Release 1.10 – 4/1/2010

Content Management User Interface

• Fixed non-Latin-1 character support presentation issues
• Added support to enable HQ (H.264) processing of FTP/RSS Inputs and RSS Outputs (if account enabled)
• Content Group selector sort order is now alphanumeric.
• User feedback has been improved in the event of an error while working within the CMUI
• Fixed minor UI issues

RSS Input/Output Gateway

• Added user monitoring of RSS/FTP input feeds. Notifies users by email when their feeds are in an error state, or if they have not received new content for a specified period of time.

Content Access Gateway / Device Targeting System

• Support for iPhone streaming H.264 with dynamic bitrate adaptation
• Support for long-form content (videos over 20 minutes in length)
• Fixed download problem for some Android devices
• Enabled streaming for all Android devices

Job Processing System

• H.264 processing added
• Added DEFAULT_IMAGE_URL in Single Frame Thumbnailer (Conversion ID 9999) for specifying a default image if the file being thumbnailed does not contain a video track.
• Added Asynchronous Upload Support

Release 1.9 – 23/10/2009

OS Compatibility

• Now compatible with Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.
• Centralised node configuration management

Content Management User Interface

• Minor UI improvements

RSS Input/Output Gateway

• Added support for parsing of Brightcove Media API JSON feeds
• Feeds containing no <link> tag are now permitted 

Content Access Gateway / Device Targeting System

• iPhone will now receive reference movies allowing automatic selection of video quality based on access bearer.

Job Processing System

• FTP upload script now retries 3 before failing.

Release 1.8 – 8/7/2009

Content Management User Interface

• Content Groups containing both audio and video content now supported.  
• Enabled on-line help.
• Mandatory fields are now highlighted.
• Upload page now contains RSS Details form allowing an item to be uploaded and published in a single action.
• Password change facility added.
• Look and feel aligned with yospace.com web site.
• Long GUIDs are now displayed better.

RSS Input/Output Gateway

• Audio content can now be ingested.  Feeds can contain mixed audio and video content.
• Support added for Brightcove v3 Media API (JSON feeds).
• Support added for Brightcove v3 feeds containing RTMP URLs. 
• Option now exists to ignore incoming RSS items with post-dated publish dates. 

Content Access Gateway / Device Targeting System

• Supports audio only content, including audio-only RTSP streams.
• Enhanced encoding of AAC audio for improved handset compatibility for streaming.
• Improved support for corporate BlackBerry users for audio and video access.

Job Processing System

• Added support for audio-only input

Release 1.7 – 21/5/2009

Content Management User Interface

• It is now possible to delete or remove items of content from the Content Group edit screen.
• Added DRM option to Output Feeds
• Added RSS Details tab on Media Item edit page, allowing manually uploaded items to be included in Output Feeds
• The output of an Output Feed can be accessed from the Manage Outputs screen.
• Manage Outputs screen now shows Feed ID
• Wider page layout
• Number of videos can be displayed on a single page is now 12
• Media Item edit screen is now structured into 3 tabs
• Added optional account restrictions
• Content Groups may no longer be selected as sources of advertising if they contain too many videos
• Improved date parsing (see Supported Date Formats for more details)
• Added an option on the create/edit Output Feed page to allow limitation of the number of items published
• Fixed a bug where the wrong screen is shown following the removal of a Content Group from an FTP Input Feed
• Added context help
• The first input field on a screen will now be automatically focussed

RSS Input/Output Gateway

• Improved RSS update queuing system
• Output gateway now supports DRM-enabled feeds
• Added localisation of dates for input and output feeds
• Improved error message when trying to fetch a non-existent feed
• RSS poller now can accept URLS containing username:password so it can fetch MRSS feeds behind HTTP authentication

Job Control System

• Controller now uses default priority per client account
• Notification failure monitoring per client account has been added
• Web Services Job Upload API now accepts URLs with username:password to fetch content for processing behind HTTP authentication.

Job Processing System

• Added the ability to all Conversion IDs to deinterlace an input video prior to encoding via the DEINTERLACE script parameter.
• Improved audio and video synchronisation for MPEG conversions (5000 series IDs).
• Improved audio and video synchronisation for transcoded output.

HTTP Delivery System

• Improved cache directive HTTP headers
• Enhanced internal system caching

Release 1.6 – 11/2/2009

Content Management User Interface

• Fixed an error when editing a Promotion from the MediaPool detail screen.
• Added support for creating and managing FTP input configurations.
• Added support for tagging Promotions as being suitable for use in audio targeted output.
• Fixed a bug where items with apostrophes in their name could not be deleted.

RSS Input/Output Gateway

• Output GUIDs are now Yospace generated (in version 1.5, the GUIDs from the input feed were used in the output feed.)
• Added support for the use of the content-encoding header in the MRSS source, if specified.

Job Control System

• Performance improvements made to uniqueness checking on submitted content.
• The webservice methods contentDelete, variantDelete and canonicalDelete can now return 'IO error' as a return status. In version 1.5, 'IO error' was returned as 'bad content identifier'. 'bad content identifier' is now returned if the specified content identifier does not exist.
• Priorities per Client Application have been changed to have a default per Client Application. When a client application requests a job, the priority they specify is an offset from this default, and is limited to the range -5 <= offset <= +5. If outside these bounds, it is capped to the nearest bound.

Job Processing System

• Added support for frame sizes of an odd number of pixels for the conversion scripts 1004, 2004 and 2005.
• Added support for the creation of FLVs using the VP6 video codec.
• Added support for the inclusion of the pixel aspect ratio when computing letterbox sizes.