version 6.1.0.0

Release data: 2026-01-15

Server changes:

• EPG monitor: Monitoring is now done also for EIT Schedule tables, previously only EIT p/f was monitored.
• EIT update: TV-Anytime Data Source: Update to support more tags in XML input file.
• EIT update: XMLTV Data Source: Use English as default language if none is specified in title, sub-title or desc.
• EIT: Make a warning rather than restart if dvb_network_service table contains incorrect service data.
• EIT update: Ignore unknown configuration names when saving EIT settings. Previously this would give an error and not let the user save the settings.
  

API changes:

• EPG monitor: Support for EIT Schedule table monitoring.
• Applications: Faster fetching of carousels for Web's Applications page
  
• EIT: Add escaping of parameter values when saving EIT settings, this is needed for some EIT source Web URLs.
  

Web changes:

• EPG monitor: Support for EIT Schedule table monitoring.
• Fix bug where admin users could not be deleted.
• Add spinner for start/stop functionality of Applications on Services page. This removes an error due to clicking the button repeatedly.

version 6.0.5.3 EL9

Release date: 2025-10-15

Build for Enterprise Linux 9.

version 6.0.5.3

Release date: 2025-09-18

Server changes:

• Nagra Data Source: Get default parental rating country from EIT settings.

API changes:

• Bugfix in GET servicestreams and many other APIs.
• Timestamps in /var/log/playout-api.log are now in system local time, not in UTC.
• SSU TS: Loading OTAs is now more reliable.

Web changes:

• Load Open Sans font from localhost
• EIT settings: New setting Default parental rating country available, used when Generate parental rating descriptor is true. Currently used in Nagra Data Source.
• Improvements in web login.
• SSU TS: Loading OTAs is now more reliable.

version 6.0.5.2

Release date: 2025-04-28

Server changes:

• Reduce amount of new database connections that services open.
• Admin: Fix for exporting server settings where tables have values that contain backslashes.
• DSM-CC input: Bugfix for situation where the DSI points to an incorrect DII transactionId.
• EPG-export: The limit for synopsis1 in exported MultiChoice XML files is increased. Other small fixes.
• DSM-CC input: Add non-standard feature Update DSI version number in DSM-CC section on content updates.
• DSM-CC input: Add non-standard feature Update DII version number in DSM-CC section on content updates.
• EIT-update: Support for EIT daily empty window, which defines a daily time window where events are not added to EPG.
• Scheduler: Improved exception handling in command handler.

API changes:

• Support for getting and setting advanced DSM-CC carousel features.
• Big architectural change where icareusplayout.jar is only used for the local server. For spooler connections, only connections to playout-api are used. For this reason the /etc/playout/api.conf must have the same jwt-secret on all servers in a cluster.

Web changes:

• Applications: New tab Advanced which allows configuring advanced or non-standard DSM-CC carousel features.
• EIT settings: Support for default EIT settings for EPG Sales, Icareus and XMLTV data sources.
• Services: Support for EIT daily window.

version 6.0.5.1

Release date: 2025-02-20

Server changes:

• Admin: Send stream event commands are now sent directly to the relevant carousel rather than as a control command to Scheduler.
• DSMCC-Update: Fixes for DSM-CC carousel update method remote FTP.
• DSMCC-Update: Service runs as user playout, not any more as root.
• EPG-export: The classification in exported MultiChoice XML files is now the PG Rating followed by Censorship Codes.
• Scheduler: Improved testing of FTP and SFTP connections for carousel update.

version 6.0.5.0

Release date: 2025-01-29

Server changes:

• Dsmcc-dc-input (SSU carousel): Fix calculation of lastSectionNumber in DownloadDataBlocks.
• EIT Update: Fix memory leaks in EPGSales Data Source. 
• EIT Update: Fix XMLTV Data Source implementation when using "Use Default" EIT settings.
• Scheduler: Unescape SQL values in cmdGetCarouselParameters.
• Sim: Improved stability when EPG Info feature is enabled.
• All services: Improved systemd service files to ensure services are able to start after reboot.

Webconsole changes:

• The program forever is not used any more to run Playout webconsole.
• Webconsole now depends on playout-api (API), which now provides the API endpoints for Playout Webconsole.
• Removed most back end Node modules, e.g. java etc., these are now in Playout API.
• The weblog command now shows the /var/log/playout-api.log which contains the logging for the web backend.

API changes:

• Does not any more depend on webconsole, now serves as API backend for webconsole, handling all API calls from it in port 8081.
• Uses node-v22.13.0
• Uses OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_442-b06)

version 6.0.4.1

Release date: 2024-12-04

Server changes:

• Does not require renaming network interfaces
• Uses Dektec DTAPI 2024.11.0
• Supports Enterprise Linux 8 (e.g. Rocky Linux 8, Oracle Linux R8)

Webconsole changes:

• Uses OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_432-b06)
• Uses node-v12.22.1
• Install: Asks for admin interface IP rather than using IP of interface eth0

API changes:

• Uses node-v22.11.0

version 6.0.3.4

Release date: 2024-11-15

Server changes:

• EIT Update: CSV Data Source: Support for new configuration parameters Use last event stop time and Last event stop time. These can be used to specify a stop time for the last event in EPG input file, in the case that input events don't have a stop time or duration.
• EIT Update: Improved calculation of EPG event durations in the case that these are not present in the input file.
• EIT Update: Bugfix and performance optimization for clearing old events from the database in the case when the input file doesn't provide event durations.

Webconsole changes:

• Services: CSV Data Source: Allow configuring Use last event stop time and Last event stop time.

version 6.0.3.3

Release date: 2024-10-04

Server changes:

• DSM-CC input: Fix transactionIds for DSI and DII messages.

Webconsole changes:

• CSS: New high contrast colors in user interface.

version 6.0.3.2

Release date: 2024-08-02

Server changes:

• EPG Export: Small fixes for MultiChoice XML export.
• EIT Update: Added FILE OK and FILE ERROR messages in log to signal success/failure of parsing an EPG input file.
• Dektec: playout-dektec RPM is not any more needed, so was removed.

version 6.0.3.1

Release date: 2024-05-10

Server changes:

• API: Fix functionality related to systemctl for starting, stopping and restarting services.
• DSM-CC input: Improved handling of database, reducing CPU load of carousels.
• Setup: Update vsftpd.conf and setup-firewall.sh to enable FTP server support on Rocky 8.
• Scheduler: Added a sleep in stream thread to reduce CPU load.
• Sim: Targeted advertising (DVB-TA) becomes a license feature.
• Sim: Run service as root (was previously as playout). This let's sim e.g. delete files owned not by playout.

Webconsole changes:

• SSU: Bug fixes for users with SSU privilege.
• Addressable TV: Targeted advertising (DVB-TA) becomes a license feature.

version 6.0.3.0

Release date: 2024-04-11

Server changes:

• EIT Update: Bugfix for copy file to archive directory
• EIT Update: Support for option Days to keep parsed files before deleting.
• EPG Export: Bugfix for handling username and password for FTP/SFTP
• EPG Export: Support for exporting a weekly Nagra FreeAccess open window
• Redundancy: copy_config.sh and friends are updated
• Scripts: playout-scripts go away, replaced by playout-replication
• Monitoring: Updated playout-monitoring package for SNMP

Webconsole changes:

• Cluster status: Spawn copy_config process as root user, not playout
• Multiplexer info: GB, MB and KB values are now based on the multiplier 1000, not 1024
• Service Management: Support for restarting, starting, stopping Playout units, at location Server > Service Management
• EIT Settings: New config value Days to keep parsed files before deleting, this is available if the setting Delete parsed files automatically is true.
• EIT Events: Support for exporting a weekly Nagra FreeAccess open window

version 6.0.2.10

Release date: 2024-03-25

Server changes:

• API: New APIs GET and PUT /api/nit-linkage-descriptor-selector-bytes
• CSV/Excel Data source: Support for File Name Filter, which can be enabled optionally
• EIT Update: After parsing a file a response directory is automatically created in source folder, containing an xml with the parse status
• EIT Update: Support for an archive directory
• EPG Export: Support for Nagra FreeAccess XML Export
• EPG Export: MultiChoice XML Export: schedule id is generated for each event based as an auto increasing integer, calculate programmenumber as function of programme name, episode title, episode number and season number

Webconsole changes:

• CSV/Excel Data source: Support for File Name Filter, which can be enabled optionally
• EIT settings: Possibility to configure a specific Archive path for the archive directory, this can be for example /opt/playout/ftp/archive
• EPG Export: Support for Nagra FreeAccess XML Export

version 6.0.2.9

Release date: 2024-03-07

Server changes:

• New service Playout EPG Export which supports EPG Exports configured in Playout Web. Supports Icareus and MultiChoice XML as export formats.
• API: EPG API JSON response gets update version, update time, channel name and each event gets some additional fields.
• Admin: Do not segfault because a string in an import Xml contains a percentage mark.
• Admin: When importing settings, don't stop on the first error because this might leave the database in a very bad state.

Webconsole changes:

• Support for feature Auto Export EPG. New EPG Export configuration page at Settings > EPG Export. Services get a new table EPG export to select Export configuration.
• Restart playout-sipsi after a Bouquet is added, deleted or after the bouquet descriptors or transport streams are modified. This forces the BAT table to update.

version 6.0.2.8

Release date: 2024-02-19

Server changes:

• Fix ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "unique_id_pkey". This could previously occur e.g. when adding a Service to a Transport Stream.
• NIT Actual and NIT Other Transport Streams and their descriptors are no longer modified when adding, modifying or removing a TS.

Webconsole changes:

• Network descriptors: Add S2 satellite delivery system descriptor to dropdown menu.
• Bouquet association: Add NDS logical channel descriptor and NDS service order list descriptor to dropdown menu.

version 6.0.2.7

Release date: 2024-02-09

Server changes:

• Playout API: New service which currently supports an Authenticate API and an EPG API.

Webconsole changes:

• Admin page: added User Authorization for Playout API.

version 6.0.2.6

Release date: 2024-01-30

Server changes:

• EIT checker: When binding to UDP multicast, specify the multicast address and port in order to filter out packets for other destinations (e.g. to 255.255.255.255).

version 6.0.2.5

Release date: 2024-01-29

Server changes:

• EIT checker: All logging now goes both to syslog and to the log table in the database, so it's visible on the Monitoring - Logs page in Playout web
• EIT checker: Do not make error messages about network interfaces that the EIT checker isn't using
• EIT checker: When joining multicast group, specify the interface index, indicating we want to receive traffic only on the specific device that the media flow has been configured to read from

Webconsole changes:

• Default logging level on Monitoring - Logs page is now INFO (was WARNING)

version 6.0.2.4

Release date: 2024-01-19

Server changes:

• CSV data source now supports updates from Excel files (xls, xlsm, xlsx) on Rocky 8 Linux
  
• CSV data source: New optional "Use field mapping" feature allowing the configuration for csv files with arbitrary number of columns and format
• CSV data source: Support for other delimiters than comma when using field mapping
• Support for DVB-EPG data source
• EIT Update: Bugfix for Error Configuration value 'eit-update-source-ts-reading-interval' not found

Webconsole changes:

• CSV data source: New optional "Use field mapping" feature allowing the configuration for csv files with arbitrary number of columns and format

Supported platforms:

• Rocky 8 Linux (x86_64)
• CentOS 7 (x86_64) - Note that CentOS 7 is nearing end of life

version 6.0.2.3

Release date: 2023-12-12

Server changes:

• Admin: Bugfix in playout-admin for error when exporting settings: Error exporting settings: PlayoutProtocolException: PlayoutProtocolException: Header 'users' not found.
• EIT Checker: Return current status to front end on request
• EIT Checker: Improved SNMP traps using multiple OIDS (1.3.6.1.4.1.39982.1.1.61 - 1.3.6.1.4.1.39982.1.1.64)
• EIT Checker: Make SNMP trap on loss of input (1.3.6.1.4.1.39982.1.1.63, 1.3.6.1.4.1.39982.1.1.64)
• EIT Update: Validate CSV data source input before writing to database. Guards against errors such as: startTime is incorrect = 10/13/2023 0:30:00 where the month = 13

Webconsole changes:

• Bugfix for service type menu where selecting Digital radio sound service resulted in Teletext service being shown
• Add Free CA mode checkbox for configuring services
• Bugfix for saving of DekTec ASI and IP data source parameters, previously the card model wasn't sent to the backend
• EIT Checker: Alarms for muted services and acknowledged alarms go to bottom of alarms list
• EIT Checker: Allow sorting services by mute and acknowledge status
• EIT Checker: change column headers to Mute service and Acknowledge alarm
• EIT Checker: New Status page

version 6.0.2.2

Release date: 2023-11-07

Server changes:

• EIT Checker: Lot of improvements. Sends SNMP trap on error

Webconsole changes:

• 5 second sync error loop is disabled because it sometimes froze Playout web

version 6.0.2.1

Release date: 2023-10-23

Server changes:

• EIT: Component descriptor with 0 length text now gets descriptor length 6, not 7
• EIT Checker: TS parsing improvements

version 6.0.2.0

Release date: 2023-09-22

Server changes:

• EIT, SIPSI: Bugfix for crash that happened when a service had an unsupported text encoding, rather than crashing, use the global encoding or fall back to ETSI-300468.
• New License Feature EPG Info
• Support for TVListing data source
• Possibility to configure network device in IP Input Data Source (NIC)

Webconsole changes:

• Bugfix for configuring service text encodings KSC5601-1987 (Korean) and GB-2312-1980 (Simplified Chinese).
• Bugfix: Now we don't Enable PCR PID by default when adding a new service.
• Requires java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.382.b05
• New License Feature EPG Info
• Support for TVListing data source
• Possibility to configure network device in IP Input Data Source (NIC)

PMC changes:

• Support for TVListing data source

version 6.0.1.10

Release date: 2023-07-03

Server changes:

