11 Series Release Notes

Note:

This page covers the Release Notes for all releases in the Scala Enterprise 11 Series.

Please be sure that you have reviewed the Technical Specifications for Content Manager and Designer. Player Software for Windows will direct you to the technical specifications for your Player, as they may vary.

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This page includes all release note for Content Manager, Designer, and Player for the 11 series. Click the table of contents links above to jump to minor releases. Use the expanding text box to jump to notes for hotfix releases.

11.08 Releases

Release 11.08 Hotfix

Release 11.08

11.08.03 Release - April 29, 2020

Content Manager

New Features

Implemented support for the Linux Player for ARM.
Users can now implement Maintenance Jobs that serve many thousand players.

Bug Fixes

Automatic plan generation no longer requires the restart of Tomcat when importing a license file for a multi-network Content Manager.

Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with new lines in text box for Linux Player.
Linux Player supports embedded images in text elements.

Designer

Bug Fixes

When reading a DataSource XML file, there is now consistent conversion of the relative file paths.
Fixed the height of embedded image to match the letter H when using the image range CapHeight.

11.08 Release

Content Manager

New Features

The Scala Font Collection is a collection of licensed fonts used to create continuity across Scala Enterprise. Scala Font Collection fonts are available in Content Manager, Player, and Designer. For more information, see Designing Content for Scala Enterprise. Click the Fonts and Typography tab and then the Scala Font Collection link.
When using Broadcast Server distribution, scheduled plan generations auto-complete without the need of manual review. Note: Manual transmissions are still recommended for Broadcast distribution due to satellite transmission fees. Consider using the "once a day" or "once a week option". If using multiple Broadcast servers, ensure that your transmissions do not overlap; the first plan sent for dissemination will take precedence, causing subsequent broadcasts to fail.

Player

Bug Fixes

A WebClip with a URL autostart will automatically play YouTube videos without user intervention.

New Features

The Scala Font Collection is a collection of licensed fonts used to create continuity across Scala Enterprise. Scala Font Collection fonts are available in Content Manager, Player, and Designer. For more information, see Designing Content for Scala Enterprise. Click the Fonts and Typography tab and then the Scala Font Collection link.
Scala Enterprise now uses CEF73.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Successfully rename groups of pages and clone them without Designer crashing.
When on the Crawl Control tab of a text crawl, users can select a variable with a position in the list of variables that is greater than 32.

New Features

The Scala Font Collection is a collection of licensed fonts used to create continuity across Scala Enterprise. Scala Font Collection fonts are available in Content Manager, Player, and Designer. For more information, see Designing Content for Scala Enterprise. Click the Fonts and Typography tab and then the Scala Font Collection link.
Scala Enterprise now uses CEF73.

11.07 Releases (Reaches End of Support November 1, 2020)

Release 11.07 Hotfix

Release 11.07 (Supported Until October 3, 2020)

11.07.02 Release – May 28, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Max Authentication Age in Minutes field added to SSO Config page; allows users to set the session timeout to coincide with enterprise SSO timeouts.
If a ScalaScript template fails during upload, users can now upload it again without receiving the error "Requested uploaded file's type does not match with existing file type.".
Alternate playlists now display on the Timeslot Properties page upon page load.
The properties of a video playlist media item with a duration of longer than 1 hour, can now be set correctly.
Updated workgroups to allow users without the "Manage workgroup ownership privilege in playlists" option to update playlists in workgroups.

Other

Updated thumbnail logic to improve performance and usability, seeing above 20% improvement.
API users will see significant improvement in timeslot performance when using API PUT apy/rest/channels/{channelid}/schedules.
Updated SSO UI at System > SSO Config tab to reflect set-up procedures. See SSO Configuration using SAML 2.0 and AD FS 4.0 for more information.
A new parameter has been added to - api/rest/playlists/all - includeNullValueWithNe, that when set to true and used in combination with the ne value in the filters parameter,will include null values in the results.

11.07 Release - April 10, 2019

Content Manager

Changes to Oracle's Java Policies

Oracle has updated their Java policies, please see Changes to Oracle's Java Policies for more information.

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue that caused publish location logs not to populate correctly when using SQL Server.
When creating a playlist from selected items on the media landing page, the playlist is now correctly assigned to the user's workgroup.
Creating a sub-playlist from selected playlist media items now correctly is assigned to the user's workgroup.
Greater than and less than comparators are now selecting the correct metadata integer value for Smart Playlists.
Fixed problem that prevented downloading media items in folders with the same name as the network.
Generating a custom thumbnail no longer deletes the existing default thumbnails.
LDAP user accounts with rights to publish from Designer to Content Manager no longer receive an error message stating: "Internal Error: CM has no defined networks".
On player inventory tab, "File Downloaded" filter returns correct results based on "yes" or "no" parameters.
Republish recently deleted item from Content Manager without error.
Plans are generated correctly to include Media when player.playername metadata conditions are set.
Categories and workgroups assigned during manually uploading templates are correctly saved.

Security

Third party jQuery security update applied.
An administrative configuration setting allows administrators to set parameters so that users can create more secure passwords.
Content Manager now supports SSO using SAML2.0 and ADFS 4.0.
Workgroup ownership rules have been updated for security, clarity, and consistency.

Other

Change in Oracle policies requires that users manually install new version of JDK.
General UI updates for clarity and consistency.
Updated playback audit reports to round up or down the duration to the nearest second.
Content Manager supports non-English letters in file names.
When a user's license expires, Content Manager displays a message on the Dashboard.
Select a player from the player home page by clicking anywhere in the row.
The special characters '#' and '%' are now supported in media file naming conventions.
Content Manager supports a new feature-based license SW-PAV-4K04 (Scala QUAD UHD Player).
UI adjusted so that users must upload templates in the template folder and ScalaScript files in the media folder when uploading. See Notable for Support CM-14665 for more information.
When uploading templates to Content Manager using the API, you must now set the uploadType parameter to "template_package".

11.06 Releases (Reached End of Support April 10, 2020)

Release 11.06 Hotfix

Release 11.06 (Supported Until April 10, 2020)

11.06.05 Release - August 6, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

API users will see restored improvement when deleting or updating multiple timeslots with the API PUT channels/{id}/schedules.

11.06.04 Release - May 1, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Installation requires use of Open JDK. See Java for more information and installation instructions.
Republish recently deleted item to Content Manager without error.
Plans are generated correctly to include Media when player.playername metadata conditions are set.
UI adjusted so that users must upload templates in the template folder and ScalaScript files in the media folder when uploading. See Notable for Support CM-14665 for more information.
Users can now use the remote updater to drag and drop player updates into Content Manager for Maintenance jobs.
Updated thumbnail logic to improve performance and usability, seeing above 20% improvement.
API users will see significant improvement in timeslot performance when using API PUT apy/rest/channels/{channelid}/schedules.
When uploading a template to Content Manager, users can now add and save categories and workgroups through the dialog.
When removing or deleting a media item that has associated adjacency rules, the item is removed without causing a playlist error.

11.06.03 Release - January 10, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

The international characters '#' and '%' are now supported in media file naming conventions.
Files located in the History tab in the Media Properties with spaces in the names download successfully.
Media items can now be downloaded into folders with the same name as the network.
Fixed an issue that caused shared media assets used in templates to be deleted erroneously.
Fixed an unexpected issue that caused a NullPointerException when deleting thumbnail files.
The 'Yes' and 'No' filters on the player inventory page now return the correct results in the 'File Downloaded' field.
Fixed an issue that prevented the deletion of a newly uploaded maintenance file.

Security

Fixed a potential XSS vulnerability exposed during pen testing.

Player

Bug Fixes

Added an MMOS.ini setting Theater_DeactiveThePrepared for use with hand written Scala Scripts using the Delay() option in the Movieclip command. Setting this to 1 will prevent the player from crashing if the delay is near or exceeds the duration of the page.
Changes to the array index of an item bound to an array variable automatically update the index in the script.

11.06.02 Release – November 7, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue in the 11.06 Content Manager installer/updater that caused path errors if the Virtual Folder was changed from the default - 'ContentManager' .
Fixed an issue that caused a NullPointer Exception when a Message was the first media item of subplaylist.
When viewing playlist media items, the correct thumbnail is now shown for Messages rather than that of the original Template.
Fixed an issue that caused the default thumbnails to be deleted when generating a custom thumbnail using the API.
Fixed an issue that caused a 'template upload incomplete' error after uploading a template generated from a prior release where certain template fields default values were not set.
Fixed an issue in Publish Locations to correctly store file names in languages such as Cyrillic.
Fixed an issue that caused a Smart playlist to fail when adding the less than or greater than condition for Media Metadata defined as an Integer Picklist.
Fixed a problem with the pagination that prevents media items from being added to data playlists when there are multiple pages of media items eligible to be added.
Fixed an authentication issue that caused the publication of a script to fail when using an LDAP Account from Designer.

Security

Improved the behavior to prevent IP Banning from occurring when Content Manager loses Database Connection.
Generalized a field patch of a foreign key in the database schema.

Other

General cosmetic and usability improvements.

11.06 Release – October 10, 2018

Content Manager

New Feature

Content Manager now offers the Omnicast distribution server option, a solution for sending heavy content to many locations quickly and efficiently. See Distribution via an Omnicast Server for more information.
Content Manager now includes the Sites menu, which allows users with applicable permissions to manage and arrange their player networks into customizable, location-based groups. See Creating Sites and Site Groups for more information.
Content Manager is now certified for Windows Server 2016.

System Requirements

Change in requirements for Tomcat: Now requires version 8.5.31.
Change in requirements for Java: Now requires 10.0.01.
Change in requirements for PostgreSQL: Now requires version 10.4.

Bug Fixes

Metadata string picklists can now contain special characters. See Notable for Support for more information.
LDAP now uses a wildcard search rather than exact match. See Managing Authentication and Authorization via LDAP and Active Directory for more information.
Fixed an issue that caused media items in Content Manager to display the Broadcast Priority tab in Properties when no broadcast distribution server is defined.
Fixed an issue when creating a new message that caused Content Manager to fail to display available media items when the template used had been edited and the fields filter had been deleted.
Fixed an issue that caused import restrictions on the new license when all of one player license type had been upgraded to a new player license type.
Fixed an issue during setup for an HTTPS connector that caused Content Manager to display an incorrect port number.
Fixed an issue that caused the Content Manager installer to fail when configuring PostgreSQL databases with users named anything besides postgres.
Fixed an issue that caused media items in Content Manage to display the Broadcast Priority tab in Properties when no broadcast distribution server is defined.
Fixed an issue that caused plans to generate incorrectly when parsing a playlist where all conditional media items are excluded, thus eliminating the alternate playlist from the plan generation process.
Fixed an issue that caused inconsistent search/filter results when selecting media items for a message.
Fixed an issue that caused logs from Content Manager Server Settings to download incorrectly.
Fixed an issue that caused messages in Upload Status "Finished" to be omitted from the media filter results.
Fixed an issue that caused long loading times on the playlist landing page.

Security

Scala Content Manager, Designer, and Player now includes support for Sentinel HASP Run-time Environment Installer 7.80, for increased security and protection for software dongles.
General security improvements.

Other

General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

Security

Scala Content Manager, Designer, and Player now includes support for Sentinel HASP Run-time Environment Installer 7.80, for increased security and protection for software dongles.

Bug Fixes

Removed the Collect For: Playback option from the Collect Files menu in Designer.

Player

Security

Scala Content Manager, Designer, and Player now includes support for Sentinel HASP Run-time Environment Installer 7.80, for increased security and protection for software dongles.

