Recent Updates

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.1 Beta 2

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: This release is a beta version. Although it has been extensively tested, we have given it a beta label due to the major changes it contains. You should therefore be cautious before rolling it out to a production server.

Changes since Beta 1:

  • Admin - Added a new tool to regenerate proxies
  • Fixed an issue where scheduled tasks wouldn't run
  • Fixed an issue where pages would fail to load if the browser sent unnamed headers
  • Fixed an issue where checking for updates produced an error
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.1 Beta 1

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: This release is a beta version. Although it has been extensively tested, we have given it a beta label given the major changes it contains. You should therefore be cautious before rolling it out to a production server.

Changes:

  • We've changed the version number format. Versions now include the year, the number of major versions this year and a minor version number
  • Apache has been replaced with our own custom Rust web server. This provides significant performance, security and robustness improvements
  • The Rust backend will eventually replace all PHP code on the site. As of right now, file streaming, downloads, heatmaps, captchas, some parts of the upload cycle, and some file operations are using the new backend, with the rest being forwarded to the old backend
  • User login sessions have been completely rewritten and now use Redis Stack Server
  • No need to visit /upgrade and run the upgrader manually anymore. Database upgrades now happen automatically when Kollaborate Server launches
  • We've added traffic management features including load shedding (to mitigate DDOS attacks) and rate limiting
  • You may have seen lots of 404 errors in your logs for URLs like /wp-admin. These are users scanning for vulnerabilities (Kollaborate does not use these technologies and is not vulnerable to these issues). Those users are now automatically banned for 24 hours or until the server is relaunched
  • Kollaborate will now automatically backup your database periodically, including before running the database upgrader
  • We've upgraded MariaDB to 11.4, which provides performance improvements. Remember to backup your database before copying the files across, as the upgrade will happen automatically when Docker restarts
  • Synced Sessions have been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. In the long term we are still committed to solving this problem, but will solve it in a different way
  • Kollaborate will now show you in the Projects and Admin UIs that a software update is available
  • Easier setting of maximum uploaded file size inside server_config.toml
Other changes:
  • Admin - Fixed an issue where it would not correctly show whether a user was suspended
  • Import Captions - Only show .srt and .vtt files in the file browse dialog
  • Upload page - Fixed an issue where the breadcrumb path would be incorrect when uploading a revision or replacement
  • Share - Various UI tweaks to the URL / password copy dialogs
  • Uploads - Fixed an issue where not all files would be uploaded when dragging in a folder containing hidden files
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 3.9.2

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this before copying the newer version's files over.

Changes:

  • Files - Support for deleting the base version of a version stack
  • Comment Importing - Added the ability to specify the encoding of the marker list when importing. This can resolve some issues when importing Avid marker lists with non-English characters, but for most use-cases the default of UTF-8 is sufficient
  • Player - Changed next / previous file shortcuts in the player to Shift + N / Shift + P
  • Uploads - Added a navigation breadcrumb to the Upload page so you can easily go back to where you were before
  • Share - Links now show the full link title when hovering over them on the Share page
  • Files - Fixed an issue where renaming a file in a version stack would incorrectly show it as Version 1
  • Files - Fixed an issue where audio uploads could hang
  • Trash - Fixed an issue where files deleted from archived projects could not be removed
  • UI - Fixed an issue where certain accented characters may not display correctly
  • UI - Fixed an issue where the Share and History pages might not render correctly
  • Config - Fixed an issue where database passwords with semicolons in them would not be saved correctly
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the mail queue to hang
  • Fixed an issue where cookies wouldn't be set when viewing the Adobe panel in Premiere 25.x
  • Web Hooks - Fixed an issue where Kollaborate could not communicate with a script if the web server changed the case of the header key
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Encoder 1.8.1

  • The Docker image now uses Ubuntu 24.04 and ffmpeg 7.1
  • Added num_threads configuration option to limit the number of threads encoding will consume (0 = the number of cores in your system)
  • Fixed an issue where custom encoding parameters would not be received from Kollaborate Server
  • Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
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