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v2.0.5.7 - 2020-02-12

Enhancements

NEM-228 - Show release Version and Date in the Frontend

NEM-288 - Asset Page - UI and extra fields on metadata

Changed the headlines and structure in the asset section to be more user friendly.

NEM-311 - VOD-Stack integration

It is possible to select VoD channels as a new channel format.

Find details on how to use them at: https://nowtilus.gitbook.io/serverside-ai/video-player-app/vod-dash-hls

NEM-417 - Channel Player: warn when original source stream cannot be played due to CORS/SSL issues

The channel player now shows error that occur on load or while playback.

NEM-419 - Manifest Analyser: VOD: warn if example is mp4

The system only accepts dash or hls manifests as source for VOD channel. THis is now reflected in the analysis as well.

NEM-412 - Channel API - expose route(s) to enable/disable a channel / channels

A dedicated method can now be used in order to activate or deactivate a channel

PUT /channels/setState/:id
{
    <whole object>,
    "state": "enabled" // or "disabled"
}

Fixes

NEM-230 - Clicking on Action on the enhanced table component gives an empty list

NEM-231 - Do not expose the ApiKey (systems key) to the frontend

NEM-253 - Display meaningful error when elastic search not set up correctly for ssai report

NEM-281 - fix not user friendly message

NEM-284 - Occasional backend crash on page switch

NEM-315 - Prevent the transmitter from logging everything in debug mode

NEM-324 - User not found even if user exist

NEM-325 - Player does not work with HLS

NEM-330 - Test-Player is not playing back HLS-Streams on Chrome

NEM-355 - Empty Reports Display

NEM-356 - Map shows data after a new tenant has registere

NEM-358 - Improve Test-Coverage to 70%

NEM-361 - Failed job does not change its status to 'failed'

NEM-378 - Error during ssai channel creation via API PRD

NEM-382 - SSAI PRD - encoding job never end

NEM-385 - Failing tasks do not add the error (reason for failing) to the task and job

NEM-386 - Failing channel synchronizer test

NEM-387 - Failing enable channel

NEM-389 - Ad Slates get generated to many times NEM-394 - Backend: crash in refresh.

NEM-396 - SSAI create new tenant error - Invalid template NEM-397 - Histories records all contain only 'undefined'

NEM-400 - Fix unstable tests

NEM-402 - Channel Synchroniser: if sync fails for one tenant, subsequent tenants are not synced.

NEM-403 - The notification Service is responding extremely slow

NEM-410 - VOD GPAC static HLS mainfests fail to parse

NEM-411 - VOD DASH channel creation attempts to create adSlates?

NEM-415 - Dash Encoding doesn't work

NEM-416 - Player gets stuck with buffering

NEM-420 - Output URI for VoD channels

NEM-422 - Segments to replay after midroll = 0 gives JSON error

NEM-424 - Channel config on a ad-server level

NEM-431 - Remove the Back link in Asset-Details

NEM-432 - Change columns in the job-lis

v2.0.5.6 - 2020-01-02

Enhancements

NEM-318 - Channel Synchronisation based on NEM-243

Synchronise channels with the assigned SSAI-Cluster automatically so that:

Channels never get out of sync
In case of a Redis outtake/reboot channels get recreated quickly

NEM-333 - Raise Notifications on channel synchronisation errors

In case an error happens in the synchronisation process it is saved to the notifications and every user can subscribe to this event to get notified via email, slack or webhook.

NEM-360 - Added VoD services to SSAI-Cluster

The SSAI-Cluster now supports live and VoD channels. The administration of such VoD channels is planned to be added with version 2.0.5.7

NEM-204 - Ad-Slate (mp4) upload and automatic transcoding

The Ad-Slate for a channel can now be added by uploading a mp4 file. This supersedes the old process of defining a URL because it directly transcodes and packages the ad-slate in the required renditions to fit smoothly into the stream.