• EIT: New configuration variable epg-event-time-offset which allows shifting all EPG events' start time by a number of minutes, this is in addition to the EPG event time offset in minutes which can be specified for services.
• Support for specifying network interface when joining multicast in UDP input, used in PSI/SI remuxing and EIT checker

Webconsole changes:

• bug fix: When saving Service basic settings (DVB Services > (select service from tree) > Settings) , the values specified under the Service's EIT properties (DVB Services > (select service from tree) > EIT properties) would be wiped out. Now the values persist.
• EIT settings: added new input field EPG event time offset in minutes (in addition to service specific value) (at Settings > EIT) which is used to configure the value of the global epg-event-time-offset.
• EIT Checker: Allow specifying which network device to use when joining multicast.
• PSI/SI Remuxing: Allow specifying which network device to use when joining multicast.

version 6.0.1.9

Release date: 2023-06-14

Server changes:

• Improved functionality for initializing Dektec ASI Input on the backend
• TS Input: Add new config values eit-update-source-ts-eit-packet-limit, default is 20000, and eit-update-source-ts-eit-start-loops, default is 1, these can be used to modify the behaviour of TS Input Sources in the case that not all EIT events are found using the normal settings.

Webconsole changes:

• Improved PSI/SI remuxing configuration

version 6.0.1.8

Release date: 2023-06-01

Server changes:

• Support for multiple Component descriptors in one EIT event
• Support for user byte in Content descriptor
• If EIT event content is undefined (content_nibble_level_1 equals 0) does not generate Content descriptor for event.
• Improved Jade data source XML parser which parses Jade files for specific service (previously only a default Jade directory was supported)

Webconsole changes:

• Support for Jade data source

version 6.0.1.7

Release date: 2023-05-19

Server changes:

• Bugfix for saving EIT source parameters in Playout Web

Webconsole changes:

• Support for EPG Sales data source
• Support for CSV data source
• Support for Tribune Media Services data source
• Support for BarcoXML data source
• Support for TV-Anytime data source
• Support for Harris BCM data source
• Support for Turksat data source
• Support for DekTec DTA-2174B in PSI/SI remuxing

version 6.0.1.6

Release date: 2023-04-25

Server changes:

• Support for DekTec DTA-2174B output
• Added rocky8-configuration.sh script
  
• Bug fix for sending object carousel based on the present transport protocol descriptors in the application's AIT table
  

Webconsole changes:

• Bug fix for showing CxFmt Data Source configuration in Service's EIT source tab
• Support for TVPPOLONIA EPG data source

version 6.0.1.4

Release date: 2023-02-03

Server changes:

• Support for SSU TS file FTP download implemented
• Parsing of SSU TS file (integrity checking) implemented
• Support for component tag descriptor implemented
• Support for NagraNielsen EPG parser
• Several other minor bug fixes

Webconsole changes:

• Support for SSU TS file FTP download implemented
• Parsing of SSU TS file (integrity checking) implemented
• Default value for checkbox "Check integrity of TS file" changed as "not selected"
• Support for component tag descriptor implemented
• Support for NagraNielsen EPG parser
• Several other minor bug fixes

version 6.0.1.2

Release date: 2022-09-21

Server changes:

• Many improvements to carousel file FTP download feature
• Fix for a bug that potentially caused a web GUI freezing when FTP download for carousels were used
• Several other minor bug fixes
• Some logic added for saving and restoring server specific data in config table that should not be replicated

Webconsole changes:

• Input PIDs parsing from SSU TS implemented
• A fix for a bug in network TS tab order

version 6.0.1.1

Release date: 2022-08-09

Server changes:

• Many improvements to carousel file FTP download feature
• A bug fix for carousel module deletion.
• New logic for module deletion anc creation related to DSI transactionId
• Fixed few bugs in destructors, that caused muxer crash
• If file to be removed from carousel doensn't exist, just a warning message is given instead of restarting the whole carousel
• Changes for DSI and DII transaction id logic
• DII transaction id miminum value and module id min/max range made configurable for only selected server
• Fix for sshd session closing
• Appplication copy feature implemented
• User "playout" replication support
• DSM-CC carousel: empty modules deleted
• Some errors levels changed to warning levels in logging

Webconsole changes:

• WebUI support for SSU carousel, SSU TS and UNT implemented
• Appplication copy feature implemented
• User "playout" replication support
• User password hidden from console logging
• DII transaction id miminum value and module id min/max range made configurable for only selected server
• Lot of class based implementation changed to hook based
• User password cyption enhancements

version 6.0.1.0

Release date: 2022-05-06

Server changes:

• First Rocky Linux release
• Many bug fixes

Webconsole changes:

• WebUI support for SSU carousel, SSU TS and UNT

version 5.0.9.2

Release date: Future

Server changes:

• Muxer checks if output bitrate for a muxer output is less than 10000. If the bitrate is too low, it issues a warning and uses the bitrate 10000. Before this fix, a too low bitrate would case the log message "BitSet::check: invalid index" and muxer entering a failed status.
• Adding or modifying a network TS now require bitrate to be >= 10000 for TS outputs. For too low values, the server gives an error and does not save the changes.
• Admin: import/export XML now clears source table completely before importing the configuration. Previously TS recordings were not cleared, which could result in the error message: importXml: Import SQL Error: DBResult DBConnection::exec(const string&): ERROR:  duplicate key violates unique constraint "source_pkey".

version 5.0.9.0

Release date: 2021-10-13

Server changes:

• Support for selection of needed NIT other transport streams for actual TS
• Support for selection of needed EIT other transport streams for actual TS

Webconsole changes:

• Support for selection of needed NIT other transport streams for actual TS
• Support for selection of needed EIT other transport streams for actual TS
• Possibility of configure whether parsed EPG files should be deleted and/or archived or not

version 5.0.8.1

Release date: 2021-09-90

Server changes:

• Support for selection of needed SDT other transport streams for actual TS

Webconsole changes:

• Support for selection of needed SDT other transport streams for actual TS

Version 5.0.8.0

Release date: 2021-07-06

Server changes:

• EPG import via IP input (IP NIC)
• Default EPG message generation in playout-eit
• Compression of TS sections
• EIT monitoring

Webconsole changes:

• EPG import via generic IP NIC (DVB Services > (select Service) > EIT source > IP input data source (NIC) )
• Default EPG message (DVB Services > (select Service) > EIT default message)
• Compression of TS sections (Networks > (select TS) > Table Compression)
• EIT monitoring (Monitoring > EPG info)
• EIT settings (Settings > EIT)

Version 5.0.6.1

Release date: 2021-06-07

Server changes:

• Fixed a bug where removing a network left rows to tunneling tables.
• Fixed a bug where removing a network or TS left rows to data_cache table.
• Fixed a bug that caused playout-muxer to log some DB errors for selections by playout-sim.
  

1. Fixed a bug where default value for PMT refresh rate was always displayed instead the real value in DB.
   

Version 5.0.6.0

Release date: 2021-05-31

Server changes:

• When a Transport Stream is removed, all services are automatically detached from the TS so that any allocated PMT PIDs are freed.
• Database cleanup: cron runs playout-vacuumdb.sh script at 3AM from /etc/cron.d/playout.
• Copy_config replication script now replicates new tables.
• Redundancy scripts copy_config.sh and friends are now installed into /opt/playout/bin from playout-scripts RPM file.
• Export/Import server settings now handles new tables. Bugfix for restarting services.
• Added script /opt/playout/bin/copy_config_outputs.sh which can be used to replicate the outputs to the backup machine.
  
• Remove network services from transport stream when deleting original network.
• Do not allocate new PMT pid for service when attaching to TS, if the PMT pid is already set to > 0.

Webconsole changes:

• Fixed a bug where remoing a TS left rows to new dvb_ts table.
• Fixed a bug where creating a TS to all servers reusulted an outcom where UDP/ASI outputs were not updated at all.
• Fixed a bug where updating TS parameters to all servers reusulted an outcom where UDP/ASI outputs were not updated at all.
• Fixed a bug where updating TS parameters to one edge server reusulted an outcom where ASI card type were empty in ASI output table.
• Fixed a bug where EIT event were not listed in webUI if it was the only event in selected time period.
• Fixed a bug where value information were not visible in parameter table of "PMT common descriptors" on service's "Id settings" tab with low resolutions.

Version 5.0.5.0

Release date: 2021-05-19

Server changes:

• Tunneling: Improvements including faster reaction to configuration changes, fixed tunneling for partitioned EIT schedule tables (where different parts are sent at different repetition rate).
  
• Scripts startall.sh, stopall.sh, statusall.sh, restartall.sh, log and weblog are now in /opt/playout/bin, which is automatically added to PATH.
  

Webconsole changes:

• important stuff TODO here
  

Version 5.0.4.1

Release date: 2021-05-10

Server changes:

• For a transport stream with 2 RTP outputs, start both with the same sequence number for synchronization purposes.
  
• EIT: Add config parameter eit-schedule-generate-past-events, when this is set to false, no past events are included in EIT schedules, default is TRUE.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Fix for login where a wrong password would make the login dialog inactive.
  
• EIT events can be edited for services.
  

Version 5.0.4.0

Release date: 2021-05-03

Server changes:

• PSI/SI remuxing support.
  
• PSI/SI table versions in a transport stream can be updated.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Multiplexer info can be viewed at Monitoring > Multiplexer Info.
  
• PSI/SI remuxing can be done at Settings > PSI/SI Remuxing.
  
• PSI/SI table versions in a transport stream can be updated under Networks > Transport stream settings > Table versions.
  

Version 5.0.3.0

Release date: 2021-03-04

Server changes:

• Support for CxFmt EPG data source.
  

PMC changes:

• Support for CxFmt EPG data source.
  

Version 5.0.2.0

Release date: 2021-02-24

Server changes:

• network profiles, stream pids, CAT table support etc.
  

Version 5.0.1.0

Release date: 2020-12-22

Server changes:

• Supports maximum bitrates for PSI/SI tables. If the configured repetition rate for the table would result in a bitrate exceeding the maximum, the table repetition cycle in effect is lowered so that the maximum bitrate is not exceeded over time.
  
• Support for Polymedia EPG XML format.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Configuration of maximum bitrates for PSI/SI tables.
  
• Support for Polymedia EPG XML format.
  

Version 5.0.0.0

Release date: 2020-12-22

Server changes:

• md5 private key support for post URL messages (addressable TV)
  
• Systemd support for Playout services.
  
• CentOS 6 related service management handling removed.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Configuration import allowed from 4.6.7.x to 5.0.0.x.
  

Version 4.6.7.3

Release date: 2020-12-04

Server changes:

• EIT: Improved handling of P/F and schedule version numbers.
  
• EIT update: Trim configuration parameters in XMLTV updater to avoid errors such as a trailing space in the source folder setting.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Forever is now included in node_modules
  

Version 4.6.7.2

Release date: 2020-11-19

Server changes:

• Support for dynamic carousel updates releated to stream event PIDs.
  
• Support for Turksat EPG XML format.
  
• Improvements in configuring transport stream IP and ASI output.
  

PMC changes:

• Support for Turksat EPG XML format.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Support for EIT event  and configuration of Icareus, XMLTV and IP Input EPG sources.
  
• Support for edge servers (spoolers).
  
• Support configuring transport stream IP and ASI output.
  

Icareus Playout Java API:

• Support for edge servers (spoolers).
  
• Support for Webconsole EPG.
  

Version 4.6.7.1

Release date: 2020-08-11

Server changes:

• Support for dynamic carousel updates. Carousel bit rate and pids (carousel pid, ait pid, stream event pid) can be changed without restarting the carousel.
  
• Updating carousel parameters for a running carousel does not any more cause PMC or Web console to freeze for a long time.
  

PMC changes:

• Added simple application boundary descriptor to AIT descriptors.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Validation when adding or modifying user.
  

Version 4.6.7.0

Release date: 2020-07-20

Server changes:

• Exporting settings to XML now quotes field names in INSERT statements, allowing export of tables with fields containing capital letters, e.g. createdAt.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Webconsole now has users and roles.
  

Version 4.6.6.0

Release date: 2020-05-26

Server changes:

• Support for SSU proprietary profile.
  

PMC changes:

• Support for SSU proprietary profile.
  
• Remember last XML import and export dirs.
  
• (JRE upgraded form jre1.6.0_17 to jre1.8.0_251 (jre-8u251-windows-x64), change postponed)
  

Webconsole changes:

• Added webconsole to CentOS 7. Uses node-v12.16.3.
  

Version 4.6.5.4

Release date: 2020-04-29

Server changes:

• On CentOS 7 setup firewall during install using script setup-firewall.sh.
  

PMC changes:

• PMC: Fix PMT definitions application_type bitcount from 16 to 15 in Application.
  

Version 4.6.5.3

Release date: 2020-04-24

Server changes:

• On CentOS 7 fix for vstrf format string problem.
  

PMC changes:

• Show modified times for carousel files correctly.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Show modified times for carousel files correctly.
  

Version 4.6.5.2

Release date: 2020-04-06

Server changes:

• On CentOS 7 OS: Muxer UDP TS output stream does not stop if system time is set to earlier.
  
• On CentOS 7 OS: Muxer RTP output stream does not stop if system time is set to earlier.
  
• On CentOS 7 OS: Active TS recording duration is not affected by system time changes.
  
• Fix for TS recording ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey" (caused by source_source_id_seq sequence in the database has wrong last_value).
  
• Fix for uploading file to TS repository ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for adding service ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "playlist_pkey".
  
• Fix for adding service ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for adding service ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "stream_pkey".
  
• Fix for AV uploading ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for adding RTP source to AV repository ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for SSU carousel adding ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for SSU carousel group adding ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for uploading file to SSU TS repository ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for Carousel uploading to applications repository ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "source_pkey".
  
• Fix for uploading file to SSU carousel ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "ssu_carousel_file_pkey".
  
• Fix for adding playlist ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "playlist_pkey".
  
• Fix for splitting playlist ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "playlist_pkey".
  

Packages changes:

• Split packages file into one packages file for CentOS 6 and one for CentOS 7.
  

Version 4.6.5.1

Release date: 2020-03-31

Server changes:

• Includes 64 bit RPMs for CentOS 7 as a beta release, installs and runs on CentOS 7.
  

API changes:

• Java API file is now named icareusplayout.jar. Classes and packages are now named com.icareus.*
  

Webconsole changes:

• Uses icareusplayout.jar
  

Version 4.6.5.0

Release date: 2020-03-20

Server changes:

• Support for outputting the same transport stream to multiple ASI output ports of the same ASI card.
  

PMC changes:

• Support for configuring a transport stream to output on multiple output ports of the same ASI output card.
  

Webconsole changes:

• Improved handling of file time stamps in FTP carousel updates.
  
• Test the carousel update FTP connection when it is configured.
  
• Improved handling of FTP usernames and passwords containing special characters, such as backslash.
  

Version 4.6.4.2

Release date: 2020-03-13

Server changes:

• Includes 64 bit RPMs for CentOS 7 as a beta release.
  

Version 4.6.4.1

Release date: 2020-03-06

Server changes:

• Uses Xerces-C Version 3.0.1. Old Xerces-C 2.4 can be removed using command rpm -e --nodeps xerces-c.
  
• Dsmcc-updater: Handle FTP usernames and passwords containing backslashes and/or single quotes correctly.
  

PMC changes:

• Fix Id Reservation Settings dialog so that the Application ID max is limited to 65533 (previous limit was 32767). The default value in the database is 65533 (0xFFFD).
  

Version 4.6.4.0

Release date: 24.02.2020

Installation changes:

• Installs Playout Web Console.
  

Version 4.6.3.1

Release date: 14.02.2020

Server changes:

• Support for generating PCR PID packets.
  
• Incomplete support for PCR PID configurations on the fly, muxer has to be restarted to get the new config in use.
  

PMC changes:

• Possibility to edit a service's PCR PID and PCR Repetition Rate (ms) under DVB Services > (select service and click for menu) > Edit Service > ID settings
  

Version 4.6.3.0

Release date: 13.02.2020

Server changes:

• Muxer, etc.: Initial support for MPEG-2 AV Streaming feature added when using Multinetwork support.
  
• Dsmcc-input: New config value dsmcc-generate-default-descriptors which can be used to turn off default descriptor generation in DSM-CC type B object carousels.
  
• Dsmcc-input: Output configured PMT descriptors under the AIT PID in the PMT table, when Application PMT Descriptors have been added.
  
• Scheduler: Support for weekly and monthly timers.
  

PMC changes:

• Add Carousel Identifier Descriptor as an option when editing an application's PMT descriptors.
  
• Added Generate default descriptors checkbox under Server > Settings > DSM-CC which can be used to turn off default descriptor generation in DSM-CC type B object carousels.
  
• PMC: Add Edit Application PMT Descriptors action in menu for applications in Application Repository. This allows editing the PMT descriptors visible under the AIT PID.
  

Version 4.6.2.7

Release date: 22.01.2020

Server changes:

• EIT: Added configuration flag eit-debug, and eit-update-debug which are 0 by default (false). Because of this there can be less EIT related logging by default, while more logging can be used if necessary.
  

Version 4.6.2.6

Release date: 21.01.2020

Server changes:

• EIT: Fix bug where sometimes text would be missing in the Extended Event Descriptors due to conversion errors from UTF-8.
  
• EIT: When converting EPG data in UTF-8 format to output encodings, e.g. to ISO-8859-2, fit more output characters into each Extended Event Descriptor.
  
• EIT: Logging of UTF-8 characters that could not be converted to the a service's text encoding e.g. "service id 2012, event id 346: '„' (bytes e2 80 9e) failed to convert to ISO-8859-2"
  
• EIT: Bugfix for crash caused by bug introduced in version 4.6.0.9.
  

Version 4.6.2.5

Release date: 09.01.2020

Server changes:

• Dsmcc-update: support for HTTP.
  
• Replication: Rewritten copy_config.sh and other scripts. Now all the replication scripts take relevant host information as arguments, rather than IP numbers being inside the script as a hardcoded variable. The copy_config.sh script now returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
  

Version 4.6.2.2

Release date: 28.11.2019

Server changes:

• Muxer: logging of timestamps for stream events.
  

Version 4.6.2.1

Release date: 26.11.2019

PMC changes:

• Bugfix for broken pipe problem when modifying network.
  
• Configuration possibility in pmc15.xml config file to use non-default ports for scheduler, admin, admin-http, eit-update and ssh.
  

Version 4.6.2.0

Release date: 16.11.2019

Server changes:

• EIT update: Icareus data source rating value can now be specified as a hexadecimal number with a 0x prefix, e.g. <rating country_code="902" rating="0x0e" position="0"/>
  
• DSMCC input: MHP carousels get a default data broadcast id descriptor.
  
• DSMCC update: new service for dynamically updating carousel contents.
  

Version 4.6.1.2

Release date: 22.10.2019

Server changes:

• EIT update: Icareus data source and XMLTV data source content-type value can now be specified as a hexadecimal number with a 0x prefix.
  
• EIT update: Added config option eit-update-source-xmltv-oiv-filtering.
  
• DSM-CC input: Make a log entry of stream event object, event and payload, when it is sent.
  

Version 4.6.1.0

Release date: 04.10.2019

Server changes:

• EIT update: Improved Jade EPG source parser.
  
• Improved stream event debug logging for webhandler.
  
• Improved listing of carousel stream info, including source type and subtype.
  

PMC changes:

• PSI/SI editor bug fix for NIT and NIT other networks.
  

Version 4.6.0.8

Release date: 20.09.2019

Server changes:

• EIT: "EIT days to output" option now works so that 0 days means show no events, 1 means show only today's events (1 day) etc. Previously 0 meant show only today's events.
  
• EIT update: Fast scanning of source directory for input files.
  

PMC changes:

• PMC does not ask for playout password as often as before.
  

Version 4.6.0.7

Release date: 13.09.2019

Server changes:

• EIT: Past events that overlap UTC time 0:00 (midnight) and end during the current day are now added to the EIT schedule. In previous versions these would not be in the schedule. Added config option eit-schedule-generate-before-midnight-event which is true by default, which can be used to revert to the old behaviour.
  
• EIT update: Improved logging.
  

PMC changes:

• Overwrite events checkbox removed from TitanTV updater EIT config, because the option is not supported in the TitanTV EPG input (the parser always discards old events for a service and writes the new ones from the xml file to the database).
  

Version 4.6.0.5

Release date: 23.08.2019

Server changes:

• EIT update: ASI and IP EPG data sources now read EIT other schedule tables in addition to the actual tables.
  
• EIT update: ASI and IP EPG data sources can now collect EPG data from multiple transport streams when using default settings.
  
• EIT: outputs Component Descriptor and Content Identifier Descriptor in EIT tables if those are present in the input format (tested with IP data source).
  
• EIT: Bug fix for the situation where EIT crashes because a top level network does not exist (can happen when upgrading from Playout 4.4.)
  
• EIT: Bug fix: Output content and parental rating descriptors only once per event, not once for each description language present in the event.
  
• Playout is compiled against DekTec DTAPI version 5.34.0.120.
  

PMC changes:

• ASI and IP EIT default settings can now be configured to collect data from multiple transport streams.
  

Version 4.6.0.3

Release date: 13.08.2019

Server changes:

• Bug fixes for EIT update and generation.
  

Version 4.6.0.1

Release date: 07.08.2019

Server changes:

• EIT generation now converts UTF-8 to ISO-8859-7 (Greek) more correctly and fits more characters into each event descriptor.
  

Version 4.5.4.6

Release date: 14.06.2019

PMC changes:

• Edit Network TS dialog now shows the EIT Schedule bit rate per service (bit/s) value correctly.
  

Version 4.5.4.5

Release date: 05.06.2019

Server changes:

• DSMCC carousel file updates happen only 5 seconds or more after any file in the carousel has changed on disk. The purpose is to avoid a race between e.g. an FTP upload of carousel files and updating the carousel files into the carousel.
  

Version 4.5.4.4

Release date: 23.05.2019

Server changes:

• Large DSMCC carousels with multiple DownloadInfoIndication structures get improved transaction id handling
  
• Carousel debug dump files (in /tmp) are only written when the carousel changes (avoids making a lot of files with the same content in /tmp)
  

Version 4.5.4.3

Release date: 20.05.2019

Server changes:

• Thread and socket handling refactored in playout-admin for TCP and HTTP requests
  

Version 4.5.4.2

Release date: 10.05.2019

Server changes:

• DSMCC carousel generator uses MD5 sums to determine if carousel files have been updated, instead of using file timestamps
  
• DSMCC carousel generator updates DII module versions more correctly
  

Version 4.5.4.1

Release date: 03.05.2019

Server changes:

• Harris BCM EPG data source
  
• NIT descriptors added in PMC are now are put into the output in multinetwork
  

PMC changes:

• Harris BCM EPG data source
  
• Sort server menu to make it tidier
  

MD5SUMS:

• 70dd37f69b6191ec8010184963199c7d packages-4.5.4.0.zip
  
• 851d9692c6ea180ae60c3acdd9fe3f70  playout-4.5.4.1.zip
  
• 04dea1a99954d4fc8e285b4506e86b43  playout-management-console-4.5.4.1-1he.noarch.rpm
  
• bb0d83e70e0a8079b0e2aa8fb7ae423d  pmc-4.5.4.1.exe
  

Version 4.5.4.0

Release date: 18.04.2019

Server changes:

• TV-Anytime EPG data source
  
• DSMCC carousel generator uses a different transaction id for each DII (DownloadInfoIndication) in a carousel, if multiple DII's are present
  
• DSMCC carousel generator only adds an Application Signalling Descriptor to the carousel PMT (visible under the AIT PID) if the user has not specified one in PMC, this lets the user override the default descriptor if it is not suitable
  

PMC changes:

• TV-Anytime EPG data source
  

MD5SUMS:

• 24105f76ecb284ccb7826fa1dbbb350a  playout-management-console-4.5.4.0-1he.noarch.rpm
  
• 1d184e8fcfeea4576a2c4ed6748f745c  pmc-4.5.4.0.exe
  
• 70dd37f69b6191ec8010184963199c7d  packages-4.5.4.0.zip
  
• ca19cad0f34ad3a04c6b16d8bed182e1  playout-4.5.4.0.zip
  

Version 4.5.3.10

Release date: 08.03.2019

Server changes:

• EIT p/f events bug fixed.
  
• Muxer fillbuffer bug fixed.
  
• Maximum AIT application Id raised from 0x3FFF to 0xFFFD.
  
• Fixed carousel identifier descriptor and added default data broadcast id descriptor for MHEG-5 object carousels.
  
• Removed DVB-H functionality as obsolete. Removed services playout-dvbh-esg, playout-esgen-middle, playout-esgen-player, playout-flute-streamer, playout-ip-input, playout-ip-streamer.
  
• Removed playout-merlin.
  

PMC changes:

• Show multiple actual network ids, if present, under an original network id in the server tree view.
  
• Allow setting the same IP and port, but different output interface for UDP output 1 and UDP output 2.
  

Version 4.5.3.9

Release date: 04.02.2019

Server changes:

• Jade XML has event start times in local time. Fix Jade XML EPG autoupdater, previously it would interpret the start times in the file as UTC time.
  

PMC changes:

• Fix NIT menu for single network license.
  

Version 4.5.3.8

Release date: 25.01.2019

Server changes:

• EIT events are generated into the transport stream, with event start times adjusted by the new EPG event start time offset in minutes (event times in TS are in UTC time zone).
  
• Campaignhandler: duplicate trigger filtering.
  

PMC changes:

• In Edit Service tab EIT properties, added configure option EPG event time offset in minutes.
  

Version 4.5.3.7

Release date: 22.01.2019

Server changes:

• Single network bug fix: allocate a PMT PID when adding a service, PMT PID cannot be 0 on single network as it is not attached to a network in the same way as in multinetwork.
  
• Muxer, EIT and EIT update open fewer DB connections. This speeds up overall performance.
  
• A fix in EIT update cleanEvents to remove all duplicate events that have the same start time as a new inserted event (same fix as in 4.4.1.14)
  
• CampaignHandler gets displayTimes feature.
  
• Added support for BAT tables containing multiple Bouquets
  
• UDP multicast output stays on the same interface, previously the output could switch over to another interface (e.g. from eth1 to eth0) if the configured output interface loses connection, and when the interface came back up, the output would not switch back.
  
• TitanTV EIT update fix for spanish language, correct code is "spa", not "esl".
  
• BAT, SDT, NIT and EIT p/f and EIT schedule tables can be outputted on tunneling pids.
  
• Logging puts the thread ID in each log message.
  

PMC changes:

• Allow configuring BATs with multiple bouquets in menu: PSI/SI > Edit BAT
  
• Change in nitDescriptors.xml to allow specifying the Satellite Delivery System Descriptor modulation field parts roll_off, modulation_system and modulation_type.
  

Installation changes:

• The playout user is configured to have /bin/bash as shell and not /sbin/nologin. This is needed so the new SSH based PMC login works. In addition, changes have been made to the installation script setup.sh to allow playout ssh login.
  

Version 4.5.3.6

Release date: 31.12.2018

Server changes:

• Memory consumption optimization for EIT events handling.
  
• EIT generation uses much less memory, this makes Playout support much bigger EIT schedules.
  
• DB connection socket optimizations to massively decrease the amount of opened sockets to postgresql database. This improves server performance and PMC login times.
  
• Muxer bit rate overflow bug fixed. The bug prevented tables, e.g. EIT schedule parts being generated bigger than 268 megabytes.
  

PMC changes:

• Tunneling tab in Edit Network TS dialog, allowing the specification of the Tunneling network TS (what TS to tunnel to) and tunneling PIDs for NIT, SDT, BAT, TDT, TOT, EIT. The tunneling tab can be enabled using a specific license.
  
• PMC would hang on the splash screen if the .playout/pmc15.xml file is empty. If it is empty, just remove it as it doesn't contain any info anyway.
  
• RPM spec arch changed from i586 to noarch.
  

Version 4.5.3.0

Release date: 15.11.2018

Server changes:

• EIT schedule can now be split into parts which can be sent with different repeat rates.
  
• TitanTV EIT autoupdate can now automatically add services.
  
• All maximum repeat rates are changed from 300,000 ms (5 minutes) to 100,000,000 ms.
  
• EIT update added autoupdater for Jade XML format.
  
• Campaignhandler generalization for trigger handling and some bug fixes for http query response handling.
  
• TitanTV EIT update now supports parental ratings.
  
• Support for customer specific Show identifier descriptor.
  

PMC changes:

• Performance optimization for tree handling to speed up loading of services etc.
  
• A default value for EIT days to output can be specified.
  
• For each service the default EIT days value is selected by default but one can also specify a service specific EIT days value.
  
• IP and ASI input sources allow setting the required EIT PID of the input, so something else than the standard EIT PID 18 can be used in the input.
  
• New splash screen image.
  

Version 4.5.2.3

Release date: 2.10.2018

Server changes:

• A bug related to object carousel restarting once every 26,5 hoursfixed
  
• A bug related to unwanted stream_identifier_descriptor fixed
  
• A bug related to unwanted DataBroadcastIdDescriptor fixed
  

PMC changes:

• Fixed a bug related to transparency settings for pbject carousel collections
  

Version 4.5.2.2

Release date: 1.10.2018

Server changes:

• AIT default repetition rate changed from 2000ms to 200ms.
  
• EIT days to output can be specified per service. Previously the value was hardcoded as present day plus 6 days.
  
• Campaignhandler: Empty trigger with current time support.
  
• NIT doesn't split transport streams to new section and ignores those that doesn't fit in one section.
  
• NIT CRC bug fix.
  
• EIT update added 2 new autoupdaters.
  
• Reset TS input clock correctly in MuxerOutputMultinetwork.
  

PMC changes:

• PMC uses playout password and not root password for login.
  
• PMC uses SFTP (SSH) for PMC login and many other functions instead of FTP. The SSH support on Java is provided by the jsch-0.1.54.jar library.
  
• In Edit Network TS window new Generation and Rates options for options such as Generate EIT Schedule 0-3, etc.
  
• Allow specifying EIT schedule segment groups using combo boxes.
  
• Fix bug where DSM-CC collections can't be set as transparent.
  
• Support for new EIT sources.
  

Version 4.5.1.1

Release date: 15.2.2018

Server changes:

• support for Addressble TV
  
• DownloadInfoIndication support for big object carousel data amounts
  
• support for text format EIT autoexport
  
• support for EIT API key
  
• support for SDT tables bigger than 1024 bytes
  
• support for NIT tables bigger than 1024 bytes
  
• "magic-bit" support for PMT descriptor added
  
• open SSL key length increased to 2048 bits
  
• bug fixes for replication handling
  
• bug fixes for exporting/importing of configuration
  
• bug fixes for SDT table producing
  
• bug fixes for EIT table producing
  

PMC changes:

• support for EIT API key
  
• horizontal bar added to long lists that didn't fit to the screen
  
• added status polling for the object carousels
  

Version 4.4.1.14

Release date: 2.1.2019

Server changes compared to 4.4.1.12:

• Added support for BAT tables containing multiple Bouquets
  
• A fix in EIT update cleanEvents to remove all duplicate events that have the same start time as a new inserted event
  

PMC changes:

• Allow configuring BATs with multiple bouquets in menu: PSI/SI > Edit BAT
  

Version 4.4.1.12-patch1

Release date: 22.12.2017

Server changes:

• New Multi-network structure

  The multi-network structure has now been changed so that instead of one Actual network, several Actuals networks can be created for one network. Each Actual network carry one transport stream. The Other network struture has also now one more layer. This means that network can have several Other networks, and each of them can have several sub Other networks with each of them carrying one transport stream.

• support for periodic timestamp DIN events

  This new feature is supported for "Do it now" (DIN) stream events. When some value is given to the "Sending period in seconds" edit field, and "Start sending event" is selected, the Playout server starts to send DIN events with timestamp (UNIX Epoch time) repeatedly with given interval. Sending this stream event can be stopped by selecting "Stop sending event".

• DSM-CC stream data_broadcast_id bug fix

  Now dataBradCastId has a value 0x123.

• DSM-CC stream NPT tag bug fix

  Removed the default reference to the STR_NPT_USE component tag from stream events.

• changes for default DSM-CC and DMS-CC-HBBTV descriptors
  
• application id maximum value increased from 32767 to 65533
  
• some bug fixes for DSM-CC and AIT
  

PMC changes:

• New Multi-network structure
  
• support for periodic timestamp DIN events
  
• enhancements for AIT descriptors
  

Version 4.4.1.12

Release date: 23.02.2016

Server changes:

• New parameter "EIT Schedule bit rate per service" supported for single and multi network environment
  

PMC changes:

• New field "EIT Schedule bit rate per service" added for RATES -TAB
  

Version 4.4.1.11

Release date: 09.09.2015

Server changes:

• Autoexport EPG
  
• lftp-4.0.9-1.el6.i686.rpm was installed and added to packages_4.4.0.4_6.3.zip
  

PMC changes:

• Autoexport EPG
  

Version 4.4.1.10

Release date: 10.07.2015

Server changes:

• EIT PID database configuration
  

PMC changes:

• MHEG-5 app configuration
  
• added more service types
  
• added LCN descriptor v1/v2
  
• add "Content descriptor" to SDT
  
• Event "Start time" column resize problem
  

Version 4.4.1.9

Release date: 19.03.2015

Server changes:

• Replication status and information can be received
  
• Icareus Data Source parameters are checked only when needed
  
• Icareus Data Source username and password parameters can contain special characters
  
• XMLTV Data Source username and password parameters can contain special characters
  
• Barco Data Source username and password parameters can contain special characters
  
• CSV Data Source username and password parameters can contain special characters
  
• Mediadata Data Source username and password parameters can contain special characters
  
• TMS Data Source username and password parameters can contain special characters
  
• TVPPolonia Data Source username and password parameters can contain special characters
  
• Start and stop of Data Sources was fixed
  
• Decktec ASI Input/Output cards detection was fixed
  
• Replication scripts were updated
  

PMC changes:

• Replication status and information can be shown
  
• Icareus Data Source parameters are checked only when needed
  
• New network parameters are checked only when needed
  

Version 4.4.1.8

Release date: 09.02.2015

Server changes:

• Replication script fix
  
• Configuration import fix
  
• Carousel fix
  

Version 4.4.1.7

Release date: 27.01.2015

Server changes:

• TVPPOLONIA Data Source
  

PMC changes:

• TVPPOLONIA Data Source
  

Version 4.4.1.6

Release date: 10.12.2014

Server changes:

• IP input Data Source
  

PMC changes:

• IP input Data Source
  

Version 4.4.1.5

Release date: 01.12.2014

Server changes:

• Import/Export of Playout configuration
  
• The same carousel/AIT/events are used for the same application in each network
  
• Stream events are sent correctly in multinetwork mode
  
• In multinetwork changed the order of sending packets in TS: first cached data (tables, stream events) then input streams (video and carousels)
  

PMC changes:

• Import/Export of Playout configuration
  
• Disabled action to remove AIT from an application
  
• "Application carousel repository" is renamed by "Application repository"
  

Version 4.4.1.4

Release date: 24.11.2014

Server changes:

• ASI input EPG data source fix
  

Version 4.4.1.3

Release date: 02.10.2014

Server changes:

• AIT repetition rate is correctly used in Multinetwork
  
• Change of AIT repetition rate is applied immediately without application restart in Multinetwork.
  
