Carousel 6.1.1 Release Notes
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      * Bug 4711 | Improve the DateTime Overlay positioning control
-Based on feedback from the forum, we added more positioning control of the date and time overlay for the players.

      * Bug 4841 | For EDS bulletins with iCal feeds, editing one instance of a reoccurring event generates multiple events for that day
-This was a deep one! So if you have an iCal feed with your calendar and you change an instance of a reoccurring event, you will get both the original event and the new event. What's worse, is that iCalendar on the Mac, Google Calendar, and the customers event management system flagged these events all different. So much for a spec! We can now identify all 3 flavors and show only the modified, correct event.

      * Bug 5492 | Events get displayed on top of each other with certain EDS bulletins
-If you have this problem you defiantly know it! All the EDS events get piled up. Well, turns out that under the hood the different 'group by' options use different templates, so if you changed the 'group by' setting of an existing EDS page it get's all messed up. So, we don't let you do that anymore!

      * Bug 5679 | Added a 'cancel' button to the template editor screen
-We added a cancel button to the template editor, it was silly that it didn't have one in the first place.

                * Bug 5736 | For interactive bulletins, the inactivity timeout isn't reset by mouse clicks
-Isn't it a bummer when you are using an interactive kiosk and it kicks you out to a default page? We thought so to!  This was just a glaring oversight on our part! We mostly tested this feature with our mice, not fingers :)

      * Bug 5760 | Enterprise installations of Carousel do not show .MP4 and .M4V files on the players
-IIS serves out the content and media for Carousel players. Because of security measures in IIS, .MP4 and .M4V files were not being served to Carousel players. We now override this setting for the /Carousel application.

      * Bug 5773 | The maximum number of pages in an RSS bulletin is increased
-You probably didn't even know that a RSS bulletin will only paginate to 100 pages... In fact only one customer in the history of Carousel has ever bumped into that limit. Now, just for them it's increased to 1000 pages.

      * Bug 5800 | Video playback sometimes gets stuck on black
-The Carousel DisplayEngine will sometimes get stuck showing black at the end of a video. This is because sometimes we can not calculate the length of the video. Even with video files that have worked before it will randomly get stuck. We added a 5 minute timeout to videos that we can't get a length for, so the worst case is 5 minutes of black. This is a very rare issue.

      * Bug 5814 | WebPage Snapshot can cause a memory leak
-A case was found and fixed where the aspnet worker process can leak memory with repeated use of web page snapshots.

      * Bug 5832 | The DisplayEngine software now gets installed on Windows 7 machines
-The unified Carousel installer was not deploying the DisplayEngine components on Windows 7.

                          * Bug 5892 | EDS template will not load from a Carousel Clone file
-When a channel from Carousel 6.1 is exported using the Clone tool, it can not be re-imported on a 6.1 system because of an internal serialization problem with the Clone file. This is fixed and all our bits are in order.

                * Bug 5900 | Dwell time is always affected by word count
-A user-set manual dwell time still took into account the word count and auto-pacing calculations, this has been removed so Carousel uses the exact time entered by the user.

      * Bug 5905 | Corrected an internal error with EDS when it tried to load an invalid file
-This error only occurred when Tightrope Creative channels were not made correctly, this case is now handled better in Carousel.

      * Bug 5906 | Corrupt RSS feeds can cause Carousel to run slow.
-Corrupt RSS feeds can cause the Carousel service to slow to a crawl because it works so hard trying to figure out the bad RSS feed. We have changed it so Carousel will only work on decoding a feed for 90 seconds before giving up and moving to the next dynamic bulletin. This problem will cause slow CableDisplay updates, and non-rendering of RSS and EDS bulletins.

      * Bug 5937 | Notifications for bulletins edited by users who require authorization we not being sent to administrators
-When a bulletin that had been approved by an administrator was edited by the user, the notification message was not re-emailed to the administrator telling them that a bulletin was waiting to be approved.