Carousel

7.5.2 -- 9 issues -- Released: 5/23/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2686 Microsoft Server 2019 Support
    • Summary: Windows Server 2019 has been validated and is now part of the list of Windows versions Carousel supports.
    • Bug: CSL-2697 Account for Player Pagination in API Swagger Documentation
    • Summary: Better documentation in the Carousel API's /players endpoint Swagger page. Please see `CarouselAPI/swagger/ui/index#!/Players` .
    • Bug: CSL-2698 Interactive Mouse/Touchscreens on BrightSign
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where mouse events were disabled on BrightSign players.
    • Bug: CSL-2732 Proxy password in API
    • Summary: Improved the Web Proxy settings user experience.
    • Bug: CSL-2691 Adding Background Audio Files to an Existing Playlist Mixes the New Files Between Existing
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the order of channel background audio was not always predictable.
    • Bug: CSL-2700 Can't Edit Layouts in a Full Screen Alert Zone without All Zone Admin Rights
    • Summary: Editing a Full Screen Alert Zone is now possible even if the user doesn't have All Zones' Admin rights.
    • Bug: CSL-144 Default Zone Background Not Updating on Player When Changed
    • Summary: Updates to a channel's seamless background are now applied as expected, even on zones without bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-2739 AD: members of TRMS_Users group are seen as Admins
    • Summary: Active Directory users which are members of the TRMS_Users group are no longer shown as (Admin) in Frontdoor.
    • Bug: CSL-2745 Custom WebProxy Configuration Should Not Fail If No Authentication Is Specified
    • Summary: A custom Web Proxy configuration can now be saved even if the Authenticate option is not selected. This allows easier configuration of anonymous web proxies.
7.5.1 -- 28 issues -- Released: 5/7/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2356 BrightSign OS Version 8 Support For Series 3 and 4 Players
    • Summary: BrightSign OS 8.0.33 support for Series 3 and 4 Players and OS 7.1.65 support for Series 2 players.
    • Bug: CSL-2513 User Cannot Delete Own Bulletin
    • Summary: Restored the ability for a user to delete their own bulletins even if they don't have the Manage Bulletins access right in the targeted zone.
    • Bug: CSL-2600 Windows Player Crash to Desktop Intermittently
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where an internal non-critical error could cause the Carousel Windows Player to exit silently. The Windows Player isn't configured to auto-restart out of the box so this caused the displays to sit on the Windows desktop, requiring user intervention.
    • Bug: CSL-2509 Brightsigns Flashes to Black When Transitioning In and Out of Clock Bulletins
    • Summary: Transitions to and from clock bulletins now cut to the next bulletin and no longer show black in-between on BrightSign players.
    • Bug: CSL-2385 Zones Endpoint Fails If Bulletins Have NULL GroupIDs
    • Summary: Improved the Carousel Installer's database migration when upgrading Carousel versions.
    • Bug: CSL-2670 Video Blocks in Portrait Channels are Rendered in the Wrong Location on BrightSign
    • Summary: Fixed a bug where portrait channels on BrightSign players would position video blocks incorrectly.
    • Bug: CSL-2662 4K Resolutions Added to the Channel Editor
    • Summary: 4K landscape and portrait resolution presets were added to the channel editor.
    • Bug: CSL-2639 Visually Depict BrightSign Player FW/OS Version Locked Status in the Player Dashboard
    • Summary: The player dashboard will now show 'version locked' status of BrightSign players even when they are on the same version as the server.
    • Bug: CSL-2624 Carousel Rendering Service Sometimes Fails To Start
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel Rendering Service could fail to start while the system was starting up because it couldn't reach the database server.
    • Bug: CSL-2622 RDA Commands Do Not Work Following the Security Fixes
    • Summary: RDA commands now work as expected. A previous security fix had disabled the functionality.
    • Bug: CSL-2609 Set Accessibility Site to Disabled for Imported Channels
    • Summary: Imported channels will not have the Accessibility Site enabled.
    • Bug: CSL-2608 Some Supported File Types Cannot be Uploaded
    • Summary: Restored the ability to upload specific media formats used by the Windows and Brightsign players. The list of supported file formats is the following: JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO, TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, SVG, EOT, MOV, M4V, MP4, AIFF, M4A, MP3, WAV, CSS, HTML, HTM, JS, XML, JSON, DAT, ZIP, 7Z, CSL, MPG, MPEG, WMV, SDP, DV, ASF, AVI, MP2, WMA, TIF, TIFF
    • Bug: CSL-2573 Digital Date/Time Bulletins Show the Incorrect Timezone Offset
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the 'z', 'zz' or 'zzz' timezone offset format strings would show the player's timezone information instead of the clock's timezone.
    • Bug: CSL-2571 BrightSign Video Walls
    • Summary: All video wall channels must have only one zone.
    • Bug: CSL-2550 Bulletin Scheduling Can Be Incorrect During Daylight Saving Time
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where zones with a custom timezone selected that were created since Carousel 7.0.0 were not respecting daylight saving time when scheduling bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-2540 Dynamic Bulletins Do Not Respect Zone Timezone Setting
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where dynamic bulletins such as event bulletins were not respecting their zone's timezone when displaying dates and times.
    • Bug: CSL-2527 BrightSign FW Doesn't Revert to Supported Version Carousel Deploys if Beta Firmware is Manually Put on the Player
    • Summary: Brightsign Players will automatically synchronize their firmware version with Carousel's unless the player has its "Allow Software Updates" setting turned off in the Carousel UI's player dashboard.
    • Bug: CSL-2515 BrightSign Players Display Black if Font of Clock Bulletin is not Selected
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where BrightSign players would display black if a clock bulletin did not have a font selected by means of importing a bulletin with a font not installed on the server. It now displays the clock with a default font.
    • Bug: CSL-2470 Carousel Adds Extra Default Backgrounds on Clone Import
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where an new gray background named "Default Background" could get added to zones while they are imported from a cloned channel.
    • Bug: CSL-2448 Expired EMS Bookings Continue to Show After They Expire
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where expired bookings would continue to show on EMS event display bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-2156 Cannot Upload Content in IE or Edge
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where you could not upload content in Internet Explorer or Edge browsers.
    • Bug: CSL-2623 BrightSign Players Don't Show Bulletins Added if a Zone Only has a Clock Bulletin
    • Summary: Bulletins added to a zone with only a clock bulletin will display as expected, without a player reboot.
    • Bug: CSL-2652 Certain RSS Feeds are not Displaying Images
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where certain feeds would not display their images, support for embedded images including MediaRSS is improved.
    • Bug: CSL-2676 Event Display can Display Events in Incorrect Timezone
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where events created in different timezones on an iCal source would be shown in the local timezone.
    • Bug: CSL-2684 after upgrading 6.x to 7.x, user can no longer edit channels in the channel editor
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where editing a channel caused an error "The zone with Id 0 does not exist.". This could happen following an upgrade from Carousel 6 to Carousel 7.
    • Bug: CSL-2133 Connecting to Multiple Domains within a Single LDAP Forest
    • Summary: You can now authenticate users across multiple different Active Directory domains.
    • Bug: CSL-2654 BrightSign Goes Into Boot Loop if Trying to Play 4k and 4k is not Supported on Player
    • Summary: When a BrightSign player is scheduled to display a channel at an unsupported resolution, the display will show an error message saying it is an unsupported resolution. This will display until the channel has been changed.
    • Bug: CSL-2665 Carousel Cloud Fails to Scope MDM Configuration Profile for Full Alerts
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Carousel wouldn't use the MDM Configuration Profile's Site when creating the Mobile Device Group used to scoping the profile to players causing a "409 Conflict" and not applying the profile to the targeted players.
7.5.0 -- 28 issues -- Released: 3/26/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-1605 Add Prompt When Disabling a Zone Alert That Has Linked Bulletins
    • Summary: When you disable an alert that has linked alerts in other zones, Carousel now prompts you to be sure you want to disable all alerts in other zones as well. Along with this, we now removed the "Disable Alerts" button if a user does not have access to disable linked alerts in other zones. The user can still disable the alerts manually in manage bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-1775 Upload limit in IIS is 2GB by default
    • Summary: The maximum file size when uploading media content has been increased from 1GB to 2GB.
    • Bug: CSL-2106 Dynamic bulletins stop updating
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where dynamic bulletin rendering could get stuck indefinitely. Bulletins such as RSS and Event Display bulletins would either show visible #hastags# placeholders instead of actual data, or would show stale data.
    • Bug: CSL-2306 Zone and Bulletin Excluded Words Break Twitter Bulletin Feed Validation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where having excluded words for a zone or on a Twitter bulletin would break the feed validation.
    • Bug: CSL-2312 Full Screen Alert Subscription Priority Can't Be Adjusted by Drag & Drop
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where you couldn't reorder your alert subscriptions by dragging and dropping.
    • Bug: CSL-1957 Change Default Password Hash Algorithm
    • Summary: Security enhancements.
    • Bug: CSL-1856 Media Is Not Accessible by Copies of a Deleted Template
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where media referenced by deleted templates was no longer accessible if still referenced by copies of the template.
    • Bug: CSL-2156 Cannot Upload Content in IE or Edge
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where you could not upload content in Internet Explorer or Edge browsers.
    • Bug: CSL-2292 Port new dynamic templates and bumpers to 7.x
    • Summary: Dynamic templates and bumper graphics have been given a fresh new look!
    • Bug: CSL-2353 Cannot Create Bulletin Tag with a Period
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where you couldn't save a bulletin tag with a period.
    • Bug: CSL-2375 Multiple Videos Do Not Play at the Same Time on Some Brightsign Players
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that stopped multiple videos from playing at the same time on some BrightSign models.
    • Bug: CSL-2196 Publishing an Imported Bulletin That Requires External Authentication Causes an Error
    • Summary: Bulletins that require external authentication will have their authentication source reset to default upon import into Carousel.
    • Bug: CSL-2324 port CSL-1856 to 7.5
    • Summary: Disposing of a template after copying it to a different zone will no longer break the copied template.
    • Bug: CSL-2331 Port CSL-2306 to 7.5
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would prevent Twitter bulletins from being published if the zone or bulletin contained excluded words.
    • Bug: CSL-2286 Some Health Check Tests Fail When TLS/443 is Forced in IIS
    • Summary: Removing the http port 80 binding no longer causes the Carousel health check to report errors.
    • Bug: CSL-2289 ItemImageUrl Not Working For Some RSS Feeds
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where an RSS bulletin's character limit was being applied to URLs, rendering them incomplete and non-functional.
    • Bug: CSL-2348 RAVE Repeatedly Sending CAP POST
    • Summary: Fixed an issue in the CAP API endpoint where it would return a 500 error status code and cause the RAVE alert system to continually re-send the alert to Carousel.
    • Bug: CSL-2263 Re-Importing a Channel Can Create an Existing File Error
    • Summary: Improved how the Clone tool writes files to fix a rare condition that could cause Clone imports to intermittently fail.
    • Bug: CSL-2376 Newlines in Date/Time Bulletins Are Not Properly Respected on Brightsign Players
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where newline characters were not properly respected on BrightSign clocks.
    • Bug: CSL-2378 Proxy Domain Setting Isn't Saved to the Database
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the proxy domain settings were not being saved to the database.
    • Bug: CSL-2334 Updated RSS Libraries
    • Summary: The method Carousel uses to read RSS and ATOM feeds has been updated to improve compatibility and performance.
    • Bug: CSL-2362 Carousel Attempts to Control MDM Configurations on Deleted Zones
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where deleting a full alert zone that had an MDM configuration profile set would not stop Carousel from attempting to control the MDM configuration profile through the Jamf API.
    • Bug: CSL-2474 Basic Auth API Access is Broken
    • Summary: Restored third party access to the Carousel API.
    • Bug: CSL-2502 User Entered Player Name has Been Added to Player Notification Emails
    • Summary: Added the player name to player notification emails for offline players, instead of just the host name.
    • Bug: CSL-1774 Public RSS Does Not Include Dynamic Bulletins
    • Summary: A Zone's RSS feed now includes additional dynamic bulletin types. The only bulletin types not present in the zone's RSS feed are: Video, Live Video, Clock, Interactive.
    • Bug: CSL-2189 RabbitMQ unstable on install/update
    • Summary: see kb: https://tightrope.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSL/pages/568197234/Reconfiguring+RabbitMQ+s+data+folder
    • Bug: CSL-2436 BrightSign Players Can Timeout Getting Updated Content
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where BrightSign players were not retrieving updated content from the Carousel server if the network or server took a longer time than usual.
    • Bug: CSL-2450 Content Accessibility
    • Summary: The Accessibility Site introduces content consumption and browsing, with the use of assistive technologies for accessibility, without requiring login. The Site is a channel based structure that can be enabled or disabled, for an alternative content browsing experience for users. Channels, Zones and Bulletins can all be opted into or out of for granular control over what content displays on the Accessibility Site. Channels are opt in and zones and bulletins are opt out. When Channels are enabled, a link to the content will be provided on the Accessibility Site.
7.4.6 -- 2 issues -- Released: 2/28/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2474 Basic Auth API Access is Broken
    • Summary: Restored third party access to the Carousel API.
    • Bug: CSL-2476 Carousel Installer Changes Affect Cablecast Installer
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where installing Carousel would result in the Cablecast database not being accessible.
7.4.5 -- Released: 2/13/2019
7.4.4 -- 1 issues -- Released: 2/11/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-1957 Change Default Password Hash Algorithm
    • Summary: Security enhancements.
7.4.3 -- 2 issues -- Released: 1/17/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2306 Zone and Bulletin Excluded Words Break Twitter Bulletin Feed Validation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where having excluded words for a zone or on a Twitter bulletin would break the feed validation.
    • Bug: CSL-2336 Support for BrightSign LS4 and HD4 models
    • Summary: Added support for BrightSign's LS4 and HD4 models
7.4.2 -- 4 issues -- Released: 12/21/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-2106 Dynamic bulletins stop updating
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where dynamic bulletin rendering could get stuck indefinitely. Bulletins such as RSS and Event Display bulletins would either show visible #hastags# placeholders instead of actual data, or would show stale data.
    • Bug: CSL-2162 Multi-Page Bulletins Can Cause Excessive CPU Usage
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause multi-pages bulletins to get stuck in a rendering loop, resulting in CPU usage constantly being 100% for extended period of times.
    • Bug: CSL-2212 Carousel SQL Script Sets Incorrect Main Directory Location
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the main directory for Carousel was set incorrectly when running the Carousel database script manually.
    • Bug: CSL-2206 Monitor Control Schedule Entry Times are Incorrect when the Server is in a Different Time Zone
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the server would return a different time value for channel and monitor control schedules when the user was in a different timezone as the server.
7.4.1 -- 4 issues -- Released: 10/8/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1842 Frontdoor Database Script Doesn't Run When Upgrading Systems with Older Versions of SQL Server
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the database scripts would not run when updating Carousel if an older version of SQL Server was installed.
    • Bug: CSL-1605 Add Prompt When Disabling a Zone Alert That Has Linked Bulletins
    • Summary: When you disable an alert that has linked alerts in other zones, Carousel now prompts you to be sure you want to disable all alerts in other zones as well. Along with this, we now removed the "Disable Alerts" button if a user does not have access to disable linked alerts in other zones. The user can still disable the alerts manually in manage bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-2026 Player Connectivity Issues with Large Video Assets
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the verification of large videos that are uploaded as video bulletins (not as media) could cause the service to become unresponsive to player requests for content.
    • Bug: CSL-2028 XT4 BrightSign Players Get into Reboot Loop When Changing Between HD and 4K Channels
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where XT4 BrightSign players could get into a reboot loop when switching channel resolutions. Changing to a channel with a different resolution (HD to 4K) requires a reboot, so we take care of that now.
7.4.0 -- 31 issues -- Released: 8/14/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1233 Windows Player Exits on Keys Other then Escape
    • Summary: Windows-based Carousel Players only exit to desktop when the Escape key is pressed.
    • Bug: CSL-1334 ED Bulletins Grouped by Time or Room Render each group on its own bulletin
    • Summary: Event Display Bulletins that are grouped by ROOM or TIME have the option to display multiple items on each page. If another grouping option is selected, the toggle to display multiple items is hidden from view.
    • Bug: CSL-1569 Windows Player Countdown Timer Bulletins Ignore Date
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where countdown timers would not respect their specified date on Windows players.
    • Bug: CSL-1521 Zone Placement Is Not Persisted When Creating a New Channel
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where newly created channels would not save their zone placement.
    • Bug: CSL-1583 Bulletins That Require Authentications Can Default to an Invalid Authentication
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where dynamic bulletins that require authentication would default to an invalid external authentication, the will now default to the first available authentication.
    • Bug: CSL-1590 External Data Sources That Only Support TLS 1.2 Can Cause an Error
    • Summary: Retrieving external data, such as calendar feeds, from servers that only support https with TLS 1.1 or greater will now work as expected.
    • Bug: CSL-1566 FrontDoor Password Requirements Do Not Save
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Frontdoor's server security settings for password requirements were not being saved.
    • Bug: CSL-1582 Error When Uploading a Bulletin Package with a Video Block Bulletin
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletin packages with bulletins with video blocks would cause an error.
    • Bug: CSL-1331 Social Media Bulletins Do Not Respect Character Limit
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where social media bulletins would not respect the character limit when displaying the #ItemText# field.
    • Bug: CSL-1588 Linked Bulletins Don't Change with Alert Status
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where linked copies of bulletins would not be updated to reflect alert or saved status.
    • Bug: CSL-1282 Update Twitter bulletins to support Twitter API changes
    • Summary: Twitter bulletins now respect longer text, embedded links and media and improved "retweet" display.
    • Bug: CSL-1380 Clock Bulletin Can Display Time Over Other Bulletins on Windows Players
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a busy Windows player could display the clock face on top of other bulletins in the zone.
    • Bug: CSL-1584 Rendering of Web Picture Blocks Can Tax the CPU
    • Summary: Web picture blocks are now cached in memory. This allows multiple requests to the same web picture block resource within a short period of time to be much quicker.
    • Bug: CSL-1603 Zone RSS Feeds Do Not Show Content
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a zone's RSS feed wasn't accessible from anonymous http requests.
    • Bug: CSL-1462 Brightsign Clocks don't Respect \n Escape
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where BrightSign players were not respecting new lines on custom digital clock formats.
    • Bug: CSL-44 Offline Server with DNS Configured Causes Players to Fail to Connect
    • Summary: When a Carousel server does not have a DNS server connected your BrightSigns will now fail to connect once then connect and behave normally assuming the server address is correct.
    • Bug: CSL-1571 Carousel Services Don't Start Up on Reboot
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel Render Service would fail to start if it was started before the SQL server or RabbitMQ service were ready to talk to it.
    • Bug: CSL-1574 Monitor Control Can Leave Players' Monitors on Longer Than Expected
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where players that control their monitors would leave the monitor on for one minute too long.
    • Bug: CSL-1550 Installer Can Fail the First Time on Cloud Based Servers
    • Summary: Improved the Carousel installer reliability when upgrading from an older Carousel version.
    • Bug: CSL-1616 Installer Fails With netFX 3 Error
    • Summary: Carousel has now severed all ties to the .NET 3.5 framework. Installing Carousel will no longer enable the .NET 3.5 Windows feature.
    • Bug: CSL-677 Database Backup Fails for Carousel Using Frontdoor Back up Tool
    • Summary: The Carousel database can now be backed up successfully using Frontdoor's Database Tools.
    • Bug: CSL-1617 BrightSign Serial Monitor Control can delay transitioning/playing of bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where monitor control codes with a pause in them would make the BrightSign player unresponsive.
    • Bug: CSL-1700 Deleted Channel IDs Remain in Database Causing UI Instability
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the UI would become unresponsive or slow due to database tables not being cleaned up after deleting a channel.
    • Bug: CSL-1692 RSS Feeds Can Display Symbols Instead of Punctuation on Windows Players
    • Summary: Fixed an encoding issue with crawls on Windows players.
    • Bug: CSL-1754 Player Notifications Server Fails to Start After Restarting the Carousel Service
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the player notifications server would not start after an update or the Carousel service being restarted.
    • Bug: CSL-1770 Linked bulletin creation fails with proper rights
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where users with admin rights to all zones were unable to create linked bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-1758 Repeating Bulletins Continue to Display During Active Zone Alerts
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where repeating bulletins would continue to display while there was a zone alert active.
    • Bug: CSL-1664 External Authentications Do Not Use the Proxy Settings
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where creating an external authentication would fail if the server was set to use an http proxy.
    • Bug: CSL-1600 Creation of Facebook Bulletins Will Be Disabled If Facebook Cannot Be Accessed
    • Summary: Changes with Facebook have prevented Carousel from accessing Facebook content. The ability to create Facebook bulletins will be disabled whenever we are unable to access Facebook content.
    • Bug: CSL-1766 New Installations on Windows Server 2012 R2/Windows 10 or Later Deploy SQL Version 2016
    • Summary: New Carousel installs on systems running Windows Server 2012 R2/Windows 10 or later now deploy SQL Server Express 2016 with SP2, along with SQL Studio Management 2017. These configurations no longer rely on .NET 3.5. On systems running older Windows version it will now deploy SQL Server Express 2014 with SP2. This change does not affect system upgrades or remote SQL deployments.
    • Bug: CSL-1396 BrightSign Series 4 Player Support with 4K Video and Graphics
    • Summary: Series 4 BrightSign player support, with 4K video and graphics. Series 3 (XD3, XT3, LS3, HD3, HS3), Series 2 (XD2), and XD, do not support 4K video or graphics.
7.3.7 -- 3 issues -- Released: 2/13/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-1957 Change Default Password Hash Algorithm
    • Summary: Security enhancements.
    • Bug: CSL-2405 Security: Change Admin PW on Install/Update
    • Summary: Implemented a workflow to force users to change the default password supplied during installation for security reasons.
    • Bug: CSL-2399 Security: Malicious Files Can Be Uploaded to the Server
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where executable scripts could be uploaded to the server.
7.3.6 -- 2 issues -- Released: 8/14/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1772 Roles Not Reflecting Correct User Access in Carousel After Update
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a non-admin user would not see all of the zones that they should have access to.
    • Bug: CSL-1600 Creation of Facebook Bulletins Will Be Disabled If Facebook Cannot Be Accessed
    • Summary: Changes with Facebook have prevented Carousel from accessing Facebook content. The ability to create Facebook bulletins will be disabled whenever we are unable to access Facebook content.
7.3.5 -- 4 issues -- Released: 7/10/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1681 Carousel UI Can Slow down for Users with Limited Permissions on Systems with Large Number of Zones
    • Summary: On systems with a large number of zones, the user will no longer feel a slowdown when accessing the Carousel user interface.
    • Bug: CSL-1683 Security: Carousel API RenderingFetch Method is Vulnerable to Local File Inclusion (LFI)
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where the RenderingFetch endpoint could access local files.
    • Bug: CSL-1611 Users Without Approve Bulletin Rights can Approve Bulletins from Preview
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where users with the right to manage all bulletins could approve bulletins from the bulletin preview.
    • Bug: CSL-1677 Channel Schedule Save Locked You in a 'Discard Changes' Loop Until Page Refresh When Creating a New Schedule
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where you would erroneously, and endlessly, be asked to discard changes when saving a new channel schedule.
7.3.4 -- 3 issues -- Released: 6/27/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1660 Incoming CAP requests require authorization
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where incoming CAP requests would be unauthorized even when using the CAP token.
    • Bug: CSL-1618 Office 365 iCal Calendars do not work in Event bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where iCal feeds with timezones specified would fail to validate when used as a data source in Event Display bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-1442 Brightsign RS232 Monitor Control Affecting Schedules/Communication
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where monitor control schedules would make BrightSign players unresponsive.
7.3.3 -- 1 issues -- Released: 6/20/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1612 Cannot create new Twitter Authorization
    • Summary: Twitter external authentications creation now comply with the latest Twitter security requirements. It is now possible to create new Twitter external authentications again.
7.3.2 -- 3 issues -- Released: 6/14/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1603 Zone RSS Feeds Do Not Show Content
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a zone's RSS feed wasn't accessible from anonymous http requests.
    • Bug: CSL-1590 External Data Sources That Only Support TLS 1.2 Can Cause an Error
    • Summary: Retrieving external data, such as calendar feeds, from servers that only support https with TLS 1.1 or greater will now work as expected.
    • Bug: CSL-1571 Carousel Services Don't Start Up on Reboot
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel Render Service would fail to start if it was started before the SQL server or RabbitMQ service were ready to talk to it.
7.3.1 -- 2 issues -- Released: 5/22/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1520 New or Edited Bulletins Can Take a Long Time to Become Active
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletins could get stuck in "Upcoming" for several minutes when they should be active after being created or edited.
    • Bug: CSL-1560 Clocks Show in the Wrong Time Zone on Windows Players
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where clock bulletins on Windows players would show their time in GMT instead of in the correct time zone.
7.3.0 -- 16 issues -- Released: 5/11/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-622 Uploaded Bulletins Do Not Respect Zone Settings for Public Site Display
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the default value for displaying a bulletin on the public site was not being respected for uploaded bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-1167 Deleted Zones Can Appear Back in the Zone List
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where deleted zones would appear back in the zone list after they were deleted.
    • Bug: CSL-1170 Icons on bulletin thumbnail (already created bulletins)
    • Summary: Added mouse hover text for bulletin action buttons.
    • Bug: CSL-1040 Incorrect clock can show the wrong player status in dashboard
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the player status could appear incorrect if the clock on the client machine was not in sync with the server. Now the status is decided by the server's clock so check in information is correct.
    • Bug: CSL-1160 iCal Validation Error with Certain Valid Feeds
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Carousel would not be able to read iCal feeds with invalid line wrapping. The subsequent lines are now ignored and the #Description# or #summary# will be truncated to the first line.
    • Bug: CSL-1171 Text Block Field Size Not Being Saved
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with editing a template block's text field size from multi-line to one-line was not saving.
    • Bug: CSL-313 Removing a Zone Still Uses That Zone to Calculate the Overlap Warnings in the Channel Editor
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where zones that are removed from the channel were still used to calculate if zones were overlapping on the channel edit screen.
    • Bug: CSL-1216 Block order does not save/persist in template
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where changing block order in the template editor would not always save correctly.
    • Bug: CSL-1233 Windows Player Exits on Keys Other then Escape
    • Summary: Windows-based Carousel Players only exit to desktop when the Escape key is pressed.
    • Bug: CSL-1290 Carousel RSS ZONE feed publicationDate causes RSS bulletins to be rendered more often then they should
    • Summary: The RSS Zone feed now sets the publicationDate to match the most recently updated bulletin's LastUpdate value, rounded down to the minute. It would previously set the publicationDate to the current DateTime, which caused the RSS readers to refresh much more often than necessary.
    • Bug: CSL-677 Database Backup Fails for Carousel Using Frontdoor Back up Tool
    • Summary: The Carousel database can now be backed up successfully using Frontdoor's Database Tools.
    • Bug: CSL-493 SQL Collation not setting properly
    • Summary: Installing on a server with regional settings set to a value other than English/US no longer prevents the player software from working on Windows players.
    • Bug: CSL-1286 Reboot prompt doesn't appear after a channel change in firefox
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the BrightSign reboot prompt would not appear in a Firefox browser.
    • Bug: CSL-1422 Facebook "Search" field should be renamed "URL"
    • Summary: Due to recent changes in the Facebook API, we have changed how Facebook bulletins are created. Now, instead of searching for a page, you will be required to find the public page on Facebook and copy the URL into the bulletin settings.
    • Bug: CSL-1366 Carousel_Player.msi is not provided by the Carousel installer on new systems
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel player software installer was not being put on the server using the offline Carousel installer to be made available for download.
    • Bug: CSL-1520 New or Edited Bulletins Can Take a Long Time to Become Active
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletins could get stuck in "Upcoming" for several minutes when they should be active after being created or edited.
7.2.3 -- 4 issues -- Released: 2/13/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-1957 Change Default Password Hash Algorithm
    • Summary: Security enhancements.
    • Bug: CSL-2405 Security: Change Admin PW on Install/Update
    • Summary: Implemented a workflow to force users to change the default password supplied during installation for security reasons.
    • Bug: CSL-2399 Security: Malicious Files Can Be Uploaded to the Server
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where executable scripts could be uploaded to the server.
    • Bug: CSL-1683 Security: Carousel API RenderingFetch Method is Vulnerable to Local File Inclusion (LFI)
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where the RenderingFetch endpoint could access local files.
7.2.2 -- 1 issues -- Released: 3/26/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1325 Clone Tool Error When Importing Channels Containing Templates with Shared Media
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where importing cloned channels with media referenced by templates from multiple zones would cause a big, scary error. Shared media is now properly imported once.
7.2.1 -- 7 issues -- Released: 3/1/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1221 CAP token is unchangeable in the ui
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that made the CAP token un-editable.
    • Bug: CSL-837 Players can stop updating content
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where players could get into a state where they were unable to download new content because of a dynamic bulletin with no content that didn't render a final.jpg file.
    • Bug: CSL-1214 Clicking Cancel When Editing Players Does Not Revert Some Changes
    • Summary: Fixed and issue where canceling out of editing a player would save some settings. It now reverts all settings when canceling out of the player edit screen.
    • Bug: CSL-1210 Flash Message Is Incorrect When Deleting a Single Player
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the flash message displayed when deleting a single player.
    • Bug: CSL-1124 Changing a Bulletin Block to a Web Picture or Picture Block Throws Error When Trying to Save
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where changing a block in a bulletin or template to a web picture block or a picture block would throw an error when trying to save. You are now able to save bulletins and templates with web picture and picture blocks without issue.
    • Bug: CSL-1034 Language Falls Back to English if a Supported Language is Not First in the Browser Language List
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where any browser language choices other than the first rank choice would be ignored when determining which language to display. Carousel will now properly fall back to the first supported language from the requested languages.
    • Bug: CSL-1039 Player Setting Passwords Are Lost After Editing a BrightSign Player
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where saving a BrightSign player's settings would clear out all of the player specific passwords for DWS, SSH, and WiFi. This caused the players to have a configuration mismatch even if no settings were changed. That will not longer happen and passwords cannot be empty.
7.2.0 -- 18 issues -- Released: 2/7/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1033 Copying a Template to Another Zone References the Wrong Media
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Carousel would not scale a template to the proper size when copying a template to another zone of a different size. It now scales the template properly as expected.
    • Bug: CSL-1015 Deleting a Bulletin Causes the Current Day's Impressions to Be Lost
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where deleting a bulletin would delete the current day's impression count. It will now preserve the impressions all the way up to the deletion time.
    • Bug: CSL-1038 Certain Files Can Cause BrightSign Players to Fade in and out of Standby Graphic Indefinitely
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where having an incompatible video on a BrightSign player would cause the zone to display the standby graphic and not transition to the next bulletin. It now skips that bulletins and moves on as expected.
    • Bug: CSL-760 Carousel Ui Doesn't Use Proxy Settings for Validating Dynamic Bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with the UI where the proxy settings were not loaded before use, and the default configuration of no proxy was used instead.
    • Bug: CSL-1059 Remove Ineffective Proxy Configuration for Windows Players
    • Summary: Windows players require a connection to the server to download control information which was never able to pass through a proxy, so we decided to remove the setting to configure the player proxy so it doesn't get anyone's hopes up.
    • Bug: CSL-837 Players can stop updating content
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where players could get into a state where they were unable to download new content because of a dynamic bulletin with no content that didn't render a final.jpg file.
    • Bug: CSL-1113 Impression Counts Are Not Working for Brightsign and AVNU Players
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletin impressions were not being tracked on BrightSign players. Impressions are now tracked without issue on BrightSign units.
    • Bug: CSL-677 Database Backup Fails for Carousel Using Frontdoor Back up Tool
    • Summary: The Carousel database can now be backed up successfully using Frontdoor's Database Tools.
    • Bug: CSL-1078 Carousel Renderer Service Fails to Restart After a Crash
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel Renderer Service would attempt to restart too quickly after a problem which didn't allow time for the previous instance to clean up. The service now restarts after 2 minutes.
    • Bug: CSL-956 Clone Tool Doesn't Set Media Permission for Carousel App Pool
    • Summary: Fixed the secret trick when using the Clone Tool to fix permissions on your Carousel Media. It was not adding permissions for the users used by current IIS configurations.
    • Bug: CSL-1055 Unable to Load Player Dashboard After Upgrade from 6.x to 7.x
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the Player Dashboard where it would not load if any players had not checked in since it was running Player software from 6.5 or older.
    • Bug: CSL-1077 Carousel Renderer Service Can Fail to Restart
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel Renderer Service would fail to start when a previous instance was not properly cleaned up.
    • Bug: CSL-1071 Browser Language Selection Is Not Always Being Respected
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with how Carousel handles the language preference sent by the browser that cause the user interface not to load. It now chooses the most preferable supported language as expected.
    • Bug: CSL-1080 Player Are Showing as Unlicensed After Upgrade to 7.1
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a Windows player would report that there were no licenses available after upgrading. Windows players will now check in as expected after an upgrade.
    • Bug: CSL-1168 Bulletins and Templates Can Lose Media When Exported
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where exporting a channel via the Clone tool could cause bulletins and templates to lose pictures and videos if the bulletins or templates were moved or copied to a different zone prior to the export.
    • Bug: CSL-1169 Error When Copying Imported Bulletins or Templates
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause an error when copying bulletins or templates with backgrounds that came from a Clone import and were copied before they got exported.
    • Bug: CSL-959 As-Run Reporting Impression Tracking
    • Summary: You can now generate an impression report with time, date and historical summaries about when bulletins were displayed for a specified date range, and bulletin tracking can be enabled by default on a zone-by-zone basis.
    • Bug: CSL-984 Linked Bulletins
    • Summary: Carousel now supports the ability to link bulletins when copying from one zone to another. When copying a bulletin, there is an option to create a linked copy. When a linked copy is created, editing any of the linked copies will cause the changes to be propagated to all of the linked copies.
7.1.2 -- 4 issues -- Released: 2/13/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-1957 Change Default Password Hash Algorithm
    • Summary: Security enhancements.
    • Bug: CSL-2405 Security: Change Admin PW on Install/Update
    • Summary: Implemented a workflow to force users to change the default password supplied during installation for security reasons.
    • Bug: CSL-2399 Security: Malicious Files Can Be Uploaded to the Server
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where executable scripts could be uploaded to the server.
    • Bug: CSL-1683 Security: Carousel API RenderingFetch Method is Vulnerable to Local File Inclusion (LFI)
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where the RenderingFetch endpoint could access local files.
7.1.1 -- 9 issues -- Released: 3/1/2018
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    • Bug: CSL-1034 Language Falls Back to English if a Supported Language is Not First in the Browser Language List
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where any browser language choices other than the first rank choice would be ignored when determining which language to display. Carousel will now properly fall back to the first supported language from the requested languages.
    • Bug: CSL-1080 Player Are Showing as Unlicensed After Upgrade to 7.1
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a Windows player would report that there were no licenses available after upgrading. Windows players will now check in as expected after an upgrade.
    • Bug: CSL-1124 Changing a Bulletin Block to a Web Picture or Picture Block Throws Error When Trying to Save
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where changing a block in a bulletin or template to a web picture block or a picture block would throw an error when trying to save. You are now able to save bulletins and templates with web picture and picture blocks without issue.
    • Bug: CSL-1168 Bulletins and Templates Can Lose Media When Exported
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where exporting a channel via the Clone tool could cause bulletins and templates to lose pictures and videos if the bulletins or templates were moved or copied to a different zone prior to the export.
    • Bug: CSL-1214 Clicking Cancel When Editing Players Does Not Revert Some Changes
    • Summary: Fixed and issue where canceling out of editing a player would save some settings. It now reverts all settings when canceling out of the player edit screen.
    • Bug: CSL-1210 Flash Message Is Incorrect When Deleting a Single Player
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the flash message displayed when deleting a single player.
    • Bug: CSL-1116 BrightSign Players Update Multiple Addresses
    • Summary: It is now possible to configure both an internal and an external Carousel server URL from within the Carousel user interface. These URLs can then be used when creating BrightSign player's setup script. This allows users to select which server URL the player should use to communicate with the server.
    • Bug: CSL-837 Players can stop updating content
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where players could get into a state where they were unable to download new content because of a dynamic bulletin with no content that didn't render a final.jpg file.
    • Bug: CSL-1039 Player Setting Passwords Are Lost After Editing a BrightSign Player
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where saving a BrightSign player's settings would clear out all of the player specific passwords for DWS, SSH, and WiFi. This caused the players to have a configuration mismatch even if no settings were changed. That will not longer happen and passwords cannot be empty.
7.1.0 -- 18 issues -- Released: 12/13/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-5 Support Carousel Player on Apple TV
    • Summary: The Carousel Player software is now available for Apple TV. Contact sales@trms.com for information on deploying Carousel to Apple TV.
    • Bug: CSL-600 Carousel Rendering Service Can Crash
    • Summary: Fixed a crash that could occur during times of high load.
    • Bug: CSL-602 Health Checks Indicate All Services Are Out Of Memory
    • Summary: Fixed a leak when calculating service health that would return an error after the check had been run many times.
    • Bug: CSL-637 Error Logging into Carousel with Usernames That Contain a Period
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a username containing a period would cause a failure when trying to log into Carousel. You can now log in without issue with a username that contains a period.
    • Bug: CSL-494 Service Restart Required For Updated Player Licensing To Take Affect
    • Summary: The Carousel service now periodically applies updated licensing so that player licenses are available without a service restart.
    • Bug: CSL-636 Creating A Channel With Clone Tool Does Not Set Initial Channel
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where importing a Carousel system's first channel with the Clone tool would not set that channel as the systems initial channel. The first imported channel is now set as the initial channel on fresh systems.
    • Bug: CSL-601 The Carousel 7 Help Site's Quick Links Do Not Scroll to Correct Position
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with scrolling to content when clicking on help text links in browsers other than chrome. The help text now scrolls to the proper content.
    • Bug: CSL-628 Installer Only Creates Firewall Exceptions for Local Subnet
    • Summary: Changed the Carousel installer to create Windows Firewall exceptions for all networks instead of just the local subnet. This ensures Carousel services are accessible for systems that are publicly available.
    • Bug: CSL-697 Failed Media Uploads Report Success Message in User Interface
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel UI would still report a success message when a media upload failed. It now only shows that the media upload failed if that is the case.
    • Bug: CSL-762 Images and Videos in Templates Can Get Lost When Exporting a Channel
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where pictures and videos that are selected in picture or video blocks get lost for templates or bulletins when exporting a channel with the Clone tool. The selected pictures and videos are now present when exporting a channel.
    • Bug: CSL-833 Uploading Multiple Bulletins in a Zone Activates All Bulletins Immediately
    • Summary: Uploading multiple bulletins at a time used to activate all of the bulletins immediately. It now puts them all into the Upcoming section until they are modified. Uploading a single bulletin still activates it after clicking Publish.
    • Bug: CSL-650 Players Unable to Update Due to Background Audio Error
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where an empty background audio playlist could cause BrightSign and Apple TV players to stop updating their content. Content is now updated without issue.
    • Bug: CSL-634 Display Shows Only Live Video Bulletins After Monitor Turns On
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a Windows player would show black except for live video bulletins after a monitor has been turned on. The player now displays all zones as expected.
    • Bug: CSL-593 Housekeeping Not Deleting Bulletins From Disk
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletins would not be deleted from the disk. It now deletes them when the Carousel housekeeping task runs periodically as expected.
    • Bug: CSL-1021 Windows Player Won't Display New Content When Impression Tracking Is Enabled
    • Summary: Fixed an memory leak with impression tracking on Windows players that would eventually use all the memory needed for http communication with the server.
    • Bug: CSL-741 API Memory Leaks
    • Summary: Fixed several memory leaks in the API.
    • Bug: CSL-699 First Locales
    • Summary: Carousel now supports English, French, Spanish, and German. Only the user interface is localized and any wording from the API will continue to be in English. Additionally, the Template Editor and Health Checks will not be translated and will display in English. This functionality requires US English Windows Server OS.
    • Bug: CSL-698 Airplay Interrupt
    • Summary: AppleTV players can override AirPlay sessions through device profiles setup in Jamf Pro 10.0+, controlled by Carousel.
7.0.11 -- 4 issues -- Released: 2/13/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-1957 Change Default Password Hash Algorithm
    • Summary: Security enhancements.
    • Bug: CSL-2405 Security: Change Admin PW on Install/Update
    • Summary: Implemented a workflow to force users to change the default password supplied during installation for security reasons.
    • Bug: CSL-2399 Security: Malicious Files Can Be Uploaded to the Server
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where executable scripts could be uploaded to the server.
    • Bug: CSL-1683 Security: Carousel API RenderingFetch Method is Vulnerable to Local File Inclusion (LFI)
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where the RenderingFetch endpoint could access local files.
7.0.10 -- 8 issues -- Released: 10/31/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-637 Error Logging into Carousel with Usernames That Contain a Period
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a username containing a period would cause a failure when trying to log into Carousel. You can now log in without issue with a username that contains a period.
    • Bug: CSL-587 Windows Players Can't Show Interactive Bulletins in Two Zones Simultaneously
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where having two interactive bulletins showing at the same time would not work. You can now have two interactive bulletins showing at the same time.
    • Bug: CSL-682 CAP Statuses of 'Test' and 'Draft' Now Show in the CAP Log
    • Summary: Previously 'Test' and 'Draft' messages were silently dropped making it difficult to test using them. These messages will now get logged to facilitate testing.
    • Bug: CSL-681 Incoming Cap Messages Should Not Require Authentication
    • Summary: This removes the requirement for an authenticated request to the CAP endpoint, so it only requires the CAP Token for authentication as intended.
    • Bug: CSL-641 Carousel Shows an Error When User Is Automatically Logged Out
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the user would see an error if they were automatically logged out of Carousel. It now gives you the opportunity to log in instead of an error.
    • Bug: CSL-628 Installer Only Creates Firewall Exceptions for Local Subnet
    • Summary: Changed the Carousel installer to create Windows Firewall exceptions for all networks instead of just the local subnet. This ensures Carousel services are accessible for systems that are publicly available.
    • Bug: CSL-741 API Memory Leaks
    • Summary: Fixed several memory leaks in the API.
    • Bug: CSL-611 Carousel Service Can Crash During Housekeeping
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel Service could crash during housekeeping. This prevented critical functions from running. The service should no longer crash during housekeeping.
7.0.9 -- 2 issues -- Released: 9/13/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-600 Carousel Rendering Service Can Crash
    • Summary: Fixed a crash that could occur during times of high load.
    • Bug: CSL-602 Health Checks Indicate All Services Are Out Of Memory
    • Summary: Fixed a leak when calculating service health that would return an error after the check had been run many times.
7.0.8 -- 25 issues -- Released: 8/16/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-442 Importing Clone Packages Does Not Import Bulletins in Correct Order
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletin order would not be preserved in Clone packages exported on a version after 7.0.0. Clone packages now include the bulletin order information.
    • Bug: CSL-325 BrightSign Health Check Will Fail Until a Service Restart After Update
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel background service incorrectly cached the BrightSign health check before all update operations had been completed. The service now re-checks the BrightSign health check after the update is fully complete.
    • Bug: CSL-512 Error Popups Can Have Incomplete Information
    • Summary: We put some more useful information into the error popups, so if there is an issue, we can track it down and fix it faster.
    • Bug: CSL-496 Editing Templates Can Become Broken After Uploading a Seamless Background
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where uploading a seamless background would incorrectly set the zone's width to a corrupt value causing errors in the user interface. You are now able to edit templates after uploading a seamless background.
    • Bug: CSL-425 Brightsign Players Do Not Correctly Play Bulletins with Video Blocks If Bulletin Is Last in Cycle
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the BrightSign player would flash the standby graphic and fail to play a video when a video block bulletin was last in the cycle. The standby graphic no longer flashes when transitioning and videos play without issue.
    • Bug: CSL-513 No Redirect from Carousel WebDisplay After Updating from Previous Versions to 7.0
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the URL for web previews for zones and channels were not being redirected to their new location in 7.0.0. The URL used in versions prior to 7.0.0 for the web preview will now redirect to the new location in 7.0.0.
    • Bug: CSL-432 Bulletins on Synchronized BrightSign Players Can Transition Out of Sync.
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where transitioning from a standard bulletin to a video bulletin would not transition in sync on synchronized players. They now transition in sync.
    • Bug: CSL-538 All Items Can Be Filtered From Dynamic Bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a zones excluded words list and a bulletins excluded words would be combined incorrectly causing all items from a dynamic feed to be excluded. Only expected items are now excluded from dynamic bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-517 Windows Players Can Fail To Transition To Next Bulletin In Cycle
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a bad database value for a bulletin would cause the player to get stuck. Carousel now ensures that the values are correct during periodic housekeeping.
    • Bug: CSL-486 RSS Bulletins Can Fail To Render
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where some RSS feeds would fail to render because the RSS server identified Carousel as an outdated browser. We now use a custom user agent so that RSS feeds do not see Carousel as an outdated browser.
    • Bug: CSL-534 Twitter Authentications Can Exceed Twitter API Rate Limits
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where creating Twitter authentications would exceed the Twitter API request limit due to looking up Twitter user names. We now cache the Twitter user name for the authentication to reduce API requests.
    • Bug: CSL-503 Some Bulletin or Template Properties May Not Persist When Saving
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where some bulletin or template properties such as bold would not persist when saving. Template properties are now persisted when saved.
    • Bug: CSL-264 Media Copied or Moved Between Zones Can Lose Tags
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where tags were not correctly created or associated when moving or copying media between zones. Media now has its proper tags when moved or copied.
    • Bug: CSL-559 Zones With Video Can Get Stuck Displaying Black On Windows Players
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the player would not detect a video had finished playing and would show black instead of transitioning to the next bulletin. It now detects the end of videos and transitions to next bulletin.
    • Bug: CSL-543 BrightSign Players Do Not Update After Upgrade Installation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel installer could not overwrite existing BrightSign manifest files resulting in players not updating. BrightSign players now update to the proper version after an upgrade.
    • Bug: CSL-542 Installer Fails While Running On 32-bit Operating System
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer would immediately fail and exit when run on 32-bit operating systems. The installer now works as expected on 32-bit operating systems.
    • Bug: CSL-580 Windows Player Can Not Be Exited From Splash Screen
    • Summary: You are now allowed to hit the Cancel button while the player performs connectivity checks during startup.
    • Bug: CSL-491 Saving Channel Configuration Can Produce Errors
    • Summary: Fixed some underlying bugs that were causing errors when saving channels. Saving channels is now much less error prone.
    • Bug: CSL-582 User Interface Can Become Unresponsive When Deleting Large Amounts Of Bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the user interface would become unresponsive when deleting bulletins in bulk. We improved the performance when deleting a lot of bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-461 Database Health Checks Can Fail On Certain Servers
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where database health checks would fail if connection strings contained passwords. The database health checks will now respect connection strings that contain passwords, and their timeout can be configured for cases where a remote SQL server responds too slowly.
    • Bug: CSL-501 Improve Twitter Authentication Messages
    • Summary: Fixed erroneous sightings of Twitter authentications becoming un-authenticated. Also provided better feedback about whose twitter account was being used for authorization.
    • Bug: CSL-500 Carousel Server Installer Fails If Windows Firewall Is Disabled
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer would fail on servers where the Windows Firewall was disabled. The installer will no longer fail when Windows Firewall is disabled.
    • Bug: CSL-182 Channel Preview Link on Player Dashboard Screen
    • Summary: Added a link to the player dashboard to preview the channel a specific player is displaying.
    • Bug: CSL-591 Add Hover Text for Version Field on the Players Table
    • Summary: Added hover text to the player version on the players table when it gets cut short at certain browser widths.
    • Bug: CSL-515 Improve Performance On Large Systems
    • Summary: Made several enhancements to the Carousel API to improve performance on systems with large amounts of data. With these fixes the user interface will load faster and put less strain on the Carousel server.
7.0.7 -- 10 issues -- Released: 7/26/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-417 Videos Won't Play On BrightSign Players If An Alert Is Active
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a zone containing an active alert that is not a video that also contains a non alert video would prevent videos from playing on all other zones in the channel.
    • Bug: CSL-462 Removing Channel Schedule Entries Is Not Reflected Properly in the UI
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where removing a channel schedule entry was not reflected in the UI until you saved the channel schedule. Channel schedule entries now are removed from the UI when the "Remove Entry" button is clicked.
    • Bug: CSL-466 Disable Zone Editing When Zone Is Migrating
    • Summary: While content within a zone is undergoing a migration, the zone properties will be locked and all of the functions found in the zone configuration menu will be disabled.
    • Bug: CSL-436 Files with Upper Case File Extensions Cannot Be Uploaded
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the user interface would incorrectly mark file uploads as unsupported if the file extension was not lowercase. You are now able to upload files with upper case file extensions.
    • Bug: CSL-479 Zones Can Fail To Save When Initially Created
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where zones with small widths or heights would fail to size because a dimension was rounded to zero when generating thumbnails. We now round the thumbnails dimensions to at least one pixel.
    • Bug: CSL-450 Carousel Interface Can Fail To Load After Upgrade
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the windows installer engine would incorrectly mark files as not required for install. This would cause the Carousel installation to be incomplete and prevent normal operation. We now trigger a complete uninstall during an upgrade allowing for a successful install.
    • Bug: CSL-393 Clone Tool Doesn't Successfully Migrate Imported Content
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletins and templates would be left migrated after being imported using the clone tool. The items will now be migrated and available to edit within minutes of an import.
    • Bug: CSL-478 Thumbnails on Manage Media Page Flash and Change Order
    • Summary: In certain situations the items on the manage media page would shuffle their order randomly every few seconds. This has been corrected.
    • Bug: CSL-488 new templates stuck in the settings tab: see video
    • Summary: Frustratingly, if you saved a template while on the settings tab, you got stuck on the settings tab for future template edits until you refreshed your browser. We felt that was probably the wrong thing to do, so we fixed it.
    • Bug: CSL-142 Bulletin preview doesn't update when using custom digital clock
    • Summary: Overly aggressive browser caching was making the digital clock bulletin preview not update as regularly as we would have liked. Overly aggressive cache busting should help with that.
7.0.6 -- 1 issues -- Released: 6/15/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-221 Crossfade Between Image to Video Bulletins on BrightSign Hardware
    • Summary: The transition between image bulletins and videos has been updated to be a crossfade.
7.0.5 -- 18 issues -- Released: 5/17/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-61 Bulletins May Have Wrong Background After Upgrade to Carousel 7
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a bulletins background could be changed to an incorrect media asset during migration. Bulletins will now be migrated with the correct background.
    • Bug: CSL-121 Players Do Not Always Reconnect to the Notifications Socket
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where players would not reconnect to receive notifications from the server, if the connection was lost. Players now have an additional mechanism they can use to reconnect to the server notifications socket.
    • Bug: CSL-188 Memory Consumption From the Carousel Service Can Get Too High
    • Summary: Fixed a memory leak in the Carousel service which could cause it to consume all of the available memory after a few days of operation. The Carousel services now consistently consumes a reasonable amount of memory.
    • Bug: CSL-71 Analog Clock Bulletins Display Without Hands
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where analog clock bulletins would display without hands. The clock hands now display properly.
    • Bug: CSL-69 Server Install Always Fails When SQL Server Is Not Installed Locally
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer would fail when using the REMOTE_SQL flag if SQL Server was not installed locally. The installer now runs properly when using the REMOTE_SQL flag if SQL Server is not installed locally.
    • Bug: CSL-239 Using Latitude and Longitude for Location in Weather Bulletins Does Not Work
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where entering latitude and longitude for location when creating a weather bulletin would not work. Latitude and Longitude is now a usable option for establishing location for weather bulletins.
    • Bug: CSL-49 RDA ChangePageStatus Command Updates Bulletin Status
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where bulletin schedule modifications using the Remote Data Adapter (RDA) ChangePageStatus command caused unexpected behavior due to incompatibility with Carousel 7 schedule changes. The command now modifies the bulletin's schedule in a compatible way to effectively turn it on or off.
    • Bug: CSL-58 Weather Bulletins Should Show Celsius Temperature as a Whole Number
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where weather bulletins set to show temperature in Celsius would only show temperatures increments of 1 and would always show a decimal of 0. Celsius weather bulletins now have their temperature values rounded to the nearest 0.5 degree value, and integer values will no longer show the decimal (ex: 20.0 will show as 20).
    • Bug: CSL-205 Installer Fails to Enable IIS in Windows Server 2016
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer couldn't enable a necessary prerequisite on Windows Server 2016. The installer now enables all necessary prerequisites on Windows Server 2016 systems.
