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We have successfully pushed an updated YuJa Software Station for PC to all physical zones residing in the United States, Canada, and the European Union.

1. General Stability Fixes and Minor Improvements
   We also added about a dozen fixes to various stability improvements and edge cases. Highlights of the fixes are noted below:

   
   #162584536 – Apple Capture – Resolved edge-case in media recoverability where shutting down ungracefully could leave a permanently processing live stream and a completed one.
   #162665441 – Apple Capture – Resolved rare issue where a scheduled live stream could crash the application.
   #163203646 – Apple Capture – Resolved issue where a video stream could freeze and become offset of the other when the YuJa app icon is clicked on.
   #163099066 – Apple Capture – Resolved rare issue where the software capture application could crash when an error alert dialog was intended to indicate an abnormal issue.
   #163525685 – Apple Capture – Improved client-side media recoverability when an abnormal issue causes a media fragment.
   #163598316 – Apple Capture – Improved partial screen recording error handling by preventing the capture area from being too small to practically record. Previously this could result in a crash of the screen capture module.
   #163638006 – Apple Capture – Improved error logging in situations which result in a crash state.
   

We have successfully pushed an updated YuJa Software Station for Apple to all physical zones residing in Canada. This release incorporates changes outlined in the Apple Software Station Release Note dated Dec 15, 2018.

We have successfully pushed an updated YuJa Software Station for Apple to all physical zones residing in the United States. A corresponding release will take place in the Canadian Zone next week.

1. New Apple Capture Application with Full Media Recoverability
   We released a new version of the Apple Capture application that includes complete Media Recoverability. Like the PC Capture application’s capability, media recoverability enables abruptly or incorrectly terminated recordings to be uploaded and restored without manual intervention.

   Additionally, we moved the media recovery algorithms to the Cloud. By moving the recovery process to the Cloud, it enables us to continue to fine-tune and strengthen the recovery algorithms without necessitating end-users’ update their software capture applications. Software Capture on PC – which already has local media recoverability – will also benefit from this new architecture in a future release.

2. Apple Capture Now Offer Partial Screen Recording
   The newest Apple Capture version matches parity with the PC Capture’s partial screen recording. This includes the ability to dynamically select a region of the screen to record for ad-hoc and auto-scheduled scenarios.

   

We have successfully pushed a version update to both the YuJa Software Station for Apple, as well as PC, to all zones. This release includes:

1. Apple Capture – Continuous Feed Monitoring – Support for continuous audio and video monitoring, as well as ability to generate and preview current audio samples within the Devices tab of Admin Panel.
2. Apple Capture – Configurable Save Location – Ability to select the Save Location for given recording.
3. Resolved rare issue which could cause Apple Capture to quit unexpectedly in the situation where a selected source is not available.

We have released an updated Apple Capture application to all zones that includes the following changes:

1. HLS-Based Live Streaming – We are introducing a whole-host of new live streaming capabilities through March and April. As part of this initiative, we’ve added HLS-compliant, HTML5-based Live Streaming capabilities to the YuJa Software Station for Apple.
2. More Clear Post-Capture Dialog – Improved message when the capture has completed indicating users where their capture will be sent to.
3. Resolution of Minor Issues – We also resolved a half-dozen small issues including: rapid-fire pause/resume clicks; an authentication fault with certain OAuth authentications; and, resolution of rare spurious error message that could occur when the remotely activated.

We have successfully pushed a version update to both the YuJa Software Station for Apple, as well as PC, to all zones. This release includes:

Software Station for PC

1. Room Preview of Active Captures within Devices Tab – Install the latest PC Capture binaries to be able to see periodic previews of active room recordings within the Admin Panel –> Devices tab.
2. Watch Point Support for M4V File types – The Watch Point capability now supports the ability to ingest multi-stream and single-stream M4V files.
3. Product Fixes – Small bug fixes including resolution of a rare issue that could cause large log files to be generated.

