Digital Rebellion Software Appcast

Kollaborate Server 2026.2.1 Beta 2

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:11:58 +0000

Note: This version contains major changes to the player page. Although this has been tested extensively, we expect a change this big to still contain bugs in real-world usage and are releasing this version as a beta to get feedback.

Changes since Beta 1:

Side-by-side comparison - load two players at once and compare them with playback synchronization for video/audio, zoom/pan synchronization for images, and page sync for documents. Switch between comments independently of whichever file is the active file. You can load any type of file alongside another for reference, but only files of the same type can be synchronized.
New file viewers for PDFs and text files, with full screen support for both. The text viewer loads content dynamically, meaning it can display very large files, as well as offering features like line numbers and word wrap
Annotations can be drawn on top of PDFs
Comments can be added to particular lines of a text file
The player page is no longer static, which means it loads faster and actions like setting workflows or switching between files can happen without a page refresh
If the player can't play back and it shows a download overlay, it shows a message to explain why it couldn't play (e.g. if "force download" was set on the file)
You can now click on the duration field of the video player to toggle time remaining
Fixed an issue where some files would incorrectly appear to be unplayable
Reduced browser memory usage
Various UI and styling improvements
Lots of small bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2026.2.1 Beta 1

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:12:51 +0000

Note: This version contains major changes to our video player and image viewer. Although this has been tested extensively, we expect a change this big to still contain bugs in real-world usage and are releasing this version as a beta to get feedback.

Changes:

This version features a brand new video player and image viewer with an improved user interface and features like switching between proxies, better error handling and error messages, speaking captions out loud for accessibility, better mobile support, and the ability to add overlays like safe areas and aspect ratio mattes
Annotation overhaul - New shapes including boxes, circles, arrows and text. Shapes can be moved about, resized, and rotated, with full undo and redo. Shape colors are now independent of the comment's color.
New advanced search fields: frame rate, orientation (portrait / landscape) and uploader
The H.264 level is now shown in the Metadata tab of the player (for new uploads)
The old and new backends now communicate and synchronize with each other, which fixes an issue where encoding jobs might not start immediately after you set up the encoder
Lots of minor tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2026.1.1

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:46:33 +0000

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: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

Overhauled the user experience of commenting on a link. The order of steps is now reversed, so the user enters their comment and is then asked for their name. This reduces user confusion about where to enter a comment.
Added a physical submit button to the comment text box to reduce user confusion about how to submit a comment
Significant architecture changes. We've completely rewritten large parts of our uploader and changed how jobs are sent to Kollaborate Encoder. Most of these changes have more of an effect on the cloud but you may notice slightly faster uploads as a result.
Added a Dangling File Locator tool to the Tools section of the Admin Area to help find files that exist on disk but not in the database (most likely because they failed to delete)
HAProxy will now automatically restart when new LetsEncrypt certificates are ready
Thumbnails now use WebP
Accessibility - Improved support for screen readers
Accessibility - Increased the contrast of certain on-screen controls
Fixed an issue where not all permissions may be imported when importing custom roles from another project
Fixed an issue where the duration overlay on a file's icon may not appear if the file exceeded 3 hours in duration
History / Webhooks - Fixed an issue where newlines would not be interpreted correctly in history data
Fixed an issue where captions would not be shown on-screen on mobile
Fixed an issue that could prevent deleted files being removed from disk
Fixed an issue where tags could not be added with square brackets surrounding the tag
Player - Fixed an issue where clicking the banner to download an unplayable file wouldn't work
Comments - Fixed an issue where link recipients could see buttons only relevant to logged-in users, such as Favorite and Make To-Do
Uploads - Fixed an issue where uploading a file revision may not apply scoped workflows
Webhooks - Fixed an issue where it may not send a signature for long results
Comments - Fixed an issue where changing the author filter wouldn't update the list of comments
Files - Fixed an issue causing title misalignment when opening a file in a new tab
Workflows - Added an option to view all comments when creating a share link action in a File Workflow
Trash - Fixed an issue where the page will crash if a file is deleted by a user whose account is then deleted
Sharing - Fixed an issue preventing some links from rendering
Player - Fixed an issue where PDF proxies of document files may not render in the player
Fixed an issue where aliases would not work correctly when downloading a folder as a zip file
Fixed an issue where proxies sometimes wouldn't download
Fixed an issue where files with extremely long filenames might become inaccessible after uploading
Fixed an issue causing some database passwords to not work correctly
Fixed an issue where deleting a version would delete all versions
File Deletion - Made trashing large quantities of files significantly faster
Server performance improvements
General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Marker Import for Mac 2.2.4

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:17:42 +0000

Fixed an issue that could cause data to be duplicated when sending to Final Cut Pro

Marker Import for Mac 2.2.3

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:59:10 +0000

Improved compatibility with Final Cut Pro .fcpxmld files

Kollaborate Server 2025.3.5

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:05:08 +0000

Fixed an issue that could prevent encoding jobs from completing (you might need to clear the queue in the Admin Dashboard and restart existing jobs)

Kollaborate Server 2025.3.4

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:55:24 +0000

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

Database Backups - More reliability when exporting a table that's in the middle of being modified
History - Fixed an issue where event thumbnails would be blank if the user did Quick Look on a file instead of opening the player
Workflows - Restored old behavior of instantly deleting the original file instead of trashing it when run from a workflow. Manually removing the original file will still trash it
Uploads - Fixed an issue where uploading from a file request link would fail if the resulting file had the same name as an existing file and would have been combined in a version stack
Heatmaps - Fixed an issue where heatmaps may not be logged for link users
Tasks - Fixed a crash when trying to view tasks from a project you don't have access to
Comments - Fixed an issue preventing comments from being printed correctly
Fixed an issue where events wouldn't be updated with the file's thumbnail when it changes
Fixed an issue preventing file revision emails from being sent
Fixed an issue that could prevent files in My Private Files being encoded
API - Fixed a crash that could occur when listing files
Player - Fixed an issue where thumbnails in the versions dropdown would be blank
Uploads - Fixed an issue where files uploaded to My Private Files could be encoded twice
Uploads - Fixed an issue where new versions of a file would appear as Version 1
Thumbnails - It will now retry creating a thumbnail from frame 0 if the file was corrupt and could not be seeked
Player - Improved the visual appearance of the timecode hover overlay
File Browser - Fixed an issue where not all files / folders would be returned if there are a large number of departments
File Moving - Fixed an issue where redirecting to the destination folder would not work correctly with departments
Player - Don't say it's the original file if a proxy replaced the original
Transcription - Fix crash if shared link doesn't exist
Upgrader - Fix issue preventing caches being rebuilt upon upgrade
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Transfer 1.6.0

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:43:40 +0000

Support for converting H.265 / HEVC source files
Improved compatibility with recent versions of Kollaborate
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.3.3

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:11:16 +0000

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

Fixed an issue that could cause files to be moved to a duplicate folder instead of the intended folder
Uploads - Fixed an issue where uploading a file replacement could result in the new file being inaccessible
Player - Fixed an issue where loading poster / audio waveform would not appear
Fixed an issue that could cause icons in history events and email alerts to be blank
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.3.2

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:23:18 +0000

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

Faster processing of PHP code and better caching makes pages load quicker
Encoding - Fixed an encoder crash if an overlay has an apostrophe in the file's title
Thumb Queue - Fixed a potential crash when adding new thumb jobs
Files - Fixed an issue where creating a new folder inside a folder with special characters in the path would make the new folder disappear
Player - Fixed hoverscrub thumb being blank when hovering over timeline
Uploads - Fixed an issue preventing large files being uploaded
Downloads - Fixed an issue where proxy URL might be incorrect when there are multiple proxies for a file
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Encoder 2.0.1

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:11:02 +0000

Fix issue where it would say all encoded proxies were 540p irrespective of their actual resolution
Fix issue where old hoverscrub thumbs might not be cleared out