    • Bug: CSL-275 Bulletin Creation Can Fail If Sibling Bulletins Are Moved
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where saving a bulletin in a position relative to a bulletin that was deleted would fail. The bulletin is now created at the end of the bulletin cycle.
    • Bug: CSL-279 Frontdoor Database Is Not in Working State After Installing on New System
    • Summary: Fixed several issues that contributed to the Frontdoor database not being in an operable state after running the Carousel installer on a system that has never had FrontDoor or Carousel installed previously. The Frontdoor database is now fully functional after installing.
    • Bug: CSL-131 Players With Multiple Monitors Show Black on Monitors Not in Use
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where players with multiple monitors would display black on the monitor not being used for the player. Players with multiple monitors will now have usable desktops on monitors that the the player is not currently using.
    • Bug: CSL-119 Prevent Edit Operations From Corrupting Templates and Bulletins After an Upgrade
    • Summary: Put in place prevention measures for an issue where editing a bulletin or template while a data migration is in progress after an upgrade could result in a corrupt bulletin or template. The ability to edit a bulletin or template is now disabled while a data migration is in progress. A banner will be present in the user interface to indicate while a migration is in progress and will go away when normal operation is restored.
    • Bug: CSL-110 Carousel Installer Fails If Dependency Requires System Restart
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer would report a generic error message when a dependency required a restart. We now detect the restart condition and inform the user that a restart is required. After the system restarts, the install will resume if needed.
    • Bug: CSL-308 Player Connection Test Fails Bulletin Information Download
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where players on new systems would fail the bulletin information download check due to the test file being moved. Players on properly configured systems now can pass the bulletin information download check.
    • Bug: CSL-304 Installer Can Write Files to the Wrong Directory
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer would write some files to directories that are different from the target directory. It now installs all files to proper place.
    • Bug: CSL-293 RDA Commands Don't Move Bulletins in an Error State
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where sending an exclusive alert command through RDA would not properly turn off a bulletin that is in an error state preventing multiple active alerts to be active at the same time. The exclusive alert RDA command now properly turns off a bulletin that is in an error state.
    • Bug: CSL-77 Video Bulletins Can Show out of Position
    • Summary: Fixed an issues where video bulletins would show out of position for the first few bulletins cycles causing it to show black. Fixed another issue where a video bulletin would briefly show larger than intended. Video bulletins now show in the correct position and size.
7.0.4 -- 23 issues -- Released: 4/12/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-17 Player Dependencies And BrightSign Firmware Can Install To Incorrect Location
    • Summary: Fixed an issue in the installer that would install the Player Dependencies and BrightSign Firmware to an incorrect path. The files are now installed to the correct location.
    • Bug: CSL-13 Render Logs Fail To Clean Up
    • Summary: Fixed several issues related to the clean up of render logs. Render logs are now cleaned up periodically throughout the day instead of nightly ensuring that the logs don't use all the available database disk space.
    • Bug: CSL-18 Allow Users To Set Page Width And Height For Webpage Snapshots
    • Summary: Users can now set the page's width and height when creating a web page snapshot. Additionally, the width and height now default to the zone's width and height. This allows a user to fully control how the snapshot will render in the image block.
    • Bug: CSL-97 Rendering Can Use Too Much Memory
    • Summary: Fixed a check in the Carousel Rendering service that was allowing rendering subprocess to exceed their memory limit. If a subprocess's memory usage grows too large, it is now restarted by the service.
    • Bug: CSL-96 Memory Leak When Starting Carousel Service
    • Summary: Fixed a memory leak when running migrations for templates and bulletins. This happened during the start of the Carousel service, and on large systems could use all the available memory causing slowness and crashes.
    • Bug: CSL-95 Systems Using Active Directory Can Take A Long Time To Load User Interface
    • Summary: Fixed how Carousel requests Active Directory users to greatly improve the response time when initially loading users.
    • Bug: CSL-94 User Interface Can Fail To Load When Using Active Directory Authentication
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where loading users from Active Directory would cause an API endpoint to fail. This failure prevented the user interface from loading. The users are now loaded correctly allowing the Carousel UI to load.
    • Bug: CSL-93 Carousel API v1 Support
    • Summary: Beginning with this version the Carousel RESTful JSON API is officially supported. Visit http://your-server.com/CarouselAPI for API documentation.
    • Bug: CSL-92 Interactive Bulletins Display Black On Windows Players When Using Chrome
    • Summary: Fixed several issues related to positioning of interactive bulletins on Windows players when using the Chrome browser.
    • Bug: CSL-91 Editing A Video Bulletin Causes The Bulletin To Not Display
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where editing a video bulletin would cause the reference to the video file to be lost. This would cause Windows players to not be able to display the video, and BrightSign players to enter a reboot loop.
    • Bug: CSL-90 Using Arrow Keys For Positioning Blocks Does Not Always Work
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the arrow keys would adjust the position of a block only when the Size and Position settings were open. The arrow keys can now be used to position a block whenever a block is selected.
    • Bug: CSL-89 Editing Notification Email Settings While Editing A Zone Can Prevent Saving
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where editing a zone's notifications settings would prevent the user from saving the zone because focus could not be taken away from the input.
    • Bug: CSL-88 Some Videos Loop Instead Of Transitioning To Next Bulletin
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where some videos would loop indefinitely preventing the player from transitioning to the next bulletin. Videos now play only once then transition to the next bulletin.
    • Bug: CSL-87 System Health Check Sometimes Fails When System Is Healthy
    • Summary: The system health check could sometimes fail when the system was under heavy load even though it was operating normally. We increased a timeout for a database check to minimize false positives.
    • Bug: CSL-86 More Clearly Distinguish Between Corrupt And Error States
    • Summary: We received feedback that the visual styling of bulletin corrupt and error states was confusing because they both use the same icons. Corrupt bulletins now use a skull and crossbones to distinguish it from the error state which uses an exclamation point.
    • Bug: CSL-85 Allow Selecting Individual Zones When Uploading Seamless Background
    • Summary: When uploading a seamless background, a user can now select which zones the background is added to.
    • Bug: CSL-84 Carousel Player Crashes When Performing System Check
    • Summary: Fixed a bug where the player would crash when checking the Display subsystem due to a dependency that was not yet installed. The player now installs the missing dependency before it is possible to run the check.
    • Bug: CSL-83 Include .NET 4.5 Dependency In Installer
    • Summary: The Carousel installer and Windows player now include and install the Microsoft .NET 4.5 dependency.
    • Bug: CSL-82 Fix Permissions Issues When Player Installs Dependencies
    • Summary: The Carousel Windows player now requests Administrator privileges when executing dependency installers fixing several installation issues.
    • Bug: CSL-100 Copying Uploaded Video Bulletin Results In Broken Bulletin
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where copying an uploaded video bulletin would create a broken bulletin because the source video file was not copied along with the bulletin. The video file is now correctly copied when copying the bulletin.
    • Bug: CSL-28 Installer Incorrectly Migrates Non-Standard Media Location
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer would incorrectly migrate the Media directory location stored in the database to the parent directory of the Media directory. This failed migration would be repeated each time the installer was run, causing corrupt bulletins with each install. The Media directory location is now migrated correctly, and is only migrated when first updating to Carousel 7.
    • Bug: CSL-114 Uploaded Full Screen Alerts Do Not Activate Alert Mode
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where uploaded video and image Full Screen Alerts did not trigger alert mode in a Full Screen Alert Zone. Alert mode is now correctly triggered when these bulletins are added to the zone.
    • Bug: CSL-25 Update BrightSign Firmware
    • Summary: Upgrade BrightSign firmware to 6.2.94 for supported models.
7.0.3 -- 17 issues -- Released: 3/7/2017
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    • Bug: 10282 Allow Uploading Interactive Bulletins
    • Summary: Interactive bulletins can now be uploaded using the Carousel user interface and will be hosted locally on the Carousel Server. It is important to note that only static files including HTML, CSS, and images are supported. All uploaded files are prohibited from executing on the server.
    • Bug: 10278 Carousel Services Uses Excessive Amounts of Memory When Starting
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel service would use excessive amount of memory when starting potentially causing poor performance or system hangs. The issue was the result of leaking images while validating media sizes during startup. The service now ensures the objects do not get leaked resulting in acceptable memory use.
    • Bug: 10279 Bulletins Are Moved Out Of A Group After Editing
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a bulletin would be moved outside of its group after editing.
    • Bug: 10277 Carousel Installer Crashes When Clicking Finished After Installation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where installer would crash when clicking finished. This bug was introduced by a change to the installer user interface to confirm if a user wants to exit the installer when an installation is in progress. When already complete, the exit action would trigger an infinite loop causing the installer to crash. The installer now exits normally.
    • Bug: 10293 Standalone Carousel Player Installer Does Not Install Player Dependencies
    • Summary: As of Carousel 7.0 the Carousel Player installer is provided in the Carousel user interface to make it easier to commission new players without needing to contact Tightrope Media Systems for download keys. A common problem was that the provided installer does not contain any of the dependencies required. To address this we now host all the dependencies on the Carousel Server, and the Carousel Player will download the dependencies from the server and install them automatically when first starting.
    • Bug: 10292 Installer Appears To Hang When Downloading Some Dependencies
    • Summary: Improved the experience when the installer must download some dependencies including firmware for BrightSign players. The installer now indicates what dependencies it is downloading and provides a progress indicator.
    • Bug: 10291 Installer Fails When Installing Server on x86 Systems
    • Summary: Fixed a crash when running the Carousel installer on x86 systems due to scheduling an installer command that only is only present on x64 systems.
    • Bug: 10289 Installer Does Not Accept Command Line Arguments For Silent Installs
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer was ignoring arguments for selecting the different components that could be installed preventing the installer from doing silent installs.
    • Bug: 10288 Installer Can Fail When Installing For The First Time
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel installer could fail when installing for the first time. The error was due to a timing issue when creating new user accounts and then trying to set permissions using those accounts. If the accounts were not fully available, the install would fail then run correctly the second time. We now delay using the accounts to allow the operating system enough time to finish creating the accounts.
    • Bug: 10287 Channel Lists Are Not Sorted By Channel Name
    • Summary: Fixed several drop down lists where channels were sorted by an internal ID and not by the name of the channel.
    • Bug: 10286 Server Health Warning Fails To Go Away After Problem Is Corrected
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where certain failed health checks would prevent the user interface from checking the system health in the future. The user interface now continues to poll for the system health and will remove the warning message if the issue is corrected.
    • Bug: 10285 Installer Provides Poor Feedback When Dependency Installation Fails
    • Summary: When an installation fails the Carousel installer will now update the failure message to indicate which dependency has failed as well as the error message provided by the failing dependency.
    • Bug: 10284 Installer Supports Install SQL Server On x64 Operating Systems
    • Summary: Made several improvements to detecting and installing SQL Server dependency when installing Carousel Server. The installer now passes through installation status for SQL Server to provide a better experience when installing Carousel. Please note that the installer only supports installing SQL Server on x64 systems. If SQL Server is missing on x86 systems Carousel server installation will be disabled.
    • Bug: 10283 Configuration Files Are Removed When Upgrading
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where configuration files that contain SQL Server connection strings and Active Directory membership configuration were incorrectly removed during an uninstall or upgrade. The installer now leaves these files in place. Additionally the installer makes a backup of these files during an upgrade.
    • Bug: 10295 User Interface Will Error When Server Can Not Be Contacted
    • Summary: The Carousel user interface now periodically checks that it can still connect to the server and will indicate to the user when it is offline or the Carousel server cannot be reached.
    • Bug: 10294 Installers Always Attempt To Run SQL Scripts On Default SQL Configuration
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer would always attempt to run SQL migration scripts on the default SQL server instead of respecting the actual system configuration for SQL. The installer now loads the system's SQL connection string configuration and runs the SQL migration scripts on the configured SQL server.
    • Bug: 10299 Carousel Is Difficult To Install Without an Internet Connection
    • Summary: This release makes available a new offline version of the installer that has all required dependencies within two large downloads. The Carousel 7 portion of the installer allows installing Carousel Server without an internet connection. A separate SQL Server.offline file is also required if installing server on a system without SQL server already installed. The new offline installer has proven to work well for upgrades but there are known issues when installing on a new system. Please see the Carousel 7 Installer Known Issues Knowledge Base: http://kb.trms.com/article/known-issues-with-carousel-7-installer-295.html
7.0.3 -- Released: 3/7/2017
7.0.2 -- 15 issues -- Released: 2/21/2017
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    • Bug: 10248 Media Uploads Do Not Respect Rotation Based on Camera Metadata
    • Summary: Carousel will now properly rotate media and bulletins based on the EXIF data contained in the image.
    • Bug: 10247 Carousel Always Defaults to a Crawl Zone When Logging In
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a user's last zone selection was not being saved properly causing the user to always be redirected to a crawl zone when logging in. Carousel will now remember the last zone a user was working on and direct the user to that zone when logging in.
    • Bug: 10246 Uploader for Seamless Backgrounds Display Wrong Channel Dimensions
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the uploader for seamless backgrounds would display the current zone's dimensions instead of the channel's dimensions. The uploader now displays the channel's dimensions.
    • Bug: 10245 Dynamic Bulletins With No Content Shown in Active Section of Manage Bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where RSS and Cablecast bulletins with not content would be displayed in the active section of manage bulletins even though they were not active on the zone. Bulletins with no content are now displayed in the Upcoming section of manage bulletins.
    • Bug: 10244 Saving a Template in a Zone With No Backgrounds Fails
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where saving a template in a zone with no backgrounds would fail. Templates will now use a generic solid background generated by the server if the zone contains no backgrounds.
    • Bug: 10243 Error Message When Browser Session Expires
    • Summary: Improved the experience when the browser session expires. Previously, a generic error message would be displayed to the user making it unclear what the problem was. Now the user will be specifically alerted when there login is expired and will be given the option to navigate to the login page.
    • Bug: 10249 User Interface Shows Zone as in Alert Mode Even If No Alerts Are Active
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Carousel would consider deleted bulletins when determining if a zone was in alert mode. This could cause a zone to be marked as in alert mode incorrectly. Now only non-deleted bulletins are considered when determining alert mode.
    • Bug: 10252 Clone Tool Can Error When Importing Channels That Use the Same Media Multiple Times
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the clone tool would incorrectly try to extract media to the same location multiple times causing an error when trying to import the channel. The clone tool now correctly determines conflicts and extracts the media to the correct path.
    • Bug: 10251 RSS Bulletins With Large Number of Pages Can Show Broken Image
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Carousel Renderer would delete the preview image for a bulletin when rendering it. This would cause the bulletin to appear broken until it was finished rendering. For bulletins with a large number of pages, this could take a noticeable amount of time. Carousel now updates the preview at the end of the render preventing a broken image.
    • Bug: 10253 Media Uploads Incorrectly Display a Success Message When a Media Upload Is Too Large
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the user interface would incorrectly display a success message when an upload failed due to being larger than the servers maximum file upload size. The user interface now displays an error message informing the user that the file was too large.
    • Bug: 10257 Can Not Configure Custom Proxy
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where it was impossible to setup a custom proxy server for Carousel. The user interface incorrectly referred to a custom proxy as a manual proxy resulting in an error when trying to save the configuration. The user interface now correctly saves custom proxy configurations.
    • Bug: 10255 Database Script Can Add Objects to Wrong Schema
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where database objects such as stored procedures could be added to the wrong schema depending on the user account that ran the migration script. This would prevent Carousel from operating correctly. Objects are now added to the correct schema regardless of the account running the script.
    • Bug: 10254 Facebook Page Searches Are Not Sorted Correctly
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Facebook page searches were incorrectly sorted by page category making it difficult to find the desired page in the search results. Search results are now correctly sorted by relevance.
    • Bug: 10262 Change Default for Text Outline in New Templates
    • Summary: Text outline is now disabled by default for new templates.
    • Bug: 10263 Remote Data Adapter Fails to Handle Picture Blocks
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with Remote Data Adapter (RDA) that was preventing picture blocks from being created or modified using UpdatePage and CreatePage commands.
7.0.1 -- 8 issues -- Released: 2/6/2017
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    • Bug: 10214 RSS Rendering Can Fail
    • Summary: We saw an issue where RSS feeds containing multiple line breaks would... break. Being the type of people who don't like it when things break, we fixed it.
    • Bug: 10207 RabbitMQ Installs Every Time
    • Summary: We were being a little too pushy with our check to make sure RabbitMQ was installed. Sorry about that, we'll give you some space.
    • Bug: 10208 Installer Closes Without A Prompt
    • Summary: The installer is now more considerate and politely asks you if you're sure you want to quit before exiting.
    • Bug: 10209 Some Facebook Images Don't Render
    • Summary: Sometimes we couldn't see images in Facebook bulletins, making for some odd conversation around invisible things. We tracked down the issue and placed an agent in charge of making sure it doesn't happen again.
    • Bug: 10210 Monitor Control Turns On and Off Repeatedly
    • Summary: At first we thought The Cheat was throwing a lightswitch rave with our monitors. After further investigation, it turns out it was just us moving the mouse. Whoops.
    • Bug: 10211 User Interface For Creating Webpage Snapshots
    • Summary: Want to show a web page in Carousel? Use the new webpage snapshot interface to select and crop just what you want the world to see.
    • Bug: 10212 System Health Checks
    • Summary: Ever wonder how your Carousel server is feeling? Now you can ask with the new system health check! On top of giving you a menu to check on the details of the inner system workings, we'll also pop up an error if something really goes wrong.
    • Bug: 10213 Upload A ZIP of Images as Bulletins
    • Summary: Have a ZIP file full of images just waiting to see the world? Upload them directly in Carousel as new bulletins, we'll take care of the rest.
7.0.0 -- 11 issues -- Released: 1/24/2017
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    • Bug: 10181 Improved Seamless Background Upload Process
    • Summary: Can also be set as the default background.
    • Bug: 10183 Carousel for BrightSign Player Software has been Merged into Carousel
    • Summary: BrightSign Players no longer require a separate software installation to run Carousel.
    • Bug: 10185 Improved Clone Tool
    • Summary: The Carousel Clone tool is now substantially faster when working with Carousel 7 clone packages. A single interface allows you to add, edit and delete zone names and tags for an imported channel.
    • Bug: 10186 Preview of Carousel API
    • Summary: Carousel 7.0.0 includes a completely new RESTful API. This API should be considered a preview as we will be making breaking changes in upcoming maintenance versions.
    • Bug: 10173 All New Manage Bulletins Screen
    • Summary: Intuitive drag and drop ordering & grouping, quick filtering by tags, and search. You can also now create new bulletins at any point in the rotation.
    • Bug: 10174 All New Media Manager
    • Summary: Drag and drop upload, quick filtering by tags, and search.
    • Bug: 10175 On Screen Flash Messages
    • Summary: Notifies the user of successful actions.
    • Bug: 10178 Improved Player Dashboard
    • Summary: Drill down to the information needed to get the job done. Sort by name, address, channel, software version, player type, or status.
    • Bug: 10179 Feed Validation for Weather, RSS, Facebook, and Twitter
    • Summary: Dynamic Fields list with first result displayed in the UI. Also, includes feed item count warnings.
    • Bug: 10180 Simplified Smart Installer
    • Summary: A single installer now handles both server and player installation. The installer automatically downloads and installs needed prerequisites.
    • Bug: 10171 New Bulletin Workflow
    • Summary: Move quickly between steps, edit the template on the fly, all without losing your work.
7.0.0 -- Released: 1/24/2017
6.6.3 -- 7 issues -- Released: 5/2/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-15 Windows 10 Support for Carousel 6.6.3
    • Summary: Windows 10 support for Carousel 6.6.3 Player software.
    • Bug: CSL-217 Facebook Low Res Images
    • Summary: The resolution of images in Facebook bulletins has been greatly increased, allowing you to see more details of every post!
    • Bug: CSL-232 Interactive Bulletins are Sometimes Displayed Behind Player Application
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where interactive bulletins would show behind the display engine. Interactive bulletins are now displayed in front of the player software as intended.
    • Bug: CSL-220 Carousel Monitor Control Control Codes for Samsung are Incorrect
    • Summary: Updated the default Samsung IR codes on new database installations.
    • Bug: CSL-219 GroupName is not properly removed from conditional blocks
    • Summary: Fix an issue in event bulletins where the GroupName property could not be correctly removed if the field was empty.
    • Bug: CSL-231 RSS Bulletins Fail to Download HTTPS Content Using Some Secure Protocols
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would prevent HTTPS content protected with TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 from displaying in Carousel.
    • Bug: CSL-233 Database Migration can Consume all Licenses if some Players have Duplicate HardwareIDs
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause all or most of the player licenses to be overwritten in the event that multiple players shared a common HardwareID.
6.6.2 -- 1 issues -- Released: 8/17/2016
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    • Bug: 9986 Chrome does not Appear in the Correct Location for Interactive Bulletins
    • Summary: A problem was fixed where Interactive bulletins would appear in the wrong location on the player's screen if Chrome is installed on the player.
6.6.2 -- Released: 8/17/2016
6.6.1 -- 1 issues -- Released: 7/11/2016
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    • Bug: 9970 Display Engine Background Can Cover Splash Screen
    • Summary: New or un-configured Players with no data cache could see a situation where the Display Engine black background took over the screen, keeping the Slash Screen from being seen. The Display Engine now handles un-configured situations correctly.
6.6.0 -- 6 issues -- Released: 7/5/2016
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    • Bug: 9593 A player's channel is now chosen on the server
    • Summary: Channel selection is now done in the player dashboard on the Carousel server. If you don't choose a channel for a player, it will use the system's default channel.
    • Bug: 9595 The name of a player can now be specified
    • Summary: The name used for a player on the dashboard can now be changed. It will default to the hostname of the player.
    • Bug: 9610 Newly Connected Players display 'Initial Channel' until they are Configured to use a Different Channel
    • Summary: You can now specify an Initial Channel in the Configure : Channels screen. This channel will be used for newly connected players.
    • Bug: 9614 Micro Player Licenses are no longer supported
    • Summary: Micro Player Licenses have been removed from Carousel and any micro players will now require a standard player license.
    • Bug: 9642 Built-in Monitor Control
    • Summary: You can now define a Monitor Control Schedule as well as Monitor Controls codes in the Configuration : Players section of the user interface.
    • Bug: 9645 Scheduled Player Channel Changes
    • Summary: Carousel Players will now automatically change channels based on the new Configuration : Players : Channel Schedule section of the user interface.
6.5.5 -- 5 issues -- Released: 3/21/2016
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    • Bug: 8748 Carousel Doesn't Provide a Useful Error when a Web Picture Block Fails to Load
    • Summary: In the event that a Web Picture Block fails to load, Carousel will now provide a much more helpful error.
    • Bug: 8764 Wrap Text Setting in Template Editor also Controls Whether or not the Block can be Automatically Resized
    • Summary: Added a new option to the Template Editor called 'Resize block to fit text'. This makes it possible to use wrapped text in a fixed-size block.
    • Bug: 9069 Video Bulletin Shows Over Full Screen Alerts
    • Summary: Video bulletins will no longer play on top of full alert bulletins.
    • Bug: 9730 Cablecast Shows Without Titles can Derail CableDisplay Bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue in CableDisplay that would cause rendering of schedule bulletins to fail if it encountered a Show without a title.
    • Bug: 9761 'Hide Cursor' Setting in DisplayEngine Options Doesn't Work
    • Summary: The Hide Cursor setting once again works as intended.
6.5.4 -- 8 issues -- Released: 1/5/2016
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    • Bug: 9271 Certain Characters can Cause Bulletins to Display with No Text
    • Summary: Fixed an issue which certain characters could cause text to disappear when rendering a bulletin.
    • Bug: 9282 Bulletins with Web Pictures Fail to Update on Players
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could prevent bulletins from updating on players after Web Pictures were updated on the server.
    • Bug: 9331 Change Default Search Criteria for Twitter Bulletins
    • Summary: Twitter bulletins using the default template will now search for "from:ap" so they will show current tweets from the Associated Press.
    • Bug: 9400 Web Pictures can Fail to Render if they have Spaces in Their URL
    • Summary: We fixed an issue where URLs containing spaces would result in a "could not load image" error when rendering a Web Picture.
    • Bug: 9413 CableDisplay Schedule Bulletins don't Display when there is a Limited Programming Schedule
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing CableDisplay bulletins from being displayed.
    • Bug: 9415 Remote Command Server Fails to Resolve 'Localhost' if IPv6 is Enabled
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that prevented the Remote Command Server check in the DisplayEngine configuration screen from passing if IPv6 was enabled.
    • Bug: 9616 Cablecast Custom Fields whose Names Contain Parentheses lead to an Invalid Regular Expression Error in CableDisplay Bulletins
    • Summary: We now properly handle special characters in custom field names.
    • Bug: 9676 CableDisplay Schedule Bulletins Sometimes get set as Alert Bulletins When they Shouldn't
    • Summary: CableDisplay schedule bulletins are now treated as active instead of alert bulletins.
6.5.3 -- 19 issues -- Released: 8/3/2015
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    • Bug: 8671 Dynamic Bulletins Displaying Erratically and Not Consistently Updating
    • Summary: Some dynamic bulletins, notably Twitter and CableDisplay bulletins, were not updating. In most cases they appeared to become 'stuck' where they did not update until the Carousel service was restarted.
    • Bug: 8758 Twitter Bulletins Error with "Not Authorized"
    • Summary: We reduced the number of calls to Twitter to reduce the likelihood of this error. Twitter limits the frequency of data requests, by number of request within a limited time frame.
    • Bug: 9005 Installer Does Not Configure Windows Firewall and Internet Explorer For Optimum Carousel Use
    • Summary: The Carousel installers now run scripts to configure the Windows Firewall and Internet Explorer for Carousel usage. These scripts are installed to TRMS/Tools/LocalConfiguration/ for future use should it be needed.
    • Bug: 9017 Some RSS Feeds Give a 403 Forbidden Error
    • Summary: Some web servers would not serve the RSS data out to us. We set the Accept Header of the request to (application/rss+xml,application/xml,*/*).
    • Bug: 9027 Facebook Bulletins Result in Excessive Calls to the Facebook API
    • Summary: Caching was added to Carousel, to reduce the number of calls to the Facebook API.
    • Bug: 9037 WebPicture Blocks Error on Conditional Dynamic URLs
    • Summary: We changed the check for a dynamic URL to account for conditionals.
    • Bug: 9038 WebPicture Blocks Won't Render URL's That Use SSL
    • Summary: We're getting with the times! Secure images for all.
    • Bug: 9039 Facebook Bulletins May Contain Less Posts Than Expected if There are Excluded Posts in the Feed
    • Summary: We now decide whether a post should be excluded before adding it to the list rather than making a list first and then removing excluded items from it.
    • Bug: 9048 When Facebook Page Search Fails to Find Anything, the Back to Search Option Does Not Function
    • Summary: Errors were resolved preventing the 'Back to Search' option from functioning. We also added text explicitly stating that no results were found in the search.
    • Bug: 9053 When an RSS Feed, Crawl or Bulletin, Had No Items in It, It Would be Treated as an Error Instead of No Content
    • Summary: When we introduced the new 'error' state for bulletins, we missed some cases where things were not errors, but intended behavior. This was one of those spots.
    • Bug: 9060 Dates Do Not Display in RSS Feeds Unless the Day of the Week is Contained in the Feed
    • Summary: RSS bulletins and crawls are now more flexible with valid RFC822 dates for publish dates.
    • Bug: 9064 Previews For Dynamic Bulletins Display, Page Has Not Been Rendered Yet, Instead of Rendering Last Image
    • Summary: When previewing a Dynamic bulletin with no content, we will show the most recently rendered JPG if it's available, with a notice above indicating its not current.
    • Bug: 9065 Clone Tool Will Not Import Channel Without Deleting a Channel
    • Summary: The Clone Tool no longer enforces channel licensing.
    • Bug: 9142 Unhandled Exception in Service When RabbitMQ is Not Responding
    • Summary: Dynamic bulletins would stop updating content if RabbitMQ went down, until the Carousel service was restarted. Now we retry until the Rabbit comes back.
    • Bug: 9143 CAP Request Results in Server Error Invalid Column Name 'PageStatus'
    • Summary: We added a bulletin status filtering feature in 6.5.0 and accidentally broke the entire thing. Sad panda.
    • Bug: 9163 Add tblGroup.GroupName to DeanEvans EMS
    • Summary: Added the GroupName to the available fields in an EDS bulletin when connecting to Dean Evans's EMS systems.
    • Bug: 9197 CableDisplay Schedule Bulletins Sometimes Include Currently On-Air Shows
    • Summary: CableDisplay bulletins no longer include currently on-air shows that cross twelve AM/PM.
    • Bug: 9199 CableDisplay Schedule Page Doesn't Cross Midnight Boundary
    • Summary: We have been page breaking on the midnight boundary in 6.5.0 for the unified schedule type, which doesn't make sense if the page limit is 1. We now wrap to the next day if the bulletin is limited to one page, and continue to break on the boundary if there is more than one page available. We also restored the functionality of getting an extra day of schedule when limited by number of days, allowing a switch to the next day, if the current day has no shows left.
    • Bug: 9210 Carousel Service Outputs Constant NullReference From DataCache and Fills Log
    • Summary: Checkpoints were added to prevent inconsequential data from filling the log.
6.5.2 -- 4 issues -- Released: 3/23/2015
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    • Bug: 8817 Facebook Changes Require Functionality Modifications to Facebook Bulletins
    • Summary: Keyword searches for posts are no longer supported by Facebook and have been removed from Carousel. Page searches remain and may be sorted by posts made by the page or all posts to the page. User authentication is no longer required for Facebook bulletins.
    • Bug: 8843 Crawl Weather bulletin gives error that weather.trms.com could not be resolved
    • Summary: Fixed dynamic crawls so that error messages would be cleared when data becomes available again.
    • Bug: 8885 RSS Crawl does not work
    • Summary: Fixed dynamic crawl placeholder replacement.
    • Bug: 8963 Facebook posts with more than 25 likes or comments only show a count of 25.
    • Summary: Facebook bulletins now show the correct number of Likes and Comments even if there are more than 25.
6.5.1 -- 5 issues -- Released: 2/16/2015
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    • Bug: 8739 Event Display bulletins error rendering iCal feeds for group items
    • Summary: Key list is cached prior to modifying the collection to group items.
    • Bug: 8754 Event Display bulletins ignore requested pixel spacing between events or items
    • Summary: Carousel once again honors the setting for number of pixels between items in Event Display bulletins.
    • Bug: 8755 Number of events per bulletin can exceed set amount
    • Summary: Carousel once again honors the number of items per page setting for Event Display bulletins.
    • Bug: 8814 RDA displays Spanish characters accurately
    • Summary: Carousel RDA now uses UTF-8 instead of ASCII, to properly display characters.
    • Bug: 8850 Event Display bulletins that use Carousel as a source do not work with remote SQL instances
    • Summary: Carousel now uses the correct database connection string when using Carousel as an Event Display data source when the database is hosted on a different server.
6.5.0 -- 21 issues -- Released: 1/5/2015
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    • Bug: 3855 EDS alert bulletins no longer incorrectly reactivate when they are stale or saved
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that caused EDS alert bulletins to remain active even when they should be stale or saved
    • Bug: 3949 Picture block stacking order in an RSS bulletin is now obeyed
    • Summary: The z-order of the picture blocks is now maintained for items of an RSS bulletin
    • Bug: 7862 RDA allows multiple alert bulletins to be enabled by a single tag
    • Summary: UpdatePage RDA command will now process multiple tagged bulletins when processing ExclusiveAlert
    • Bug: 8119 Improved handling of invalid data when processing CAP messages
    • Summary: Fixed an error where CAP would give a dictionary error if certain XML elements were missing
    • Bug: 8123 Removed dot files from uploaded interactive zip archive
    • Summary: Files such as .DS_Store and .htaccess will be removed to avoid security issues and other rogue behavior
    • Bug: 8124 Interactive URL is changed to include a valid index file if it exists
    • Summary: If uploaded interactive zip archive has an index.html file, "index.html" will be appended to the URL of the interactive bulletin to avoid web server configuration issues
    • Bug: 8203 UTF-16 RSS feeds are now properly interpreted
    • Summary: RSS feeds now obey text encoding
    • Bug: 8276 Clock bulletins now have option to save to zone default template
    • Summary: You can now copy a clock bulletin to the zone's default template from Manage Bulletins
    • Bug: 8290 Better error message when FaceBook token expires
    • Summary: Corrected message when token expires
    • Bug: 8312 Redundant sound clips no longer appear in the available sound list
    • Summary: Sound clips copied to other zones will no longer come up as redundant selections when adding a sound clip to a bulletin
    • Bug: 8318 Excluded word list handling improved
    • Summary: Improved detection of excluded words for dynamic bulletins
    • Bug: 8346 CableDisplay Bulletins now use Cablecast's API
    • Summary: CableDisplay now is more reliable and includes more data via the API
    • Bug: 8370 Live video bulletin now adheres to dwell time
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Live Video Bulletins with an RTP or RTSP stream would not play for the expected duration
    • Bug: 8434 Updated EDS and RSS templates
    • Summary: Added new design from Tightrope Creative
    • Bug: 8437 Zone tags are now included in the JSON API
    • Summary: Players that use the JSON API now have access to zone tags
    • Bug: 8487 Bulletin tags are now included in the JSON API
    • Summary: Players that use the JSON API now have access to bulletin tags
    • Bug: 8531 Optimized rendering of bulletins
    • Summary: Performance of bulletin rendering is significantly improved most notably of dynamic bulletins; this also addresses alignment issues that were seen in previous Carousel releases
    • Bug: 8541 Updated default weather template for new data provider(s)
    • Summary: The weather template has been updated to provide attribution that is required by some of our data providers.
    • Bug: 8605 CAP can affect bulletins found in the Saved bulletins section
    • Summary: CAP will only affect stale, current, queued or no-content bulletins and no longer activate bulletins out of the saved list
    • Bug: 8728 Display engine doesn't indicate when a compatible D3D version is not installed on the system
    • Summary: The display engine diagnostic screen now includes a Graphics Driver check.
    • Bug: 8732 Add CarouselDetective diagnostic tool
    • Summary: There's now a tool that checks various server options to make sure it is fully operational.
6.4.6 -- 7 issues -- Released: 6/4/2014
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    • Bug: 8121 CAP is using the old weekday trick, should use the new 'no content' status
    • Summary: CAP now uses the correct method of handling a "no content" status.
    • Bug: 8221 Lots of tags can slow down system
    • Summary: Significantly improved scalability of bulletin tags.
    • Bug: 8222 Error accessing proxy-migration.txt when server doesn't have access to root
    • Summary: A more useful error message is given if the service does not have rights to clean up the proxy-migration.txt file.
    • Bug: 8238 RSS Weather Crawls that err disappear
    • Summary: Crawls no longer disappear when there is an error.
    • Bug: 8249 Special case block needs to exist to be used as a back drop
    • Summary: New block type has been added that can be used as a backdrop that can be overlapped by other blocks.
    • Bug: 8273 Clone Tool: Imported Weather doesn't work
    • Summary: Fixed a bug in the Clone tool that caused 6.4.5 weather bulletins to become corrupted during export.
    • Bug: 8282 EventDisplay Bulletin that is set to show text when no event is scheduled does not render
    • Summary: The correct text is shown when there is no content for an EventDisplay bulletin.
6.4.5 -- 3 issues -- Released: 4/16/2014
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    • Bug: 8234 Twitter and Facebook default templates will cause the "No blocks could fit on the current template" error
    • Summary: The default templates have been updated to have proper default options on their content blocks.
    • Bug: 8235 RSS bulletins will give the following error: "Error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values"
    • Summary: The default templates have been updated to have proper default options on their content blocks.
    • Bug: 8236 Apostrophe in username can make Carousel display errors
    • Summary: If your username had an apostrophe, certain areas, such as the 'my media' list, would display an error immediately.
6.4.4 -- 1 issues -- Released: 4/14/2014
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    • Bug: 8192 Copies to the same zone can repeat shared zone names
    • Summary: Carousel no longer lists multiple copies of a bulletin on the same zone under the "shared on zone" list.
6.4.3 -- Released: 2/24/2014
6.4.2 -- Released: 1/27/2014
6.4.1 -- 6 issues -- Released: 1/20/2014
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    • Bug: 7741 Standard bulletins with WebPictureBlock errors won't show their errors
    • Summary: Standard bulletins with WebPictureBlocks will now show a red dot and their error message if an error occurred when updating them
    • Bug: 7783 Web Page Snapshots won't display if you set too long of a delay
    • Summary: The timeout used for the snapshot will now take into account the specified delay
    • Bug: 8002 Unable to upload a picture to create a bulletin
    • Summary: You can once again upload single images as bulletins
    • Bug: 8022 Uploading large video files caused "System out of memory" error
    • Summary: The video upload will now accept larger files
    • Bug: 8037 SQL 2012 create script incompatibility
    • Summary: SQL Server 2012 can now create a new database on initial install. Previously, existing databases needed to be migrated over to SQL 2012.
    • Bug: 8047 Updating sibling bulletins should show on the confirmation page
    • Summary: The confirmation now shows a list of zones that the bulletin is shared with and whether or not they'll be updated when you proceed
6.4.0 -- 10 issues -- Released: 12/17/2013
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    • Bug: 3484 Character limit on Carousel bulletins
    • Summary: A template can now specify a character limit for a text block to prevent user or dynamic data from getting too long and keeping auto sized text from getting too small.
    • Bug: 7721 Native Twitter support
    • Summary: No more messing with RSS, now you can put Twitter content directly into Carousel.
    • Bug: 7737 Proxy settings are now in the web interface
    • Summary: The Proxy settings for the service, web interface and players are now configured in Carousel, no longer in the scary config files.
    • Bug: 7738 Add option to copy bulletin to template
    • Summary: Standard bulletins can now be promoted to being a "my" or "zone" template. Dynamic bulletins can be promoted to zone default templates.
    • Bug: 7765 Web interface shows preview for Clock bulletins
    • Summary: The full previews while editing clock bulletins now show and update the face of the clock, as configured. Also, the WebDisplay now will display the clock face as well.
    • Bug: 7779 Webpage Snapshots now allow for a delay
    • Summary: When using a webpage snapshot, you can now set a number of seconds to delay before taking the snapshot, to allow script to load and render content.
    • Bug: 7788 Bulletins that exist on other zones now have an indicator in the web interface
    • Summary: A list of other zones on which a bulletin exists now appears in the manage bulletin list.
    • Bug: 7806 Native Facebook support
    • Summary: You can now put content from Facebook into Carousel.
    • Bug: 7915 Web interface now shows errors for dynamic bulletins
    • Summary: The manage bulletin list now has a red or gray dot if a dynamic bulletin has an error or has no items that match.
    • Bug: 7975 Queued dynamic bulletins are now rendered
    • Summary: Any dynamic bulletins that are queued will be rendered along with any current bulletins so that they are immediately available when their time comes.
6.3.9 -- Released: 4/14/2014
6.3.8 -- 2 issues -- Released: 2/24/2014
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    • Bug: 8125 Text can get cut off in blocks on portrait zones
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with rendering that caused text blocks to get cut off or have no text at all.
    • Bug: 8139 Text alignment can be incorrect for text that is wider than the block
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with centered or right aligned text would appear the same as if it were left aligned.
6.3.7 -- 2 issues -- Released: 1/27/2014
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    • Bug: 8090 iCal feeds don't display accented characters correctly
    • Summary: Fixed an issue which was causing special characters to display as "?"s.
    • Bug: 8096 RSS text is overlapping
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where blocks won't reposition properly and could lead to text overlapping.
6.3.6 -- 13 issues -- Released: 1/20/2014
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    • Bug: 6938 Carousel service can fail to update DataCache after a player forcibly closes a connection
    • Summary: We now handle the resulting error when a player disconnects unexpectedly.
    • Bug: 7089 Horizontal scroll bar never goes away in IE
    • Summary: Fixed a style issue which was making the content too large for the browser window.
    • Bug: 7238 Rotated text can get cut off if near the edge of the screen
    • Summary: We were only rendering the portion of the content that fit on the screen before rotating, it's now fixed to render the whole content and then rotate it
    • Bug: 7373 Dynamic bulletins won't display if repeating blocks overlap
    • Summary: Repeating blocks now preserve their relative positions and will push blocks below them up or down when they resize
    • Bug: 7460 Time off by one hour if Service not restarted after Daylight Saving change
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with daylight saving time not being reflected on Linux players
    • Bug: 7471 Auto sized, non-wrapping text won't display properly when right justified
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where no auto sizing would occur for non-wrapping, right justified text
    • Bug: 7631 Capitol M gets devil horns if it has an outline in some fonts
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the outline could become weirdly inverted on certain letters like on the corners of an "M"
    • Bug: 7634 Transparent text with outline shows part of the outline through
    • Summary: The outline was centered on the edge of the text, so transparent text would show half of the outline through
    • Bug: 7636 Glowing text has "tails" on some fonts with some letters
    • Summary: Similar to the outline issue, glow text could have inverted portions on certain letters, this has been fixed
    • Bug: 7722 Template editor aborts when moving block off the zone
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where certain blocks when positioned partially off the zone would cause the template editor to exit without saving
    • Bug: 7740 Page Validator doesn't work
    • Summary: Fixed the Page Validator tool to be able to read valid bulletin files once again, instead of thinking everything was invalid
    • Bug: 7782 Add option to truncate long URLs
    • Summary: RSS Bulletins can now truncate long URLs to just the host portion to prevent ugly formatting
    • Bug: 7886 Text can overflow block
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where certain auto sized text could be too large for the block when displayed
6.3.5 -- 3 issues -- Released: 5/13/2013
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    • Bug: 7422 Carousel depends on .NET framework 3.5 SP1
    • Summary: Carousel no longer requires .NET 3.5 SP1 and improved compatibility with 64 bit players.
    • Bug: 7435 It is not possible to create Event Display bulletins
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing the Create a new Event Display bulletin page from rendering correctly
    • Bug: 7568 DisplayEngine takes a long time to start
    • Summary: We fixed an issue that was causing the DisplayEngine to take an extremely long time to start up.
6.3.4 -- 5 issues -- Released: 2/22/2013
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    • Bug: 7108 "Until Manually Turned Off" should get de-selected when bulletin on / off dates are modified
    • Summary: "Until Manually Turned Off" is now automatically de-selected when specific dates and times are set.
    • Bug: 7195 TRMS log filled with "Error updating media... An item with the same key has already been added."
    • Summary: Cleaned up an error message that was polluting the Event Viewer logs.
    • Bug: 7262 Carousel DisplayEngine can crash while exiting on Windows XP
    • Summary: We now correctly handle errors while shutting down the Display Engine.
    • Bug: 7282 Weather update logs erroneous error message to Event Viewer
    • Summary: Weather bulletins will no longer log an error message every time they update. Instead, they will only log an error message when an error occurs.
    • Bug: 7362 DE app config for error recovery should be on by default
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine has had a recovery mechanism for when the connection to the monitor is lost for an extended period. This mechanism is now 'On' by default. It can be disabled in the configuration file.
6.3.3 -- 11 issues -- Released: 12/31/2012
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    • Bug: 6990 Interactive helper does not work on x64 systems
    • Summary: The interactive helper now works properly on x64 systems.
    • Bug: 7013 Flash helper doesn't work correctly sometimes
    • Summary: The flash helper is once again respecting the length of it's media.
    • Bug: 7026 Bulletin packages can fail to install on international systems
    • Summary: Uploaded bulletin packages now work correctly on non-english versions of Windows.
    • Bug: 7027 Location input fails when creating weather bulletin on international systems
    • Summary: Weather bulletins now provide a field for Latitude and a separate field for Longitude. This prevents issues in locales that use the commas as a decimal delimiter.
    • Bug: 7030 Text Outline can be rendered incorrectly on international systems
    • Summary: The text outline will no longer be inexplicably huge on international systems.
    • Bug: 7036 Digital clock is rendered in the wrong postion when using a negative vertical offset
    • Summary: The Digital clock is now rendered in the correct location.
    • Bug: 7042 Some text does not show in IE when editing Event Schedule bullentins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was causing some of the text on this page to not show up when viewed in IE.
    • Bug: 7046 Dynamic bulletin rendering can use a significant amount of CPU time
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was causing dynamic bulletin rendering to take a very large amount of processor time.
    • Bug: 7047 Event Schedule Bulletin On/Off dates are not correctly handled on international systems
    • Summary: Event Schedule bulletins now work correctly when dates are specified in DD/MM/YY format, as well as MM/DD/YY.
    • Bug: 7052 uploaded PSD files are considered invalid on x64 systems
    • Summary: .psd files can once again be uploaded to x64 Carousel systems.
    • Bug: 7058 International systems can fail to log messages to the Event Viewer
    • Summary: International systems now properly log all messages to the Event Viewer.
6.3.2 -- 3 issues -- Released: 10/1/2012
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    • Bug: 6955 Spaces are not always rendered between words.
    • Summary: fixed an issue that caused some spaces to be unexpectedlyremoved
    • Bug: 6962 Videos can take a long time to start playing
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was causing videos to take a very long time to start
    • Bug: 6964 Carousel uses Quicktime to play RTP and RTSP streams in Live Video Bulletins
    • Summary: Carousel will now play RTP and RTSP streams using QuickTime, a setting in the configuration file allows the use of Windows Media Player instead if desired
6.3.1 -- 7 issues -- Released: 9/5/2012
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    • Bug: 8230 Apostrophe in username can make Carousel display errors
    • Summary: If your username had an apostrophe, certain areas, such as the 'my media' list, would display an error immediately.
    • Bug: 6888 Installer fails if FrontDoor is not installed to root TRMS directory
    • Summary: The Carousel installer will now locate FrontDoor properly if it is not installed to one of the standard locations
    • Bug: 6928 Whitespace and line feeds are stripped from a block's text
    • Summary: Whitespace and line feeds are now preserved when a bulletin is rendered
    • Bug: 6933 Fonts are larger in 6.3.0 than in previous versions
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was causing fonts to render 30% larger than in previous versions.
    • Bug: 6939 Autosize text can be cut off
    • Summary: Autosized text will now correctly measure all lines when calculating the correct font size
    • Bug: 6941 Text Outline is more aggressive in 6.3 than desired
    • Summary: The text outline is now more consistent with previous versions
    • Bug: 6944 Zones can drop to black when using Performance mode on Windows 7
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was causing zones to get stuck in black when using Performance mode on Windows 7 machines
6.3.0 -- 18 issues -- Released: 7/20/2012
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    • Bug: 4008 Added Bulletin Reporting
    • Summary: We added a new tab under "Manage Bulletins" to do simple reports of bulletins that have been displayed.
    • Bug: 6109 Add support for CAP (common alert protocol)
    • Summary: Carousel now supports CAPPOST to commands. See Carousel manual appendix for more information.
    • Bug: 6119 Add option to justify text in digital clock
    • Summary: Digital clock now supports setting text alignment.
    • Bug: 6294 Add embedded link to individual bulletin's web preview
    • Summary: In the public web site, links in the bulletin description are now made to be hyperlinks that are clickable in the zone viewer.
    • Bug: 6297 Not all forms of military time can be input
    • Summary: You can now input military time into time input fields as either "17:00" or "1700".
    • Bug: 6352 Unselecting "Until Manually turned off" should take user to Todays date on Calendar
    • Summary: Previously the bulletin would remain scheduled for its original schedule, which could be way in the past. We now will switch it to be current for today so you don't have to click back in the calendar to find it.
    • Bug: 6404 Test if player cache directory works
    • Summary: We added a new test to the Display Engine connection tester to make sure player file permissions are correct.
    • Bug: 6521 Some French characters show up as a diamond with a question mark in the template editor
    • Summary: The template editor now allows accented and unicode characters to show up properly.
    • Bug: 6604 Bulletin lists and housekeeping can be filtered by deleted users
    • Summary: You now have the ability to view or remove bulletins owned by users that have been deleted from FrontDoor.
    • Bug: 6627 Add ability to update all weather bulletin backgrounds
    • Summary: You can now select or add a background to apply to all weather types to make integrating a weather bulletin into a seamless background easier.
    • Bug: 6681 RSS Feeds don't obey proxy server config overrides
    • Summary: Resolved an issue related to downloading dynamic content in RSS and iCal bulletins when using a proxy server. Due to their complexity, web page snapshots may not work behind some proxy servers.
    • Bug: 6745 Support for international date/time formats
    • Summary: The web ui and display engine now will run on systems with localized date/time formats.
    • Bug: 6746 Allow bulletins to display international characters
    • Summary: Bulletins will now display and properly wrap most language's text in bulletin text blocks.
    • Bug: 6750 Bulletins run until manually turned off by default
    • Summary: New bulletins are now set to "Until Manually Turned Off" by default.
    • Bug: 6768 Rendered bulletins look slightly different than previous releases
    • Summary: In order to support internationalization, we're now using a new rendering engine to render bulletins. We've made every effort to make it appear the same as before, but there are some cases where text may not fit properly in blocks. If you notice this, it's best to turn on "Size Text to Fit" or reduce the font size to the next smaller option.
    • Bug: 6847 Certain weather locations can throw an error
    • Summary: We now catch a condition where certain weather information isn't returned from WeatherBug. This information will now be listed as "Unknown" instead of throwing an error.
    • Bug: 6851 Require FrontDoor 5.4 for installation
    • Summary: FrontDoor 5.4 must be installed before upgrading to Carousel 6.3.
    • Bug: 6869 Add Housekeeping Metadata
    • Summary: Housekeeping now shows bulletin descriptions before removal for further clarity.
6.2.8 -- 1 issues -- Released: 4/14/2014
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    • Bug: 8224 Weather bulletins no longer update
    • Summary: The weather service provider used by Carousel was discontinued. Carousel now has been switched to use a new data provider.
6.2.7 -- 20 issues -- Released: 1/20/2014
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    • Bug: 7063 Date and time selections are more consistent
    • Summary: The formats for Event Display and the channel clock now have the same options
    • Bug: 7088 Carousel can default to a crawl zone on initial login
    • Summary: It will now default to the first bulletin zone, if possible
    • Bug: 7194 Errors from an RSS Bulletin with some FeedBurner feeds
    • Summary: Fixed an issue in which unexpected formatting could trip up the RSS Bulletin's ability to read the feed
    • Bug: 7296 Warning inappropriate when moving a stale bulletin to active
    • Summary: When moving a single bulletin, the message no longer references it as a "group"
    • Bug: 7628 Clone tool appears stuck sometimes
    • Summary: Long running tasks are now done in the background so the tool is more responsive
    • Bug: 7629 When monitor is shut off display engine does not come back properly
    • Summary: The display engine now recovers better in the case the desktop context going away
    • Bug: 7630 Line-in background audio doesn't fade out for bulletin audio clips
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with reading the initial line-in level on Windows 7
    • Bug: 7652 Reading iCal feeds in Event Display would fail when there was no name in the calendar
    • Summary: Carousel now handles the case where a calendar has no X-WR-CALNAME specified.
    • Bug: 7703 ATOM feed can fail to validate due to empty authors
    • Summary: Carousel will now handle the empty author field more gracefully
    • Bug: 7720 No error message when deleting or copying templates when no templates are selected
    • Summary: You'll now get an explanation if you try to delete no media items
    • Bug: 7732 Updated Bumper Graphics
    • Summary: There are new bumper graphics and Carousel will choose the one with the closest aspect ratio to your zone
    • Bug: 7785 Option to disable double-click to exit from display engine
    • Summary: Especially useful for players on touch screen devices, there's now a configuration option to disable the use of the mouse to exit the display engine
    • Bug: 7787 Editing a bulletin that is shared on multiple zones won't update other zones
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the updates weren't being applied to shared zones, even when they were selected in the edit process
    • Bug: 7826 You can now cancel out of selecting a web page to snapshot
    • Summary: Previously there was a "Start over" button, this is now a cancel which will close the window and return you to what you were doing
    • Bug: 7835 Bulletin thumbnail can reflect cancelled changes
    • Summary: Hitting cancel now, properly, leaves the bulletin completely untouched
    • Bug: 7840 Weather bulletins will still update changed info even when cancelled
    • Summary: Hitting cancel now, properly, leaves the bulletin completely untouched
    • Bug: 7850 Image selection for a web page snapshot was confusing
    • Summary: The wording is now clearer on how to crop the portion of the web page to snapshot
    • Bug: 8000 Zone selection can change order with different users
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where the zone list was not always properly sorted
    • Bug: 8069 CableDisplay MultiSchedule Bulletins do not allow for more then 1 line of blocks per item
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where all blocks in CableDisplay would align all their tops, regardless of their original layout
    • Bug: 8091 RSS Feed can show ??? for special characters
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where RSS feeds were using the wrong character set and special characters were getting turned to "???"
6.2.6 -- 16 issues -- Released: 5/13/2013
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    • Bug: 7124 Repeatedly editing bulletins can cause tags to disappear
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was causing tags to disappear when repeatedly editing a bulletin
    • Bug: 7294 A zone with nothing but repeating bulletins will always show "Loading zone..."
    • Summary: It is now possible to run exclusively repeating bulletins
    • Bug: 7335 Weather bulletins not displaying right city and weather data
    • Summary: We helped WeatherBug find and fix an issue in their software that was presenting incorrect weather data for some ZIP codes.
    • Bug: 7383 Carousel won't work if AD is set to use SAMAccountName
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was interfering with SAMAccountName authentication
    • Bug: 7433 Players attempt to download bumper graphics for full alert zones
    • Summary: The Carousel Display Engine no longer attempts to download bumper graphics for Full Alert zones
    • Bug: 7434 Corrupt Bulletin error message is not helpful
    • Summary: Reworked the error message that is presented should a bulletin become corrupt
    • Bug: 7451 Commas can cause problems with Event Display bulletins
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was causing Event Display Schedules to become garbled if their text contained commas
    • Bug: 7452 Error when Uploading files that contain a pipe character
    • Summary: Carousel now ignores invalid characters when saving uploaded files
    • Bug: 7527 Error when shutting down Carousel Player using front power button
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was causing an error when the machine was shut down using the front power button.
    • Bug: 7531 Unable to select or upload a background for Analog Clock bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an error that was preventing users from uploading new backgrounds for Analog Clock bulletins
    • Bug: 7566 Copied bulletins do not maintain background audio setting
    • Summary: When a bulletin is copied, the background audio settings are now propagated to the new bulletin
    • Bug: 7570 Manage bulletins in Google Chrome goes off the screen
    • Summary: Fixed a rendering issue that was causing part of the Manage Bulletins screen to extend beyond the bounds of the browser
    • Bug: 7577 Date/Time overlay is incorrectly placed when changing display resolutions
    • Summary: The Date/Time overlay's offset is now scaled correctly regardless of player display resolution
    • Bug: 7579 No channels defined error when starting the Display Engine
    • Summary: The Carousel Display Engine no longer shows a "No Channels Defined" error message when starting up... unless there are no channels defined
    • Bug: 7582 Carousel Display Engine gets stuck if user clicks [Cancel] too late
    • Summary: The Carousel Display Engine now correctly exits if the user cancels it late in the startup process
    • Bug: 7588 Carousel Display Engine crashes when Date/Time overlay is enabled
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause the Display Engine to crash when using the Date/Time overlay
6.2.5 -- 15 issues -- Released: 2/22/2013
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    • Bug: 7091 Installer does not always install AverMedia Runtime
    • Summary: The Carousel and Carousel Player installers now correctly install the AverCapSDK_Redist runtime.
    • Bug: 7092 Error when copying a template: "Failed to compare two elements in the array"
    • Summary: Resolved an error that could happen when copying a template. This only happened if the template's owner did not have a last name.
    • Bug: 7093 Updated decktop backgrounds
    • Summary: Installers include updated desktop backgrounds.
    • Bug: 7203 iCal import will fail when an alert action is NONE
    • Summary: Fixes a problem loading an iCal feed that contained an alert that was set to 'NONE'. This can occur in certain calendars created by 'Calendar' on the Mac.
    • Bug: 7205 iCal Event Schedule bulletin creation will accept any URL
    • Summary: If you enter invalid URLs as the source for an iCal Event Display bulletin, the validation will no longer allow them to be selected.
    • Bug: 7251 Zones with no content should not show "Loading zone"
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine will now show black when there are no bulletins in a zone on startup. Previously, it would say "Loading Zone..." indefinitely.
    • Bug: 7273 Bulletins that are updated outside of their scheduled display times are not displayed
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was preventing Carousel from showing bulletins that were modified while they were off-air.
    • Bug: 7289 Background audio does not fade down when a video plays in a bulletin
    • Summary: Resolved two problems that were preventing Background Audio from working on Windows 7 systems.
    • Bug: 7302 Diagnotic mode shows black
    • Summary: The Diagnostic graphics manager now works as expected.
    • Bug: 7303 Simple mode does not scale well
    • Summary: The Simple graphics manager now uses a higher quality scaling algorithm.
    • Bug: 7329 AVerMedia USB Video Input quality is bad
    • Summary: The AverMedia USB Video input units now take advantage of improved AVerMedia support.
    • Bug: 7340 Console window shows up over DE when LiveVideoHelper starts
    • Summary: This window no longer pops up momentarily when the LiveVideoHelper starts up.
    • Bug: 7358 Flash helper shows black indefinitely if there is no valid flash file
    • Summary: The FlashHelper now checks to make sure the file exists, and exits gracefully if it does not.
    • Bug: 7359 Sunrise and Sunset values from weather bug are overly verbose
    • Summary: The Sunrise and Sunset times from WeatherBug are now now formatted as a short time. They no longer include the Date or seconds.
    • Bug: 7361 Weather bulletin should round #TemperatureInF# to a whole number
    • Summary: The #TemperatureInF# value is now displayed as a integral number of degrees. It is now consistent with the #Temperature# token.
6.2.4 -- 19 issues -- Released: 12/31/2012
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    • Bug: 6089 It's possible to upload a Media Package to "My Media"
    • Summary: This should never have been possible. When a user did upload a media package to 'My Media', the resulting items were lost forever.
    • Bug: 6180 Dates in Event Display Bulletins are incorrectly formatted
    • Summary: Event Display bulletins no longer show a period after the month name, and they now include a comma after the day name.
    • Bug: 6574 Forecast1TemperatureLowInF doesn't work in Weather bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed a silly issue that was preventing this value from working as expected.
    • Bug: 6602 Links in EDS Feed are displayed as links
    • Summary: We no longer render links in underlined blue text. They are rendered the same as the rest of the text.
    • Bug: 6719 VLC application can crash and not restart
    • Summary: We added VLC to the Windows Error reporting excluded applications list. This change only effects Windows XP systems.
    • Bug: 6774 EDS Not Respecting On/Off Times
    • Summary: EDS bulletins now respect their On/Off times.
    • Bug: 6788 Clicking 'Cancel' while uploading a bulletin packages behaves as 'Upload'
    • Summary: Users are once again able to cancel when uploading a bulletin package.
    • Bug: 6808 Stale Bulletins in a Group are reactivated when another member bulletin is edited
    • Summary: Stale bulletins will no longer become fresh when a group-mate is edited.
    • Bug: 6814 DisplayEngine diagnostic checks report 'Not Run' if the service is down
    • Summary: When running the DisplayEngine diagnostic checks, the status will now be correctly reported even if the service is stopped.
    • Bug: 6886 Video playback position is sometimes incorrect when using VLC
    • Summary: VLC player positioning is now correct when using a video window in the top left corner.
    • Bug: 6937 Template Editor's Text Horizontal Alignment buttons don't reset when a different block is selected
    • Summary: The horizontal alignment buttons now properly reset when a different block is selected.
    • Bug: 6954 m4v is now a supported extension for QuickTime playback
    • Summary: Carousel will now use QuickTime to play .m4v files.
    • Bug: 7006 Preview in Channel Layout Editor is sometimes not visible
    • Summary: The preview window is now visible, even in cases of extreme aspect ratios.
    • Bug: 7014 WebDisplay sometimes shows old images
    • Summary: The WebDisplay now prevents caching of bulletin images.
    • Bug: 7028 Weather bug #outlook# incorrectly renders degree symbol
    • Summary: The Weather bug outlook no longer renders the degree symbol as &deg.
    • Bug: 7033 Web Picture blocks won't update if they are the same size as the zone
    • Summary: Web Picture blocks now properly update when they are the same size as the zone.
    • Bug: 7037 Clock bulletins won't refresh when certain properties are changed
    • Summary: The Clock bulletin now refreshes when any of it's properties are modified.
    • Bug: 7055 ScreenSaver doesn't work in Mac OS 10.8
    • Summary: The ScreenSaver now works in Mac OS 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.
    • Bug: 7057 AVerMedia input card is unstable with HDMI input on Windows 7
    • Summary: We fixed several issues that were causing the AVerMedia input card to show distorted or black video. A BIOS change may be required to ensure optimal performance.
6.2.3 -- 9 issues -- Released: 4/25/2012
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    • Bug: 5994 EDS Fails to Render with Empty Field
    • Summary: Resolved an error that was being thrown whenever certain text fields in EDS bulletins wound up being empty. This was preventing the bulletin from being updated with new data.
    • Bug: 6539 Player Tests all fail if ping blocked
    • Summary: When running the Display Engine connection tests, if the ping test fails, then the rest of the tests were being skipped. In some networks, ICMP pings are intentionally blocked, so you'd never be able to run all the tests. We now continue with the connection tests even if pings aren't allowed.
    • Bug: 6564 Uploaded weather backgrounds not shown in template editor
    • Summary: If you upload a custom background when creating a new weather bulletin, the newly-uploaded background for the "Unknown" condition will now be used as the default background whenever editing the bulletin's template.
    • Bug: 6599 Editing a bulletin that has been copied to another zone doesn't apply changes to all the copies
    • Summary: Fixed a case that prevented copies of a bulletin on other zones from receiving edits. Note: You must click the "More..." button when making edits to select which copies to apply the changes to. If you simply click "Finish," edits will only be applied to the bulletin on the zone you're working on.
    • Bug: 6600 Edits to a bulletin in a group can cause multiple email notifications
    • Summary: Fixed a bug that would send a "waiting for approval" email out for every bulletin in a group, even if you only edit a single bulletin in that group.
    • Bug: 6691 EDS bulletins always get set to Ungrouped upon edit
    • Summary: EDS bulletins now retain their grouped setting across edits.
    • Bug: 6695 EDS bulletins don't wrap correctly
    • Summary: A small math error would cause certain fields in EDS bulletins to be piled on top of each other.
    • Bug: 6717 Rotation gets reset to 0 degrees in template editor
    • Summary: Resolved a problem where templates made in previous versions of the software would reset the rotation of text blocks to zero.
    • Bug: 6725 Display Engine Splash Screen occasionally hangs when clicking Configure button
    • Summary: We resolved a threading issue that would sometimes cause the Display Engine to appear frozen at the splash screen when you clicked the Configure button.
6.2.2 -- 27 issues -- Released: 12/9/2011
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    • Bug: 6066 The public site for Carousel doesn't have ALT text set for bulletin previews
    • Summary: There is now ALT text on the bulletins in the public web site, it will show the description text of each bulletin.
    • Bug: 6071 Enterprise clarification for username and pass when not on domain
    • Summary: We made various updates to the documentation
    • Bug: 6228 WebPicture Snapshots can cease updating after a period of time
    • Summary: A problem with creating the temporary location for web picture snapshots to download content to was fixed so it should keep updating now.
    • Bug: 6275 Change Contemporary Research tuner input to be component instead of HDMI
    • Summary: To avoid issues with HDCP on HDMI, Carousel will now use the component signal to connect the tuner to the Carousel Player.
    • Bug: 6293 Possible error when uploading thin image files
    • Summary: Really skinny or really wide images can have an error while being processed due to a rounding error reducing them to 0 pixels wide or tall. We now enforce a minimum size to prevent this from happening.
    • Bug: 6316 Weather Bulletins grab the current high, not the forecasted high temperature
    • Summary: Forecast information is now embedded as available fields for a bulletin to use -- see available fields for details, when creating or editing a weather bulletin. For example, #Forecast0TemperatureHigh# would be today's predicted high, #Forecast1TemperatureHigh# would be tomorrow's, etc.
    • Bug: 6327 Enable silent Clone channel imports
    • Summary: From the command line, the Clone tool will now accept a "-force" option to import a channel without asking the user for confirmation.
    • Bug: 6329 Media helpers can crash on players running Windows 7
    • Summary: Changes were made to some exceptions that were implemented for Windows XP to deal with Windows 7's new crash reporting.
    • Bug: 6337 No notification that bulletin to approve is an alert
    • Summary: A user can only move or copy a bulletin to be an alert bulletin if they have permission and it will also require authorization again if the user doesn't have auto-authorize access. Additionally, the approval screen will now indicate if a bulletin is to be displayed as an alert after approval.
    • Bug: 6350 Make VLC work for streaming
    • Summary: If the option to use VLC is set in the configuration, live video stream bulletins will now use VLC as well.
    • Bug: 6353 Bulletin properties should reflect current selections
    • Summary: The summary to the right while creating bulletins will now show "Until Manually Turned Off", when that option is selected.
    • Bug: 6359 Weather bulletins need an option to show temperatures in C or F
    • Summary: Rather than using the default of the temperature unit for the location in the bulletin, there are now several additional fields available to use in the bulletin that allow you to display #Temperature#, #Dewpoint#, etc. in a specific unit by appending InC or InF, i.e. #TemperatureInC#.
    • Bug: 6364 Bottom date field on Event Schedule doesn't work
    • Summary: The duplicated date in the bottom set of options in the Event Schedule page will now change the date for which you're editing the schedule.
    • Bug: 6370 Can't pull pubDate from RSS feed, manual and software disagree
    • Summary: Consistency!
    • Bug: 6374 Can't always move/copy bulletins to a full screen alert zone
    • Summary: The option to move or copy a bulletin to a full screen alert zone would not appear if there was only one full screen alert zone. The option will now be there if any full screen alerts are on the system.
    • Bug: 6379 Selecting a different color for the count down clock reverts Style to Digital
    • Summary: An invalid count down date would cause the clock type to be reset. It will now properly remember what type you've selected.
    • Bug: 6381 Page elements move around while inputting on IE browser
    • Summary: A formatting error was fixed on the page for creating a clock bulletin that could occur if your browser window was not wide enough.
    • Bug: 6402 Alternate Color check box doesn't show the color options immediately
    • Summary: An error was fixed on the page which will allow IE to show the color options immediately after clicking the "Alternate Color" checkbox.
    • Bug: 6406 Snap Player - Player error with no bulletins
    • Summary: If there are no bulletins on a snap player's channel, an error could occur that would keep it from updating in a timely manner in the future.
    • Bug: 6407 Snap Player - cache can make bulletin changes never appear
    • Summary: The cache is bypassed so that changes to bulletins will appear much quicker on the player.
    • Bug: 6414 Description for RSS bulletin is wrong
    • Summary: The automatically generated description for an RSS bulletin using an uploaded file was using whatever text was entered int he URL field, even though the URL wasn't being used. It now uses the filename from what you uploaded.
    • Bug: 6415 RSS doesn't render local feed
    • Summary: An error could previously prevent an uploaded RSS feed from being rendered the first time or changing if you re-upload a different file. It now will force the bulletin to render if there is no rendered copy or if the RSS feed gets uploaded again and has changed.
    • Bug: 6426 Template editor won't load with long text fields
    • Summary: On Windows 7 systems, the application's configuration was updated to increase the allowed query string length to allow for longer text fields. Windows 7 users should set their requestLimits to: <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="3000000000" maxUrl="8192" maxQueryString="8192" />
    • Bug: 6432 Color palette and controls disappear while editing a template
    • Summary: A little UI tweak
    • Bug: 6441 Snap Player stability fixes
    • Summary: Snap players now handle server connection instability better.
    • Bug: 6443 Solo 220 and 230 can not fade background audio
    • Summary: Different audio drivers would cause audio to not fade properly in Windows 7
    • Bug: 6538 Log in is slow with many zones or users
    • Summary: When you had many zones and users the loving would be slow. It would get progressively slower as you added zones. This seems to happen around >300 zones and >100 users.
6.2.1 -- 16 issues -- Released: 5/16/2011
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    • Bug: 5744 Carousel can show video artifacts on bottom of a video
    • Summary: We resolved this issue with Windows Media Player 11 causing artifacts at the bottom of the screen. The solution is to use the 6.2 feature of VLC, we just wanted to remind everyone.
    • Bug: 6009 The Clone tool loads really slow
    • Summary: This happened for our support team occasionally. It has to do with setting the permissions of the files that the clone tool installs.
    • Bug: 6067 Default minimum display time shown for bulletins
    • Summary: We now show what the minimum display time is for a bulletin. This is handy to know when you are setting a bulletin for a manual duration.
    • Bug: 6068 Add help on location based weather to the documentation
    • Summary: We added some better help documentation about location-sniffing international weather.
    • Bug: 6069 Add information on RSS -No Items- or -All Clear- capabilities to the documentation
    • Summary: We made the documentation clearer about integrating alert systems and Carousel with RSS feeds
    • Bug: 6082 Exchange EDS bulletins may not load description
    • Summary: If an exchange server's description field had HTML in it it caused Carousel to not render it. We just strip out that formatting now.
    • Bug: 6087 A better explanation of why the .dat test in the Display Engine can show an error
    • Summary: A simple documentation thing!
    • Bug: 6104 Support for Contemporary Research tuner
    • Summary: We added support to control the Contemporary Research tuner via the serial port for Live TV bulletins. Carousel will change the channel of the tuner based on the bulletin.
    • Bug: 6128 Fresh and clean new weather graphics for spring
    • Summary: A little refresh for the weather bulletins.
    • Bug: 6160 Explicit Proxy server configuration
    • Summary: We added the ability to specify a proxy server, port, username, and password for Carousel to use. This will override the inherited proxy server settings from the system.
    • Bug: 6171 Line input audio does not fade if the player is on Windows 7
    • Summary: We totally missed this one as people are using Windows 7 for Carousel players. Now line input audio fading works on XP and Windows 7.
    • Bug: 6187 The Clone tool can deletes files
    • Summary: If there was a certain error processing the clone file, the clone tool could delete the folder that contains the .csl package. This is very bad if it is in the root of your D drive!
    • Bug: 6188 ItemImageURL sometimes gets multiple comma separated URLs
    • Summary: We changed it to only use the first url it finds in the feed for an image.
    • Bug: 6191 Switching randomize background audio list doesnt take effect immediately
    • Summary: This was a tricky one to find! But we found it and now when you change he random setting in your background audio list it actually does it!
    • Bug: 6199 Add -Clear cache- button to display engine config screen
    • Summary: We added a troubleshooting tool to the Display Engine's configuration screen. This feature doesn't affect many users, it just helps our our support guys.
    • Bug: 6207 Add Contemporary Research and AVerMedia TVI documentation
    • Summary: We added some better help documentation in regards to setting up the AVerMedia and Contemporary Research TVI hardware.
6.2.0 -- 17 issues -- Released: 3/2/2011
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    • Bug: 4177 Font size can be changed on the digital clock
    • Summary: Another feature brought to us by our favorite Carousel trainer! She helps make Carousel more useful in the field!
    • Bug: 5126 Omit the colon in the 24-hour clock
    • Summary: We dropped the : in 24 hour time... A silly oversight on out part.
    • Bug: 5362 Added a proxy server check to Display Engine connection test
    • Summary: We added a checkpoint for proxy servers in the Display Engine 'check' connection test. We have a lot of customers who don't even know they proxy servers in-between their players and server. Sometime the proxies gum up the works!
    • Bug: 5398 Time zone can be configured for each clock bulletin
    • Summary: This one is for the time zone spanning enterprises! Clock bulletins can now be individually configured for what time zone they display.
    • Bug: 5423 Linux player software
    • Summary: A small title for a big feature. We have built a Display Engine (which we are now calling the player software) that runs on Linux. Right now it implements the features of the new micro-player license. This is perfect for low cost players and room signs.
    • Bug: 5535 Weather bulletins allow interational zip codes
    • Summary: We support international zip codes and celsius temps!
    • Bug: 5619 New Performance Mode in the DisplayEngine
    • Summary: We added a new graphics mode in the DisplayEngine, Performance Mode. This mode is designed for video/flash intense applications. It does not use the DirectX technology for standard bulletins, giving more graphics resources to the other multimedia processes. It also have a new 'swoop up' crawl, which most of the TRMS staff prefers.
    • Bug: 5774 Setting the screensaver to 'disabled' in a zone has no affect
    • Summary: This is an oversight from long ago. The screensaver now shows channels, not just zones. Disabling a zone would leave a hole in the channel layout. We simply removed the option to disable screensaver output for a zone in this release.
    • Bug: 5939 AverMedia input card support, component and HDMI options
    • Summary: We added support for a new capture card from AverMedia. This provides SD composite, HD component and HDMI inputs for Carousel's live video input feature.
    • Bug: 5999 New option to use VLC for video playback
    • Summary: Carousel will use VLC as it's multimedia playback engine if VLC is installed on the player and "PreferVLC" setting key is set to "True" in the DisplayEngine's .config file. This feature is for power users who would like to experiment with other playback technologies.
    • Bug: 6002 Carousel player installer now installs a default.html file for the /web directory is it exists
    • Summary: This feature makes it easier for customers to determine if the machine they are navigating to in their web browser is Carousel Player or Server.
    • Bug: 6007 Extended the RDA command set to include more bulletin management activities
    • Summary: Check out the manual and xml schema docs for new commands added to RDA. We added a bunch of management commands with the goal of being able to completely control bulletin creation and management via the RDA interface.
    • Bug: 6010 Update to the latest flash distribution
    • Summary: We now distribute the latest Adobe Flash runtime
    • Bug: 6014 Changed the underlying web page snapshot processing to be more robust
    • Summary: We refactored the web page snapshot code to not run in the same process as the web server. This will make is use an external application to snag the web page. Hopefully it will solve some of the memory leak and deadlocks that we were having with different browsers,website, and plugins.
    • Bug: 6023 RSS uses old content when it gets a 404 error from a server
    • Summary: Carousel caches RSS data in order to speed thing up. However, if we received a 404 (page does not exist) error, we would use the cached data. We decided to change the behavior of Carousel and not render the bulletin instead. This helps customer who are trying to integrate alert systems with Carousel via RSS feeds.
    • Bug: 6045 The list of channels is now sorted alphabetically
    • Summary: The list of channels is now sorted alphabetically.
    • Bug: 6046 The list of checked in players is now sorted alphabetically
    • Summary: The Player Status and MicroPlayer Status pages are now sorted alphabetically by host name.
6.1.2 -- Released: 1/1/2014
6.1.1 -- 15 issues -- Released: 1/11/2011
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    • Bug: 4711 Improve the DateTime Overlay positioning control
    • Summary: Based on feedback from the forum, we added more positioning control of the date and time overlay for the players.
    • Bug: 4841 For EDS bulletins with iCal feeds, editing one instance of a reoccurring event generates multiple events for that day
    • Summary: This was a deep one! So if you have an iCal feed with your calendar and you change an instance of a reoccurring event, you will get both the original event and the new event. What's worse, is that iCalendar on the Mac, Google Calendar, and the customers event management system flagged these events all different. So much for a spec! We can now identify all 3 flavors and show only the modified, correct event.
    • Bug: 5492 Events get displayed on top of each other with certain EDS bulletins
    • Summary: If you have this problem you defiantly know it! All the EDS events get piled up. Well, turns out that under the hood the different 'group by' options use different templates, so if you changed the 'group by' setting of an existing EDS page it get's all messed up. So, we don't let you do that anymore!
    • Bug: 5679 Added a 'cancel' button to the template editor screen
    • Summary: We added a cancel button to the template editor, it was silly that it didn't have one in the first place.
    • Bug: 5736 For interactive bulletins, the inactivity timeout isn't reset by mouse clicks
    • Summary: Isn't it a bummer when you are using an interactive kiosk and it kicks you out to a default page? We thought so to! This was just a glaring oversight on our part! We mostly tested this feature with our mice, not fingers :)
    • Bug: 5760 Enterprise installations of Carousel do not show .MP4 and .M4V files on the players
    • Summary: IIS serves out the content and media for Carousel players. Because of security measures in IIS, .MP4 and .M4V files were not being served to Carousel players. We now override this setting for the /Carousel application.
    • Bug: 5773 The maximum number of pages in an RSS bulletin is increased
    • Summary: You probably didn't even know that a RSS bulletin will only paginate to 100 pages... In fact only one customer in the history of Carousel has ever bumped into that limit. Now, just for them it's increased to 1000 pages.
    • Bug: 5800 Video playback sometimes gets stuck on black
    • Summary: The Carousel DisplayEngine will sometimes get stuck showing black at the end of a video. This is because sometimes we can not calculate the length of the video. Even with video files that have worked before it will randomly get stuck. We added a 5 minute timeout to videos that we can't get a length for, so the worst case is 5 minutes of black. This is a very rare issue.
    • Bug: 5814 WebPage Snapshot can cause a memory leak
    • Summary: A case was found and fixed where the aspnet worker process can leak memory with repeated use of web page snapshots.
    • Bug: 5832 The DisplayEngine software now gets installed on Windows 7 machines
    • Summary: The unified Carousel installer was not deploying the DisplayEngine components on Windows 7.
    • Bug: 5892 EDS template will not load from a Carousel Clone file
    • Summary: When a channel from Carousel 6.1 is exported using the Clone tool, it can not be re-imported on a 6.1 system because of an internal serialization problem with the Clone file. This is fixed and all our bits are in order.
    • Bug: 5900 Dwell time is always affected by word count
    • Summary: A user-set manual dwell time still took into account the word count and auto-pacing calculations, this has been removed so Carousel uses the exact time entered by the user.
    • Bug: 5905 Corrected an internal error with EDS when it tried to load an invalid file
    • Summary: This error only occurred when Tightrope Creative channels were not made correctly, this case is now handled better in Carousel.
    • Bug: 5906 Corrupt RSS feeds can cause Carousel to run slow.
    • Summary: Corrupt RSS feeds can cause the Carousel service to slow to a crawl because it works so hard trying to figure out the bad RSS feed. We have changed it so Carousel will only work on decoding a feed for 90 seconds before giving up and moving to the next dynamic bulletin. This problem will cause slow CableDisplay updates, and non-rendering of RSS and EDS bulletins.
    • Bug: 5937 Notifications for bulletins edited by users who require authorization we not being sent to administrators
    • Summary: When a bulletin that had been approved by an administrator was edited by the user, the notification message was not re-emailed to the administrator telling them that a bulletin was waiting to be approved.
6.1.0 -- 7 issues -- Released: 10/4/2010
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    • Bug: 1777 EDS integration with Microsoft Exchange Server
    • Summary: The Event Display System reads schedule information from Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 or 2010. This integration allows event information from Exchange calendars to populate Event Schedule bulletins in Carousel.
    • Bug: 3785 Multiple Full Screen Alert zone subscriptions
    • Summary: Channels can now have multiple Full Screen Alert zones assigned to them. This allows Full Screen Alert zones with higher priority to override those with lower priority.
    • Bug: 4486 EDS integration with CollegeNET Resource25
    • Summary: The Event Display System reads schedule information from CollegeNet's Resource25 event management system. This integration allows schedule information from R25 to populate Event Schedule bulletins in Carousel.
    • Bug: 4489 RSS feed authentication
    • Summary: Added support for RSS feeds that require a username and password to subscribe.
    • Bug: 5432 FullScreenAlert incompatibility with earlier Clone files
    • Summary: Due to the addition of multiple Full Screen Alert zone subscriptions, channels imported from Carousel 6.0.x via the Clone tool will need to have their Full Screen Alert zone subscription reassigned.
    • Bug: 5518 WebPicture Blocks added to RDA
    • Summary: RDA commands sent to a WebPicture Block within a template would be returned with an error. This has been corrected, and you can now populate WebPicture Blocks with a URL.
    • Bug: 5585 RSS feed user-agent validation issues
    • Summary: Some web sites require certain http headers to be present in order to server the appropriate content, like if the web browser is a mobile phone or desktop. We were not providing the proper header for the user agent causing some web sites to send us an error instead of the RSS data.
6.0.5 -- 11 issues -- Released: 10/4/2010
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    • Bug: 4398 Splash screen won't show when Player settings corrupted
    • Summary: Fixed a rare occurrence where corrupted Player settings would cause the DisplayEngine splash screen to not appear. When corrupted Player data is detected, the next start of the Player software will bring up the splash screen to reset settings.
    • Bug: 5173 Windows 7 DisplayEngine Compatibility
    • Summary: Carousel now supports running the DisplayEngine on Windows 7 32bit and 64bit systems.
    • Bug: 5259 Event Schedule Bulletins dont always show correct number of days
    • Summary: Resolved a situation where Event Schedule Bulletins would show more days of information than specified within the bulletin.
    • Bug: 5366 Bulletin tags aren't copied with the Clone Tool
    • Summary: The Clone Tool will now import and export bulletin tags from all zones.
    • Bug: 5544 TVOne input device may not switch zones correctly
    • Summary: Resolved a problem with TVOne input devices occasionally not switching zones when scheduled.
    • Bug: 5568 Updated error handling for file uploads
    • Summary: File upload screens are now more consistent with one another and have improved error handling for invalid or nonexistent files.
    • Bug: 5580 Cannot copy groups with Zone Tags to Full Screen Alert zones
    • Summary: Groups containing Bulletins with Zone Tags can now be copied to Full Screen Alert zones.
    • Bug: 5584 Zones may not load on startup
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where a zone could fail to load when starting the DisplayEngine.
    • Bug: 5599 Template Editor error if picture block is empty
    • Summary: The Template Editor will no longer throw an error when you try to save a template containing a picture block without first assigning it a picture.
    • Bug: 5610 Improved remote SQL server handling of date and time differences
    • Summary: The web server will now factor in date and time differences between itself and a remote SQL server when deciding to update content.
    • Bug: 5627 Improved DisplayEngine handling of date and time differences
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine will now factor in date and time differences between itself and the server when deciding to pull down updated content.
6.0.4 -- 6 issues -- Released: 8/6/2010
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    • Bug: 5298 Rare Display Engine crash to desktop generated by RDA commands
    • Summary: A timing change eliminated the rare occurrence of the Display Engine crashing to the desktop, due to rapid RDA commands.
    • Bug: 5355 Unable to upload bulletin packages as a new Alert or Full Screen Alert bulletin
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where uploaded bulletin packages containing flash, video, and picture (non-template based) bulletins were not being copied as alerts or Full Screen Alerts.
    • Bug: 5364 Weather pages try to fetch incorrect URL
    • Summary: Resolved the occasional communication error while requesting weather data in certain locations.
    • Bug: 5367 Nightly media cleanup doesn't run
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where deleted media could be left on the server indefinitely.
    • Bug: 5406 Cannot copy or move bulletin groups to Full Screen Alert zones
    • Summary: Bulletin groups can now be copied or moved to Full Screen Alert zones as expected.
    • Bug: 5548 Video stutters with Hauppauge HVR-1150 PCI card
    • Summary: Improved performance with Hauppauge HVR-1150
6.0.3 -- 31 issues -- Released: 5/25/2010
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    • Bug: 4121 Gray out channel field when creating a TVI or composite bulletin
    • Summary: When creating a Live Video bulletin, there is no longer an option for setting a channel for composite input, since no channel is used.
    • Bug: 4322 Browser error in IE 8 when editing a bulletin that had a block with a pound sign in the name
    • Summary: Fixed a Javascript error that occurred in IE 8 when editing a bulletin with a pound sign in the name of blocks, such as a RSS bulletins.
    • Bug: 4454 Clean up service errors in event log
    • Summary: Reduced severity levels of some common messages from the Carousel service so it is easier to spot true error conditions.
    • Bug: 4474 Interactive web pages open new windows in the background
    • Summary: Web pages in an Interactive bulletin that opens new windows, now navigate in the same window of the interactive zone instead of in a new window that was invisible. This will potentially display pop up style ads as the main interactive content, so make sure your content only opens legitimate windows.
    • Bug: 4502 Email alerts to only send once
    • Summary: Removed the retry code for sending email alerts from Carousel. If an error occurs the first time it tries to send, it will no longer try again and again.
    • Bug: 4647 Improve access to Display Engine Debug Mode
    • Summary: Enhanced logging the Display Engine can now be enabled by default to allow our support team to track down issues without having to explicitly enable debug logging each time after the display has been started.
    • Bug: 4652 Clone Tool needs to clone Network Service to Media permissions
    • Summary: The Clone tool now adds an inheritable permission to the Media directory for the Network Service account
    • Bug: 4799 In template editor blocks can be moved by using the arrow keys on keyboard
    • Summary: Resolved an error in Firefox 3.6.7 and Internet Explorer 7 that prevented the arrow keys from being able to move blocks.
    • Bug: 4874 Interactive URL doesn't get mapped when cloned
    • Summary: The Clone tool will now remap any GUIDs that are in an Interactive bulletin's URL so they will continue to work after importing a channel.
    • Bug: 4877 Interactive bulletins and current Flash version
    • Summary: Flash version 10 is deployed in the Carousel installer.
    • Bug: 4894 Setup PlayerAlerts table can have multiple rows created
    • Summary: Fixed an error in the database install script that could cause extraneous rows to be created. These rows would not cause any problems, they were just unnecessary.
    • Bug: 4928 Updated graphic for crawl in Carousel Public Zone Viewer
    • Summary: The Public Zone Viewer shows the Bumper Graphic for each zone. As crawls cannot have a Bumper Graphic assigned, it now defaults to a Carousel crawl thumbnail.
    • Bug: 4937 Change Player Checkin to happen more often
    • Summary: Players will now check in with the server periodically, not just at start up, so the player list will now be more accurate.
    • Bug: 4940 Digital Clock stops updating
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with the display layer that could cause a clock bulletin to get stuck at a certain time and never update again.
    • Bug: 5020 Background Audio fading when no bulletin audio is present
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where the checkbox for whether a bulletin has audio or not was getting ignored if there were video blocks in the bulletin.
    • Bug: 5026 Keyboard input does not change hex value
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where color values were sometimes not being saved in the template editor.
    • Bug: 5042 Default transition for new zones set to crossfade
    • Summary: Any new zones will have the default transition set to Fade instead of Random, to make the default look more professional.
    • Bug: 5077 DisplayEngine crashes or shows through to the desktop on transitions
    • Summary: Fixed an error in our display layer that could cause the display engine to not be able to access the display anymore.
    • Bug: 5078 Minimum height of a rectangle block 10px
    • Summary: The minimum width and height of a block in the template editor was reduced from 10px to 1px for more precise control.
    • Bug: 5102 Weather bulletin outlook length wording is incorrect
    • Summary: Fixed the wording on the weather bulletin creation screen to match WeatherBug's terminology.
    • Bug: 5109 Interactive file paths should use relative path
    • Summary: Interactive bulletins now use a placeholder of Carousel Address in the URL to represent the server's address. This makes content deployment much easier when using remove players.
    • Bug: 5125 Duplicating an image block exits user out of template editor
    • Summary: Fixed an error with rendering picture block previews that was causing the template editor to exit.
    • Bug: 5137 IIS 7 has a default 40Meg file upload limit
    • Summary: Resolved an issue with the web server configuration that limited file uploads to 30MB on Server 2008.
    • Bug: 5145 Interactive bulletins will not show the 404 page when loading content
    • Summary: If an Interactive bulletin gets a 404 error loading content, it will not display the error, but rather show black until the next bulletin is displayed.
    • Bug: 5192 Clicking back arrow in browser while making a weather bulletin generates GDI error
    • Summary: Resolved error handling code in the weather bulletin creation screens that could cause an error to be incorrectly displayed when hitting the browser's back button.
    • Bug: 5212 Add block name to clarify which block is being edited
    • Summary: The Template Editor now puts the block name in the title of the block options accordion group so it is easier to tell what block you are working with.
    • Bug: 5224 Previews for Interactive bulletins from the Manage Bulletins list
    • Summary: The preview now uses a frame to show the URL an interactive bulletin is set to use in your web browser.
    • Bug: 5261 Service to player notification is now more efficient
    • Summary: The service now takes much less CPU when many players are connected with frequent bulletin changes.
    • Bug: 5272 Error when clicking on configure button after version upgrade
    • Summary: Fixed a potential problem that could cause errors when clicking on the Configure link after an upgrade.
    • Bug: 5273 Installer is not packaging InteractiveHelper correctly
    • Summary: Fixed an error that was causing the InteractiveHelper not to be able to add trusted sites.
    • Bug: 5279 Live video bulletins now supports the TVOne 1T-C2-750 scaler for HD video input
    • Summary: Carousel now supports HD video in a window using the TVOne T1-C2-750 scaler.
6.0.2 -- 30 issues -- Released: 3/31/2010
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    • Bug: 3903 Countdown clock interprets midnight as 12 PM
    • Summary: Changed the countdown clock to format the time better so editing a bulletin won't change it from AM to PM or vice versa.
    • Bug: 4497 Exception error when viewing Manage Bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed handling of page reordering which could cause an error in certain conditions.
    • Bug: 4561 Invalid file format lead error when uploading a bulletin package
    • Summary: Changed the bulletin package upload to ignore Mac-specific files.
    • Bug: 4649 Unstable network can cause bulletins to freeze on a single page
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where certain transactions with the server could hang indefinitely and lock up a player when the network had a problem.
    • Bug: 4684 Background audio media not deleted from server after removed from web UI
    • Summary: Improved deletion code when removing background audio.
    • Bug: 4853 Compiler Error Message: The compiler failed with error code 128
    • Summary: This is a bug in the Microsoft.Net framework that causes some machines to show a compiler error.
    • Bug: 4871 Template Editor can save text from one active field to another
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where text from one block could get saved to a different block in the template editor.
    • Bug: 4875 Interactive bulletins do not display due to blocked content
    • Summary: URLs for interactive bulletins are now added to the trusted sites before being displayed.
    • Bug: 4880 Bulletin Preview icon is drawn over Edit Bulletin icon in Chrome
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the bulletin preview icon would not function properly.
    • Bug: 4890 Mac Screen Saver Not compatible with snow leopard
    • Summary: Added a new screensaver build that works on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).
    • Bug: 4891 Users are alerted to Template and Zone size mismatches
    • Summary: You are now given an error about templates that are not sized correctly for the current zone,
    • Bug: 4892 The player alert notification errors if the email list has a return in it.
    • Summary: If the list of email addresses has a return in it the service will not be able to send out notifications.
    • Bug: 4903 EDS bulletins missing Template Specific Background
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with rendering a background in the template editor for EDS bulletins.
    • Bug: 4905 Error updating cache arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow
    • Summary: This is a bug in the Microsoft.Net framework that causes an issue in the service resulting in pages not updating on large systems.
    • Bug: 4915 Editing the template of a bulletin containing quotation marks displays blank page
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with escaping special characters in the template editor.
    • Bug: 4920 Sort Channel list on Player
    • Summary: The channel list in the player configuration screen is now sorted alphabetically.
    • Bug: 4922 Player bypasses proxy settings
    • Summary: By default, players will now bypass any configured proxy settings in order to solve caching issues while contacting the server. An app.config settings was added to the DisplayEngine to be able to reset this behavior to use the proxy settings as it used to do, if necessary.
    • Bug: 4923 Interactive Inactivity Timeout affects display duration
    • Summary: Fixed an error where the timeout value was affecting how long interactive bulletins should be displayed.
    • Bug: 4931 Font names containing special characters prevent bulletin and template creation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with escaping special characters in the template editor.
    • Bug: 4941 Notifications to players occasionally lock Carousel Service during network instability
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with sending notifications to players that could cause the Carousel service to lock up during periods of network instability.
    • Bug: 4945 Optimized RDA communication to players
    • Summary: RDA commands were optimized to update players more efficiently after changes were made.
    • Bug: 4951 Carousel Service inundates player with status updates
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with saving whether or not we already sent an email about a player status change.
    • Bug: 4963 Enhanced RDA error logging by displaying the original XML
    • Summary: Added the input XML to RDA log messages.
    • Bug: 4988 Display Engine quits updating with the Service running during network instability
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with sending notifications to players that could cause the Carousel service to encounter errors during periods of network instability.
    • Bug: 5027 Error in UpdateDynamicPage(): Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue while importing weather data from WeatherBug which could cause an error updating weather bulletins in certain locations.
    • Bug: 5041 Player attempts to delete files from cache will not be logged until limit is exceeded
    • Summary: The player no longer logs the first several attempts to delete a file because this wasn't an error condition.
    • Bug: 5054 InvalidCast exception error when editing weather bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an problem that could occur while editing the template for a weather bulletin.
    • Bug: 5066 Optimized bulletin updates from RDA to be more responsive
    • Summary: This allows bulletins that are added through RDA to be triggered out to the players quicker.
    • Bug: 5072 Optimized the UpdatePage RDA command to not poke the cache if nothing changed
    • Summary: An optimization to the RDA processor that receives XML commands.
    • Bug: 5083 Event Schedule Bulletin will not render
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where an empty field could prevent bulletins from rendering.
6.0.1 -- 7 issues -- Released: 1/26/2010
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    • Bug: 4852 Queued crawls get displayed
    • Summary: Fixed a bug where queued crawls would get displayed.
    • Bug: 4855 Crawl doesn't adhere to background color
    • Summary: A bug where the crawl did not adhere to the background color setting has been fixed.
    • Bug: 4857 Digital Clock does not text scale to zone
    • Summary: A bug where the digital clock did not scale the text to the size of the zone has been fixed.
    • Bug: 4859 Block with the same name or TE tool will cause conflict in resizing and field entry
    • Summary: In the template editor, blocks with certain names caused resizing and text entry problems.
    • Bug: 4860 Added My to the Background list
    • Summary: In the template editor, we added the word 'My' to the name of the backgrounds that are in the 'My' tab.
    • Bug: 4866 "Template Specific" background doesn't show up in the TE
    • Summary: In the template editor, we added back the 'template specific' background option when the template has a background that does not exist in Carousel.
    • Bug: 4870 Revert changes from 4494 - Active Directory Changes
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the file TRMS.Components.UserManagement.dll was newer than the file deployed in FrontDoor. This caused inconsistent behavior when connecting to ActiveDirectory servers.
6.0.0 -- 16 issues -- Released: 1/15/2010
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    • Bug: 54 New template editor
    • Summary: Drag and drop template editor with snap-to functionality for blocks during drag and resize, with the option of a full screen preview. Also, drag and drop block ordering for field entry and drawing order, independent of the order of the blocks on the template. Additional block options include, reflection, gradient and duplication. Added new Save and Exit button so users can select the Save button to save work without leaving the template.
    • Bug: 3633 Bulletins can be moved or copied to a Full Screen Alert zone
    • Summary: Bulletins can be moved or copied to Full Screen Alert zones and vice versa.
    • Bug: 3786 Tag Bulletins With Keywords
    • Summary: Carousel's tagging mechanism now has been extended to bulletins.
    • Bug: 3885 RDA can assign bulletins to multiple zones by name or tag
    • Summary: Specifying zones can now be done by tag or name in addition to ID.
    • Bug: 3886 Increased responsiveness of Alert bulletins
    • Summary: Bulletin activation is now pushed to players in a more efficient manner which increases responsiveness, decreases bandwidth usage and does so in a firewall friendly manner. Also, full screen alerts now appear quicker than before.
    • Bug: 3941 HTML-rendering for blocks
    • Summary: Some minimal HTML tags can be used for word-level formatting of text in text blocks (b, i, u, s).
    • Bug: 3943 Add Player Status call to RDA
    • Summary: A way to check a player's status has been added to the RDA protocol.
    • Bug: 3947 Select bulletins via Tags in RDA
    • Summary: Bulletins can be selected by tag when executing RDA commands.
    • Bug: 3952 Filter Manage Bulletin list by tags
    • Summary: Once bulletins are tagged, the Manage Bulletin list can be filtered by tag.
    • Bug: 3967 An uploaded image creates a seamless channel background for multiple zones
    • Summary: Carousel will automatically slice an uploaded background image into zone specific pieces (backgrounds) according to selected zones, creating a seamless channel display. Functionality can be found on the Channel Configuration menu.
    • Bug: 3971 Shaped shadows for Pictures
    • Summary: Shadows for pictures now obey any alpha-channel transparency in the original picture.
    • Bug: 4019 Add glow check box on block in template editor
    • Summary: A text block can now be set to have a glow effect.
    • Bug: 4386 Add UpdatePage method to RDA
    • Summary: The RDA protocol now has an UpdatePage command to change properties on an existing bulletin.
    • Bug: 4451 Bulletin packages containing only images can be uploaded and saved individually or as a group
    • Summary: Directly importing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations is no longer possible, eliminating the need to give Carousel permission to access PowerPoint. Simply export the slides as JPEG or PNG images, compress (zip) the file and upload the zip file as a Bulletin Package. Select Save to Group to keep all of the images together or Save to create independent bulletins. Of course, this functionality is not limited to PowerPoint presentations, it can be used for uploading any image.
    • Bug: 4611 Atom feeds don't assign the item's author property correctly
    • Summary: An item's author is now being set correctly, previously it was only setting the author on a feed.
    • Bug: 4689 Have to log out and log back in to view newly created zones in config menu
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with cached zone lists that required a logout to see new zones in the menu.
5.2.7 -- 27 issues -- Released: 10/16/2009
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    • Bug: 2267 When the crawl is moved from bottom to top, an empty space remains on the bottom
    • Summary: Zones weren't being moved correctly when the crawl changed positions.
    • Bug: 3637 Sort tags in the zone selector screen alphabetically
    • Summary: In the tag-based zone selector, the zone list is now sorted alphabetically.
    • Bug: 3919 Installer shouldn't install Clone tool and Database Manager on Players
    • Summary: The Clone tool and Database manager are tools for Carousel Servers and should not be installed on Players.
    • Bug: 3959 Text blocks change quotation marks to single quotes
    • Summary: Changed handling of edit field text fields so they now allow double quotes.
    • Bug: 3965 Carousel video uploaded with a pound sign in the name will not play
    • Summary: Fixed quoting of file uploaded names to allow players to download them.
    • Bug: 3974 Display Engine sometimes loses synchronization state after a cycle completes
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with zone synchronization where it could get out of sync after a complete cycle elapsed.
    • Bug: 3977 Display Engine crashes to desktop
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where corrupt or unsupported audio files could crash the Display Engine when attempting to play.
    • Bug: 3978 Uploading Media Package in too small a zone results in error
    • Summary: Fixed a problem with auto-sizing text that could cause an error when resizing to a zone that was small.
    • Bug: 3982 Digital clock custom format includes n
    • Summary: Fixed an error where newlines would show up as n instead of putting a line break in the clock text.
    • Bug: 3984 A picture the same size as a template renders off by 1 pixel at top and left
    • Summary: Fixed a rounding error that could cause a picture block to render a single pixel to the right or down from where it should.
    • Bug: 4011 Problems Accessing Zone Settings
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where editing the zone settings was checking for the wrong access right it was checking for the system configuration right instead of zone setup.
    • Bug: 4014 Manage bulletins (by user) pull down is not alphabetized
    • Summary: The user list is now sorted alphabetically by last name.
    • Bug: 4028 Cannot remove admin email without replacing it with another
    • Summary: The email field now allows you to return it to the original empty state.
    • Bug: 4029 Waiting bulletin email notifications not going out
    • Summary: Email notifications are now sent out even if there are invalid addresses in the list.
    • Bug: 4051 Screensaver installer is not installing correctly on Windows
    • Summary: Fixed a problem in the .msi package for the Windows screensaver that was causing it not to be installed properly. The problem was manifested as the screensaver not working or running an older version.
    • Bug: 4053 WebDisplay displays wrong zone dimensions in IE6
    • Summary: Fixed a bug where certain zone layouts would not render at the proper size in IE6.
    • Bug: 4082 Feeds containing excluded words are not being filtered from RSS bulletins and crawls
    • Summary: Fixed an error that was causing items with excluded words in the content of the item to appear on an RSS bulletin.
    • Bug: 4146 Template editor unexpected error "Parameter is not valid"
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where the code to scale a picture block could cause an error in the template editor.
    • Bug: 4157 Picture block aspect ratio control
    • Summary: An option was added to the template editor to allow a picture block's image to stretch to fit or to maintain the aspect ratio when scaling.
    • Bug: 4204 User with Manage Bulletins role returned to FD when editing a bulletin
    • Summary: The Edit Bulletin button no longer appears if you have manage bulletin access, only if you have create access.
    • Bug: 4220 No player license found message in DisplayEngine on new units
    • Summary: The startup of a system now populates the player license count rather than requiring the user to first log into the Carousel Web UI.
    • Bug: 4224 Bulletins must be authorized when moved/copied to zone where user needs approval
    • Summary: When a user moves a bulletin to another zone, it will now require authorization for that zone if the user who is moving it does not have auto authorize permission to that zone.
    • Bug: 4385 Remove My Standard as an option when moving Alert bulletins
    • Summary: No longer allow full alert bulletins to move to the non-existant standard bulletin list.
    • Bug: 4400 Clean up error logs
    • Summary: Removed inconsequential errors from the event log, such as stopping and starting the DisplayEngine.
    • Bug: 4410 Installer now checks for .NET 3.5 SP1, does not install if it's present
    • Summary: .NET 3.5 SP1 is required for Carousel 5.2.7, FrontDoor 5.3.3 and Cablecast 4.8.4.
    • Bug: 4422 Carousel ScreenSaver works incorrectly in Windows 7
    • Summary: The Carousel ScreenSaver works as expected in Windows 7.
    • Bug: 4458 Service stops post initial boot up
    • Summary: Service now starts as expected and will generate an error if it cannot connect to the database.
5.2.6 -- 2 issues -- Released: 6/30/2009
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    • Bug: 3920 Digital clock doesn't handle h:mm (10-12 o'clock get cut off)
    • Summary: The digital clock custom format of h:mm (single digit hours will not have a leading zero:single digit minutes will have a leading zero) will auto-scale the text as expected.
    • Bug: 3922 Weather Bulletins are not updating on a regular basis
    • Summary: Weather data is now pulled from WeatherBug, resulting in reliable updates.
5.2.5 -- 12 issues -- Released: 6/3/2009
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    • Bug: 3714 Improve DE " Not Licensed " Verbage
    • Summary: Detailed information is provided in the Display Engine splash screen when additional licenses for Channels or Players are needed or servers cannot be contacted.
    • Bug: 3833 Display engine error running video bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an error where the Display Engine would crash after running certain Quicktime videos after a period of time.
    • Bug: 3837 Clock bulletins do not resize when a crawl is added
    • Summary: Clock bulletins now scale as expected when a Crawl zone is added or removed.
    • Bug: 3841 RSS bulletins are not updating after initial page creation
    • Summary: Caching of the RSS data now allows the pages to re-render if the RSS data did not change, but the template layout changed.
    • Bug: 3857 Display Engine locks up while interactive continues to run
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where Interactive bulletins could get stuck and cause the Display Engine to stop displaying other bulletins.
    • Bug: 3875 Clone Tool errors on import, deletes CarouselDisplayEngine folder
    • Summary: Added support for larger than 4GB channels. Large channel packages now use a .csxl extension instead of .csl.
    • Bug: 3881 Zone syncing for triptych display loses sync
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where zone synchronization could get confused when there were different bulletin counts on the synchronized zones.
    • Bug: 3890 Web Snapshot blocks don't update consistently
    • Summary: Web snapshots would eventually stop working due to a "memory error".
    • Bug: 3900 Clock background changes do not update in a timely manner
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where the Display Engine's caching of files could cause clock backgrounds not to update.
    • Bug: 3910 Live streaming video and Interactive did not adjust to a scheduled crawl
    • Summary: Interactive and Live Stream bulletins scale as expected when a Crawl zone is added or removed.
    • Bug: 3913 Web picture block sometimes didn't update
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where moving or copying a bulletin with a web picture would cause it not to update in the future.
    • Bug: 3916 Zone with only Interactive bulletins would flash between two different bulletins
    • Summary: Improved the way we stop showing an Interactive bulletin for zones with multiple bulletins including Interactive ones.
5.2.4 -- 18 issues -- Released: 3/20/2009
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    • Bug: 2816 Support for proxy servers
    • Summary: Carousel now uses proxy server setting from Internet Explorer.
    • Bug: 3626 Create-Uploaded Bulletins access right appears to give user 'Event Schedule' permission
    • Summary: Carousel now does not give the user the option to edit the Event Schedule when they are given the "Create Uploaded Bulletins" access right.
    • Bug: 3698 Specific zone gets stuck on black
    • Summary: If the Display Engine can determine how long a video lasts, it will now skip past the video if it is taking longer than its duration to complete.
    • Bug: 3705 Display Engine exits from Mouse Clicks while Interactive Running.
    • Summary: If there are any interactive bulletins anywhere on the channel being displayed, the Display Engine disables the ability to exit by using the mouse.
    • Bug: 3707 Web UI runs slow for user's with zone tags as their only domain
    • Summary: The list of available zones for each user are now cached when the user first logs in to Carousel, rather than being re-calculated on each page load.
