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|http://grizzly-sendfile.kenai.com] 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
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|http://grizzly-sendfile.kenai.com] 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