In this release the MediaHaven team resolved about 200 issues. This includes new features, improvements and general bug fixes but excludes all operational and support requests that were resolved during Q2 of 2017. Below we provide a general overview of the new features and improvements in the MediaHaven platform.

Microsoft AZURE:

Zeticon has moved away from the IBM softlayer platform. We have migrated the entire MediaHaven Cloud to Microsoft Azure. 
This has been a major change, not only the copy but this also had technical implications. We made this move to be prepared for the future. 

General changes:

• To increase security and end user password safety, MediaHaven will use a new password hashing algorithm: bcrypt. End users will not notice this change as their password will be hashed with the new algorithm when they first login to the new MediaHaven version.
• A number of performance improvements in both transcoder and pretranscoder services were introduced
• In a multi tenant setup export locations can be shared with all users regardless of their organisation
• The welcome collection can no longer be deleted 
• To publish assets users will need the "Publish Assets" user function. This enables organisations to create users without the ability to publish assets.

Website changes:

New HTML5 player with annotation functions

We introduce a new HTML5 player with the same annotation functions as the existing java player. 

Frame by Frame navigation

Mark in and out points of fragments

Create new fragment

Download partials and fragments

Edit Metadata

Title, keywords and description can be edited

Delete fragments

Minor changes:

• The language of a subscription e-mail is now dependent on the users default language
• Multi page documents can be embedded or a link to it can be shared. User will be able to browse through the different pages.
• If an additional metadata field contains a URL it will be shown as a clickable link in the website.
• The "rights" field was turned into a default field and will be shown in the detail view of an asset
• New option to show titles in the thumbnail view:
  

• Collections view: When a collection is open and the user clicks on the cover, the collection will open fullscreen. So the user can easily browse the collection.

Changes in the management module:

Edit time in date control

It is now possible to configure the datetime control to also include the time:

The option can be configured in the administration module by selecting the show time option for a date picker control:

Publishing rights:

The administrator can now determine for every individual user if he has rights to publish objects.
With this you can create ingestspaces where users can add metadata but they don't have the right to add/publish the objects to MediaHaven.

Minor changes:

• The keywords and Categories control will show the assigned values in alphabetical order

• When selecting categories in the categories browser it is now possible to return to the previous level. Suggestions and autocomplete values will be reloaded.

• System user can no longer be deleted from MediaHaven.

Data Model:

• The metadata model has been extended with more fields definitions: Metadata 17.3
• These additional fields can be used in Profiles
• These additional fields are added to the metadata exposed in OAI-PMH and in the exported sidecar files: External Metadata Advanced 17.3

Monitoring module:

• The search function has been modified. Whereas before some columns performed an exact search while others performed a fuzzy search. Now every query is an exact search, unless you specify a wildcard symbol (* or %).

• Download all used keywords: On the statistics page you can now see all used keywords. Like all the statistics this list can be downloaded to a csv file.

• In the files tab more fields about a file can be shown
• Load time of the Transcoding:jobs view has been improved
• The amount of records that can be exported in CSV format is now unlimited

Tape server

• Automatically blacklisting only happened if a read or write job to a tape fails after it has been loaded into the drive. Extend the blacklisting for the case when a load of a tape into a drive fails.
• Read files from tape in true LTFS order