    • Bug: 3708 Interactive Alert bulletins do not go into Alert mode
    • Summary: Interactive Alert bulletins are now managed from the Active Alert Bulletins list instead of Active Bulletins list, as all other Alert bulletins are managed.
    • Bug: 3715 Add permission to copy/move bulletins from the Stale and Saved list
    • Summary: A user is now able to manage a group of bulletins if they own all of the bulletins in the group, even if they don't have the Manage All Bulletins access right.
    • Bug: 3750 Can view "crawl bulletins" on a bulletin zone
    • Summary: Fixed a glitch while changing zones allowed you to get to view an empty list of crawls on a non-crawl zone.
    • Bug: 3753 User with Media-Manage Zone Media permission cannot access the Media menu
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where if you had access to manage a zone's media but not your own media on that zone, you would be unable to access the Media menu option.
    • Bug: 3755 All clocks fade out whenever any clock transitions to another bulletin
    • Summary: The Display Engine now properly handles fading out a clock if more than one clock is displayed at a given time.
    • Bug: 3762 Bulletins scheduled late day1 to early day2 don't show
    • Summary: Carousel will now warn a user if they attempt to schedule a bulletin overnight, that they have to create two bulletins with two schedules (one up to midnight, and the other from midnight on the next day).
    • Bug: 3787 Can't select a particular video in template editor
    • Summary: You can now select a video and the template editor will save it as the default for that video block.
    • Bug: 3788 Windows error in the Display Engine when playing an video file
    • Summary: The Display Engine will now continue if the video helper errors while displaying video.
    • Bug: 3789 Service error PlayerAlert/EmailAlert filling TRMS Event Log
    • Summary: Fixed where the Carousel Service was trying to email player alerts even if the address list was empty, causing an error to be put into the log repeatedly.
    • Bug: 3794 Add link to our support website via a new 'Help' menu item
    • Summary: The help links in Carousel now send the user to trms.com/support
    • Bug: 3796 iCal sorts data by room and time in Event Display bulletins
    • Summary: The iCal adapter sorts data by room and time.
    • Bug: 3798 In EDS, the iCal adaptor now maps the description field from google calendar, notes field from Apple iCal
    • Summary: Description was added as an available database field for Event Display Bulletins.
    • Bug: 3813 iCal sources with repeating events would not load in EDS
    • Summary: Repeating events now display in Event Display bulletins.
5.2.3 -- 6 issues -- Released: 1/27/2009
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    • Bug: 3545 Display turned off/on generates an error in a zone with clock
    • Summary: Exception handling was added when the clock updates within the timer's tick context.
    • Bug: 3621 The Event Display System is unable to access the Ad Astra database resulting in an error
    • Summary: The connection was opened between the Event Display System and Ad Astra enabling data retrieval.
    • Bug: 3656 Live video A/V sync drifts overtime
    • Summary: Optimized the way the incoming video stream is processed to ensure that the audio and video stay in sync.
    • Bug: 3671 DisplayEngine crashes with UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
    • Summary: Fixed a problem that was causing the DisplayEngine to exit when it failed to establish a connection to communicate with the helper that controls background audio.
    • Bug: 3676 Carousel now distributes QuickTime 7.6
    • Summary: QuickTime 7.6 is installed during the Carousel upgrade process.
    • Bug: 3679 New media packages
    • Summary: Fresh templates and backgrounds were added for banner zones, 4X3 zones, 16X9 zones, and 9X16 zones. Updated dynamic templates and standard templates are included in zip files for convenient uploading.
5.2.2 -- 15 issues -- Released: 12/30/2008
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    • Bug: 3063 EDS rendering runs amok with long event names
    • Summary: In the Event Display System, Event names that exceed the field will be truncated and an ellipse (...) will be added to the end of the text.
    • Bug: 3444 Standard bulletins cannot be moved to Alert bulletins and vice versa
    • Summary: From a Standard bulletin you can click on the 'Copy or Move' icon to move it to the Alert bulletin list or vice versa.
    • Bug: 3445 Uploaded bulletin packages create two database references to the same media file or overwrites existing bulletins
    • Summary: New GUID's (Globally Unique Identifiers) are now created for a page when uploading a bulletin package. This eliminates the previous behavior of overwriting the existing file when the package is uploaded to the zone of it's origin. If the package is uploaded to a new zone, it will reference the correct media file in the database rather than creating a duplicate database entry.
    • Bug: 3494 A black border is placed around video within a bulletin
    • Summary: The video border style was changed to allow for seamless design.
    • Bug: 3575 Custom weather bulletins are not updating due to rogue file
    • Summary: The rogue files created by custom Weather bulletins are no longer queued for the Display Engine to download, therefore, allowing for regular weather updates.
    • Bug: 3581 Isolated server error when adding Web Page Snapshots
    • Summary: The installer now consistently distributes ATL71.dll to execute Web Page Snapshots.
    • Bug: 3584 Server application error when adding or editing large groups of bulletins
    • Summary: The new handling of Group bulletin additions and edits has eliminated the error and greatly increased the processing speed.
    • Bug: 3589 Clone tool import does not reflect zone name changes in the channel layout when zones overlap
    • Summary: Imported channels now display the correct zone name in the error message when zones overlap in the channel layout.
    • Bug: 3613 File name change corrupts channel package when importing using Clone Tool
    • Summary: Changes made to the file name of a channel package are now reflected in the zip file, allowing for successful importing via the Clone tool.
    • Bug: 3614 RSS bulletin skips stories in feed when character length exceeds RSS page
    • Summary: RSS bulletins will now paginate text that exceeds the character length of the RSS page. You will see '(cont.)' at the end of the paginated text and on the beginning of the next page.
    • Bug: 3622 User without proper access rights attemping to edit a group is returned to FrontDoor log in
    • Summary: Only users with the "Manage-All Bulletins" permission are allowed to edit a group (Ungroup, Edit, Copy or Move, and Delete). Group edit options are available from the "All bulletins" tab only.
    • Bug: 3631 Carousel Display Engine helper application unexpectedly quit and displayed an error message
    • Summary: Instead of displaying an error message the video will now resume play.
    • Bug: 3635 The ItemContent field of ATOM feeds do not display in RSS bulletins
    • Summary: RSS bulletins now display the ItemContent data of ATOM feeds instead of returning an empty feed.
    • Bug: 3639 RSS bulletins are not pacing themselves consistently based on the average number of words
    • Summary: RSS bulletins now count the average number of words in the feed and adjust the dwell time properly.
    • Bug: 3643 Occasionally RSS feeds are not updating
    • Summary: RSS bulletins with many items or dynamic content over slow links were not finishing their download (every 5 minutes), therefore, the Display Engine would begin to queue them up again. This behavior would result in some of the bulletins not getting updated. The service will now only re-render RSS bulletins if the content of the feed has changed.
5.2.1 -- 13 issues -- Released: 11/7/2008
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    • Bug: 3338 Block Name appends 1's to it's name when changes are made
    • Summary: In the Template Editor, every time the 'Update' button for Block Name was selected (and the Block Name remained the same) a 1 was appended to the name. Now the update only occurs when the Block Name is actually changed.
    • Bug: 3351 Change order of the Block list after template is created
    • Summary: In the Template Editor you can now move a Block behind or in front of another Block for unique design. You can do this by clicking the 'Move Back' or 'Move Up' buttons located on the far right of the 'Select Block' field.
    • Bug: 3435 Adding a Web Picture block to a template causes an error
    • Summary: Fixed code so that Web Pictures are added properly.
    • Bug: 3437 Clone tool binds to wrong licensing dll
    • Summary: A typo in the build script path prevented the licensing from being read properly, requiring a channel addition before importing the desired channel. The Clone import/export tool for Channels, Zones, and Media no longer requires prior setup.
    • Bug: 3451 DisplayEngine is not aligning zones properly in rare cases.
    • Summary: Zones align when displaying a channel that is not in the native resolution of the player.
    • Bug: 3461 Screen Saver Options screen grays out 'Apply' option.
    • Summary: In the Carousel Pro and Carousel Enterprise Screen Saver the 'Apply' button now functions after the Channel output is changed.
    • Bug: 3472 Blocks can now be rotated in the Template Editor
    • Summary: The new field 'Rotate' in the template editor allows you to rotate blocks in degrees.
    • Bug: 3475 Selected blocks are highlighted in the template editor
    • Summary: The outer bounds of the Block you are working with are now highlighted in the Template Editor for precision design.
    • Bug: 3507 Added support for the Elecard streaming CODEC
    • Summary: Carousel now supports video streams with the Elecard CODEC.
    • Bug: 3532 Custom time format for digital clock bulletin now translates | (pipe) character to a line break
    • Summary: Customize your Digital Clock bulletins using | (pipe) in conjunction with the Format Pattern Legend.
    • Bug: 3533 Edits to uploaded Clock bulletins revert to host system's default background
    • Summary: If a Clock Bulletin was export from one Carousel system and uploaded to another Carousel system; the background of the clock would revert to the background of the host system upon edit. The backgrounds for Clock Bulletins are now stored permanently.
    • Bug: 3542 Potential 'file in use' issue with clock bulletin
    • Summary: Resolved file conflict issue that was causing an error message when creating and editing Clock Bulletins.
    • Bug: 3553 Format drop-down menu is empty for digital clock bulletin in IE
    • Summary: Fixed a conflict preventing format options to display when running Carousel in Internet Explorer.
5.2.0 -- 45 issues -- Released: 9/19/2008
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    • Bug: 2900 RSS bulletins can read ATOM feeds
    • Summary: We added the ability for the RSS reader to read in ATOM feeds. We now support Atom 1.0, 0.3; RSS 2.0, 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0 feeds.
    • Bug: 2901 RSS bulletins can display images referenced in the feed
    • Summary: RSS bulletins can now display images that are referenced in the feed. This is done by adding a WebPicture block to your RSS bulletin and setting the URL field to the "ItemImageURL" token.
    • Bug: 2902 RSS bulletins can now have spacing set between items
    • Summary: The user can set how much space (in pixels) there is between RSS items. This allows for better visual layout of RSS bulletins.
    • Bug: 2903 RSS bulletins show available field names from the feed
    • Summary: When creating RSS bulletins, the filed names are read from the actual feed instead of using the generic fields. This allows Carousel to read more formats of RSS and ATOM feeds.
    • Bug: 2904 EDS supports subscribing to iCal feeds for event data
    • Summary: EDS (Event Display) can now subscribe to iCal calendars. This allows EDS to link in with more scheduling systems.
    • Bug: 2914 Impression counting for bulletins
    • Summary: You can now enable tracking of bulletin impressions. Tracked bulletins will keep a record of how many times they were shown on-screen, and an estimate of the total on-screen time.
    • Bug: 2915 Carousel reports when a player is running an incompatible version of the DisplayEngine
    • Summary: The player status screen will show what version of software the players are running and display a red 'x' if the version does not match the server's version.
    • Bug: 2916 Carousel reports and emails when a display engine has not 'checked in' to the server for a period of time
    • Summary: Carousel will display in the player status screen the last time a player has checked in, and will show a red 'x' if it has not checked in after a user settable period. Additionally, it will email administrators when the players have gone offline, or have come back online.
    • Bug: 2924 The update frequency for dynamic bulletins can be adjusted
    • Summary: The user can now adjust how often dynamic bulletins are updated. The default is, and has been, every 15 minutes. This can now be adjusted for users that need more frequent updates.
    • Bug: 2926 Carousel can capture web pages and display them in a Web Picture block
    • Summary: Carousel can now capture portions of a web page and display it. When the user creates a bulletin with a WebPicture block on it, they have the option of supplying a URL or selecting a web page. This web page can be cropped in so only the relevant portion is displayed.
    • Bug: 2944 Updated the Carousel Framework installer to prompt for the database installation
    • Summary: The installer for the Carousel Framework will prompt to run the database install/update scripts. This is useful for customers who run a separate database server.
    • Bug: 2950 Player registration screen reports the channel each DisplayEngine is displaying
    • Summary: When looking at the list of connected DisplayEngines, you can now see which channel each DisplayEngine is tuned to.
    • Bug: 2960 Advanced communication check in config screen
    • Summary: In the DisplayEngine configuration screen, there is a new suite of tests that can be run to diagnose connection problems between the players and server.
    • Bug: 2961 Overhauled Screensaver clients
    • Summary: Screensavers now display an entire channel, rather than a single zone. Also updated Mac OS X screensaver to be Leopard compatible.
    • Bug: 2967 Player registration screen moved to main configure page
    • Summary: the player registration screen was moved to the main configuration menu and renamed to 'Player Status'. It now does more than just registration tracking.
    • Bug: 2991 The .config files are not longer overwritten by the installers
    • Summary: The web.config and TRMS.Services.Carousel.exe.config files are no longer overwritten by the installers.
    • Bug: 2996 Channel output can be previewed in the web interface
    • Summary: Want to see what your channel looks like, but don't have access to a DisplayEngine? You can now preview the entire channel right in your web browser.
    • Bug: 3029 Slideshow now uses Web Display technology
    • Summary: The slideshow in Manage Bulletins now uses the newer WebDisplay technology to display the slideshow.
    • Bug: 3044 Channel list in configuration screen has a link to the web-based channel preview
    • Summary: When looking at the list of channels in the configuration screen, you can now preview each channel right in your browser.
    • Bug: 3049 New default bumper graphic
    • Summary: Updated our bumper graphic to be a bit more "with the times" (no more giant eyeball). :-)
    • Bug: 3052 Clock bulletins are generated directly within the DisplayEngine
    • Summary: We no longer use Flash to display the analog clock, which means that transitions to and from clock bulletins will work.
    • Bug: 3109 EDS pages now turn on and off if they are alert bulletins
    • Summary: You can now create an EDS-based alert bulletin to appear when an event occurs, and the bulletin will be removed when the events have completed.
    • Bug: 3123 RSS and EDS are now standard features
    • Summary: As of this release, each system ships with RSS and EDS built in.
    • Bug: 3184 Crawls should not let you set sounds or transitions
    • Summary: While making crawl bulletins, you were able to set sound clips or transitions; these do not apply to crawls so they have been removed.
    • Bug: 3187 Outline and Backdrop do not work for Web Pictures
    • Summary: Fixed a small bug where Web Pictures wouldn't draw the block's outline or backdrop in the template.
    • Bug: 3195 DisplayEngine diagnostics screen should not auto-close.
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine diagnostics screen now remains open when all of the tests pass, so you can read the results.
    • Bug: 3197 Web snapshots that include fine details are too compressed
    • Summary: We now use a better compression technique when saving web snapshots so text is easier to read.
    • Bug: 3202 Email notification of waiting bulletins submitted to any zone
    • Summary: You can now define a set of email accounts who are notified whenever a bulletin is waiting for approval on any zone in the system.
    • Bug: 3210 Re-enable the second hand on the clock to make it the same as the old clock
    • Summary: Analog clock bulletins can now have a second hand to be consistent with earlier releases.
    • Bug: 3211 Analog clock hands are difficult to see
    • Summary: Analog clock bulletins have an option of three different hand types.
    • Bug: 3212 When copying then modifying a template, the preview does not update
    • Summary: Forced the preview images to never cache, because IE caches them when it shouldn't, making it appear as if the template changes are not saved.
    • Bug: 3216 EDS fails on certain iCal feeds
    • Summary: Some servers do not conform completely to the HTTP spec, which caused our iCal parsing to fail. We have relaxed the restrictions on the parsing so that we can successfully read iCal feeds from troublesome servers.
    • Bug: 3218 Windows Screensaver does not scale to the screen
    • Summary: A rounding error occasionally made the screensaver resize incorrectly, which could make it appear "too big" for the computer monitor.
    • Bug: 3220 Display Engine now pre-caches all bulletins in the active bulletins list (active and waiting)
    • Summary: All "green dot" and "yellow dot" bulletins in the active bulletins list will be downloaded and cached by the DisplayEngine. This should make larger bulletins (videos, etc.) be displayed on time.
    • Bug: 3223 Clock bulletins have digital and countdown options
    • Summary: When creating a clock bulletin, you can choose to display an analog clock, digital clock, or a countdown to a specific date or time.
    • Bug: 3235 Make dynamic bulletin templates zone specific
    • Summary: You can now set a default dynamic template for each zone.
    • Bug: 3280 Background audio can be uploaded in a bulk zip file
    • Summary: The background audio list will now extract and add all audio files within a .zip file that is uploaded.
    • Bug: 3281 Playlist of background audio can be randomized
    • Summary: Added support for playing the background audio tracks in a random order.
    • Bug: 3292 DisplayEngine can get into a state where it can't download things
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine no longer gets confused by a state where if the clock was set ahead and then changed to be correct, bulletins that were created when the clock was ahead would not be able to be downloaded.
    • Bug: 3307 RSS output gets blocked you IIS7/Win2k3 because .rss is not a mime type
    • Summary: Added the .rss and .dat mimetype to IIS automatically upon installation.
    • Bug: 3317 Create tool for importing and exporting channels, zones and media
    • Summary: New "Clone" tool allows archiving and restoring a channel and all associated zones, media and bulletins to/from a single file.
    • Bug: 3331 Add custom format for Digital Clock
    • Summary: The user can now specify the format for the digital clock with the same techniques as the custom date/time overlay.
    • Bug: 3365 Added interactivity to Carousel
    • Summary: The Carousel Interactive Touch plug-in gives you the ability to create interactive bulletins in a Carousel zone. Interactivity is provided via an external web site, or web site uploaded into Carousel, in conjunction with a touch screen panel (available separately).
    • Bug: 3389 Background audio doesn't exclude non-audio files from zip uploads
    • Summary: The background audio uploaded will now ignore files that are not audio files when they're included in a .zip file that is uploaded.
    • Bug: 3420 Media Tags aren't copied when copying media.
    • Summary: Copying media will now add the tags of the selected media to the destination zone and copy of the media.
5.1.7 -- 1 issues -- Released: 12/30/2008
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    • Bug: 3618 Display Engine uses more bandwidth than expected
    • Summary: The bandwidth usage was improved on average from 50k per second to 15k per second.
5.1.6 -- 4 issues -- Released: 11/7/2008
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    • Bug: 2994 RSS Alerts finish as active bulletins
    • Summary: RSS Alert bulletins are now managed from the Active Alert Bulletins list instead of Active Bulletins list, as all other Alert bulletins (Standard and Weather) are managed.
    • Bug: 3062 Typo when editing groups
    • Summary: The word 'to' has been replaced by 'do' in the group editing page.
    • Bug: 3421 underscores in the picture block name
    • Summary: Underscore characters were removed from the spaces in the Picture Block name.
    • Bug: 3447 Copy/Move a crawl bulletin shouldn't allow for saving to a bulletin package
    • Summary: The option to Copy a Crawl bulletin into a Bulletin Package has been removed as it has never had that functionality.
5.1.5 -- 16 issues -- Released: 9/18/2008
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    • Bug: 3072 Find what zone and allow deletion of corrupt bulletins from database
    • Summary: Enhanced the tool for finding corrupt bulletins to make it easier to find and delete corrupt bulletins.
    • Bug: 3201 Waiting bulletin notifications don't include the zone the bulletin is on
    • Summary: The email message sent out to notify administrators about waiting bulletins now includes the name of the zone the bulletin is on.
    • Bug: 3222 Carousel 5.2 housekeeping does not clear out active bulletins that are waiting for start times
    • Summary: Housekeeping now removes bulletins that are waiting for start times.
    • Bug: 3240 Haupauge HVR950q does not work with Carousel
    • Summary: Added support for HVR950.
    • Bug: 3295 Zone selection truncated and not able to scroll
    • Summary: The zone selector for selecting multiple zones has been tweaked to appear better in Internet Explorer 6.
    • Bug: 3316 TV Input stops functioning after a period of time
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine now cleanly exits while displaying a LiveVideo bulletin which alleviates an issue where it would stop displaying video after a number of times.
    • Bug: 3362 Media isn't resized when copied to a different zone
    • Summary: Copying and moving media (backgrounds and templates) and bulletins to a new zone will now scale them to the new zone's dimensions.
    • Bug: 3372 EDS not displaying events beyond X days
    • Summary: EDS now fetches schedule data for more than 15 days out.
    • Bug: 3378 Carousel shouldn't auto-select all zones when adding or deleting media
    • Summary: Carousel no longer assumes that you want to delete media from all zones.
    • Bug: 3379 Template editor copies currently selected picture when switching between picture blocks
    • Summary: In some cases, the selected picture was being copied erroneously in the template editor.
    • Bug: 3384 Uploading pictures to new bulletin causes other picture blocks to change
    • Summary: Fixed caching issue in Safari which caused the popup menu for selecting a picture to select the incorrect item.
    • Bug: 3395 PNG images lose transparency when resized
    • Summary: Fixed issue where resizing picture media with transparency would have their thumbnails generated on a black background instead of the checkerboard background.
    • Bug: 3396 Safari still shows Config instead of ZoneSelector
    • Summary: Fixed caching issue in Safari which was causing the popup window for selecting a zone to sometimes show the configuration popup window.
    • Bug: 3407 Pictures look distorted when scaled
    • Summary: Picture and WebPicture blocks now scale with a much higher quality.
    • Bug: 3427 Some templates won't resize even when forced in the zone config
    • Summary: An issue was fixed where templates that included a very short (or very tall) block were not resizing when resized in the zone configuration screen.
    • Bug: 3430 When resizing templates some text blocks would default to 6pt
    • Summary: An issue has been fixed where, in some cases when resizing templates the font size would default to 6pt.
5.1.4 -- 3 issues -- Released: 7/31/2008
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    • Bug: 3209 Zone tag selector will show the config screen in certain cases
    • Summary: Fixed issue where switching zones would sometimes display the system configuration screen.
    • Bug: 3282 Setting a background clip is not always making audio fade down
    • Summary: Confusing UI sometimes allowed for background audio and bulletin sounds to be played at the same time.
    • Bug: 3305 Security risk in public site
    • Summary: Patched a vulnerability in the public site
5.1.3 -- 3 issues -- Released: 6/5/2008
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    • Bug: 3119 Configuration window nesting problem
    • Summary: Added a missing target attribute to the "main menu" link in the error screen.
    • Bug: 3159 Possible crash when the DisplayEngine displays many zones
    • Summary: Fixed issue where the DisplayEngine was not allocating enough memory for its internal zone list which could potentially corrupt memory and crash with a large number of zones.
    • Bug: 3163 5.1.2's DisplayEngine won't launch on some systems
    • Summary: Fixed issue where the DisplayEngine required runtime libraries that weren't available on some systems.
5.1.2 -- 15 issues -- Released: 5/27/2008
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    • Bug: 2912 Remove the "Jennifer Approved" logo from the About screen
    • Summary: We removed the 'easter egg' graphic honoring our former testers' job well done.
    • Bug: 3046 Flash error is back in carousel installers
    • Summary: The installers threw an error when the flash version was higher than the minimum version that we require. This was fixed by changing the way we install flash.
    • Bug: 3047 EDS has invalid AdAstra database hardcoded
    • Summary: The AdAstra data adaptor in EDS was pre-programmed to use the database name 'adastra'. This made installs not function properly who did not have their AdAstra database named 'adastra'.
    • Bug: 3065 DisplayEngine quits and doesn't restart if max memory is reached
    • Summary: Added logging for all exit conditions from the DisplayEngine and removed the failsafe code that would exit to the desktop after it used a certain amount of memory.
    • Bug: 3067 Bounds check on the zone tag selector
    • Summary: Changed the minimum number of zones before switching to the tag selector to be smaller. Before you could put in up to 50 zones which would be too many to fit into a menu, now it allows only 20 zones.
    • Bug: 3070 Helpers sometimes get stuck behind the DE
    • Summary: All media playback will now force its window to be on top to eliminate the chance that the DisplayEngine window could cover up media playback.
    • Bug: 3087 Filtering not working in tag style zone selector
    • Summary: Selecting tags in the zone tag selector now works.
    • Bug: 3098 Corrupt registry can crash editing of zones
    • Summary: Fixed handling of bogus time zone data from the registry which was preventing Carousel from allowing you to edit zones and schedule bulletins in rare circumstances. It will now skip corrupt entries which will allow you to proceed and continue to use the rest of the time zone entries.
    • Bug: 3106 Copying a group of bulletins to another zone doesn't work
    • Summary: Fixed an issue which would not allow you to select zones or tags when copying a group to other zones.
    • Bug: 3108 Bulletin previews don't work if you only have management rights
    • Summary: Fixed access rights problem where you would be logged out if you tried to preview a bulletin without any "creation" rights.
    • Bug: 3112 Service isn't notifying Display Engines of updates
    • Summary: Fixed an issue which was causing notifications of new alert (and CableDisplay) changes to not reach the DisplayEngine.
    • Bug: 3114 LiveVideo now uses VMR9 technology for video display
    • Summary: Changed the LiveVideo to use the newer and more efficient VMR9 technology instead of the legacy overlay mode for displaying video input.
    • Bug: 3117 LiveVideo interlaced signal looks bad on progressive displays
    • Summary: Added de-interlacing code to the LiveVideo playback which will improve the visual quality of the video output on a progressive display.
    • Bug: 3118 LiveVideo A/V can get out of sync over time
    • Summary: Added several enhancements to the LiveVideo playback which will improve A/V synchronization on most hardware.
    • Bug: 3122 Background audio sometimes stops fading/resuming
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where entering full-screen alert mode could cause background audio to stop responding to fade up/fade down commands.
5.1.1 -- 6 issues -- Released: 4/2/2008
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    • Bug: 2906 Service doesn't reconnect to database if connection is lost
    • Summary: If the database server wasn't running when the service started, the remoting connection that the DisplayEngine uses would not work until the service was restarted. It has been corrected so you no longer need to restart the service.
    • Bug: 3007 Missing app.config setting for service database
    • Summary: Missing the setting for the data adapter in the service's app.config file which made it difficult to configure certain enterprise installations.
    • Bug: 3011 Corrupt bulletins will cause service not to update cache
    • Summary: Corrupt bulletins that could not be loaded from disk could cause the service to stop loading data prematurely, resulting in an incomplete set of channels, zones or bulletins on the Display Engine.
    • Bug: 3033 When using the EDSProxy DB, if any field has a null value, the page never gets rendered
    • Summary: EDS now compensates for data that isn't completely filled out in the proxy database.
    • Bug: 3034 LEADTools dll is missing and/or not registered
    • Summary: A missing dll caused certain media types to fail on uploads. Specifically applies to Photoshop (.psd) files.
    • Bug: 3040 Database connections aren't closed when editing several bulletins in a group
    • Summary: Fixed a bug where database connections were being left open. You should now be able to edit groups of several bulletins without having a database error.
5.1.0 -- 35 issues -- Released: 2/7/2008
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    • Bug: 1291 Bulletins have a 'Last Updated' field in the database
    • Summary: Greatly reduces the amount of processing needed to update dynamic bulletins. IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need to re-edit any bulletins with Web Pictures so that the database gets the "IsDynamic" field set. Otherwise the pictures won't get updated by the service.
    • Bug: 1325 Optimized file downloading in DisplayEngine
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine downloads smaller files from the server first, saving the larger files for later. This is so the DisplayEngine can display content as quickly as it can, rather than waiting for larger files to finish downloading.
    • Bug: 1374 More efficient "caching" of data in service
    • Summary: The Carousel service is much faster when procuring data from the database, which allows Carousel to scale to larger installations.
    • Bug: 1494 Bulk adding of tags to Zones and Media
    • Summary: You can now add several tags to zones/media in a single field by separating them with a comma, rather than adding them one at a time.
    • Bug: 1503 Carousel represents all timezones
    • Summary: It is now possible to assign any timezone in the world to each zone via the zone configuration screen.
    • Bug: 1515 A zone's RSS output can be enabled or disabled
    • Summary: The RSS feed for zones can be disabled to prevent subscriptions to that zone. You can find this setting in the Zone Settings screen, under the "Other Zone Outputs" area.
    • Bug: 1516 Transition Previews appear in setup menus
    • Summary: A small preview of the transition can be seen in the zone transitions list, and when selecting the default transition for a zone.
    • Bug: 1525 More robust Housekeeping options
    • Summary: Allows users to delete bulletins in bulk by bulletin type, including Active, Stale, Saved, and Waiting bulletins. You may also specify deletion for all users, for all zones, for a particular user, or for a selected zone.
    • Bug: 1532 DisplayEngine versions reported in WebUI
    • Summary: The version of each connected DisplayEngine is visible on the "Display Engine Registration" web page. Now you can quickly determine which of your players need to be updated.
    • Bug: 1540 Bulletin and Cycle Sync Timeouts need to be system wide
    • Summary: Timeouts now apply to the entire system, rather than to individual zones, which effectively made them useless.
    • Bug: 1595 Repeating bulletins now obey the proper repeat interval
    • Summary: Repeating bulletins will now intersperse themselves between each and every bulletin, rather than only between groups of bulletins. This works even when the repeat interval is greater than the total number of bulletins within the list.
    • Bug: 1939 Event Display bulletins: word count is divided by zero
    • Summary: A division by zero error occurred when an EDS bulletin had no events listed.
    • Bug: 1962 Media Packages are difficult to create and upload
    • Summary: The WebUI now contains a link where you can download an example media package. You can use this sample zip file to create your own media packages.
    • Bug: 2067 Date and time disappears permanently when Text Outline is disabled
    • Summary: A small bug prevented the date/time overlay from being displayed when the text outline was turned off. You can now disable the text outline property, and the overlay will continue to be displayed.
    • Bug: 2185 Error when long crawl is created
    • Summary: If a crawl is made with no spaces in the text, an error was thrown as Carousel tried to truncate the string on a word boundary for displaying a preview. Now, Carousel will forcibly truncate after 100 characters if there isn't a space available.
    • Bug: 2186 Previews of Crawl Bulletins do not contain the entire message and runs off the page
    • Summary: In the Bulletin List screen, crawls are now wrapped in a scroll box, so you can see the entire crawl without it destroying the page layout.
    • Bug: 2193 Crawls are allowed as Full Screen Alerts
    • Summary: A small bug in the WebUI allowed the creation of crawl bulletins on full-screen alert zones, which isn't supported elsewhere in the software.
    • Bug: 2195 Zone list in the config menu does not order numbers properly
    • Summary: Zones are now sorted in a more human-friendly way
    • Bug: 2274 Bulletins which expired before they were approved become inaccessible
    • Summary: The bulletins now become "stale," and should be available in the user's stale list. Users can then "reactivate" the bulletin, at which point it will need to be approved.
    • Bug: 2275 After editing a zone's name it will no longer display on the public web
    • Summary: A bug in the WebUI was mistakenly overwriting a setting in the database, which caused the public output options to always be disabled, no matter what you've selected.
    • Bug: 2279 The zone selector cuts off some zones in certain browsers
    • Summary: Scrolling through a large list of zones in the zone selector screen would "cut off" the bottom end of the zone list in some browsers. Now, all zones are properly displayed.
    • Bug: 2385 Entering in too much text in a standard bulletin throws an error
    • Summary: A bug in the text-resizing code would cause an error when trying to resize text beyond the smallest possible font size. In this case, we simply use the smallest size.
    • Bug: 2394 Active bulletins get set to queued between 11:59:00 PM and midnight
    • Summary: Added a fix to the WebUI that correctly formats the dates when saving bulletins.
    • Bug: 2463 Stale/Saved bulletins reappearing in groups that are still active
    • Summary: Saved and stale bulletins will no longer reappear when their group is edited.
    • Bug: 2516 Clock bulletins display without fading when they are the only bulletin in a zone
    • Summary: the DisplayEngine is smarter about displaying clock bulletins when they are the only bulletin in a zone. They will now be displayed continuously, rather than fading up and down as the bulletin "finishes."
    • Bug: 2737 Error message when uploading an invalid image is confusing
    • Summary: If you upload an image file that Carousel cannot process, you are presented with a friendly message containing a list of supported file types, rather than a nasty COM error message.
    • Bug: 2755 DisplayEngine can now span multiple monitors
    • Summary: A new interface exists for configuring how a DisplayEngine is shown on multiple-monitor setups. You can select which single monitor will be used, or span multiple monitors.
    • Bug: 2757 RSS Feeds with no content should create no jpgs
    • Summary: If an RSS feed which previously had content eventually becomes "empty," Carousel would continue to display the previous set of content from the feed. Now, the bulletin is "skipped" from display if the feed is empty.
    • Bug: 2805 Multiple Clock or LiveVideo bulletins can't be displayed at the same time
    • Summary: A race condition caused the playback of clock/live bulletins to be stopped early if more than one was being shown at the same time. We now track the bulletins correctly so they are shown in their entirety.
    • Bug: 2853 Crawl zones aren't migrated properly
    • Summary: Some data wasn't being transfered over from older versions, causing erratic behavior on channels with crawls. The database script now correctly migrates crawl data.
    • Bug: 2859 Weather Bulletins aren't updated regularly
    • Summary: Weather bulletins weren't respecting the "LastUpdated" field that was introduced in Case 1291.
    • Bug: 2863 Dynamic pages stop udating
    • Summary: We were using the wrong ID number to identify dynamic bulletins, so they would never get updated during the update cycle. After changing the code to use the correct ID number, dynamic bulletins are updated as expected.
    • Bug: 2879 Bulletin groups not moving from "Saved" to "Active"
    • Summary: Activating a group of saved bulletins wouldn't always succeed, depending on the date/time settings of the group's bulletins. Now, moving the group to Active bulletins should work correctly.
    • Bug: 2882 Removed the QuickTime and DirectX installers from the Carousel Framework installer
    • Summary: The Carousel Framework installer is installed on servers only, which don't need DirectX or Quicktime to be installed as they won't be running the DisplayEngine.
    • Bug: 2896 DisplayEngine reports "NOT LICENSED" if there are no channels on the system
    • Summary: On systems with no channels created, the DisplayEngine assumed it wasn't licensed. Now, the DisplayEngine will report that there are no channels available, which better reflects what is going on.
5.0.6 -- 2 issues -- Released: 4/2/2008
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    • Bug: 2779 Editing the dates for a group of bulletins can give misleading results
    • Summary: The page that allows you to edit a group of bulletins in now a bit more clear as to what it actually does.
    • Bug: 2987 You cannot change zones in Safari
    • Summary: Fixed a bug which caused constant refreshing in the web browser while using Safari when changing zones.
5.0.5 -- 14 issues -- Released: 12/7/2007
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    • Bug: 2396 Caption data not saved in weather crawl bulletins.
    • Summary: The web interface was "forgetting" to reload the caption for weather crawl bulletins.
    • Bug: 2412 Disable transitions on VIA hardware
    • Summary: Force cross-fade transition on minimal VIA/S3 graphics hardware.
    • Bug: 2413 Simple graphics manager crashes with "Object disposed exception"
    • Summary: Certain playback hardware caused the error in the simple graphics manager.
    • Bug: 2415 Installers throw an Adobe Flash error
    • Summary: Installers have been updated to include the latest version of Flash.
    • Bug: 2459 Poorly quoted strings cause error to be thrown when deleting media
    • Summary: Fixed code so that media is properly deleted.
    • Bug: 2467 EDS doesn't update on a regular schedule
    • Summary: EDS bulletins now update their content every 15 minutes, in addition to every time an event "expires."
    • Bug: 2664 UI lets you delete a crawl zone that is still referenced by a channel
    • Summary: You can no longer delete a crawl zone that is "in use" by a channel. Previously, erratic display behavior would occur if the crawl zone was deleted.
    • Bug: 2673 Flash bulletins can erroneously accept video files
    • Summary: The web ui no longer lets you upload video files as a Flash bulletin. Files ending in ".swf" are the only format accepted by the Flash bulletin.
    • Bug: 2758 SimpleGraphicsManager has poor locking
    • Summary: Strange deadlocking could sometimes occur in the simple graphics manager. Locking has been improved to prevent deadlocks.
    • Bug: 2759 SimpleGraphicsManager does not obey monitor offset
    • Summary: Simply put, the simple graphics manager never did monitor offset correctly. This has been resolved, and you can offset the DisplayEngine in simple mode as expected.
    • Bug: 2770 Templates made with missing fonts are rendered poorly
    • Summary: If a template was created with a font that no longer exists on the server, the text would be rendered with a default font and get clipped, resulting in missing text. Now, the default font is still used, however the text is resized correctly to avoid clipping.
    • Bug: 2827 Background audio (still) doesn't fade up/down after several minutes/hours/cycles
    • Summary: Poor multi-threading code would sometimes cause the DisplayEngine to "forget" what background audio it should or shouldn't be playing.
    • Bug: 2828 AudioHelper becomes erratic if DisplayEngine quits unexpectedly
    • Summary: When communication between the AudioHelper and the DisplayEngine was unexpectedly severed, the Helper would become unresponsive. The Helper now detects the communication loss, and exits cleanly.
    • Bug: 2837 Overlay doesn't resize when changing font sizes
    • Summary: Overlay now "poofs" out and back in with the new font size.
5.0.4 -- 13 issues -- Released: 8/28/2007
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    • Bug: 1530 Copying items to another user's media collection only copies the item in your own collection
    • Summary: A bug in the code was always passing in your user name to the copying code, rather than the user name intended recipient of the media. We now pass in the correct user name.
    • Bug: 1934 Background audio is unstable
    • Summary: Revamped the inter-process communication model that controls audio playback. The new architecture should be much more stable.
    • Bug: 1977 Alert bulletins do not play sound clips
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine was searching in the wrong place for Alert bulletin sound clips.
    • Bug: 2102 Video helper apps don't have Windows error reporting disabled
    • Summary: The video player programs should no longer leave a "This program has encountered an error and needs to close" dialog box on screen in the event of a crash.
    • Bug: 2123 Zones aren't being added to the "All Zones" tag
    • Summary: Adding a zone to Carousel wasn't refreshing the "All Zones" tag list properly, so it wouldn't be included in the "All Zones" tag.
    • Bug: 2215 DisplayEngine Crashes if service hasn't yet started.
    • Summary: Poor error handling was causing a crash if the DisplayEngine couldn't contact the Carousel service. The DisplayEngine now correctly displays the "red bar" and runs in cached mode whenever the service is unavailable.
    • Bug: 2216 VideoHelper crashes randomly
    • Summary: A particular version of the NVidia video drivers was causing sporadic crashing when playing videos. The correct driver to use is "84.21"
    • Bug: 2219 Antenna/Cable setting doesn't work for live video input
    • Summary: A logic mistake in the code never allowed the TV input to tune in channels above 13.
    • Bug: 2259 Weather Bulletins can contain too much text
    • Summary: Weather Bulletins never allowed you to restrict the amount of weather data to display in the "outlook" section, which could lead to text that was so small as to be unreadable. You can now specify the amount of outlook data to display.
    • Bug: 2260 Double-clicking too fast on the DisplayEngine can launch multiple instances
    • Summary: A timing issue caused the DisplayEngine to not "clean up" extra instances of the application, leading to strange behavior as the DisplayEngines "fight" between themselves. Now, the "last" DisplayEngine will win, and terminate any extraneous processes.
    • Bug: 2281 Empty template list isn't very user-friendly
    • Summary: If you didn't have any templates installed on a zone, you were greeted with a blank screen whenever you wanted to create a new bulletin. Now, a message informs you that there are no templates, and gives a suggestion on how to add some.
    • Bug: 2315 Event Display bulletins don't update
    • Summary: When there was no schedule for event display bulletins, they would be automatically set to update again on 12/31/9999, which effectively caused them to never update again. They now update every 15 minutes, even if there is no new schedule.
    • Bug: 2331 Deleting copied media could delete too many items
    • Summary: If you had copied media items across "My" and "Zone" media sections, deleting the item in the "My" section would confirm deleting the item for "My" sections, but would delete any "Zone" items without checking, and vice versa. Now, deleting "My" media will only delete "My" items, and deleting "Zone" media will only delete "Zone items.
5.0.3 -- 2 issues -- Released: 7/3/2007
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    • Bug: 2108 Monitor offset not working as expected
    • Summary: A bug was found that caused the DisplayEngine to be shown on the primary monitor, regardless of the monitor offset value. This has been fixed, and the monitor offset value should work as expected.
    • Bug: 2111 Updated user guide with a product feature chart
    • Summary: The manual now includes a feature chart that explains the differences between the various Carousel products.
5.0.2 -- 16 issues -- Released: 6/13/2007
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    • Bug: 1720 Support for the WinTV USB device for tv input
    • Summary: Support for the WinTV USB device for tv input
    • Bug: 1838 When copying bulletins to multiple zones, the affected zones are not accurately represented
    • Summary: A message is now displayed stating the number of zones to which the bulletin (or group) was copied.
    • Bug: 1856 Group names revert to the original name after a bulletin in the group is edited
    • Summary: A group name is generated for new groups only. Existing group names are left untouched.
    • Bug: 1858 Error when accessing background audio list through System Information page
    • Summary: Accessing the background audio list through the "system information" configuration screen wasn't setting things up properly, causing an error. Now, the only way to view the background audio list is to enter via the channel configuration pages.
    • Bug: 1865 A single standard zone is displayed on top of FullScreen Alert zones
    • Summary: If the DisplayEngine was started in Full Screen Alert mode, a stray zone was occasionally displayed on top of the full alert zone. All graphics managers now detect Full Screen Alert mode correctly.
    • Bug: 1876 Zone Tag Selector Glitch in Safari
    • Summary: Safari doesn't handle certain types of links correctly. We now use links that work in all browsers.
    • Bug: 1877 Media count can be incorrect when uploading media packages
    • Summary: Media packages created on Mac OS X systems can contain hidden files used by the Mac operating system, which were being counted by the uploader. Those files are now explicitly ignored, so the count should accurately reflect the uploaded content.
    • Bug: 1878 Uploading high resolution picture files causes performance problems
    • Summary: All uploaded picture files are now scaled appropriately before they are saved into the system.
    • Bug: 1880 Long picture/background/video names aren't displayed nicely when creating bulletins
    • Summary: The long names pushed other interface elements out of the way. Names are now truncated, and a tooltip will display the full name.
    • Bug: 1896 Alert bulletins do not display after being approved
    • Summary: The alert cache was never getting refreshed in the service when turning on this alert bulletin because the WebUI was not checking if it was an alert bulletin correctly.
    • Bug: 1908 Can't upload a Powerpoint file as an alert bulletin on a zone
    • Summary: When converting Powerpoint files into standard bulletins, the bulletins weren't inheriting the correct standard/alert type.
    • Bug: 1914 An invalid color caused ArgumentOutOfRange exceptions in the channel layout screen
    • Summary: We were specifically excluding a particular color from the channel layout screen, but our random color picker would still occasionally choose it.
    • Bug: 1920 Add new address to manual
    • Summary: We're now in Suite 1B! Movin' on up!
    • Bug: 1935 Single zone systems ask to copy bulletins to other zones
    • Summary: This happened when there is one standard zone, and one or more crawl zones. The zone copy screen was skipped if the number of TOTAL zones is <= 1. If you had one standard zone and one crawl zone, the total number is 2, and the screen was shown. Now, we only count zones of the same type as the one you're working on.
    • Bug: 1952 Support line-in background audio on new build codes
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine can now turn line-in background audio on and off on the latest hardware build codes.
    • Bug: 1983 CableDisplay bulletins lost the "Channel Name" field
    • Summary: The "ChannelName" placeholder on the CableDisplay creation screen was mis-labeled as "ZoneName"
5.0.1 -- 15 issues -- Released: 4/20/2007
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    • Bug: 781 Bulletin thumbnails for long or tall zones can break the UI
    • Summary: Thumbnails are now scaled by both height and width so extra wide zones don't wreck the web interface.
    • Bug: 1424 Can't download Mac Screensaver off Carousel Pro Servers
    • Summary: The screensaver download for the Mac has been changed so Carousel Pro servers now allow you to download it.
    • Bug: 1441 No Select all/none icon for PowerPoint slide selection
    • Summary: Added select all/none to the Powerpoint slide thumbnail selection screen.
    • Bug: 1492 Browse button is clipped off
    • Summary: Several upload pages were fixed so that the "Browse..." button would no longer be cut off.
    • Bug: 1502 Zone TagSelector UI is badly rendered
    • Summary: The slide out selector for using the tag-style selection of zones has been changed to use the modal dialog instead. It is now intuitive, quicker and looks nicer.
    • Bug: 1505 Modal configuration screens should resize to fit the browser window
    • Summary: The size of the configuration and preview modal dialog screens have been increased in size. This allows you to do more work with less scrolling. If you are on a small monitor, they will still squish to fit inside the browser window.
    • Bug: 1506 DateTime overlay has strange "Show On" setting
    • Summary: The "Show On" option for the overlay text has been removed, since the "bumper graphic" doesn't make sense when there are multiple zones. The overlay is either completely enabled or disabled.
    • Bug: 1571 Misspelled description of 'Delete all stale bulletins'
    • Summary: Fixed spelling errors in the text on the housekeeping screen.
    • Bug: 1602 Channels Configuration menu should be Channel Configuration
    • Summary: Fixed error in text, "Channels Configuration" has been changed to read "Channel Configuration".
    • Bug: 1610 Background audio doesn't work with new hardware
    • Summary: Added support for the audio device on our latest revision of the hardware.
    • Bug: 1622 Extraneous colon when copying or moving a bulletin
    • Summary: Removed an extra ":" that was on the move/copy bulletin screen.
    • Bug: 1624 Long zone names don't behave well in the Channel Layout screen
    • Summary: Long zone names are truncated in the channel layout screen and provide tooltips to see the full name. Incredibly long names would wreck the interface by overlapping other elements before.
    • Bug: 1682 DisplayEngine startup hanging on Solo 200
    • Summary: A delay has been added before running the DisplayEngine after system startup on solo machines.
    • Bug: 1713 Service hangs when a Zone is removed from a Channel
    • Summary: When deleting a zone, Carousel now checks to see if it is still referenced by a channel, if so you are informed you must remove the reference from that channel before deleting the zone.
    • Bug: 1725 Deleting a zone from a channel layout causes some javascript errors
    • Summary: Fixed a quoting error in javascript which would cause errors if zones had apostrophes in their name.
5.0.0 -- 31 issues -- Released: 3/13/2007
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    • Bug: 49 DisplayEngine now supports live video input
    • Summary: With the proper TV-input card, the DisplayEngine will show live video in a zone. Can be composite, tuner, or streaming over the network.
    • Bug: 53 Web pictures
    • Summary: Bulletins can include picture blocks that update their content based on a URL to an image file on the internet.
    • Bug: 58 DisplayEngine supports Zoned channels
    • Summary: The DE will show multiple zones on a single channel
    • Bug: 110 Carousel remembers the last Zone you were on
    • Summary: When logging back into the system, you will be placed on the same zone you were on when you logged off.
    • Bug: 533 Database installed/updated via SQL script
    • Summary: This will make updating database versions easier in future releases.
    • Bug: 584 Media can be organized by Tags
    • Summary: Allows for flexible categorization and searching of media assets.
    • Bug: 585 Transition Previews
    • Summary: A small preview of each trasnsition is available in the WebUI.
    • Bug: 701 WebUI now supports live video bulletins
    • Summary: Live video bulletins can be created in Carousel. DisplayEngines must have a supported TV-input card installed.
    • Bug: 703 Zones are specified as a Crawl, Bulletin, or FullAlert Zone
    • Summary: Zones come in three flavors. Bulletin zones display bulletins in sections of a channel. Crawl zones contain all the crawls to be shown on a channel. FullAlert zones display bulletins on the entire channel, on top of any bulletin zones.
    • Bug: 704 A Channel contains a set of Zones
    • Summary: A channel can display any number of zones within itself. Zones are composited inside a channel.
    • Bug: 714 FullAlert Zones
    • Summary: FullAlert zones display alert bulletins over the entire channel, no matter how many zones are "underneath" the FullAlert zone.
    • Bug: 782 Zones can be organized by Tags
    • Summary: Zones can be tagged with ZoneTags, allowing flexible categorization and searching of zones. Handy for installations with dozens of zones.
    • Bug: 783 New CSS-based User Interface
    • Summary: New CSS-based User Interface
    • Bug: 831 Zones can have a description
    • Summary: You can assign a description to a zone. Handy for sites with dozens of zones.
    • Bug: 839 Zones can be selected via a dropdown menu list or a Tag-based selection interface
    • Summary: Depending on how many zones are in a system, they can be selected two different ways. The list style is best for a handful of zones, and the tag style is best for a large number of zones.
    • Bug: 1070 New User Roles
    • Summary: Carousel supports the Role-based authorization and authentication in FrontDoor 5.0
    • Bug: 1120 New Bulletin Management Interface
    • Summary: Revamped the "look" of bulletin management to be a bit easier on the eyes.
    • Bug: 1121 New Bulletin Previews
    • Summary: Full screen previews of bulletins (in the bulletin management areas) use a new windowing technique.
    • Bug: 1165 DisplayEngine sports a simple 'cuts-only' graphics mode for Legacy and Solo hardware
    • Summary: Standard transitions might be too much for old or underpowered hardware to handle. The DE can now run in a simple, lightweight mode that doesn't stress the hardware.
    • Bug: 1168 WebUI thumbnail images are higher quality
    • Summary: We don't compress them as much anymore, so they look a bit nicer.
    • Bug: 1280 New Fonts
    • Summary: New Fonts
    • Bug: 1293 Commas in EventDisplay schedule fields split the text into multiple events
    • Summary: Commas are now properly escaped before the form data is processed.
    • Bug: 1324 DisplayEngine doesn't efficiently download files
    • Summary: DE was creating too many threads, and not closing them when finished. Now it handles downloads much more efficiently.
    • Bug: 1327 DisplayEngine shows a "Loading Zone" message for each zone
    • Summary: It's now easier to see the zones as they are being drawn on the DisplayEngine.
    • Bug: 1362 New Icons for bulletin types
    • Summary: New Icons for bulletin types
    • Bug: 1363 RSS bulletins lock up the Service if the feed isn't valid XML
    • Summary: The service now validates XML before attempting to parse it. If the XML is invalid, the feed is not processed.
    • Bug: 1499 Media Asset duplication screen is confusing
    • Summary: Copying media is now a bit more clear.
    • Bug: 1523 Bulletin notification email includes the username of the bulletin's creator
    • Summary: Anyone who is notified of new bulletins is also informed of who created the bulletin.
    • Bug: 1527 Applying effects to PNG pictures will remove the alpha channel
    • Summary: A warning is now displayed to the user.
    • Bug: 1535 Installers skip DE for Win2003Server OS machines
    • Summary: The DisplayEngine is no longer supported on Windows 2003 Server operating systems. The Carousel installer no longer installs the DE on these systems.
    • Bug: 1599 Welcome screen for new installations
    • Summary: Brand new installations see a friendly welcome screen.
4.5.5 -- 1 issues -- Released: 1/1/2000
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    • Bug: 1658 Deleting a background that has been copied removes all copies
    • Summary: THIS WILL ONLY AFFECT NEW COPIES, any existing copies will have a 'corrupt' CommonID already set.
4.5.4 -- 8 issues -- Released: 3/14/2007
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    • Bug: 1116 DisplayEngine instability
    • Summary: A bugfix from a previous release occasionally caused DisplayEngines to "reboot" themselves. This behaviour has been corrected. We've also added several other stability enhancements related to Powerpoint, audio playback, Flash, and backend data processing.
    • Bug: 1292 Commas in EventDisplay schedule fields split the text into multiple events
    • Summary: Commas are now escaped before we process form data.
    • Bug: 1295 Updating scheduled times of a stale group doesn't reactivate the group
    • Summary: The bulletins are now set to "queued" on updates, so the Carousel Service will automatically activate or deactivate them, as needed.
    • Bug: 1429 Invalid XML in an RSS feed can lock up the Carousel Service
    • Summary: RSS bulletins now refuse to accept invalid XML.
    • Bug: 1453 Turning Bulletin Synchronization on can cause an IndexOutOfRange Exception
    • Summary: An extremely rare race condidtion caused an error to be thrown. We tightened up the concurrency checking so this shouldn't happen again.
    • Bug: 1459 Service not compensating for time zone when disabling bulletins
    • Summary: In a specific circumstance relating to time zones, bulletins were being disabled (sent to "stale") earlier than expected. We've fixed the time zone logic so bulletins are "staled" as expected.
    • Bug: 1545 Display engine ignoring page pacing
    • Summary: A fix from case 1116 missed an important override in the code, which would cause the DE to fly through the cycle of bulletins.
    • Bug: 1548 HTML code visable on Create.Template.aspx
    • Summary: We forgot to close some HTML, so strange bits of code would get strewn across certain web pages.
4.5.3 -- 7 issues -- Released: 12/18/2006
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    • Bug: 1015 DisplayEngine doesn't play Quicktime files with .mp4 extension
    • Summary: DisplayEngine will now play .mp4 files as well as .mov files.