Software Station for Apple

1. Room Preview of Active Captures within Devices Tab – Install the latest Apple Capture binaries to be able to see periodic previews of active room recordings within the Admin Panel –> Devices tab.
2. Preview Mini-Bar for Pause and Stop – A very popular PC Capture feature is now available on Apple to manage active captures efficiently.
3. Product Fixes – Small bug fixes including resolution of a rare desktop capture corruption issue, as well as some general stability improvements.

Please note that this release will alter our semi-monthly release schedule slightly. We anticipate our next semi-monthly release to be March 2nd, 2018.

This release resolves three issues that affected customers:

1. Platform – Resolved issue with AST CaptionSync caption requests not being sent correctly in some cases.
2. Software Station for PC – Resolved issue that occurs on PCs with extremely slow start-ups times (> 5 minutes) which could result in Windows Services failing to start. Software Station now can perform a delayed service start-up.
3. Software Station for Apple – Clarified minimum installation requirements of YuJa Software Station for Apple. Now attempting to run the application will provide a clear error dialog indicating that MacOSX Version 10.10 (Yosemite) is required.

We have successfully pushed a major version update to the YuJa Software Station for Apple to all zones. This release includes:

1. Overall improvement to the look-and-feel of the application’s main interface.
2. New Confidence Monitor user-interface that does not require the pre-creation of a Profile to use it. If you’re familiar with the PC version’s Confidence Monitor, this one follows it closely.
3. Confidence monitor for the screen source now preserves the aspect ratio.
4. Improvement to Device Management by making application Registration an optional and Administrative-only option.

Alongside these improvements, we also addressed a dozen smaller bug fixes and small improvements.

NB: One clarification on this upgrade, the new version requires OS 10.10+ or higher. If you require an older binary for customers who use older Apple computers, please let us know.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes:

1. Introduction of “One-Click Drag-and-Drop” which enables users to drag content right onto the Media Library window pane for uploading and inclusion within their Personal Library.
2. Migration to general availability in all physical zones of Custom Metadata Schema which enables institutions to define customized – and optionally mandatory – metadata fields for media. This offers improved metadata-based organization and metadata search. To ensure a successful incorporation of these capabilities, we will not be enforcing the Required Flag for metadata schema rules while institutions learn about these capabilities. Enforcement of the Required Flag will happen in a subsequent release.
3. Improved integration with Rev, AST CaptionSync and 3Play Media for submitting human captions. We have had conversations with all our human captioning vendors to improve their error reporting in instances where captioning isn’t possible (low audio levels, zero audio levels, etc.) and, based on this, will be deepening the integration further in an upcoming, near-term release.
4. Updates to the iOS mobile apps to match the Android app’s ability to upload pictures and videos already present on the device.

We also added about 50+ minor improvements and fixes including: a minor update to the Apple Capture application related to improvements in device compatibility, media library permission and usability fixes, HTML5 Media Player browser compatibility fixes, and more.

Looking ahead, we are putting the final touches on some improvements to our YuJa Cloud’s media processing pipeline (to be even faster, have more capacity, and fault tolerant), an improved YuJa Software Station for PC with more capabilities, and much more.

We have successfully pushed an update to all zones. This release includes:

1. New branding elements to customize/hide channel names;
2. Updates to both PC and Apple desktop captures to resolve some minor Single Sign On (SSO)
3. Improved backend to the video editor for improved robustness in processing video edits. We will be further enhancing some of the visual capabilities in our September releases.
4. New Blackboard Media Chooser Building Block (please request this from your Account Manager)
5. Further improvements to the accessibility capabilities of the HTML5 Media Player
6. New Sharing access type called Edit Access which provides essentially Full Access minus deletion rights to the user.
7. Removal of the legacy JWPlayer and Flash-based media player which has been deprecated for the last 8 months.

We also released over 50+ smaller improvements and enhancements.