Fixes

NEM-369 - Channels that only exist in Serverside.ai database cannot be deleted

Fixes: Channels that where only existing in the Serverside.ai database but not in the SSAI-Cluster Redis database could not be deleted.

NEM-375 - InitDB causing issues on CosmosDB since a dependency update. Refactored InitDB-Process.

After updating the dependencies to Azure and inside the project to the latest versions the process to initialise new collections caused crashes in multiple scenarios. This initialisation process has been refactored and runs only once on system boot up. Which is not only decoupling the processes to fix the current issues but also speeds up the resource creation and update process,

NEM-376 - Use env variables in Jest test

In order to make use of the Jest vs-code extension default environment variables have been added to the Jest configuration.

Systems

SSAI-Cluster

Integrated: VoD Ad-Aggregation Service v4.0.2
Integrated: VoD Ad-Stitcher Service v4.0.3
Both services above allow the creation of VoD SSAI channels based on a .mrss playlist forwarded by the player

v2.0.5.5 - 2019-12-05

Enhancements

NEM-88 - Default database entries on tenant level

A newly registered tenant gets all the important resources out of the box which simplifies the the setup process. The setup includes:

Connection to the shared SSAI-Cluster
Connection to the shared Azure Media Services account
A default HLS and DASH channel
Logic for processing advertisements in the format required for a dedicated channel

Note: The settings existing tenants made to their processes, systems and channels will not be changed.

NEM-98 - Notifications and subscription to notifications

Some internal processes emit notification that are listed in the notification section in the app: https://admin.serverside.ai/app/settings/notifications

Additionally users can subscribe to the notifications (https://admin.serverside.ai/app/settings/profile):

Job created
Job failed
Job is done

The currently supported subscription methods are Email, Slack and Webhook.

NEM-226 - Frontend: Improved handling of unknown routes

Unknown routes will lead to a friendly error message :-)

NEM-275 - Replace chart.js with Nivo for rendering charts

To provide a richer experience when looking at your stats we included the Nivo charting framework.

NEM-338 - DASH: Support trick play tracks

Additionally to the video representations a trick-play representation can be defined.

<Representation id="video=260000(mode=trik)" bandwidth="260000" width="416" height="234" codecs="avc1.64000D" scanType="progressive" ></Representation>

Serverside.ai understands the difference to the main video track and adjusts the encoding profile accordingly.

v2.0.5.4 - 2019-11-15

Enhancements

NEM-319 - Logging in Elastic Search and Elastic Cloud

The system can now be deployed with additional environment variables that enable the forwarding of the logs to a ElasticCloud instance.

ELASTIC_CLOUD_ID
ELASTIC_CLOUD_AUTH
ELASTICSEARCH_HOST
ELASTICSEARCH_PORT
ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME
ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD

Details: Underneath there is a Filebeat instance started and configured that is forwarding the logs to ElasticSearch.

Until today a user needed to delete all the jobs and medias that are related to a title in order to be able to delete a title and not have any orphan entries. Now those related entries will be deleted automatically in the background whenever a title is deleted.

Fixes

NEM-313 - Restricting user and tenant access to delete of single items

Knowing the UUID of an entry it was possible to delete an item of another tenant. This Security flaw was removed.

Systems

SSAI

[DASH] Synchronization of source manifest scan is now added to DASH, too.
[DASH] Enhance client-side VAST tracking capabilities by signaling the ads complete VAST documents (supporting FreeWheel PoC)
[DASH] Service names (for DASH) made configurable.
[DASH] Update log format
[Channel-API] enhance synchronization of scan-jobs by new 'scan-job-generation' for DASH
[DASH] Signal URL to client-VAST in view request
[DASH] added route to fetch VAST document for client-side VAST tracking
[DASH-Scanner] enhance synchronization of scan-jobs by new 'scan-job-generation' for DASH
[DASH-Scanner] added SERVICE_NAME=dash-scanner to ENV
[DASH-Scanner] scan source manifest at the defined minimumUpdatePeriod interval signaled in the source MPD
[DASH-Scanner] format logging by prepending channel- (cid:), replacement- (rid:), period- (pid:) ids accordingly to any log message
[DASH-Replacer] Signal complete VAST responses to clients i.o. to enable full VAST tracking
[DASH-Replacer] added SERVICE_NAME=dash-replacer to ENV
[DASH-Replacer] store complete VAST responses for delivery to the sai-client (client-side VAST tracking)
[DASH-Replacer] format logging by prepending channel- (cid:), session- (sid:), replacement- (rid:) ids accordingly to any log message
[DASH-Replacer] Fix: Multiple enable crashes channel
[DASH-Replacer] Fix: Disable-enable cycle needs time to propagate correctly
[DASH-Replacer] Fix: Duplicate scan-job on re-schedule orphaned scan-jobs, source scan errors, channel re-synchronisation errors