    • Bug: 1025 Video playback stutters
    • Summary: We changed some of the process priorities used for video playback. This should allow video to play back more smoothly.
    • Bug: 1037 StringToTime function doesn't gracefully handle invalid input
    • Summary: Some areas of the WebUI were throwing errors when invalid date/time values were entered. We now check input more carefully.
    • Bug: 1172 Editing a picture throws an exception
    • Summary: Updated picture editing code to be more stable and responsive.
    • Bug: 1198 Resizing media causes memory leaks
    • Summary: Cleaned up our resorce usage when resizing media. Should resize quite a bit faster now too.
    • Bug: 1199 Resizing media uses the database instead of the WebUI form fields
    • Summary: If you changed the resolution of a channel and clicked "resize media" before saving the new resoultion, it would resize to the old resolution, effectively doing nothing. Resizing now uses the new resolution even if you haven't saved it yet.
    • Bug: 1200 Copying a group of bulletins with an apostrophe in the description causes error
    • Summary: Fixed a database quoting issue
4.5.2 -- 8 issues -- Released: 11/6/2006
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    • Bug: 635 Loss of BG audio over extended period of time.
    • Summary: The audio handler would sometimes quit and would never recover (when running from the "line-in" source). The DisplayEngine now checks to see if the audio handler is still around, and will start it back up if it goes missing.
    • Bug: 921 Instrumentation doesn't work unless you turn on "TraceComponents"
    • Summary: Before, you could only see what the service was up to if it was already set up for debugging. Now, the service can be monitored at all times.
    • Bug: 926 Default installed database structure is out of date
    • Summary: After a fresh install of 4.5.1, the database structure needed to be updated. This release includes an up-to-date version of the database.
    • Bug: 927 Carousel Service mistakenly sets 'Saved' bulletins to 'Stale'
    • Summary: The new database procedures was turning all bulletins to Stale if they were out of date. Now, we only set Active or Queued bulletins to Stale (if they are out of date, of course).
    • Bug: 936 Database update screen can unauthenticate users
    • Summary: There was a rare condition that occured when the current database structure was out of date. Users would be immediately logged-out when they tried to access Carousel and they did not have access to the database tools screen.
    • Bug: 956 Video bulletins allow an audio file to be attached
    • Summary: When an audio file was attached to a video bulletin, the audio file and the video's audio track would run on top of each other.
    • Bug: 991 Spelling error on About screen
    • Summary: "Tightrope" is now spelled correctly. Yikes.
    • Bug: 1007 Fallback code in DE for unsupported hardware plus support for GMA950
    • Summary: Display Engine now runs in standard mode with the Intel GMA950 graphics chipsets, and will fall back to crossfade-only when run either on unsupported hardware or in unsupported resolutions.
4.5.1 -- 27 issues -- Released: 10/2/2006
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    • Bug: 264 Faster Bulletin Scheduling in Carousel Service
    • Summary: Rewrote the bulletin scheduling areas of the service to use a single stored procedure call in order to greatly improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary computation.
    • Bug: 305 "SQL timeout expired" error
    • Summary: This error was being caused by the database being overloaded when a channel had hundreds of pages. We rewrote how the service handles page scheduling in case 264 to reduce the load on the database.
    • Bug: 348 Timezone calculation is incorrect during DST
    • Summary: We now use standard API calls to determine if the current timezone is observing DST.
    • Bug: 470 Bulletins now support 'Cut' transitions
    • Summary: In addition to all the other transitions, you can now set a bulletin to Cut. To enable this new transition, go into Setup : Lists : Transition Lists and select it.
    • Bug: 480 Null-Reference error when deleting bulletins
    • Summary: We now use standard form fields to track which bulletins are to be deleted, rather than relying on data in the session, which was unstable.
    • Bug: 520 Restricted users can edit other users' bulletins
    • Summary: If a user had a bulletin inside a group, that user could edit any other bulletin in the group, regardless of who owned the other bulletins. Now, users can only edit their own bulletins.
    • Bug: 524 Missing Backgrounds should be removed from background lists
    • Summary: If a background is missing from disk, it no longer appears in the Web UI.
    • Bug: 573 Sending an ErrorReport can generate a null-reference exception
    • Summary: Added better error-handling to our error-reporting pages. :-)
    • Bug: 648 Event Display SQL server password is displayed in cleartext
    • Summary: We now use a standard password field so the password isn't displayed on screen.
    • Bug: 680 Moving bulletins as admin to stale/saved actually moves them to original owner's stale/saved bulletins
    • Summary: We now display a notice that the bulletin is being moved to the original user's stale/saved bulletin list. If the Admin user wants to take ownership of a bulletin, he or she may now do so thanks to case 786.
    • Bug: 681 Cancel button during bulletin creation should return user to New Bulletin page
    • Summary: If you hit "cancel" while creating a new bulletin, you are taken back to the template selection page, rather than the main menu page.
    • Bug: 750 Background popup contains user backgrounds from ALL channels
    • Summary: Background lists now only display backgrounds which are available on the current channel.
    • Bug: 768 Editing a single bulletin in a group of bulletins loads the entire group into memory
    • Summary: Attempting to edit a bulletin that is a part of a very large group (50+ bulletins) would sometimes cause the server to run out of memory. We now load up only the bulletins that need to be loaded, instead of loading every single bulletin in a group.
    • Bug: 786 Ability for administrator to take ownership of a bulletin
    • Summary: When moving a bulletin, a new option in shows up for administrators that allows them to become the owner of a bulletin or group of bulletins.
    • Bug: 803 "Red bar mode" not entered when DisplayEngine can't contact Service
    • Summary: Fixed some problems with drawing the red bar at the top of the screen. Additionally, if the DisplayEngine starts in offline mode, the red bar is displayed immediately.
    • Bug: 807 EventDisplay now integrates with Adastra scheduling software
    • Summary: You can now create EventDisplay bulletins that pull schedule information from Adastra systems.
    • Bug: 821 DisplayEngine won't quit until current BackgroundAudio song ends
    • Summary: When running background audio from a list, the DisplayEngine wouldn't shut down until the currently playing song finished, making it seem like the DisplayEngine was locked up. Now, the DisplayEngine stops the current song and shuts down immediately.
    • Bug: 822 DisplayEngine causes null-reference error when DateTime Overlay is disabled
    • Summary: Logfiles would fill up with null-reference errors when the DateTime overlay was disabled. We now check to see if the DateTime overlay is disabled before attempting to use it.
    • Bug: 843 New logging and instrumentation in Carousel Service
    • Summary: We can now easily look into what the service is doing in real time, which allows for easier debugging of any future problems.
    • Bug: 851 Display Engine sticks on a black screen on startup
    • Summary: If the DisplayEngine had a difficult time communicating with the Carousel server, things would slow down to a crawl, leaving only an unresponsive black screen. We now do a better job of threading/caching server communication so things don't get hung up.
    • Bug: 873 CarouselPlayer installer doesn't put Support Icon on desktop
    • Summary: Support icon is now properly installed.
    • Bug: 877 Display Engine allows disabling cursor moving in config screen.
    • Summary: If the DisplayEngine computer must be used while the DisplayEngine is running, you can tell it to not continually hide the cursor by setting an option in the configuration screen.
    • Bug: 878 Copying a group of bulletins doesn't copy the group description
    • Summary: Group descriptions are now carried over to duplicated groups.
    • Bug: 889 Some transitions no longer work, reverting to a simple cut.
    • Summary: The new installers weren't registering a transition library correctly.
    • Bug: 890 Can not upload Photoshop files anymore
    • Summary: The new installers weren't registering a graphics library correctly.
    • Bug: 892 Extra "4-Point Star" transition in WebUI, which is actually a "5-Point Star"
    • Summary: The database had a duplicate transition name in the list of transitions.
    • Bug: 899 CableDisplay bulletins don't update the Date/Time format
    • Summary: After editing a CableDisplay bulletin, the bulletin settings are now reloaded and re-rendered by the service.
4.5.0 -- 44 issues -- Released: 8/18/2006
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    • Bug: 48 New DisplayEngine
    • Summary: Completely redesigned the backend processing of the Display Engine
    • Bug: 125 Session lost when deleting files from Carousel (.NET 2.0)
    • Summary: We now use the ASP.NET Session State service to store session information. Now, the webserver can restart, and the session won't be lost.
    • Bug: 184 Creating a large group of pages will destroy session data
    • Summary: See case 284
    • Bug: 284 All session data is lost if the session overruns its memory limit
    • Summary: When the session gets too big the webserver is restarted, which destroys all session data. We now use a separate service to store session data, keeping the session alive when the webserver restarts.
    • Bug: 291 Changing the IP Address causes .NET Remoting to stop working
    • Summary: Fixed by switching to .NET 2.0
    • Bug: 294 New InstallAware installers
    • Summary: New installers allow for easier upgrading in the future
    • Bug: 308 New AutoBugReport privacy policy/settings
    • Summary: Users can now choose how much information is sent to Tightrope when an error occurs
    • Bug: 350 Unhandled error when attempting to create a bulletin from a non-existant template
    • Summary: Templates that have been removed from the disk (but still exist in the database) are disabled
    • Bug: 360 DisplayEngine plays some Flash files incorrectly
    • Summary: Fixed by setting the "Flash animation timing" option
    • Bug: 410 Powerpoint bulletins give you thumbnail-sized previews
    • Summary: Powerpoint files weren't being scaled correctly
    • Bug: 439 Media can now be resized to the current channel resolution
    • Summary: This button resizes all of the channel media (backgrounds, pictures, templates, and pages) to the channel's current resolution. This is used when switching Carousel to a different resolution.
    • Bug: 448 WebUI uses new version numbers
    • Summary: Version numbers are fetched from the compiled assembly, rather than being hard coded
    • Bug: 495 Now uses ASP.NET 2.0
    • Summary: Platform change to run on the new .NET Framework 2.0
    • Bug: 502 Spellchecker has error loading dictionary file
    • Summary: Fixed by making sure that the proper directories exist on the disk
    • Bug: 503 Editing an active bulletin's template doesn't save changes to that bulletin
    • Summary: Introduced by using the new Session State Server. We now explicitly reset references after modifying session variables.
    • Bug: 504 Changing block properties during page creation doesn't work
    • Summary: See case 503
    • Bug: 505 Extras screen doesn't have a link for the PC Screensaver
    • Summary: Correct file now included in the installer
    • Bug: 506 Carousel Installer installs the wrong help files
    • Summary: Carousel Installer installs the wrong help files
    • Bug: 507 Spelling error in public web site
    • Summary: Fixed default database mistake
    • Bug: 514 New ability to change the on/off dates/times for all pages in a group
    • Summary: You can now alter bulletin timing information for bulletins in a group
    • Bug: 521 Upload progress bar never increments
    • Summary: Updated to work with .NET 2.0, and increased the polling to give a more accurate view of progress
    • Bug: 522 Houskeeping - Deleting users' pages doesn't show initial page count
    • Summary: Page count is now calculated correctly
    • Bug: 523 Houskeeping - Deleting all active pages doesn't delete queued pages.
    • Summary: Modified the SQL query to correctly delete queued pages
    • Bug: 527 Added 10 new fonts to Carousel
    • Summary: My favorite is CornDog
    • Bug: 539 'Add New' in page creation does not close after uploading new media to multi-channel systems
    • Summary: Forgot to add some logic on a page that is only displayed on multi-channel systems
    • Bug: 541 Editing existing bulletins doesn't save changes
    • Summary: Introduced by using the new Session State Server. We now explicitly reset references after modifying session variables.
    • Bug: 542 Carousel DE doesn't scale to screen size
    • Summary: Display Engine now scales to the bounds of the screen
    • Bug: 543 Taskbar shows up while media plays
    • Summary: Taskbar is now hidden when media is playing, and an option is given in the config screen to show/hide the taskbar
    • Bug: 546 Service crashes on install
    • Summary: Now using new .NET functions for licensing, and implemented stronger error handling around startup areas of the service.
    • Bug: 548 DisplayEngine crashes when downloading large media files
    • Summary: Memory wasn't being managed properly. Large files are now buffered.
    • Bug: 556 New unhandled exception policy in services
    • Summary: .NET 2.0 changed the way errors are handled in multi-threaded applications
    • Bug: 558 Video playback sometimes gets stuck
    • Summary: Added a timer to abort video playback after 1.5 times the duration of the video, in case it gets stuck
    • Bug: 583 HttpException occurs when writing Html footer
    • Summary: This error happened when a user closed the browser window before a webpage had finished being written to the browser.
    • Bug: 601 Bulletin Description Field isn't saved for EDS, CableDisplay, RSS, Clock, Weather, Crawl, RSSCrawl, WeatherCrawl
    • Summary: Description was being auto-generated every time a bulletin was edited. Changed to only auto-generate if the description field hasn't been previously customized.
    • Bug: 611 Imaging components don't dispose of resources properly
    • Summary: Caused memory leaks in the new DisplayEngine
    • Bug: 612 DisplayEngine doesn't dispose of some resources properly
    • Summary: Potential cause of memory leaks.
    • Bug: 616 TRMSImage bitmaps are being disposed too early
    • Summary: Introduced in Case 611
    • Bug: 666 Imaging component doesn't align text correctly
    • Summary: TextBlocks were being rendered as left-align only.
    • Bug: 678 Added simple web browser bulletin preview
    • Summary: Bulletins will cycle in a web browser for a very simple preview of Carousel's output.
    • Bug: 708 Setting Date/Time display to "bumper only" displays on page 1, not the bumper
    • Summary: There was a timing problem where the overlay was being displayed on the page after the bumper.
    • Bug: 717 Carousel Service occasionally crashes when checking licenses
    • Summary: Added better resource locking methods when checking licenses
    • Bug: 718 Incorrect locking used while accessing lists in Direct3D
    • Summary: Now uses correct lock objects
    • Bug: 727 DisplayEngine doesn't restore line-in background audio when quitting
    • Summary: Line-in audio is now brought back to its original value when the DisplayEngine quits.
    • Bug: 756 Carousel Service crashes every 1 to 2 days
    • Summary: Patching .NET Framework 2.0 as described in Microsoft KB article 913384 solves crashing issue.
4.2.3 -- Released: 4/12/2006
4.2.2 -- 13 issues -- Released: 3/24/2006
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    • Bug: 265 NullReferenceException (Media.Backgrounds.Delete.aspx.cs:Page_Load:67) V4.2.0.0
    • Summary: A 'NullReferenceException' error occured when trying to delete backgrounds.
    • Bug: 270 InvalidOperationException (userpermissions.cs:PageAccess:358) V4.2.0.0
    • Summary: An 'InvalidOperationException' error occured when Carousel tried to verify the users security credentials.
    • Bug: 271 RSS Bulletins don't support newlines
    • Summary: Any <br/> tags will be treated as newlines in the RSS bulletins.
    • Bug: 274 FormatException (uitoolbox.cs:StringToTime:2270) V4.2.1.0
    • Summary: When editing a built-in EDS schedule, if you entered a bad EndTime value a 'FormatException' error would occur.
    • Bug: 275 TRMS Bulletin Objects should retry when saving to/loading from disk.
    • Summary: In some instances, if a bulletin's .dat file was is use Carousel would error. We corrected this by retrying if the file is in use.
    • Bug: 298 Page Validation Tool
    • Summary: Added the Carousel Page Validation tool to aid tech support in troubleshooting Carousel systems.
    • Bug: 299 Service should update WebUI to reflect corrupt bulletins
    • Summary: Added the ability to see corrupt bulletins in the Active pages list.
    • Bug: 318 NotSupportedException (Media.Sounds.AddNew.aspx.cs:Page_Load:81) V4.2.0.0
    • Summary: When adding new sound files from a non-Windows platform which had illigal characters in it cause a 'NotSupportedException' error.
    • Bug: 325 Deleting a single page causes "Cast not valid" error.
    • Summary: Deleting a single page caused "Cast not valid" error.
    • Bug: 327 Add EDS preview to public site
    • Summary: Added an EDS preview mode the the public web site.
    • Bug: 328 EDS Events are dropping off the list too fast
    • Summary: In EDS bulletins that were using the built-in event schedule, events were dropping off the list prior to their end time.
    • Bug: 329 Customers would like EDS to group by room and time
    • Summary: Added the ability to group EDS events by Room or by Time. This allows for 3 different styles of displaying events; ungrouped, group by room, group by time.
    • Bug: 330 Make dynamic pages update after they are edited
    • Summary: Dynamic pages like RSS and EDS bulletins were not updating/re-rendering after you editited them.
4.2.1 -- 22 issues -- Released: 3/1/2006
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    • Bug: 116 Block names in Template Editor are broken if commas are used
    • Summary: Template editor: Entering a comma in a block name caused the block to be split into several blocks, none of which could be edited, deleted, etc.
    • Bug: 117 Cannot select new pictures when editing templates
    • Summary: Template Editor: After adding a picture block, you could not select a new picture other than the default picture.
    • Bug: 120 Date format for CableDisplay "Will Repeat" pages can be modified
    • Summary: Users now have a choice of date formats for CableDisplay pages.
    • Bug: 122 No way to edit templates saved without a name
    • Summary: Templates: If you saved a template without giving it a name, you couldn't re-edit the template because there was no name to click.
    • Bug: 161 Ungrouping pages doesn't escape single quotes before saving to the database
    • Summary: Any attempt to ungroup a set of bulletins in which one (or more) bullein descriptions contained a single quote failed.
    • Bug: 164 Cable Display bulletins ignore "Display only on day-of-week" checkboxes
    • Summary: A CableDisplay bulletin scheduled to only display on Mondays and Tuesdays would be displayed every day of the week.
    • Bug: 171 SQL Timeout when approving Bulletins to a Group
    • Summary: Occasionally, when approving a set of waiting bulletins to a group, the SQL server would time out.
    • Bug: 172 New Pages showing up at top of order
    • Summary: Any time a set of waiting bulletins were approved as a group, the new group would appear at the top of the active pages list. Also, after duplicating a bulletin (to any channel), the copied bulletin would appear at the top of the list.
    • Bug: 174 Image class should retry save attempts if a save fails
    • Summary: Occasionally, saving an image file from a bulletin would fail, resulting in a GDI+ error. We now attempt to retry the save 5 times before giving up.
    • Bug: 175 ArgumentOutOfRangeException (Create.Confirm.aspx.cs:Page_Load:111) V4.2.0.0
    • Summary: Session related. Fixed by adding session listing to autobug reports. (See cases 184, 181)
    • Bug: 177 Uploading invalid .zip files as a bulletin package generates an error
    • Summary: Invalid .zip files are now handled gracefully.
    • Bug: 178 Entering an invalid date while scheduling a Bulletin generates an error
    • Summary: Attempting to schedule a bulletin with an invalid date is now reported back to the user, and they are allowed to fix the date.
    • Bug: 180 Uploading an invalid Background image doesn't handle errors properly
    • Summary: Users are now alerted when the Background they try to upload is invalid, and are given a chance to re-upload.
    • Bug: 181 NullReferenceException (Create.aspx.cs:Page_Load:209) V4.2.0.0
    • Summary: Session related. Fixed by adding session listing to autobug reports. (See cases 175, 181)
    • Bug: 185 Saving block name causes error
    • Summary: Saving a block name in the template editor without actually changing the block's name causes an error.
    • Bug: 192 EDS does not render properly when a schedule's first day has no data
    • Summary: No pages were rendered when the first day of schedule information is empty.
    • Bug: 202 Channel bar closes DB connection
    • Summary: When there are 6 or more channels in Carousel, the channel bar collapses into a drop-down menu. This drop-down menu would close the database connection before it is finished being used by the rest of the page.
    • Bug: 203 Allow Templates to specify default text
    • Summary: Text blocks in the Template Editor used to be set to the block's name. Now, you can set the text to other values.
    • Bug: 207 Default block text in a Template is reset when you edit the template.
    • Summary: Editing a template should now maintain the correct default text for blocks.
    • Bug: 210 Housekeeping sometimes deletes groups with pages that shouldn't be deleted
    • Summary: If a group of active pages contains 1 or more stale pages, attempting to delete all stale pages (via housekeeping) would delete ALL pages in the group, rather than just the stale pages.
    • Bug: 219 Corrupt pages cause service to behave erratically
    • Summary: Not actually a fix, just added better logging to better understand what is going on.
    • Bug: 233 Make seperate database connection app config setting for Cablecast datasource
    • Summary: Carousel servers can now use a separate physical Cablecast server as a source for CableDisplay pages.
4.2.0 -- Released: 1/17/2006
4.1.1 -- 1 issues -- Released: 10/20/2005
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    • Bug: 32 Bulletin description field gets reset
    • Summary: Fixed bug where a bulletin's description field was being overwritten whenever a user edited the bulletin.
ATV-v5 -- Released: 4/9/2018
FD 6.2.1 -- 1 issues -- Released: 2/13/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2405 Security: Change Admin PW on Install/Update
    • Summary: Implemented a workflow to force users to change the default password supplied during installation for security reasons.
Feb-2 -- 2 issues -- Released: 2/12/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2399 Security: Malicious Files Can Be Uploaded to the Server
    • Summary: Fixed a security issue where executable scripts could be uploaded to the server.
    • Bug: CSL-1957 Change Default Password Hash Algorithm
    • Summary: Security enhancements.
Cloud Player 4 -- Released: 2/25/2019
APL-v8 -- Released: 12/15/2018
APL-v10 -- Released: 2/25/2019
ATV-v4 -- 1 issues -- Released: 11/2/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-865 Release ATV-v4
    • Summary: 4.217 is released to the app store, enterprise build is at https://trms.box.com/s/s1w0c5ixw1igv201b7ewzy13ojddq5ok
Cloud Player 6 -- 1 issues -- Released: 4/20/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2573 Digital Date/Time Bulletins Show the Incorrect Timezone Offset
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the 'z', 'zz' or 'zzz' timezone offset format strings would show the player's timezone information instead of the clock's timezone.
APL-v11 -- 1 issues -- Released: 4/23/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2573 Digital Date/Time Bulletins Show the Incorrect Timezone Offset
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the 'z', 'zz' or 'zzz' timezone offset format strings would show the player's timezone information instead of the clock's timezone.
Cloud Player 5 -- 1 issues -- Released: 4/1/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2595 Carousel Player for iPad Running iOS 11+
    • Summary: Added support for iPads running iOS 11+.
Apr -- 5 issues -- Released: 4/2/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2502 User Entered Player Name has Been Added to Player Notification Emails
    • Summary: Added the player name to player notification emails for offline players, instead of just the host name.
    • Bug: CSL-1774 Public RSS Does Not Include Dynamic Bulletins
    • Summary: A Zone's RSS feed now includes additional dynamic bulletin types. The only bulletin types not present in the zone's RSS feed are: Video, Live Video, Clock, Interactive.
    • Bug: CSL-2513 User Cannot Delete Own Bulletin
    • Summary: Restored the ability for a user to delete their own bulletins even if they don't have the Manage Bulletins access right in the targeted zone.
    • Bug: CSL-2450 Content Accessibility
    • Summary: The Accessibility Site introduces content consumption and browsing, with the use of assistive technologies for accessibility, without requiring login. The Site is a channel based structure that can be enabled or disabled, for an alternative content browsing experience for users. Channels, Zones and Bulletins can all be opted into or out of for granular control over what content displays on the Accessibility Site. Channels are opt in and zones and bulletins are opt out. When Channels are enabled, a link to the content will be provided on the Accessibility Site.
    • Bug: CSL-2385 Zones Endpoint Fails If Bulletins Have NULL GroupIDs
    • Summary: Improved the Carousel Installer's database migration when upgrading Carousel versions.
APL-v7 -- Released: 12/7/2018
Prototype/Research -- Released: 12/11/2018
ATV-v2 -- 7 issues -- Released: 8/25/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-434 Apple Clocks Don't Obey the Bulletin Time Zone Setting
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where clocks were not adjusted to match the time zone set on a bulletin. Clocks now respect the time zone that is set for the clock bulletin.
    • Bug: CSL-408 Fixed A Crash When Loading Settings Provided By MDM
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where loading settings from MDM configuration would cause a player crash.
    • Bug: CSL-407 Apple Player Only Shows First Page of Dynamic Bulletins
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where only the first page of a multi-page dynamic bulletin would show on the player. The player now shows all pages in a multi-page dynamic bulletin.
    • Bug: CSL-406 Optimize Performance of Apple TV Player
    • Summary: The player software now uses less resources when running.
    • Bug: CSL-405 Videos Can Cause the AppleTV to Hang After Playing
    • Summary: Fixed issues with video handling that caused the player not to advance to the next bulletin when the video finished. The player now always advances to the next bulletin.
    • Bug: CSL-390 Apple Player Doesn't Respect Newlines in Digital Clock Formats
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the player showed multi-line digital clocks on one line. The player will now respect the newline in multi-line digital clock formats.
    • Bug: CSL-309 Allow Players To Retain Carousel Specific Configuration After Factory Reset
    • Summary: The Player Software will now look for a UDID that can be supplied using MDM to the players configuration. If found it will use this UDID to maintain server side configuration such as default channel and channel schedules. Refer to the Apple TV Management Knowledge Base for more information.
APL-v6 -- Released: 8/8/2018
ATV-v1 -- 1 issues -- Released: 6/2/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-5 Support Carousel Player on Apple TV
    • Summary: The Carousel Player software is now available for Apple TV. Contact sales@trms.com for information on deploying Carousel to Apple TV.
Mar -- 2 issues -- Released: 3/5/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2334 Updated RSS Libraries
    • Summary: The method Carousel uses to read RSS and ATOM feeds has been updated to improve compatibility and performance.
    • Bug: CSL-2362 Carousel Attempts to Control MDM Configurations on Deleted Zones
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where deleting a full alert zone that had an MDM configuration profile set would not stop Carousel from attempting to control the MDM configuration profile through the Jamf API.
Feb -- 2 issues -- Released: 2/5/2019
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    • Bug: CSL-2353 Cannot Create Bulletin Tag with a Period
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where you couldn't save a bulletin tag with a period.
    • Bug: CSL-2289 ItemImageUrl Not Working For Some RSS Feeds
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where an RSS bulletin's character limit was being applied to URLs, rendering them incomplete and non-functional.
Cloud Player 3 -- Released: 1/2/2019
APL-v9 -- Released: 1/2/2019
Cloud Player 1 -- Released: 12/7/2018
Cloud Player 2 -- Released: 12/15/2018
ATV-v3 -- 3 issues -- Released: 10/6/2017
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    • Bug: CSL-745 Wrong font is used for digital clock
    • Summary: Fixed an issue loading fonts already present on tvOS.
    • Bug: CSL-744 Analog clock hands are not in correct location
    • Summary: Fixed positioning of analog clock hands.
    • Bug: CSL-443 Countdown Clock Bulletins Don't Render Seconds
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where countdown clocks would not render seconds on Apple TV. It now shows the seconds.

Cablecast

6.6.0 -- 6 issues -- Released: 3/4/2019
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    • Bug: CC-1178 Interface Can Take Long Time To Load If Servers Are Offline
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would prevent the UI from loading quickly if any servers were offline.
    • Bug: CC-762 Highlight Schedule Gaps If No Default Source Is Configured
    • Summary: Gaps in the schedule will now stand out more if no default source is configured for the channel.
    • Bug: CC-1267 Unable To Login After Carousel Security Patches
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the Cablecast installer if run after the latest release of Carousel.
    • Bug: CC-236 Allowable Air Dates
    • Summary: Allowable airdates enable restricting a show to only being aired for a specified time range. If a show is scheduled outside of its allowable air dates an Autopilot failure will be triggered immediately.
    • Bug: CC-1021 Fill Gaps - Quickly schedule filler programs
    • Summary: Fill Gaps lets operators quickly schedule lots of programs using the power of Cablecast saved searches. Filled gaps are hidden in the schedule reducing clutter and letting operators navigate the schedule withe ease.
    • Bug: CC-219 Autoscheduler - Automatic Rules Based Scheduling
    • Summary: The Autoscheduler allows creating rules to setup recurring schedule items, record events, and series creation freeing up valuable operator time.
6.5.0 -- 4 issues -- Released: 10/29/2018
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    • Bug: CC-1101 Video On Demand View Counts Are Available In Reporting
    • Summary: Show and schedule reports now contain a show's VOD view count.
    • Bug: CC-981 Adaptive Bitrate Video On Demand
    • Summary: New shows transcoded for video on demand are now made available as adaptive bitrate HLS. If the source file is HD the corresponding will also be available HD.
    • Bug: CC-1098 Cablecast Public Site Allows Integration With Google Analytics
    • Summary: Each public site now allows configuring a google analytics tracking key used to send analytic data about viewers to google analytics.
    • Bug: CC-1007 Project and Producer Fields Reset After Creating Show From Orphaned File
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where background polling would reset show data when creating a new show from an orphaned file.
6.4.3 -- 12 issues -- Released: 10/17/2018
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    • Bug: CC-1084 Files With TS Extention Can Timeout When Indexing
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where files with a ts extension were not having indexes generated leading to timeout errors during digital file validation.
    • Bug: CC-998 Session State Serialization Error In Autopilot Report
    • Summary: Fixed an error that would overlay on top of the autopilot report when certain autopilot messages related to network streams were reported.
    • Bug: CC-1089 Multi-Line Field Displays Are Truncated On Public Site
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where field displays marked as block would not wrap to multi lines and would incorrectly be truncated at one line.
    • Bug: CC-1107 Custom Fields Do Not Filter Correctly By Location
    • Summary: Fixed several areas of the user interface where custom fields were not correctly filtered by location causing incorrect fields to be displayed.
    • Bug: CC-1106 Unrecoverable Error After Live Chaptering Video On Demand
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where duplicate chaptering sessions could be created for the same video on demand causing all attempts to load the live chaptering interface to fail.
    • Bug: CC-1109 Error After Disabling Video On Demand
    • Summary: Fixed an error that would occur when trying to redirect user back to a video on demand that had just been disabled.
    • Bug: CC-1115 Issues Controlling Multiple Kumo Routers From The Same Server
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where commands could be sent the the wrong router if several Kumo routers were controlled by the same server.
    • Bug: CC-1077 Digital File Processing Can Fail With Files That Start With Certain Characters
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with an underlying tool that would causer files located in the root of a drive to fail if the first character was a well known escape code.
    • Bug: CC-1063 Live Streams Can Have Out Of Sync Or Glitchy Audio
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where dropped audio or video were not corrected for eventually leading to sync issues. Note that this problem can also stem from an underlying driver issue that requires a special driver update. Please see this KB if you are still having audio issues with this release: http://kb.trms.com/article/live-stream-audio-can-become-out-of-sync-or-glitchy-445.html
    • Bug: CC-228 Digital File Management Incorrectly Marks Matrox Monarch Files As Unsupported
    • Summary: The way digital file management validates frame rates has been changed to cause less false positive warning or error messages for mp4 files that report variable frame rates when they contain dropped frames. This allows files generated on the Matrox Monarch to pass file validation with no warning messages.
    • Bug: CC-548 Certain Errors Processing Files Can Cause File Processing To Stall
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where errors during certain operations were not propagated properly, causing the failing to step be repeated indefinitely. These errors are now caught and a message should be displayed to the user as to why the file is not processing.
    • Bug: CC-999 Public Site Show Pages Can Render White Text On White Background
    • Summary: Fixed a CSS issue caused by certain color pallets that would cause white text to be placed on a white background making the text invisible.
6.4.2 -- 3 issues -- Released: 7/24/2018
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    • Bug: CC-1004 Files With Closed Captions Can Get Stuck Processing
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where certain files with closed captioning would get stuck processing due to where they store muxing information. The files no longer get stuck and allow other files to complete.
    • Bug: CC-1036 Support For Cablecast Screenweave
    • Summary: The Cablecast API has been updated to allow support for Cablecast Screenweave. This version of Cablecast is required to activate a Screenweave account for OTT support.
    • Bug: CC-993 Autopilot Can Timeout
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the connection between servers would timeout during autopilot sends leading to incomplete sends.
6.4.1 -- Released: 6/18/2018
6.4.0 -- 6 issues -- Released: 4/23/2018
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    • Bug: CC-761 Allow Embedding PDFs in Cablecast Public Site
    • Summary: Using improved custom fields it is now possible to embed a pdf from a Show record into the show's public site listing. This is the perfect away to display meeting minutes along side video on demand content. Combined with VOD chapters Cablecast has everything needed to display your meeting content.
    • Bug: CC-686 Improved Custom Fields
    • Summary: Cablecast now allows creation of unlimited custom fields per location. Custom fields can also be used for storing more then just text. Use custom fields to store text, numbers, dates, attach files, and even create dropdown lists of options. Custom fields can be used in saved searches, reporting, and displayed in the Cablecast Public Site.
    • Bug: CC-654 Live VOD Chaptering
    • Summary: Live VOD chaptering makes it easy to add chapter markers to video on demand while an event is in progress. The new live chaptering screen provides a quick agenda where operators can prepare meeting items, as well as the ability to quickly mark chapters or annotate them with operator notes.
    • Bug: CC-211 Provide Information About Closed Captions Contained In Digital Files
    • Summary: Cablecast now scans digital files for closed caption information and alerts if captions are not supported.
    • Bug: CC-208 Closed Caption Support For Video On Demand
    • Summary: Cablecast now preserves closed caption data when transcoding video on demand files. The captions are made available using an industry standard webvtt file and made available in the Cablecast Video On Demand player.
    • Bug: CC-205 Closed Caption Support For Cablecast Lives
    • Summary: Cablecast Live servers now encode captions present in the SDI video signal into the live stream and are made available in the Cablecast Live Stream player.
6.3.3 -- 3 issues -- Released: 4/3/2018
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    • Bug: CC-773 Overridden LiveSource Events Can Be Interrupted By Scheduled Programming
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where sending Autopilot could interrupt overridden channels by resuming into scheduled programming during a LiveSource event.
    • Bug: CC-770 Cablecast Video Overlay Can Fail To Draw Crawl Graphics On Update
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Cablecast Video Overlay Application would not draw the background or foreground image when only the crawl state had changed.
    • Bug: CC-825 Downscaling Progressive Content Can Corrupt Video
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where downscaling progressive content from HD to SD would corrupt the vertical ancillary data causing corrupt video. This could lead to no video depending on downstream devices.
6.3.2 -- 2 issues -- Released: 3/9/2018
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    • Bug: CC-787 Inactive Devices Are Displayed In Force Matrix
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where devices that are marked as inactive were incorrectly displayed in the Force Matrix.
    • Bug: CC-786 Scaling Can Cause Invalid AFD Codes
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where some combinations of file resolution and play out resolution could cause invalid AFD codes.
6.3.1 -- 8 issues -- Released: 2/20/2017
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    • Bug: CC-750 Error Message When Switching Device With Shadow CMS
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where switch commands would be set to video server control module sets when the video server device was setup with a shadow control module sets.
    • Bug: CC-759 Video Overlay Will Not Update Values If Channel Was Overridden Prior To Update
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Cablecast Video Overlay application would not update overlays if the channel was overridden prior to updating to 6.3.
    • Bug: CC-766 Shadow Control Module Set Warning On Systems With No Encoders
    • Summary: Fixed an incorrect warning for shadow control module sets on systems that have no encoder devices.
    • Bug: CC-768 Flex Lite, Flex 2, and SXLEHDs Deadlock
    • Summary: Fixed a firmware regression where the 6.3.0 installer would downgrade firmware on Flex Lites, Flex2s, and SXLEHDs. The downgraded firmware could cause the machine to hardlock and for the video cards to be unavailable without a system restart.
    • Bug: CC-698 Include Custom Fields In Reporting CSV Tables
    • Summary: CSV exports from reporting tables now contain custom field data for each show.
    • Bug: CC-258 Live Stream Interface Fails To Load If Channel Is Not Configured
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Internet Video Live Streams interface would fail to load if a channel was not configured for a stream.
    • Bug: CC-650 Sending Autopilot Can Cause On Air Playback To Glitch And Loose Sync
    • Summary: Fixed a potential glitch when sending autopilot for on air programs. Now if a playback is in the correct position it will not be resumed when sending autopilot.
    • Bug: CC-567 Public Site Shows Deleted VOD Chapters
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the public site would continue to show VOD chapters even after they were deleted.
6.3.0 -- 9 issues -- Released: 12/22/2017
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    • Bug: CC-29 Overlay Application doesn't work with passthrough
    • Summary: I changed the `EventQuickView` table to use the `PassthroughDecoderDevice` as the Device. This allows the video overlay app to correctly recognize the channel as being on air. It's been sort of captured in Confluence, but we need to make sure the force matrix and dashboard provide enough data to users so they can see how the system is passing through live sources.
    • Bug: CC-9 Flex servers should be able to overlay graphics on top of incoming live video
    • Summary: The basic functionality is looking good. We saw some areas which needed improvement before we can ship. Those will be put in new cards.
    • Bug: CC-551 List Total Run Time Of All Runs In Reporting Totals Table
    • Summary: The total table in reports now contains the total run time of all runs.
    • Bug: CC-509 Flex I/O Configuration Utility Doesn't Always Apply Settings.
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the Flex I/O Configuration utility where it was not saving the configuration to the correct location resulting in a corrupt config. The Flex I/O Configuration Utility now works as expected
    • Bug: CC-550 Average Run Length In Reports Is Incorrect
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the average run length in the total table was always the same incorrect value. This value is now calculated properly.
    • Bug: CC-588 Live Streams Can Become Stuck After Nightly Maintenance
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the live stream could be stuck after nightly maintenance causing the stream to never recover.
    • Bug: CC-730 Automatically Scale Incoming Video When Encoding
    • Summary: Flex video servers will now automatically scale incoming video that does not match the systems encode resolution making capturing from multiple sources easier and less error prone.
    • Bug: CC-729 Redesigned Force Matrix
    • Summary: The Force Matrix has been redesigned to be easier to use and provide more real time status information. The new Force Matrix is also designed to work on mobile devices allowing you to control your station on the go easily from anywhere.
    • Bug: CC-435 Flex Series Video Servers Can Play and Capture RTP streams
    • Summary: Flex series video servers can now ingest RTP streams and play them out the video servers output complete with channel branding. These streams can also be captured to the video server's content drive for later playback. RTP streaming requires additional licensing for each Flex server, contact your Cablecast sales person for more information.
6.2.6 -- 3 issues -- Released: 2/20/2018
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    • Bug: CC-650 Sending Autopilot Can Cause On Air Playback To Glitch And Loose Sync
    • Summary: Fixed a potential glitch when sending autopilot for on air programs. Now if a playback is in the correct position it will not be resumed when sending autopilot.
    • Bug: CC-567 Public Site Shows Deleted VOD Chapters
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the public site would continue to show VOD chapters even after they were deleted.
    • Bug: CC-258 Live Stream Interface Fails To Load If Channel Is Not Configured
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Internet Video Live Streams interface would fail to load if a channel was not configured for a stream.
6.2.5 -- 4 issues -- Released: 12/22/2017
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    • Bug: CC-671 Live Stream Can Get Stuck After Maintenance Routine
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the stream would not restart after a maintenance task if there was a glitch in the stream. The stream will now attempt to restart after the glitch until the stream is running.
    • Bug: CC-267 Drop Flash Requirement For Desktop Live Stream Viewing
    • Summary: Update the live stream player to use media source extensions api, eliminating the need to load the HLS stream in a flash plugin on browsers that do not natively support HLS.
    • Bug: CC-681 Configuring Flex 4 Server As 2 In and 2 Out Sets Wrong Resolution For Second Encode Channel
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the second encode channel would not be set to the same resolution as the first encode channel when configuring a Flex 4 for 2 in and 2 out mode.
    • Bug: CC-680 Public Site Galleries Do Not Maintain Order When Saved
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the order of galleries on the public site would not persist correctly. You can now order your galleries without issue.
6.2.4 -- 6 issues -- Released: 11/14/2017
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    • Bug: CC-551 List Total Run Time Of All Runs In Reporting Totals Table
    • Summary: The total table in reports now contains the total run time of all runs.
    • Bug: CC-509 Flex I/O Configuration Utility Doesn't Always Apply Settings.
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the Flex I/O Configuration utility where it was not saving the configuration to the correct location resulting in a corrupt config. The Flex I/O Configuration Utility now works as expected
    • Bug: CC-550 Average Run Length In Reports Is Incorrect
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the average run length in the total table was always the same incorrect value. This value is now calculated properly.
    • Bug: CC-608 Live Streaming Background Tasks Perform Poorly On Large Systems
    • Summary: Improved the performance of the background task responsible for controlling live streams. Poor performance could lead to random errors in other parts of the software such as scheduling.
    • Bug: CC-523 Gallery Page in Public Site Does Not Show Correct Results
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where proper results were not shown in public site galleries. The public site galleries now show all expected shows.
    • Bug: CC-588 Live Streams Can Become Stuck After Nightly Maintenance
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the live stream could be stuck after nightly maintenance causing the stream to never recover.
6.2.3 -- 4 issues -- Released: 9/13/2017
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    • Bug: CC-501 Paste Button Does Not Work In Schedule
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was preventing the paste pane from loading when clicking the paste button. You are again able to paste items in the schedule using the paste pane.
    • Bug: CC-449 Deleting A Overridden Output Or Channel Causes API Errors
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where deleting an output that was overridden would cause API errors. The service now periodically removes the automation overrides during housekeeping for deleted outputs.
    • Bug: CC-396 Unable to Create Crawls on a Touch Screen Mobile Device
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the side bar to create a crawl on mobile devices would not display. The side bar now displays and customers can create crawls on mobile devices again.
    • Bug: CC-523 Gallery Page in Public Site Does Not Show Correct Results
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where proper results were not shown in public site galleries. The public site galleries now show all expected shows.
6.2.2 -- 8 issues -- Released: 7/28/2017
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    • Bug: CC-239 Live Stream Start Stop Button Does Not Always Reflect Current State
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a live stream's start / stop button would not update to reflect the streams new state after starting or stopping the stream.
    • Bug: CC-240 Live Stream Can Error When Starting
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where starting a live stream in the Cablecast UI would error due to the stream not being ready when the player first loads.
    • Bug: CC-378 Public Site Does Not Filter Cleared Shows
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where shows that have been cleared in Cablecast would still appear on the front page and in search results of the Cablecast Public Site. These shows are now filtered out correctly.
    • Bug: CC-380 Third Party iFrames Do Not Display In Show Record
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where configured iFrames were not displayed in the show record. The iFrames are now displayed correctly.
    • Bug: CC-268 VODs Created For Multi-Reel Shows Can Be in the Wrong Order
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where VOD files of multi-reel shows could be out of order. VOD files of multi-reel shows now play in order.
    • Bug: CC-288 Public Site Fails To Load if Saved Searches are Deleted
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Public Site would fail to load if a gallery referenced a deleted saved search. In addition to cleaning up any broken galleries, we also now prevent the user from deleting a search if any galleries reference it.
    • Bug: CC-377 Live Streaming and VOD Configuration Incorrectly Validate Trailing Whitespace
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where trailing whitespace in a URL configuration field would validate correctly but generate bad embed codes. The trailing whitespace is now removed when saving the configuration.
    • Bug: CC-373 Populate Duration Field With Last Used Value When Moving Items in the Schedule
    • Summary: When moving items in the schedule using the "move by" function, Cablecast now populates the duration field with the last value used in a session.
6.2.1 -- 3 issues -- Released: 4/25/2017
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    • Bug: CC-188 Public Site Should not Limit Number of Schedule Results
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where schedules on the public site would not show more than 200 scheduled shows per day. All public site schedules will now accurately display all shows that are not marked CG exempt regardless of the amount.
    • Bug: CC-220 Add Redirect for Old Public Site URL
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the old public site URL would not redirect to the new public site. All links pointing to the old URL (/Cablecast/public-site) will be redirected to the new URL (/CablecastPublicSite).
    • Bug: CC-238 Live Stream Control Buttons Do Not Affect Stream
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where clicking the stop or start button on the live streams screen would not affect the stream state.
6.2.0 -- 9 issues -- Released: 4/18/2017
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    • Bug: CC-71 Add Twitter and Facebook Buttons To Cablecast Interface
    • Summary: We've made it super simple for station operators to spread the word about shows and live streams. Click the Share button on the show page, VOD management screen, or the live stream management screen, and we'll give you the direct link to that item. We even let you choose which channel's public site the link points to.
    • Bug: CC-69 Add Support For Open Graph and Twitter Card To Public Site
    • Summary: Public site pages now included Open Graph data, used by Facebook, and Twitter Card data to enhance the experience when public site pages are shared on the respective social networks. Show thumbnails, titles, and comments will now be first class when shared on these and other services that use the same data.
    • Bug: CC-68 Improve Ability Of Search Engines To Index Public Site
    • Summary: Now all the bots crawling the web can see your content in its full glory. We changed the way the public site delivers data, so search engine crawlers such as Google have better access to the data delivered by the public site.
    • Bug: CC-105 Link To Other Channels On Public Site
    • Summary: Have more than one channel? Want visitors to your public site to know that? No problem! The public site now contains links to your other channels complete with a channel logo that you can upload on the public site settings page. A channel can also be excluded from the list in case you want to keep it super secret.
    • Bug: CC-103 Automatically Transition Public Site Slideshow
    • Summary: Visitors to the public site labor no more! Never again will viewers have to click an arrow to see the next item in the slide show. We've done all the work for them. Now they can sit back, relax, and the next item will scroll into view automatically.
    • Bug: CC-106 Public Site Displays Date Of Show's First Run
    • Summary: The public site now displays to the world when your award winning program first premiered to the world. See the show details for each show on the public site for info when a show first aired.
    • Bug: CC-104 Public Site's Can Have Multiple Galleries
    • Summary: One gallery on your public site home page not enough? Worry no more. Now you can have as many as you want. Each gallery can be configured to display a configurable number of items on the home page. A "Show All" link allows visitors to see everything. This makes it very handy for creating sharable links so viewers can find exactly what they are after.
    • Bug: CC-107 Video On Demand And Live Streaming Metrics
    • Summary: Is anyone out there? Now you'll know. We now track how many unique viewers have watched a Video On Demand show, and how many viewers are currently watching a channel's live stream.
    • Bug: CC-70 Add Twitter and Facebook Buttons To Public Site
    • Summary: We've made it easy for your visitors to share the great content they came to your site to watch with all of their friends. The Facebook Share and Twitter Tweet buttons make it simple for your viewers to share your content.
6.1.6 -- 8 issues -- Released: 7/28/2017
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    • Bug: CC-188 Public Site Should not Limit Number of Schedule Results
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where schedules on the public site would not show more than 200 scheduled shows per day. All public site schedules will now accurately display all shows that are not marked CG exempt regardless of the amount.
    • Bug: CC-253 Add error to Windows Event Viewer if PCI Express slot is too narrow
    • Summary: The application will now detect the Matrox card's PCIe electrical bus width and report an error in the event viewer if it is below X8.
    • Bug: CC-378 Public Site Does Not Filter Cleared Shows
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where shows that have been cleared in Cablecast would still appear on the front page and in search results of the Cablecast Public Site. These shows are now filtered out correctly.
    • Bug: CC-380 Third Party iFrames Do Not Display In Show Record
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where configured iFrames were not displayed in the show record. The iFrames are now displayed correctly.
    • Bug: CC-268 VODs Created For Multi-Reel Shows Can Be in the Wrong Order
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where VOD files of multi-reel shows could be out of order. VOD files of multi-reel shows now play in order.
    • Bug: CC-377 Live Streaming and VOD Configuration Incorrectly Validate Trailing Whitespace
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where trailing whitespace in a URL configuration field would validate correctly but generate bad embed codes. The trailing whitespace is now removed when saving the configuration.
    • Bug: CC-265 Autopilot Sends Can Timeout
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Autopilot sends would timeout while updating the schedule in the database. This was accomplished by removing some of the work done when updating the schedule during an Autopilot send and increasing the performance of the database.
    • Bug: CC-421 Live Streams Fail To Play From New Cablecast Live Servers
    • Summary: Fixed a configuration issue that caused a duplicated mime type for HLS files. The duplication caused a failure to download the files preventing viewing. You are now able to view the live stream from new Cablecast Live Servers
6.1.5 -- 13 issues -- Released: 2/17/2017
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    • Bug: 10221 IP Support for AJA KUMO Routers
    • Summary: The new AJAKumoCM adds support for AJA KUMO routers over IP using the AJA REST API.
    • Bug: 10028 Live Stream Player Can Fail to Update If Stream Is Stopped
    • Summary: The player will now correctly transition to the stopped stream template without error.
    • Bug: 10109 Video Server Output Can Glitch and Repeat Frames When Sending Autopilot
    • Summary: Fixed a glitch of repeated video on the output when sending Autopilot. The issue was caused by buffers of video being sent to the hardware output twice.
    • Bug: 10055 Genlock Adjustments Do Not Affect Output on Flex 4 Servers
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the hardware was not respecting the genlock adjustments on Flex 4 servers.
    • Bug: 10220 Reports Display Incorrect Date in Header
    • Summary: Reports now show the correct date ranges defined when configuring the report.
    • Bug: 10130 Poster Image for VOD Player Does Not Display
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the thumbnail for a show would not be displayed in the VOD player.
    • Bug: 10022 MPEG Files Can Remain in Processing Indefinitly
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a corrupt environment variable could cause MPEG files to hang in the processing state.
    • Bug: 10225 Detect and Report Variable Frame Rate Files as Unsupported
    • Summary: Variable frame rate files have never been supported on SX or Flex video servers, but the server would not detect them and would allow them to play causing glitches and sync issues on air. The server now detects these files and marks them as unsupported so they can be corrected.
    • Bug: 10219 Report CSV Table Downloads Do Not Escape Commas or Quotes
    • Summary: Fixed various escaping issues in the CSV tables downloaded from reports, so show titles containing commas and quotes look as expected.
    • Bug: 10224 LeitchRouterCM Fails to Report Status If Crosspoint Is Not Patched
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the LeitchRouterCM where it failed to report status if any of the router's outputs were not patched.
    • Bug: 10077 Reports Fail to Load If All Runs of a Show Have Been Deleted
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where first run data for a show that had been cleared from the schedule would cause a report to not load.
    • Bug: 10218 Add Total Run Time Information to First Runs Report
    • Summary: Added total run time information to first run reports.
    • Bug: 10043 Reports Use Wrong Field for Producer Breakdown
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where reports were using the producers contact name field instead of the producer name field for producer breakdowns.
6.1.5 -- 1 issues -- Released: 2/17/2017
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    • Bug: CC-5 Create IP Control Module for AJA KUMO series routers
    • Summary: Create IP Control Module for AJA KUMO series routers
6.1.4 -- 3 issues -- Released: 9/8/2016
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    • Bug: 10036 Some Files Verify Repeatedly Leading To System Performance Degradation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where verifying a file would fail. This caused the file to be verified over and over again. The repeated verification would use significant server resources and could ultimately lead to playback issues. We now verify the file once, so your server can get back to doing what it is supposed to.
    • Bug: 10038 Video Servers Can Fail To Output Video or Hang Until a Reboot
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the firmware on the video IO cards used in SX and Flex servers. The underlying issue was a memory overflow that would prevent communication with the board on the PCIe bus. This would present itself as the server failing to play content, or, in extreme cases, hanging entirely until the system was rebooted. The new firmware fixes the underlying memory overflow.
    • Bug: 10039 Public Site Color Definition Files Are Not Being Installed
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer was forgetting to install the color definition files for the public site. This prevented the public site from showcasing those lovely hues you worked so hard to cultivate. You can now update your public site to any shade you wish.
6.1.3 -- 1 issues -- Released: 8/4/2016
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    • Bug: 10005 Autopilot Errors With Exception If There Are Missing Files
    • Summary: Resolved an exception that could occur if Autopilot was sent without all digital files being in place on the content drive. While we love our digital files, we understand that they can't always be present when sending Autopilot.
6.1.2 -- 2 issues -- Released: 7/26/2016
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    • Bug: 9875 Digital File Management Does Not Process MTS files
    • Summary: Digital File Management will now discover and process MPEG transport streams with the MTS file extension.
    • Bug: 9969 Deleted Channels Cause Report Generation To Fail
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where reporting would not exclude runs from channels that have been deleted from the system. This would cause report generation to fail when it could not look up the channel names from the previously deleted channels.
6.1.1 -- 3 issues -- Released: 6/21/2016
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    • Bug: 9947 Flex Servers Do Not Always Run Video Processing Application With Appropriate Privileges
    • Summary: The video processing applications would not request the appropriate privileges when started from a user context causing various configuration and playback issues. The applications now will request the appropriate privileges when starting.
