Category: Releases

Opencast 16.5

by Michael Schwenk (ZMML Uni Bremen), posted in Releases

Hi everyone,
it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.5 has been released:

The documentation for the release can be found at:

This release primarily contains several minor bugfixes.

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

Opencast 16.4

by Lars Kiesow, posted in Releases

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

Opencast 16.3

by Michael Schwenk (ZMML Uni Bremen), posted in Releases

Hi everyone,
it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.3 has been released:

The documentation for the release can be found at:

This is again a bugfix release of Opencast 16. For example the broken docker compose command is fixed. A new version of
Opencast’s admin interface is included as well. [#6100]

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

Opencast 16.2

by Lars Kiesow, posted in Releases

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

Opencast 16.1

by Michael Schwenk (ZMML Uni Bremen), posted in Releases

Hi everyone,

it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.1 has been released:

The documentation for this release can be found at:

Most importantly 16.1 fixed a bug that made it impossible for Opencast 16 to work on clustered systems!

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 16.1
Lars Kiesow
Michael Schwenk

Opencast 16.0

by Michael Schwenk (ZMML Uni Bremen), posted in Releases

Hi everyone,

it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 16.0 has been released:

The documentation for this release can be found at:

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

Opencast 14.13

by Stefanos Georgopoulos, posted in Releases

Opencast 14.13 has been released:

The release notes can be found in the Opencast documentation at:

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.

Best regards,

Waldemar Smirnow (ELAN e.V.) – Stefanos Georgopoulos (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Opencast 14 Release Managers