Elementi 2020 release notes
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Elementi 2020 Update 3
Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.3.36469.
Release date: July 20, 2020.
Release date: July 20, 2020.
Fixes
- AJAX POST requests would use chunked transfer encoding since firmware 4.5.0, but many simple devices do not support them, which broke communications; now chunked transfer encoding is not used in AJAX requests.
- HTTP requests to server whose name started with vN, N being an integer, would be modified to be within square brackets, breaking the request.
- Publishing to a player running 4.6.0 firmware could error out with a certificate validation failure.
- The Widgets collection was not translated.
Elementi 2020 Update 2
Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.2.36228.
Release date: June 8, 2020.
Release date: June 8, 2020.
Fixes
- Facebook widgets were no longer working due to a Facebook API change. The data source configuration dialog of Facebook widgets no longer show retired options. The Facebook logo is now shown instead of content from a demo account, which was not always reliable.
- Encoding of multi-screen videos could fail when hardware accelerated encoding was enabled due to different GPU limitations - hardware acceleration is now disabled when encoding split videos to ensure uniform quality among tiles.
- The publish dialog would not show target devices that were inside collections.
- After changing the project location in Elementi settings, the projects list in the browse panel would only update after an Elementi restart.
Developer
- HTTP PUT requests with an empty body where incorrectly done as GET requests.
Elementi 2020 Update 1
Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.1.36128.
Release date: May 20, 2020.
Release date: May 20, 2020.
Fixes
- Streaming was not working properly with some sources.
- An HTTP proxy on port 80 could not be used. This was a regression introduced in 4.5.0.
- Some web services, like RSS feeds, behave differently when the referrer is about:blank, a full URL is now used to avoid problems.
- Solved incompatibility with myDrive.ch file storage service.
- Projects generated by Elementi could have incorrect paths causing compatibility problems with ARYA enterprise.
- Some translations were broken or missing.
- EULA and third-party licenses updated to reflect current ones.
Elementi 2020
Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.0.35854.
Release date: April 20, 2020.
Release date: April 20, 2020.
New
- Added support for the HMP400 players and for their corresponding Feature Set. Elementi verifies that the necessary Feature Set is activated on the player when publishing.
- New HTML5 rendering engine, based on Chromium 74, with support for hardware accelerated video decoding and WebGL. Applies only to projects for KIOSK and SYSTEMS Feature Set.
- New Web Robot engine to support forms-based authentication on websites, using credentials stored in Elementi. The engine can be extended to navigate, scroll, zoom on content of interest and/or click through consent popups on HTML5 pages.
- Added support for underlined text.
- Calendar widgets have been reworked to support merging multiple calendars on the same view for Google calendar and Outlook online. The calendar source dialog has been modified accordingly.
- New option in settings menu to transcode to HEVC for DSOS projects to get smaller files with the trade off of longer conversion times.
- New option to use Intel QuickSync, Nvidia NVENC or AMD AMF to speed up transcoding with hardware accelerated video encoding.
- JPEG images are now automatically rotated and flipped according to EXIF data.
Improvements
- New search for meeting rooms dialog for Outlook Online calendars, user can also enter email address of room directly if known.
- Added support Hyperlink and Picture columns in SharePoint lists.
- Export / import password protected list of credentials in the format compatible with the player. Include encrypted credentials when exporting devices.
- Report all network errors to help diagnose cloud connectivity issues.
- Master layouts also available in Elementi S.
- Support for HTTP/2 protocol and request multiplexing.
- Increased resolution of the project preview for Arya Enterprise.
Changes
- Removed support for Instagram widgets because Instagram has discontinued the Legacy API.
- The calendar widgets are not backward-compatible with HMP200, HMP130, and HMP100 players.
- Session cookies now expire after 2 days (used to never expire before).
Fixes
- Playlist inside playlist duration changes not cascaded properly.
- Events widget - long event titles were not showing correctly.
- JSignage Graph plugin: Axis grid were not shown in some cases because of missing min and max values.
- If there is any text in an editable text area, editing was broken.
- Hostname not displayed in the Publish location properties dialog for shared folders.
- Some users experienced a crash on undo.
- Make sure vbv buffer size parameter does not exceed target level on video encoding.
- DXVA hardware decoder must be created with the actual coded video dimensions.
Security
- Protected from XEE attacks in XML files.
- Use HTTPS protocol for the ECB exchange rate data source.
- CORS violations and other errors in HTML5 content are reported in the log.
Developer
- New tabs in the Developer Console: network log, cookies and network cache.
- The JavaScript libraries have been updated.
- JSignage Social plugin is updated to version 1.3.0
- JSignage Graph plugin is updated to version 1.0.3