Release Notes for Razuna 1.4.5

Important Notes for this release

Razuna 1.4.5 brings major enhancements and many important bug fixes to the 1.4.4 release.

Widgets : Share or embed your folders / collections with ease

Widgets can be setup for every folder or collection, you can even create as many widgets as you want for a given folder/collection, since each widget has different settings. Foremost, you can arrange your assets to be shown in the thumbnail grid or as a slideshow. Also, you will have a preview function for each asset and can download each one individually.

There are many good uses for widgets, as a example you can include a widget into your website, blog, create a photo archive and so forth.

Browse Subfolders

Coming in line with the release of Widgets, we also enabled browsing trough subfolders in the general folder view, the shared folders and of course within a Widget. Like this, especially in a shared folder/collection or widget, you can share any folder and your users will be able to drill down into all available subfolders.

Add additional versions of an asset

As more and more organizations start to move to Razuna, the need for a “unified view” of an asset was raised. Say, you have different versions of your assets already deployed, on YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Soundcloud or simply want to upload each version of your already converted formats to Razuna. Previously, each upload created a new “asset record”.

With the new “Additional Versions” functionality you can simply point to your existing asset on the net or upload your versions. Doing so, will give you a combined view, of your original asset, any converted formats and and your own versions.

Small Re-Design, Lighter Interface

We have done some small re-design of the Razuna User Interface. The goal was to get rid of the many shades and table lines, in short to bring a “lighter user experience” to the Razuna feeling.

Overall changes

Above we mentioned the most exciting features. Additionally, we have added full XMP support for PDF files (now we write to ALL XMP fields), for Administrators we added searching trough log files, fixed some bugs when Razuna was hooked up to a Amazon S3 account and fixed the uploading tool for the Google Chrome browser.

Overall, there are around 25 request issues that we are fulfilling with Razuna 1.4.5.

Last but not least, Developers have a reason to celebrate. With Razuna 1.4.5 we are introducing new options to the API. These are;

  • You are able to add metadata during uploading
  • You can retrieve informations about an asset with one call
  • Adding a user returns the generated userid

How to upgrade

You should update to 1.4.2 before updating to 1.4.5! If you have already done so, then simply follow the Razuna Update Guide.

Upgrading from Razuna 1.4.4 : Due to a bug in the backup of 1.4.4 you might run into a issue when you try to backup your installation. Simply apply the hotfix available at http://issues.razuna.com/browse/RAZ-809 before upgrading to Razuna 1.4.5


All resolved issues of Razuna 1.4.5 (28 issues)

Summary Type
API: Add metadata during upload Improvement
Enable all metadata read and write for PDF Improvement
Widgets: Allows for embedding folders/collections in any site Improvement
Additional Versions: Link to existing content (URL) and option to upload additional versions Improvement
Option to search the logs Improvement
API: Get single asset information Improvement
Show subfolders in folder view, in the shared view and in widgets Improvement
API: Adding a user returns the user id Improvement
Share: Small Re-Design Improvement
Small re-design for the table views and listing (make it lighter, less is more) Improvement
Windows: Fails if more then 3 formats are selected for converting a image Bug
Login credentials persist after logout Bug
Search did not allow all illegal chars as the first char. Should only be * and ? Bug
Upload Templates: Bitrates were not reflected in the frontend Bug
API: Fix path to asset Bug
Basket: Did not reflect converted formats Bug
Share: Basket download did not work under some circumstances Bug
Share: Assets were not properly put into the basket in the list view Bug
Showing details of an audio asset could take a very long time, thus Razuna running out of memory Bug
Version: Not properly working especially together with Amazon S3, Eucalyptus and Nirvanix Bug

Showing 20 out of 28 issues