Customer Portal Release Notes

Release notes for the most recent version are shown immediately below, followed by notes from prior releases in reverse chronological order.

Full version string: 2023.0.5.1674228055

Release Date: 2023.01.20

• Timestamps throughout the Portal can be shown in user local time or in UTC, based on the setting in the time format toggle accessed via the bottom of main menu. This menu also provides a link to the portal release notes from the version number.

  

• If a user is publishing using a "legacy inline wildcard token" (which has been deprecated), a notice is shown on the Channel's Streams page. Users that see this notice should contact Phenix support for assistance in updating their publishing workflow.

  

• The user can refresh the streams list of the Channel Streams page, by clicking on the refresh icon of the refresh bar. Likewise, the user can refresh the member’s list of the Room Members page by clicking on the refresh icon of the refresh bar.

  

• While the user is creating a token in Portal, the token is automatically updated on every change, so the Generate button has been removed.

• Updated links to new documentation site
• Improved accuracy of FPS reported in video panes of Details page
• When creating a “Viewing” link type on the Create Token page, the “Media Input” selector is no longer shown.
• Button sizing and layout now remains consistent across clicking events.

Full version string: 2022.11.4.1670528702

Release Date: 2022.12.14

• The RTMP capability has been removed from publishing and subscribing as this capability is now deprecated
• The token expiration token time is now shown in human-readable time format
• Page URLs now include applicationId

Minor UI improvements such as:

• The snippet shown in SessionId and StreamId is maximized
• Better display and management of kill channel options
• Room Members and Channel Streams are updated on a regular basis

Full version string: 2022.10.3.1668607989

Release Date: 2022.11.16

• A new tab is available for both Channels and Rooms. The tab is named "Streams" for Channels and "Members" for Rooms, and shows all video streams and their metadata. The data is automatically refreshed every 15 seconds.

• Internet Explorer (IE) is no longer supported.

• UI improvements including:

  • Improved display of stream resolution and bit rate information.

  • Paginated tables such as the Channel list are now adjusted to the screen size.

  • Better visual distinction of read-only fields.

• Updated publish history report to provide the latest report version.

• Addressed issues with login and with redirect to the login page following logout.

• Other minor UI and behavior fixes.

Full version string: 2022.9.1.1666043792

Release Date: 2022.10.17

• Corrected image references throughout site.

Full version string: 2022.4.4.1651787423

Release Date: 2022.05.05

• All active members will be shown in Channel or Room details even if no video streams are active.

• Ensure duplicate entries are not created on Channel Analytics Publish History when results are refreshed.

• Other UI adjustments.

Full version string: 2022.2.3.1648675734

Release Date: 2022.03.30

View VOD Assets

VOD assets can be viewed from the Publishing History tab when publishing is complete. The assets are not available (button is grayed out, as in the top line of the example shown below) while publishing is in progress, and are not viewable from the Portal UI when assets are protected by tokens (published using the token-auth capability).

Clicking the VOD button on the far right will show the option to play the VOD asset:

When selected, the Portal plays back the asset.

• Numerous user experience enhancements (e.g., consistent margins) to provide a better user experience.

• Removed duplicate entries in publish history.

• The publish-uri capability is no longer included in the web publishing permalink/token when not needed. This will prevent web-based publishers from being able to switch between media and remote URI sources when accessed from the Publish > Web page. A future release will no longer support publish-uri through Web Channel entirely, as the preferred method is to use the API.

Full version string: 2021.7.1.1627956950

Release Date: 2021.08.02

Token creation for Rooms

Token creation and token debug are now available for Rooms as well as for Channels.

The UI for both Channels and Rooms has been improved to use SD as the default publishing quality to match the default quality used when publishing via the API.

The "token-auth" capability is now available in the list of capabilities listed in the UI for creating tokens from the portal. This capability is used for protecting streams with tokens.

Time format now shown in ISO format

When initially displayed, the local time is shown as Day Month Date Year followed by the 24-hour time and UTC offset, for example:

2021-07-29 15:47:56

On mouseover, the UTC time is shown in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS), for example:

Thu Jul 29 2021 08:47:56 GMT-0700

Links to additional information

From the footer in every Portal page, the user can access the main Phenix website (from the copyright notice) as well as our privacy policy and terms of service.

A number of low-level updates were made to provide a more consistent user experience.