Kollaborate Server 3.7 is a major update to our self-hosted workflow platform with thousands of code changes, mainly on the backend, to modernize and improve reliability. It also contains many new features, bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

PHP 8.1 and MariaDB

This version updates PHP to version 8.1 and uses MariaDB instead of MySQL, both of which improve performance.

Trash

Deleting a file now moves it to the Trash, which can be accessed at the bottom of the screen.

Project admins can restore or empty the trash, otherwise those files will be removed automatically after 30 days.

User interface improvements

New controls for entering timecode and copying text.

Color and theme changes

Many optimizations to theming, including better support for light-colored interfaces. (You may need to rebuild your custom theme from the Tools section of the Admin Area for it to display correctly in this version.)

User administration

View stats for a user, such as the projects they are part of and how many files they have uploaded.

You can now suspend users, preventing them from using the site but keeping their files, comments, etc, intact.

Comment importing improvements

You can now map timecode, author and comment to specific columns within a CSV, as well as getting the author name from the file if the format supports it.

Comments can be imported and exported as TSV (Tab-Separated Values).

Require MFA

You can now require the user to have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) activated before they can access a project. Edit a project to switch this option on.

There are many more changes and fixes; view the full list here.

Updated pricing

We've overhauled our pricing. Kollaborate Encoder is significantly cheaper and we've added new low-end packages with lower user counts to reduce the barrier to entry for smaller companies. (Existing customers are grandfathered into their old packages.)

At the current time of writing, we're offering a Black Friday Sale with 30% off all packages. This sale lasts through Cyber Monday (November 27th 2023).

If you'd like to try out Kollaborate Server before buying, please contact us for a trial.

Kollaborate is an essential cloud workflow platform that allows you to share files with clients and team members while integrating with Digital Rebellion apps and services. Kollaborate Server allows you to host the platform in-house on your own servers and storage. To find out more, see the Kollaborate Server overview, register for the free cloud trial or contact us for a server trial.

Kollaborate Server 3.6 B6 - Nov 4 2023

This is a pre-release version of Kollaborate Server 3.7.

Please see previous betas for a full list of changes from 3.6.x.

Important: this version upgrades the database to MariaDB 10.11 to fix issues when upgrading databases from much older versions of MySQL. Please use the database download tool in Admin Area > Tools to backup your database beforehand.

Changes in this version:

• Major backend overhaul and modernization of the Files page
• Deleting a file now moves it to the Trash, which can be accessed at the bottom of the screen. Project admins can restore or empty the trash, otherwise those files will be removed automatically after 30 days.
• Project titles must now be unique when creating a new project
• Projects - Added an option to require the user to have MFA set up before they can access a project
• Support for importing and exporting comments as TSV (Tab-Separated Values)
• Sharing - Links can now be deleted in a batch
• Captions - Support for relative / absolute caption timings when importing from a file
• Search - Additional file type options are available in Advanced Search: Folder, Comment Stream, Compressed Archive
• Admin - Additional user stats added to the Profile page
• Admin - Added an option for alternate page text color to custom colors page
• UI - Navigation bar adjusts more intelligently to the page you're currently viewing
• Comments - Fixed an issue where uploading a file with a comment wouldn't work correctly
• User Importing - Fixed an error if a user already exists in the project
• Share - Fixed an issue where a file request would expire immediately if no expiration date was set
• Admin - Admin authorization now times out after 30 mins of inactivity instead of when accessing a non-admin section of the site
• Projects - Fixed an issue that could prevent users from importing folders from another project when creating a new one
• Users - Tasks the user is assigned to are now unassigned when deleting a user
• Admin - Pages now work better on light color schemes
• Files - Fixed an issue where the workflow dropdown icon could be cut off if the workflow name is long
• API - Fixed an issue where apps would be unable to get the current user's name
• Uploads - Fixed a crash when uploading to My Private Files
• Player - Fixed a crash when accessing files in My Private Files
• Player - Fixed an issue where the comment bar would be semi-transparent in full screen
• Users - The last selected role is remembered when adding new users
• Folder Downloading - Better error handling if the user lacks permissions
• Encoding - More accurate calculation of the current queue position
• Player - Show the file title when hovering over truncated titles
• Files - Fixed an issue where comment exports to Reaper may produce the wrong type of file
• Various minor UI tweaks
• Various code modernizations and overhauls

Post Haste for Mac 2.8.1 - Oct 25 2023

• Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the app

Post Haste for Windows 2.4.2 - Sep 20 2023

• Prevented users from creating completely blank project titles

Kollaborate Server 3.7 B5 - Sep 18 2023

This is a pre-release version of Kollaborate Server 3.7.