11.05 Releases (Reached End of Support October 10, 2019)

Release 11.05 Hotfix

Release 11.05 Reached End of Support October 10, 2019)

11.05.06 Release - April 11, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Republish recently deleted item to Content Manager without error.
Plans are generated correctly to include Media when player.playername metadata conditions are set.
UI adjusted so that users must upload templates in the template folder and ScalaScript files in the media folder when uploading. See Notable for Support CM-14665 for more information.
Upon selecting Calculate Duration, Content Manager no longer shows an unknown status when a media item is removed and the playlist duration is set to manual.
Users can now use the remote updater to drag and drop player updates into Content Manager for Maintenance jobs.
When uploading a template to Content Manager, users can now add and save categories and workgroups through the dialog.
Updated thumbnail logic to improve performance and usability, seeing above 20% improvement.

11.05.05 Release – December 18, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an unexpected issue that caused a NullPointerException when deleting thumbnail files.
Fixed an issue that caused shared media assets used in templates to be deleted erroneously.
FIxed an issue that prevented the deletion of a newly uploaded maintenance file.

Security

Fixed a potential XSS vulnerability exposed during pen testing.

Designer

Enhancement

Added an MMOS.ini setting Theater_DeactiveThePrepared for use with hand written Scala Scripts using the Delay() option in the Movieclip command.
Setting this to 1 will prevent the moviefrom crashing the player if the Delay() is near or exceeds the duration of the page

11.05.04 Release – November 7, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused import restrictions on the new license when all of one player license type had been upgraded to a new player license type .
Metadata string picklists can now contain special characters. See Notable for Support for more information.
Fixed an issue that caused the Content Manager installer to fail when configuring PostgreSQL databases with users named anything besides postgres.
Fixed an issue that caused plans to generate incorrectly when parsing a playlist where all conditional media items are excluded, thus eliminating the alternate playlist from the plan generation process.
When viewing playlist media items, the correct thumbnail is now shown for Messages rather than that of the original Template.
Fixed an issue that caused the default thumbnails to be deleted when generating a custom thumbnail using the API.
Fixed an issue that caused a 'template upload incomplete' error after uploading a template generated from a prior release where certain template fields default values were not set.
Fixed an issue in Publish Locations to correctly store file names in languages such as Cyrillic.
Fixed an authentication issue that caused the publication of a script to fail when using an LDAP Account from Designer.

Security

Improved the behavior to prevent IP Banning from occurring when Content Manager loses Database Connection.
Generalized a field patch of a foreign key in the database schema.

11.05.03 Release – August 15, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the listOnly and facetOnly parameters to return incorrect results in /api/rest/media/search API.
Fixed an issue that caused an error message when clicking usage links for media items in messages.
Fixed an issue that caused slow page loading on media landing page, playlist landing page, or search and filters for users with a large number of workgroups.
Fixed an issue that caused case sensitivity problems with .xml file extensions.
Fixed an issue that caused slow loading times in Content Manager log on screen.
Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to change player/media metadata values when the user manually changed the picklist order.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused thumbnail generation to become stuck when generating a thumbnail from a ScalaScript that contained embedded fonts.

11.05.02 Release – May 17, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to disallow adding media items to a playlist.
Fixed an issue that caused the incorrect number of empty channels to display in Player properties after using the License Management feature to change the Player's license. See CM-13069 in Notable for Support for more information.
Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to return an error on a player when a channel's time trigger contained only one media item. See CM-12521 in Notable for Support for more information.
Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to fail to reflect changes to a message when the user changes the default image/video before publishing a new version of the template.
Fixed an issue that caused messages in Upload Status "Finished" to be omitted from the media filter results.
Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to duplicate a parent key when updating to 11.05 from earlier versions.
Fixed an issue that caused message thumbnails to occasionally fail to generate when thumbnail generation is set to "Manual" during creation and editing of a message.
Fixed an issue that caused the Media Page filter list to take a long time to be generated.
Fixed an issue that caused the billing log parser to incorrectly combine playouts of the same media item with multiple reservation IDs under the media item's first reservation ID. See CM-13464 in Notable for Support for more information.

Designer

New Feature

The ScalaScript "Platform" environment variable is now available in the Designer interface, giving users the ability to show or hide certain pages or elements depending on the operating system they will be displayed on. This feature is increasingly beneficial when used in conjunction with upcoming support for Linux. See Core ScalaScript Variables for more information.

Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused a repetitive error and large player log files, in the rare event that a player attempted to stop playback while receiving a new plan simultaneously.

11.05 Release – April 12, 2018

Content Manager

New Features

Replaced Hibernate Search indexing standard with alternative list method in order to improve usability and increase overall performance in Content Manager, and added new feature-based license filter that allows users to search for a specific license.
Content Manager HTTPS connectors can now use OpenSSL certificates, providing higher performance SSL encryption and decryption using Apache Portable Runtime. See Managing HTTP Connectors in Tomcat for more information.
PC Players can now use Install Windows Update maintenance task to remotely install a Microsoft update on a player. See Performing Remote Updates for more information.
Content Manager now includes the License Management section, which allows users to upgrade or downgrade their feature set, filter by license type, status, or player type, or delete and release players. See License Management for more information.

System Requirements

Change in requirements for Tomcat: Now requires version 7.0.82 or newer.
Change in requirements for Java: Now requires version 161 or newer.

Security

General security improvements.
Improved debugging functionality during failed authorization attempts.
Content Manager supports the SMB2 protocol, for use with UNC network share access for remote publish locations. This is enabled via the features.xml. See Advanced Configuration Options for Content Manager for more information.
Scala Content Manager, Designer, and Player now include support for Sentinel HASP Run-time Environment Installer 7.63, to provide increased security and protection for hardware dongles.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused new players to fail to generate plan.xml files when new channels were added shortly after creation.
Fixed an issue that caused parent workgroups to be removed when updating workgroup via API without specifying parent workgroup.
Fixed an issue that caused the Software Version filter on the Player landing to fail to populate correctly.
Fixed an issue that caused news feeds to fail to display on the dashboard after activation in Network Settings, and added a new input field under Miscellaneous Settings to allow users to configure newsfeed URL if newsfeed is enabled.
Fixed an issue that incorrectly allowed alternate playlist to be selected when creating or editing a message.
Fixed an issue that caused the label name of a variable to display in a message's thumbnail instead of its value.
Fixed an issue that caused incomplete downloads from remote publish locations due to a size mismatch error.
Fixed an issue that caused duplicated messages to carry the same approval detail ID as the original message. See CM-12905 in Notable for Support for more information.
Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to fail to trigger automatic plan generation when media items are in a sub-playlist whose parent playlist is contained in a Message Template field. See Notable for Support for more information.

Other

Improved Content Manager usability by removing Broadcast Priority tab from Properties menu. Tab will only show when a broadcast server is defined.
Added warning dialogue explaining consequences when user deletes an in-use alternate playlist that is assigned to a frame/timeslot.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

New Features

Page Elements now includes seven new commands in the right-click Context Menu for ease of control during message creation. See Right-Click Context Menu for more information.

Enhancements

Variables in the Script Properties Template tab can now be moved to/from the Variables and Sections Panes via drag-and-drop. See Script Properties Template for more information.
Designer now allows users to click-and-drag to change the position and size of table elements.
Designer now allows users to create TextBox elements using click-and-drag.
Element Level functions in the Position tab and right-click context menu have now been renamed to Element Layer to improve clarity and ease-of-use.

Other

The Font Size field for Text Boxes is now automatically selected instead of the Minimum Font Size field when opening font size pop-up menu in Designer; Users can now use SHIFT+ALT+n command to open the font size pop-up menu.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Designer to highlight the incorrect table cell when clicking an unselected cell.
Fixed an issue that caused Publish Automation to publish incorrect section names for templates with pages that lacked section details.
Fixed a WebClip playback issue that caused the player to minimize. WebClip now uses the same view to display pages that would normally open a new tab or window in the browser.

Player

New Features

PC Players can now use Install Windows Update maintenance task to remotely install a Microsoft update on a player. See Performing Remote Updates for more information.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a WebClip playback issue that caused the player to minimize. WebClip now uses the same view to display pages that would normally open a new tab or window in the browser.

11.04 Releases (Reached End of Support April 12, 2019)

Release 11.04 Hotfix

Release 11.04 (Reached End of Support April 12, 2019)

11.04.05 Release – April 19, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused message thumbnails to occasionally fail to generate when thumbnail generation is set to "Manual" during creation and editing of a message.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Fixed a WebClip playback issue that caused the player to minimize. WebClip now uses the same view to display pages that would normally open a new tab or window in the browser.

Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed a WebClip playback issue that caused the player to minimize. WebClip now uses the same view to display pages that would normally open a new tab or window in the browser.

11.04.03 Release – January 30, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the label name of a variable to display in a message's thumbnail instead of its value.
Fixed an issue that caused Multi-Network Content Managers to deny access after the Scala Maintenance date expired.
Fixed an issue that prevented PAM from being enabled on multi-network Content Managers.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Designer to crash when binding an element within a bound page.
Fixed an issue that could potentially cause memory leaks when copying a page twice or interrupting the thumbnail generator as it creates a script's thumbnail.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer and Player to perform an invalid check for optional Extension Module licenses.

Other

General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Designer and Player to perform an invalid check for optional Extension Module licenses.
Fixed an issue that caused the Player Configuration Tool's Reset Settings, OK, and Cancel buttons to fail to display when launched in lower Windows desktop resolutions.
Fixed an issue that caused 11.04.02 Player to crash when a script that used external string arrays was played.

11.04.02 Release – December 5, 2017

Player

Bug Fixes

The Player now correctly recognizes template variables referenced inside a Section option on a page command as template variables, and no longer causes a script parsing error that ignores the page command. See PD-8741 in Notable for Support for more information.

11.04 Release – November 29, 2017

Content Manager

System Requirements

Change in requirements for Java 8: Now requires Java 8 update 131.
Change in requirements for PostgreSQL: Now requires version 9.5.7 or better.
Change in requirements for Tomcat: Now requires version 7.0.77.
Change in requirements for MongoDB: Now requires version 3.2.12. See CM-12438 in Notable for Support for more information.

New Features

The new Template Administration function for Content Manager allows enhanced administration of the message creation workflow. See Managing Messages for more information.
Added functionality for importing users from multi-domain AD/LDAP server. See Managing Authentication and Authorization via LDAP and Active Directory for more information.
Search function now supports users in LDAP nested groups. See Creating Users for more information.
Billing logs that are older than max database age field in Network Misc settings are now skipped when first enabling playback audit reporting.
Added a "Player License Type" filter to the Player landing page to distinguish players created through classic license or feature license.