v2.0.5.3 - 2019-10-30

Fixes

NEM-188 - Apply correct styles on SweetAlert dialog boxes

Buttons did not get the CSS styles. This is changed to the correct styling. See: NEM-105

NEM-296 - token refresh seems to be broken

After the time-to-live of the user token was expired after 1 hour there was no automated fetch with the refresh token which led to fetching errors and empty pages.

The Frontend was logging:

UnAuthorizedError: Request cannot be authenticated. Invalid token.

Fixed by an improved handling of the refresh token.

Issue: Pasting https://admin.serverside.ai/app/ into the browser redirects you to: https://admin.serverside.ai/app/app/dashboard which is not a route and so is a blank page.

Fixed by refactoring the routing.

NEM-304 - Fixed: Cannot add a channel on staging because faulty id in url

Creating a new channel forwarded the user to a wrong URL with [object%20object] instead of the channel id:

Fixed by refactoring the routing.

Enhancements

NEM-105 - Frontend: Error/ Success Messages handled by the SweetAlerts framework

Added unified success and error message handling utilising SweetAlert2: https://sweetalert2.github.io/

NEM-136 - Show more detail on errors

Sending an error from the backend can now be resolved completely by the frontend to show all the details of the error message.

Example of error handling in the backend:

throw new MoleculerError('Manifest Invalid', 501, 'ERR_INVALID_MANIFEST', analysis.errors)

NEM-216 - Admins can now resend the verification e-mail for a particular user

It is now possible to resend the confirmation email by an admin via:

https://admin.serverside.ai/app/settings/users/<user-id>

NEM-216 - Users can request the verification e-mail if they ave not received the original mail

Users that have not yet verified their email address can now choose to resend the confirmation email after trying to login in case they have nor received the first one.

NEM-276 - Frontend routing has changed from hash to a path based approach

The frontend routing has changed from a hash based approach like

https://admin.serverside.ai/app/assets#c49f1a01-13cd-4509-9a47-7fc77883bd8d

to a path based schema

https://admin.serverside.ai/app/assets/c49f1a01-13cd-4509-9a47-7fc77883bd8d

to enable multiple layers of nesting like

/app/assets/c49f1a01-13cd-4509-9a47-7fc77883bd8d/medias/aff239a9-2d2d-4a80-b7b1-3361f0119144

NEM-293 - Add Freewheel as possible ad-server

On the channel detail page freewheel can now be used as another supported ad-server.

In order to use freewheel please always add the following line to the ad source parameters (optional) field:

{"caid": "<campaign-id>"}

Systems

SSAI

Synchronisation within the channel scan process is enhanced leading to more stability in cases of source stream manifest or connection errors, ssai-component updates and ssai-channel-api interactions
API-Keys are enabled for DASH
HLS source updates are safely throttled to half the segment target duration. HLS output manifests are defaulted to 10 in length.
Earlier fixes to the FreeWheel adapter are included.
- Fix typo in parameter name (flag)
- Add HTTP-header for client IP
SpotX adapter now features GDPR client parameters.
- Whitelist regs[...] in client/session url parameters
- Whitelist user[...] in client/session url parameters
Fix: Multiple enable crashes channel
Fix: Disable-enable cycle needs time to propagate correctly
Fix: Duplicate scan-job on re-schedule orphaned scan-jobs, source scan errors, channel re-synchronisation errors

