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VidiFlow 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.

23.3.10 on

Fixes

Fixes

Item#

Item

226976

RabbitMQ: Track message payload size in metric

226974

RabbitMQ: Increase retry interval

226452

RabbitMQ: Review pre-fetch counts

226648

Tool: Check for missing attributes for call activities in CP contracts

226647

WF Deployment Service: Check for missing attributes for call activities when deploying a worfklow

226644

Product Backlog Item 226644: WF-Designer (old & new): Check for missing attributes for call activities when saving

226175

WF-Designer: Attribute "version" missing in some BPMNs

23.3.6 on

Fixes

Fixes

Item#

Item

224942

RabbitMQ message reconnect issue

23.3.4 on

Fixes

Fixes

Item#

Item

224562

Agent Task remains running after error

224292

Error decrypting s3 secret key from storage method when it contains a forward slash

23.3.3 on 09.11.2023

Fixes

Fixes

Item#

Item

224736

23.3 alpine service for CoreServices should be of net7

224528

Create Thumbnail task is taking wrong shape

23.3.2 on

Fixes

Fixes

Item#

Item

221983

Agent Transcode timeout (5 min) while bulky upload (waveforms) is still running

223381

Agent Transcode problem with long transcodings and too few transcoding resources

222876

VF-Portal: Add KendoUI license into VF-Portal

222749

Vantage - Get progress for Job Guid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

223261

Camunda plugin: Improve logging

223168

RabbitMQ: Improve logging

222876

VF-Portal: Add KendoUI license into VF-Portal

223738

RabbitMQ: Improper handling of cancelled/shutdown consumers

224292

Error decrypting s3 secret key from storage method when it contains a forward slash

COMPLETED IN 23.3.4

223063

MessageBus: Investigate retry strategy for failures

223158

Update Alpine Image to 3.18.3

Release 23.3.1

Setup and Operations

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:

Please note that the UPDATED marker indicates a change between the previous major release and the one this document is issued for.

Dependencies with Products and Services

Version

VidiCore UPDATED

23.3

Kubernetes UPDATED

1.25 - 1.27

ConfigPortal UPDATED

23.3

AuthService (KC-based) UPDATED

23.3

Components

Version

Transcoder Images UPDATED

Commandline UPDATED

23.3.20

23.3.20

Angular

15

BPMN.io

8.6.1

RabbitMQ UPDATED

3.11.17-management

RabbitMQ Operator UPDATED

2.2.0

Camunda UPDATED

7.19

Powershell

7.2.2

OpenSearch UPDATED

2.7

Hangfire UPDATED

1.8

Alpine Image UPDATED

3.18

MediaInfo UPDATED

23.04-r0

PostgreSQL

14

Known Issues

Features

New Services, Agents, and Tasks

Set Key Value Metadata (Version 1.0) / Remove Key Value Metadata (Version 1.0)

This pair of new tasks allows one to set, update, and remove key-value metadata in VidiCore.

This can also be used to set S3 tags as those will be synched implicitly be VidiCore to key-value metadata. For more information, see VidiCore documentation.


List of Updated Tasks

Suffix “via Linux” Removed From all Tasks

In previous versions of VidiFlow, many tasks had the suffix "via Linux" in their names. This was necessary to distinguish the migrated tasks when switching from Windows to Linux. The old tasks are no longer deployed with VidiFlow, so the suffix has been deleted from all task names.

This change has no negative impact when using the tasks in existing workflows. To use updated versions of those tasks, it may be necessary to remove them from the workflow first and insert the new version manually.

Create Sorted Sequence (Version 3.0)

The new version of the task allows one to create overlaps in the resulting sequence.

Semantic Versioning for Workflows and Rules

Until version 23.2, VidiFlow did not use semantic versioning for workflows and rules. Every time a workflow or rule was saved, a new major version was created (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…). At the same time, there was the feature of using the so-called "LATEST" version when calling up workflows. This is practical because not all calls have to be adjusted every time the workflow or rule is changed.

On the other hand, this feature leads to runtime errors in a situation, where a workflow or rule is modified in a way, that the contract changes significantly, e.g. by adding mandatory input or output parameters without adapting the execution call of the workflows/rules.