Other

Added "billing_duplicate" and "billing_error" folders as parsing destinations. If a billing log file has already been parsed and saved, it will now be moved to "billing_duplicate" and logged. If there is an error while parsing a billing log, the file will be moved to "billing_error" and logged.
Improved speed performance when appending a subplaylist to a parent playlist via the API in Content Manager.
Improved usability by explicitly separating the "Media Approval" and "Media Rejection" user activities from the generic "Media Update" type in the logs.
Content Manager now allows system/super administrators to update an expired software license.
The Timeslot Properties modal now respects the super administrator role and new workgroups' accessibility rules when creating links to selected playlist and alternate playlists.
Added warning dialogue when admin user uploads a media item that belongs to another workgroup.
Change top level workgroup name "All" has been renamed to "Root".
Added a checkbox in "Shared with Workgroups panel" that allows users to share or unshare items with workgroup's sub-workgroups.
Users can now correctly configure which columns are shown when editing smart playlists.
"Force User to change password at next login" can now be selected via the multi-edit function in User administration.
Updated the warning messages displayed when importing a new license For IE 10 and IE 11.
General cosmetic and usability improvements for IE11.
Updated Japanese translations in Playback Audit.
Miscellaneous security improvements.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the number of players reporting health problems to be inconsistent after a user clears a problem from the player health page.
Fixed an issue that made Content Manager unable to download files that included special characters in the file name.
Fixed an issue that caused messages to play incorrectly on players due to missing ingredients.
Fixed an issue that caused Android, SSP, and Chromebox players to delete message snapshots before a plan was completed.
Fixed an issue that caused network names to encode with spaces, preventing Android players from downloading content.
Fixed an issue that made existing reports fail to appear in the selected language.
Fixed an issue with license validation that prevented users from adding new players.
Fixed an issue that prevented parent workgroup users from uploading a media item, creating a media, or creating a playlist and then assigning it to a child's workgroup.
Fixed an issue that caused playlist duration calculation discrepancies.
Fixed an issue that caused playlist information to remain in Plan after a channel has been deleted.
Fixed an issue that caused blank fields to display in the template when an older revision is set as current.
Fixed an issue that caused the user to be unable to delete a metadata pick list value.
Fixed an issue that caused a user to be unable to add a media item or sub-playlist by clicking the "Add Media" and "Add Sub-Playlist" buttons.
Fixed an issue that caused users with with approval rights to be unable to access aproved duplicated messages.
Fixed an issue that caused images to fail to display when smart playlists are filtered by the "Is Not" workgroup.
Fixed an issue that caused the number of players reporting health problems to be inconsistent after a user clears a problem from the player health page.
Fixed encoding of international characters for network names in plan URLs.
Fixed an issue that caused Android players with feature-based licenses to be unable to create maintenance jobs.
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect dates to display in Proof of Performance reports/player billing log.
Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to be unable to create maintenance jobs when customer uses feature-based licenses.
Fixed an issue that caused the Use Default button to fail to reset the message field in message editing view.

Designer

New Features

The new Templates tab in Designer's Script Properties affords more advanced organization and control of how fields and associated sections are ordered and presented in Content Manager. See Script Properties: Template for more information.
Users can now convert single or multiple Text elements to TextBox elements, or the reverse, by right-clicking the element. See Adding Elements for more information.
Designer now allows users to select any page in the script for their thumbnails.

API

The Thumbnail server now only generates .PNG thumbnails from normal scripts, template scripts, or messages via the API. See Scala Server Support Module for more information.

Other

Designer now allows Text, TextBox, and TextCrawl elements to use character height by default.
Designer now allows users to more smoothly adjust thumbnail size using the main menu slider.
Setting the Initial Value now displays additional file type filters in the Windows dialog box when creating a Filename variable.
The Enter and Backspace keys are now usable as hotkeys to go into and exit a page group.
Font Size button now accurately depicts font size in text elements with multiple sizes of text segments.
Nudge control (CTRL + SHIFT + Arrow keys) now performs correctly for table elements.
Eliminated automatic variable cleaning; Users can now manage Designer variables in Script Properties.
Element is now highlighted when the user selects the outwipe in from the list view of page editor.
Users can now convert single or multiple Text elements to TextBox elements by right-clicking the element.
Users can now open a group in the main menu using <Enter> or <F2>.
The Thumbnail server now allows users to generate specified PNG thumbnails from normal scripts, template scripts, or messages. See Scala Server Support Module for more information.
The Delete Variable button in the Script Properties Variable tab is now correctly grayed-out when the selected variable is being used in the script or section of the Template tab.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that made Designer text boxes uneditable after being converted into a Button.
Fixed an issue that caused the design panel to fail to match the type of element that is selected.
Fixed an issue that caused box elements to move unexpectedly to top of screen position.
Fixed an issue that caused an error dialog to appear when setting a new variable or condition.
Fixed an issue that caused the user to select several element buttons at once while changing button states.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to crash when binding an existing integer template variable to a filename parameter.
Fixed issues that caused crashing or duplicating elements when copying and pasting text in tables in Designer.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to crash when republishing to a local folder, if the destination folder no longer exists.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to default to index 4 when an object is bound to an array.
Fixed an issue that caused the insertion bar to migrate incorrectly when clicking inside table cells.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to focus on drop-down menus rather than text input when a table cell is selected to insert text.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to fail to retain the Initial Value in a new variable.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to crash when loading a script containing an invalid template variable declaration, an object variable, or a script name variable.
Fixed an issue that caused a GDI font handle leak.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to crash when copying and pasting a text or textbox element into a table cell.

Player

Other

Introduced error dialog when user license does not allow a custom monitor configuration file.
Amended the newly-introduced alternate behavior so that alternate playlists function as designed.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Python scripts using Time.Sleep or ScalaPlayer.Sleep to display a DLL error when the script was called from outside the Player context.
Fixed an issue that caused the scalalink.py script to update variables in only one channel, when used in multiple channels.
Fixed an issue that caused the Pick Sequential command to crash in Player in rare instances.
Fixed an issue that caused a memory leak when ZoomUp and/or ZoomFade transitions are used in a frame with autoscale set to "Fit Inside Frame".
Fixed an issue that caused Player to hang up between pages during the cleanup of large numbers of scheduled or scripting events.

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11.03 Releases (Reached End of Support November 29, 2018)

Release 11.03 Hotfix

Release 11.03 (Reached End of Support on November 29, 2018)

Release 11.03.07 – January 16, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Android players with feature-based licenses to be unable to create maintenance jobs.
Fixed an issue that caused player license check warning to not be displayed upon Tomcat startup.
Fixed an issue that caused the label name of a variable to display in a message's thumbnail instead of its value.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Designer and Player to perform an invalid check for optional Extension Module licenses.

Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Player to hang up between pages during the cleanup of large numbers of scheduled or scripting events.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer and Player to perform an invalid check for optional Extension Module licenses.
Fixed an issue that caused the Player Configuration Tool's Reset Settings, OK, and Cancel buttons to fail to display when launched in lower Windows desktop resolutions.

Release 11.03.06 – October 25, 2017

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the Use Default button to fail to reset message fields to the default image in message editing view.
Fixed an issue that prevented feature license player counts from being isolated to a specific network in a multi-network Content Manager.
Fixed an issue that caused Content Manager to be unable to make maintenance jobs for feature-based licenses.
Fixed an issue that caused the "is not" workgroup filter condition to fail to display media items.

Other

Updated Japanese translations.

Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Python scripts using time.sleep or ScalaPlayer.Sleep to show a DLL-related error, if opened outside the Player context.
Fixed a rare crash in Enterprise Player that could happen when playing content that uses a lot of short duration exact scheduled events.

Release 11.03.05 – July 12, 2017

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that prevented users from using the Media History tab function to set a previous revision as current.
Fixed an issue that prevented users from editing messages created in version 11.03.02 or earlier.
Extended and fixed the newly-introduced Alternate behavior for playlists to ensure that menu items correctly reflect task options.
UI bug fix and corrected a smart playlist selection issue that occurred when boolean metadata values were set to false.
Fixed an issue that prevented channels without alternate behavior from being paired with feature-based licensed players.

Other

General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Fixed Designer and Player installer issue that caused VBScripting to crash as the result of a missing registry key.

Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Python module scalalink.py to use incorrect COM port.
Fixed Designer and Player installer issue that caused VBScripting to crash as the result of a missing registry key.
Fixed an issue that caused Player to fail to update when an assigned metadata value was deleted.

Other

Extended and fixed the newly-introduced Alternate behavior for playlists to ensure that menu items correctly respond to alternate behavior settings.

Release 11.03.04 – June 1, 2017

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where Message snapshots were deleted for Players before the plan has been received.
Fixed a bug where the "Update Smart Playlist" button was missing when selecting a playlist from search results.
Samsung SSP and Chrome players no longer need to be re-paired if the Player reboots when the network expires in the License.
Fixed maintenance job landing page to support jobs assigned to large numbers of players.
Fixed a bug with the French version of Content Manager that sent emails with corrupted special characters. Also fix the problem of corrupted characters in report generation.
Fix the Transmission Server emulation feature to URL encode spaces; this prevented some players from downloading content.
Fixed a bug the prevented users of a parent workgroup uploading and assigning media to a child workgroup.
Fixed a bug with triggering a playlist duration re-calculation on the landing page.

Other

General cosmetic and usability improvements.
Improve performance displaying the maintenance job landing page with large numbers of players.
Add a feature XML switch (EnableMediaLazyFetch) that can decrease memory and CPU use required to search for media, especially when searching for messages.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug with copy/paste at zoom levels other than 100%.
Fixed an error dialog that could appear when double clicking on items in the Variables, Functions, or Operators list.
Fixed a variety of usability issues related to creating or moving elements. Element handles are now easier to grab when zoomed in.

Other

When typing in a text box or element that is bound to a field, the overlay label will now will disappear, making it easier to see the text typed.

Player

Samsung Player

Bug Fixes

Additional validation added to prevent the clock on the Samsung SSPs from being set to an invalid value at Daylight savings time.

Release 11.03.02 – April 20, 2017

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue with license validation that prevented some users from adding new players.
Fixed an issue that prevented some users from creating new folders.
Fixed issue with the selection of the save buttons when setting an alternate playlist at the frame level.

Designer

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue playing H.264 videos within a WebClip, Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) version 56, used in version 11.03 of Player and Designer.

Player

PC Player

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue playing H.264 videos within a WebClip, Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) version 56, used in version 11.03 of Player.
Corrected direction of rotation for player channel orientation in Mupltie Channel (Shared Display) configuration.

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Release 11.03 – April 6, 2017

Content Manager

Please Note:

This table shows the comparison of the new feature based licenses which will become available shortly.

These licenses will supported by Release 11.03 and Scala will inform you when they do become available.

For more information, please see this page, or contact your Scala representative.

New Features

Scala Enterprise 11.03 now supports a number of feature based licenses. Please see the Feature License Functionality Matrix for more information
Added an alternate options feature to frames and timeslots to set the default behavior when the current playlist has no items to play. The options are: Black, Transparent or Playlist.
To assist troubleshooting, Content Manager now has the following new log files: ContentManager-useraction.log, ContentManager-performance.log and ContentManager-plangeneration.log, which log Content Manager information into separate log files.
Added a configuration option under Network > Miscellaneous Settings that will allow the user to configure if the thumbnail is generated automatically during message creation. It is defaulted to Auto.
Playback Audit can now use dynamic polling to increase the efficiency of parsing billing files. To enable this feature and change the default behavior from static mode (poll every second), set "pam.staticPollingMode=false" in config.properties and restart Tomcat.
Added a configuration to the UI in Network Settings to turn automatic playlist duration calculation on or off.
To speed up the process for the initial ingestion of files, Media uploads now allow for the selection of an item's folder location, workgroup categories and metadata.
Added a link to Player Inventory and Player Health from the Player Landing page.
Playlist media items can now have Channel.name and player.channel now display as condition types.
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is now certified for use with Scala Enterprise.
To prevent a black flash prior to playing a webclip, you can now set the background color as a hexadecimal number for a webpage or widget in the properties page.

API

Added POST logout REST web service that requires the apiToken request header to properly remove the associated user from the session.
Added the "updateParentHealth" query parameter to several playlist API's to control updating the health status of all owning playlists for a given sub-playlist.
General API improvements.

Playback Audit

Updated the Playback Audit Parser to use the Message Name, rather than the Template Name in the billing log.
Playback Audit Reports have been updated so the URL will be displayed for Web Page media items.