Kollaborate Encoder 2.0.0

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:24:00 +0000

Kollaborate Encoder no longer needs direct access to the web server's storage volume - it will now get all the data it needs by communicating only with the web server. This greatly simplifies installation and prevents certain issues that could occur when syncing file system changes through two Docker containers. (Requires Kollaborate Server 2025.3.1 or higher)
Fix issue where hoverscrub thumbs may not be created
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.3.1

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:23:23 +0000

Major new features:

We've significantly changed how we store files on disk in this version. Files are no longer stored according to the project they reside in, meaning they no longer need to be moved around when moving files between projects. This has the most benefit on the cloud, but will also speed up large transfers for self-hosting too. The two versions are designed to co-exist - all new uploads will use the new format and existing files will remain in the old format but will be upgraded if moved between projects.

This does of course make it harder to downgrade to an older version, so we have provided a tool in the Admin Area to downgrade your files to the older format before reverting back to an earlier version.

Other changes:

The following features were moved to the new backend: file deleting, file moving, splitting / combining versions, removing original files, removing proxies, encoding progress
Changed how the web server communicates with Kollaborate Encoder, meaning the encoder no longer needs to share storage with the web server (requires Kollaborate Encoder 2.0)
Added a new user permission: can leave comments. A user can be disallowed from leaving comments while still being able to view them
Color Scheme - Added a new option for the active tab background color
Upload Workflows - Support for "doesn't contain" as a match option
Admin - Added an option to disable disk size checks. This is for situations where the host OS doesn't communicate the correct file size of the storage volume to the Docker container (most often occurs on macOS).
Admin - Fixed issue preventing software update notifications from working
More descriptive error message if session Redis URL is not set
Sharing - Fixed an issue where links with an empty password could not be accessed, even if "require password" was off
Player - Make full-screen overlay use page's background color
Team - Fixed a crash if the project was not found
Print Comments - Fixed an issue where settings in the Export dialog would not be taken into account
Player - Fixed an issue where the CC button would not be highlighted when enabled
Fixed several issues causing problems when upgrading from a very old version
Sharing - Fixed an issue where clicking a user's name would produce an error page
UI - Fixed an issue where TimecodeInput wouldn't work with drop frame timecode
Workflows - Fixed an issue where users may not be able to approve files in the project root if they were non-admins added to another department
Projects - Fixed an issue where deleting a template project would not remove it from the list
Emails - Prevent digest emails from showing files that have been deleted
Player - Update the workflow dropdown when approving or rejecting a file
Projects - Fixed a crash when trying to modify a project that had been deleted
Player - Don't show users who can't access that department in the Unviewed section of the player
API - Don't allow comments to be inserted earlier than the start timecode
Team - Fixed an issue where activation link checkbox wasn't working
Projects - Fixed user count in table being inaccurate
Workflows - Fixed an issue where users would be unable to approve a file
Email - Fixed an issue where shared links might have their URLs corrupted
Player - Fixed an issue preventing large files being attached to comments
Files - Align titles irrespective of whether the file is unviewed
UI - Fixed an issue where some icons would not adopt the page's text color
Files - Fixed an issue where thumbnails may show file duration 1 second longer than it really is
Fixed an issue where folders created by the new backend could have the wrong owner
Fixed various issues with information not being copied across to aliases
Timecode - Fix issue where comment timecode would drift over time
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Encoder 1.8.2

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:07:10 +0000

Fixed an issue that could cause videos with a watermark to be too short
Don't merge empty audio tracks
Simplify cleanup of temp files
Send encoding progress to new Rust backend
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.2.1