Please see previous betas for a full list of changes from 3.6.x.

Be aware that we're now using MariaDB instead of MySQL and that the Docker image is configured to convert the database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise.

Changes in this version:

• Admin - When adding a user, their last name is now optional
• Admin - Allow site admins to view all users' profiles and access user stats
• Admin - My Private Files can now be disabled from the Configure page of the admin area
• Admin - Support for suspending users
• Comments - Project admins can now delete all comments for a file from the player page
• Share - Show all links for a particular file by clicking the file name on the Share page. Ctrl-click (or Cmd-click on Mac) to launch the player for the file
• Tasks - Show all tasks for a particular file by clicking the file name on the Tasks page. Ctrl-click (or Cmd-click on Mac) to launch the player for the file
• Import Comments - Support for getting the author name from the file if supported by the format
• Import Comments - Added the ability to map timecode, author and comment to specific columns within a CSV
• Admin Dashboard - Fixed an issue where deleted projects could not be cleared
• Admin - Fixed an issue where default strings in database dumps would be incorrectly quoted
• Files - Fixed an issue where departments wouldn't show a value in the Date column
• Player - Don't show the "file needs converting" banner unnecessarily
• Player - Fixed an issue where HTML content in the Description field may not render correctly
• Player - Fixed a layout issue if comments are disabled but the file needs approval
• Users - Fixed an issue where a user could be added to the wrong project if another one was loaded in a different tab
• Workflows - Fixed an issue where workflow edit page would not show the correct status of the "allow comments" option
• Projects - Fixed an issue where it would take you to My Private Files after creating a project instead of the newly-created project
• Projects - Fixed an issue where apostrophes would not be displayed correctly in project titles
• Files - Fixed an issue that could prevent folders being downloaded
• Quick Share - Improved UI if sharing fails
• Tasks - Fixed an issue where it could sometimes show a random file on the Tasks page if no file was assigned to a task
• Upgraded several third-party packages for better PHP 8.1 compatibility
• Various minor UI tweaks
• Various code modernizations and overhauls

Compressor Repair 2.4.2 - Sep 18 2023

 

• Removed opt-in telemetry from the app
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

 

FCS Remover 3.2.2 - Sep 18 2023

• Removed opt-in telemetry from the app
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.3 - Sep 18 2023

• Removed opt-in telemetry from all apps in the suite
• Plugin Manager - Support for choosing your team ID from a list when creating a plugin installer
• Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugin names in the format "01.PluginName" would behave incorrectly
• Plugin Manager - Moved plugin installer notarization to new notarytool service
• All apps, including plugin installers, now require at least macOS 10.13
• General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Pro Media Tools 2.2 - Aug 29 2023

• Removed opt-in telemetry from all apps in the suite
• Video Check - Support for detecting if an audio track is completely blank
• Batch Renamer - Show item count in window
• Video Check - Audio problems are now identified by channel and track (if a problem exists across several channels, more than one error message may therefore appear)
• QT Edit - Color and Gamma atoms can coexist in a QuickTime movie
• QT Edit - Fixed a crash that could occur after conforming a movie
• Performance and stability improvements across the suite
• Various small bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Pro Media Tools 2.2 is now out, with some great new features.

Video Check audio improvements

Video Check can now flag up files that have completely blank audio channels. Additionally, there has been an overhaul of how audio errors are treated within the app. The app now breaks down issues by track and channel to make it easier to pinpoint the exact location of the problem. This means that an issue that spans all channels will now show an error for each channel.

Other changes

• Removed opt-in telemetry from all apps in the suite
• Batch Renamer - Show item count in window
• QT Edit - Color and Gamma atoms can coexist in a QuickTime movie
• QT Edit - Fixed a crash that could occur after conforming a movie
• Performance and stability improvements across the suite
• Various small bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Pro Media Tools is an essential toolkit for media professionals. To find out more, view the feature list, read the user manual or download the free 15-day trial.

Kollaborate Server 3.7 B4 - Jul 15 2023

This is a pre-release version of Kollaborate Server 3.7.

Please see Beta 1 for a full list of changes from 3.6.x.

Be aware that we're now using MariaDB instead of MySQL and that the Docker image is configured to convert the database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise.

