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Susan Dreher edited this page Aug 25, 2015 · 12 revisions

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###Spring 2015 Release

###Features

  • Self-registration. Visitors to http://mediathread.ccnmtl.columbia.edu can now register for and immediately access a Mediathread Guest Sandbox. Once in the sandbox, guests can experiment with features on the 'student' level. This new self-registration was designed to ease the on-ramp for potential Mediathread users.

  • Change password. Guest users can now recover and change their passwords.

  • Item Visibility toggles. By default, students in a class are able to see each other's items and selections. Instructors can now choose to disallow the ability of students in a class to see each other's items in the Collections interface, as well as selections made by other students on individual items.

  • Flowplayer5 upgrade to serve videos in the latest HTML5 standard.

  • Instructors many now configure the "From Your Instructor" title via the Manage / Settings menu item.

  • TinyMCE upgrade to resolve compatibility bugs with IE.

  • TinyMCE word count feature turned on in the project, feedback and discussion spaces.

###Infrastructure

  • Django 1.6 upgrade.

  • Flowplayer Upgrade.

    • IMPORTANT: This release requires a Flowplayer5 installation alongside the Flowplayer Flash installation. Please review the README file for full configuration instructions.

  • Formalized release notation as year.season.release. The initial release for a season is alway noted as 0, subsequent release increment that trailing number. For example, this release is tagged 2015.spring.0.

###Upgrading

  • Complete a fresh source pull or merge the new code directly into a forked version of the Mediathread code base.

  • make clean

  • make

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