    • Bug: 9948 Flex IO Configuration Tool Does Not Properly Detect Flex 4 Servers
    • Summary: The Flex IO Configuration Tool would incorrectly detect a Flex 4 server as a Flex 2 and only offer configuration options for two outputs. The tool now correctly detects Flex 4 servers and offers the correct configuration choices.
    • Bug: 9949 SXConfiguration Errors When Playing Files With Frame Rates Different Than Output Resolution
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where SXConfiguration would error when trying to play a file that was different than the output resolution.
6.1.0 -- 5 issues -- Released: 6/7/2016
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    • Bug: 9110 Add Chapter Support to Video On Demand
    • Summary: The Video on Demand interface has been redesigned so the user can easily add chapters. Chapters allow station operators to annotate any part of a Show, so it can be easily accessed from embedded VOD players as well as the Cablecast Public Site.
    • Bug: 9579 Treat First Runs as First Class
    • Summary: A Show's first run information is now easily accessible from multiple places in the Cablecast Interface including the Show Record, Schedule, Dashboard, and Reports.
    • Bug: 9800 Support for Flex Servers
    • Summary: Included support for the Flex 4, Flex 2, and Flex Lite video servers. The Flex line of video servers supports configurable IOs.
    • Bug: 9930 Improved Reporting
    • Summary: Reporting has been rewritten to look better on all devices including mobile phones and tablets.
    • Bug: 9932 Remove Preparing Source Files Step in Video on Demand Processing
    • Summary: Video on Demand processing no longer needs to prepare source files for certain file types. The file is now copied to the Video on Demand server then processed and transcoded in one step. This reduces the time needed to complete the VOD.
6.0.10 -- 6 issues -- Released: 7/13/2017
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    • Bug: CC-188 Public Site Should not Limit Number of Schedule Results
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where schedules on the public site would not show more than 200 scheduled shows per day. All public site schedules will now accurately display all shows that are not marked CG exempt regardless of the amount.
    • Bug: CC-378 Public Site Does Not Filter Cleared Shows
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where shows that have been cleared in Cablecast would still appear on the front page and in search results of the Cablecast Public Site. These shows are now filtered out correctly.
    • Bug: CC-217 Clicking The Edit Crawl Button On Touch Devices Does Not Work
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the edit button for crawls was not considered an interactive element on touch devices and therefore could not be clicked.
    • Bug: CC-380 Third Party iFrames Do Not Display In Show Record
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where configured iFrames were not displayed in the show record. The iFrames are now displayed correctly.
    • Bug: CC-216 Canceling show does not role back reel changes
    • Summary: Fixed a bug where canceling out of editing a show would appear to persist some of the changes made to the show until a browser refresh. All changes in the show record are now reverted when canceled.
    • Bug: CC-377 Live Streaming and VOD Configuration Incorrectly Validate Trailing Whitespace
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where trailing whitespace in a URL configuration field would validate correctly but generate bad embed codes. The trailing whitespace is now removed when saving the configuration.
6.0.9 -- 4 issues -- Released: 2/17/2017
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    • Bug: 10160 Video on Demand Transcoding Not Respecting Reel In and Out Points
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the out point was being incorrectly calculated when transcoding VOD files with an in point. The in and out point are now both respected.
    • Bug: 10155 Channel Summaries "Automation Overridden" Warning Doesn't Take Location into Account
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where an an override warning would be displayed even if the overridden output was at a different location.
    • Bug: 10119 Edit Forms for Projects, Producers, and Categories Can Show Incorrect Information
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where form elements would fail to update when switching between different records.
    • Bug: 9844 Improve Performance of Copy and Paste of Crawls and Manual Events
    • Summary: Copy and paste operations of large amounts of crawls or manual events is now much faster.
6.0.8 -- 3 issues -- Released: 9/8/2016
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    • Bug: 10009 Public Site Color Definition Files Are Not Being Installed
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the installer was forgetting to install the color definition files for the public site. This prevented the public site from showcasing those lovely hues you worked so hard to cultivate. You can now update your public site to any shade you wish.
    • Bug: 10034 Some Files Verify Repeatedly Leading To System Performance Degradation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where verifying a file would fail. This caused the file to be verified over and over again. The repeated verification would use significant server resources and could ultimately lead to playback issues. We now verify the file once, so your server can get back to doing what it is supposed to.
    • Bug: 10037 Video Servers Can Fail To Output Video or Hang Until a Reboot
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the firmware on the video IO cards used in SX and Flex servers. The underlying issue was a memory overflow that would prevent communication with the board on the PCIe bus. This would present itself as the server failing to play content, or in extreme cases hanging entirely until the system was rebooted. The new firmware fixes the underlying memory overflow.
6.0.7 -- 1 issues -- Released: 8/4/2016
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    • Bug: 9999 Autopilot Errors With Exception If There Are Missing Files
    • Summary: Resolved an exception that could occur if Autopilot was sent without all digital files being in place on the content drive. While we love our digital files, we understand that they can't always be present when sending Autopilot.
6.0.6 -- 16 issues -- Released: 7/26/2016
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    • Bug: 9362 Results Of Export Data Cannot Be Downloaded
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where submitting Export Data would incorrectly redirect the user to the menu screen instead of the completion page where the report could be downloaded. The user is now redirected correctly, allowing the report to be downloaded.
    • Bug: 9407 Refreshing Browser In Schedule Can Cause Error
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where refreshing the web browser on certain screens in the schedule could cause the page to error, forcing the user to return to the main menu.
    • Bug: 9515 Change The Default Option For Date Search Filters
    • Summary: Show search date filters now default to dates after the supplied search value instead of dates on the supplied search value. We hope this provides a more usable result set for the average user.
    • Bug: 9518 Schedule Can Display No Runs
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where loading the schedule could fail to load the channel data before loading the schedule data, resulting in an empty schedule.
    • Bug: 9520 Changing Channel IO While Channel Is In Override Can Break User Interface
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where changing channel IO configuration while the channel is in override would cause the UI to fail loading channels. This situation is now detected allowing the UI to load correctly.
    • Bug: 9687 Live Streaming and Video On Demand Configuration Are Shown Even If System Is Not Licensed
    • Summary: The user interface now only shows the Live Streaming and Video On Demand configuration menu items if the system is licensed for the feature.
    • Bug: 9715 Digital File Management Does Not Load With Correct Filters
    • Summary: The Digital File Management screen now defaults to valid files.
    • Bug: 9774 Installer Shows Incorrect Title When Downloading Dependencies
    • Summary: The installer now correctly displays what dependency is being downloaded.
    • Bug: 9898 Autopilot Sometimes Incorrectly Fails Send Because Devices Are Not Available
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Autopilot would fail to pick a device because the previous run had not been shortened due to a locked run. This would cause the device to still be reserved even though the device should be available due to the locked run.
    • Bug: 9899 Autopilot Fails With Unhanded Exception When Two Runs Are Locked At The Same Time
    • Summary: Autopilot no longer allows violating the space time continuum. Autopilot will now detect when there are two locked runs at the same time and will fail the send with an error indicating the channel and time of the scheduling conflict.
    • Bug: 9901 Schedules With Large Amounts Of Future Runs Can Cause Autopilot Sends To Timeout
    • Summary: Fixed a performance issue during Autopilot sends where large amounts of future runs would cause a database timeout when updating the status of the runs. Autopilot now only updates runs whose status was affected by the autopilot send.
    • Bug: 9906 Changing Locations While Viewing The Record Schedule Does Not Refresh The Schedule
    • Summary: When changing locations the record schedule now updates to reflect the schedule of the selected location.
    • Bug: 9938 Record Events That End At Midnight Incorrectly Appear On Schedule The Following Day
    • Summary: Record events that end at midnight are now correctly excluded from the schedule of the following day.
    • Bug: 9957 Autopilot Messages Can Load In Wrong Tab
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where clicking on some Autopilot messages would open the link inside the application instead of a new tab.
    • Bug: 9961 File Validation Fails To Detect Files With Invalid Frame Rates
    • Summary: Cablecast 6.0 introduced a regression in which files with invalid frame rates were not properly detected. These files are not supported and may have playback issues. Cablecast will now mark the files as unsupported and issue a warning when sending autopilot. These files should be replaced with compatible versions as soon as possible, as the ability to play these files will be removed in a future version of Cablecast.
    • Bug: 9966 Accounts with Modify Crawl Permissions Can Not Modify Crawls
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the user interface was using the incorrect access right to determine if a user could modify crawls.
6.0.5 -- 1 issues -- Released: 4/13/2016
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    • Bug: 9768 Cablecast Installer Fails to Install Dependencies
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause the Cablecast installer to fail when certain dependencies were missing. This addresses an issue primarily seen in Tightrope's automated production environment.
6.0.4 -- 8 issues -- Released: 3/21/2016
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    • Bug: 9470 VOD Player gets Taller Slowly and Eventually is Taller than the Screen
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause the embedded VOD player to constantly resize itself on iOS devices.
    • Bug: 9591 It is not Possible to Print Reports
    • Summary: Added a Print button to the Reports screen, so the content can easily be printed.
    • Bug: 9731 Files Remaining In-Use Even After Playback Finishes
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause the SXPlayerCM to maintain a lock on files until the start of the next playback.
    • Bug: 9738 Erroneous 'Unrecoverable Drift' Error is Logged when no Input is Connected
    • Summary: We now suppress the unrecoverable drift error message that was previously logged to the Windows event viewer.
    • Bug: 9750 It isn't Possible to Filter Searches by LocalID
    • Summary: The LocalID field has been added as an available search filter.
    • Bug: 9772 H.264 Files Created in Apple Final Cut Pro Sometimes show Black Thumbnail
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would lead to black thumbnail images being created for some h.264 files created in FCP.
    • Bug: 9796 Device Field does not get set Properly for some Scheduled Records
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would leave the Device field empty and unusable after selecting 'Record Run'.
    • Bug: 9839 Cablecast Installer will not Proceed unless IIS is Installed
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would prevent the Cablecast installer software from installing unless Internet Information Services is also installed on the server.
6.0.3 -- 8 issues -- Released: 1/19/2016
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    • Bug: 9549 Cablecast Installer Improvments
    • Summary: The Cablecast Installer application now automatically downloads and installs needed drivers, and is much easier to use.
    • Bug: 9592 Manual Events don't show up Correctly in Main Menu Event Summaries Screen
    • Summary: Manual events now show much more information in the Event Summaries screen.
    • Bug: 9647 Cablecast Installer Fails to Migrate Existing Blocks when Upgrading to Cablecast 6.0.x
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that prevented the block migration from completing successfully.
    • Bug: 9664 Select All in the Schedule Selects Runs that Carry-over from the Previous Day
    • Summary: Runs that started on the previous day will no longer be selected when using 'select all'.
    • Bug: 9681 Autopilot Sends Successfully even if an Encoding Device is not Selected for an Encode
    • Summary: It's no longer possible to set a scheduled encode to use 'No Device'.
    • Bug: 9691 Live Stream Encoding Process Repeatedly Restarts
    • Summary: The live streaming encoding process monitoring code is now a little more forgiving.
    • Bug: 9697 Autopilot 'Send Until' Time Sometimes Shows up as 'am' when it Should be 'pm'
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would sometimes cause the Autopilot 'Send Until' fields to default to 'am' when they should be 'pm'.
    • Bug: 9700 Digital File Management Doesn't Correctly Detected Deleted Files
    • Summary: Files that have been deleted from the system will now be detected and removed from the user interface accordingly.
6.0.2 -- 26 issues -- Released: 12/3/2015
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    • Bug: 9397 Main Menu's channel summary boxes do not scale properly in IE11 and Firefox
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that caused the channel summary sections to be improperly sized in certain web browsers.
    • Bug: 9398 'Watch Now' triangle still appears for Shows after the 'VOD Enabled' box has been cleared in the Show record
    • Summary: The green 'Watch Now' triangle no longer appears once VOD is disabled for a particular show.
    • Bug: 9411 Some run counts in Cablecast UI include runs that have been deleted
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that caused previously deleted schedule runs to be included in the total run counts for shows, leading to confusing discrepancies between screens.
    • Bug: 9426 Schedule doesn't properly handle the interstitial length setting for CG Exempt runs
    • Summary: Fixed the logic that calculates the length of CG Exempt runs.
    • Bug: 9428 New or modified Formats do not appear in Show record until the browser is refreshed
    • Summary: Changes to the list of Formats will now show up immediately in the Show record screen.
    • Bug: 9429 Copy and paste doesn't work correctly with Manual Events
    • Summary: Copy and paste now works as intended for Manual Events
    • Bug: 9436 About screen not formatting properly in IE11
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that caused poor formatting of the About screen in Internet Explorer 11.
    • Bug: 9437 Some Cablecast Public site customization settings don't apply until the Cablecast service is restarted
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that made it necessary to restart the Cablecast service in order for some customizations to apply.
    • Bug: 9441 Shows that carry over to the next day should be 'read only' on the day that they end
    • Summary: Shows that span between days are now only editable on the date on which they start.
    • Bug: 9455 Schedule's keyboard shortcuts help screen doesn't list "a" for select all
    • Summary: Added "a" to the list of available shortcuts that is displayed in the Schedule's keyboard shortcuts help screen.
    • Bug: 9460 User names that contain a '.' character prevent Cablecast UI from loading
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would prevent users whose user name contained a '.' character from logging into Cablecast.
    • Bug: 9469 API provides incorrect URLs for thumbnails when using a non-standard port
    • Summary: The thumbnail URL no longer assumes that the external address uses port 80.
    • Bug: 9471 Schedule incorrectly interprets "12:xx:xx" times as "0:xx:xx" times when using 24-hour time
    • Summary: 24-hour time now handles times near noon correctly.
    • Bug: 9484 Record Schedule doesn't filter devices by Location
    • Summary: The Record Schedule now only shows devices that are available at the current location.
    • Bug: 9485 Attempting to 'paste to' 12:00:00 (noon) incorrectly places runs at 0:00:00 (midnight)
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that lead to strange behavior when trying to paste shows at 12:00:00 when using 24-hour time.
    • Bug: 9490 The error message that is generated when Cablecast encounters an API error isn't very helpful
    • Summary: Substantially improved the error message that is presented in the event that an API request fails.
    • Bug: 9502 'Paste To' keyboard shortcut also changes current date to today
    • Summary: Pressing 't' to activate the "Paste To" function no longer changes the current date of the schedule.
    • Bug: 9508 Web and print schedule plugins, Public Site and reporting include previously deleted runs
    • Summary: These schedule displays no longer include runs that have been deleted.
    • Bug: 9519 Show creation and disposition dates are copied when a show is duplicated
    • Summary: The creation date now defaults to today while the disposition date defaults to 'not set'.
    • Bug: 9521 'Pre-assign DVD slot' field is missing in Cablecast UI
    • Summary: The 'Slot' field is now being displayed as intended. Note that this issue only prevented the field from being displayed in the user interface. The data that had been entered in previous versions of Cablecast remains intact.
    • Bug: 9524 Field inversion artifacts are present in 1080i output signal
    • Summary: Resolved a serious issue that would lead to substantially reduced quality when outputting 1080i video. This same issue also caused poor quality video when up or down converting between resolutions.
    • Bug: 9525 Shows in schedule side pane stay selected even when they are no longer visible
    • Summary: Shows are now automatically deselected, if they are no longer a part of the search results.
    • Bug: 9526 DVD Title and Chapter fields are missing from Show record
    • Summary: The DVD Title and Chapter fields are once again available in the Show record.
    • Bug: 9532 VODs API endpoint includes VOD records whose shows have been cleared in the user interface
    • Summary: The Cablecast API now excludes VOD records if the related show has been cleared.
    • Bug: 9533 Media Creation Date search filter is incorrectly named "Disposition Creation"
    • Summary: Updated the label for the Media Creation Date filter to properly represent what it actually does.
    • Bug: 9542 Title Contains search behaves differently in Cablecast 6 than in previous versions
    • Summary: The Title Contains search now works exactly as it did in previous versions of Cablecast.
6.0.1 -- 11 issues -- Released: 9/30/2015
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    • Bug: 8867 Improve feedback when a reel's length is not set or too long for associated file
    • Summary: Added warnings in the Show's Reel section if a reel has a length of 0, or if a reel is longer than the associated digital file. In both cases, if there is an associated digital file, a convenient button is presented to time the reel to the length of the file.
    • Bug: 9350 Update SX Setup Guide
    • Summary: The SX Setup Guide has been updated with screenshots from Cablecast 6.0 as well as an updated Cablecast logo.
    • Bug: 9355 Scroll to top of screen when viewing a Show Record
    • Summary: The Show record will now automatically scroll to the top when viewing a show record. Previously, the scroll position would not change, and the bottom sections of a show record would be presented, if the previous screen was scrolled towards the bottom.
    • Bug: 9365 Processing files are incorrectly treated as orphaned on the Main Menu Dashboard
    • Summary: Processing files no longer add to the orphaned file count on the Dashboard.
    • Bug: 9370 Long dates can break layout when editing Blocks
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where long dates would break the layout of the block editing interface. The dates are now abbreviated to prevent the layout from breaking.
    • Bug: 9371 Form field labels are inconsistent
    • Summary: All form labels now have consistent formatting.
    • Bug: 9384 Default templates can not be restored when configuring VOD and Live Streaming
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that prevented the default templates from being restored when modifying a VOD configuration or Live Stream configuration.
    • Bug: 9388 Loading spinner is not removed when the application encounters an error
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the loading indicator overlay would not be removed if the application displayed an error.
    • Bug: 9391 Invalid characters are present in the Cablecast Manual
    • Summary: Removed invalid characters that were showing up in the Cablecast Manual.
    • Bug: 9394 Plugins present broken navigation links
    • Summary: Removed legacy navigation links from existing plugins that pointed to pages removed from the Cablecast UI.
    • Bug: 9396 Saving Record Events will fail if the Name field is longer than 50 characters
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause saving a Record Event to fail if the name was longer than 50 characters. Now the name will be truncated to the first 50 characters.
6.0.0 -- 20 issues -- Released: 9/17/2015
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    • Bug: 941 System Time is shown in Cablecast Menu Bar
    • Summary: The server's current time is now shown in the Cablecast Menu Bar.
    • Bug: 3146 Enhanced Blocking
    • Summary: The new Advanced Paste functionality includes support for blocks that are greater than one week long as well as other improvements.
    • Bug: 3309 Redesign Main Menu as a system dashboard
    • Summary: The Cablecast Main Menu now provides many more details about the systems' operational state.
    • Bug: 6454 Schedule includes Undo and Redo
    • Summary: The Schedule now includes Undo and Redo functionality.
    • Bug: 6582 Redesigned Public Site
    • Summary: Created a completely new Public Site that includes much better Live Streaming, Video on Demand and search functionality with enhanced customization options.
    • Bug: 7799 Redesigned Menu navigation pages
    • Summary: Redesigned menu pages to include help text for each item in addition to other improvements.
    • Bug: 7978 Redesigned Schedule
    • Summary: The Scheduling interface has been completely redesigned for better performance and more intuitive operation.
    • Bug: 8427 SX servers support 25 and 50 fps input and output resolutions
    • Summary: The SX servers can now be set to output PAL frame rate resolutions such as 720p at 50 frames per second.
    • Bug: 8428 SX Servers Support 1080p / 3G-SDI / SMPTE 425 Level A
    • Summary: SX HD video servers now support 1080p as an encode and decode resolution.
    • Bug: 8499 Servers page displays time delta between machines
    • Summary: The System Settings : Servers page now includes the time difference between machines.
    • Bug: 8514 Control Modules log the executed time of an event
    • Summary: The Cablecast Control Modules now log the exact time at which they executed an event in addition to the time at which it was scheduled.
    • Bug: 8515 Servers page displays TeamViewer ID
    • Summary: The System Settings : Servers page now includes the TeamViewer ID number for each configured server.
    • Bug: 8536 Interstitial should default to zero seconds
    • Summary: The default interstitial length is now zero instead of 45 seconds.
    • Bug: 8543 SX servers support mixed frame rates
    • Summary: SX video servers can now play files with different frame rates without changing the server's output resolution as long as the files frame rate is in the same family as the server's output resolution.
    • Bug: 8757 SX servers show time remaining in Force Menu
    • Summary: The time remaining for the current file is now shown in the Cablecast Force Menu.
    • Bug: 8829 Cablecast RESTful API
    • Summary: An all-new RESTful JSON & XML API is now available.
    • Bug: 8833 Redesigned Show Search pages
    • Summary: The Show Search functions have been completely redesigned.
    • Bug: 8858 Completely new Cablecast User Guide
    • Summary: Wrote a completely new Cablecast user guide with a focus on providing a easy to use reference guide.
    • Bug: 8861 Redesigned Show screen
    • Summary: The Show screen has been redesigned to be more efficient on mobile devices in addition to many other improvements.
    • Bug: 9020 Cablecast Service creates scaled down thumbnails of digital files
    • Summary: The Cablecast Service now creates scaled versions of thumbnails, so they can be used more effectively.
5.4.9 -- 2 issues -- Released: 2/17/2017
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    • Bug: 9626 New Lines Aren't Removed from Video Overlay Crawl Text
    • Summary: Crawl text is now stripped of new line characters ensuring that the displayed crawl is a single line.
    • Bug: 10074 Files Incorrectly Reported as Missing
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where files could be marked as deleted when the casing of the content path changed.
5.4.8 -- 4 issues -- Released: 7/26/2016
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    • Bug: 9393 Intel RAIDs Report Unknown Status
    • Summary: Intel RAIDs in specific states of verifying would fail to report the correct state and, instead, return a status of unknown. Verifying states are now parsed correctly.
    • Bug: 9522 Video Servers Do Not Always Output Audio
    • Summary: The Cablecast Video Overlay application could cause SX and Flex video servers to not output audio if files were played using SXConfiguration or the Force Matrix. This would happen if the files were played before scheduled programming had aired at least once. Files played from the Force Matrix or SXConfiguration now properly output the correct audio.
    • Bug: 9631 Cablecast Device Control Service Can Fail To Bind To Network After Restart
    • Summary: The Cablecast Device Control Service would sometimes not close all the necessary subprocesses when exiting. This caused the service to not release the network connection, and would make the network unavailable after a restart. The service now ensures that all subprocesses are terminated before a restart.
    • Bug: 9833 Digital File Management Will Processes Bad Files Repeatedly
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where files that caused the file validation tool to crash would be processed repeatedly until the file was removed from the server. The file is now processed once unless re-indexed by a user.
5.4.7 -- Released: 3/21/2016
5.4.6 -- 3 issues -- Released: 12/3/2015
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    • Bug: 9173 Pop-up error when trying to load Cablecast in desktop Safari 8.0.2
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would prevent the Cablecast user interface from loading in Safari 8.0.2.
    • Bug: 9325 Thumbnail generation fails on long-GOP H.264 files
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would prevent SX servers from generating thumbnail images for long-GOP H.264 files.
    • Bug: 9444 GrassValleyNPCM takes a long time to get status information from AJA Kumo routers
    • Summary: The GrassValleyNPCM now caches source and destination names which makes status requests substantially faster.
5.4.5 -- 1 issues -- Released: 9/30/2015
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    • Bug: 9102 Delay indexing files until file has not been written for 30 seconds
    • Summary: The behavior of how Cablecast waits to index files has been changed. Previously, Cablecast would wait 30 seconds since the last file system change notification. This was unreliable on systems with lots of activity as the system will drop change notifications if many come in at once. This would lead to incorrect indexing. Cablecast now waits for 30 seconds after the LastWrite timestamp on the file. This delay can be configured by adjusting the FileIndexingDelayInSeconds option in the config file.
5.4.4 -- 3 issues -- Released: 6/5/2015
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    • Bug: 8761 Allow mezzination to be disabled for single show files.
    • Summary: Added a configuration option that allows Mezzination to be disabled for shows with only a single reel.
    • Bug: 8778 Cablecast UI broken on mobile Safari
    • Summary: Added a warning message when Cablecast is viewed from older Apple iOS devices.
    • Bug: 8820 SynergyMigrator doesn't handle one-to-many title->msn associations correctly
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would cause errors when migrating Synergy Titles that have more than one matching MSN record.
5.4.3 -- Released: 12/5/2014
5.4.2 -- 4 issues -- Released: 12/1/2014
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    • Bug: 8445 Support for the NV9000 router protocol
    • Summary: Added support for the NV9000 protocol via the NV9000CM. This allows support for Miranda routers that use the NV9000 protocol.
    • Bug: 8513 Improve SXConfiguration display of genlock timing adjustments
    • Summary: The vertical delay is now given in lines instead of nanoseconds which is more consistent with video test equipment.
    • Bug: 8570 Generation of MPEG-2 index files may timeout prematurely on SX servers
    • Summary: Increased the timeout for MPEG index generation to allow larger files to completely index.
    • Bug: 8571 Sigma routers can miss simultaneous switches
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could cause a Sigma router to miss one or more switches when multiple events occurred at the same time.
5.4.1 -- Released: 10/1/2014
5.4.0 -- 5 issues -- Released: 9/16/2014
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    • Bug: 8296 Cablecast is able to send GPI triggers
    • Summary: Manual Events can now be used to trigger GPI devices.
    • Bug: 8358 Genlock settings can be adjusted with SX Configuration application
    • Summary: Adjustments have been added for Horizontal and Vertical delay.
    • Bug: 8384 SX Servers are unable to play back or validate files recorded by Synergy servers
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing files recorded on Synergy equipment from playing back on SX servers.
    • Bug: 8395 SX Servers can be set for separate encode and decode resolutions
    • Summary: The SX Configuration application now allows the encode and decode resolutions to be set independently.
    • Bug: 8414 Allow LeitchRouterCM to control routers over IP
    • Summary: The LeitchRouterCM can now control routers over an IP or serial connection.
5.3.9 -- 3 issues -- Released: 3/21/2016
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    • Bug: 7533 SX servers can crash when playing specific MOV files
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could lead to a crash when playing certain MOV files.
    • Bug: 9756 Revert VLC upgrade that was added in an attempt to fix bug 9548
    • Summary: We upgraded the included version of VLC in an attempt to fix bug 9548. This upgrade caused unforeseen issues with some systems.
    • Bug: 9812 GrassVallyNPCM now Works with the Ross NK-3RD Interface as well as AJA Routers
    • Summary: The GrassValleyNPCM can now be used to control Ross NK series routers with a NK-3RD protocol translator. The CM still works with AJA Kumo series routers. Please note that the CodanNKCM is the preferred method of controlling Codan / Ross NK series routers.
5.3.8 -- 18 issues -- Released: 12/2/2015
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    • Bug: 8810 Cablecast Web Service AdvancedShowSearch incorrectly filters event dates by time
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Cablecast Web Service's AdvancedShowSearch method would incorrectly filter event dates by time of day.
    • Bug: 8932 SXConfiguration application shows 'stopped' status when in Test mode
    • Summary: The SXConfiguration application now shows 'bars and tone' in the status field while Test mode is active.
    • Bug: 8933 It's hard to infer the relationship between the 'Test' and 'Play' modes of the SXConfiguration application
    • Summary: The SXConfiguration application no longer allows a user to simultaneously use 'Test' and 'Play' mode of a given output channel. You must now stop playback in order to use the 'Test' function.
    • Bug: 9026 Scheduled Encodes do not always stop as expected
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would prevent scheduled encodes from stopping as expected when the user fails to provide a file name.
    • Bug: 9052 Improve Autopilot error message when a device isn't available for a scheduled record
    • Summary: The error message is now much easier to understand.
    • Bug: 9089 Digital File Management reports "everything is wrong" if it fails to get information about a file
    • Summary: Digital File Management will now log a helpful error message if it completely fails to process a file. In previous versions, it would log that every aspect of the file was wrong.
    • Bug: 9224 Automatic database backups are never deleted from local storage
    • Summary: The local copies of automatic database backups are now periodically deleted. This will prevent them from eventually filling the drive.
    • Bug: 9262 ChyTV DSK fails to work if reverse DNS is incorrectly configured
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would prevent the ChyTV DSK application from functioning when reverse DNS is incorrectly configured, and the server's address is specified as an IP address.
    • Bug: 9280 Files disappear and reappear if the user uses incorrect slashes in their PortSetting field
    • Summary: Use of "incorrect" slashes ('/') in PortSetting paths will no longer cause files to repeatedly disappear and reappear in Digital File Management.
    • Bug: 9409 VOD player fails to enter full screen mode in Safari
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing full screen mode from working correctly in Safari.
    • Bug: 9465 VOD processing sometimes fails due to an error while transferring files
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could lead to VOD repeatedly failing to transfer files from the video server.
    • Bug: 9479 'Preparing Source Files' VOD transcoding step should prefer content on local drives
    • Summary: VOD will now favor files that are located on a particular server's local drive. This prevents an issue that could occur when the same file is also available over a network share from a second server.
    • Bug: 9480 VOD 'Transcode' step can get stuck forever
    • Summary: The transcode operation will now be cancelled if the transcoder application fails to report status for over two minutes. This prevents specific files from derailing VOD transcoding.
    • Bug: 9488 Transcoded VOD files don't respect override aspect ratio
    • Summary: VOD transcoding now uses the user-defined override aspect ratio setting.
    • Bug: 9494 Fill Gaps batch function doesn't use Start Date and Start Time as you might expect
    • Summary: The Fill Gaps batch function now starts filling gaps at the user-specified start date and time, and continues until the user-defined end date and time. Previously, it would only fill gaps that occurred after the start time on each and every day.
    • Bug: 9547 Digital File Management doesn't sort processing files
    • Summary: The Digital File Management function now sorts the list of processing files based on their ShowID from highest to lowest. This should allow newer files to be processed before older files.
    • Bug: 9548 Audio Sync Issues on Older iOS devices viewing live stream
    • Summary: Adjusted an audio encoding parameter to eliminate audio sync issues with older iOS devices.
    • Bug: 9561 Files named with invalid characters sit in the processing tab in DFM indefinitely
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that caused files that contained invalid characters in the file name from leaving the 'Processing' state in Digital File Management.
5.3.7 -- 4 issues -- Released: 9/30/2015
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    • Bug: 8735 Remove Digital Files that are not contained in current port settings
    • Summary: Added a routine that removes digital files that are not contained within a folder defined in the Control Module Sets Port settings field. This resolves an issue where reconfiguring a server would still display files that it was not configured to play.
    • Bug: 8871 Reels with length of 0 are displayed as an error.
    • Summary: When editing a Show record any Reels with a length of 0 are now in an error state.
    • Bug: 9149 XList export incorrectly excludes subcategories
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where generating an XList schedule would exclude subcategories because they were thought to be invalid. Valid subcategories will now be included in the export.
    • Bug: 9404 Live Streaming does not correctly report stream bandwidths to players
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the streaming playlist was incorrectly reporting the stream bandwidth in kilobits per second rather than bits per second. This could cause players to try to download a stream their connection could not support.
5.3.6 -- 25 issues -- Released: 6/5/2015
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    • Bug: 7416 Documentation is incorrect for Utah 100x series routers
    • Summary: Added notes to the Control Module documentation specific to Utah 100x series routers.
    • Bug: 7698 Delete Producer confirmation dialog doesn't include an option for 'No'
    • Summary: The confirmation message when attempting to delete a Producer now includes options for both 'Yes' and 'No'.
    • Bug: 7753 Control Module Guide lists incorrect Device Address info for VDCP CM
    • Summary: Corrected issues in the VDCPCM documentation.
    • Bug: 8409 CableDisplay schedule bulletin omitting certain locked schedule runs
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would prevent locked runs from appearing in CableDisplay schedule bulletins.
    • Bug: 8525 VOD embedded player has poor error message when the browser dose not support Flash
    • Summary: Added a more detailed message that indicates that the stream isn't available because the current browser doesn't support Flash.
    • Bug: 8640 Long Media name can cause text to overflow in Show record
    • Summary: The Media name is now truncated if it is too long to display correctly.
    • Bug: 8692 Live Coordinator can crash if database context is not available.
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could lead to the Live Coordinator system crashing.
    • Bug: 8697 h.264 High profile is supported on SD SX Servers
    • Summary: Updated SX server formats sheet to indicate that the h.264 High profile is supported on SX servers.
    • Bug: 8716 Setting allows user to adjust audio gain of live stream
    • Summary: Added an app.config setting that allows the user to adjust the input gain of the SDI embedded audio.
    • Bug: 8719 Play button in embedded player should be centered
    • Summary: Added code to center the Play button in the live embedded player.
    • Bug: 8759 Orphaned ServerRaidInfo DB record prevents Autopilot from sending
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could prevent Autopilot from sending successfully after a Server record was deleted from the database.
    • Bug: 8796 File validation will attempt to gather AFD data from files that are known to be invalid
    • Summary: AFD validation is now only attempted if the file is otherwise valid.
    • Bug: 8806 Attempting to validate unsupported ProRes files cause on-air playback problems
    • Summary: Attempting to validate unsupported Apple ProRes files will no longer cause disruption on the server's outputs.
    • Bug: 8846 GrassValleyNPCM switches can fail if router status command fails
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would prevent switches from executing if an earlier router status request had failed.
    • Bug: 8860 Cablecast shouldn't show 'green check' on Digital File reels that are not yet saved
    • Summary: Reels that represent Digital Files will now show the 'unknown' icon instead of the 'valid' icon until they are saved.
    • Bug: 8869 Processing files shouldn't show up as red in DFM / Show record
    • Summary: Processing files are now colored orange instead of red.
    • Bug: 8879 Out point should be disabled for Live runs
    • Summary: Only the Length field is enabled on reels that represent live content.
    • Bug: 8907 Database needs to be restarted every time you install
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was causing a Database Engine restart to be required after updating Cablecast software.
    • Bug: 8908 VOD Transcoding needs to clean up Mezzination directory when using an alternate working directory
    • Summary: Temporary Mezzination files are now automatically deleted after two days.
    • Bug: 8915 SX Servers fail to generate thumbnail images for some MOV files
    • Summary: Thumbnails are now being generated as expected.
    • Bug: 8931 It is not possible to remove a Show from a Project
    • Summary: Added a 'Reset' button that allows Project, Producer and Category fields to be reset.
    • Bug: 8939 Digital File Management error message could better indicate that a host is off-line
    • Summary: The error that is generated when Digital File Management fails to connect to a server is now much more useful.
    • Bug: 8957 Digital File Management logs are not automatically cleaned up
    • Summary: Digital File Management log files are now automatically deleted after 30 days.
    • Bug: 8977 SXConfiguration continuously shows an error relating to Genlock status
    • Summary: The SXConfiguration application no longer attempts to get Genlock status from nonexistent hardware.
    • Bug: 9092 Missing Run List from Show Edit Page
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing the Show record from displaying the list of scheduled runs.
5.3.5 -- Released: 12/5/2014
5.3.4 -- 8 issues -- Released: 12/1/2014
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    • Bug: 7804 Cablecast Device Control Service takes a long time to exit
    • Summary: The Cablecast Device Control service now exits immediately after being asked to Stop.
    • Bug: 8483 SX servers are not logging playback operations
    • Summary: Fixed a logging configuration issue that was causing SX servers not to log any playback operations.
    • Bug: 8493 Live streaming can get stuck in a restart loop
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with the process responsible for monitoring live streaming that could cause the stream to get stuck in a restart loop.
    • Bug: 8522 Lists on Digital File Management and VOD pages are not sorted by default
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that prevented initial sorting of VODs and Digital File Management pages.
    • Bug: 8523 Progress missing from list on VODs page
    • Summary: Fixed an issue on the VODs page that prevented the list of VODs from displaying progress.
    • Bug: 8527 RAID monitoring can become stuck which in turn can derail Digital File Managment
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause the process responsible for monitoring raid status to get stuck. This also affected Digital File Management preventing new files from being recognized.
    • Bug: 8601 Some RAID statuses appear incorrectly as unknown in Autopilot send report
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that caused 'initializing' or 'verifying' RAID units to be marked as 'unknown' in Autopilot send reports.
    • Bug: 8656 Automatic database backups can timeout during upload
    • Summary: Increased the timeout for Automatic database backup uploads that would prevent larger databases from completely uploading over slow internet connections.
5.3.3 -- 2 issues -- Released: 10/1/2014
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    • Bug: 8465 VOD Configuration shows Control Module Sets from all Locations
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the configuration page for Video On Demand would show Control Module Sets from all Locations. The list is now correctly filtered by Location.
    • Bug: 8466 Incorrectly configured Video On Demand can cause file deletion
    • Summary: Cablecast 5.3.2 added a routine to clean up the VOD content directory, removing unneeded files. If a multi-location system was configured such that all locations used the same VOD server, the system would delete all VOD files. We have changed the behavior to only delete files when a newly transcoded file replaces an existing VOD.
5.3.2 -- 16 issues -- Released: 9/16/2014
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    • Bug: 8335 Verifying status from 3ware RAID card shows up as Unknown in Cablecast
    • Summary: Units that are Verifying will no longer show up as Unknown in Cablecast.
    • Bug: 8344 Show record is missing preassigned device slot information
    • Summary: The preassigned slot number is once again visible from the Show page.
    • Bug: 8348 Automatic database backup is now performed every night
    • Summary: Cablecast's automatic database backup is now performed nightly instead of every three nights.
    • Bug: 8355 WebService will not accept Show updates with no producer or category defined
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where WebService methods would throw an error when trying to create or update a show where the producer or category were not defined.
    • Bug: 8356 Error fingerprinting digital files over network connection
    • Summary: The fingerprinting process for digital files has been reworked for better reliability over network connections.
    • Bug: 8365 Unable to backup databases to cloud
    • Summary: Due to a change by one of our cloud providers, automatic database backups would fail to upload. This functionality has been restored.
    • Bug: 8366 Database backup configuration does not save
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that prevented inputs to the database backup configuration page from being persisted properly.
    • Bug: 8368 VOD file names should be based on source file not show title
    • Summary: The generated filename for VOD files is now based on the original file name instead of the Show's title.
    • Bug: 8369 Generate web.configs with caching information for live streaming
    • Summary: Cablecast Live servers now create the required configuration files to allow cacheing to operate as intended.
    • Bug: 8373 Hide progress bar for live stream player
    • Summary: We have hidden the progress bar in the live streaming player to prevent viewer confusion.
    • Bug: 8374 Live Streams can't be viewed full-screen in Internet Explorer 11
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing IE 11 from viewing streams full-screen.
    • Bug: 8383 Video Overlay doesn't work on newer SX Servers
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing the SX Video Overlay application from working when installed on the C: drive.
    • Bug: 8386 Live Coordinator degrades database performance
    • Summary: Redesigned part of the Live Coordinator code so that it no longer adversely impacts database performance.
    • Bug: 8393 Show record's To Bin button has no effect
    • Summary: The To Bin button is now working as intended.
    • Bug: 8394 Add fingerprint to VOD output name so retranscoded files will be properly cached
    • Summary: The filename of VOD files now includes a version number so that retranscoded files get a different name than the original.
    • Bug: 8417 Clean up VOD content drive
    • Summary: Cablecast now checks nightly for unneeded files in the VOD content directory.
5.3.1 -- 6 issues -- Released: 7/11/2014
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    • Bug: 8112 Router status not working on newer panacea routers with LeitchRouterCM
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that was preventing status from being correctly parsed.
    • Bug: 8293 Pagination controls missing from Digital File Management and VOD
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that caused the pagination controls to be hidden on the Digital File Managment and Video On Demand screens.
    • Bug: 8294 Embedded Player for Live streaming sometimes displays compression artifacts
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where some live streams would show compression artifacts when being viewed in a desktop web browser.
    • Bug: 8306 SX Servers have playback issues when using SXConfiguration or Force Menu
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the AFD was not being properly set when playing files using SXConfiguration or the Force Menu.
    • Bug: 8308 Error when no CMS is set for a Live Streaming configuration
    • Summary: Fixed an error that would prevent embed codes from being generated for Live Streaming configurations that had no control module set defined.
    • Bug: 8309 Cablecast installer not installing desktop wallpaper
    • Summary: The Cablecast Installer now properly deploys the desktop wallpaper.
5.3.0 -- 12 issues -- Released: 6/5/2014
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    • Bug: 5151 SXConfiguration application validates installed driver version
    • Summary: The SXConfiguration application now confirms that the correct drivers are installed at startup.
    • Bug: 5606 AutoPatch routers now provide status in force menu
    • Summary: The AutopatchBCSCM now requests and processes router status.
    • Bug: 5818 SnellSWP02CM
    • Summary: A new Control Module has been added that allows for control of Snell and Wilcox (formerly Pro-Bel) routers. This CM uses the SW-P-02 protocol over an ethernet connection.
    • Bug: 7812 Reinstate warning messages in autopilot regarding disk usage
    • Summary: Autopilot now produces a warning message if there is limited disk space on any server.
    • Bug: 7848 Support for AJA KUMO routers
    • Summary: A new control module has been added that conforms to Aja's implementation of the Grass Valley native protocol. The GrassValleyNPCM has only been tested with Aja Kumo series routers.
    • Bug: 7869 Support for Denon DBT-3313UDCI Blu-ray Player
    • Summary: A new control module has been added that allows for automated control of the Denon DBT-3313UDCI Blu-ray player.
    • Bug: 8017 AFD support on SX Servers
    • Summary: SX series servers now properly encode and decode AFD data.
    • Bug: 8068 Detected Aspect Ratio can be overridden by user
    • Summary: The Show record now allows the user to manually override the aspect ratio of a file.
    • Bug: 8075 RAID monitoring in cablecast web UI
    • Summary: The System Settings : Control Module Hosts screen has been renamed System Settings : Servers. In addition to the information it previously provided, it now includes both RAID and volume information for each connected server.
    • Bug: 8146 Redesigned Live Streaming
    • Summary: Live Streaming has been redesigned to support more modern video technologies. Video is now encoded to h.264 and can be viewed with a variety of operating systems and mobile devices.
    • Bug: 8216 Allow creating Projects, Prodcuers, and Categories from the Show Record
    • Summary: It is now possible to create and editor Projects, Producers and Categories from the show record.
    • Bug: 8291 Show record now allows reel lengths to be entered as In//Out as well as In/Length
    • Summary: The show record now allows users to enter either the in-point and length (previous behavior) or in-point and out-point.
5.2.12 -- 8 issues -- Released: 9/30/2015
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    • Bug: 8859 VODs can become stuck in the transcoding stage
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where VODs could be come stuck in the transcoding phase due to a missing file. Now the VODs will eventually time out causing a failure. Once failed, the VODs can be re-queued for transcoding.
    • Bug: 8930 Digital File Management incorrectly parses files names that contain periods
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the extension of a file was incorrectly parsed. This would be apparent during a rename operation where the current name of the file would be presented incorrectly.
    • Bug: 8945 Schedule events at 23:59:59 can not be modified
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where schedule events at 23:59:59 were not presented on the current day. This prevented them from being edited or removed. These runs will now be displayed properly.
    • Bug: 8996 Auto Schedule Batch function fails when a day of week is not selected
    • Summary: Improved the error message presented to the user when a day of week is not selected while using the Auto Schedule batch function.
    • Bug: 9091 Fill Gaps with Project batch function excludes programs exactly the length of gap
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Fill Gaps with Project batch function would not schedule a Show if its TRT is exactly the length of the gap. Now these shows are allowed to be scheduled.
    • Bug: 9174 Improve Autopilot error message when schedule contains no runs
    • Summary: The error message now clearly indicates the date range that does not have any runs.
    • Bug: 9176 URL validation incorrectly validates URLs containing whitespace
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the URL validation feedback, when configuring VOD and Live Streaming, would display a URL containing whitespace as valid. These URLs are now flagged as not being valid.
    • Bug: 9403 SX Servers incorrectly validate h.264 files without AAC audio
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where SX servers would incorrectly mark h.264 files without AAC audio as valid. AAC audio is required for h.264 files, and the SX Server will now mark any files as invalid if they do not meet these requirements.
5.2.11 -- 26 issues -- Released: 6/5/2015
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    • Bug: 7712 Improve Assignment Failed Autopilot error message
    • Summary: Added more details to the Assignment Failed error message. This should make it easier to locate the cause of the failure.
    • Bug: 8239 Some MPEG-2 files are truncated by VOD transcoder
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would cause some MPEG-2 files to be transcoded shorter than the original file.
    • Bug: 8323 Crawl sometimes does not appear
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could sometimes prevent a Crawl from appearing on the output of an SX server when using SX Video Overlay.
    • Bug: 8420 Add all supported values to the CablecastDeviceControl.config file
    • Summary: The CablecastDeviceControl.config file now includes all of the settings that are supported. The file has also been reorganized to make it easier to find needed settings.
    • Bug: 8569 Progress bar for VODs do not update often enough
    • Summary: The current progress of a VOD operation is now updated several times per minute.
    • Bug: 8675 Clicking Save in the New Show screen multiple times can lead to unexpected results
    • Summary: The Save button is now disabled immediately so that a new Show cannot be saved more than once.
    • Bug: 8676 Quotes cause issue in X-List Output
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause the X-List file generated by Cablecast to be invalid.
    • Bug: 8691 Improve warning message for dropped frames
    • Summary: The warning message that is generated when an SX server drops frames is now much more useful.
    • Bug: 8700 Validation logic for URL fields can crash some browsers
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could lead to a web browser crash when attempting to validate Live and VOD URL fields.
    • Bug: 8707 Make sure installer doesn't overwrite CablecastAPI Web.config
    • Summary: The Cablecast Installer no longer overwrites the web.config file for the CablecastAPI
    • Bug: 8737 Test bars in SXConfiguration application persist even after clicking Stop
    • Summary: The bars signal is now cleared immediately upon clicking Stop.
    • Bug: 8745 Make Port/IP/LocalPath field wider
    • Summary: This makes it much easier to edit longer values in this field.
    • Bug: 8746 Public Site's Custom.css file is overwritten by installer
    • Summary: The Cablecast Installer no longer overwrites the Custom.css file.
    • Bug: 8749 Return to previous screen when visiting show record
    • Summary: When a Show Record is accessed from Digital File Management or Video On Demand, the user will now be sent back to their original location upon saving the Show.
    • Bug: 8751 Encodes fail if FileKey contains invalid characters
    • Summary: The SXEncodeCM now properly removes any invalid characters that are present in the FIleKey field.
    • Bug: 8792 Validation hangs when trying to validate ProRes 444
    • Summary: File Validation now correctly flags Apple ProRes 444 files as invalid.
    • Bug: 8868 DFM UI should make it clear that file extension isn't lost as a result of rename operation
    • Summary: The Rename function in Digital File Management now indicates that renaming the file has no effect on the file's extension.
    • Bug: 8876 SX Video Overlay Crashes
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could cause the SX Video Overlay application to crash due to an unhanded exception.
    • Bug: 8878 Auto Schedule batch function should handle 12 / 24 hour time.
    • Summary: Both 12 and 24 hour time are now working as intended.
    • Bug: 8884 Encoder and Decoder should only report status if they are encoding or decoding.
    • Summary: SXPlayer and SXEncoder devices no longer report nonsensical status information while they are stopped.
    • Bug: 8887 Test mode in SXConfiguration doesn't include an audio tone
    • Summary: An audio tone is now generated while the server is in Test mode.
    • Bug: 8906 Cablecast should use Record Event name if no FileKey is specified
    • Summary: Cablecast will now fall back to the name of the Record Event if the user does not specify a FileKey.
    • Bug: 8918 Cablecast shouldn't log an Error when a Take is skipped due to Override
    • Summary: When a Take is skipped because it's channel is in override, an information message is now logged instead of the previous error message.
    • Bug: 8920 Cablecast RSS output does not pass validation
    • Summary: Fixed RSS formatting to prevent Invalid Token error in RSS validators.
    • Bug: 8975 ProRes 444 files show up as 422
    • Summary: Apple ProRes 444 files are now correctly identified as such.
    • Bug: 9016 SXConfiguration Test bars don't work in 720p
    • Summary: Bars are now working correctly in all resolutions.
5.2.10 -- 2 issues -- Released: 12/5/2014
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    • Bug: 8693 SX Servers fail to down scale HD files that are not full frame
    • Summary: Fixed a regression that prevented SX Servers from downscaling less than full frame HD files to SD.
    • Bug: 8694 MPEG2 encoding on SX Servers can fail
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause encoding of MPEG2 files on SX servers to fail with an exception.
5.2.9 -- 16 issues -- Released: 12/1/2014
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    • Bug: 8327 Digital file thumbnails should not be cached by the browser
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause the web browser to store old versions of digital file thumbnails. The cache should now be busted when the digital file is replaced.
    • Bug: 8367 Duplicating a show now uses standard media naming conventions
    • Summary: Previously duplicating a show would cause the new media name to contain the show id of the original show. This could lead to long media names on shows that were duplicated multiple times. When duplicating a show the media name is now the same as if the show was created using new show.
    • Bug: 8440 Public Site's date search functionality uses confusing verbiage
    • Summary: The date drop-down now uses language that is clearer about the search operations being performed.
    • Bug: 8454 Improve error messages when deleting a file fails
    • Summary: Improved the error message that is displayed to the user when deleting a file through the web interface fails.
    • Bug: 8456 VOD incorrectly logs warning message for Shows with missing files
    • Summary: The warning messages are no longer logged for Shows that are missing source files.
    • Bug: 8457 Better status message when a reel length of 0:00:00 is preventing a VOD from transcoding
    • Summary: The message now clearly indicates that no valid length is set.
    • Bug: 8461 h.264 with mono audio should be marked as invalid as they are unsupported
    • Summary: Fixed an issue affecting file validation on SX Servers. H.264 files with mono audio are now correctly marked as invalid.
    • Bug: 8480 Improve VOD URL validation
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the validation for VOD URLs would incorrectly mark URLs with port components as invalid.
    • Bug: 8489 Incompletely configured VOD repeatedly logs error messages
    • Summary: Cablecast now only logs one message indicating VOD is not properly configured.
    • Bug: 8512 Record channel should be included in 'Autopilot will be sent for:' list
    • Summary: The Send Autopilot page in Cablecast now lists the record channel.
    • Bug: 8524 Canceling a VOD can cause other VOD operations to become stuck
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where canceling a VOD could cause all further processing to become stuck. Canceling a VOD now leaves Cablecast in state where in can continue on with the next available VOD.
    • Bug: 8564 Submitting multiple reindex requests for the same file can cause reindexing to fail
    • Summary: Requesting the reindexing of a file several times in rapid succession will not longer cause a failure.
    • Bug: 8573 Fix formatting issues with Control Modules guide
    • Summary: Fixed word wrap issues with the Control Modules guide.
    • Bug: 8574 Cablecast service is now configured to restart after a crash
    • Summary: The Cablecast service now configured to automatically restart in the event of a crash.
    • Bug: 8600 Cablecast installer can leave processes running
    • Summary: When Cablecast is being installed, the installer now terminates any Cablecast processes that might be running. This address a possible issue that could arise if the removal of a previous version does not properly terminate said processes.
    • Bug: 8608 Update SX server drivers
    • Summary: This driver update includes several playback, encoding, and performance fixes for the SX servers.
5.2.8 -- 6 issues -- Released: 9/16/2014
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    • Bug: 8331 VOD "view" links show up for VODs that are not completed
    • Summary: View links now only show up when the VOD has finished transcoding.
    • Bug: 8390 Cablecast never re-discovers deleted VOD files
    • Summary: VODs that enter the deleted state can now be rediscovered.
    • Bug: 8403 SX Servers can't play HD 4:3 files
    • Summary: Files with a frame size of 1440x1080 pixels now play as intended.
    • Bug: 8406 Allow mezzination work folder to be configured
    • Summary: A configuration setting has been added which allows the VOD mezzination directory to be changed.
    • Bug: 8411 Source Incomplete VODs never progress
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where VODs that were waiting for source files would never be queued for transcoding, even after the source files were available.
    • Bug: 8425 Control Modules service sometimes leave subprocess running
    • Summary: CablecastDeviceControl service could leave utility processes running after it exited. These processes could interfere with the service's normal startup. CablecastDeviceControl now properly closes all utility processes before exiting.
5.2.7 -- 13 issues -- Released: 7/11/2014
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    • Bug: 7627 Find and Replace Batch Function does not correctly set AM / PM
    • Summary: Fixes an issue where the Find and Replace Batch Function would not respect the start and end times inputted by the user. These times are now respected when searching for programs to replace.
    • Bug: 7906 Create Series Batch Function fails when reusing Show IDs
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where creating shows using the create series batch function would violate a database constraint causing the operation to fail.
    • Bug: 8225 Cablecast Service fails to start correctly if database is not ready
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Cablecast Service would not completely start if the database was not ready. This situation was common after reboots and windows updates. The service now pauses startup until the database is ready.
    • Bug: 8227 VODs sometimes fail to retranscode
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where retranscoding would not properly prepare the source files if preparing the source files was not required for the original transcode.