Publish Locations

Fixed a cleanup issue relating to Publish Locations.
Fixed an issue with connecting to remote UNC publish locations.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where messages, created from templates and containing picklists and radio buttons, did not play the correct choice.

Requires both Content Manager and Player to updated to 11.03.
Fixed a bug relating to the assignment of "message approver" and "media approver" permission to the Super Administrator role.
Fixed an issue where maintenance jobs did not update when player groups were updated or deleted.
Fixed a bug that prevented Content Manager from connecting to a database scheme configured with an upper cased name.
Fixed a rare issue that caused the thumbnail generating process to time out.
A newly created frame will use "fit inside frame" as the default auto scale setting.
Fixed an issue where Event Triggers are not deleted when their Trigger Variables have been deleted in a Channel update, causing an error in the Channel landing page.
Fixed issues when uploading the same set of multiple files to multiple sub-networks via the File Uploader or via drag and drop.
Fixed a case during plan generation, of mixed player types, where still images created as part of a message were not included in a plan correctly.

Other

The Scala Advantage date for Release 11.03 is March 1, 2017.
The user can no longer set the duration in a Playlist for the Transition "cut."
Pressing Enter multiple times no longer accidentally creates multiple records.
If you are running a Media report with page level events, you will now see the following message if there are none: "there are no page events for this media item."
Added a new UI field that allows the user to set the value of the "sf_is_charted" field when creating or updating a playlist. Currently, playlist set to be controlled by third part apps, this status will not be updated when changes are made to the playlist.
Updated the Playback Audit Parser to retry parsing when database connectivity related failures occur.
Re-published templates will maintain the preferences set for them in Content Manager.
Content Manager now displays an error message when it is unable to connect to the License Server.
Removed the limit of the number of categories per network.
Self extracting ZIP files can now be transferred to the Player via an "Install File" Maintenance Job.
Added additional logging statements to record emulate transmission server failures and retries, which can be found in the ContentManager.log file.
Approval emails will not be sent to disabled users.
General performance improvements.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

New Features/Enhancements

(Enhancement) New Text, TextBox and TextCrawl elements created in Designer are now set to use character height by default.
Scala Enterprise 11.03 now supports a number of feature based licenses. Please see the Feature License Functionality Matrix for more information.
Player now uses the specified CSS Background Color for a webclip, if one has been set in Content Manager.
Added a new Array.MaxIndex. ScalaScript function to find the max index for an array variable.
Config IC has been updated to support the new feature based licenses.
Page Durations are now bindable.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where messages, created from templates and containing picklists and radio buttons, did not play the correct choice.

Requires both Content Manager and Player to updated to 11.03.
CEF has been updated to version 56, which is fixed an issue with a PDF inside a webclip.
Fixed an issue where a Pick command caused a cluster to exit prematurely if the previously picked item was aborted and was the last item in the pick sequence.

Other

Windows XP is no longer supported by Scala Enterprise. See the note here for a full explanation.
Added the message name to the billing log created by the ScalaScript billing command that can be used in Playback Audit Reports.
Added the following fields to errors for messages: media item, media item name and message name, to errors that are logged by players to help identify where the problem is.
Designer and Player no longer convert true black (RGB 0x000000) user pens to dark blue (RGB 0x000001).
Added a URL option to the Billing command to write the URL string into a URL element in the billing log.
Added the ability to set the background color as a hexadecimal number for a webpage or widget via the CSSBackgroundColor option.
Playback now supports alternate playlists, as defined in Content Manager.
Added startup time and system uptime to the IC.log.
Text boxes that are converted to buttons now function as intended.
Text can now be edited in a newly created push button.
Custom Monitor Config Files will be ignored if the Feature Based License does not allow it to be used
Added the script name to the script version error message.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.
Added an mmos.ini flag: WEBCLIP_DisableGPUCompositing=0, that enables WebGl content to be played inside a webclip. For more details, please see Advanced Configuration Options for Designer.

Player

Android Player

New Feature

Scala Enterprise 11.03 now supports a number of feature based licenses. Please see the Feature License Functionality Matrix for more information .

11.02 Releases (Reached End of Support April 6, 2018)

Release 11.02 Hotfix

Release 11.02 (Reached End of Support on April 6th 2018)

Release 11.02.06 - Jun 15, 2017

Content Manager

Fixed a bug with the French version of Content Manager that sent emails with corrupted special characters. Also fix the problem of corrupted characters in report generation.
Fix the Transmission Server emulation feature to URL encode spaces; this prevented some players from downloading content.

Designer

No changes.

Player

Samsung Player

Additional validation added to prevent the clock on the Samsung SSPs from being set to an invalid value at Daylight savings time.

Release 11.02.05 - April 26, 2017

Content Manager

Fixed issue with incorrect reports due to a defect introduced when updating to use the millisecond date representation.
Fixed an issue displaying message ingredients on players.

Requires both Content Manager and Player updated to 11.02.05.
Fixed an issue that prevented some users from creating new folders.
Made an update to the foreign language resource bundles to prevent errors when generating reports.
Fixed a bug where the "Update Smart Playlist" button was missing when selecting a playlist from search results.
Samsung SSP and Chrome players no longer need to be re-paired if the Player reboots when network expires in the License Server.
Improve performance displaying the maintenance job landing page with large numbers of players.
Fixed maintenance job landing page to support jobs assigned to large numbers of players.
Add a feature.xml switch (EnableMediaLazyFetch) that can decrease memory and CPU use required to search for media, especially when searching for messages.

Designer

No changes.

Player

Scala PC Player

Fixed an issue displaying message ingredients on players.

Release 11.02.04 - February 21, 2017

Content Manager

Fixed a bug where smart playlists did not include media items that belonged to its sub-workgroups.
Fix a bug where the media approval notifications emails were not sent to a user who has the Permission to approve media. When rejecting a media item for approval, the user is warned by a message stating that the item is set to a draft state.
Added a new permission "Manage Ownership of Workgroups" to the media/template/playlist sections of Roles. This permission allows the user to change the workgroup ownership within their workgroup hierarchy.
A Multi-Network Content Manager now properly imports licenses containing sub-networks that had expired.
Fixed an issue where a Multi-Network Content Manager did not properly delete sub-networks.
General API improvements.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Player

Android Player

Fixed an issue with exiting a subscript when using multinested subplaylists with exact schedules.

Scala PC Player

Removed the artificial 2GB limit for the process that manages the Chromium web browser’s rendering work (cefmmos.exe).

Designer

Fixed a crash, predominantly via hand-scripting, when binding a ScalaScript variable to an environment variable.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Release 11.02.03 – December 13, 2016

Note:

Before applying this update, please make sure that your SHA certificates are up to date as described in this attachment. While this document refers to Windows 10, Scala has not yet certified Windows 10 for playback. This fix has been made in anticipation of that certification.

Content Manager

Fixed a bug that made the template field unable to be edited when the field description in the ScalaScript template was null.
Fixed an issue that caused the User Activity page to display incorrectly because of missing user activity types.
Workgroup information for a media or playlist item is now hidden from users who do not have the ownership or role permissions to access the workgroups.
Fixed an issue where Content Manager fails to start when MongoDB is unreachable.
Added more tables to the pre-cache for improved performance during plan generation.
Fixed an issue that caused the Workgroup check box to be unavailable for those with Administrator permission when using the multi-edit function for media items, playlists and templates.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Player

Scala PC Player

Fixed a previously introduced regression where a ScalaScript button element no longer received touch related events if there was also a webclip on screen.

Release 11.02.02 – December 13, 2016

Note:

Due to changes with Microsoft's usage of Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA), this update will ensure that the Remote Update package will use a Remote Update package that is digitally signed and verifiable in a valid SHA format. For more information on this change, please see this attachment. This document mentions Windows 10. Please be the fix has been made for Windows 10, but that Scala is still in the process of certifying it for release at a later time.

Release 11.02 - October 26, 2016

Content Manager

New Feature

Added a time offset field to Content Manager for use with the Samsung SSP Player. For example, if your server is in the US Eastern Time zone, and the Player in the US Pacific, you will need to set this to -3 hours.
Samsung SSP Players now support timezone offsets. For more information, please see Samsung SSP Players, and choose your model.

Other

General UI and plan generation performance has been significantly improved in cases where there are a large number of players frequently reporting heartbeats, and/or reporting many problems.
Fixed an issue where the default image from the template was added erroneously to the plan, as both an ingredient and a top level media item, which showed as never completing in the Player inventory.
Fixed an issue changing user passwords when using Internet Explorer 11.
(Notable) Content Manager has been updated to support MSSQL Server's Snapshot isolation level for transactions.
(Notable) Content Manager has added support for enabling Hibernate indexing to RAM.
Fixed an issue that caused Tomcat version 7.0.70's URL encoding to re-encode a previously encoded URL.
Fixed an issue where the playlist status filter did not update when media items are expired.
Fixed an issue with multiple select for Boolean variables in non-English UI's.
Made a change to the way "valid end date" for a media item is displayed. The date will now default to the start date.
Fixed an issue in Message creation where a data field could not be updated with an XML file.
Template picklist entries are now available if a field label is omitted and a description only is entered.
Made improvements to the accuracy of plan generation and the detail given for it.
Added logging to plan generation to better document the details, including a tracking number, transitions between and more accurate durations of the phases, and also details of the players being processed.
Improved security to prevent possible SQL injection.
Fixed and issue that prevented long Role, Workgroups and Player names from being deleted.
Security patched to prevent possible cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
Fixed an issue in the PAM Migration Utility that caused it to fail when the database type command line argument was omitted.
General security patch to prevent credentials for being shown in clear text for certain API calls.
Fixed a rare issue where Template or ScalaScript ingredients were being deleted.
Fixed an issue with Broadcast Players where the pop-up message to confirm sending the plan did not show on the Player page.
Added support for Mongo 3.0. An existing installation will be upgraded to this version.
The PAM migration tool can now save time milliseconds format to better deal with differences in time zones.
General performance improvements.
API documentation improvements.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

Optimized the writing of temporary files when using fonts embedded in ScalaScript caused by the KB2993651 Windows 7 security update . This fix prevents the accumulation of orphaned temp files.
Corrected the issue of webclip not using locale language settings.

Note:

This requires set up as described here.

Player

The Scala Maintenance date for Release 11.02 is October 15, 2016.

Scala Enterprise Player for Chrome

Improved behaviors on Chromebox to minimize media download when rebooting during plan processing.

Scala PC Player

Added the following mmos.ini, INPUTMGR_InteractTouchScreen=1, which tells the Player to default to using the touchscreen for input setting by default instead of using mouse for input. It is currently set to default to OFF.
Added the following mmos.ini flag: WEBCLIP_EnableSystemFlash=1, which tells Player/Designer's webclip to allow the use of the PPAPI plugin. This applies only to flash content embedded in web content in a webclip, not the element.

Samsung SSP Player

New Feature

Samsung SSP Players now support timezone offsets. For more information, please see Samsung SSP Players, and choose your model.

Other

The gap between webpages has been reduced. Please be aware this feature is off by default and needs to be enabled by making the sure the following is set: "preloadWebPages": true.
Improved Samsung SSP playback when using External Source Media with the black time reduced and the rare occurrence screen flickering prior to the external source starting.

11.01 Releases (Reached End of Support October 26, 2017)

Release 11.01 Hotfix

Release 11.01 (Reached End of Support on October 26, 2017)

Release 11.01.04 - August 2, 2016

Note:

Release 11.01.03 was released as a private internal build.

Content Manager

MS SQL Server 2005 is no longer supported by Scala Enterprise Content Manager.
Fixed a rare bug that occurred if a Template's default image was included in another script, which caused the new message screen to show a "Media not Found" error.
Updated the Player plan to support special characters in the URL of credentials when EnableTransmissionServer is enabled.
Content Manager now shows the correct number of media items on the main dashboard.
A system level workgroup "All" has been added to the workgroup tree to allow non-administrators access across their organization's entire workgroup structure.
Message thumbnails created for Android are now correct when a message is the first item in a playlist.
(Notable) Added the Max database age (days) field to Miscellaneous Settings under Network Settings. If you do not see this field after upgrading, the issue should be resolved after clearing you browser cache.
When deleting a metadata value from a picklist, a warning message with the places the value is listed will appear. The value is now deleted instead of replaced.
The Playback Audit Module billing log parser now save playout days as milliseconds to better handle time zone offsets when creating reports.
Fixed a plan generation error when adding WebClips and External Source media to a Playlist.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

Designer no longer crashes when opening the background menu for a streaming video page.
Added Italian to the list of languages that can be used for template field labels.

Player

Scala PC Player

Non adjacent rules in a shuffled playlist now function properly.
Fixed a bug where exporting a floating point (REAL) ScalaScript variable to a JavaScript environment via webclip resulted in corrupt values in JavaScript.
Fixed a rare issue where the heartbeat.xml files sent back to Content Manager was missing <event-sequence> entries.
Added two mmos.ini settings:
- WEBCLIP_ProxyBypass, which specifies a list of web addresses where webclip should not use the proxy and overrides the default bypass behavior. The format matches the format used by Chrome's Bypass list, including a special token for variations of localhost, <local>. For example, to add an exception for localhost, for all addresses matching 192.168.10.* and scala.com: WEBCLIP_ProxyBypass="<local>;scala.com;192.168.10.*" If you use this setting, <local> must be present if you want to bypass the proxy for localhost.
- WEBCLIP_UseOSProxySettingsThis boolean tells the webclip to use the OS for proxy settings, which overrides WEBCLIP_ProxyBypass.
Added a new mmos.ini, NETCLIENT_RestartOnMetadataChange, which controls whether the Player restarts when metadata is changed. The default is "on" for previous behavior.
Fixed an issue with Pick.Sequential and Pick.Shuffle commands, when MustPlay(On) that prevents a playlist from getting stuck if none of its media items are played due to schedules or other conditions, or if it contains no media items.

Known Issue:

Scala has discovered a known issue when creating and scheduling new Web media content in Content Manager Release 11.01.02. We are working to address the issue and it has been addressed in 11.01.04.

This does not impact other areas of the product and therefore if you are not using Web media content, this notice can be ignored.

Release 11.01.02 - June 15, 2016

Content Manager

Before You Proceed

(Notable) IAdea Bridge Server version 4.4.41 is now supported for use with Release 11.01 of Scala Enterprise. It is posted here.

Other

Smart playlists no longer include media items that were not shared by other workgroups.
Fixed an issue when creating a message where the wrong search results were shown.
Audio smart playlist now generate the correct items if a limit is set.
Uploaded .zip files can now be selected to do an install file.
Bulk imports of LDAP users assign the proper workgroup and role(s) to users.
Fixed an issue that caused the "delete template" role permission to malfunction.
Maintenance files for the install file command can now be deleted.
Existing message are now editable when adding a template field to an existing template.
Fixed the inability to save a subplaylist that was used extensively throughout the system.
Fixed an issue that cause the preview to not work when using a subplaylist (ResourceNameStrings) as a message ingredient.
General cosmetic and usability improvements

Designer

Fixed a bug that caused non-adjacent rules in a playlist to prevent the player from accepting a plan.
Fixed an issue where the Thumbnailer for Player and Designer would fail to scale a bitmap file less than 4 pixels wide or tall.
(Notable) Variable notifications now work correctly for scripts in Designer.

Player

Android Player

Subplaylists now correctly exit when only one media item is scheduled.
The version number of a device's firmware is now displayed in Content Manager's Player Properties.

Samsung SSP Player

Fixed a rare issue that cause the Samsung SSP Player to temporarily report that the license in the last received plan has expired.
(Notable) Samsung SSP Players correctly switches back to online mode when the heartbeat level is greater than 1 minute.

Scala Enterprise Player for Chrome

Mouse or touch input in the upper right corner of the screen is no longer ignored.

Scala PC Player

Fixed several issues that caused WMV files to stutter badly and lose audio sync during playback by adding the following mmos.ini flag: DSHOWRENDER_CorrectFileTSDiscontinuties, which defaults to off. The default behavior disables the "timestamp discontinuity reconciliation" for local video file playback.
Fixed a rare issue where keystrokes typed into text input elements in a webclip appear twice.
X and Y flipping now properly works visually for Webclip.
Fixed an issue where the Thumbnailer for Player and Designer would fail to scale a bitmap file less than 4 pixels wide or tall.
Accelerated video decode is now enabled by default. This addresses an issue where nothing is displayed when decoding H264 videos via the HTML video tag.
Webclip now uses Player and Designer proxy settings correctly (if set) but will fall back to the Windows settings if unset.
WebClip now uses the underlying browser to securely provide credentials for authorization. This does not apply to cases where a web page uses so-called HTML "form-based authentication."
For users who wish to use the persistent cookie option in Chrome, the following mmos.ini flag has been added: WEBCLIP_PersistentSessionCookies=1. This tells Chrome and its Embedded Framework to use the persisitent_session_cookie option.

Note:

Use of this flag also requires the use of the WEBCLIP_CachePath mmos.ini setting.

Release 11.01.00 – May 19, 2016

Content Manager

Before You Proceed

Scala Enterprise Content Manager now ships with and requires Java Release 8, u73.

New Feature

Added a new feature that improves performance in the generation of plans and plan sealing.
Content Manager now supports mandatory password reset. This setting can be enabled at System > Network Settings > Miscellaneous Settings.
Transparency and Opacity are now available for Playlist media Item Properties.
Google Chromebox is now a supported device in Content Manager.
Approval emails are now sent for messages, web pages or external source media items.

Product Enhancements

Media and Messages

Messages are now set to draft when media used by a message and the fields using them are required, but now empty.
Message are now auto-expired if any of the ingredients have expired.
Editing an approved message now correctly shows the request approval button.
Users can now download any of the historic versions of a Media item.
External source media is an now available as an option in Smart Playlists.
When saving a message, the user is now able to rename it if the name already exits.

Playlist

Playlist duration now updates correctly when media files are added to the playlist during the uploading process.
Playlist duration now properly updates when a new version of the template is uploaded.
Playlist duration is now properly calculated when the user creates a sub-playlist from items already attached to a playlist.
Smart playlists now properly obey the sorting order.
Users can now add opacity to Playlist Media Item Properties for Video in Content Manager.

API

Changed the REST API /api/rest/players/ID/state now returns the date in this format: yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.
The service api/rest/channels will return the timeslots for the first week of the current year if no parameters are passed.
General API improvements.

Playback Audit Module

Made an update to the PAM parser configuration parameters to better describe their purpose.
Updated the Playback Audit Module's config.properties file in to persist custom configuration properties.
Fixed an issue with MongoDB authentication in the PAM parser when migrating from MSSQL to MongoDB.
Fixed problem with the PAM parser, which created extra Channels because of appended Display names.

Other

(Notable) For fresh installs, plan statistics is now turned off by default. This can be enabled by setting PlangenSkipStats =false in the features.xml file.
The FTP Public Location path now allows NULL values.
Improved auto-complete in search.
Content Manager logs are automatically zipped when rolling over to the next day.
The Description field can now be configured to be displayed on the Media, Playlist, Template and Player landing pages.
Users can now disable SMTP authentication.
Workgroup access rights have been corrected for an Administrator.
General cosmetic and usability improvement for Internet Explorer.
General performance improvements.
General security improvements.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the webclip URL to be truncated at 255 characters.
Fixed an issue where users disabled the Tomcat access logs, but the option to collect them was re-enabled after a Tomcat update.
Fixed a bug where deleting a Media Item used as a control script on a variable set on a Channel prevents the Channel list screen from loading.
Fixed an issue when re-publishing a script from a Designer User with LDAP credentials.
Fixed a rare issue when changing the Player's authentication caused the Player not to be able to connect.
Fixed an issue that was preventing the user from saving a new smart playlist.
Fixed a bug that prevented users from uploading the same media items if it belongs to a different workgroup.
Fixed bug in Playback Audit Reports that excluded billing data for the starting date of the search criteria.

Designer

New Feature

Added a Bind button to the Filename entry field on the Textfile EX menu, that allows a filename to be bound to a variable or array entry.
Script Properties icon has been added to the Main and Page View Toolbars.
Enhanced template functionality. See docs.scala.com for more details.
Binding for WebClip URL's and filenames is now supported.

Product Enhancements

Save and Restore defaults now include additional elements.
Added a button that allows the user to select a thumbnail for a webclip.
ScalaScript help now shows whether a command can be used in a Group, Sequence, and/or Resources list of a cluster, and whether it can be used in a Config script, or a Runtime script, or both.
Improvements to the diagnostic information shown in the Ready Script.
Designer now correctly updates a Clip element when changing a filename bound to an array entry.
The Log EX menu now properly shows the log text when it contains !variable references.
The selected pen in the Palette menu will update when the selection inside a table is changed.
Performance improvement for time needed to update large webclips and videos.
The Insert and Delete Row/Column buttons in the Table element's RMB menu are now disabled if the element is locked.
The Data Source EX supports data source XML filename binding by using the bind button in the mapping dialog.
Reset Format for TVClip and Table elements now works correctly.
Updated the ffmpeg library to version 2.8
General performance improvements.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Bug Fixes

Shadow opacity now properly renders.
Designer no longer crashes when an .ibm file is used as a tile or image fill filename.
Fixed an issue that caused crashes when the user bound the Image file for a bevel edge.
Fixed an issue that cause the Windows Scripting EX to fail to load if the Scala Windows Scripting ActiveX control dll (axscr.dll) was mismatched. This issue will now report an error in Player and Designer but provide no warning elsewhere.
Designer no longer crashes when adding a Text Entry Button with nothing selected in the Page Editor.
Fixed a rare issue that caused a memory leak when aborting a looping audio or video file.
Fixed an issue that caused Designer to crash with Paste Format to a MovieClip.
Designer no longer truncates a WebClip URL at 255 characters when authoring a script.

Player

Before You Proceed

The Scala Maintenance date for 11.01 is March 1, 2016.

Android Players

New Feature

Transparency can now be set on and off, and the opacity level can now be set for images.
The Panasonic AF1 Series Signage Displays are now Scala Certified. Please consult the Player Guide to confirm that your model(s) is on the list of supported devices.
The IAdea XDS-2170 is now a Scala Certified devices, using firmware version 1.2.61.206.
The IAdea XMP-6200 and MBR-1000 are now Scala Certified devices, using firmware version 1.2.46.
The IAdea XMP-7300 is now a Scala Certified device, using firmware version 1.0.3.112.
The IAdea XMP-6250 is now a Scala Certified device, using firmware version 1.2.59.204.
The IAdea XDS-1078 is now a Scala Certified devices, using firmware version 1.2.62.227.

