Here you can find release notes regarding all Accurate Video products. Each release note will tell you highlights in each version, what's new and what's been fixed.
5.0.3
Released 2021-02-22
Highlights
Bug fixes
Release notes
Frontend
Fixes
Token from cookie not available in initial requests.
Remove duplicate call to list assets.
Postgres Adapter
Fixes
Improved asset loading speed.
Bulk file index now responds with a status of 200 and a list of files, instead of 204
Job System
Fixes
Set correct Content-Encoding when uploading to S3
Support exporting files to external locations
5.0.2
Released 2021-02-22
Highlights
Bug fixes
Release notes
Frontend
Fixes
Fix permissions when generating configuration files on startup.
5.0.1
Released 2021-02-22
Highlights
Bug fixes
Release notes
Job system
Fixes
Rounding error in spritemap script.
5.0.0
Released 2021-02-22
Highlights
Support for dynamically update settings via API
Resizable panels in Validate
Copy & paste markers between tracks in Validate
Added support for strict taxonomy for marker names
Release notes
Frontend
Features
Asset List: Share access modal is updated to support only viewing.
Asset List: Add delete asset functionality.
Core: Added configurable subtitle priority order to settings file.
Core: Usage UI available from the more menu in the header.
Core: Update Amazon Rekognition supported check to be compatible with backend.
Core: Add support for reading settings from backend.
Core: Support startTime adjustment of subtitle files. This allows loading subtitle files with shifted timestamps.
Core: Added settings `startTime` that can be used to indicate that the marker data is offset by the given amount.
Jobs: Add possibility for a user with role job_view to see its own jobs.
Validate: Updated Marker form track selection, where both group and track where in the same select, to instead be split up into one Group select and one Track select.
Validate: Added support to open any asset with at least one file attached to it.
Validate: Added the setting row.tag.
If a tag is configured on the row, a label tag is displayed on the row in timeline.
Validate: Added the setting row.names that lists names of a marker row. See SETTINGS.md for more details.
If there are names on a marker row, the marker form displays the name field as searchable list with names from the selected track.
If there are no names on the selected track, the form fall backs to a regular text field.
Validate: Added resizable panels.
Validate: Copy/Paster marker feature added by new toolbar buttons and new hotkeys, cmd+c/cmd+v for mac and ctrl+c/ctrl+v for PC.
Validate: Hotkeys for toolbar actions are now displayed in tooltips.
Fixes
Asset List: New design of asset status in asset list and grid.
Validate: Fixed loop marker logic to allow seek to another frame if paused.
Validate: Fixed in- and out point not cleared after clicking on "Cancel"/Back arrow in Create marker form.
Validate: Fixed marker not deselected after clicking "Cancel"/Back arrow in Edit marker form.
Validate: Fixed issue where it sometimes wasn't possible to step to Previous/Next marker when opening the marker form due to name-field was auto focused. Hence removed autofocus property from name-field.
Validate: Fixed so it's no longer possible to allow writable marker tracks in a read-only marker group.
Validate: Fixed paste marker logic to paste the marker from the copy even if original marker was deleted.
Breaking
Removed deprecated settings. See MIGRATION.md for details.
Postgres Adapter
Features
Extract and save start timecode from video files.
Report user type when doing user reporting.
API for dynamic settings to frontend settings file.
Log user report history.
Asset can now be automatically deleted after a configurable time.
Calculate if Amazon Rekognition is supported for assets.
Fixes
Always do storage refresh once for storages without list access.
Allow users to list their owned jobs, regardless of role.
Persist audio timebase.
Calling user should have modify access with role access_read.
Breaking
Accept job now return 204 when no jobs are available (was 404).
Job system
Features
Graceful shutdown, wait for active jobs before stopping.
Cache control and content encoding supported for storage upload.
Load job templates and other runner local scripts from adapter settings API.
Compress waveforms.
Fixes
Error in ffmpeg proxy creation.
Transcoded files got tag=original.
Set default Cache-Control to 12 hours on new files.
Storage scan without list access should only do storage validation, no file listing.
4.6.1
Released 2021-02-01
Highlights
Bug fixes
Release notes
Postgres Adapter
Fixes
Fixed a bug where player was not frame accurate for some videos.
4.6.0
Released 2021-02-01
Highlights
Renamed Visual QC and Poster Room to Validate and Poster
Added several more Rekognition services
Support for Collections
Support for ingesting MPEG-DASH content
Release notes
Frontend
Features
Asset List: Added UI support for collections
Creating and removing collections
Searching within collections
Collection tree navigation
Moving assets/collection
Asset List: New style for asset/collection grid items.
Asset List: Allow bulk selection, used for moving assets/collections or opening multiple assets.
Core: Load dash content from backend endpoint
Core: Load waveform data from file on Asset
Core: Use container data from original if missing on ABR file
Core: Disable unsupported applications if asset contains ABR content
Core: Now updates the query parameter authentication token from the /whoami response if the response provides a new token.
Core: Forward refreshed video and discrete audio urls to player (pre-signed url support)
Core: Added more Rekognition services
Content moderation
Label detection
Celebrity detection
Face detection
Text detection
Core: Moved the theme select to user preferences.
Core: Added MANIFEST and MARKER ingest file types.
Storages: Added possibility to refresh storage from UI.
Validate: Miscellaneous improvements
Submit marker form on Enter key
Prevent setting in point before out.
Added toolbar buttons
Jump to previous and next marker.