v2.0.5.2 - 2019-10-14

Enhancements

NEM-205 - Frontend: Enable channel params on the channel detail page
NEM-232 - Clean up the registration page
NEM-244 - Replace use of specific subclasses (e.g. ForbiddenError) with MoleculerError
NEM-256 - Clean up the login page
NEM-279 - Frontend: remove "handleJSONChange" from DataConnector
NEM-280 - Frontend: Allow maxWidth for List columns to be passed in props

Fixes

NEM-220 - Frontend: Make sure buttons are always accessible in lists
NEM-225 - Add error handling to "Invite User"
NEM-257 - Asset metadata: Type should be a dropdown
NEM-274 - Remove Elastic Environment Variables (They are no longer used because the channel service pulls the elastic config now from the systems service)

v2.0.5.1 - 2019-10-02

Enhancements

NEM-97 - Finalize asset detail page (including: limit with of tables and auto-generated detail page for medias+jobs)
NEM-259 - DASH analyzer to support the alternative DASH-Manifest representation structure

v2.0.5.0 - 2019-09-27 - Alpha Release

Enhancements

NEM-87 - Improved the registration flow by making the mails cleaner and improving the process
NEM-90 - Handling of forbidden sections. Section display is now dependent on the role of a user: SuperAdmin, Admin or Viewer
NEM-91 - Implement the Reporting and Dashboard section
NEM-92 - Implement pagination, sorting and reload on the table view
NEM-153 - Changed flow.tasks to taskTemplates in the code to make the purpose clearer
NEM-163 - Reviewed the readme.md and put most of the docs in the wiki
NEM-189 - Updated the new logo on main page and favicon
NEM-206 - Changed the configuration to come from the systems service
NEM-211 - Added x-total-count to the response headers
NEM 213 - Implemented the new SSAI-Cluster API
NEM-242 - Improved the API error http status codes
NEM-245 - Replace 501 errors with 500 errors
NEM-247 - Improve channel API responses handling on update
NEM-251 - Implemented SSAI-Cluster channels API interface changes
NEM-258 - In the profiles set bFrame to 0 by default

Fixes

NEM-219 - FIX: Cannot login again after logout or token expiration - SOLUTION: Delete existing token before login
NEM-223 - FIX: Search on assets and users not working
NEM-246 - FIX: Updating a channel doesn't update ad server url
NEM-248 - FIX: On Windows docker often cannot start dependencies after machine restart

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hashtagv2.0.5.7 - 2020-02-12

hashtagEnhancements

hashtagNEM-228 - Show release Version and Date in the Frontend

hashtagNEM-288 - Asset Page - UI and extra fields on metadata

hashtagNEM-311 - VOD-Stack integration

hashtagNEM-417 - Channel Player: warn when original source stream cannot be played due to CORS/SSL issues

hashtagNEM-419 - Manifest Analyser: VOD: warn if example is mp4

hashtagNEM-412 - Channel API - expose route(s) to enable/disable a channel / channels

hashtagFixes

hashtagNEM-230 - Clicking on Action on the enhanced table component gives an empty list

hashtagNEM-231 - Do not expose the ApiKey (systems key) to the frontend

hashtagNEM-253 - Display meaningful error when elastic search not set up correctly for ssai report

hashtagNEM-281 - fix not user friendly message

hashtagNEM-284 - Occasional backend crash on page switch

hashtagNEM-315 - Prevent the transmitter from logging everything in debug mode

hashtagNEM-322 - API key save fails silently (user login for non-existent tenant?)