Product Enhancements

Android Players no longer report an error to Content Manager while rebooting.
Maintenance jobs now respect their recurring schedule.
Health logs are now uploaded at the next available time when the Player has returned back online.
Unsupported video types (.mov, .wmv, .swf, .mpg) are now skipped.
The full screen option on media items is now supported.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a rare issue with VIA players where attempting to connect a USB keyboard caused a black screen.
Fixed a rare issue that caused Android Players to repeatedly download a file.
Fixed an issue where pressing ESC caused the player to exit.
Fixed a playback issue when a mouse or keyboard was plugged in on legacy mode Android devices.
Fixed an issue relating to valid dates for playback.
Fixed a rare issue where the last video in a sub-playlist was skipped on IAdea Android devices.

Scala PC Player

New Feature

Webclip has been updated to use Chrome Embedded Framework (CEF) with Chrome 47.0.2526.80, which includes multitouch support.
Added support for decoding Apple ProRes AP4H video streams within quicktime .mov container files.
Added the following mmos.ini setting: MM3D_AllocateDepthStencil=0, which disables the stenciling feature on modern Direct3D video cards, independently of the "conserve buffers" setting.

Product Enhancements

Fixed a rare issue for a movie file that caused the audio track to be silent for the first few moments of the clip.
Added support for the decoding of h.265/HEVC video streams within video files.
The Scala PC Player now uses the page backdrop opacity setting from Content Manager for image, video, flash and animation pages.
Updated the following Python Packages and scripts supplied with the Player:

scalaprov.py	Updated to support Content Manager 2.0 REST APIs
scalatools.py	Added "cache" option to get_metaval() to disable (default has always been True) use of cached metadata (done at first call) Added SMTP SSL/TLS support through port-detection or new "secure" option Added set_console_title() Added Media-keys and various others to send_key() Better unicode handling of URL in grab_url() Improve grab_url() username/password handling (properly deals with really long username/passwords) Full header printing in grab_url() debug log
packager.py	Packages files or folders into a Python script for attachment to Scala Scripts. When run, the resulting Python script will unpack its contents into the system temp folder once
scalasvc.py	Class to implement generic functionality a service would need
scmd.py	Helper class for sending web service commands to Content Manager

Scala PC Player no longer tries to download External Source media items when then they show up in the plan, and log an error when it happens.
Player now logs Windows Terminal Services session change events, including the "locked console" which take over the display and hide the Scala Player. Some events, like REMOTE_CONNECT and REMOTE_DISCONNECT, do not directly indicate an issue with the display.
Webclips now take input focus when they are created, which allows "auto-select" to work for HTML text-entry boxes, unless the webclip is not interactive or there are other active ScalaScript based buttons on screen.
A press on a Touch screen now activates the underlying webclip which ensures HTML interactive items can gain focus so users can type into them.
The Chromium browser embedded in the webclip command disabled the "pinch zoom" gesture in Windows 7 and earlier, but it is enabled in Windows 8 and later. To disable it in Windows 8.1, use this mmos.ini setting :

WEBCLIP_DisablePinch=1

Samsung SSP Player

New Feature

The Samsung SSP OH46D Player is now Scala Certified.

Product Enhancements

The full screen option on media items is now supported.
Portrait and landscape mode app launchers are more robust in cases of network with connectivity issues.
Fixed an issue relating to valid dates for playback.

11.00 Releases (Reached End of Support May 19, 2017)

Release 11.00 Hotfix

Release 11.00 (Reached End of Support on May 19, 2017)

Release 11.00.11 – December 13, 2016

Note: The following section contains advanced notification of changes included in the forthcoming release.

Note:

Before applying this update, please make sure that your SHA certificates are up to date as described in this attachment. This document mentions Windows 10. While this document refers to Windows 10, Scala has not yet certified Windows 10 for playback. This fix has been made in anticipation of that certification.

Content Manager

Fixed an issue that caused Tomcat version 7.0.70's URL encoding to re-encode a previously encoded URL.
Fixed an issue with multiple select for Boolean variables in non-English UI's.
Made a change to the way "valid end date" for a media item is displayed. The date will now default to the start date.
Fixed an issue that caused the User Activity page to display incorrectly because of missing user activity types.

Release 11.00.10 – December 13, 2016

Note:

Due to changes with Microsoft's usage of Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA), this update will ensure that the Remote Update package will use a Remote Update package that is digitally signed and verifiable in a valid SHA format. For more information on this change, please see this attachment.

Release 11.00.09 – July 28, 2016

Content Manager

MS SQL Server 2005 is no longer supported by Scala Enterprise Content Manager.
When deleting a metadata value from a picklist, a warning message with the places the value is listed will appear. The value is now deleted instead of replaced.
The Playback Audit Module billing log parser now save playout days as milliseconds to better handle time zone offsets when creating reports.

Player and Designer

Fixed a rare issue where keystrokes typed into text input elements in a webclip appear twice.
Addressed several text entry box activation issues with webclip when using touch screens.
Fixed a rare issue where the heartbeat.xml files sent back to Content Manager was missing <event-sequence> entries.
Added a new mmos.ini, NETCLIENT_RestartOnMetadataChange, which controls whether the Player restarts when metadata is changed. The default is "on" for previous behavior.

Release 11.00.08 - June 15, 2016

Content Manager

Users can now disable SMTP authentication.
Fixed an issue when re-publishing a script from a Designer User with LDAP credentials.
Users are now able to search for Playlists, Template or Players with partial words.
Added pre-caching for media item metadata to improve plan generation performance.
Fixed an issue with heartbeat processing that truncates error descriptions because of escaped characters.
Fixed an issue when setting PlangenPreCachePlaylists=False that caused playlist media items to be out of order.
Fixed an issue with MongoDB authentication in the PAM parser when migrating from MSSQL to MongoDB.
(Notable) Fixed problem with the PAM parser, which created extra Channels because of appended Display names.
Fixed a reporting issue that excluded billing data for the starting date of the search criteria.
Fixed an issue when creating a message where the wrong search results were shown.
Audio smart playlist now generate the correct items if a limit is set.
Uploaded .zip files can now be selected to do an install file.
Bulk imports of LDAP users assign the proper workgroup and role(s) to users.
Fixed an issue that caused the "delete template" role permission to malfunction.
Fixed the inability to save a subplaylist that was used extensively throughout the system.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

Fixed a rare issue that caused a memory leak when aborting a looping audio or video file.
Fixed a bug that caused non-adjacent rules in a playlist to prevent the player from accepting a plan.
Fixed several issues that caused WMV files to stutter badly and lose audio sync during playback by adding the following mmos.ini flag: DSHOWRENDER_CorrectFileTSDiscontinuties, which defaults to on. The default behavior enables the "timestamp discontinuity reconciliation" for local video file playback.

Player

Android Player

Fixed an issue that caused the Watchdog to be disabled at an incorrect time.

Samsung SSP Player

Fixed a rare issue with the Samsung SSP Player where it was reporting that the Player license had expired erroneously.
(Notable) Samsung SSP Players correctly switches back to online mode when the heartbeat level is greater than 1 minute.

Release 11.00.07 - February 16, 2016

Fixed the Media Summary report with ScalaScript events.

Release 11.00.06 - January 26, 2016

Note:

Release 11.00.05 was released as a private internal build.

Content Manager

New Feature

External source input for Samsung SSP E Series and the DB22D-P Players is now supported via the features.xml file in Content Manager.

Other

Made changes to the Playlist API's for updating playlists and calculating playlist durations.
Fixed a rare issue with drag and drop template files that failed to display when uploaded.
Fixed an issue impacting the ability to schedule separate audio tracks.
(Notable) Fixed an issue that caused the channel overview not to load following an upgrade.
If you are not the built-in system Administrator you can no longer set owner or viewer workgroups when multi selecting media items.
Fixed an issue where Smart Playlists continued to generate, even when "Update Automatically Every" was turned off.
A custom logo can be selected for a Playback Audit Module report.
Duplicated playlists now preserve the interactivity option for webpages or widgets.
Plan generation optimizations.
Playback Audit Module connection options are now available during initial Database Setting configuration.
Made enhancements to ingesting media from a remote publish location to ensure that the most current version is used.
Fixed general compatibility issues with Firefox.
Unchecking "Limit To" now lists all matching items in a Smart Playlist.
Made improvements to API endpoints to support deployments which contain large numbers of playlists (3000+).
API enhancement to POST /ContentManager/api/rest/media/<media_id>/thumbnail?width=<requested_width>&height=<requested_height. This will allow you to select a custom thumbnail size, but will retain the original aspect ratio.
Fixed an issue with the clean up task for deleting custom thumbnails for Media messages.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

Fixed an issue with setting a simple ScalaScript string variable from HTML via ScalaSetVariable crashed the underlying browser and causing the webclip to become unresponsive and stopped visually updating.
Webclip command has been extended through the addition of the URLVariable option to the webclip command to hold a ScalaScript text variable. If present, webclips stores its current URL. It does not react to changes to the variable.
General security improvements.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Player

Android Player

Fixed an rare issue that prevented ConfigIC from properly saving usernames and passwords.
Fixed a bug that allowed IAdea Ice Cream Sandwich devices to be updated with the IAdea KitKat device APK.
Added an option to enable or disable the Scala NTP time sync in the ConfigIC file.
Fixed a rare issues that caused Android Players not to process a new plan.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

PC Player

Fixed an issue where the webclip was not honoring the WEBCLIP_UserAgent mmos.ini setting.
Fixed a rare issue where audio would be lost when switching streams during video streaming.
Added the following flag to the mmos.ini: MM3D_UnplugMonitorKludge=1, which is disabled by default. This flag allows Scala Player to notice a monitor change event and prevent a memory leak caused by a bug in Windows 8.1, and certain Intel graphics chipsets.
Added logging even when ignoring DSERROR_BUFFERLOST.

Samsung SSP Player

(New Feature) Samsung SSP E Series and the DB22D-P Players now support playback of an external source, such as HDMI.
Samsung SSP Player now skips downloading unsupported media types, and now logs the omission.
General performance improvements.

Release 11.00.04 - November 24, 2015

Content Manager

Fixed a rare issue where smart playlists were not properly gathering content.
Content Manager now correctly displays the day's unzipped player logs instead of only showing a zip file.
The User Activity now loads properly in cases in which users had been requested to and had successfully reset their password.
Smart playlists regenerations no longer pick up expired media items.
Fixed an issue creating messages that used 'text file' template fields
(Notable) Fixed a rare issue where a pre-cache improvement introduced in Release 10.5 caused Playlist, Channel and Track names to be used incorrectly during plan generation.
More than 1,024 individual Players can now be added to a maintenance job. It should be noted that the use of Player Groups is still a preferred approach to doing so.
(Notable) Fixed a bug that prevented proper migration of the Playback Audit Data to MongoDB if the Content manager network name included capital letters. This lead to errors in playback audit reporting. Customers who have already migrated their Playback Audit Module (PAM) database can correct this issue by re-running the PAM migrator.
Optimized pre-caching queries for plan generation to ensure the distribution screens are not locked out when plan generation is running.
Fixed a rare issue where playlist recursion checking was overprotective.
Fixed an issue that caused initial network activity to be duplicated after pairing the initial player.
Installation screens displayed in Cyrillic now render the language properly instead of with unexpected characters.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.

Designer

Users should download and install the latest version of the Ars Media's Scala Exporter for Photoshop in order to prevent Designer being uninstalled. Please contact Ars Media for further information.
Designer now correctly sets opacity on the second line of a text element that uses the default face pen.

Player

PC Player

Fixed a rare issue that would not allow transport over UDP to start.
(Notable) When playing videos using DXVA, the compliance setting is set to strict. Some users have experienced decoding issues, including but not limited to, freezing briefly or showing frames out of order. This can be mitigated by using the mmos.ini setting DSHOWRENDER_FFMPEGStrictStandardCompliance=0, which relaxes the "compliance strictness." Setting this to 1 will re-enable the strict setting.
Fixed an issue where a WebClip could cause a ScalaScript-based text entry button to receive every keyboard key press event twice.