With version 23.3, VidiFlow introduces semantic versioning for workflows and rules. If a workflow or rule is changed without changes on the contract, a new minor version is created. For workflows with contract changes, a new major version is created automatically. Users can also trigger to create a new major version if it makes sense for them based on other relevant changes inside the workflow.

The feature of using the “LATEST” workflow is changed in the following way: For each major version, it is now possible to use “x.LATEST”, where x is the major version. This is also replaced by the Workflow Designer to the new approach when adapting workflows. The advantage of this terminology is that the latest workflow version with a compatible contract is executed.

All APIs are fully backward compatible.

For more information, please see Semantic Versioning for Workflows and Rules [VF UG]

Workflow Monitor 

Central Saved Searches

A previous version of Workflow Monitor introduced the option to create saved queries for often-needed filter combinations. This is now enhanced by the option to create centrally saved searches.

Administrators can create a query in the Workflow Monitor and copy-paste it to a new entry in the ConfigPortal Use Case Page “User Interfaces / Workflow Monitor Central Queries”. One or more groups can be selected to provide the query only to the corresponding user groups. If no group is applied, the query is available for all users.

In connection with this feature, some menu items in the Saved Queries section have been slightly changed.

For documentation see Workflow Monitor | Saved-Queries.

Workflow Designer

With the release of VidiFlow 23.3, the new Workflow Designer is available for public testing. The previous version of Workflow Designer will also be deployed with Vidiflow and should be the standard for workflow design.

Compared to the previous version of Workflow Designer, there are different enhancements and improvements

  • More intuitive user interface in many different areas of the application.

  • The toolbox area offers a selection of VidiFlow service tasks, workflows, rules, and many other entities to easily drag and drop them to the BPMN canvas with fewer mouse clicks. Search filters and tags help one to find the entities faster.

  • Auto-connect feature to connect tasks before dropping.

  • Easier creation of workflow input and output parameters based on task parameters.

  • Open sub-workflows or rules from the Designer.

  • Use the latest BPMN.io version as the basis.

The documentation for the new Workflow Designer can be found here: Workflow Designer (new version)

The previous Workflow Designer is used per default. The new Designer can be opened from the VidiFlow Portal. Is is also possible to configure it as the default Designer for all use cases. For more information see Configure ConfigPortal & VidiFlow Portal for VidiFlow's New Workflow Designer [DEV VF] .

Rule Designer

Renaming of Rules

It is now possible to rename rules in the Rule Designer by changing the rule’s name in the top-left area and deploying the rule to the system.

Access Rights

The Rule Designer now has different access rights to open the Rule Designer or to be able to edit rules. This can be used in the future to create different roles differentiating between workflow and rule design.

VidiFlow Portal

Workflow Notification Handling

VidiFlow Portal can notify users of the execution of workflows. This is now disabled per default and can be enabled with the bell symbol.

Performance, Stabilization, and Other Improvements

Rate-Limiting for APIs

VidiFlow now supports rate-limiting for all APIs. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled and configured for the deployment of the system.

For more information, please see Rate-limiting for APIs [VF OG].

Field “appVersion” Added to Logs

All VidiFlow modules now log the field “appVersion” to improve error analysis.

OpenTelemetry Support

In a first step to improve observability, all VidiFlow backend modules now gather execution traces and metrics using the OpenTelemetry framework.

Please note that these data are not yet published or stored.

Reduced Amount of Workflow Progress Updates

Several long-running service tasks may send a lot of status updates to the workflow, e.g. when updating the progress. This has been reduced now in a way that said progress updates will only be sent to the workflow index after at least 30 seconds.

Tie Camunda Broker Instance to Engine Instance

Previously, the scaling of the Camunda engine did not have any effect on performance or load distribution for task executions since only one engine instance could execute tasks due to a Camunda design restriction. To solve this, a Camunda broker instance is now tightly coupled to an engine instance. They now scale as a pair.

Automatically deploy workflows after staging from ConfigPortal

After staging workflows from ConfigPortal, VidiFlow will deploy these workflows automatically in the target environment. This allows them to be executed without any further steps.

