Tag: release

Opencast 12.13 🪲

by Felix Pahlow, posted in Releases

In response to corrupt zip headers in our distributed jar files preventing startup of Opencast with OpenJDK 11.0.20 and above, and Opencast 12 still being widely used, we decided to provide this off-schedule release of Opencast 12.

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.

Opencast 14.0

by Stefanos Georgopoulos, posted in Releases

Hi everyone,

it is my pleasure to announce that Opencast 14.0 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 14.

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 14.0
Waldemar Smirnow
Stefanos Georgopoulos

Tobira 2.0 released

by kalbertodt, posted in Uncategorized

We are very happy to announce Tobira 2.0, the first major version after Tobira’s initial release in July last year. A lot has happened since then!

Tobira aims to be a pleasant interface through which users interact with your Opencast content. It lets you present videos and series in a customizable, hierarchical page structure, but also makes it easy for users to search through all media. Additionally, it offers tools to upload and manage videos. It’s possible to connect Tobira to virtually any authentication system and integrate it into your university’s/organization’s infrastructure.

The main changes in the 2.0 release include an extensive design refinement, user pages, being able to upload videos into series, a better share menu, a revamped color system, and a large number of accessibility improvements. User pages allow users (who are allowed to) to create and manage their own pages that are independent of the main page structure. The design changes don’t include anything major and the layout certainly stayed the same, but everything looks a lot tidier now.

You can read the full changelog of v2.0 on GitHub’s release page.

But there are 7 additional releases between 2.0 and 1.0, which brought a large number of features and improvements as well. The most notable ones are:

  • Properly support live-streams
  • Make videos nicely embeddable
  • Add subtitles support
  • Vastly improve documentation
  • Add metrics endpoint (e.g. for Prometheus)
  • Improved series & event block editor
  • Pre-authenticating users for Studio and Editor
  • Collapse/hide multiple upcoming events
  • Ease first-time setup considerably
  • And much much more!

And there are no signs of development slowing down!

As usual, we would like to thank all institutions which make Tobira possible by funding its development. This is primarily the ETH Zürich which is the project’s primary patron and has been from the very start. We are also very grateful for the significant contributions by Bern university and the TU Wien.