VidiCore Release Notes

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

Release 24.1

Previous release notes of VidiCore can be found in this section of the API Doc:

Link to VidiCore Release Notes.

VidiCore Prerequisites

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

Link to VidiCore Prerequisites.

Cancellations & Deprecations

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 / CentOS 7 are not longer supported with VidiCore 24.1

With the upcoming release 24.2, Solr will no longer be supported as search index. Customers need to use OpenSearch instead.

To support this, the following feature was developed in 24.1: Inhertiance Rules

The API methods under /relation have been deprecated and superseded by /item/relation. See below at "Support non-hierarchical relationship between collections" for details.

Features

Ability to remove/add an item from the search index (item 224463)

It is now possible to mark items to not be present in the search index at all:

CODE

PUT /item/(item-id)/indexed

If the parameter indexed is set to false, the item is removed for the search index; setting it to true brings it back to the index.

See Items - Vidispine REST API documentation for details.

Use language code for subtitle burn-in (ticket 227303)

If a language is specified when doing subtitle burn-in, VidiCore now only uses the timed metadata containing that language code.

Update Elastic APM agent (ticket 226530)

The Elastic APM agent was updated to version 1.45.0.

Respect storage priority for conform jobs (ticket 226592)

Conform jobs now use the defined storage priority to select the source video locations.

Support of inheritance rules for metadata (tickets 226242 & 226858)

Inheritance rules can be used to set one or more rules for inherited fields based on conditions. It is also possible to configure the field to be inherited with another name in the target object.

This allows for example to inherit the field title of a collection to the items inside as “collection_title”.

See Inheritance Rules - Vidispine REST API documentation for details.

Support non-hierarchical relationship between collections (tickets 227242 & 227829)

Collection-to-collection relations can be defined in the same way as item-to-item relations. For API consistency, the existing item-to-item relation calls under /relation were moved to /item/relation. The deprecated API path /relation is deprecated, but will be supported for backward compatibility at least until version 24.4.

See Collection-to-collection relations — Vidispine REST API documentation for details.

Fixes

Fixes
Item#	External#	Item
227418		`DefaultStorageMethodSelector` should only return methods that are online
227639	CCBS-21619	VSA piles up TCP connections when under heavy load
227470		File state is not changed to `MISSING` if storage scan does not find the file and its current state is `ARCHIVED`
226938		`CoreFileWorkerFactory` should be used instead of `FileWorkerFactory` in VidiCore
226737		Ignore incompatible index messages
225971		`SequenceDocument` to `NLEJobDocument` conversion: Not possible to scale height and width independently
225846		Specifying `vxaLocalPath` for a VSA storage method with a trailing slash ends up with two storages in VidiCore
225720	CCBS-21209	Ensure unique IDs for shape deduction jobs to avoid results being mixed between items when system is under heavy load
225508		Possible to delete metadata-fields still in use
225451		`COPY_FILE` job fails if file is on storage with multiple VSA methods and first method/VSA is offline
225407		field value id is not set when creating a collection with initial metadata including dataset fields
224694		Resource leakages in S3 and Glacier access (`S3EventBean` and `GlacierBean`)
222731		Updating field group with `clear` set to `true` does not remove previous fields from database
219293		Issues with file sequences
209551		Better error message upon search on single quote field values
227735		Better error log message when deletion of a file fails
227399		Minor sprite sheet generation improvements to reduce memory consumption
226602		vidispine-io should use the `createHttpClient` method also for bucket region detection
228487		VidiCore running in Docker container doesn't see standard TLS certificates when no custom certs are defined
228381		VSA-managed storages may get lost during VSA startup
228325		Cannot create more than one VSA storage via `vidispine-agent-admin` in VSA 23.4.0 or later
226586	VPN30006-3363	Changing deletion locks on collections are not updating OpenSearch Index
228471		Notification registration updates fail
227890		Document `empty:/` uri for DB purging config
227887		Document configuration property `skipIdenticalMetadataValues`
226986		Improve documentation of cluster quorum
227075, 227502		VidiCore and VSA automatically restart on out-of-memory situations in Kubernetes-based environments
200109		Improve performance of debug logging storage access in `StorageActionBean`

VidiCoder Fixes (VidiCoder 24.1.1)
Item#	External#	Item
227543		`CONFORM` jobs fail with av_write_trailer() returned -1313558101
227729		Captions not extracted in update Shape API Call
227277		Blur and Picture-in-Picture do not render
227362		Frame shifts when editing on growing videos
226479		Change of subsampling not possible
226529		Conform fails when using specific PNGs in EDL
225857		RDD25 outputs wrong aspect ratio in video essence
		Fail corrupted files fast
		Disable reuse of video muxers to avoid it getting stuck
		Ensure unique job ids
		Update Nablet H.264 library