VidiCore Release Notes

The following items on the list encompass breaking changes, features, and fixes that are relevant for the major release.

This page contains a list of patches we released for this version.

24.2.6 30 Sep 2024

Version information

Component	Version
VidiCore	24.2.6-0-g015c26eb77
VSA Docker Image	24.2.6-0-g81aa75af-24.2.5-20240919.1
Transcoder	24.2.5

Features

Item#	Item
	<none>

Fixes

Item#	Item
233151	Cannot update placeholder notifications
232939	Item deletion fails if the item has more than 64K bigtext entries
219292	file search can return entries with id null and state UNKNOWN

Transcoder fixes

Item#	Item
	<none>

24.2.5 19 Sep 2024

Version information

Component	Version
VidiCore	24.2.5-0-gafd8803340
VSA Docker Image	VSA: 24.2.5-0-g33f86416-24.2.5-20240919.1
Transcoder	24.2.5

Features

Item#	Item
	<none>

Fixes

Item#	Item
232704	Metadata notification for enumeration values return empty values when using enum IDs
232096	BulkyMetaData On FileSystem Prefix Missing
232086	Item effective locks are not written to the Index consistently
229032	Mismatch between Consumer selector and messages on JobFeedback Queue (Growing DLQ)
208208	Inherited metadata are not returned when using certain types of content paths

Transcoder fixes

Item#	Item
232276	Transcoder fails: POP took too long, job stalled
231018	Confusing / incorrect audioComponent metadata

24.2.4 18 Sep 2024

This version is corrupt and should not be used for any reason.

24.2.3 27 Aug 2024

Version information

Component	Version
VidiCore	24.2.3-0-g13a94ea7ea
VSA Docker Image	VSA: 24.2.3-0-gdd3cc1af-24.2.3-20240808.1
Transcoder	24.2.3

Features

Item#	Item
	<none>

Fixes

Item#	Item
232107	Copying FileSequence does not work anymore
232240	Helm chart deployment fails when using system names with dashes

Transcoder fixes

Item#	Item
230796	Mosaic effect doesnt work with Anamorphic Video
230991	Render generated wrong output video
230187	Job VSATransfer2925 failed and VSA goes offline

24.2.2 08 Aug 2024

Version information

Component	Version
VidiCore	24.2.2-0-g618f0863d8
VSA Docker Image	24.2.2-0-g8559c955-24.2.1-20240704.1
Transcoder	24.2.1

Features

Item#	Item
230471	Rework Copy / Move command in VidiCore/VSA)
228503	VidiCore/VSA: Support hardlinks

Fixes

Item#	Item
231698	Metadata notifications return empty enumeration values
227465	File is not marked for reindex when state is changed from MISSING to LOST

Transcoder fixes

Item#	Item
	<none>

24.2.1 16 Jul 2024

Version information

Component	Version
VidiCore	24.2.1-0-g9e23eeb9b9
VSA Docker Image	24.2.1-0-g10fa9591-24.2.1-20240704.1
Transcoder	24.2.1

Features

Item#	Item
	<none>

Fixes

Item#	Item
230813	VidiCore fails to receive SQS message from S3 buckets after running for some time
231292	Offloading of file transfers to VSA via `enableTranscoderTransfer` does not work any more
229550	Offloading of file hashing to VSA via `enableTranscoderHash` does not work any more

Transcoder fixes

Item#	Item
	<none>

Release 24.2.0

Version information

Component	Version
VidiCore	VidiCore: 24.2.0-0-g774397e5d9
VSA Docker Image	VSA: 24.2.0-0-gff720baf-24.2.1-20240611.1
Transcoder	24.2.1

VidiCore Prerequisites

For more information on the prerequisites, please check the Prerequisites section of the API doc:

Link to VidiCore Prerequisites.

Features

Use AWS move command for S3 file move operations (ticket 229938)

VidiCore now uses the native AWS API move command to move files inside an S3 bucket.

Optimisations for bulky metadata for waveform and loudness information (tickets 229848 & 229526)

Waveforms and loudness information are stored in the table t_bulkymetadata with a reference to t_bigtext or a file on a storage for the payload.

VidiCore 24.2 changed the structure for this data in a way that only one dataset for per type is stored for one item (instead of multiple entries in previous versions). This improves the performance when reading the data. Other improvements are implemented to further speed up the offloading offloading the data from the database table to files on a storage.

The corresponding API calls are compatible between the current and older versions.

See https://apidoc.vidispine.com/24.1.2/system/property.html#vsvar-bulkyMetadataPackingKeyPrefixes for configuration options and how to restore the previous behaviour.

OpenSearch improvements

OpenSearch HTTP client timeout configuration (ticket 229558)

The HTTP client timeout for OpenSearch can now be configured as a configuration property.

See https://apidoc.vidispine.com/latest/system/property.html#vsvar-opensearchConnectionRequestTimeout and https://apidoc.vidispine.com/latest/system/property.html#vsvar-opensearchSocketTimeout

Use alias when creating OpenSearch index (ticket 229528)

When creating a new OpenSearch index, VidiCore automatically creates an alias with the given name and uses it to access the index. Existing indices w/o alias will continue to work.

Allow parallel execution of facet search against OpenSearch (ticket 229152)

Multiple facet search operations con now be executed in parallel to speed up the execution time of these requests.

To enable the feature see https://apidoc.vidispine.com/latest/system/property.html#vsvar-opensearchParallelFacetSearch

Set representative thumbnail when receiving thumbnails (ticket 229403)

VidiCore now sets the representativeThumbnail and representativeThumbnailNoAuth metadata fields when receiving thumbnails via the API (e.g. via a VidiFlow agent). This attribute can be used on user interfaces to show a thumbnail for an item.

It is possible to configure which thumbnail is set as representative thumbnail - see https://apidoc.vidispine.com/latest/system/property.html#vsvar-representativeThumbnailPosition.

Support non-AWS S3 buckets for VaaS transcoders (ticket 202802)

Non-AWS S3 buckets that do not support generate temporary credentials (e.g. Wasabi storage) are now also supported when VidiCore is using a VidiNet SaaS transcoder (previously only on-prem VSAs where supported). See https://apidoc.vidispine.com/24.1.2/system/property.html#vsvar-s3CredentialType.

Support Metadata Trigger for Metadata fields in Metadata Groups (ticket 227518)

Changes on metadata fields within groups now send metadata change notifications.

Other improvements

Use groups in MetadataGroupSearchOperatorType for group search endpoint (ticket 225384)
Verify and document PostgreSQL auto vacuum functionality (ticket 228096)

Fixes

Fixes
Item#	External#	Item
230212		Inconsistency in file naming between full and partial exports
229385		Storage rule sometimes doesn't trigger a `COPY_FILE` job
229360	SUP-7013	Sending notifications to AWS SQS queues gets stuck after a while
229220		Entities with an expired deletion lock cannot be deleted
229181		Extend logging for `ElasticSearchIndexCruncherWorker`
229126		Add documentation for creating libraries with many items
197289	VS-4751	Entries for removed files remain in `t_indexlog`
229856		Prevent deployment of VidiCore helm chart with initial password "admin" for admin user
229239		metadata fields `representativeThumbnail` and `representativeThumbnailNoAuth` are configured as "do not index" when created by the `/APIinit` call. Existing field definitions are not modified. Consider changing them and re-indexing items to reduce the search index size.
229229		Do not store fields for retrieval in OpenSearch (set `store=false`) on a freshly created index. Existing OpenSearch mappings are not modified. Consider changing them and re-indexing all entity types to reduce the search index size.
228440		Improve stability of ssh connection between VidiCore and the VSA, e.g. when uploading files in hybrid scenarios
228047		Improve growing file handling on GCP storages