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March 15, 2018
Update for YuJa Software Station for Apple Now Available to All Zones
Software Station for AppleWe have released an updated Apple Capture application to all zones that includes the following changes:
- 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.
- More Clear Post-Capture Dialog – Improved message when the capture has completed indicating users where their capture will be sent to.
- 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.
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March 10, 2018
Canadian Zone – Semi-Monthly RC20180302 Released
Canadian ZonesWe have successfully pushed an update to all physical zones residing in the Canada. For a summary of the release, please refer to the corresponding tag for United States zones.
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March 3, 2018
United States Zone – Semi-Monthly RC20180302 Released
Analytics General Platform HTML5 Player iOS App Live Streaming Media Management United States Zones Video Editor Video QuizzesWe have successfully pushed an update to all physical zones residing in the United States. Please note that this release will be pushed to Canadian zones next week. This release includes 150 new features and improvements including:
- Easier to Use Main View with Action Buttons for Common Workflows – The Platform user interface has been updated to include the most common tasks as Action Buttons in the top-bar. Users can access media channels, create captures, and manage & uploads media all from the main screen.
- Refined Media Player with Better Search Visualization and Small-Screen Capabilities – We’re introducing a new Media Player which offers even easier to navigate search-inside-video capabilities, improved embeddability in smaller windows, and better support for mobile devices and tablet screen sizes. We also added some new capabilities including topic highlighting in the auto-scrolling sidebar, better search-inside-video sidebar, and a simplified Play-Bar.
- Live, Multi-Source Room Preview Snapshots of Active Captures – The latest Software Capture applications for both PC and Apple, as well as the latest Hardware Hub firmware now supports multi-source preview within the Admin Panel’s Devices tab. Administrators can now keep tabs on active room recordings with periodically updating snapshots of actively recording rooms and lecture halls.
- New Quiz Question Types and Refined Quiz-Taking Interface – The Video Quiz suite now has new question types including Multi-Select, Short Answer and True-False options.
- Auto-Captioning Support Now Available in Six New Languages – As part of the more powerful Artificial Intelligence-based auto-captioning engine we integrated in the last release, we are now introducing the ability to auto-caption in additional languages including French, Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- Improved Support for Legacy Browsers – Our focus was improving support for the deprecated since IE Edge – but still used – Internet Explorer browser.
- Improved Media Library Performance – We optimized a number of heavily used search and general sub-routines to make them much faster. Our performance tests in various physical zones showed improvements in overall Media Library load time and snappier navigation.
- Additional Infrastructural Work for HTML5 Video Conferencing – While still in an alpha state, we have continued to bolster the infrastructure, as well as, migrate over functionality from our Flash-based Video Classroom. We expect this suite to enter Beta in the March / early-April timeframe.
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February 17, 2018
Update for YuJa Software Station for Apple and PC Now Available to All Zones
Software Station for Apple Software Station for PCWe 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
- 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.
- Watch Point Support for M4V File types – The Watch Point capability now supports the ability to ingest multi-stream and single-stream M4V files.
- Product Fixes – Small bug fixes including resolution of a rare issue that could cause large log files to be generated.
Software Station for Apple
- 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.
- Preview Mini-Bar for Pause and Stop – A very popular PC Capture feature is now available on Apple to manage active captures efficiently.
- 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.
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February 17, 2018
Canadian Zone – Semi-Monthly RC20180209 Released
Canadian Zones UpdateWe have successfully pushed an update to all physical zones residing in the Canada. For a summary of the release, please refer to the corresponding tag for United States zones.
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February 13, 2018
United States Zone – Performance Optimization for Analytics
Analytics Fixed United States Zones UpdateWe have successfully pushed 5 optimizations focused on improving the dynamic generation and loading of the new Overview tab for Visual Analytics. The result of this optimization is that on our customer’s production data workloads, there is a 5x improvement in load speed compared to the version we deployed on Friday.
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February 10, 2018
United States Zone – Semi-Monthly RC20180209 Released
Analytics General Platform Media Management United States Zones UpdateWe have successfully pushed an update to all physical zones residing in the United States. Please note that this release will be pushed to Canadian zones next week. This release includes 75 new features and improvements including:
- New Visual Analytics Overview tab – After extensive research and feedback about what Administrators wished to see in the Analytics Overview, we’ve incorporated more relevant statistics and a more attractive look-and-feel.
- Improved Media Preview for Non-Video Digital Assets – Organizations storing digital assets such as Word, Excel, PowerPoints, PDFs, images, etc. now have the ability to click on the thumbnail to view an inline preview of the file.
- Refreshed Visual Analytics UI and Color Scheme – Alongside the new Visual Analytics Overview tab, we also refreshed the other Usage & Analytics suite, as well as resolved a dozen-or-so related issues. Among other things, this includes improves aesthetics of the Contents tab and provides easier-to-read graphs.
- Performance Improvements to LMS Media Extensions – Re-factored the algorithms that the Media Choosers use to make them even faster when there are thousands of video objects in the Internal Library for a given user. While most users won’t notice the improvements, those power-users with thousands of video assets will certainly take note.
- Better Quota Management Capabilities including Self-Service Preview – Ability to send “approaching assigned quota” and “quota exceeded” emails when users are approaching or have exceeded their admin-allotted quota. We also now provide a way within the user’s My Account settings to view their current data usage.
- New Social Syndication Tab within Media Details – Improved workflow for Content Owners to cross-syndicate media to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube with API-level integrations with each Platform.
- Minor Improvements to Media Player – We added some minor improvements to the Media Player including in the scenario when the Thumbnail Bar is hidden. In this situation, when hovering over the scrubber bar, it shows the thumbnail for that region of the video.
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February 3, 2018
Canadian Zone – Semi-Monthly RC20180126 Released
Canadian ZonesWe have successfully pushed an update to all physical zones residing in the Canada. For a summary of the release, please refer to the corresponding tag for United States zones.
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February 3, 2018
Minor Update to iOS and Android Applications Available in App Stores
Android App Canadian Zones iOS AppWe released a small update to the iOS and Android mobile applications that resolved a compatibility issue with certain Single-Sign-On products and zones located in Canada.
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January 27, 2018
United States Zone – Semi-Monthly RC20180126 Released
General Platform HTML5 Player United States Zones Update Video EditorWe have successfully pushed an update to all physical zones residing in the United States. Please note that this release will be pushed to Canadian zones next week. This release is largely a maintenance update with about 60 smaller improvements including:
- Additional Administrative Alerts – Admin Panel’s Overview tab now provide alerts on newly-created automated schedules for hardware and software devices listed on the Devices tab.
- HTML5 Video Editor (Beta) Improvements – We’ve added further refinements to the UI, added the ability to zoom-in-and-out of the timeline, edit mobile captures, as well as edit uploaded (single-stream) media. We also added editing compatibility with media that has an Audio Description tag. Related to this, we also provided interim clarification on the purpose of each editor type while we work to consolidate them into the HTML5 Editor.
- Improved Email Filtering and Toggles – We now provide Administrators with toggle on-off capabilities on all emails sent to users. We also added the ability to customize additional email templates including Live Stream invitations.
- Media Chooser Improvements – Resolved some issues with the LMS Media Extensions related to displaying incorrect thumbnails in some rare cases, as well as, showing media on the EnterpriseTube that cannot be embedded.
- Small Updates to the Media Player – We refined the placement of a few less frequently used controls including the Indicate Confusion and Toggle Full-Screen buttons to be within the Options sub-menu.