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:06:39 +0000

Emoji comment reactions
Comments now use the new backend
Comment Exporting - Supports setting file encoding for better compatibility with Avid
Comment Exporting - Support for exporting an FCP 7 XML with the markers attached to a slug, for easier importing into Premiere Pro
Share - Allow specifying custom expiry dates in QuickShare dialog
Quick Share - Hide comment options when sharing files from My Private Files, where commenting is not available
Player - Fixed an issue where toggling captions off would show the wrong captions when switching languages
Fixed an issue causing a crash when loading the player if event information was corrupt
Fixed an issue causing email alerts to incorrectly be sent when replying to your own comment
Workflows - Fixed an issue where deleting the original file wasn't working
Player - Fixed rewinding requiring multiple keypresses to trigger
Fixed a crash when trying to view Files page
Projects - How to create a template is now more obvious when creating a new project
Files - Fixed an issue where upload error messages would be cut off
Emails - Fixed formatting issues with custom messages to link emails
Files - Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing a link while logged in
Files - Fixed a crash when sorting by uploader
Player - Fixed an issue where clicking inside the comment box in full screen could pause the video
Fixed an issue where dates weren't taking into account the user's timezone correctly
Sharing - Fixed a crash with 100% numeric link IDs
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.4

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:58:37 +0000

Telemetry has been removed from this version due to a low signal-to-noise ratio
Allow importing comments and captions from another file
Player - The comment count is now shown in the Comments tab
Player - The approval section is now collapsible
Player - Allow more easily switching workflow from the Player page
Fixed an issue preventing removing the original file if the file is in My Private Files
Uploads - Fixed an error that could occur when uploading to My Private Files
Player - Fixed an issue where disabling player tabs wouldn't work
Player - Fixed a crash if tags are corrupt
Emails - Fixed an issue where it could inadvertently send alerts about a user's actions to that user
Files - Fixed an issue where deleting a version stack might not delete all files in the stack
History - Fixed an issue where user names could appear empty
Folder Downloading - Fixed an issue causing empty zip files when downloading a subfolder inside a department
Fixed several permissions issues with My Private Files
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.3

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:51:55 +0000

Added CPU optimizations to improve performance - requires a CPU made in the last decade
Fixed several issues with the installer, including an issue preventing licenses from being installed
Comments - Fixed user tagging not working on Chrome
Fixed a crash when generating thumbnails manually
Projects - Show error message when deleting a project if it can't be found
Files - Fixed a crash when viewing the Files page if a user doesn't have permission to view workflows
Sharing - Show error if linked file doesn't exist
Quick Share - Fixed an issue where the Quick Share dialog wouldn't show Delete Link and Email Link buttons
Fixed a crash when viewing tasks
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.2

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:39:31 +0000

Changes:

Added compression and caching to pages and static files, which should improve page load times, especially on slow connections
Thumbnails - Fixed an issue where thumbnails wouldn't be cached by the browser
Fixed an "unable to transition state" error that could occur when auto-logging in
Redis - Support for connecting with a username and password
Database - Automatically retry failed transactions up to 3 times
Reduced unnecessary telemetry logging
Fixed an issue preventing comments from being exported
Comments - Fixed an issue where tagging a user in a comment could fail
Global Search - Fixed an issue where no results would be produced if caches hadn't been generated yet
General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.1

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:09:06 +0000

Changes:

We've changed the version number format. Versions now include the year, the current major version 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, some background tasks, 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 3 days 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
The Favorites page has been removed - use filters on the Files and player pages to view favorite files / comments
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
Kollaborate Server now uses telemetry. This sends any log entries marked Error, Warn or Debug to us to help us fix problems. To switch this off, go to the Configure page of the Admin Area, scroll to the Telemetry section at the bottom and then restart the server once complete.

Other changes:

Admin - Added a new tool to regenerate proxies
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
Fixed an issue where it would be unable to connect to the database if certain characters existed in your password
Player - Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing a link to a file that doesn't exist
Player - Fixed error page having navigation in the wrong place when trying to view a link that has been deleted
Account - Better error handling if uploading an avatar fails
Files - Fixed an issue where it would be difficult to tell if color-coded files were selected
Comment Export - Fixed an issue where exporting comments from a group of files would produce the error "No comments to export" if one of them didn't have comments
General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Changes since Beta 3:

Added configuration options for turning off software update checks and automatic malicious user banning (see Installation Guide for more details)
Several fixes to make user sessions more reliable
Fixed an issue that could prevent folders being downloaded
Files - Fixed an issue where pinning a file didn't work correctly

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.1 Beta 3

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:19:33 +0000

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 2:

Fixed an issue where some scheduled tasks were not running
Fixed an issue where deleted files may not be deleted on disk
Fixed an issue where it would be unable to connect to the database if certain characters existed in your password
Fixed an issue where it would sometimes not be able to determine the correct IP address of the user if the user was connecting through a proxy, which would cause them to get kicked out of their session
Fixed an issue that could cause a "you are not logged in" error to incorrectly appear
Admin - Fixed an issue that would incorrectly ban a user if they visited certain admin pages
File Downloading - Fixed an issue where files would be downloaded without a file extension on Chrome
The Favorites page has been removed - use filters on the Files and player pages to view favorite files / comments
Added telemetry. This sends any log entries marked Error, Warn or Debug to us to help us fix problems. To switch this off, go to the Configure page of the Admin Area, scroll to the Telemetry section at the bottom and then restart the server once complete.
Fixed an error that could occur when marking a file as viewed / unviewed
Malicious users are now banned for 3 days
Installer - Fixed an issue where it could fail silently at the licensing step
Player - Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing a link to a file that doesn't exist
Player - Fixed error page having navigation in the wrong place when trying to view a link that has been deleted
Account - Better error handling if uploading an avatar fails
General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 2025.1.1 Beta 2

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:19:37 +0000

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

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:57:56 +0000

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

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:05:55 +0000

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

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:49:23 +0000

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

Kollaborate Server 3.9.1

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:48:54 +0000

Changes:

Admin - Support for adding announcement banners to the top of certain pages or a one-time full-page announcement upon next login
Player - Shows a dropdown on player page to switch between creating a new shared link and showing existing links to this file
Templates - Tags and color coding are now preserved when importing from a template
Dashboard - Overhauled page styling and made it display better on mobile devices
SSO - Kollaborate now sends X-Forwarded-For headers for better compatibility with certain SAML providers
Admin Dashboard - Added a progress spinner when clearing out deleted projects and files
Fixed an issue where the user's last login time was incorrect, making features that depend on this operate incorrectly
Admin - Fixed an issue where SSO couldn't be switched on
Admin - Fixed an issue on the SSO page where entering any invalid information would reset all fields to empty
File Browser - Fixed some instances where the file browser was rendering incorrectly
Fixed an issue where it wouldn't redirect to a login page if the user's session expired in some instances
Encoding - Fixed an issue where custom encoding settings might not be sent to the encoder (please also update Kollaborate Encoder to 1.8.1)
Player - Changed an assumption when downloading proxies that only one proxy would exist for a given frame size
Synced Sessions - Fixed an issue that could prevent new sessions being created
Files - Fixed an issue that could prevent filtering by unviewed files
MFA - Added some time leeway when entering MFA code
Synced Sessions - Fixed an issue where session user list would show garbled participant names
Synced Sessions - Fixed an issue that could prevent users joining a session
Admin Dashboard - Fixed an issue where it would show files and projects that had already been marked for deletion as still in the trash
Admin Dashboard - Fixed an issue where it would run out of memory if trying to delete large projects with thousands of files
Admin Dashboard - Fixed an issue where deleting trashed files would not clear out deleted files in other users' private storage areas
Player - Fixed an issue where the option to view earlier revisions' comments did not appear
Player - Fixed an issue where choosing the Print option when exporting comments did nothing
Player - Fixed an issue where selecting another revision's comment view wouldn't disable the comment text field
Player - Fixed the player changing size when pausing in full screen on macOS
Comment Importing - Better support for Avid marker lists exported from recent versions of Avid
Comment Importing - Fixed an issue where the comment author's name may not be read correctly from Avid marker lists
Tags - Fixed an issue where moving a file between projects could cause tags from other files to point to the new project
File Browser - Fixed an issue where it would not be possible to select files inside departments
Share - Fixed an issue where filtering by links to a folder and then clicking on the folder name would produce an error
Global Search - Ignore archived projects when searching
UI - Fixed an issue where comment areas could be too small
Comment Exporting - Fixed an issue where duplicate comments could appear when combining comments with the same timecode
Tasks - Fixed crash when sorting by task creator
Tasks - Fixed sorting by due date not working as expected
General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 3.9

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:26:08 +0000

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

Kollaborate Server 3.8.1

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:44:01 +0000

Changes:

Docker - Removed the dependency on imagemagick.org, which has been experiencing a multi-day outage that has been preventing the "docker-compose build" command from completing
Docker - Fixed an issue that could prevent php.ini changes from taking effect
Files - Searching from the search box now performs a title search across the entire project. To search other fields or just the current folder, please use an Advanced Search
Fixed an issue that could prevent the new high quality thumbnail feature from activating correctly
Files - Fixed a crash when viewing a shared folder link
Files - Fixed an issue where the item count in the page footer could show the wrong number of items
Player - Fixed long file titles extending into the comment box
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Encoder 1.8

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 19:04:14 +0000

Changes:

Support for customizable encoding profiles (configure this in the Admin Area of the webserver)
Support for larger hoverscrub thumbnails
Fixed an issue where combining multiple audio channels could cause peaking
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 3.8

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 19:03:47 +0000

Major New Features:

Single-Sign On (Preview) - You can now have authentication handled by a third-party SAML provider. This can be enabled from the Configure page of the Admin Area. If you enter the wrong details and end up locked out, delete config/sso_config.php to disable SSO.
UI refresh - darker color scheme, new fonts, new icons, layout improvements.
Higher quality thumbnails and better handling of non-16:9 thumbnail sizes
Redesigned login flow
New permissions - modifying other users' files and modifying other users' comments. This allows you to modify others' assets without needing to be an admin
Saved Searches - Save an advanced search to apply it as a file filter. (Note that while you can apply a filter that searches the entire project, in most cases you will want it to only apply to the current folder.)
Template Projects - Create a template project with folders, saved searches, departments, users, tasks and workflows. These can be applied when creating a new project
Custom Encoding Profiles - Change the frame size, bitrate, etc of the videos created by Kollaborate Encoder. (Requires Kollaborate Encoder 1.8.) This can be edited from the Admin Area of the webserver. Note that while you can create multiple proxies of different frame sizes, this is of limited utility right now because you can't switch between them in the player. We plan to offer more features to enable this in future.

Other Changes:

In-progress uploads are now stored on the storage volume instead of inside the webserver container. This solves issues if the webserver has limited storage space, with the added bonus of making the finishing stage much faster
Admin - Overhauled the UI of the Tools page
History is now shown in the project navigation bar to increase accessibility of this feature
Upgrader - Database tables / columns that already exist are now ignored. This can solve issues where you may have ended up with a partial upgrade
Admin - Added the ability to hide the Help link at the bottom of the page
Player - Improved JKL key behavior to be more in line with NLEs
Files - New filters: Uploaded by Me and Uploaded by Others
Files - Only allow those with file modification permissions to manually set a file's workflow
Custom file permissions feature has been removed. Please use departments to manage file access
File rename events are now stored in history
File move events for each individual file are stored in history when moving a folder
History - Better support for accented user names
Player - Original file extension is shown in the Metadata pane
Files - Added the ability to import comments, metadata and captions by right-clicking a file on the Files page
Upload Workflows - Fixed an issue where workflows set to the project root wouldn't apply inside departments
Files - Fixed an issue where renaming a file and leaving the name unchanged would show an alert that the file already exists
Files - Fixed an issue where it may exit file renaming unexpectedly if you rename immediately after uploading
API - Fixed an issue where special characters in a folder name could cause duplicate folders to be created
API - Fixed a crash when special characters exist in file title
Advanced Search - Fixed an issue where "has versions" parameter wouldn't return results
Files - Fixed an issue where version count wouldn't update when combining a new version
Projects - Fixed controls overlapping long project descriptions
Tasks - Fixed an issue where history description could be garbled
Files - Upload speed is now shown in Mb/s
Many small fixes and tweaks

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.4

Mon, 27 May 2024 04:58:56 +0000

Plugin Manager - More user-friendly error messages if notarizing a plugin installer fails
Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations