overview

The metrics page available on the admin port when running standalone Vidispine has been redesigned. It now also features graphs of some of the metrics exposed via StatsD and the metrics admin resource.

Other

  • Fixed incorrect role on PUT /collection/(collection-id)/metadata.
  • JavaScript notifications now work on MySQL.
  • WAITING jobs could cause job metrics to become incorrect.
  • Various bug fixes and improvements.

For the full list of changes, see the release notes.

4.3

Standalone deployment

Vidispine can now be run without the need of an application server. See Standalone Vidispine.

Other