2008/09/17
Mediacast 2.3 Deployment
Last changed: Sep 17, 2008 15:26 by IgorMinar
Mediacast 2.3.0 will be released on September 18, 2008. A brief outage is expected during the 60minute outage window, which starts at 8:30 am PDT.
New features and improvements:
- New header & search element
- New UI tabbed design
- Overhaul of media details view
- New recently popular listing on the front page now shows most popular entries in the last 24 hours
- Added "Share" feature that displays, various links and embed snippets for media
- UI Element for User tag cloud
- Enable comments for contributions (with email notification for content owners)
- Login for external users so that they can post comments
- Add user friendly names for media
- Support preview for QuickTime movies
- Major improvements to cache expiration
- Major overhaul of the application infrastructure code (JRuby upgrade, Goldspike plugin was replaced with jruby-rack, custom file download code was replace with grizzly-sendfile filter)
- Enhanced application documentation/help wiki
- Experimental xml reports for content contributors, the format might change in the future
- Many other minor enhancements and ui tweaks
Bug fixes:
- Player confused if user defines permalink w/o extension
- SWF files should now be played properly (without the flash player)
- Fixed issue with decrementing media count for users when media is deleted
- Downloads no longer fail if the download url ends with /
- Ordering of items in the tag cloud should be case insensitive
- Many other minor bugfixes
