Kaltura Management Console

Version: 6.6.2

Date Released: August 15, 2021

What's New

Zoom Recording - New Transcoding Profile: 

A new transcoding profile will be applied automatically to all newly recorded content ingested from Zoom, both for recordings from the legacy Zoom integration or from the new Marketplace integration.

The new transcoding profile generates a Full HD flavor and a SD flavor for smaller screens. The Full HD flavor is marked as the source and the original source flavor is not retained. Previous content is not affected. The new transcoding profile is applied only to the new Zoom recordings ingested to the system from now on.   

This new transcoding profile was developed to create a more efficient transcoding logic and quality playback experience. This profile is not editable by admins.

Version: 6.6.0

Date Released: May 23, 2021

What's New

• Zoom Integration - Management of the Kaltura Zoom Integration is now set in the Kaltura Management Console instead of in Zoom. We improved the Zoom integration setup and management workflow. The Zoom Settings management is now implemented in the KMC, in addition to the initial settings in Zoom during the setup. Authentication is done by using the Zoom Integration code that is generated in KMC. See the article Kaltura Video Integration with Zoom - Setup Guide for additional information.
  In the Kaltura Management Console, under Settings > Integrations, admins can now:

1. View a list of the existing Zoom integrations. 
2. Enable / Disable the Zoom integration
3. Edit the Zoom integration settings

Zoom Integration - New Features

• Delete recordings from Zoom after uploading recording to Kaltura. This feature saves space on Zoom storage. See Kaltura Video Integration with Zoom - Setup Guide.
• Automatically publish to LMS categories.  A one time set up of the LMS category (course) may be be set up in Zoom. See Publishing Zoom Recordings to LMS Categories.
• Support for Regional Cloud (Pending the update to the Q3 Regional Cloud release) and Kaltura On-Prem.
• And more.

To enjoy all the new features, you will need to disable the integration and then enable it once again.

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KMC Version: 6.5.2

Date Released: April 4, 2021

What's New

• Analytics: Filters have been added to the date picker to support selecting specific hours. You can filter analytics data and specify hours for a specified time period. For more information. See Analytics Date Picker and Time Period Comparisons

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KMC Version: 6.5.0

Date Released: February 15, 2021

What's New

• Added the "Played Until" filter to the entries list.  This filter is very useful to search for redundant or legacy entries and delete them. For more information see The Content Menu.
• entry/captions: Support for additional caption languages. Contact your Kaltura representative for additional information about adding these languages.  See Using Subtitles and Captions for information on how to select the language.
  The additional languages are:
  • French (Canada)
  • Taiwanese Mandarin
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
• Analytics: Analytics for Manual Playlist are now available. See the article Playlist Analytics for more information.
• Analytics: The Domains Filter has been added to filter analytics data by domains. For more information see Filtering Analytics.

Resolved Issues

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KMC Version:6.4.0

Date Released: January 31, 2021

What's New

• Added support for WebVTT in KMC as well as in the captions editor. Admins can upload WebVTT captions file format and edit them with the captions editor.  See Editing Captions - REACH v2 for additional information.
• REACH profile: Added captions label suffix field - added the ability to set a suffix to the caption's label. The label suffix may be add separately for human captions and machine generated caption.  The settings are found in the REACH profile Service Parameters Tab. See the article Reach Profiles and Services for details on configuring this setting.

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KMC Version: 6.3.1

Date Released: January 4, 2021

What's New

• Localization: Portuguese support has been added

Resolved Issues

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KMC Version: 6.21 - 6.3

Date Released: September 13, 2020

What's New

• content/entry:  The ability to download flavors when using access control restrictions has been added.  v 6.2.1

Resolved Issues

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KMC Version: 6.2.0

Date Released: June 28, 2020

What's New

• Advanced search for Description field -  The ability to search for results in the Description field only are now available as part of the advanced search menu.
• Filter for entries without captions - The ability to filter the entries list for entries without captions has been added. 

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KMC Version: 6.1.0

Date Released: June 15, 2020

What's New

• Advanced Search Options. The ability to further refine Search results in both KMC by using filter has been added to the Free Text Search Field. You can limit the search to specific fields by using drop-down filters.  For more information see here.

Resolved Issues

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KMC Version: 5.27

Date Released: May 17, 2020

What's New

This release provides the option to delete and re-authenticate YouTube distribution profiles from KMC.

• YouTube Distribution Profiles' List - You can view all YouTube Distribution Profiles created for the Kaltura partner in the Settings Pages Integration Tab.
  
  
• Delete profile  -  Users with  Publisher Administrator role can delete the profile 
• Re-authenticate profile- Users with Publisher Administrator role can re-authenticate the YouTube token

For additional information see Distribution Profiles. 

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KMC Version: 5.25

Date Released: April 12, 2020

What's New

This release provides quality improvements for searching in the KMC. Algorithmic techniques for detecting spelling errors in text have been implemented. This following changes and addtions have been made to the KMC search.

• Captions Search - You can search for entries with captions by selecting Videos with Captions in the Additional Filters drop down menu.
  
• Elastic Search Changes  -  You can search for an exact phrase by using  “ “ double quotes.
• Partial Search 

When searching for up to two words, N-grams are used. N-grams are like a sliding window that moves across the word - a continuous sequence of characters of the specified length.

• Each word is broken into a 3 letter token. 
• If there is a match of 80% - results are rendered.

When the number of search words is greater than two:

• All words searched must appear in the results (in any order)
• Demonstrative words such as this/that/… and prepositions are ignored.

• Supported Operands - The following operands are now supported: ! 

Exclamation point! 

• The entire phrase to the left of the ! will be partially searched.
• The entire phrase to the right of the ! will be ignored even with an exact match

For example:Jane!Rockport will return all entries that include a partial portion of the name.

               Jane! (anything with a partial portion of the name) - Janet,  Jano,   Anette will be rendered.

The term Rockport will be ignored.

              Every search operates with partial search, there is no need no need to use the asterisk *.