Recent updates - October 2020

Docker changes

• The installer and upgrader scripts now ask for a password to improve security. You can view / modify this password from the config.env file.
• The database is now inaccessible to the host system by default. If you need to manually edit the database in a tool like Sequel Pro, uncomment the "ports" section of the database service in docker-compose.yml.
• Increased proxy timeouts to prevent timeouts occurring during long-running operations

Server-specific changes

• You can now specify a database port other than MySQL's default of 3306
• Default roles can be edited by site or super admins
• More descriptive error messages if a non-admin tries to log into the Admin Area
• The installer and troubleshooter now check the SQL mode is not set to strict
• Support for passwords for the installer / upgrader. Manual installations should set the environment variable KOLLAB_INSTALLER_PASSWORD to activate this setting; this is already taken care of for Docker installations.

Other changes

• Massive under-the-hood overhaul
• Folder downloading
• Heatmaps - show where people skipped ahead and where they watched more than once
• QuickShare - faster sharing of links
• Task tags
• Custom Roles per project
• Keyboard shortcut overhaul - click the Keyboard icon at the bottom left of the screen to discover available keyboard shortcuts
• Import / export metadata from CSV files
• Pin important tasks to the top of the Tasks view
• Improved icons and UI tweaks
• You can now add captions in languages other than English
• Fixed an issue where zooming might not work on PDFs
• Uploads - Improvements to estimated time calculations
• UI - Fixed checkboxes looking strange in Safari
• Files - Fixed an issue where documents and compressed files could not be dragged and dropped
• PDFs - Mouse wheel / keyboard shortcuts for zooming and page navigation
• Images - Zoom in / out shortcut keys
• Documents - You can now specify the page number in the player URL by appending "&page=x"
• Annotations - Increased line width for large images
• Projects - Support for specifying a project's language and having the player default to transcriptions for that language
• Thumbnails - Fixed an issue where thumbnails may not delete on Kollaborate Server
• Projects - Fixed an issue where deleting a project would not delete the project's directory on the storage drive
• API - Fixed an issue where it wouldn't automatically create a project folder the first time a file is uploaded by the API
• UI - Fixed file titles being too short on mobile
• Lots of minor tweaks and bug fixes

Upgrading from a previous version

Please see the Upgrading section of the installation guide for instructions on how to upgrade your existing installation.