hashtagNEM-324 - User not found even if user exist

hashtagNEM-325 - Player does not work with HLS

hashtagNEM-330 - Test-Player is not playing back HLS-Streams on Chrome

hashtagNEM-355 - Empty Reports Display

hashtagNEM-356 - Map shows data after a new tenant has registere

hashtagNEM-358 - Improve Test-Coverage to 70%

hashtagNEM-361 - Failed job does not change its status to 'failed'

hashtagNEM-378 - Error during ssai channel creation via API PRD

hashtagNEM-382 - SSAI PRD - encoding job never end

hashtagNEM-385 - Failing tasks do not add the error (reason for failing) to the task and job

hashtagNEM-386 - Failing channel synchronizer test

hashtagNEM-387 - Failing enable channel

hashtagNEM-389 - Ad Slates get generated to many times NEM-394 - Backend: crash in refresh.

hashtagNEM-396 - SSAI create new tenant error - Invalid template NEM-397 - Histories records all contain only 'undefined'

hashtagNEM-400 - Fix unstable tests

hashtagNEM-402 - Channel Synchroniser: if sync fails for one tenant, subsequent tenants are not synced.

hashtagNEM-403 - The notification Service is responding extremely slow

hashtagNEM-410 - VOD GPAC static HLS mainfests fail to parse

hashtagNEM-411 - VOD DASH channel creation attempts to create adSlates?

hashtagNEM-415 - Dash Encoding doesn't work

hashtagNEM-416 - Player gets stuck with buffering

hashtagNEM-420 - Output URI for VoD channels

hashtagNEM-422 - Segments to replay after midroll = 0 gives JSON error

hashtagNEM-424 - Channel config on a ad-server level

hashtagNEM-431 - Remove the Back link in Asset-Details

hashtagNEM-432 - Change columns in the job-lis

hashtagv2.0.5.6 - 2020-01-02

hashtagEnhancements

hashtagNEM-318 - Channel Synchronisation based on NEM-243

hashtagNEM-333 - Raise Notifications on channel synchronisation errors

hashtagNEM-360 - Added VoD services to SSAI-Cluster

hashtagNEM-204 - Ad-Slate (mp4) upload and automatic transcoding

hashtagFixes

hashtagNEM-369 - Channels that only exist in Serverside.ai database cannot be deleted

hashtagNEM-375 - InitDB causing issues on CosmosDB since a dependency update. Refactored InitDB-Process.

hashtagNEM-376 - Use env variables in Jest test

hashtagSystems

hashtagSSAI-Cluster

hashtagv2.0.5.5 - 2019-12-05

hashtagEnhancements

hashtagNEM-88 - Default database entries on tenant level

hashtagNEM-98 - Notifications and subscription to notifications

hashtag

hashtagNEM-226 - Frontend: Improved handling of unknown routes

hashtag

hashtagNEM-275 - Replace chart.js with Nivo for rendering charts

hashtagNEM-338 - DASH: Support trick play tracks

hashtagv2.0.5.4 - 2019-11-15

hashtagEnhancements

hashtagNEM-319 - Logging in Elastic Search and Elastic Cloud

hashtagNEM-227 - Deleting a title will also delete the related medias and jobs

hashtagFixes

hashtagNEM-313 - Restricting user and tenant access to delete of single items

hashtagSystems

hashtagSSAI

hashtagv2.0.5.3 - 2019-10-30

hashtagFixes

hashtagNEM-188 - Apply correct styles on SweetAlert dialog boxes

hashtagNEM-296 - token refresh seems to be broken

hashtagNEM-301 - Fixed: Navigation to /app route causes a wrong redirection

hashtagNEM-304 - Fixed: Cannot add a channel on staging because faulty id in url

hashtagEnhancements

hashtagNEM-105 - Frontend: Error/ Success Messages handled by the SweetAlerts framework

hashtagNEM-136 - Show more detail on errors

v2.0.5.7 - 2020-02-12

Enhancements

NEM-228 - Show release Version and Date in the Frontend

NEM-288 - Asset Page - UI and extra fields on metadata

NEM-311 - VOD-Stack integration

NEM-417 - Channel Player: warn when original source stream cannot be played due to CORS/SSL issues

NEM-419 - Manifest Analyser: VOD: warn if example is mp4

NEM-412 - Channel API - expose route(s) to enable/disable a channel / channels

Fixes

NEM-230 - Clicking on Action on the enhanced table component gives an empty list

NEM-231 - Do not expose the ApiKey (systems key) to the frontend

NEM-253 - Display meaningful error when elastic search not set up correctly for ssai report

NEM-281 - fix not user friendly message

NEM-284 - Occasional backend crash on page switch

NEM-315 - Prevent the transmitter from logging everything in debug mode

NEM-322 - API key save fails silently (user login for non-existent tenant?)

