Ooyala Flex Media Platform 2019.7.0 Release Notes 2019-07-26 – Support Hub

Ooyala is proud to present the July 2019 release of Ooyala Flex Media Platform, 2019.7.0.

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

Highlights

Introduced new Flex Video Proxy Service
Introduced zero-downtime re-indexing capability
Upgraded Elastic Search to version 7.2.0

New Features and Enhancements

Video Proxy Service

This new service was introduced to enable flexible proxy playback within the OoyalaMAM from mounted file store or cloud storage platforms, including Azure, GCS and Amazon S3. The new service supports the following use cases:

Resolution of proxy VFS file location into HTTP URLs;
Serving media assets that are located on a mounted file store;
Proxying of media assets that are located on cloud object storage (S3, GCS, AZBS);
Support for progressive MP4 (byte range download), HLS, MPEG-DASH in all supported storage locations;
Security implemented through the validation of a Flex authentication JWT;
VFS location secrets resolution through the flex-secrets-service.

Configuration Manager (CM)

Added the ability to Save dependency file to reference later on commit/others
Added the ability to resolve Variant references in Metadata Definition
Added the ability to enable/disable actions, resources, workflow definitions, accounts, users on commit

Enterprise

Support for '+' character in the username field in the user profile
Added support for byte range proxy playback in File, S3, AZBS and GCS
Updated application and IdP logout behavior in SAML
Increased default login token expiry time to 60 mins
Flex-Collection – parameter to get public and private Collections added to the end point.

Search

Zero Downtime Reindexing
Upgraded Index service Search service to Spring Boot 2
Created new "full reindex" endpoint, to kick off full reindex
Now displays limit, page, totalCount in footer of REST response while searching through search Elastic
Added an endpoint to return details of which metadata fields are searchable

Job Execution Framework (JEF)

Added JEF Transcode Resource
Implemented dynamic task scheduling
Added JAE and TranscodeResource to support userActId on API requests

Publish

Upgraded to Spring Boot 2

Flex Stream Processor (FSP) Service

Added support for HLS output for FSP stitching
Added the ability to return transcode queue info
Added support for audio only trimming and stitching
Added support for stitching ProRes Format in Flex Transcoding Profiles (FSP)

Resolved Issues

Password reset message template user name corrected
Flex CM (Configuration Manager) Application - Introduce skipValidation field to skip reference validation when taxonomies are configured
Flex Enterprise - Fixed an issue with Facebook plugin token auth attempts that get blocked
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue where searching by metadata fails to return result if values contains a comma
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue when saving GCS storage resource configuration
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an issue where the user still sees the default workspace, even if it has been removed
Flex Enterprise – Fixed Heapspace issues in flex-master
Flex Enterprise – Fixed an error where Reviewer sessions were not being closed
Flex MAM Application – Fixed an issue where MAM Clip summary table displays zero based timecode
Flex MAM Application – Fixed an issue where Audio Start Code displayed in MAM does not match Core
Flex MAM Application – Fixed an issue where MAM GUI does not match actual proxy SOF
Flex Search Elastic Service – Fixed an issue where an error occurs if you attempt to search against a metadata field that has no objects using it

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