Opencast’s roadmap is set by its contributing institutions, so this roadmap changes as priorities change.
Opencast 10 (December 2020)
- Additional documentation in support of both live and on-demand streaming using Open Source solutions
- Additional documentation on adopting Opencast
- Additional documentation regarding scaling delivery to end users via CDN
- Better support for Kubernetes environments (shutdown behaviour, autoscaling)
- Editor track selection supporting more than two tracks
- Extended AAI Login Handler allowing complex attribute mapping and dynamic permissions
- Kubernetes Helm charts
- Kubernetes Operator for Opencast
- Packaging for Opencast dependencies in Docker images (ActiveMQ, opencast-influxdb-adapter)
- Server side ECMAScript bundle to automate some admin UI input based on user permissions
Opencast 9 (June 2020)
- Additional Paella usability work
- Amberscript transcription service integration
- Comments plugin for Paella and Opencast
- Java 11 compatibility
- Nibity transcription service integration
- Replace the video portal
