Hi everyone,
it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.12 has been released:
The documentation for this release can be found at:
This is the final maintenance and security release of Opencast 16. Please consider updating to opencast 17 or Opencast 18 soon.
To all committers and involved contributors, thank you!
Best Regards
Opencast 16 Release Managers
Hi everyone,
it is our pleasure to announce that both Opencast 17.2 and 16.10 have been released:
The documentation for the releases can be found at:
This release primarily contains several bug fixes.
RPM and Debian packages as well as container images will be available soon. Watch for announcements in the Opencast Releases Matrix channel.
To all contributors, thank you for your hard 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
The Opencast 16 Release Managers
We will start the conference with a block of short presentations. If you want to suggest a presentation, you can do it here:
Large parts of the summit will have an unconference style, with a lot of room for discussions and working groups. You can also already suggest sessions in advance following the link above, but you will still be able to suggest topics ad-hoc on site where we will schedule the unconference sessions according to interest.
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For more information about the summit, visit the main article:
It is finally time to do the move from Google Groups to GitHub
Discussions. The groups users@opencast.org and dev@opencast.org have been archives and are only accessible read-only from now on. For any further discussions or questions, please go to:
Not all groups have been migrated. Some sub-communities like anwender@ or lms@ still exist on Google Groups for now. We can migrate additional groups if those communities want that.
If there are any problems, ping us on Matrix.
Not a replacement, but an additional place for quick questions or just to chat is our Matrix community. Join the Matrix space #opencastproject:matrix.org and in particular, the community channel #opencast-community:matrix.org.
Also, the room #opencast-announcements:matrix.org will from now on get a copy of messages posted here and sent to the announcements list.
See you on GitHub!
Hi everyone,
it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.7 has been released:
The documentation for the release can be found at:
Opencast 16.7 is a security and maintenance release.
The release contains a major bug fix release of the admin interface. For specific details, please refer to the release notes of the Admin Interface release 2024-11-19.
It also fixes a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-52797) with moderate severity, which may be exploitable for a denial-of-service attack. Therefor, we recommend upgrading to this release.
RPM and Debian packages as well as container images will be available shortly. Watch for announcements in the Opencast Releases Matrix channel.
To all contributors, thank you for your hard 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
Opencast 16 Release Managers
Lars Kiesow
Michael Schwenk
Hi everyone,
it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.4 has been released:
The documentation for the release can be found at:
This release fixes a critical bug which may cause ingests to fail. Please skip the 16.3 release and update to 16.4 directly.
RPM and Debian packages as well as container images will be available soon. Watch for announcements in the Opencast Releases Matrix channel.
To all contributors, thank you for your hard 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
Opencast 16 Release Managers
Lars Kiesow
Michael Schwenk
Hi everyone,
it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.2 has been released:
The documentation for the release can be found at:
This is a biugfix release of Opencast 16. Among several other problems, this fixes an important bug causing problems for non admin users when (re)publishing events. We recommend updating to this as soon as possible.
Additionally, this includes a new version of Opencast’s admin interface, which in turn fixes a number of bugs including one which could cause data corruption.
RPM and Debian packages as well as container images will be available soon. Watch for announcements in the Opencast Releases Matrix channel.
To all contributors, thank you for your hard 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
Opencast 16 Release Managers
Lars Kiesow
Michael Schwenk
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.
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…
To participate just show up at the meetings, visit our Matrix channel at #opencast-community:matrix.org or just work in GitHub.
You cannot make it but want to help regardless?
– Deadline Extended to Thursday, February 8, 2024
We are happy to announce that the call for session proposals is now open. You can submit proposals for sessions you want to do yourself, but also request sessions you would like to see, and we will try to find someone to leads that session for you.
The deadline for proposal submission is
Original Deadline: Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024
New Extended Deadline: Thursday, Feb 8, 2024
Suggested topics for this year’s summit are:
The form doesn’t fit your idea? Don’t hesitate to write down what you need, and we will see if your idea fits in the overall summit.
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