NEM-324 - User not found even if user exist

NEM-325 - Player does not work with HLS

NEM-330 - Test-Player is not playing back HLS-Streams on Chrome

NEM-355 - Empty Reports Display

NEM-356 - Map shows data after a new tenant has registere

NEM-358 - Improve Test-Coverage to 70%

NEM-361 - Failed job does not change its status to 'failed'

NEM-378 - Error during ssai channel creation via API PRD

NEM-382 - SSAI PRD - encoding job never end

NEM-385 - Failing tasks do not add the error (reason for failing) to the task and job

NEM-386 - Failing channel synchronizer test

NEM-387 - Failing enable channel

NEM-389 - Ad Slates get generated to many times NEM-394 - Backend: crash in refresh.

NEM-396 - SSAI create new tenant error - Invalid template NEM-397 - Histories records all contain only 'undefined'

NEM-400 - Fix unstable tests

NEM-402 - Channel Synchroniser: if sync fails for one tenant, subsequent tenants are not synced.

NEM-403 - The notification Service is responding extremely slow

NEM-410 - VOD GPAC static HLS mainfests fail to parse

NEM-411 - VOD DASH channel creation attempts to create adSlates?

NEM-415 - Dash Encoding doesn't work

NEM-416 - Player gets stuck with buffering

NEM-420 - Output URI for VoD channels

NEM-422 - Segments to replay after midroll = 0 gives JSON error

NEM-424 - Channel config on a ad-server level

NEM-431 - Remove the Back link in Asset-Details

NEM-432 - Change columns in the job-lis

v2.0.5.6 - 2020-01-02

Enhancements

NEM-318 - Channel Synchronisation based on NEM-243

NEM-333 - Raise Notifications on channel synchronisation errors

NEM-360 - Added VoD services to SSAI-Cluster

NEM-204 - Ad-Slate (mp4) upload and automatic transcoding

Fixes

NEM-369 - Channels that only exist in Serverside.ai database cannot be deleted

NEM-375 - InitDB causing issues on CosmosDB since a dependency update. Refactored InitDB-Process.

NEM-376 - Use env variables in Jest test

Systems

SSAI-Cluster

v2.0.5.5 - 2019-12-05

Enhancements

NEM-88 - Default database entries on tenant level

NEM-98 - Notifications and subscription to notifications

NEM-226 - Frontend: Improved handling of unknown routes

NEM-275 - Replace chart.js with Nivo for rendering charts

NEM-338 - DASH: Support trick play tracks

v2.0.5.4 - 2019-11-15

Enhancements

NEM-319 - Logging in Elastic Search and Elastic Cloud

NEM-227 - Deleting a title will also delete the related medias and jobs

Fixes

NEM-313 - Restricting user and tenant access to delete of single items

Systems

SSAI

v2.0.5.3 - 2019-10-30

Fixes

NEM-188 - Apply correct styles on SweetAlert dialog boxes

NEM-296 - token refresh seems to be broken

NEM-301 - Fixed: Navigation to /app route causes a wrong redirection

NEM-304 - Fixed: Cannot add a channel on staging because faulty id in url

Enhancements

NEM-105 - Frontend: Error/ Success Messages handled by the SweetAlerts framework

NEM-136 - Show more detail on errors

NEM-216 - Admins can now resend the verification e-mail for a particular user

NEM-216 - Users can request the verification e-mail if they ave not received the original mail