Changes in this version:

• Major overhaul and modernization of workflows
• Admin - Dashboard page now shows the current license type
• Admin - Added the ability to rebuild folder structures from the Tools page. This is helpful if a move operation is interrupted and things get out of sync.
• Files - Added Open in New Tab to context menu
• Player - Added an option to the Actions menu to regenerate file metadata (frame rate, resolution, etc)
• Player - Hovering over the encoding icon now shows the file's current position in the queue
• Better support for extremely long filenames
• Upgraded the OAuth library, which should fix the issues a couple of users were having uploading with Kollaborate Transfer
• Adobe Panel - Fixed an exception that could occur if the file contains comments from a link recipient
• Player - Fixed an issue where accessing a file inside a shared folder could fail
• Better support for light color schemes
• Various minor UI tweaks
• Various code modernizations and overhauls

Post Haste for Windows 2.4.1 - Jun 19 2023

• Fixed an issue where creating a project using a fixed path would fail

Post Haste for Windows 2.4 - May 12 2023

• You can now add prefixes and suffixes to augment a parameter's value from the Preferences  > Parameters window. Note that prefixes and suffixes will not be applied to blank parameter values; the parameter will be skipped entirely.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent parameters being imported correctly from a file
• Updated project templates and blank project file templates
• Changed filename format in default projects templates from Template.ext to [template].ext
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 3.7 B2 - May 8 2023

This is a pre-release version of Kollaborate Server 3.7. Beta 2 fixes a couple of minor styling issues but mainly focuses on improving the reliability of the installer.

Please see Beta 1 for a full list of changes from 3.6.x.

Be aware that we're now using MariaDB instead of MySQL and that the Docker image is configured to convert the database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise.

Changes in this version:

• Installer - Fixed an issue where the user may not be able to progress past the licensing step
• Installer - The configuration file is now created if it doesn't exist when launching the installer, instead of later in the process
• Installer - Reduced the likelihood of permissions issues preventing the configuration file from being created on Docker installations
• Installer - Better handling of blank configuration and .htaccess files
• Improved the general reliability of the installer
• Files - Thumbnails for image files now show the entire image
• UI - Fix file status text being the wrong color when adding a custom style

Earlier this week we released Post Haste 2.8 for Mac and Post Haste 2.4 for Windows, a major update for our free project management tool.

The biggest change in this release is the ability to add prefixes and suffixes to parameter values. This adds extra text to the front or end of the parameter's value, for example adding the word "client_" before the client name parameter value.

(Note that if the parameter's value is blank, prefixes and suffixes are not applied and the parameter will remain blank.)

We've also fixed bugs, improved performance and updated the project file presets and templates to use the latest versions of Adobe's tools.

Post Haste is a free app for Mac and PC that makes it easy to create new projects from templated folder structures. To find out more, check out the feature list, read the user manual or download the app for Mac or PC.

Preference Manager 4.5.4 - May 4 2023

• Removed telemetry from the app
• Fixed an issue that could cause a "Background Items Added" alert to appear multiple times
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Post Haste for Mac 2.8 - May 4 2023

    •    You can now add prefixes and suffixes to augment a parameter's value from the Preferences  > Parameters window. Note that prefixes and suffixes will not be applied to blank parameter values; the parameter will be skipped entirely.
    •    Removed telemetry from the app
    •    Updated project templates and blank project file templates
    •    Fixed an issue where the software updater could cause a "Background Items Added" alert to appear multiple times
    •    Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 3.7 B1 - Apr 24 2023

This is a pre-release version of Kollaborate Server 3.7. This version has a few new user-facing features but the biggest change is a signficant architectural overhaul. It has thousands of backend improvements and several key components have been rewritten. These changes improve reliability, customization and performance.

This version has been well tested and we're not aware of any issues, but we've given it a beta label due to the sheer number of changes that occurred.

Also note that we're now using MariaDB instead of MySQL and that the Docker image is configured to convert the database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise.

Changes in this version:

• PHP 8.1 support
• MySQL has been replaced with MariaDB, which improves performance
• Link recipients can now view (but not edit) captions
• History can be filtered and exported to a CSV file
• Numerous UI improvements including new user interface controls for entering timecode, copying links and displaying thumbnails
• UI styling has been overhauled and you may therefore need to regenerate the style from the Admin Area
• The App Storage feature has been removed
• The long-deprecated Python scripting feature has been removed
• Lots of bug fixes and reliability improvements
• Various minor tweaks and improvements