Ooyala Flex Media Platform 7.5.0 Release Notes 2019-06-27 – Support Hub

Ooyala is proud to present the release of Ooyala Flex Media Platform 7.5.0.

This release of Ooyala Flex Media Platform provides new features, quality enhancements, fixes, and other changes listed below.

General / Operational

Enabled authentication for ArangoDB
Upgraded Redis to 5.0.x
Allow creation of Alpine based jemalloc base image for Spring Boot / Java
Switched to OpenJDK for Microservice base image
Upgraded ArangoDB to 3.4.5
Upgraded RabbitMQ to 3.7.14
Upgraded Consul to 1.5.0

New Features and Enhancements

Authentication Service

Added ability to deep link within an application after login via the SSO login application

Configuration Manager (CM)

Added userUuid for dependency improvements
Added support for taxonomies

Collection Service

Added an endpoint to return root collections, sub-collections and indicate if there are further children to the collection.
Added an endpoint to return all members of a collection
When multiple audio tracks exist for an asset, the user selected audio track will persist in the collection.

Data Aggregation Service

Added support for timezone aware retrieval of data aggregations.

DB Pruner Service

Now allows for more flexible MySQL pruning without having to rewrite stored procedures

Enterprise

Renamed method deleteCollection to destroyCollection
Added support for blob storage operations (e.g. Copy action) over HTTPS
Trim leading and trailing spaces in metadata value before persisting via the API
storageSelectorPolicyEnabled feature toggle has been removed
GCS: store vfsLocation.key (currently with serialised string Json) as base64
Move action to make better use of Azure APIs
Launched nested workflow event now passes parent workflow ID and parent Job ID as workflow variables
Added more search parameters for workflow search api
Added support for LeaseWeb storage
Accounts can now be disabled without requiring referencing entities to also be disabled
Storage Resources can now be disabled without requiring Folder Resources to be also be disabled

Index Elastic Service

Deprecated and removed existing ElasticSearch-based temporal metadata indexing
populate minimal asset object data into Arango
Renamed indexes and introduced aliases

Job Execution Framework (JEF)

flex-jobexecutionmanager-service: manual unlock operation API end point added
flex-jobexecutionmanager-service: JEF job details API end point added
Removed feature toggle dynamicPluginEnabled and jefEnabled
ActionExecutor to deliver resourceConfiguration along with current resolved resourceConfigJSON

Flex Library

Upgraded to Spring 2.1.3

MAM Application

Added GCS proxy support

Metadata Commons Library

Record timecode information (in/out) with temporal metadata entries in Arango
Create and update an Arango View for each metadata Arango collection
Create and maintain Arango View across all metadata collections

Multisite

RGw (remote): resync service: Added endpoint to fetch scoped events
Bidirectional: allow simultaneous updating of same object in two sites (after revisionCounter were introduced)
Added support for VFS copy (complete File & S3)

NodeJS VFS Library

Added support for VFS copy (AZBS, GCS)
Added support for VFS delete (File & S3)

Search Elastic Service

ArangoSearch re-implementation of Temporal Metadata searching
Deprecated and removed existing ElasticSearch-based temporal metadata search
Integrated dynamic AQL query generation from FQL into the Search service
Allow Search service to target remote ES environments for ease of testing
Allow Search service to target remote Arango environments for ease of testing

Stream Processor Service (FSP)

Added Support for interlacing within FMPE based processing

Taxonomy Service

Reduced the minimum number of characters to 1 on Taxon fields.

Transcode Resource Service

Action: Added JEF Extract Technical Metadata Plugin (replacement for Enterprise ExtractTechnicalMetadata plugin)
Extract Technical Metadata (FSP): Support AZBS and GCS
Segmented Proxy Plugin (JEF) now supports Fragmented MP4 HLS

Resolved Issues

Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue where user gets blocked on login due to prolonged storage resource file scanning.
Flex Enterprise – Fixed a performance issue with UDOs
Account Storage - Fixed an issue where keyframes aren’t removed from storage when asset is purged
MAM - Fixed an issue where users could still upload to metadata File or Image fields marked as Non-Editable
Fixed an issue where move Action fails to move large files between Azure containers
Resolved an issue where SQL Query length limit too short for Database Import Script Action
Fixed bugs reported by static analyzer on metadata commons lib
Grafana: Fixed replication gateway errors
Configuration manager: Fixed an issue where retry configuration values weren't migrated from source to target environment
Web Transfer – Fixed occasional missing metadata variables
Flex Query Language Library – Fixed an issue where Arango search queries don't include a default sort
Flex Query Language Library – Fixed an issue where FQL doesn't translate to AQL quite as expected
Flex Query Language Library – Fixed an issue where AQL generation breaks if FQL clauses are reordered
Flex Metadata Commons Library – Fixed an issue where Explicit Metadata Definition Field write (edit) permissions for assets was not working
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue where XDCAM File Codec was unrecognized
Flex Hot Folder Service - JEF Hot folder - File is not discovered while using Azure Secured Storage account with enabled
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue where there was an error accessing Folder Resources from Manage Resources menu
Flex Stream Processor Service – Trim and waveform extraction from HLS proxy may result in incorrect audio stream index
Flex Stream Processor Service – Fixed an issue where the wrong video frame rate is displayed for video assets running at 23.976 fps
Flex Job Execution Framework – Fixed an issue where External Lock and Secrets Migration do not support ACLs [+external lock migration not reading database name from consul correctly]
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue with event visibility
Flex DB Pruner – Fixed an issue where DB pruner Consul concurrency lock not auto-released after timeout as expected
Flex Web Transfer Application – Fixed an issue where Web Transfer sessions time out during upload
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue where workflows skip job execution
Flex DB Pruner – Fixed an issue where DB Pruner deletions can cause some Flex operations to fail
Flex Metadata Commons Library – Fixed an issue where metadata instances and comments are not deleted from ArangoDB collection when asset is destroyed

Depreciated Features or Services

Subtitle Service: The FER Subtitle Enterprise code and service have been depreciated, the JEF Subtitle plug-in should now be utilised.
Removed JAAS login support from enterprise UI

Known Issues

Any clients using the Publish Service, should upgrade to Flex 7.5.1, due to an intermittent issue with the Publish migration script risking a mapping explosion.
While clicking on Subtitle Resource (old) > Configuration, it throws a system error

Please contact your Ooyala representative for the full upgrade notes, further information about this release, and the complete list of resolved issues.