Release 11.00.03 - October 5, 2015

Content Manager

Adding more than 10 timeslots at a time using the API now works as desired.
Made improvements to the file upload section that now allows large files or large quantities of files to complete without timing out.
Playlists with ScalaScript items will now display the correct duration.
Fixed a bug that set the "items to play" value to 1 when using multi-editing on a subplaylist.
Fixed an issue with the /api/rest/channels/{id}/schedules request that caused it to accept bad scheduling requests without generating an error.
Fixed the Content Manager Installer to ensure correct information and links associated with the "connectors" is preserved.
Plans for multiple players are now generated correctly from the player landing page, even when the "Distribution Type" column has been disabled from view.
Single and/or multiple re-licensed Players are not removed from their corresponding maintenance jobs
(Notable) Fixed an issue where upgrading from 10.5.x or earlier to 11.00.xx after system log tables had been truncated. This was causing only one player to be visible within the Content Manager UI.
Fixed a rare issue that causes plan generation to stop for a user who upgrades from Scala 5 to an 11.00.xx release, if one or maintenance job exists before starting plan generation.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.
General security improvements.

Designer

A new version of the Ars Media's Scala Exporter for Photoshop plug-in is available and fixes cases when it would revert to demo mode. It is strongly recommended to re-download and reinstall this plug-in. Please contact Ars Media for further information.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.
General table element improvements.

Player

Android Player

Billing logs are now uploaded with correct time stamp when Content manager has been down for an extended period of time.
Fixed an issue where touch events were ignored using interactive scripts on Android driven touch screens.
Android players are now better able to handle a rare issue where videos, playing in full screen mode, were not properly released and stray images or pixels were left behind on the screen.
General performance improvements.

Release 11.00.02 - August 25, 2015

Content Manager

HTML files uploaded to Content Manager for use as a data file are now recognized as an unknown filetype, a similar behavior to an .htm file.
Users can now create a new event trigger in the case of unsaved scheduling.
General security enhancement.
Made changes to the UI that provide the option specify a content path when uploading files directly. You can now select existing paths or folders to upload media items, and create or specify new folders or paths to upload media items.
Playlists will update their duration based on change to subplaylist durations.
Content Manager now more stringently checks Playlist dependencies during cleanup after playlist deletion.
The Health tab now properly appears in Player Properties.
Config.properties is now included in the files collected when selecting download logs.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.
Fixed an issue with the "is Not" logic within Smart Playlists.
Messages created by a deleted user can now be edited.
Playback status and heartbeat status are now both updating properly when using a Player connected to an IAdea Bridge Server.
Playback Audit Module reports can now be created for media metadata items containing string picklists.
Smart conditions in a Playlist now clear appropriately when the item they are associated with is removed.
Multi-selecting players previously connected to Content Manager will now properly unpair and be removed from the system.
Users can now change video, images and text in media messages and save the changes successfully.

Designer

Fixed an issue that caused PNG's to appear blurry when the Tools|Options|Playback Advanced) is set to “Automatic."
The date button button now correctly shows when trying to set the date for a Recurrence Pattern: Once schedule.
Table handles overlapping the area of a cell in text insertion now function properly.
Shadow and outline now render properly in a movie clip with rounded corners.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.
Fixed an issue that caused WebClip to crash when using a "View Size" with smaller dimensions than the clip's "Element Size."

Player

Samsung SSP Player

The Samsung SSP E Series player is now Scala Certified. Please consult the Player Guide to confirm that your model is on the list of supported devices.

Android Player

IAdea devices now support the ability to exit playback by tapping the bottom right corner of the screen 10 times in quick succession. This is to support small form devices without a keyboard input.
Fixed a rare issue that caused IAdea Players to mishandle time syncing during reboots.
The Ctrl-D keyboard shortcut can now be used to stop and restart Android Players.

Scala PC Player

(Notable) Fixed a rare issue where the Scala PC Player would show a black screen, even though it had a valid license.
The pick policy now correctly works when using multiple levels of Subplaylists.

Release 11.00 - August 11, 2015

Content Manager

Before You Proceed

This release includes all updates made on the prior release up until now, including the improvements found in the 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 updates.
The Scala Maintenance date for 11.00 is June 1, 2015.
Scala Enterprise Content Manager now ships with, and requires Apache Tomcat version 7.0.57.
Starting with Release 11, HTTPS from a proxy server, such as Apache HTTPD or NGINX can now be used without the need to configure SSL within Content Manager or Tomcat. More information can be found on Managing HTTP Connectors in Tomcat.
Scala Enterprise Content Manager now ships with, and requires PostgreSQL version 9.3.5-3.
Scala Enterprise Content Manager now supports Windows Server 2012 R2.
Scala Enterprise Content Manager no longer supports MySQL.
Scala Enterprise Content Manager no longer supports use with 32-bit versions of Windows.
Scala Enterprise Release 11.0 supports version 4.3.19 of IAdea Bridge Server.
Support for Internet Explorer 8 has ended.

New Features

Internet Explorer 11 is now supported for Scala Enterprise.
Web Application Description Language (WADL) can now be requested for all services in API 2.0.
It is now possible to search for a player based on the Player's Universally Unique Identifier (UUID).
The UI now provides an option to delete a Folder.
Added support for the Administrator to set session timeouts for the network in both the UI and the API.
Administrators can now request users to change their password at their next login.
Improved online documentation, including a reorganization of the Content Manager manual into a more user friendly format.

Product Enhancements

General

General cosmetic and usability improvements.
General localization and usability improvements.
General architectural improvements.

API

Users can access "View API Documentation" if their role has the proper permissions. The documentation has also been moved to its own section in the System menu called Documentation.
Performance improvements made to the smart playlist API's.
Using the Players API GET/api/rest/players call, it is possible to filter based on the lastModified filter.
Fixed the API call to return the correct number of items as requested.
UUID now appropriately returns when calling the ThumbnailStatus API.
API now correctly deletes all items in the filter list using DELETE /api/rest/media.
Performance improvements to API for installations with large playlists (listing many items inside a playlist).
Added a UI validation to insure that a user cannot create an infinite loop by setting the time trigger to zero.
API Security changes have resulted in the following: the /api/rest/auth/login API call now properly returns a 401 error for an unsuccessful login. Login calls now require application/json in the Content type header. Not having this header will now return an "invalid Media Type" error.
Created three new API's: (Add media to normal playlist (Should be subplaylist, not media)--POST/api/rest/playlists/{id}/playlistItems; Delete media from a normal playlist--DELETE /api/rest/playlists/{id}/playlistItems/{playlistItemId}; Update non-media related properties of a normal playlist--PUT /api/rest/playlists/{id}/partial ]) which were created to improve performance when manipulating large playlists. Full information on these API's can be found in the API documentation.
Fixed a bug that prohibited the PUT method of Playlist API from deleting players that have a condition associated with a Playlist.
General API improvements.

Framesets

Making a change in the frame order will now save correctly.
Added new default 1920 x 1080 and 1080 x 1920 framesets.

LDAP

Users with Edit user resource are now able to import LDAP users.
When importing users from LDAP, the list of users shown in the modal is limited to a maximum of 100.
Passwords can no longer be changed in Content Manager for users who are imported from LDAP.
You can now define an LDAP user when publishing from Designer to Content Manager.
When a user deletes LDAP mapping values, they are now properly deleted by the system.
The LDAP administrator will now be notified with an error message if there is a problem when importing users roles or workgroups. This message will also appear in the Content Manager logs.
Fixed an issue where LDAP SSL stopped working.
General LDAP improvements.

Messages and Media

A message with an unrequired multi-line text variable will no longer show "undefined" in the text entry box when saved as empty.
Blank line spaces can now be created within messages.
Messages can now see the Category and Workgroup attributes of a media item.
When deleting Media, Content Manager now properly removes these files from existing plans.
Media Items with the deprecated "recall" status on systems that have been upgraded now have a "draft" status.
The user can now more easily clear search filter criteria when searching Players, Media and Playlists.
Multi-file drag and drop is now supported in Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11.
The Media landing page will now return results if a large number of media items has been selected.
Modification of the Media Item Properties no longer changes the status of a media item to approved. It is necessary to explicitly approve the item.

Performance Improvements

Increased indexing of search so that auto-complete provides more relevant results, and made improvements.
Users are now able to search for Playlists, Templates, or Players with partial words.
Plan generation loading performance improvement.
Significant performance improvement when adding a sub-playlist to an existing playlist.
Architectural upgrades to enhance performance of database response time to take advantage of recent Java Development Kit (JDK) enhancements.
Improved performance relating to Tomcat shutdown.
General performance improvements.

Playback Audit Module

Addressed an issue that caused some Designer page events to appear in the Billing_Archive log, but not the Playback Audit Report.
After migrating Playback Audit Module data, Administrators have the option to remove the parser service from Content Manager. This is a non-destructive change, meaning that user will also need to remove or delete their old database.

Note:

It is very important to backup your Content Manager before making this change.

Playlists

Playlist items can now be duplicated and moved to another part of the playlist.
A hyperlink is now available when conditions are set on a playlist item.
A hyperlink is now available when micro-scheduling is set on a playlist item.
When using micro-scheduling for playlist items the date range defaults to the current date to ten (10) years hence.
The modal that appears when assigning a playlist to a message now contains two additional filters: Playlist Type and Playlist Status.
The View Settings has been added to Playlists items tab.
Users with a workgroup can correctly see playlists associated to that workgroup when scheduling a timeslot.
Users with Schedule Manager as a role are able to filter by workgroup when adding sub-playlists.
After changing workgroups on Playlist Properties page, the items that can be added to this playlist is now accurately reflected.
Smart Playlist results no longer show extraneous results in certain situations.
The user will now receive a warning before deleting a Playlists if it has dependencies such as time slots, event and time triggers, and non-scheduled content.
For audit purposes, deleting the owner of a playlist will still show their names.
Playlist duration is now recalculated if the sub-playlist is deleted from the playlist landing page.
Note:

This task is done in the background and may take a little time to recalculate.
Plans will now properly generate for messages that contain sub playlists.
The usage count for media items being used in a playlist is now accurately reflected.
Users are no longer able to create circular references within playlists and sub-playlists.
The playlist status is now updated when modifications are made to a media item in a subplaylist.
Optimized UI responsiveness while working with multi-level nested sub-playlists.
The deletion of a Playlist used in a Time Trigger is now correctly removed when deleting the Playlist.
The workgroup can now be used as a condition when creating or editing a Smart Playlist.
The Event Triggers tab now appears when no variables are declared.
Added a UI validation to insure that a user cannot create an infinite loop by setting the time trigger to zero.

Publish Locations

Thumbnails are now generated for template revisions and messages from a publish location.
Publish Locations are now disabled by default when first created.
(Notable) Remote Publish Location logs have been improved to reduce the verbosity caused by the thumbnail generator.
Fixed an issue where customers using Multiple Publish Automation EX, the server now correctly receives the files from the Publish Automation processes.
Content Manager Remote Publish Location now properly download files that start with an underscore ( _ ).

Reporting

Playback Audit Module (PAM) reporting logs now include milliseconds.
Changing the reservation ID of a Playlist Media item now is correctly reported in the Playback Audit files.
The JavaMelody module has been updated to include the performance of SQL queries.

