VidiFlow Release Notes [VF RN]

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

Release 22.3.165

Breaking Changes

Discontinuation of Service Fabric

Service Fabric used to be the standard environment for running VidiFlow. For various reasons, it has since been migrated to Kubernetes. With VidiFlow 22.3 no more services for Service Fabric will be delivered.

However, it should still be possible to run 3rd party agents in Service Fabric with this release. This will probably be disabled in the upcoming 22.4 release.

Discontinuation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 support

Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported by Microsoft from June 2022 on. This also affects common frontend libraries such as Angular, which do not support IE 11 in newer versions.

For these reasons, VidiFlow no longer supports Internet Explorer 11.

Setup and Operations

Deployment

The following components were removed from the VidiFlow deployment:

• Kibana

• Elastic Search

Database Support

VidiFlow now supports PostgreSQL up to version 14.

Dependencies and Component Updates

The following central components were updated and will be shipped in the noted version, along with relevant product and service dependencies:

Features

Tasks Migrated from Service Fabric to Kubernetes

The following tasks have been migrated from Service Fabric to Kubernetes:

• UpdateMetadataVpms2

• Send Email

New Services, Agents, and Tasks

VidiNet Cognitive Services

VidiFlow supports the use of VidiNet services from 22.2 onwards.

The following service was added:

Transform Using Configured XSL (1.0)

This new task allows, in comparison to the existing task “Transform using XML”, to pass the name of an XSL which is configured in the ConfigPortal section “Metadata Conversion”.

Tasks Taken Over From Solution Development

The following tasks were initially developed by our Solution Development and are now part of the VidiFlow product. All existing task versions are included to streamline the update process.

• Convert JSON to XML

• Convert XML to JSON

• Decompress a zip file to a folder

• Create a zip file from a folder

• Get Sequence Item Document

• Get Sequence Item Ids

List of Updated Tasks

Transfer Essence: Added Location-Awareness

The task “Copy File via Agent” in version 1.2 supports the location awareness feature introduced in VidiFlow 22.2.

Render Item Sequence (4.0): multiple shape tags for source files

The task “Render Item Sequence” now supports the ability to set multiple shape tags for the source files. For example, this allows for the mixing of video files and voice-over files with different shape tags in one sequence. Additionally, it is now possible to specify timecodes for the partial rendering of the sequence.

Import Metadata from SideCar Content (2.1) and Import Metadata from SideCar File (2.1)

Both tasks now support using an XLST configured in ConfigPortal in the section “Metadata Conversion”. This can be addressed by setting the new optional parameter “MetadataProjection”, naming the desired transformation. If a projection name is provided, the task reads the XLST from CP and applies it to the XML before importing it.

Get File Information (2.0): Additional Output Parameters

The task “Get File Information” has three new output parameters to return: the URI, the size, and the leading path of the file.

Create Collection (2.0): New parameter ExternalID

When creating a new collection, it is now possible to set an external ID. If the ID is already in use, the task returns a boundary event.

Enhanced S3 support

Several media and essence agents were adapted to better support S3 storages in the correct way.

Media Agents: Support of configuration values for growing files

All media agents based on the S4M transcoder technology now support different timeout values which can be configured in the use case configuration “TranscoderS4M\Config“ in ConfigPortal:

• Media poll interval in seconds

• File grow timeout in seconds

• File appear timeout in seconds

• Thread synchronization timeout in seconds

Adapting Support Third-Party Monitoring Links

Many tasks were adapted to support monitoring links to be shown in the Workflow Monitor. For all these tasks, a new major version has been created including the generalized output parameter “Hyperlinks”, which is evaluated automatically by the Workflow Monitor. If one or more VidiCore jobs are called in the task execution, the links are shown in the Workflow Monitor details view. This may be delayed until the task finishes or fails or a boundary event is thrown.

The following tasks are affected:

Workflow Monitor

Keep Position and Zoom Factor After Tab Switching

After changing tabs from and to a details view, the position and zoom factor will be set to the previous values.

Workflows Designer

Support Multiple Source Shape Tags

The Workflow Designer has a new control that allows one to choose multiple shape tags. For example, this is used in the latest version of the task “Render Item Sequence” (version 4.0).

Show Workflow Name and Version in Tab Header

The name and the version of the currently opened workflow are now shown in the browser tab header.

Rule Designer

Show rule name and version in tab header

The name and the version of the currently opened rule are now shown in the browser tab header.

ConfigPortal

Bundled Use Case Pages for Triggering Workflows

VidiFlow provides several so-called use case pages to ConfigPortal. All use case pages that are intended to trigger workflows are now arranged in one section “Trigger workflows”.

The page “conditional workflows” was renamed to “Metadata changes”

Support of Quantel SQ storages

It is now supported to add storages for Quantel SQ servers in ConfigPortal.

Support of S3 storages for Preview

S3 storages can now be used as Preview and Thumbnail storage.

Fixes