    • Bug: 8243 VOD audio bitrates are higher than necessary
    • Summary: Changed the VOD transcoder to use a lower audio bitrate to reduce file sizes without compromising audio quality.
    • Bug: 8247 Autopilot fails if a cue is longer than the digital file
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where autopilot would fail if a cue was set longer than the file. Autopilot now sends completely and returns an error message about the cue value.
    • Bug: 8274 Custom thumbnail uploads are broken
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that prevented custom thumbnails uploaded to the show record from being recognized.
    • Bug: 8280 Clicking a run in the runs list brings you to the record schedule
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the link generated in the Show Record Previous Runs list would incorrectly direct the user to the Record schedule.
    • Bug: 8281 Digital file record runs with missing file cause Autopilot to fail
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause Autopilot sends to fail if a digital file record run did not have a file. The send now succeeds with a warning message about the missing file.
    • Bug: 8303 UtahCM doesn't work for back-to-back switches on some newer routers
    • Summary: Modified the UtahRCP1CM to wait briefly after executing a switch command. This allows two shows to start at the same time on different channels. Without this fix, one of the switches would fail due to limitations of the routing switcher.
    • Bug: 8305 Files using 2:3 or 3:2 pulldown are incorrectly marked as valid
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with digital files using pulldown were incorrectly marked as valid leading to audio sync issues. These files are now correctly marked as invalid.
    • Bug: 8324 VOD Player fullscreen does not work in IE 11
    • Summary: Updated our VOD player to support new fullscreen APIs in Internet Explorer 11.
    • Bug: 8330 Public site search results displayed incorrect view link for VOD
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where search results displayed the pop up window player instead of bringing the user to the show detail page with the embedded player.
5.2.6 -- 9 issues -- Released: 3/12/2014
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    • Bug: 7990 Files may not be fully transcoded for VOD
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause certain MPEG-2 files to be cut short during VOD transcoding.
    • Bug: 8070 Find and Replace Batch Function uses correct defaults for start and end times
    • Summary: The start and end times are now properly set to 12:00:00 AM and 11:59:59 PM respectively.
    • Bug: 8143 Public site displays "Watch Now" links for disabled VODs
    • Summary: The public site now only shows "Watch Now" links for enabled video on demand files.
    • Bug: 8147 MPEG-2 files with PCM audio fail VOD transcoding
    • Summary: MPEG-2 files with PCM audio can now be transcoded for video on demand.
    • Bug: 8164 Cablecast Service repeatedly logs database connection error
    • Summary: Fixed an issue in which the Cablecast Service was not closing a database connection before attempting to reopen it. The system would operate normally, but would fill the event logs with a related error message.
    • Bug: 8167 SQL migration fails on older databases
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause database migrations to fail on systems migrating from Cablecast 4.8 and below.
    • Bug: 8169 Disabling VODs can cause VOD queue to stall
    • Summary: Fixed several issues related to the VOD queue becoming stuck after a VOD is disabled.
    • Bug: 8178 VOD transcoding can fail if a space is in the path of the source file
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with preparing source files that have spaces in the file's path.
    • Bug: 8182 Internet Explorer incorrectly caches control modules hosts status
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where Internet Explorer would cache the status of a Control Module Host resulting in incorrect status data being presented to the user.
5.2.5 -- 15 issues -- Released: 1/6/2014
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    • Bug: 7895 Reels with lots of Digital Files do not properly show all the files
    • Summary: The modal dialog that displays the files was made smaller so that when filled it presents the user with a scroll bar rather than overflowing past the page.
    • Bug: 7896 Reels do not display manual assignments in the Show Record
    • Summary: If a Reel is manually assigned to a specific device the device name is now displayed when viewing the show record.
    • Bug: 7907 Changing Reel's Format does not clear manual device assignments
    • Summary: Changing the format of a Reel in which a device was manually assigned now clears the manual assignment. This prevents the wrong device from being assigned when sending autopilot.
    • Bug: 7910 Cablecast service can crash if SQL Server is not ready
    • Summary: The Cablecast service now depends on SQL Server being started and will not start until SQL Server is running.
    • Bug: 7914 Advanced search does not always work when using the Not Equals option
    • Summary: Searches using the Not Equals operator now correctly execute and return all relevant results.
    • Bug: 7947 SD 16:9 files are not correctly transcoded when the transcoded quality is set to high
    • Summary: The transcoder would incorrectly transcode the files to a 4:3 aspect ratio. The files are now correctly transcoded to 16:9.
    • Bug: 7950 Error when trying to reuse cleared shows
    • Summary: Cablecast will now properly reuse cleared Show IDs when accessed from the Free Show IDs page.
    • Bug: 7951 Duplicate Show displays previous Show's runs when first viewed
    • Summary: When viewing a newly duplicated show the Show Record page will now accurately display the new Show's runs.
    • Bug: 7967 Dropdowns in Show Record would not properly set a value to none
    • Summary: Drop downs in the Show Record including Producer, Category, and Project now save correctly when setting the value to none.
    • Bug: 7982 Viewing a Show from a different location does not switch user to that location
    • Summary: The user is now notified that the show belongs to a different location and is switched to that location.
    • Bug: 7986 Autopilot messages do not correctly link to Show Record page
    • Summary: Fixed certain Autopilot messages that did not correctly link to the Show Record page.
    • Bug: 7997 Schedule does not properly render in IE 10
    • Summary: Fixed a rendering issue in IE 10 that would make the schedule unusable.
    • Bug: 8001 Digital Files will not properly link when file exists before Show Record is created
    • Summary: Adding a file with a name that links to a show that does not yet exist now works as expected once the show is created.
    • Bug: 8009 Installer more clearly indicates what components are being installed
    • Summary: The Cablecast installer now clearly indicates which components are being installed.
    • Bug: 8010 When upgrading ProVOD servers existing VODs are not always discovered
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where existing VODs would be queued for transcoding rather than discovered when performing an upgrade.
5.2.4 -- 1 issues -- Released: 11/18/2013
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    • Bug: 7880 Corrupted files bundled with Cablecast installer
    • Summary: Fixed an internal issue that caused corrupted files to be bundled with the Cablecast.
5.2.3 -- 9 issues -- Released: 11/15/2013
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    • Bug: 7801 Behavior of clearing shows is different between batch functions and show record
    • Summary: Clearing a show now has the same effect if it is done using the Batch Functions or using the Clear button in the show record.
    • Bug: 7824 Accessing and searching for some Media could fail
    • Summary: Cablecast would not be able to search or display Media that did not have certain values set. This is fixed and all Media can now be searched for and displayed.
    • Bug: 7827 Live IP Exempt property is not saved
    • Summary: Cablecast now saves the Live IP Exempt property.
    • Bug: 7830 Some links to shows bring user to a broken show record
    • Summary: Cablecast 5.2 introduced a new show record editing page. Some links in Cablecast would bring the user to the old show record rather than the new show record. These links have been fixed to point to the new show record.
    • Bug: 7833 Resource leak related to VOD processing in Cablecast service
    • Summary: It was possible for the Cablecast service to leak database connections while processing VODs, leading to a slow down of the system and eventual crash. This leak has been fixed.
    • Bug: 7837 Shows with no digital files do not show up as source incomplete in VOD UI
    • Summary: Shows that have no associated digital files now show up as source incomplete in the waiting tab of the VOD UI.
    • Bug: 7838 Reels with no length are processed as ready for VOD and fail
    • Summary: Shows with reels that have a length of 00:00:00 are now kept in the waiting stage until a proper length is entered.
    • Bug: 7841 Reels with no format cause Autopilot sends to fail
    • Summary: Reels with no format now give an Autopilot error message allowing the rest of autopilot to continue.
    • Bug: 7846 View Now links are generated for shows currently transcoding
    • Summary: Cablecast now only presents the user with a View Now link if the VOD is complete and ready to be viewed.
5.2.2 -- 1 issues -- Released: 10/23/2013
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    • Bug: 7822 Discovery of legacy VOD files broken.
    • Summary: A fix for case #7808 released in 5.2.1 made it impossible for existing wmv VOD files to be discovered. Existing wmv files are now discoverable.
5.2.1 -- 43 issues -- Released: 10/21/2013
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    • Bug: 7712 Improve Assignment Failed Autopilot error message
    • Summary: Added more details to the Assignment Failed error message. This should make it easier to locate the cause of the failure.
    • Bug: 7807 Cablecast Service connection string is incorrect
    • Summary: The correct connection string is now set when upgrading to Cablecast 5.2.1.
    • Bug: 7808 Retranscode can fail if final file already exists
    • Summary: When the user requests a retranscode, we now delete the previous final VOD file.
    • Bug: 7809 Scheduling playback of an upcoming encode causes playback to fail
    • Summary: Scheduling playback of an upcoming encode no longer causes playback to fail on SX servers.
    • Bug: 7810 5.2 installer does not patch Matrox drivers
    • Summary: The required patches are now being deployed by the installer.
    • Bug: 7811 Web.config missing from iCal, WebSchedule, and RSS plugins
    • Summary: The missing web configs are now being properly deployed
    • Bug: 7813 Add Health check to transcode process. And kill it if it doesn't respond for too long.
    • Summary: We now monitor the transcoder and fail the transcode operation if it is unresponsive.
    • Bug: 7820 Installer does not check for .NET 4.0
    • Summary: The Cablecast installer once again checks to ensure the .NET 4.0 Framework is installed.
    • Bug: 8239 Some MPEG-2 files are truncated by VOD transcoder
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would cause some MPEG-2 files to be transcoded shorter than the original file.
    • Bug: 8323 Crawl sometimes does not appear
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could sometimes prevent a Crawl from appearing on the output of an SX server when using SX Video Overlay.
    • Bug: 8420 Add all supported values to the CablecastDeviceControl.config file
    • Summary: The CablecastDeviceControl.config file now includes all of the settings that are supported. The file has also been reorganized to make it easier to find needed settings.
    • Bug: 8569 Progress bar for VODs do not update often enough
    • Summary: The current progress of a VOD operation is now updated several times per minute.
    • Bug: 8675 Clicking Save in the New Show screen multiple times can lead to unexpected results
    • Summary: The Save button is now disabled immediately so that a new Show cannot be saved more than once.
    • Bug: 8676 Quotes cause issue in X-List Output
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause the X-List file generated by Cablecast to be invalid.
    • Bug: 8691 Improve warning message for dropped frames
    • Summary: The warning message that is generated when an SX server drops frames is now much more useful.
    • Bug: 8693 SX Servers fail to down scale HD files that are not full frame
    • Summary: Fixed a regression that prevented SX Servers from downscaling less than full frame HD files to SD.
    • Bug: 8694 MPEG2 encoding on SX Servers can fail
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that could cause encoding of MPEG2 files on SX servers to fail with an exception.
    • Bug: 8700 Validation logic for URL fields can crash some browsers
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could lead to a web browser crash when attempting to validate Live and VOD URL fields.
    • Bug: 8707 Make sure installer doesn't overwrite CablecastAPI Web.config
    • Summary: The Cablecast Installer no longer overwrites the web.config file for the CablecastAPI
    • Bug: 8737 Test bars in SXConfiguration application persist even after clicking Stop
    • Summary: The bars signal is now cleared immediately upon clicking Stop.
    • Bug: 8745 Make Port/IP/LocalPath field wider
    • Summary: This makes it much easier to edit longer values in this field.
    • Bug: 8746 Public Site's Custom.css file is overwritten by installer
    • Summary: The Cablecast Installer no longer overwrites the Custom.css file.
    • Bug: 8749 Return to previous screen when visiting show record
    • Summary: When a Show Record is accessed from Digital File Management or Video On Demand, the user will now be sent back to their original location upon saving the Show.
    • Bug: 8751 Encodes fail if FileKey contains invalid characters
    • Summary: The SXEncodeCM now properly removes any invalid characters that are present in the FIleKey field.
    • Bug: 8792 Validation hangs when trying to validate ProRes 444
    • Summary: File Validation now correctly flags Apple ProRes 444 files as invalid.
    • Bug: 8859 VODs can become stuck in the transcoding stage
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where VODs could be come stuck in the transcoding phase due to a missing file. Now the VODs will eventually time out causing a failure. Once failed, the VODs can be re-queued for transcoding.
    • Bug: 8868 DFM UI should make it clear that file extension isn't lost as a result of rename operation
    • Summary: The Rename function in Digital File Management now indicates that renaming the file has no effect on the file's extension.
    • Bug: 8876 SX Video Overlay Crashes
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could cause the SX Video Overlay application to crash due to an unhanded exception.
    • Bug: 8878 Auto Schedule batch function should handle 12 / 24 hour time.
    • Summary: Both 12 and 24 hour time are now working as intended.
    • Bug: 8884 Encoder and Decoder should only report status if they are encoding or decoding.
    • Summary: SXPlayer and SXEncoder devices no longer report nonsensical status information while they are stopped.
    • Bug: 8887 Test mode in SXConfiguration doesn't include an audio tone
    • Summary: An audio tone is now generated while the server is in Test mode.
    • Bug: 8906 Cablecast should use Record Event name if no FileKey is specified
    • Summary: Cablecast will now fall back to the name of the Record Event if the user does not specify a FileKey.
    • Bug: 8918 Cablecast shouldn't log an Error when a Take is skipped due to Override
    • Summary: When a Take is skipped because it's channel is in override, an information message is now logged instead of the previous error message.
    • Bug: 8920 Cablecast RSS output does not pass validation
    • Summary: Fixed RSS formatting to prevent Invalid Token error in RSS validators.
    • Bug: 8930 Digital File Management incorrectly parses files names that contain periods
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the extension of a file was incorrectly parsed. This would be apparent during a rename operation where the current name of the file would be presented incorrectly.
    • Bug: 8945 Schedule events at 23:59:59 can not be modified
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where schedule events at 23:59:59 were not presented on the current day. This prevented them from being edited or removed. These runs will now be displayed properly.
    • Bug: 8975 ProRes 444 files show up as 422
    • Summary: Apple ProRes 444 files are now correctly identified as such.
    • Bug: 8996 Auto Schedule Batch function fails when a day of week is not selected
    • Summary: Improved the error message presented to the user when a day of week is not selected while using the Auto Schedule batch function.
    • Bug: 9016 SXConfiguration Test bars don't work in 720p
    • Summary: Bars are now working correctly in all resolutions.
    • Bug: 9091 Fill Gaps with Project batch function excludes programs exactly the length of gap
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the Fill Gaps with Project batch function would not schedule a Show if its TRT is exactly the length of the gap. Now these shows are allowed to be scheduled.
    • Bug: 9174 Improve Autopilot error message when schedule contains no runs
    • Summary: The error message now clearly indicates the date range that does not have any runs.
    • Bug: 9176 URL validation incorrectly validates URLs containing whitespace
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where the URL validation feedback, when configuring VOD and Live Streaming, would display a URL containing whitespace as valid. These URLs are now flagged as not being valid.
    • Bug: 9403 SX Servers incorrectly validate h.264 files without AAC audio
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where SX servers would incorrectly mark h.264 files without AAC audio as valid. AAC audio is required for h.264 files, and the SX Server will now mark any files as invalid if they do not meet these requirements.
5.2.0 -- 7 issues -- Released: 10/2/2013
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    • Bug: 3077 Redesigned VOD
    • Summary: Completely redesigned Video On Demand. Files are now transcoded to h.264 which allows viewing in all browsers, and on mobile devices. All SX compatible codecs are supported, as are multi-reel shows. The cue and length fields from the show record are now respected as well.
    • Bug: 3695 Automatic Cloud Database Backups
    • Summary: Cablecast now automatically performs a database backup to the cloud every three days.
    • Bug: 7642 Unified Installer
    • Summary: Cablecast is now distributed as a single installer. The new installer will install the Cablecast web interface if FrontDoor is installed.
    • Bug: 7660 Add genlock status indicator to SX Configuration
    • Summary: The SX Configuration application now includes a genlock status indicator.
    • Bug: 7682 Control Module Hosts screen shows software versions
    • Summary: The Control Module Hosts screen now shows the software version of each host.
    • Bug: 7747 VDCPCM Supports back-to-back playback
    • Summary: For those who use Cablecast automation to control servers from other manufacturers, The VDCP Control Module now supports back-to-back playback. Customers using VDCP should ensure that their Take Delay is set to zero seconds.
    • Bug: 7789 New Digital File Management
    • Summary: Digital File Management was redesigned to be faster and more efficient. It has also moved from the Autopilot menu, to the Main menu.
5.1.3 -- 10 issues -- Released: 7/11/2014
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    • Bug: 7829 Audio Sync Issues on SX servers with MPEG2 encoded by VS4 server
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where files encoded by VS4 servers would playback out of sync on newer SX servers. The files now playback correctly.
    • Bug: 8087 Using "New Show" button in Digital File Management will choose wrong Format
    • Summary: Fixed an issue with Cablecast database creation that incorrectly associated all Formats to the initial Video Server Control Module Set.
    • Bug: 8089 Error when editing a Channel's Style in SX Video Overlay
    • Summary: Fixed a race condition that would cause an error when saving settings after editing a Channel's Style.
    • Bug: 8103 Autopilot can hang when being sent
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause Autopilot to hang during a send if Software Metrics were enabled. Software metrics are no longer sent during the Autopilot send.
    • Bug: 8163 Invalid file names can break discovery of new files
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where file names that began with very large numbers would cause an error in Digital File Management, preventing the discovery of new files.
    • Bug: 8184 Kramer routers will hang getting status
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause the Kramer2000CM to disregard the output settings. This would cause the control module to try to obtain status for 100 outputs. On smaller routers this would cause significant delays int the Force Matrix.
    • Bug: 8263 Clicking "Unbump" with no selection causes error
    • Summary: Clicking "Unbump" with no selection will now alert the user that a selection is required.
    • Bug: 8264 Using saved searches from Schedule may cause error
    • Summary: Fixed an error that would occur if a user tried to search using saved searches, but the system had no saved searches.
    • Bug: 8278 WebSchedule, iCalSchedule, and RSSSchedule are only accessible when logged in
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would prevent the WebSchedule, iCalSchedule, and RSSSchedule from being available to unauthenticated users.
    • Bug: 8325 Disable DSK for CG Exempt programming
    • Summary: Changed the behavior of DSK so programming marked as CG Exempt no longer displays a crawl, bug or bug text. This behavior can be changed back to original behavior of all runs getting DSK treatment by setting an application config.
5.1.2 -- 11 issues -- Released: 1/6/2014
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    • Bug: 7662 Cablecast does not always detect deleted files
    • Summary: Systems with Control Module Sets that are not configured are now able to detect deleted files.
    • Bug: 7663 SX Video Overlay will sometimes not reflect channel status
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where commands would be incorrectly throttled and would cause the channel not to reflect the correct overlay information.
    • Bug: 7676 Control Module Hosts page can display inaccurate last sync time for hosts that have never synced
    • Summary: We now set the last sync to 'never' for hosts that have never synced.
    • Bug: 7681 Leaving control module hosts page open can fill logs
    • Summary: The connection check on the control module hosts page could fill up logs if left open for extended periods of time eventually causing performance issues. The connection checks now do not log their activity.
    • Bug: 7685 SX Video Overlay does not correctly scale output in 720p
    • Summary: The SX Video Overlay app now properly scales the output when the output resolution is set to 720p.
    • Bug: 7686 Some files can cause validation to stop indefinitly
    • Summary: File validation now correctly fails these files and continues to process new files.
    • Bug: 7699 Batch scheduling functions do not set DSK fields
    • Summary: When using batch functions to schedule the Crawl Text, Crawl Length, and Bug Text fields will now be set correctly.
    • Bug: 7718 Installer does not corectly deploy all configuration files
    • Summary: The installer would not deploy all the configuration files for Cablecast leaving some areas of Cablecast inaccessible including the Public Site. The installer now correctly deploys all of the configuration files.
    • Bug: 7730 Autopilot can incorrectly fail because of a locked run
    • Summary: When a locked run causes the previous run to be shortened the autopilot send will fail if that run was already shortened because the digital file was too short. Autopilot will now correctly shorten the previous run to the shorter duration.
    • Bug: 7853 Network files can be incorrectly marked as ambiguous
    • Summary: Incomplete processing of some network files would cause them to be incorrectly marked as ambiguous. Files will no longer be marked as ambiguous until they are fully processed.
    • Bug: 7866 SX Video Overlay application can fail to start on system boot
    • Summary: If the video processing subsystem was not ready when the SX Video Overlay app was started it would fail to detect the SX outputs. The application now retires until the video processing subsystem has started.
5.1.1 -- 9 issues -- Released: 6/4/2013
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    • Bug: 7370 Digital File Management page can have script errors in IE
    • Summary: We have reduced the script resources needed by the digital file management page in order to reduce the likelihood of these errors.
    • Bug: 7490 Control Module Hosts screen broken in IE
    • Summary: The installer was failing to install a requirement for the control module hosts screen to work in Internet Explorer. The file is now installed properly.
    • Bug: 7506 Cablecast Video Overlay app can crash when column headers are clicked
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that would cause an application crash when clicking the headers of the Cablecast Video Overlay App.
    • Bug: 7524 File Thumbnails Not Being Displayed
    • Summary: Fixed a configuration file issue that caused thumbnails not to show up on new Cablecast systems.
    • Bug: 7536 Cablecast Video Overlay app fails to load on system startup
    • Summary: Fixes issues when the Cablecast Video Overlay App starts after a system reboot. The application should now start and function properly after a reboot.
    • Bug: 7540 Graphs are sometimes missing in Reporting
    • Summary: Fixed an issue causing broken images in Cablecast Reporting.
    • Bug: 7572 Autopilot can hang indefinitely
    • Summary: Fixed a logging issue that would sometimes cause Autopilot sends to hang indefinitely until the machine was restarted.
    • Bug: 7575 MPEG2 encoding sometimes fails on SX servers
    • Summary: Fixes an issue encoding MPEG2 video on SX Servers.
    • Bug: 7604 CEA-608 closed captioning is not output in HD resolutions
    • Summary: Fixes an issue where closed captions from SD files were not correctly output on HD servers outputting in an HD resolution.
5.1.0 -- 16 issues -- Released: 2/28/2013
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    • Bug: 4837 SXConfiguration does not handle IPv6 addresses
    • Summary: SXConfiguration now works correctly when IPv6 is enabled.
    • Bug: 5644 Knox64 CM doesn't always return status
    • Summary: The Knox control modules now work correctly with asymmetric routers.
    • Bug: 6178 Extron MAVPlus CM does not support single digit output routers
    • Summary: The ExtronMAVPlusCM now works correctly with smaller routers.
    • Bug: 6673 SX Servers now use Matrox driver version 9.2
    • Summary: The new 9.2 drivers fix a multitude of file compatibility issues.
    • Bug: 6685 Support for 708 Closed Captioning
    • Summary: The SX2HD servers now support 708 Closed Captioning.
    • Bug: 6708 Support for Tascom BD-R2000 DVD playback
    • Summary: A new control module is available that allows control of the Tascam BD-R2000 player.
    • Bug: 6716 SX Video Overlay application
    • Summary: The SX Video Overlay application is now available. This adds built-in bug, bug text and crawl to newer SX Series servers.
    • Bug: 6764 Silverlight Player for VOD
    • Summary: The Cablecast public site now includes a Microsoft Silverlight player for VOD files.
    • Bug: 6781 File validation seeks to several positions within the file
    • Summary: As part of the validation process, SX Servers now play several portions of the file to ensure that they work correctly.
    • Bug: 6845 Remove Support for VSXCM
    • Summary: The VSX Series server is no longer supported in Cablecast 5.1.
    • Bug: 6864 Installer automatically backs up Cablecast database
    • Summary: The Cablecast installer now performs a database backup before making any changes.
    • Bug: 6984 Control Module Hosts screen includes last sync time
    • Summary: This should make it easier to diagnose network connectivity issues.
    • Bug: 6986 SX Servers can now encode more codecs to .mov files
    • Summary: There are several new combinations available for .mov encoding.
    • Bug: 6988 Control Module Hosts screen includes a basic health check
    • Summary: This will make troubleshooting easier.
    • Bug: 7050 FileInfo supports Versioning and re-validates outdated info
    • Summary: Digital File Management now keeps track of what version of Cablecast validated a given file.
    • Bug: 7190 Anonymous user metric collection
    • Summary: Cablecast can now collect basic usage metrics about how the system is being used. A screen is presented at first-login asking the user if they would like to participate.
5.0.8 -- 10 issues -- Released: 6/4/2013
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    • Bug: 6956 SX-Live servers fail if using AT&T U-verse profile
    • Summary: SX-Live Servers can now make use of the AT&T profile. This may require updating the CablecastDeviceControl application configuration file on certain servers.
    • Bug: 7130 Device Assignments do not show 'Record' assignments
    • Summary: The Device Assignment listing now shows record devices.
    • Bug: 7140 Force Menu Breaks When Certain Characters Are Present In Output Name
    • Summary: Fixes an issue where certain characters such as ampersands would cause the Force Matrix not to work properly.
    • Bug: 7342 Cablecast does not create Play events for manual records where the source is a Digital File device
    • Summary: The correct play events are now created for record runs that have a digital file device as a source.
    • Bug: 7421 SX sometimes encodes faster than real time
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a corrupt video signal could cause the SX to record faster than real time resulting in large and unusable files.
    • Bug: 7481 Cablecast fails to find files that were previously deleted
    • Summary: This fixes an issue where files that were removed from a video server's content drive and then added back at a later date would fail to be recognized. Cablecast will now find the files when they are re-added.
    • Bug: 7487 SXConfiguration playback progress bar is not accurate
    • Summary: The playback progress bar now accurately represents the current position of the file being played.
    • Bug: 7498 Web Interface allows users to delete all of their Locations
    • Summary: Users can no longer delete all locations. Cablecast must have at least one location.
    • Bug: 7534 Cablecast Control Module guide is missing serial port diagrams
    • Summary: The images are now back where they belong.
    • Bug: 7562 UtahScientificRCP1CM does not work correctly with 100x series routers
    • Summary: Newer Utah 100x routers do not respond with a termination character required by the RCP-1 protocol We have removed the requirement for this character from the UtahRCP control module.
5.0.7 -- 11 issues -- Released: 2/28/2013
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    • Bug: 2986 Naming in Location Settings: IO: ODIP is inconsistent
    • Summary: The names for the VOD server settings are a little more inteligible now.
    • Bug: 7096 Standalone crawl does not work as expected while automation is overridden
    • Summary: The standalone crawl schedule is no longer effected by automation override.
    • Bug: 7166 Scheduling two encodes at the same time on the same device results in a useless error message
    • Summary: This error message now includes the name of, and a link to the offending encode.
    • Bug: 7196 Files for cleared shows do not show up in Digital File Managment
    • Summary: The files that belonged to cleared shows now show up as orphaned files.
    • Bug: 7197 Files that are validated without a hasp key never get re-indexed
    • Summary: This can occur for a few moments after a software update. We will now attempt to re-index these files.
    • Bug: 7228 App.config setting allows user to set Utah Baud Rate
    • Summary: Some newer Utah routers don't use the same baud rate as our Control Module. The baud rate can now be set in the config file.
    • Bug: 7253 Audio level labels in SXConfiguration don't load initial value
    • Summary: The audio level labels now show the correct value when the application is started.
    • Bug: 7271 Control Modules require Administrator privlidges to work on Windows 7 machines
    • Summary: Added a note to the manual stating that control modules running on Windows 7 machines need Administrator privileges for time sync to work.
    • Bug: 7274 SX Configuration should poll for SXHwControl instead of exiting right away
    • Summary: The SXConfiguration application will now try to connect up to 10 times before exiting.
    • Bug: 7300 VOD error message when a transcode is killed "file is longer encoding"
    • Summary: This error message is now proper english, and inclues much more information.
    • Bug: 7341 SXConfiguration should use an HD codec when encoding an HD resolution
    • Summary: The SXConfiguration tool now uses 50 Mbps MPEG-2 for HD resolution encodes.
5.0.6 -- 12 issues -- Released: 12/31/2012
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    • Bug: 6182 Shows in show bin are inconsistent depending on where bin is viewed
    • Summary: The view show bin page was incorrectly filtering out some shows in a users show bin. The show bin page now includes all shows in a user's bin.
    • Bug: 6357 Record runs are not updated when source runs are updated
    • Summary: We now update a record event's start time when the associated source run start time is changed.
    • Bug: 6971 Podcasting fails to find source files for transcoding
    • Summary: The podcasting process is now able to locate source files for transcoding.
    • Bug: 6972 Switches can fail on large Blackmagic routers
    • Summary: Configurations with a large number of cross points and custom labels could experience failed switches due to the extra configuration data. Cablecast now handles the extra data appropriately.
    • Bug: 6978 Dragging shows into schedule does not set bug text
    • Summary: When a new show is dragged into the schedule the bug text property is now correctly set in the run details.
    • Bug: 7007 Fill gaps with project batch function does not always display error messages
    • Summary: When errors occurred the page would reset instead of displaying error messages. The error messages are now displayed to the user.
    • Bug: 7009 Failed autopilot send reports now only list failure messages
    • Summary: When an autopilot send fails Cablecast now only displays messages that are directly related to the failed send.
    • Bug: 7011 Last Sent date on Autopilot page is misleading
    • Summary: The autopilot send page now clearly indicates when the last send occurred and the time range of that send.
    • Bug: 7012 Autopilot error messages don't include host name
    • Summary: Autopilot error messages now clearly indicate the host on which an error has occurred.
    • Bug: 7017 Delete record runs when deleting runs
    • Summary: When a schedule event is deleted any associated record runs are also deleted.
    • Bug: 7054 LiveIP exempt actions are reversed
    • Summary: Actions to start and stop a SXLive stream were transposed, 'stop' instead of 'play' and vice versa. The correct commands are now sent.
    • Bug: 7065 Some files with AAC audio incorrectly pass validation
    • Summary: AAC audio is only compatible with AVC (h264) video. Cablecast will now mark any other combinations as invalid.
5.0.5 -- 21 issues -- Released: 8/23/2012
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    • Bug: 4149 Control Modules Guide
    • Summary: The Cablecast installer now includes a reference guide for Control Module configuration
    • Bug: 6573 Autopilot does not create Stop and Play events for LiveIP Exempt programming
    • Summary: Autopilot now creates the proper events to start and stop the SXLive when LiveIP Exempt programming is scheduled.
    • Bug: 6590 Support for multiple VDCP servers is unreliable
    • Summary: Improved reliability of communications when using multiple VDCP servers
    • Bug: 6607 Leightronix Switch Events should not send Take Delay
    • Summary: Autopilot now sends events with a Take Delay set to zero, at the proper time.
    • Bug: 6644 Can not switch locations on systems with six or more locations
    • Summary: Systems with six or more locations use a drop box to switch between locations. When using the dropbox selecting a new location will now actually switch the location.
    • Bug: 6658 Force menu small does not always return router status
    • Summary: The small force menu should now show status for routers that are partially configured
    • Bug: 6670 X-List schedule can be invalid
    • Summary: Certain edge cases will no longer create invalid X-List schedules.
    • Bug: 6678 Improve Digital File Management - Delete
    • Summary: Cablecast will now ask for confirmation before deleting content from a video server
    • Bug: 6705 Shows with multiple reels from feeder locations create extra switches
    • Summary: Shows made up of multiple reels played from feeder locations no longer create extra switches between reels.
    • Bug: 6721 Autopilot does not update device run counts
    • Summary: The run counts for assigned devices will now be updated during an autopilot send
    • Bug: 6759 Support for Nevion NCB Protocol
    • Summary: Cablecast now supports Nevion routing switchers.
    • Bug: 6818 File sharing services in Windows 7 stop accepting connections
    • Summary: The file sharing services in Windows 7 can run out of resources under heavy use. Installers now increase the memory for the file sharing services.
    • Bug: 6843 Files with incompatible audio are not marked as invalid
    • Summary: Files with invalid audio or no audio tracks are now marked as invalid.
    • Bug: 6868 Information regarding TascamDVD6599CM is not accurate in Control Module documentation
    • Summary: Documentation now reflects the fact that one Control Module Set is required for each device to be controlled
    • Bug: 6885 Long file names can cause playback problems on SX video servers
    • Summary: Long file names could sometimes be truncated causing playback failure.
    • Bug: 6893 Podcasting fails to access control modules sets with multiple network paths
    • Summary: Podcasting now properly handles video servers with multiple network paths
    • Bug: 6895 Schedule dialogs do not display properly in Internet Explorer
    • Summary: Dialog boxes are now properly sized and centered when viewed in Internet Explorer.
    • Bug: 6908 Use of single quotes can cause errors in schedule
    • Summary: Single quotes in fields such as Bug Text will no longer cause errors in the schedule
    • Bug: 6909 Preassigned devices from feeder locations do not create switch on primary location
    • Summary: Preassigned runs from feeder locations will now properly create switch events at both the feeder and primary locations
    • Bug: 6911 Autopilot settings can not be saved for new locations
    • Summary: When creating a new location autopilot settings for the new location can now be saved.
    • Bug: 6922 Saved searches are not properly sorted in schedule
    • Summary: Saved searches will now display using the selected sort when the search was saved.
5.0.4 -- 9 issues -- Released: 12/15/2011
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    • Bug: 6453 Support for Blackmagic Videohub Ethernet Protocol
    • Summary: This release includes the BlackmagicVHCM with support for Blackmagic Videohub routers using the Ethernet Protocol. This Control Module currently only address the primary outputs on Video Hub routers.
    • Bug: 6467 Wake commands have no effect
    • Summary: Wake commands now fire a play followed by two stops to wake Generic IR devices from sleep.
    • Bug: 6480 Previously deleted files are not recognized by Digital File Managment
    • Summary: Files that were once deleted are now picked up when placed back in a content folder.
    • Bug: 6481 Cablecast Service can hang indefinitely
    • Summary: Different process in the Cablecast service sometimes could call on the same resource causing the service to hang.
    • Bug: 6484 Switches with Take Delays can be delayed
    • Summary: Take delays were calculated twice causing delayed switches.
    • Bug: 6496 Deleting files in Digital File Management can delete the wrong file
    • Summary: Deleting files in Digital File Management now uses the exact path of the file, not the showID.
    • Bug: 6532 SXEncoder can cause stability issues after numerous encodes
    • Summary: The SX Encoder was starting a monitoring process for each encode which could overwhelm the system after numerous encodes.
    • Bug: 6533 SXEncodeMonitor starts on VOD servers creating error messsages.
    • Summary: We no longer start the SXEncodeMonitor on non SX servers.
    • Bug: 6534 Some Invalid files can pass validation
    • Summary: File Validation on SX Servers now require h.264 files require have stereo audio and mark reference mov files as invalid.
5.0.3 -- 14 issues -- Released: 10/21/2011
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    • Bug: 5539 Support for Select Blackmagic Design Video Hub routers
    • Summary: The Micro, Smart, and Compact Videohub routers are now supported using the LeitchRouter Control Module.
    • Bug: 6367 Encodes on SX servers with no file key specified are not named
    • Summary: When an encode has no file key we will now name the file based on the current date and time.
    • Bug: 6382 When adding a new run in the schedule cursor should default to ShowID
    • Summary: After a new run is placed in the schedule the cursor is placed in the ShowID field so a showID number can be typed.
    • Bug: 6383 Implement V-chip rating for Evertz 8084AD
    • Summary: The Evertz 8084AD can now be used to embed v-chip ratings in a channels output.
    • Bug: 6385 h264 video longer than 45 minutes will stutter
    • Summary: Video files exported from Apple compressor longer than 45 minutes would stutter after the 45 minute mark. These files now playback properly.
    • Bug: 6386 Timecode VTR devices do not cue properly
    • Summary: Timecode VTR devices now will now properly handle a cue command.
    • Bug: 6387 Cue and Play Events for RecordSourceEvents are incorrect
    • Summary: Cue and play event times for sources of record events were are now correctly timed.
    • Bug: 6389 SX Servers have playback issues due to aggressively indexing new files
    • Summary: SX Servers now wait until a file is done being written before attempting to index the file.
    • Bug: 6403 Improve Fill Gaps with Project Batch Function
    • Summary: Fill gaps batch function will not schedule the same show multiple times in a gap unless the Allow Repeats option is selected.
    • Bug: 6409 Disabled or Deleted devices can cause Autopilot to error out
    • Summary: Deleted or Disabled devices can cause Autopilot sends to error out.
    • Bug: 6411 Not all outputs on SX4 respect external genlock setting
    • Summary: When changing the Genlock source in SXConfiguration the setting will propagate to all outputs.
    • Bug: 6417 SX encoder sometimes encodes faster than real time
    • Summary: On rare instances improperly timestamped video frames would cause the SX encoder to record a single frame faster than real time. These bad frames will now be discarded and the endcode will continue normally.
    • Bug: 6424 Add SQL Server 2005 as an installer requirement
    • Summary: Cablecast installer now checks for SQL Server 2005 before continuing with installation.
    • Bug: 6429 Add ftp digital file managment to VDCPCM
    • Summary: VDCPCM will now poll for digital files using FTP if an IP address is entered into the Network Path CM setting.
5.0.2 -- 8 issues -- Released: 8/17/2011
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    • Bug: 6281 Encodes on SX Servers did not always stop
    • Summary: This would occur if a message other than the name of the encoded file was returned when the SX Encoder asked for status. Now if anything besides the file name is returned, the encode will be stopped immediately.
    • Bug: 6318 Autopilot send could fail if reels with zero length are scheduled
    • Summary: Reels with zero length are now skipped when sending autopilot.
    • Bug: 6321 Knox64CM does not return status
    • Summary: The status for the router is now returned correctly.
    • Bug: 6323 VOD transcoder never finishes
    • Summary: The VOD transcoder will now manually close the file after 5 minutes of no activity.
    • Bug: 6324 Pressing RETURN in the schedule date box does not change schedule day
    • Summary: You can now press the return key to select a new date in the schedule.
    • Bug: 6333 Shows with Load and Jump actions are bumped incorrectly
    • Summary: The bumps are now calculated based on the time the program is actually on air.
    • Bug: 6336 SxFileValidaitonService hangs when creating thumbnails based on DVCAM MOV files
    • Summary: Thumbnail creation now works properly.
    • Bug: 6338 Path for local VBI files contain extra slash
    • Summary: The VBI paths are now calculated correctly.
5.0.1 -- 6 issues -- Released: 7/12/2011
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    • Bug: 6162 Video on Demand links can disappear and some files get transcoded more than once
    • Summary: Resolved an issue with the way the VOD server synchronizes video on demand files leading to disappearing links and unnecessary transcodes.
    • Bug: 6257 Reels with no length are ignored by autopilot
    • Summary: When a reel with no length is scheduled, autopilot will remove it from the schedule and add an error message to the send report.
    • Bug: 6267 Multi-location feeders with no default input cause autopilot failures
    • Summary: Feeders with no default input will now have no end take event created.
    • Bug: 6268 Runs from feeder locations do not display correctly in main menu heads up display
    • Summary: Runs from other locations now correctly display the title of the run in the main menu heads up display.
    • Bug: 6270 Non-SX vider server thumbnail creating slows down file indexing
    • Summary: Non-SX servers will now report back if a file is valid or not before generating a thumbnail.
    • Bug: 6271 SxFileValidationService would cease to run under certain conditions.
    • Summary: The service will now be restarted if it is not running.
5.0.0 -- 16 issues -- Released: 6/28/2011
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    • Bug: 2025 Thumbnail support
    • Summary: You get thumbnails in show records now! You can even get those thumbnails out via the web service.
    • Bug: 2200 SX Servers to support back-to-back playback
    • Summary: Can it be? YES. Finally fame accurate back-to-back playback. Geezh what took us so long!?!?! Well it is all thanks to the all new autopilot.
    • Bug: 2977 Runs can be rippled to a specific time of day
    • Summary: Another super-useful addition to the schedule allows you to ripple runs to a specific time
    • Bug: 2978 Newly created runs are automatically selected
    • Summary: +2
    • Bug: 2979 Highlight selected shows
    • Summary: +1
    • Bug: 3100 All new, smarter Autopilot
    • Summary: Holy buckets batman! Autopilot is all new and better than ever. Re-worked from the ground up, it is faster, takes advantage of new Digital File Management, and provides a more useful send report.
    • Bug: 3162 Follow "shortcuts" when searching for video files on an SX
    • Summary: An obscure feature but really useful for a few of you power users.
    • Bug: 3224 Schedule has 'To Bin' button
    • Summary: Another sweet schedule enhancement.
    • Bug: 3229 Drag and drop scheduled shows
    • Summary: We can now drag and drop multiple runs in the schedule, fun for all.
    • Bug: 3246 Cablecast Service keeps list of digital files on video servers
    • Summary: Rewritten Digital File Management is faster and validates files on Tightrope video servers.
    • Bug: 5044 Support for x64 systems
    • Summary: We now support 64 bit OS's, which is sweet because now SX servers can access larger RAID arrays. Get your's bits!
    • Bug: 5141 Pause for SX Encoder
    • Summary: All you city council ops will love the ability to pause an encode. Pick it back up with a zero frame gap... just remember to resume it ;)
    • Bug: 5552 Reworked schedule for extreme awesomeness
    • Summary: We added a ton of new features to the schedule. Can you find them all? Mostly we reworked the underlying framework so we can make even more enhancements in the future.
    • Bug: 5916 Allow Orphaned Files to be renamed in Digital File Managment
    • Summary: You can now find and assign unnamed files to show ID's. Cablecast will prepend them with the show ID for you.
    • Bug: 6097 Add additional Bump Settings
    • Summary: You can now clear bumps on every autopilot send. Great feature so you don't accidentally bump into oblivion!
    • Bug: 6244 Sony BDP-CX7000ES Control Module
    • Summary: We added a new control module for serial control of the BDP-CX7000ES Blu Ray player.
4.9.1 -- 8 issues -- Released: 10/4/2010
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    • Bug: 4433 Stopped automation does not affect bug/text
    • Summary: DSK information will now adhere to an overridden channel and not follow the original schedule.
    • Bug: 5486 Add ability to change Podcast content location
    • Summary: Podcasts can now have their storage location changed on the server. This requires changing system settings.
    • Bug: 5487 AutoPatchBCSCM supports router levels
    • Summary: Added the ability to define what levels of the router should be controlled via the AutoPatchBCSCM.
    • Bug: 5551 Reintroduce Standalone mode for Luminance Keyed DSK
    • Summary: Reintroduced the classic "Standalone" mode for CablecastDSK. This mode allows the use of luminance keying to display DSK information.
    • Bug: 5554 Drag and drop scheduling won't populate DSK fields
    • Summary: DSK fields within a scheduled show will now populate correctly from the source ShowID when you drag and drop it into the schedule.
    • Bug: 5579 ChyTV can become unresponsive to CablecastDSK
    • Summary: Resolved a situation where the ChyTV would become unresponsive after a large number of commands had been sent to it.
    • Bug: 5607 Panasonic ControlModules can stop responding
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where the Panasonic ControlModules could seize a serial port, causing the system to respond incorrectly for a period of time.
    • Bug: 5623 Kramer2000CM interfaces with Kramer SDI Routers
    • Summary: Kramer SDI routers with embedded audio will now correctly return status.
4.9.0 -- 13 issues -- Released: 7/4/2010
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    • Bug: 3908 Jupiter ASCII Router CMS
    • Summary: Implemented a Control Module for the Jupiter ASCII Protocol.
    • Bug: 4034 Webservice allows for data creation
    • Summary: Updated the Cablecast Webservice to allow more robust functionality, including the ability to remotely create and update data.
    • Bug: 4323 Image flickers on Compix units when bug text overlaps crawl area
    • Summary: Fixed a situation where an overlapping bug and crawl would cause a flicker on the Compix hardware while running CablecastDSK.
    • Bug: 4341 Add control of Compix NewsScroll to DSK
    • Summary: Added control of Compix NewsScroll software to CablecastDSK software.
    • Bug: 4342 Revamp CablecastDSK software
    • Summary: Rewrote CablecastDSK to interface with the new Cablecast Web Service for improved performance, and gave it a new interface!
    • Bug: 4575 DSK Crawl Speed can be reversed
    • Summary: Fixed a situation where the Crawl Speed slider for Compix hardware could be reversed.
    • Bug: 5037 Update CablecastWS web.config file
    • Summary: Updated the web.config file in the CablecastWS directory to support new web service functionality. This new web.config file will overwrite your previous version.
    • Bug: 5059 Find and Replace batch function
    • Summary: Added a new Batch Function to find and replace ShowIDs in a certain time frame.
    • Bug: 5087 Add ability for show record to store crawl information
    • Summary: ShowIDs now store DSK information. These values will be used by default when that show is scheduled to air.
    • Bug: 5093 Add control of Versimation BB101 to DSK
    • Summary: Added control of Versimation BB101 hardware to CablecastDSK software.
    • Bug: 5132 Add Fill Gaps batch function
    • Summary: Added a new Batch Function to fill gaps in the schedule with the shows in a project, and a new Batch Function to remove these filled gaps if needed.
    • Bug: 5133 Update schedule page to reflect new DSK functionality
    • Summary: Added notification for scheduled show entries when values are entered in a DSK field.
    • Bug: 5380 Add iFrames to show records
    • Summary: Added the option to enable iFrames in show records for integration with external systems.
4.8.7 -- 2 issues -- Released: 7/6/2010
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    • Bug: 5280 LiveIP Exempt creates Switch to 0 (zero)
    • Summary: When sending autopilot on systems STRM-LIVE servers, autopilot would add a switch command to input 0. On some system this caused routing switchers to take to unexpected inputs.
    • Bug: 5328 Knox64CM router status does not report consistently
    • Summary: Some Knox64 router do not report their status in a consistent way, we made Cablecast's processing code more robust to handle these inconsistencies.
4.8.6 -- 4 issues -- Released: 5/15/2010
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    • Bug: 5291 Cablecast services do not work on 64bit systems
    • Summary: Cablecast will now run on 64bit operating systems
    • Bug: 5292 Cablecast web UI needs to install into the Classic .NET AppPool for Windows 2008
    • Summary: Cablecast needs to run as the Classic .NET AppPool on 2008.
    • Bug: 5293 System.Threading.ThreadAbortException in TRMS event log when Cablecast service stops
    • Summary: This was an annoying little problem that never cause any system stability issues, it just caused extra entries in the event log.
    • Bug: 5313 Installers now kill TRMS.Components.Transcoder.exe on install
    • Summary: THe installers need to close any running Cablecast software before trying to install new files.
4.8.5 -- 24 issues -- Released: 3/31/2010
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    • Bug: 3130 Record run fields don't always update
    • Summary: The start time for record runs now correctly reflect bumps in the parent runs start time.
    • Bug: 4209 SXHWControl logging on systems where no DSX.SD installed
    • Summary: SXHWControl will now only create one notification when started on systems without the appropriate hardware.
    • Bug: 4225 Cablecast Supercopy generates duplicate shows at 12 AM
    • Summary: Shows scheduled at 12 AM and copied using Supercopy, no longer generate duplicate runs.
    • Bug: 4226 Cablecast Supercopy browser error when clicking Finish from a remote connection
    • Summary: The Finish button in Supercopy would only redirect to localhost, causing a conflict when using it from a remote machine. Supercopy will now use the correct server address.
    • Bug: 4317 SXConfiguration app can become unsynced with SXHWcontrol
    • Summary: Restarting SXHWControl while SXConfiguration was open would cause it to hang. SXConfiguration will now continue to work after a SXHWControl restart.
    • Bug: 4602 Knox RSII Router status doesn't always give feedback
    • Summary: We now check against five types of status commands the Knox RSII series can return.
    • Bug: 4608 Schedule is sluggish when many shows are on the schedule
    • Summary: Optimized the show schedule code to be speedier when dealing with many shows on a single days schedule.
    • Bug: 4631 Cablecast Public Site doesn't sort fields in alphabetical order
    • Summary: The Category and Producer drop down menues in the Cablecast Public Site are now in alphabetical order.
    • Bug: 4640 Changed default authentication for Cablecast Supercopy
    • Summary: Improved Cablecast Supercopy default authentication.
    • Bug: 4645 Multiple ProcessID Changed entries in TRMS log
    • Summary: Attempts to play invalid files will now no longer occasionally cause a system-wide freeze.
    • Bug: 4705 SX Autodumps don't create .dmp file.
    • Summary: Folder for dump logs are now generated in the ControlModules directory if it does not exist.
    • Bug: 4712 Standalone Crawl Schedule Limited to 255 Characters
    • Summary: In some databases the crawl text field was had a limit of 255 characters. The Cablecast installer now changes the type of the crawl text field so this limit is no longer present.
    • Bug: 4726 Increase Length of iCal Schedule Feed
    • Summary: Added a DisplayDays variable to the iCal schedule that enables you to adjust how far into the future you would like to display.
    • Bug: 4850 Autopilot warning when SX content drives are 80 percent full
    • Summary: Error messages are now displayed when sending autopilot if the content drives are more than 80 percent full or have less than 2GB of available free space.
    • Bug: 4868 On demand transcoder fails for digital file CMs that are not a server
    • Summary: Creating a device with the type Digital File that wasn't a video server would break VOD transcoding. We now can handle it.
    • Bug: 4912 Add Title of Program and Link to Schedule for Missing Programs in Autopilot Send Report
    • Summary: Missing file messages in AutoPilot send report now contain the title of the show which acts as a link to the shows edit page.
    • Bug: 4929 Cannot subscribe to Podcasts that contain pipe in the network path
    • Summary: The transcode process now successfully transcodes from multiple content drives.
    • Bug: 4986 Resumes don't always fire
    • Summary: Resume commands wouldn't always fire depending on how file playback was stopped. We now will resume playback until the show should no longer be playing.
    • Bug: 5035 XList can generate 0 duration shows with no titles
    • Summary: When generating an XList schedule all shows less than 60 seconds are now ignored. Gaps in the schedule are also filled after invalid shows are removed in order to avoid back to back scheduling of the default source.
    • Bug: 5038 Resume logs don't always show the correct resume position
    • Summary: Changed resume logging to take into account previous resumes.
    • Bug: 5045 Resume code will continually try to resume a show shorter than the DB length
    • Summary: Servers would try to continually resume a file that wasn't long enough to play in the allocated schedule slot. The TRMS log will now display an error if you try to cue a file past the end.
    • Bug: 5046 Scheduled Force playback of .dv files can fail
    • Summary: File checking code added to 4.8.5 was not passing .DV file information correctly. We now pass along .DV file information so the system can determine if it is valid or not.
    • Bug: 5110 SXPlayer playback of files with no audio track will fail
    • Summary: The SXPlayer Control Module will now correctly play files with no audio as well as files with 48Khz audio. All other audio bit rates will not be played.
    • Bug: 5116 Public Site colors don't add pound sign before hex value
    • Summary: A Note has been added to the user interface instructing users to lead hex values with a pound symbol character.
4.8.4 -- 20 issues -- Released: 10/16/2009
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    • Bug: 3905 Bug text moves proportionaly to any move of DSKEngine Window
    • Summary: Oops! Moving the DSKEngine window will no longer cause the bug text to move on the output.
    • Bug: 3963 LeitchTerminalCM doesn't get feedback from Harris Platinum Router
    • Summary: The LeitchTerminalCM now works correctly with Harris Platinum routing switchers
    • Bug: 3980 SX Servers fail to resolve Shortcuts to media files
    • Summary: SX Servers will not properly follow shortcuts to locate media files
    • Bug: 4043 Check Cablecast for depreciated license compliance
    • Summary: Cablecast will now ignore all depreciated license keys
    • Bug: 4058 SX Servers playback is interrupted when Autopilot is sent
    • Summary: SX Servers will no longer display a few frames of black when Autopilot is sent
    • Bug: 4093 Resume message in event viewer could be more descriptive
    • Summary: The message that is logged when a show is resumed is now much more useful. It is also logged as an information message instead of an error.
    • Bug: 4096 Enseo driver not found error is misleading
    • Summary: A much more useful message is generated if the Enseo Alchemy hardware cannot be located
    • Bug: 4097 ControlModules will attempt to sync time from multiple sources
    • Summary: In the unlikely event that two or more Cablecast systems exist on the network, only one of them will now be able to synchronize time. A message is logged to the Event Viewer when this situation arises
    • Bug: 4099 End action of Stop can cause issues with Back-to-Back playback
    • Summary: An end action of 'Stop' no longer causes issues when performing back-to-back playback.
