CORE 7.1.4 Release Notes

January 4, 2024

New Features & Enhancements

Improved support for offline review on mobile

• Added emails to notify that offline media is ready to transfer in case the mobile app does not start download due to iOS disabling background activity
• Added emails to notify that offline media is ready to review when all media for a given offline request is transferred successfully
• Enhanced API to support mobile app retry and transfer validation

Expanded support of variable frame rate (VFR) media

• Added custom processing for variable frame rate media
• Added checks for variable frame rate media
• GOP Alignment was needed on variable frame rate media

Improved Screeners experience

• Enabled API users to provide custom forensic ID
• Added additional browser support for API based streams

Performance & Experience Improvements

Improved general performance of App

• Download options were slow to appear
• Users were not informed when download options are taking a long time to load
• Aspera messaging was impacting performance
• Player sometimes got stuck buffering if jumping around a lot

Improved performance and reliability of Search

• Searching in asset groups was slow in large environments
• Searching by production was slow
• Improved performance of various search operations
• Production tag was missing from advanced search
• Searches displayed incorrect results

Bug Fixes & Technical Updates

Addressed issues with User Lists

• Searching user lists was slow with large user counts
• Backend was returning too much data for user lists

Addressed issues with categorization form

• Categorization form loading slow
• Categorization form showing incorrect tag orders
• Updated backend response for categorization

Addressed reliability issues for Live Rooms

• Live Room recordings were not processing correctly

Addressed high impact bugs

• Assets added prior to Core V6 create various issues
• Forensic watermarks not processing when production watermarks applied
• Improved validation of download options to prevent UI errors
• Forensic 'Shield' icon obstructing the asset name
• Sort Ascendency not working with Group View On
• Player sometimes gets stuck buffering if jumping around a lot
• Images were appearing more than once in group view
• Users receive 500 error when search results are empty

Improved performance and reliability of Infrastructure

• Some services not restarting properly
• Backend search service requires upgrading
• Add additional monitoring for infrastructure services to aid troubleshooting
• Backend services can get rate limited and may need manual overrides