Mediacast 2.3 Deployment

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
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