• Support for DTU-215
  
• Dektec cards are automatically detected
  
• Send SNMP traps to more than 1 SNMP manager
  

PMC changes:

• Support for DTU-215
  
• URL for HbbTV applications now can hold parameters
  

Version 4.4.1.2

Release date: 05.09.2014

Server changes:

• 'Always send application pids' feature
  

PMC changes:

• 'Always send application pids' feature
  

Version 4.4.1.1

Release date: 26.08.2014

Server changes:

• Support for sending stream events using Web services API
  
• Dektec DTA-115 support
  
• Dektec DTA-110 is not supported anymore
  

Version 4.4.0.18

Release date: 18.06.2013

Server changes:

• Dektec DTA-2145 support
  

Version 4.4.0.17

Release date: 17.03.2013

Server changes:

• 'send-carousel-for-http-apps' configuration parameter
  
• 'cache-root-password' configuration parameter
  

PMC changes:

• 'cache-root-password' configuration parameter
  
• support KAON/Fortis STB
  
• fixed long url issue for HbbTV apps
  
• EPG Parsing log view
  

Version 4.4.0.16

Release date: 27.02.2013

Playout software package was ported to CentOS 6.3

Server changes:

• Latest Dektec driver for CentOS 6.3
  
• Multinetwork ASI output
  
• BarcoXML data source
  

PMC changes:

• Multinetwork ASI output
  
• BarcoXML data source
  

Version 4.4.0.15

Release date: 12.12.2013

Server changes:

• AIT/Carousel multinetwork support
  

PMC changes:

• AIT/Carousel multinetwork support
  

Version 4.4.0.14

Release date: 01.05.2013

Server changes:

• ASI input data source
  

PMC changes:

• ASI input data source
  

Version 4.4.0.13

Release date: 07.03.2013

Server changes:

• Dektec DT-2111 supported
  
• EIT P/F running status implemented
  

PMC changes:

• None
  

Version 4.4.0.12

Release date: 13.02.2013

Server changes:

• Autoupdater for EpgSales
  

PMC changes:

• Autoupdater for EpgSales
  

Version 4.4.0.11

Release date: 13.12.2012

Server changes:

• Updated multinetwork output
  
• playout-muxer OOM fix
  

PMC changes:

• Reverted XSLT EPG import
  

Version 4.4.0.10

Release date: 07.11.2012

Server changes:

• TribuneMediaServices data source
  
• Network/Services limitation
  
• multinetwork SSU support
  

PMC changes:

• Settings for TribuneMediaServices data source
  
• Settings for Network/Services limitation
  
• Settings for multinetwork SSU support
  

Version 4.4.0.9

Release date: 13.09.2012

Server changes:

• CSV Data source
  
• Multinetwork repetition rates
  
• Service logo feature
  

PMC changes:

• Settings for CSV Data source
  
• Settings for Multinetwork repetition rates
  
• Import XMLTV and CSV using PMC
  
• T2 delivery system descriptor
  
• Settings for Service logo feature
  

Version 4.4.0.8

Release date: 13.09.2012

Server changes:

• XMLTV Autoupdater: support for events without the stop time
  
• AV Fake Streams: keeps audio/video type of the fake stream
  

PMC changes:

• Multinetwork: can add a service to a network through right click menu
  
• AV Fake Streams: keeps audio/video type of the fake stream
  

Version 4.4.0.7

Release date: 13.08.2012

Server changes:

• XMLTV
  
• AV Streams Simulations
  

PMC changes:

• Settings for XMLTV
  
• Settings AV Streams Simulations
  

Version 4.4.0.5

Release date: 22.05.2012

Server changes:

• EPG XML Icareus data source files can be taken from the internet
  
• Bug fixed: very big event description would crash the EIT module on EIT P/F generation
  
• EIT tables generation can be enabled/disabled
  

PMC changes:

• Settings for EPG XML Icareus data source
  
• EIT tables generation in PSI/SI settings
  

Version 4.4.0.4

Release date: 26.04.2012

Server changes:

• CAS support
  

PMC changes:

• Settings for CAS support
  

Version 4.4.0.3

Release date: 29.02.2012

Server changes:

• Two independent IP outputs for the multiplexer
  
• Pure UDP output support
  

PMC changes:

• Second independent IP output in the multiplexer settings
  
• UDP/RTP selection in the multiplexer settings
  

Version 4.4.0.2

Release date: 11.10.2011

Server changes:

• Icareus Data Source feature for EIT Server
  
• BTS Data Source feature for EIT Server
  

PMC changes:

• Settings for Icareus updates once per day or week
  
• Settings for BTS updates once per day or week
  

Version 4.4.0.1

Release date: 28.09.2011

Server changes:

• Corrected the DSMCC carousels - unlimited number of applications can be delivered
  
• DekTec ASI/SDI PCI Express adapter DTA-2145 is supported
  

Version 4.4.0.0

Release date:18.04.2011

Server changes:

• Multi-network support
  

PMC changes:

• Multi-network support
  

Version 4.3.2.7

Release date: 01.11.2010

Server changes:

• Changed Video Server default playlist management.
  

PMC changes:

• Increased timeout for FTP file upload
  

Version 4.3.2.6

Release date: 04.10.2010

Server changes:

• Added autoupdate of EPG from Mediadata.org
  

PMC changes:

• Added separate create carousel action for HTTP transported carousels (HbbTV)
  
• Added support for HbbTV descriptors in 'Edit AIT' dialog
  
• Added EIT settings to control autoupdate of EPG from Mediadata.org
  

Version 4.3.2.5

Release date: 22.09.2010

Server changes:

• Added HbbTV support
  

PMC changes:

• Added HbbTV support
  

Version 4.3.2.4

Release date: 28.05.2010

Server changes:

• EPG Sales updates once per day or week
  

PMC changes:

• Settings for EPG Sales updates once per day or week
  

Version 4.3.2.3

Release date: 23.04.2010

Server changes:

• MHEG-5 Support
  

PMC changes:

• MHEG-5 Support
  

Version 4.3.2.2

Release date: 23.03.2010

Server changes:

• EPG Sales Data Source feature for EIT Server
  
• Extended Event Descriptor implemented for EIT Event
  

PMC changes:

• EIT Settings for EPG Sales Data Source feature
  
• Long description for Event information
  

Version 4.3.2.1

Release date: 05.03.2010

Server changes:

• Carousel files scheduled for update are updated only when the files are modified