Roles

A role can not be deleted if it is in use by one or more users.
Viewer role default access has been modified to insure the proper viewing of category filters.
View only is displayed on the media landing page for a Graphic Designer in a workgroup with only view access.
Users will full access to Users and Roles can now assign most roles to a new or existing user.
(Notable) Content Manager now restores missing system role resources after a Tomcat restart.

Security and Administration

The System (Administrator) is now locked and no changes can be made to the role.
Emails addresses must now be entered in the following format: name@email.com.
User email addresses with a hyphen in the domain are now properly recognized.
Usernames and passwords are no longer required for customers who want to configure private SMTP servers.
Users must now create password that are 8 characters or longer.
For new installations, the default Player's password is now ChangeThePassword.
Added support for username and password authentication support for Secure FTP (SFTP).
The Installer now allows you to pick a different port if you are updating Content Manager and modify the web application settings, and have multiple HTTP/ HTTPS connectors installed.
General security improvements.

Templates

When deleting a Workgroup or Category, the popup will also show the usage count for the Templates.
When publishing a Template, the message duration is now correctly updated.

Workgroups

Fixed a number of workgroup-related UI issues, particularly when using filtering of playlists and media items.

Other

Asian text now disregards bolding, where other languages show bold.
Android players now support bandwidth throttling similar to Scala PC Player.
The UI will now ask for confirmation when clearing errors on the Player Landing page.
(Notable) Content Manager will now purge maintenance tasks errors if they are no longer needed by the system.
Plan now properly regenerate in all cases when maintenance jobs are deleted.
Corrected an issue where SCZ file published into a sub-folder could not be downloaded to the Player.
Maintenance Dialog now handles files with names that differ only by character case.
Provide a default directory for PostgreSQL to address an issue with its installer's default of putting the directory inside Program Files. For those users who have manually installed PostgreSQL, the Content Manager installer now detects and warns you if this problem exists.
The license information page can now be printed when using Internet Explorer 11.
Improved heartbeat parsing, which reduces memory used and CPU load.
Player Plan generation correctly completes when there is an invalid metadata value. The errors is also put into the Content Manager log.
(Notable) The "Max database age (days) field is now managed in the Content Manager config.xml file. Unless specified, the default is set to 90 days.

Bug Fixes

Plan generation will no longer fail because a user has copied and/or pasted special ASCII (specifically vertical tab) characters into a message.
Accessing logs for a Samsung SSP player no longer shows an error when the player has not received any logs.
Old Player Health details are now cleaned up after a Player has been reset using "Reassign Player License to Another Player" in the Status of Player Properties.
Fixed a rare issue that caused the server to fail to create a new message if all fields were not populated.
Fixed a bug that caused a revised file, uploaded from a remote publish location, to be automatically deleted.
Fixed a rare issue related to uploading Android firmware updates that caused the Content Manager UI to hang indefinitely.
Fixed an issue when using multi-edit on the Player landing page that caused the plan polling interval to be reset.

Designer

Before You Proceed

Scala Enterprise now supports Windows 8.1 SP1.
Scala Enterprise ships with Python 2.7.9.
Changed the minimum requirement for Windows XP users to Service Pack 3.

New Features

The 64-bit rs Media's Scala Exporter for Photoshop is now supported, and has been updated to support shadow and outline, and the proper conversion of non-unicode text. Please contact Ars Media for further information.
Added corner styles for foreground element backdrops.
Corner styles for clip faces have been added.
Opacity gradients can now be applied to Images, Clips, Movie, Flash, StreamingVideo, TV, HTML, and Animation backgrounds and elements.
Added corner styles for the face of a Picture page.
Added corner styles for page backdrops.
Alpha masks are now supported by elements that can have corner styles applied.
CSS 3D animations are now supported by WebClip.
Table elements can now be created in Designer.
Text Cells in Table elements can now have their own backdrop, which is supported both in playback and Designer.
Improved online documentation, including a reorganization of the Content Manager manual into a more user friendly format.

Product Enhancements

Designer's fill popups now show a source image thumbnail rather than a filename button for the Image and Tile fill types. There is also a File pulldown menu to allow the user to choose from recently used files and bindi the file to a variable.

Webclip

Added the CSSBackgroundColor option to webclip ScalaScript command, which allows the user to customize the default fill color with their own RGB color value. Authoring must be done by hand.
Added ScalaSetVariable() and addScalaScriptListener to the window object in WebClip.
Reenabled hardware video decode within webclip and HTML5.
Webcam in now enabled by default for webclip, but can be disabled by using the mmos.ini flag WEBCLIP_Enable MediaStream=0.
Added the ReloadIgnoreCache(BOOL) option to webclip command, which tells the webclip to redownload the web contents without regard for what was already in the web cache.
The webclip will now provide the ScalaScript input system with its own copy of mouse and keyboard input, so the same input goes to both the webclip and any ScalaScript buttons that overlap with the webclip. This feature can be disabled with the mmos.ini setting: WEBCLIP_ShareInput=0.
Added the following mmos.ini boolean varaibles to disable parts of hardware acceleration used by webclip:
- WEBCLIP_DisableAccelerated2DCanvas
- WEBCLIP_DisableGPU
- WEBCLIP_Disable3DAPIs.
Changed the default size of the webclip from 640 x 480 to 1024 x 768.
Added mmos.ini setting: WEBCLIP_IgnoreCertificateErrors, which passes the command flag --ignore-certificate-errors to Chromium and disables the security features related to certificate verification. If a web page fails certificate verification, it tells the browser to show the page anyway. The user will now see a message stating "You are using an unsupported webclip flag: Stability and security will suffer,” as changing this setting should only be done by someone with the knowledge to do so.
Added mmos.ini boolean WEBCLIP_AllowDevTools for the purposes of developing and troubleshooting web content inside of a webclip. Please note that stability and security may be compromised.
Added the mmos.ini variable setting WEBCLIP_LogJSConsole. Setting this to TRUE allows javascript console to be recorded in the Scala log.

Other

Made improvements to the timing for consecutive videos.
Added the ability to bind the following integer element settings to variables: Element size of: Text Box, Text Crawl, Text Entry, HTML Clip, Clip, Anim Clip. Movie Clip, TV; Clip, Box, Oval and Line, Element Level, Crop Position, Crop Size, Font Size, and Element Opacity.
General cosmetic and usability improvements.
General performance improvements.
Made an improvement for viewing the text tab position and its value.
The Data Tab in Script Properties has been renamed Variables.
Font Size and Minimum Font Size values can now be bound and unbound via the RMB popup menu for the numeric fields.
Added a switch to turn a page backdrop on or off.
The Outline and Shadow options can now be turned on for a Text or TextBox element in whole-element selection mode.
Designer now correctly loads PNG's with gamma chunks by ignoring them.
The default script size has been changed to 1920 x 1080.
Designer now has a warning cautioning users against using a version of Flash older than 10.3, as doing so exposes the user to a known memory leak issue.
Removed support for the deprecated ScalaScript Offset command.
The Scala Python library has been updated to include an upload_file helper method.
Disabled the thumbnail generator retry policy, which lead to a 500% performance improvement in loading streaming URL's.
The <leading> embedded text tag is now supported only by text crawl elements.

Bug Fixes

JPEG using CMYK or YCCK pixel formats now present a useful error message when played back.
Fixed a bug for URL's that contain an !.
Fixed an issue when canceling out of defining a new binding variable that caused Designer to exit unexpectedly.
Fixed a rare issue when aborting a video could result in a crash for users utilizing the legacy main concept codecs.
Fixed a bug where webclip was ignoring the cursor image provided by the web browser.
Fixed a rare issue where a streaming video clip would crash using opacity or another image processing effect.
Fixed a rare bug that caused movieclips with certain visual effects to appear frozen for the first couple of seconds of playback.
Fixed an issue playing a live RTSP video with the gradual loss of audio and video sync during playback of a live RTSP video streaming source in Player and Designer.
Fixed a rare issue where dramatic changes in aspect ratio caused undesirable low quality outcomes.
Designer no longer locks up when the user alters the values of "Shift" button in the Design Buttons Panel Appearance Tab.

Player

New Feature

The NEC Display OPS-DRD Digital Player is now Scala Certified. Please consult the Player Guide to confirm that your model is on the list of supported devices.

Scala PC Player

The user is now able to prevent the embedded Chrome browser in Scala Player from clearing its cache, and also to set the size of the cache. The browser will also retain cookie across Player restarts.
Player's network client and graphical engines are delayed from starting for players using Window 7 or above. This allows the OS to settle before continuing.
Systems using Haswell and Ivy Bridge chip sets need to update their to following driver revisions to fix crashes experienced dual player configurations. Haswell GPU's should be updated to 10.18.10.3960, and Ivy Bridge's to 10.18.10.3958.
Fixed a bug on touch screen devices when using a WebClip command that caused the HTML dropdown menu to be cancelled instead of selecting an item.
A "http://" URL is now added before the address if it has not been typed in the first place.
Improved the image quality of artwork scaled down by Player and/or Designer.
Added details about the graphics driver and configuration to the logs of Player, Designer and other Scala software for the purpose of providing improved diagnostic value.
Fixed a memory leak caused when attempting to play flash clips or backgrounds on a PC which is either missing the Flash ActiveX control, or has a corrupted install.
When a defective installation of the flash plugin causes the PROG ID registry entry to be missing, Scala will use the known CLSID for flash.ocx that enables Scala Player and Designer use to play flash content correctly.
Player and Designer will now ignore an unrecognized audio stream and play a video without sound on Windows 8 and later.
The Scala System Optimizer is no longer supported.

Android Player

Fixed an issue that caused portions of the screen to go black when using the IAdea KitKat device in portrait mode.
Fixed a rare issue that stopped billing logs from being collected hourly on Android devices.
Optimized the size of Android Player heartbeat errors, to avoid sending abnormally large heartbeats.
Fixed a rare issue where player errors were not reported if the Player's date was incorrect.
When network connectivity has been lost Android Players are now able to reboot, the number of which can be configured.
Playback auditing logs for video files are now saved on IAdea KitKat Android Players.
Fixed an issue that prevented videos from playing fullscreen on IAdea XMP-2200 and XMP 6200 Android Players.

Samsung SSP Player

The Samsung SSP Player Model DB10D now plays images in either samsungl & samsungp mode when using firmware 1006.4.
Fixed a rare issue that caused filenames with spaces to stop working after applying newer firmware updates on the Samsung SSP Player.

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11 Series Release Notes

11.08 Releases

11.08.03 Release - April 29, 2020

Content Manager

New Features

Bug Fixes

Player

Bug Fixes

Designer

Bug Fixes

11.08 Release

Content Manager

New Features

Player

Bug Fixes

New Features

Designer

Bug Fixes

New Features

11.07 Releases (Reaches End of Support November 1, 2020)

11.07.02 Release – May 28, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Other

11.07 Release - April 10, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Security

Other

11.06 Releases (Reached End of Support April 10, 2020)

11.06.05 Release - August 6, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

11.06.04 Release - May 1, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

11.06.03 Release - January 10, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Security

Player

Bug Fixes

11.06.02 Release – November 7, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Security

Other

11.06 Release – October 10, 2018

Content Manager

New Feature

System Requirements

Bug Fixes

Security

Other

Designer

Security

Bug Fixes

Player

Security

11.05 Releases (Reached End of Support October 10, 2019)

11.05.06 Release - April 11, 2019

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

11.05.05 Release – December 18, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Security

Designer

Enhancement

11.05.04 Release – November 7, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Security

11.05.03 Release – August 15, 2018

Content Manager

Bug Fixes

Designer

Bug Fixes