Elementi 2020 release notes

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Elementi 2020 Update 3

Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.3.36469.
Release date: July 20, 2020.

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.

Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.2.36228.
Release date: June 8, 2020.

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.

Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.1.36128.
Release date: May 20, 2020.

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.

Version: "Matterhorn" 4.5.0.35854.
Release date: April 20, 2020.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

Fusion-related archives cannot be restored onto the player due to a problem with the way the archive is created. As a workaround, use Elementi 2018 Update 5 or create the archive manually from your disk (make sure to set the compression level to "Store").