Recent News

Mediacast 2.3.2 was released on March 24, 2009 at 10AM PDT. There was no outage during the deployment.

Noteworthy changes:

• The file size limit was increased from 500MB to 1GB
• MIME types for files are now set based on file extensions. There are a wide variety of MIME types supported. Please drop us a note if we are missing some
• Several issues with CWPID integration were fixed
• File names can now contain non-ASCII characters. Previously such an upload would fail
• Bulk Uploads feature implemented
• Multiple infrastructure upgrades and improvements (JW FLV Player 4.3.132, JRuby 1.2, Rails 2.2.2, and more)

Mediacast 2.3.1 will be released on October 16, 2008 beginning at 8AM PT. No outage is expected during the deployment.

New features and improvements:

• In additional to DRPL (Denied Restricted Parties List) screens via CWP against individual accounts at login and registration, Mediacast now performs GLS (Geographic Location Screen) checks for banned IPs from embargoed countries when file downloads are attempted.
• Enable custom Google analytics
• Support media file names that contains special characters, such as ()!'" etc

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