Please make sure to read and follow the upgrade guide carefully when upgrading from an older major version to Opencast 16.
RPM and Debian packages as well as Docker images will be available soon. Watch for announcements on the users list.
To all committers and involved contributors, thank you for all your work. This could not have happened without you, and we are glad we were able to work together and get this release out.
Best Regards
Release Managers Opencast 16.0 Lars Kiesow Michael Schwenk
RPM and Debian packages as well as container images will be available soon. Watch for announcements on the users list. Please consider upgrading soon to the next major Opencast releases.
Thank you to all users, adopters, and developers for contributing to the Opencast project. We hope the next releases go as smoothly as Opencast 14 did.
This week lots of community members participated in an Opencast BugBash to help to improve the new admin interface and get rid of a lot of minor, yet annoying little bugs which were still present in the project.
The event turnout was great. We had admins probe for problems and report not only those but a lot of big ideas for small improvements which can make the life of admins easier. We had developers, including some new ones, picking up the reported issues and fixing what needed to be fixed. And finally, we had community members reviewing the new patches to ensure they actually fix the issues and do not cause new ones.
Further Work
The new version of the admin interface will be part of Opencast 16.0 which is to be released next week. If more patches make it in, there will likely be another admin interface release in preparation for that.
While we have fixed so much, there is quite a bit of work remaining. We identified many issues and a number of them are still open and needs fixing. We also have open patches awaiting reviews. This means that your help is still appreciated.
If you want to help in any way (testing, development, money), but don’t know how to best address this, don’t hesitate to talk to the Opencast Board.
Finally, let me close this post with another thank you everyone for all your help!
The new admin interface has a bunch of minor, but still very annoying bugs. To address this, there will be an Opencast BugBash focused on the new interface (though no one will complain if you fix other bugs).
The idea for these two days is to bring together as many people as possible to identify bugs, fix them and review the resulting patches so that we can get them into Opencast prior to the release of Opencast 16.
If you want to help, that would be great. We need…
admins and users testing the new user interface to create issues
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