Fixes

Fixes

Item#

Item

218073

Encounter "504" Gateway timeout if the workflow api with invalid username provided in param of "StartAsUser"

218146

GetFileByShapeTag - object reference error

218469

WF-Designer: Rename workflow cause service task creation failed

218510

VF-Portal: Upload Files UI is not able to upload files

210768

WF-Monitor: Including Subworkflows and excluding them again does not reset pagination correctly

218255

WF-Monitor: Metadata is not working with user defined metadata

219277

WF-Monitor: Filter on WF Name does not find all entries

220745

WF-Monitor: Only four of the configured VidiCore metadata are displayed

220747

WF-Monitor: VidiCore metadata fields always empty at the beginning

220748

WF-Monitor: No VidiCore metadata after first loading in an incognito session or when the browser cache is cleared

220855

WF-Monitor: VidiCore metadata is not truncated like workflow metadata in the GUI

220878

WF-Monitor: Task logs layout misaligned

220908

WF-Monitor: Metadata labels are not used with VidiCore metadata

221175

WF-Monitor: Metadata API Requests Fail with ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR

222252

WF Monitor: GET groups fails for user with "/" in the name

218538

WF-Designer: Drag drop service task root to subprocess bug

218765

Copy File Via Agent takes ChunkSizeinKb value to be in bytes

218775

Update subpath for copy/move shape direct API for VC

218881

Render Item V4.0: WF failed to fall into boundary event of "InvalidAssetType"

219228

TranscodeVantage fails triggering "subtitle insertion" workflow: Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'collection')

214709

Agent Transcode: missing deletion of index files (cix/tix) in case of transcode error

219731

transfer-essence can "destroy" an asset when it is started concurrently on the same object

218036

TranscoderS4M fails on filename containing #

219980

Error decrypting s3 secret key from storage method when it contains a forward slash

218279

Format of startTimeCode provided in the SequenceDoc is wrong

218417

Rule Designer: Disable save button after klicking to avoid multiple versions

219453

VF MediaAgents deployment: Missing Slash in Config Map

219557

Copy File via Agent: Failed to copy file if the input parameters are given source storage uri and the source platform uri which contains a subpath with file

220433

Media agent TrimmMxf needs to abide by access controls

200113

VF Agents: Verify the provisioning agent use case definition logic

212481

Transcode vantage: Improve exception readability

216828

Contract Version 2.1 of TranscoderProxy With TranscoderS4M via Linux will not work on files located in subfolders

220501

Workflows sometimes stay at "Running"

206496

VidiFlow Portal: Vidicore File store full uri as filename for the azure storage

220250

ContractUsage service: Uses wrong identifier for workflow/rule contracts

220434

CreatePosters: Unable to catch the error of "Timecode out of range"

216312

GCP: Vidicore couldn't able to get private key secret

200113

Vidispine agents, wrong error handling: no boundary events, not correct exceptions

221110

VF-Portal: Missing agent contract usage.

221253

WF Designer: Mapping disappears after task version change

221509

Deleted WF is not clean up by CRON job

221545

Contract Usage API throwing unhandled exception in log

221859

Platform-Clients vulnerabilities: tough-cookie

221631

Agent Transcode finishes task while keyframe upload is still running (and finally failing)

221983

Agent Transcode timeout (5 min) while bulky upload (waveforms) is still running

222283

WF-Designer marked multiple task activities red after loading

222403

New WF-Designer: Remove size limit for script-task code

222575

TranscodeProxyWithTranscoderS4M: TTML data is shown empty in Vidicore although it does send POST request

222693

Portal: Remove HULL configuration from clients repo

222571

WF Monitor: Unable to download log file

222669

"Calculation" of latest version wrong

222047

New WF Designer: Failed to load the workflow parameters and found errors in browser console

221985

New WF Designer: Save to new major version fails

221263

Semantic Versioning: Rule usage not able to list down the workflow if the rule version is selected as x.Latest in bpmn file

222936

Notification Service: Workflow Started trigger not working and missing terminated, cancelled and indent trigger

202823

NotificationService: Multiple workflow notifications sending out from notification service

222860

WF Monitor: Central Saved Search access rights functionality doesn't work

222115

New WF Designer: Wrong topicname for updated rule version

223095

WF-Designer: Bad BPMN code when adding multiple gateways

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