Recent updates - October 2024

Kollaborate Server 3.9 - Sep 9 2024

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: Due to the need to build caches, the upgrader may take a while to run if you have a large number of projects and/or a large number of files.

Changes:

• File Tags - Add tags to files to add additional context. Clicking a tag shows you all other files with that tag. Tags can be searched and both File and Upload Workflows can be used to automatically add tags to a file
• Global Search - Search for files across all projects at once
• Comment Tagging - Users can be tagged in comments by pressing the @ key, and there is a new alert sent when a user is tagged
• Files - There is now an optional "Last Comment" table column that can be sorted, and a new filter for files with unviewed comments (i.e. new comments since you last viewed it)
• Files - Support for adding a Duration column to the Files page for sorting by duration, as well as making it available as a parameter in the Advanced Search dialog
• Overhauled the File Browser for improved performance when dealing with very large projects
• Admin - Added a new Rebuild Caches tool
• Player - Added a button to change hold timecode to the current playback position
• Player - Hold is now reset if the user has only whitespace in the comment field
• Files - Allow filenames to span two lines if no status is set on the file
• Comments - Show link users when a comment is marked as "to-do" or "done"
• Uploaded AVIF images are now correctly recognized as images instead of generic files
• Saved Searches - Editing a saved search no longer requires you to do a Save As under the same name - now just click the Update button
• Projects - Project admins can now edit project tags
• Docker - Improved proxy performance
• Docker - Updated to Ubuntu 24.04
• UI - Overhauled multiple interface controls, most notably checkboxes, which now behave more consistently
• UI - Navigation links can now have sublinks for more easily locating important pages
• Alerts - Added a new alert when a file is uploaded to a File Request link
• Encoding - If more than one proxy type is set up and the workflow is set to remove the original file, the original file is removed only for the first proxy
• Sharing - Show name of link instead of original folder name to link recipients
• Sharing - Shared links are now removed when a file is moved between projects
• Player - Filters and searches are taken into account when showing the Next / Previous buttons
• UI - Show total storage space for all projects the user can access in the page footer (before this amount was project-relative)
• Sharing - Show search bar on folder links
• Permissions - Update terminology to clarify that the "access" permission corresponds to viewing others' files
• Uploads - Fixed an issue that was preventing uploads with matching filenames from automatically being placed in version stacks
• Uploads - Fixed thumbnail stretching on email alerts for file request links
• Player - Fixed an issue where video may be pillarboxed on wide displays
• Projects - Fixed an issue where deleting a project and then creating one with the same name would say the project still exists
• Sharing - Fixed an issue where Quick Share settings may not save when Quick Share is initiated from the player page
• Files - Fixed an issue where moving an empty folder might inadvertently move additional files
• Files - Fixed an issue where deleting a department with only an empty folder inside could delete additional files
• Encoding - Fixed an issue where encoding profile might not be sent to encoder
• Uploads - Bitrate now specifies Mbits instead of Mb, for clarity
• Uploads - Fixed filesize / bitrate being the wrong way around
• Files - Fixed an issue where making a change that causes a version stack item to update would incorrectly collapse the stack
• Trash - Fixed an issue where trash size would not be automatically updated when clearing out the trash automatically
• Tasks - Fixed an issue where editing or deleting a task could show an error
• Various UI tweaks and improvements
• General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations