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Razuna 1.1.4 is here

by on February 20, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

razuna_logo_200We are happy to announce the official release of Razuna 1.1.4, another fine release of the already much hyped open source Digital Asset Management. Razuna makes it easy for any individual, small firm or big organization to manage all aspects of Digital Assets in a totally hassle free environment.

Razuna 1.1.4 brings the following new features to the already existing features;

Folder Permissions
A folder can now be owned by a user only. Previously, you had to share a folder with the “Everyone” group. Now, you can simply uncheck the “Everyone” group and the folder will only be accessible to you. Others will not see the folder and all assets within are protected. Also, assets can not be found with the search once they are in a user protected folder. We also fixed an issue with inheritance of folder permissions.

Internet Explorer Compatible
It’s not always easy to develop for all platforms and all browsers alike. Even thought we only use CSS and Javascript, there are sometimes browser platform issues that can not be overcome easily. Razuna 1.1.4 is now compatible with IE 7 & 8. Whereas Razuna acts and looks much better with IE8 then IE7 (don’t turn on Compatible mode, that thing makes it worse)…

Performance Improvements
Due to a new version of the Application Server and its new feature to cache Javascript, CSS files and certain parts of Razuna, the new version is magnitudes faster. But we not only improved the loading of Razuna, but also streamlined our code much more. You can see an immediate effect of this new performance by uploading your assets. Assets are now uploaded in the back and you will be notified by eMail of the upload process, respectively when the assets has been uploaded to the server.

Miscellaneous
Our international users will be happy to see that Razuna can now search words with foreign characters (like German umlauts and Norwegian characters) correctly. You can now upload your own logo and it will be shown everywhere instead of the default Razuna logo. User timeouts are handled correctly and we made a couple of subtle design changes.

As always you can download Razuna 1.1.4 over at the Razuna download page. Users of Razuna 1.1.3 will get notified within the system. Upgrading to the new version is outlined over at the Razuna Wiki (it is a simple step and only takes about 5 minutes).

Did you know that you can deploy Razuna to your favorite virtual environment? With our Razuna Virtual Server Image you can deploy to Amazon EC2, VMWare (also Server and ESX(i)), Parallels, XEN, VirtualIron, etc. Simply head over to the dedicated Razuna Virtual Server page and build your own Virtual Server. You’ll literally be up and running within minutes. Deployment of a Digital Asset Management has never been easier.

If you need help you can join the growing Razuna Customer Community, especially companies can enjoy a hassle free Digital Asset Management deployment with our Support Subscription.

Last but not least, we would like to thank our Community for putting forward requests and helping us to make Razuna the best open source Digital Asset Management offering.

Thank you for using Razuna.

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Razuna 1.1.3 released – even more power to the open source digital asset management

by on December 26, 2008 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

razuna-logo-400.pngIt gives us much pleasure to bring Razuna in its latest version 1.1.3 to the world. It is our part to say thank you to the growing community around our open source digital asset management and end the year with this great release.

We are very exited about Razuna 1.1.3, since it brings full support for the MySQL database, includes the final release of the underlining application server (OpenBD) and an administration for the server itself. Also, it includes most of the requests and bug fixes that our community has told us about.

Please find below a short summary of the new features and fixes of this release. For those who are already running Razuna 1.1.2 and want to upgrade to Razuna 1.1.3, should read the Upgrade documentation before doing so.

Razuna and MySQL

A lot of users have asked that we add support for the MySQL database. Thus, we are very happy to finally bring it to Razuna. It was not an easy task to do, since we run into a couple of issues with the SQL syntax itself and how MySQL differs from other databases. We already posted about our findings how MySQL is different to Oracle or H2 (in Oracle mode).

In any case, this is all technical mumbo-jumbo and all you should know is that Razuna runs now perfectly with MySQL (as it does with the embedded and the Oracle database). Support for other databases, will come in future versions and will depend on the demand of the community. You can cast your vote, or add a new feature request and bug report, at the public available Issue Tracker of Razuna.

General improvements

Overall improvements have been made to this release. To list each one, is not the purpose of this post, but rather give you a small summary. Some of the improvements are;

Updated the Flash Player to the latest version, we are now running the embedded database in server mode (thus allowing other connections to the same database), uploading and adding assets is now much faster, we moved the general DAM folder to a global position (thus allowing for greater compatibility for future updates) and finally we resized the pop-up windows to better suit users with smaller screens or lower resolutions.

General Fixes

We pride ourselves with how fast we fix any reported bug. Usually our customers receive a bug fix within 24 hours (usually within hours). For Razuna 1.1.3 we could, with the help of the community, squash some bugs. Here is a summary of some of the most important ones fixed in this release;

Users that have spaces in the executables paths would run into errors (actually, you should never have spaces in your executables paths, but Windows allows you to do so), Descriptions and Keywords sometimes failed while adding assets, Adding many assets from Scheduled Uploads failed, WMV and AVI failed to play in the Flash Player (they still don’t play in the Flash Player, but now we re-added how to play them), and finally adding ZIP archives did not extract the folder structure and added assets correctly.

Razuna and 2009

As already outlined in a previous post, we shared some of the new features of a upcoming Razuna version. In 2009 we will take digital asset management and your assets to the cloud, meaning that you will be able to leverage the Amazon S3 and/or Nirvanix data storage services. Also, we will bring review/preview and workflow to Razuna so that you and your team will have a complete review process right within Razuna. Another high demand request will come in 2009, that is you will get version control for all your assets within Razuna.

There has never been a better time to start managing your assets with Razuna, the open source digital asset management alternative!

As always you can get the latest Version directly from Razuna.com. Razuna is available in a Standalone Server download or as a WAR/EAR download to deploy on a existing J2EE server. Customers who already have Razuna deployed will get a notification within the system that a new version is available.

Razuna is a professional digital asset management/media asset management with an integrated web content management that delivers and makes management of your digital assets a simple task. Razuna is licensed under a dual-license (AGPL and commercial) and can be downloaded at http://www.razuna.org. The Wiki is available at http://wiki.sixsigns.com and the public Issues Tracker at http://issues.sixsigns.com.


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Razuna 1.1.2 available – Open Source Digital Asset Management

by on November 4, 2008 in Razuna

We are very happy to release today on 4th of November Razuna in its latest Version 1.1.2. We are very exited about this release, since it not only brings a lot of improvements but also three new useful features. So, without further ado let me introduce you to these new features (we have also made a video outlining the new features, please find it at the bottom of this post);

Custom Fields

Custom Fields has been high in all the requests and now available. With custom fields you are no longer restricted to only keywords and descriptions (for videos and documents) or the available XMP/IPTC/EXIF fields (for images) but can now include any custom meta-data to each asset as you want.

You have the option to define Text fields, Texarea’s or Radio-Buttons (we add more if we get requests for that). You can also set where you want to add the custom field. Say, you only need a field for documents, then just define it for these kind of assets, the same goes for videos and images.

We think this is a fine feature which will give you added support for managing those DAM assets!

Flash Media Player

Previously we loaded all videos within the Quicktime Movie player. With release 1.1.2 we have opted for a Flash Media Player for all your videos. This will make it much easier to watch videos in full screen or scale to the available bandwidth. Also, all videos will now be converted with the H.264 and AAC codec, for bringing you the best results in video conversion.

Razuna UpDrive

Razuna UpDrive is a new technology based on Gears. With UpDrive enabled most used files will be loaded into your local cache and thus the browser will not need to re-download them every time you use Razuna. Once you have UpDrive enabled you will see a much faster DAM experience. Again, improving your workflow with your assets.

Improvements

With version 1.1.2 of Razuna we also made some improvements and fixed some bugs.

We have moved the location of the embedded database to the Razuna folder itself, thus there shouldn’t be any problems anymore with permissions issues when doing a installation on a NTFS or Linux system. Also, we improved Razuna to work better with IE, thought IE 8 behaves much better then IE 7. In any regard we recommend to use Firefox when you work with Razuna.

As always you can get the latest Version directly from Razuna.com. Customers who already have Razuna deployed will get a notification within the system of the new version.

Razuna is a professional digital asset management/media asset management with an integrated web content management that delivers and makes management of your digital assets a simple task. Razuna is licensed under a dual-license (AGPL and commercial) and can be downloaded at http://www.razuna.com. The Wiki is available at http://wiki.sixsigns.com and the public Issues Tracker at http://issues.sixsigns.com.

Please find a video of the new features of version 1.1.2 of Razuna below (Watch it in full screen and HD quality).

[vimeo width="510" height="300"]http://www.vimeo.com/2151212[/vimeo]

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SixSigns Forums

by on October 19, 2008 in Razuna

We just realized that we had some mail problems over at the SixSigns Forums and thus all signups could not be confirmed because no mail was being sent.

The issue is now fixed.We apologize for this and we kindly ask you to re-signup.

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