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Razuna 1.4.4 available – enhancement and bug fix release

by on March 30, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

We are happy to publicly announce the immediate availability of Razuna 1.4.4. The new version brings enhancements and bug fixes. If you are running a older release we encourage you to upgrade to Razuna 1.4.4 as soon as possible.

The enhancements
For Razuna 1.4.4 we made some changes how the search works. From this release on, we automatically combine separate words with an “AND” operator. Providing you with more accurate search results. Additionally, we added a visual feedback to the search.

On the visual part, we also changed the way how folders are being shown to SystemAdmins & Administrators. Now, those users will see all folders by default (previously you had to explicitly request the view). Furthermore, we included the latest edition of the video player, which adds compatibility to the latest browser generations.

Last but not least, Developers have a reason to celebrate. With Razuna 1.4.4 we are introducing new options to the API. These are;

  • Modify Metadata (Link to the DeveloperGuide)
  • Uploading an asset returns the assetid and the asset type

The fixes
With the help of our community we were able to fix a couple of bugs that showed up after the 1.4.4 release. We fixed some bugs which affected Windows installations (some users could not add images to the system), also users with a MSSQL server got some unexpected errors due to the new ID system which was introduced in 1.4.2. Windows users will also be happy to see that we fixed bugs with writing the metadata, creating thumbnails and the playback of videos.

At this point, we would like to thank all our users for helping us and making Razuna the best open source digital asset management / media asset management solution out there.

As always, the complete release notes for Razuna 1.4.4 are available.

How to get Razuna 1.4.4

Razuna 1.4.4 is available immediately over at http://razuna.org. As always you have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Our Razuna Hosted Platform and Razuna Cloud Server customers have already been updated to Razuna 1.4.4.

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Bug in Razuna 1.4.3 on Windows

by on March 18, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Unfortunately, there is a bug in the recent Razuna 1.4.3 release when you deploy it on Windows (7 and 2003/2008). The bug currently prevents you from uploading any images and might also affect video loading.

We are currently working on the fix and will issue a hot fix asap. For those affected you can follow the bug report over at http://issues.razuna.com/browse/RAZ-764. If you subscribe to the report you will be automatically notified once the hot fix is available.

We know this is troublesome and we deeply apologize for it.

If you deploy on MacOS X and Linux you are not affected by this bug.

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New version of the Razuna WordPress Plugin available

by on March 16, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

We just released a new version of our popular WordPress plugin. With the new version you will be able to insert all converted formats of your asset . Previously, you could only connect to the thumbnail and the original asset. We are sure that this functionality will enhance the productivity of our customers even more.

As always you will be notified within your WordPress installation of the available update. Otherwise simply search for the plugin within WordPress or download the plugin directly.

We would like to extend our gratitude to Renato Stadler for investing his time and energy in helping us with the WordPress plugin.

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Razuna 1.4.3 available

by on March 14, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Razuna 1.4.3. The new version brings a couple of new features, enhancements and bug fixes. If you are running Razuna 1.4.2 we encourage you to upgrade to Razuna 1.4.3 as soon as possible.

The new features
With Razuna 1.4.3 you now have the option to create “Upload Templates“. These templates allow you to automatically create different versions of your assets during upload. Say, you have a image and want it to be available in other formats. You then simply need to select your Upload Template while uploading and Razuna will convert your asset(s) to the given formats. Of course, Upload Templates apply to images, videos and audio assets alike.

Additionally, you now have the option to move any folder back to the root level of your structure. Something that was not possible before. Furthermore, we have made some improvements to the API. The API now returns all the converted formats and also the width and height of images and videos. Especially, the XML response with the converted formats allows plugin developers to include those formats in their applications as well. (We will release a updated Razuna WordPress plugin with this option in the coming hours!)

Under the hood we updated some libraries and have included the latest version of Tomcat (7.x) and OpenBD.

The fixes
With the help of our community we were able to fix a couple of bugs that showed up after the 1.4.2 release. We have had some issues with shared folders (some users could not see the content of folders), that the basket download was not successful (under rare circumstances), that some videos could not be converted properly and some other pesky errors that made your live troublesome.

Thought, we try to release a bug free software, the reality sometimes looks different. Fortunately, we never sleep (just kidding) and were able to fix all reported issues with this release.

At this point, we would like to thank all our users for helping us and making Razuna the best open source digital asset management / media asset management solution out there.

As always, the complete release notes for Razuna 1.4.3 are available.

How to get Razuna 1.4.3

Razuna 1.4.3 is available immediately over at http://razuna.org. As always you have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Our Razuna Hosted Platform and Razuna Cloud Server customers have already been updated to Razuna 1.4.3.

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