Create marker
Clear points
Read-only markers are now highlighted and scrolled to in the marker list when selected in the timeline
Validate: Added optional query parameter mainAssetId which loads and stores groups, tracks and markers from/to that specified id instead of using id of currently selected video.
Validate: Added metadata group setting for passing custom metadata on track creation.
Validate: Added allowEditTrack and allowDeleteTrack row settings variables.
Validate: Add settings for marker groups and rows to be initially collapsed, based on number of rows or collisions.
Fixes
Asset List: Changed pagination label to 'Items per page'
Core: Increased the max-width for storages/ingest/jobs/settings to resolve the narrow width.
Core: Added setting to enable/disable eventbus under eventBus.enabled. Also moved eventBusUrl to eventBus.url.
Core: Fixed asset refresh functionality to take a start time into account when queuing the first refresh.
Core: The start time is set with the av:refresh_interval_start metadata field and is expected to be a ISO 8601 date time string.
Poster: Fixed an issue where the user could select invalid presets. The user now receives a warning when attempting to select an invalid preset, and the action is prevented.
Settings: Close button is back on the personal preferences screen.
Settings: Escape key now closes the personal preferences screen.
Storages: Fixed bug in storage form where it was not possible to delete all tags
Validate: Disable playback rate for firefox when using web audio api (visualizing firefox limitation).
Validate: Align timeline marker titles to top
Validate: Use metadata-field component to show metadata
Validate: Fixed solo mute button spacing.
Validate: Fixed asset title overflow on metadata tab
Validate: Reworked the timeline duration to now properly match the duration of the video file.
Validate: Fixed bug in fullscreen control compensating for start timecode offset.
Validate: While looping a marker it is now possible to
Move in- & out point
Change playback speed
Reverse playback
Validate: Fixed marker row to still be selected when clicking on a marker.
Validate: Optimize marker filter calculation.
Deprecations
Deprecated qc settings in favor of apps.validate
Deprecated posterRoomSettings settings in favor of apps.poster
Postgres Adapter
Features
Added option to skip transcode during ingest
Updated Storage refresh endpoint to return the created job
Prevent removal of non-empty collections
Fixes
Prevent asset relationship cycles
Fixed bug when ingesting asset into collection
Job system
Features
Allow transcode to be skipped on ingest
Added more Rekognition services:
Celebrity Recognition
Face Detection
Text Detection
Expanded job template documentation
Added waveform generation step to default ingest template
Fixes
Fixed asset import cleanup bug
Vidispine Adapter
Features
Added poster export endpoint to API
4.5.2
Released 2020-12-15
Highlights
Minor bugfixes
Release notes
Job System
Fixes
Removed interfering Rekognition metadata
4.5.1
Released 2020-12-15
Highlights
Minor bugfixes
Release notes
Frontend
Fixes
Extended prompting in regards to unsaved markers
Now only prompts if any form value has been changed.
Now prompts when switching between markers as well.
Fixed scrollbar issue in settings tab.
Job System
Fixes
Rekognition result parsing
4.5.0
Released 2020-12-14
Highlights
Improvements to marker interactions in Visual QC
Release notes
Frontend
Features
Visual QC: Selecting a marker opens the edit marker form.
Visual QC: Added a delete button in the edit marker form.
Visual QC: Added marker tooltips in list, and changed layout of tooltip in timeline.
Visual QC: Added hotkey functionality to the "m" key. An in point is added automatically if there is no in point set.
Visual QC: The user is now prompted if attempting to leave the application without saving a marker that's being edited or created.
Core: Added automatic refresh of the loaded assets if av:refresh_interval is set in the asset metadata.
Core: Added optional message on 401 Unauthorized, message configuration needs to be added to settings for it to trigger, default is off.
Core: Allow setting backendUrl be overridden by queryParameter. The backendUrl needs to be signed, see details in settings.
Fixes
Fixed issue related to marker creation with the VS adapter.
Hide settings for disabled applications on the settings page.
Update dto.types, removing Asset.videoFiles, Asset.title and AssetInputDto.title.
Fixed settings url resolution for settingsUrl and eventBusUrl.
Fixed an issue where the selected areas in Poster Room could reset when using different aspect ratios.
Fixed poster export in JPEG format.
Features
Retrieving files tagged as “original” now requires special privileges.
Fixes
Fixed asset table sort bug.
Vidispine Adapter
Fixes
Fixed asset search sort bug.
4.4.5
Released 2020-12-04
Highlights
Minor bugfixes
Release notes
Frontend
Fixes
Fix bug where video element was not passed to players
Vidispine Adapter
Fixes
Add missing IN operator in asset filters.
4.4.4
Released 2020-11-24
Highlights
Critical internal bugfix
Release notes
Frontend
Fixes
Updated internal player version to fix issue where player could crash if initialized improperly.
Poster Room: Fixed an issue where black edge removal would carry over between snapshots when applying different aspect ratios.
Poster Room: Fixed an issue where switching between two snapshots captured at the same frame would cause the selection tool to stop functioning properly.
Poster Room: Fixed an issue where the tool could crash if no snapshots remained after creating a poster.
Storages: Creating a storage now gets an updated status when the storage has been scanned.
Asset list: Allow changing title and access for disabled assets.
Fixed minor visual issues that appeared when using Light Theme.
Postgres Adapter
Features
Added possibility to restrict access to the settings API.
Added possibility of granting access to settings by wildcard roles.