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 I am glad we were able to work together and get this release out.
Best Regards
Opencast 16 Release Manager Lars Kiesow Michael Schwenk
This release contains updates to the Admin UI and Opencast Studio as well as several bugfixes. RPM, Debian packages and Docker images will be available soon. Watch for announcements in the matrix channel.
To all committers and involved contributors, thank you!
Best Regards
Release Managers Opencast 17.x Katrin Ihler Veronika Schröer
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.
We are happy to announce the next major version of Opencast’s video portal: Tobira 3.0! We added many new features, improvements and bug fixes since the 2.0 release in May 2023. This blog post will summarize all changes since then, not only the ones in 3.0 itself.
As you can see, Tobira has a dark mode now which is automatically used based on your system settings. The font family used by Tobira can also be configured now, allowing you to more closely match your organization’s CI. And while the main design is the same as in 2.0, the UI is continuously improved and polished.
Apart from design changes, many new features were added. For example, the main search was majorly reworked and is now more powerful. In particular: it allows you to search through subtitles and slide texts of videos, which means you can find videos by their contents, not only their metadata. Try it out for yourself.
Tobira now supports Opencast playlists, offers basic Matomo support and makes it possible to protect videos via password. Users can now delete their own videos as well as change the videos’ access policy. The same ACL editor can be used to set an access policy when uploading videos and to give granular editing permissions to different pages in the video portal.
Tobira’s player (a version of the Paella player) now uses a new design, allows users to switch between qualities of progressive download videos, works well for portrait videos and shows video segments with slide previews.
On the technical side:
The authentication system was reworked and is now more flexible and powerful (especially due to the addition of auth callbacks).
The Opencast workflow for videos uploaded through Tobira can be configured.
Our GraphQL Library was updated, also bringing a newer GraphiQL version.
Various performance improvement, like bundle splitting and rendering optimization were implemented
Of course, this blog post only gives an overview. There are countless other bug fixes, improvements and many other features! Be sure to check out the release notes of v3.0 and all previous ones.
This release mostly enables Opencast to wait until the index becomes available during boot-up.
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 I am glad we were able to work together and get this release out.
This release primarily contains several bugfixes. RPM and Debian packages as well as Docker images will be available soon. Watch for announcements in the matrix channel.
To all committers and involved contributors, thank you!
Best Regards
Release Managers Opencast 17.x Katrin Ihler Veronika Schröer
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
Please make sure to read and follow the upgrade guide carefully when upgrading from an older major version to Opencast 17.
RPM and Debian packages as well as Docker images will be available soon. Watch for announcements in the matrix channel or on the users list.
To all committers and involved contributors, thank you for all your wonderful 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 17.0 Katrin Ihler Veronika Schröer
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
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
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