    • Bug: 4141 File in use error on SX Servers
    • Summary: Attempting to play a file shortly after its encoding completes will no longer cause an error
    • Bug: 4143 SXPlayerCM can get confused if two shows start at the same time
    • Summary: Two shows starting at the same time will no longer cause errors on SX Servers
    • Bug: 4200 SierraSVSCM does not get status when using different levels
    • Summary: The SierraSVSCM now uses the 'SierraSVSCMLevels' setting from the TRMS.Services.CablecastDeviceControl.exe.config file to correctly get status
    • Bug: 4202 Record runs aren't updated when changes to source run are made
    • Summary: Changes to the source of a record run are now correctly propagated to the record run
    • Bug: 4206 Knox64CM does not get status from some Knox RSII Series Routing Switchers
    • Summary: The Knox64CM will now try getting status using both the 'D' and the 'D0' commands.
    • Bug: 4223 SXPlayer Resumes not Logged with a negative event ID
    • Summary: Events that are resumed are now logged with a negative event ID for diagnostic purposes
    • Bug: 4301 Ajax doesn't work outside of port 80
    • Summary: Cablecast now plays nicely with HTTP on ports other than port 80.
    • Bug: 4337 SX Servers sometimes report various errors.
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was periodically causing various errors to be reported on SX Series Servers
    • Bug: 4338 "Can't Start Thread" errors should be more descriptive
    • Summary: If an event fails to execute, the message that is logged in the Event Viewer is now much more useful
    • Bug: 4439 SX Servers should confirm the correct version of QuickTime is installed
    • Summary: The SX Servers now check the quicktime version at startup to protect against potential incompatibilities.
    • Bug: 4468 Installer now checks for .NET 3.5 SP1, does not install if it's not present
    • Summary: NET 3.5 SP1 is required for Cablecast 4.8.4, FrontDoor 5.3.3 and Carousel 5.2.7.
4.8.3 -- 11 issues -- Released: 5/11/2009
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    • Bug: 3804 DeviceControl service can use huge amounts of memory on ProVOD Machines
    • Summary: Found an issue that when there were a large number of files yet to be transcoded, could cause the CablecastDeviceControl service to consume extraneous resources.
    • Bug: 3843 Server Maintenance never starts on SX servers
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing the scheduled maintenance from starting on SX servers.
    • Bug: 3854 Cablecast Public Site Home does not remove deleted channel from list
    • Summary: Public site data is now deleted when a channel is deleted.
    • Bug: 3861 Error when block copying a run-locked show
    • Summary: Block copying now sets the run-lock state on the correct table.
    • Bug: 3862 Run-Lock is not preserved during block copy
    • Summary: Block copy will now copy the Run Lock state for a run, assuming you've configured it to do so.
    • Bug: 3870 SX servers creating log files in incorrect location
    • Summary: When the SX server detected an extraordinary condition, it would automatically save a dump of the process for later diagnostics. Due to an error, these dumps were being saved in the incorrect location, this has been fixed.
    • Bug: 3871 DeviceControl service on SX Servers may have excess threads and use large amounts of virtual memory.
    • Summary: Resolved an issue on SX Servers that was causing the CablecastDeviceControl to check the server's health excessively, which was consuming large amounts of resources, and degrading performance.
    • Bug: 3874 X-List breaks on some runs that are less than one minute in length
    • Summary: Shows that are under 1 minute will no longer be included in the X-List output.
    • Bug: 3877 Web Service does not return bumped schedule times
    • Summary: The Cablecast Web Service now provides the bumped time of shows on the schedule.
    • Bug: 3879 Some pages have malformed or missing HTML headers
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was causing certain pages to fail due to missing portions of the HTML header.
    • Bug: 3898 X-List runs that end at 11:59pm create 1 minute gaps at the end of the day
    • Summary: Runs ending at midnight now appear in X-List as 12:00AM instead of 11:59PM.
4.8.2 -- 9 issues -- Released: 3/20/2009
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    • Bug: 3765 .dv files play back without audio if Quicktime 7.6 is installed
    • Summary: An incompatibility was discovered with Quicktime 7.6, the Cablecast installer will now install version 7.5.5.
    • Bug: 3781 CodanNKCM
    • Summary: Added a control module for the NK series routers from Codan Broadcast.
    • Bug: 3782 Update link of current Cablecast manual to the Help menu option
    • Summary: The help links in Cablecast now send the user to trms.com/support, instead of an outdated manual.
    • Bug: 3810 Add write permissions for web server on the Cablecast installer
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that could cause inconsistent timeouts in Cablecast
    • Bug: 3811 Encoding with VBI enabled can cause a memory leak and eventually a failure
    • Summary: Encoding VBI now works as expected, and no longer causes issues.
    • Bug: 3812 Closed caption data from Cablecast 4.7.x files does not show up on closed captioning decoders
    • Summary: Resolved an error in the positioning of the closed captioning data.
    • Bug: 3825 Encoding to a directory that does not exist will cause error
    • Summary: If the directory does not exist, it will now be created automatically.
    • Bug: 3826 SXConfiguration application crashes if SX Hardware Control restarts
    • Summary: The SXConfiguration application will now handle restarts of the SX Hardware control.
    • Bug: 3827 SX servers output last frame of video after a stop command is sent
    • Summary: SX servers will now output black after a stop command.
4.8.1 -- 9 issues -- Released: 2/16/2009
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    • Bug: 3720 Can't encode 4:2:2 IFrame files
    • Summary: An issue was found that was preventing the creation of 4:2:2 MPEG files, this issue is fixed, and 4:2:2 now works properly.
    • Bug: 3721 Extraneous SX errors are logged on non-SX servers
    • Summary: An issue was discovered that was causing non SX servers to try to start the SX applications, this issue has been fixed.
    • Bug: 3724 It is not possible to play .dv files
    • Summary: An issue was discovered that was preventing the playback of .dv files in most circumstances, this has been resolved.
    • Bug: 3725 SX Configuration app won't change hte resolution of the server
    • Summary: The drop-down menu in the SXConfiguration application was not propagating resolution changes to the hardware, this has been fixed.
    • Bug: 3727 When a playback finishes, final frame of video stays up until a stop command is received
    • Summary: Once the last frame of video has been played, the server will now output black until the next video starts. This should improve the quality of back-to-back transitions.
    • Bug: 3729 Encoding with VBI turned on creates a mpg file instead of a avi file
    • Summary: When encoding to a .mpg file, the VBI file was being created correctly, as an uncompressed AVI file, but was having it's file extension set to .mpg, this issue has been corrected.
    • Bug: 3731 Playing back files with a separate VBI file sometimes fails
    • Summary: When playing back non .avi files with an external VBI file, the server would sometimes fail to locate the VBI, this is now working correctly.
    • Bug: 3745 SXConfiguration tray application does not add .mpg extension to records that it starts
    • Summary: When a record was started from the SXConfigruation application, it would not add the file extension, this would leave you with "TRMSIsAwesome" instead of "TRMSIsAwesome.mpg". The .mpg extension is now added automatically.
    • Bug: 3747 Automatically generated file name for 'Unnamed records' contains invalid path chars
    • Summary: When the user attempts to start a record from the force menu, but does not specify a FileKey, we were generating an invalid name for the file, this issue has been corrected.
4.8.0 -- 5 issues -- Released: 2/3/2009
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    • Bug: 3577 New back-end for SX series video servers
    • Summary: The SX servers now use an entirely new back-end for video playback and recording.
    • Bug: 3598 Scheduling of back to back programming causes "No playback device found" error
    • Summary: When one show started at the same second that the previous show ended, it was possible for an erroneous message to be generated, this has been corrected.
    • Bug: 3602 SXEncoderCM should make a default name for encodes with an empty FileKey
    • Summary: If an encode is started on an SX server, and no name is specified, it will now be named "Unnamed record - <Today's Date and time>"
    • Bug: 3654 add profile for ATT UVerse for Live Streaming
    • Summary: A streaming profile has been added for compatibility with U-Verse streaming platform
    • Bug: 3699 Manual for Cablecast
    • Summary: Cablecast now includes a manual. Check it out in the Documentation folder.
4.7.9 -- 7 issues -- Released: 3/20/2009
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    • Bug: 3612 JVCMV232CM does not implement RecordStop
    • Summary: The JVCMV232 Control Module now implements RecordStop.
    • Bug: 3758 Some Windows Media Encoder Profiles are Corrupt
    • Summary: All of the Profiles (.prx files) that VOD and live streaming use are now working correctly.
    • Bug: 3763 Live IP Video has duplicate areas to set Connection Limit
    • Summary: Live Streaming now only uses the setting in the WebUI. Changes to the connection limit require the setting to be saved, then streaming must be stopped and restarted.
    • Bug: 3769 VOD Servers will sometimes re-transcode the same file, even if it has sucessfully been transcoded before.
    • Summary: VOD servers will no longer attempt to re-transcode a file that already exists.
    • Bug: 3771 Live streaming does not always start and stop as it should
    • Summary: Live streaming servers will now start and stop as expected.
    • Bug: 3773 Sony DVP777CM give 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object' when attempting to get status
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing the control module from getting the status of the device.
    • Bug: 3777 VS4 reverts to composite from component after restart
    • Summary: It is now possible to set VS4 servers to output a YUV signal in the CablecastDeviceControl.exe.config file.
4.7.8 -- 3 issues -- Released: 2/16/2009
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    • Bug: 3709 Schedule page can get stuck in a recursive loop and cause Connection pool error
    • Summary: A rare issue was found that could cause the schedule page to attempt an infinite number of connections to the database. This issue, while exceedingly rare, has been fixed.
    • Bug: 3712 X-List output file format of HH:MM:SS is not accepted by TV Guide
    • Summary: Reformatted the output to use "h:mm tt" (12-hour, minutes, and am/pm). Reports from customers say that this format works.
    • Bug: 3735 IR Learner COM port limit
    • Summary: The drop-down list of COM ports in the IR Learner application now shows ports 1 through 256.
4.7.7 -- 12 issues -- Released: 2/3/2009
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    • Bug: 3332 Podcasting can't transcode some files
    • Summary: We updated the transcoding engine to help alleviate this issue.
    • Bug: 3462 ShellCM does not respond to FadeUp/FadeDown commands
    • Summary: The Shell Control Module now implements FadeUp and FadeDown
    • Bug: 3509 Small force menu doesn't choose the correct input name
    • Summary: When two or more devices shared the same Router Address, it was possible for a inactive device to be reported in the force menu.
    • Bug: 3536 Control Modules can drop some commands
    • Summary: Under rare circumstances it was possible for most Control Modules to skip a command, this has been resolved.
    • Bug: 3576 X-List creates zero duration events on the output file
    • Summary: Switched out the format of the X-List output to include start and end times (with seconds) rather than just a start time and duration (in minutes). This should hopefully solve most rounding/zero-duration problems. Since there's no validation available from TV Guide, everyone is advised to continue to hand check X-List output.
    • Bug: 3607 X-List doesn't respect bumped run times
    • Summary: Runs now contain the correct bumped times. NOTE: Any conflicts in the schedule must be resolved/bumped before generating the X-List file and submitting it to TV Guide. The file will most likely be rejected if you do not bump runs as needed.
    • Bug: 3645 Special characters in file names can cause issues in small force menu
    • Summary: Special characters will now be properly encoded before they are sent to the browser.
    • Bug: 3648 VOD Transcoding multiple files at the same time
    • Summary: It was possible for VOD server to attempt to transcode multiple files at the same time, the has been resolved. There was no performance boost from doing more than one, and there was no upper limit, so very large workloads were possible.
    • Bug: 3653 Output drop down in System Settings : Channels : Channel IO is sometimes empty
    • Summary: Resolved an issue when a new channel was created, that was causing the drop down in the ChannelIO tab to be empty.
    • Bug: 3659 Extron Matrix 50 Series routers can't be controled using existing control modules
    • Summary: the ExtronMAV Control Module is now capable of controlling Extron Matrix 50 series routers.
    • Bug: 3662 Take Delay is inadvertently doubled in SierraSVSCM
    • Summary: We were applying the Take Delay twice on switches using the SierraSVS Control Module, this has been corrected.
    • Bug: 3666 VSXPlayer.exe isn't included in installer, causes VSX playback to stop working
    • Summary: Build script was skipping the VSXPlayer project for some reason. It's now being built and copied correctly.
4.7.6 -- 21 issues -- Released: 9/17/2008
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    • Bug: 2918 Calendar control is displayed "behind" gaps in schedule
    • Summary: The schedule calendar should now be displayed on top of the schedule.
    • Bug: 3013 Default database includes extra channels
    • Summary: The default Cablecast database now includes the correct "default channel", and no longer includes two additional channels.
    • Bug: 3026 X-List leaves gaps between shows, resulting in "To Be Announced" on TV Guide
    • Summary: You are now given a choice of text for gaps in programming, defaulting to "Community Bulletin Board"
    • Bug: 3081 Live streaming encoder won't restart encoding
    • Summary: The Live Streaming Encoder will now properly restart streaming after it is told to stop.
    • Bug: 3084 TCDIP CM may append additional "r1" to forced filekeys
    • Summary: The TCDIPCM will no longer add an additional "r1" to the file key for playback. Previously, forcing playback of "12345r1" would actually try to play "12345r1r1".
    • Bug: 3085 TCDIP CM is not smart about naming recorded files on TCDRP
    • Summary: The TCDIPCM will now always create files with a reel number in the filename. Previously, it was possible to record a file with a filename that would make in inaccessible for playback, since the name did not contain a reel number.
    • Bug: 3096 VOD Files-Unaccepted Characters Cause Problems
    • Summary: VOD Transcoding will now remove problematic characters from the file name before transcoding the file.
    • Bug: 3158 Some control modules still require licensing
    • Summary: Several Control modules that at one point required a license, were still requiring the license, This issue has been addressed.
    • Bug: 3164 DSKEngine fails to locate Cablecast server under rare circumstances
    • Summary: The DSKEngine will now be able to locate the Cablecast server, even with a poorly configured DNS server.
    • Bug: 3165 LGXMiniTProCM may fail to fire some events
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that would occasionally prevent the LGXMiniTProCM from firing events.
    • Bug: 3203 Control Modules are smarter about serial port management
    • Summary: The control modules now handle simultaneous events better.
    • Bug: 3204 Remove setting status to "Checking..." between updates in small force menu
    • Summary: The small force menu no longer says 'Checking' between updates.
    • Bug: 3231 Deleting formats are able to be chosen to reassign shows.
    • Summary: It is no longer possible to select the format you just deleted as the replacement format for existing shows.
    • Bug: 3242 Control Modules occasionally fail to log events
    • Summary: Control Modules will now wait in line to access their log files, instead of trying to log events simultaneously.
    • Bug: 3243 RossAVMCM delays FadeUp and FadeDown commands
    • Summary: A problem was discovered that would cause Fades to happen late when using the RossAVM Control Module. This issue has been corrected.
    • Bug: 3244 VDCPCM Can get hung up under rare circumstances
    • Summary: The VDCP Control Module now handles communication errors more gracefully.
    • Bug: 3245 Knox64CM does not get status from Knox64i Routers
    • Summary: The Knox64CM now works correctly with Chameleon64i routers.
    • Bug: 3251 RSS schedule now allows you to return the pubdate (show schedule) as the localized time
    • Summary: You no longer need to convert a show's start time from UTC when consuming the schedule's RSS feed.
    • Bug: 3308 Added mime type support for .rss, .ics, and .mp4 files
    • Summary: The Cablecast Installer will now add the correct MIME types for .rss, .ics and .mp4 files. These will no longer need to be manually configured.
    • Bug: 3382 'X-List creates duplicate entries for CG spanning midnight
    • Summary: X-List output will no longer include two entries for runs that cross over midnight.
    • Bug: 3422 Manual and record events appear on public website
    • Summary: The WebService was erroneously returning entries for schedule and record runs on the schedule. This made the public site display these runs as well. The WebService now skips non-show runs.
4.7.5 -- 12 issues -- Released: 4/2/2008
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    • Bug: 2970 Field inversion issue can occur again after a reinstall of drivers on SX servers
    • Summary: SX Configuration app now sets data in registry to prevent the field inversion issue at startup.
    • Bug: 2976 Rare circumstances may cause the SX not to play back shows
    • Summary: Under heavy load the SX should no longer fail to play shows.
    • Bug: 2981 Installer doesn't create transcoding profiles directory
    • Summary: The windows media encoder profiles directory is once again installed on VOD servers.
    • Bug: 2982 Installer does not kill the SX Configuration app
    • Summary: When upgrading Cablecast, the SX configuration app was never reset, so you wouldn't see any changes until the machine was restarted. The app is now reset immediately after the update is complete.
    • Bug: 2983 SX calculates incorrect frame count for some rare files
    • Summary: The length of files with progressive video and mono audio will now be correctly calculated.
    • Bug: 2984 SX Playback debug output is more verbose
    • Summary: The SXPlayer application's debug output is now more verbose.
    • Bug: 2985 Null frame in an AVI can crash SXPlayer
    • Summary: Null Frames in an AVI file will no longer crash the SX Player Application.
    • Bug: 2990 Installer overwrites various configuration files
    • Summary: The installer will now keep modified configuration files on the disk, so you no longer have to re-edit .config files after each update.
    • Bug: 2993 Re-installing Cablecast can cause VSX Notification error message
    • Summary: The installer would sometimes throw a VSX error message when re-installing the same version of Cablecast.
    • Bug: 3014 Fix for crash in SX Player with weird audio
    • Summary: Changed so that the SX Player will now log missing audio samples instead of failing to play.
    • Bug: 3022 Force menu status can freeze if SX drops frames on encodes
    • Summary: A chunk of invalid XML was being sent back to the force menu, which caused the status to stop updating. The XML is now properly formed, so the status will continue to operate.
    • Bug: 3037 Cablecast Service does an unneeded DNS lookup call
    • Summary: Fixed issue which could prevent VOD from working when the DNS server isn't configured properly. This is fixed by no longer doing the DNS lookup which was unnecessary when an IP was specified.
4.7.4 -- 1 issues -- Released: 2/25/2008
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    • Bug: 2963 SX Configuration app uses incorrect outputs (SX4 only)
    • Summary: Fixed problem where SX Configuration app would correctly play outputs 0 and 1, but outputs 2 and 3 would use the wrong channel.
4.7.3 -- 16 issues -- Released: 2/21/2008
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    • Bug: 2622 Internet Explorer incorrectly caches ajax schedule data
    • Summary: Due to the way IE caches ajax calls, you would occasionally see strange behavior in the schedule. This should be resolved by using non-cacheable HTTP requests, and forcing IE to never cache.
    • Bug: 2814 SX is smarter about scaling or centering video that is not the correct resolution
    • Summary: Previously the SX would scale all video that wasn't the correct resolution. This has been changed to center videos that are within the safe area and scale only videos that are smaller than that. This will improve the quality of output for files that are within the safe area (between 640x480 and 720x480).
    • Bug: 2867 SX Playback stutters if the drive is fragmented
    • Summary: SX Servers will now perform maintenance on their media storage to ensure optimal performance. The SX Configuration utility now has a screen for configuring when this maintenance occurs.
    • Bug: 2883 Installer is missing the Transcoder application
    • Summary: The installers will now correctly install the Transcoding application that is required for VOD operation.
    • Bug: 2887 Database is missing a stored procedure
    • Summary: The default Cablecast40 database now contains the GetChannelName procedure.
    • Bug: 2890 SX Player has encountered an error and needs to close error
    • Summary: Playback of certain video files would cause the SX to put a message on the system console after they have finished playing. The SX Player now properly cleans up after playback and does not produce this error.
    • Bug: 2891 SX plays shows late
    • Summary: Certain video files would play late, especially under heavy load, on the SX. The SX has been changed so that it now pre-buffers several seconds of video before the scheduled start time for a run so that it can play back on time.
    • Bug: 2895 Some non-standard resolution files cause the SXPlayer to crash
    • Summary: Some non-supported video files would cause the SX server to crash. Now, the SX produces better error messages in many cases that indicate that they're not supported files.
    • Bug: 2897 ChannelIO Page does not check for improper configuration
    • Summary: The 'System Settings.Channels.Channel IO' page is now smarter about which options to present to the user depending on their configuration.
    • Bug: 2907 Producer list is not sorted
    • Summary: The producer list is now sorted by the producer's name.
    • Bug: 2909 MoveFile on SX not finding some files
    • Summary: When using the force menu to perform a "MoveFile" on an SX server, the system will now move the correct file.
    • Bug: 2922 Autopilot creates take events even if it is set to 'no switch'
    • Summary: If an event is manually edited, such that the input is set to "No Switch", the event will now be created correctly when sent.
    • Bug: 2934 New show screen will allow user to upload files before show has been saved.
    • Summary: It is no longer possible to upload files via the Manage Files link until the show has been saved.
    • Bug: 2936 Copy and Paste in the schedule will allow illegal paste
    • Summary: A bug existed that allowed you to copy and paste a run into a different location's schedule, which resulted in the pasted run being completely inaccessible. The UI now disallows pasting of runs from different locations.
    • Bug: 2937 Autopilot shows overwrite error when it shouldn't
    • Summary: Autopilot was incorrectly reporting that files that were encoded by an event in the past would be overwritten if autopilot is resent for that past time. It now only warns about overwriting files for future encodes.
    • Bug: 2938 Pasting a Manual event causes exception
    • Summary: A database connection was being forcibly closed before we were done using it. We now explicitly create a connection for pasting manual runs.
4.7.2 -- 11 issues -- Released: 1/14/2008
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    • Bug: 2710 SX servers abort records when video signal is lost
    • Summary: The SX encoder will now drop frames if its signal is interrupted.
    • Bug: 2761 SX playback has error with some files that need scaling
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that prevented the SX from playing some files that it is capable of playing.
    • Bug: 2800 SX Encoder CM does not support MoveFile
    • Summary: The SXEncoder Control module now supports Moving files after an encode has completed.
    • Bug: 2803 SX Player application crashes when playing unsupported video
    • Summary: The SX Player handles unsupported video more gracefully.
    • Bug: 2836 Digital File Managemnt does not correctly calculate record time for SX
    • Summary: Digital File Management will now correctly calculate the time remaining on disk.
    • Bug: 2838 Crawls in the manual schedule can't be longer than 28 hours
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was preventing the user from creating long manual crawls.
    • Bug: 2839 Autopilot creates a conflict when there should not be one
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was causing problems with back-to-back playback from some devices.
    • Bug: 2844 Link Electronics AVS-816CM
    • Summary: the LinkAVSCM is now available for routing switcher control.
    • Bug: 2854 DSK support for Compix G3 hardware
    • Summary: DSK now supports the new generation of hardware from Compix.
    • Bug: 2856 SX Playback skips several frames when a record stops
    • Summary: The SX will no longer drop frames on playback when a record stops.
    • Bug: 2868 SX occasionally delays playback by 2-3 seconds
    • Summary: Under certain circumstances, the SX would play shows 2-3 seconds late. This has been resolved.
4.7.1 -- 8 issues -- Released: 10/23/2007
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    • Bug: 2484 Video encoded with non-standard field spacing plays back poorly on SX
    • Summary: Fixed the distracting "inverted field" effect that occurred with video encoded from certain sources.
    • Bug: 2578 Recording on SX servers can lock up under heavy load
    • Summary: If the SX server was extremely busy, a deadlock condition might occur when recording video. Now, if the recording cannot continue because the server is stressed, the record is aborted instead of locking up the server.
    • Bug: 2597 SXConfiguration startup shortcut not being created
    • Summary: A bug in the install prevented the SX Configuration tray utility from starting when the system booted.
    • Bug: 2611 SX recording hangs when source video is interrupted
    • Summary: If the source video was lost, a deadlock condition occurred which locked up the server. Now, if the video signal is lost, the record is aborted cleanly. Additionally, the server will now wait up to 5 seconds for video to appear on the input before starting the record.
    • Bug: 2634 SX Playback/Record stops five seconds early
    • Summary: The end action for scheduled play or record events was being fired too early. We now fire all events on time.
    • Bug: 2635 SX servers don't play the audio on files encoded with mono audio
    • Summary: The server will now play the mono track on both of the audio outputs, rather than not playing it at all.
    • Bug: 2678 Audio playback on SX servers occasionally glitches
    • Summary: Increased the playback buffer size in order to handle situations where the the buffer was being "starved" and old audio samples were being played instead.
    • Bug: 2706 SXConfiguration doesn't allow selection of .dv and .mp4 files
    • Summary: When selecting a file to play via the SXConfiguration system tray application, .dv and .mp4 files were being "masked" so you couldn't select them. This restriction has been removed so you can select these additional file types.
4.7.0 -- 17 issues -- Released: 9/28/2007
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    • Bug: 1758 Searching and Drag & Drop available on the schedule page
    • Summary: Cablecast now allows you to search for shows via titles, saved searches, the show bin, and projects. After searching, you can then drag and drop the results into the schedule.
    • Bug: 1790 SX Series Video Servers
    • Summary: Added support for the new SX2 and SX4 multiformat video servers
    • Bug: 1951 SX Video Servers Resume Playback on restarts
    • Summary: New SX video servers support resuming playback after a server restart.
    • Bug: 1982 Add "R" to Cablecast schedule for shows that are set to be recorded.
    • Summary: Shows set to 'Record Run' are now marked with an 'R' in the schedule.
    • Bug: 2024 VOD should do "real" streaming
    • Summary: VOD servers now support multi-bit rate encoding as well as true streaming.
    • Bug: 2073 Ripple runs up or down to adjacent runs
    • Summary: Cablecast schedule now allows you to ripple runs up or down to an adjacent run.
    • Bug: 2095 Scheduled runs can be locked from the schedule
    • Summary: Cablecast schedule allows a show to be locked from the main schedule by clicking the "L" outline.
    • Bug: 2096 Scheduled runs can be bumped from the schedule
    • Summary: Cablecast schedule now allows shows to be bumped by clicking the "B" outline.
    • Bug: 2097 Scheduled runs can be marked as CG Exempt from the schedule
    • Summary: Cablecast schedule now allows shows to be marked "CG Exempt" by clicking the "E" outline.
    • Bug: 2106 Licensing no longer limits number of channels, DSK, or some CMs.
    • Summary: Cablecast Channels, DSK, Leightronix Control Modules and the RS422 Control Module no longer require a license key.
    • Bug: 2121 error in text in crawl after automation is resumed
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was causing broken English to be generated when automation was resumed.
    • Bug: 2127 New codecs and bitrates available in WebUI for the SX servers
    • Summary: Support for specifying bitrates up to 50Mb for the new SX video servers (previous video servers will ignore the new options).
    • Bug: 2134 Record & Playback VBI (CC and V-chip)
    • Summary: Support for encoding and playing back line 21 VBI data (for closed-captioning and v-chip)
    • Bug: 2136 SX servers support video server "shadowing"
    • Summary: With appropriate hardware, the Cablecast SX servers can be configured as redundant pairs.
    • Bug: 2138 VOD doesn't transcode non .mpg file
    • Summary: VOD servers now support SX series servers.
    • Bug: 2206 new KnoxSDI Control module
    • Summary: Added a new Control Module for SDI routers from Knox Video.
    • Bug: 2252 Processing notice on Autopilot screen
    • Summary: When sending autopilot, a processing graphic is displayed so you know that Cablecast is working in the background.
4.6.5 -- 3 issues -- Released: 4/2/2008
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    • Bug: 2843 Facil Import does not set format of shows, causes other problems
    • Summary: the FACIL import extra will now let the user select the format of imported shows.
    • Bug: 2973 X-List creates entries for shows that are too short, and ignores CGExempt status
    • Summary: X-List doesn't accept shows under 5 minutes in length, so we now remove those shows from the X-List report. We also remove any shows that are CG-Exempt from the report.
    • Bug: 3021 Can't change locations in Safari
    • Summary: Fixed a bug which caused constant refreshing in the web browser while using Safari when changing locations.
4.6.4 -- 14 issues -- Released: 12/7/2007
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    • Bug: 2353 Cue-Times with multi-reel shows not working
    • Summary: Resolved an issue with multi-reel preassigned shows being bumped incorrectly.
    • Bug: 2589 Duplicating a show places reels in incorrect order
    • Summary: Duplicated reels were being saved in reverse order, which caused some confusion when loading up the show record.
    • Bug: 2610 Small force menu doesn't update the SX record/playback time
    • Summary: The small force menu will now update periodically with new status information.
    • Bug: 2632 Public site banner graphic isn't uploaded correctly
    • Summary: Two different file upload modules were conflicting with each other, resulting in corrupted uploads for the public site. Fixed by forcing only one upload module to be in charge of the public site.
    • Bug: 2644 VOD doesn't tolerate minor errors in setup screens
    • Summary: Added significant improvements to VOD server ease of setup, and reliability.
    • Bug: 2659 VDCP Control module can't find some files
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where forced events on the VDCP control module could fail to find the desired file.
    • Bug: 2680 VOD Servers leak memory during transcoding
    • Summary: VOD servers will no longer leak memory while transcoding.
    • Bug: 2690 Podcast links don't support non-standard ports
    • Summary: Generated podcast links were ignoring the port, so they would always be forced to port 80. Port numbers are now included in the podcast link.
    • Bug: 2691 Subscribing to Podcasts via iTunes or RSS
    • Summary: The public site podcast page now has links for both iTunes and standard XML subscriptions.
    • Bug: 2719 Autopilot creates incorrect CG events for closely scheduled shows
    • Summary: When shows were scheduled too tightly, autopilot didn't bother to check if the shows were CGExempt or not, and blindly created the CableDisplay events for Carousel. Resolved by making autopilot check for CGExempt in all cases.
    • Bug: 2771 VSX CM Play and Stop events do not fire at correct times
    • Summary: Resolved several issues that would cause inaccuracies in the timing of events on the VSX.
    • Bug: 2782 Vela Argus 200 CM starting late
    • Summary: Resolved an issue that was casing encodes on Vela Argus 200 hardware to start late.
    • Bug: 2799 Integra CM not Stopping DPC 7.7 changers
    • Summary: Improved the "Force Stop" mode on the Integra DPC series Control Module. This option allows for slower changers to still work correctly with auto-play discs.
    • Bug: 2804 Knox256CM
    • Summary: Added a new control module for Knox routers with more than 100 inputs or outputs.
4.6.3 -- 11 issues -- Released: 9/21/2007
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    • Bug: 2363 Default VOD URL value is incorrect
    • Summary: VOD servers use the mms:// protocol, but the default url was using http://.
    • Bug: 2370 Podcast link doesn't use iTunes protocol handler
    • Summary: Now, clicking on a podcast link in the public site will automatically open iTunes with the feed.
    • Bug: 2382 Public-facing Extras shouldn't require authentication
    • Summary: Added a new set of configuration files so the public extras no longer kick users out to the FrontDoor login screen.
    • Bug: 2388 Detailed response from Autopilot if it can't find media on a video server.
    • Summary: Autopilot will provide more information about a show that isn't found on a video server, including the control module's name and the time at which it was airing.
    • Bug: 2436 Public site returns duplicate shows in search results
    • Summary: Postback events were occurring twice, causing duplicate results. We now force the postback to only happen once.
    • Bug: 2438 Devices persist "hidden" values for various device types
    • Summary: Fixed a condition where changing a device's type could orphan certain settings for that device that were no longer applicable to the new type (i.e. a Video Server could end up with a Load Duration set, but would no longer be visible in the UI).
    • Bug: 2475 Record Run doesn't correctly implement Cueing
    • Summary: Cue times now properly apply to Record events.
    • Bug: 2480 VSX Notification Tray Icon always displays current time.
    • Summary: The VSX Notification tray icon will now remember the time a message is output so that the "Last Message" will show that time, not the current time.
    • Bug: 2482 Autopilot can't resolve certain rare conflicts
    • Summary: A message is displayed in the Autopilot report whenever such a rare conflict is discovered.
    • Bug: 2489 New ExtronISS Control Module
    • Summary: Added a new Control Module for the ISS series switchers from Extron.
    • Bug: 2490 Integra CM not stoping on auto play discs
    • Summary: Added an option on the IntegraCM to force the disc to stop after a load command.
4.6.2 -- 4 issues -- Released: 8/15/2007
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    • Bug: 1759 Public website schedule flows off the end of the container
    • Summary: The schedule "bar" on the left side of the site now has a scrollbar.
    • Bug: 2241 Searching for Disposition Date doesn't work
    • Summary: The date wasn't being quoted correctly in the database, so the comparison was always incorrect.
    • Bug: 2276 Video On Demand has incorrect error handling
    • Summary: Fixed a database quoting issue that prevented VOD status from being written to the database whenever an error occurred. This caused VOD shows to have a "blank" transcode status in the Digital File Management screen.
    • Bug: 2306 360 Systems Image Server does not play
    • Summary: We were sending the wrong commands to the server, which became apparent when we stopped using the Leightronix to control the server.
4.6.1 -- 3 issues -- Released: 7/18/2007
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    • Bug: 2080 TCD/RP devices won't accept forced record events
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where a communications socket was being closed too early, so the record command was never being sent correctly.
    • Bug: 2122 Permissions error in Cablecast Header
    • Summary: Cablecast's header bar now displays the Autopilot link correctly after login.
    • Bug: 2155 AJD450CM status broken
    • Summary: Resolved an issue where the AJD450CM might not work properly depending on if it is set to acknowledge commands or not.
4.6.0 -- 33 issues -- Released: 5/29/2007
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    • Bug: 72 Leightronix Control Modules now force all events
    • Summary: Events are no longer stored in bulk on Leightronix devices. All events are sent "real time" to the device.
    • Bug: 578 New VS4Series2 Control Module
    • Summary: New VS4Series2 Control Module
    • Bug: 579 New STRMVOD Control Module
    • Summary: New STRMVOD Control Module
    • Bug: 589 Shows can have a collection of associated files
    • Summary: You can upload files to shows. Useful for keeping historical information about the show.
    • Bug: 620 Shows with OnDemand video files display a link to the video in the WebUI
    • Summary: You can click "watch now" for any show with an OnDemand video file throughout the Cablecast Web interface.
    • Bug: 628 New Show Edit Layout
    • Summary: Distinct areas of the screen are logically separated. Changed the color scheme to be more visually pleasing.
    • Bug: 630 OnDemand Transcoding uses a compression level based on the Show Category
    • Summary: Each category can have a distinct transcoding level. For example, "Sports" shows can be transcoded using different settings than "City Council" shows.
    • Bug: 631 Shows are marked for transcoding in the Show Edit screen
    • Summary: Transcoding control and basic transcoding status can be found in the individual show records.
    • Bug: 638 Projects of Shows can be published as Podcasts
    • Summary: Podcasts appear on the public site. All shows in a project become part of the podcast, however individual shows can be marked as "Podcast Exempt."
    • Bug: 760 Export Schedule data in TV Guide's X-List format
    • Summary: Schedule data can be easily exported and sent to TV Guide using their X-List service.
    • Bug: 1040 Indicator of schedule status in Digital File Management
    • Summary: Files that are scheduled for playback in the future will have an "*" displayed next to them.
    • Bug: 1135 New Role based User Management
    • Summary: Users can be given access to specific areas of Cablecast.
    • Bug: 1213 Cablecast producer list becomes garbled when fields have commas in them
    • Summary: Commas are now escaped before the form is submitted.
    • Bug: 1220 Error 'Server Application Unavailable' when using the pubic site
    • Summary: The WebService no longer uses .NET remoting to ask about VOD files. Queries are made directly against the database, which should stop this error from occurring.
    • Bug: 1294 Serial glue sometimes doesn't write all of its data
    • Summary: Revamped the serial communications code to ensure that all data is written.
    • Bug: 1296 Updated 422 control module to use TRMS code and not 3rd party library
    • Summary: We now have our own 422 code, so we no longer rely on buggy implementations beyond our control.
    • Bug: 1302 VSX servers can be "shadowed" to provide fail-over protection
    • Summary: If you have multiple VSX servers, you can have one server duplicate the events from another server.
    • Bug: 1317 ODIP doesn't detect missing slashes in filenames
    • Summary: The webservice now appends a slash to directory names if needed.
    • Bug: 1382 Schedule Modified bit can cause database error if field is null
    • Summary: Added better error handling code.
    • Bug: 1396 Podcasts are viewable on Public site
    • Summary: Podcasts can be easily accessed by your viewers by using Cablecast's public web site.
    • Bug: 1405 New AJ-D450P Control Module
    • Summary: New AJ-D450P Control Module
    • Bug: 1433 Default Location & Channel aren't set when a user logs in
    • Summary: New permissions code required that we set the default location/channel explicitly.
    • Bug: 1468 Facil show import plugin
    • Summary: You can export show data from Facil and import it into Cablecast.
    • Bug: 1574 VelaArgus200CM doesn't support RecordStop
    • Summary: Vela encoders wouldn't stop recording on schedule. Adding this action allows for scheduled stops.
    • Bug: 1626 Vela Argus200 is starting 11 seconds too early
    • Summary: Fixed timings for card initialization.
    • Bug: 1654 Autopilot doesn't create runs for inactive Producers
    • Summary: If a producer is marked is inactive, autopilot won't send until you remove their shows from the schedule.
    • Bug: 1664 Producers have new fields: Active, Contact name, Email, and Website
    • Summary: In addition to more contact fields, producers can be marked as active or inactive. Inactive producers cannot have shows aired with autopilot.
    • Bug: 1665 Producers appear on the Main Menu
    • Summary: The producers screen is no longer buried in a settings menu. It's been promoted to the main menu.
    • Bug: 1743 ChyTV locks up when sending it new data
    • Summary: We got some insight from the folks at Chyron on how to make the ChyTV more stable.
    • Bug: 1804 Too difficult to see which shows are "On Demand"
    • Summary: The digital file management screen now displays another list; which contains all of the files living on the VOD server.
    • Bug: 1811 Smarter focus of fields in the Schedule page
    • Summary: You can now use the tab key in the schedule view to move between Start Time and ShowID fields.
    • Bug: 1829 Live Streaming shows an error for each output, even if output isn't configured
    • Summary: Outputs that are configured for Live Streaming are the only outputs that are displayed in the Live Streaming screen.
    • Bug: 1832 Panasonic AG-5700 and AG-5710 Control Module
    • Summary: Panasonic AG-5700 and AG-5710 Control Module
4.5.10 -- 2 issues -- Released: 8/15/2007
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    • Bug: 2243 DSK bug text disappears when settings change (Compix)
    • Summary: The DSK screen wasn't being updated correctly when new data was present. Now, we update all regions of the screen.
    • Bug: 2263 Enseo network playback fails
    • Summary: When we made the device status more user-friendly (Case 1971), we wound up passing the wrong filename into the drivers. We now display a friendly name in the force menu AND pass the correct paths into the driver.
4.5.9 -- 12 issues -- Released: 7/17/2007
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    • Bug: 1881 Autopilot doesn't generate wake sequences for "generic" device types
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where autopilot would only create wake sequences for DVD and DVD Multidisc devices, but the WebUI only allows you to "turn on" wakes sequences for Generic devices. Autopilot now creates the events for Generic devices.
    • Bug: 1912 Denon V300 CM Not jumping properly
    • Summary: Resolved an issue with the DenonV300CM that caused jump events to fail.
    • Bug: 1925 422CM not reporting errors
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that caused the RS-422 Control Module to not report errors properly
    • Bug: 1932 DVD import can't read the directory info on certain DVDs
    • Summary: DVD Import has been modified to account for certain DVDs that don't report their directory structure correctly.
    • Bug: 1938 FadeToBlack not applying take delay
    • Summary: Fixed an issue that caused Fade To Black on a Ross AVS to ignore the take delay value, causing the fade to occur too early.
    • Bug: 1946 Record run events don't take bump time into account
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where shows marked as "record run" don't apply the bump time to the record events, causing records to start early on bumped runs.
    • Bug: 1963 DSK can leave "remnants" of a crawl on the screen (Compix hardware)
    • Summary: If a crawl had a background color, parts of the background remained after the crawl completed, particularly near a bug image. The screen now completely redraws when crawls have finished.
    • Bug: 1971 Multiple search paths aren't parsed correctly, EnseoCM reports bad filenames
    • Summary: Fixed an issue where playing a file from the second of two search paths (defined in the Port/Setting field) caused an exception. Also fixed the EnseoAlchemyCM report the correct file name when playing a file from a network share.
    • Bug: 2016 Race condition in Video Server CMs
    • Summary: Resolved a race condition in the video server control modules that could cause the second of two back to back shows to not play.
    • Bug: 2079 ChyTV DSK Crawl background not going away
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where the crawl didn't update the screen after it had finished, leaving behind the crawl background color.
    • Bug: 2147 Poorly formed input tags cause an IIS error
    • Summary: Fixed an inconsistency between Cablecast and a Microsoft Windows Update patch that could cause an IIS error when saving shows or forcing a device.
    • Bug: 2179 Directly jumping to cue time does not work for VSX control module
    • Summary: Fixed a problem where the VSX couldn't perform a Jump command.
4.5.8 -- 4 issues -- Released: 5/16/2007
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    • Bug: 1783 Producers List becomes corrupted if commas are used
    • Summary: Commas are now escaped before the form is submitted.
    • Bug: 1800 Autopilot not using server outputs correctly/bumping or not airing shows
    • Summary: Rearranged the autopilot logic to take cue times into account for multi-channel video servers.
    • Bug: 1827 ChyTV locks up when sending it new data
    • Summary: We got some insight from the folks at Chyron on how to make the ChyTV more stable.
    • Bug: 1902 RSS schedule export generates error
    • Summary: Fixed a badly formed string concatenation.
4.5.7 -- 4 issues -- Released: 4/9/2007
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    • Bug: 1667 422 Control module - Stop - Rewind broken
    • Summary: Resolved an error with the rs-422 control module that would occasionally cause a device to not rewind properly.
    • Bug: 1698 SQL is displayed on WebSchedule plugin
    • Summary: Removed some debugging code that was accidentally left in the release.
    • Bug: 1719 Shows with cue times may not get bumped correctly
    • Summary: Autopilot wasn't taking cue times into account when finding free devices for show playback.
    • Bug: 1723 WebSchedule plugin should display shows scheduled over the entire day
    • Summary: Shows from the start of today are now displayed, rather than taking shows off of the schedule as they hit the air.
4.5.6 -- 7 issues -- Released: 3/22/2007
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    • Bug: 660 Control Modules support new 'RecordStop' action
    • Summary: This command is sent when record devices need to stop recording. Needed for Case 1212.
    • Bug: 1212 The TCD/IP does not stop the TCD RP properly
    • Summary: When recording and playing with a TCD/IP, sending a stop to a player would also send a stop to the record. This has been resolved by adding a 'RecordStop' event, which only stops the record.
    • Bug: 1415 Sending Autopilot doesn't Say "Sent Successfully"
    • Summary: In some cases, a successful autopilot send wasn't reported as such.
    • Bug: 1480 Event list handling in control modules is inefficient
    • Summary: Sending autopilot for long durations of schedule could cause the send to time out.
    • Bug: 1567 Cue times can cause misleading results when sending back to back shows
    • Summary: Video servers would often wind up bumping shows when it didn't need to, and assigning them to a single server output.
    • Bug: 1641 Schedule-based plugins don't generate the correct range of schedule
    • Summary: Some didn't take bump times into account, and others generated schedule as far into the future as possible.
    • Bug: 1657 Reporting throws error when fields contain a single quote
    • Summary: We missed a spot in reporting when quoting strings in the database.
4.5.5 -- 10 issues -- Released: 2/5/2007
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    • Bug: 1149 Run count in Show Search is inaccurate for multi-reel shows
    • Summary: A simple division miscalulation was yielding an incorrect number of runs in the search results.
    • Bug: 1231 ExtronMAVPlusCM doesn't lock the serial port on send
    • Summary: If two switch commands were sent back to back from the Autopilot menu, the second will fail because the first was still trying to get the router status information. They effectively "ran over" each other. We now require that an entire command is completed before a second command can be sent.
    • Bug: 1241 DSK uses updated ChyTV Tool version 3.3
    • Summary: Updated the ChyTV libraries to the latest version. This will hopefully fix some stability issues with the ChyTV.
    • Bug: 1281 Cablecast Public Site shows two duplicate Channels in the list
    • Summary: The default database had an extraneous row, resulting in two links on the public site. This is now fixed for new installations, but existing installations will need to manually remove the extra row.
    • Bug: 1283 iCal plugin will throw an error if a scheduled show has no reels/length
    • Summary: The plugin was assuming that certain show information would be present, and failing if it wasn't. We no handle that case more gracefully.
    • Bug: 1306 Serial communications library occasionally left data incomplete
    • Summary: Sometimes our serial library didn't write all data to the devices. This lead to strange behavior as commands were left incomplete. We changed the library to ensure that *all* data is written to the serial port.
    • Bug: 1313 Updated 422 control module to use TRMS code and not 3rd party library
    • Summary: We used to rely on a third-party library to control 422 devices, which lead to problems because it was difficult to tell what it was doing. We now have our own 422 library.
    • Bug: 1338 Timing and command syntax problems with SierraCM
    • Summary: Our control module wasn't waiting long enough for Sierra routers to respond. Additionally, some Sierra routers return a command syntax that we weren't expecting. Now, we give them more time to respond, and we parse the new command syntax correctly.
    • Bug: 1354 Kramer2000CM attempts to use a config setting that is null by default
    • Summary: The .config file didn't come with a crucial setting by default. The setting is now included.
    • Bug: 1384 New VelaArgus200CM for Vela Argus 200/250-based encoders
    • Summary: New VelaArgus200CM for Vela Argus 200/250-based encoders
4.5.4 -- 13 issues -- Released: 12/18/2006
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    • Bug: 636 "Not sent to hardware" Autopilot wording can be misleading
    • Summary: If you choose to not send events to hardware, a stronger message appears on the autopilot report screen reminding you that this was a effectively a "test" send--no events were sent to your devices.
    • Bug: 937 Autopilot does not clear out the event list when no schedule is sent
    • Summary: If autopilot had previously sent events to a device, and you later modify your schedule such that the device now has NO events, resending autopilot would not clear out the events for the device. This would cause the device to play, for example, even if the router never switched to it. Now, autopilot clears out all old events for all devices before sending new events.
    • Bug: 1051 New Control Module Host names are confusing
    • Summary: Instead of being named "localhost," new Control Module Hosts are named "New Control Module Host" so they aren't confused with existing hosts.
    • Bug: 1052 Viewing Control Module logfiles is confusing in the CM Hosts screen
    • Summary: Viewing logs has now been moved to the Control Module Sets page, where it makes a bit more sense.
    • Bug: 1062 DVDImport ignores dB adjustments for LPCM audio encoded discs
    • Summary: LPCM encoded discs now support normalization and dB adjustments. However, LPCM does not support dynamic compression.
    • Bug: 1065 Poor error handling and database connection handling in WebService & Public site
    • Summary: Cleaned up resource usage and error handling in an effort to make the public site more efficient.
    • Bug: 1075 Feeder locations are taking back to their default inputs too early
    • Summary: A small delay was added to feeder location switching to ensure that primary locations switches back before the feeder location switches.
    • Bug: 1079 Manual Events are not included in the Extras items
    • Summary: Manual events are now included in the Print Schedule, RSS Schedule, Web Schedule, and iCal Schedule.
    • Bug: 1152 SierraSVS Control Module now supports Level-based switching
    • Summary: There is an entry in the .config file to set which levels to switch.
    • Bug: 1206 Autopilot improperly bumps multi-reel shows on video servers
    • Summary: Autopilot now ignores any errant jump duration settings for video servers.
    • Bug: 1208 Autopilot improperly bumps shows on some devices if the runs are too close together
    • Summary: Autopilot now properly assigns devices when the lead time (wake time + jump time + load time) has a conflict and another device is available.
    • Bug: 1214 Batch functions ignore CGExempt settings
    • Summary: Batch functions now adhere to a show's CGExempt setting.
    • Bug: 1216 Removing shows from Schedule doesn't mark Schedule as modified
    • Summary: Removing shows from schedule now flags the Schedule as out-of-date, reminding you to send autopilot to commit the changes to the hardware
4.5.3 -- 4 issues -- Released: 11/21/2006
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    • Bug: 399 New Denon V300 Control Module
    • Summary: New Denon V300 Control Module
    • Bug: 1074 Integra DPC CM not stopping the disc after loading
    • Summary: Changed timing of commands so device will get the Stop command
    • Bug: 1104 New VelaCineviewQuad Control Module
    • Summary: New VelaCineviewQuad Control Module
    • Bug: 1108 Enseo CM doesn't support multiple file paths
    • Summary: Control Module now uses the common directory parsing code so it can support multiple paths
4.5.2 -- 13 issues -- Released: 11/6/2006
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    • Bug: 917 DVD Import continues the preview while importing.
    • Summary: Previewing a DVD while importing causes severe performance problems. Clicking the "import" button now cancels the preview if it is running.
    • Bug: 918 Autopilot does not assign video server outputs properly
    • Summary: Autopilot now assignes Video Server outputs sequentially, rather than using Load Balancing.
    • Bug: 922 When making a new project, if there is no producer selected an error is thrown
    • Summary: Producer selection is now interpreted properly before sending the information to the database.
    • Bug: 923 Several areas of the public website need better error handling
    • Summary: Simple error handling was added. Work will continue on this issue in case 1065.
    • Bug: 924 Leftover VS1Helper.exe in the Control modules directory
    • Summary: Our build scripts weren't building the right set of projects.
    • Bug: 938 Communication between the TCD-IP and its RPs is extremely slow
    • Summary: TCD-IP now caches the RP's file list instead of querying the TCD-IP on each and every request
    • Bug: 942 Autopatch BCS CM does not show up in the available Control Modules list
    • Summary: The CM wasn't properly added to our project files.
    • Bug: 943 Control Module threads throw an error when stopped
    • Summary: The event log would fill up with "Thread Aborted" errors whenever the Device Control Service was stopped.
    • Bug: 990 Spelling error on About screen
    • Summary: "Tightrope" is now spelled correctly. Yikes.
    • Bug: 1010 New Leitch RS12A Control Module
    • Summary: New Leitch RS12A Control Module
    • Bug: 1011 New Ross AVM Series Control Module
    • Summary: New Ross AVM Series Control Module
    • Bug: 1028 DVD Import doesn't handle end of segments in MPEG stream
    • Summary: The importer would crash if it hit an end of segment in the mpeg stream during multiplexing. It now ignores end of segments and continues to write data to the original output file.
    • Bug: 1053 Added VSX Server notification app to the system tray
    • Summary: The Status of the VSX is now shown in the system tray. This also fixes a problem with running DirectShow graphs under the Windows service account.
4.5.1 -- 11 issues -- Released: 10/2/2006
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    • Bug: 530 Clearing a Show with no reels causes error
    • Summary: In the unlikely case where a Show contains zero reels, we no longer attempt to do work on the non-existant reels.
    • Bug: 551 Error occurs when listing runs for a Show scheduled on a non-existant Channel
    • Summary: If a show had been scheduled on a channel that no longer exists (after a "downgrade" to fewer channels), you would no longer be able to pull up that show record. If this scenario occurs now, the show record screen will be displayed, and the deleted channel will be listed as "UNKNOWN" in the list of runs.
    • Bug: 688 Sending an ErrorReport can generate a null-reference exception
    • Summary: Added better error-handling to our error-reporting pages. :-)
    • Bug: 741 Attempting to Send Autopilot for a parseable, but invalid date range cases SQL Server error
    • Summary: SQL server can only handle a certain range of dates. We now check to see if the Autopilot send range falls within the valid range of SQL server dates before sending Autopilot.
    • Bug: 861 Sql error when saving a Category with a single quote
    • Summary: Categories can now have single quotes.
    • Bug: 864 TCD/IP Control module now appends '-1' or 'r1' if it is missing from a force
    • Summary: Forcing a show to play from a TCD/IP requires you to enter the show ID and a reel number. Now, if you don't specify a reel number, the force assumes you meant reel 1.
    • Bug: 865 TCD/IP control module errors when forcing a TCD/RP device
    • Summary: Bug was causing a rogue PLAY command to be sent, which the RP couldn't understand, causing an error.
    • Bug: 872 Control Module Installer doesn't put Support Icon on Desktop
    • Summary: Support icon is now properly installed.
    • Bug: 909 Shortcut for uninstalling ControlModules exists in the Start menu
    • Summary: An old uninstall shortcut was sticking around in the Start menu. We removed it. Uninstall should now be done via the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel.
    • Bug: 2243 DSK bug text disappears when settings change (Compix)
    • Summary: The DSK screen wasn't being updated correctly when new data was present. Now, we update all regions of the screen.
    • Bug: 2263 Enseo network playback fails
    • Summary: When we made the device status more user-friendly (Case 1971), we wound up passing the wrong filename into the drivers. We now display a friendly name in the force menu AND pass the correct paths into the driver.
4.5.0 -- 47 issues -- Released: 8/18/2006