Carousel 7.4.0 Release Notes ========================================================= * Bug CSL-1233 | Windows Player Exits on Keys Other then Escape -Windows-based Carousel Players only exit to desktop when the Escape key is pressed. * Bug CSL-1334 | ED Bulletins Grouped by Time or Room Render each group on its own bulletin -Event Display Bulletins that are grouped by ROOM or TIME have the option to display multiple items on each page. If another grouping option is selected, the toggle to display multiple items is hidden from view. * Bug CSL-1569 | Windows Player Countdown Timer Bulletins Ignore Date -Fixed an issue where countdown timers would not respect their specified date on Windows players. * Bug CSL-1521 | Zone Placement Is Not Persisted When Creating a New Channel -Fixed an issue where newly created channels would not save their zone placement. * Bug CSL-1583 | Bulletins That Require Authentications Can Default to an Invalid Authentication -Fixed an issue where dynamic bulletins that require authentication would default to an invalid external authentication, the will now default to the first available authentication. * Bug CSL-1590 | External Data Sources That Only Support TLS 1.2 Can Cause an Error -Retrieving external data, such as calendar feeds, from servers that only support https with TLS 1.1 or greater will now work as expected. * Bug CSL-1566 | FrontDoor Password Requirements Do Not Save -Fixed an issue where Frontdoor's server security settings for password requirements were not being saved. * Bug CSL-1582 | Error When Uploading a Bulletin Package with a Video Block Bulletin -Fixed an issue where bulletin packages with bulletins with video blocks would cause an error. * Bug CSL-1331 | Social Media Bulletins Do Not Respect Character Limit -Fixed an issue where social media bulletins would not respect the character limit when displaying the #ItemText# field. * Bug CSL-1588 | Linked Bulletins Don't Change with Alert Status -Fixed an issue where linked copies of bulletins would not be updated to reflect alert or saved status. * Bug CSL-1282 | Update Twitter bulletins to support Twitter API changes -Twitter bulletins now respect longer text, embedded links and media and improved "retweet" display. * Bug CSL-1380 | Clock Bulletin Can Display Time Over Other Bulletins on Windows Players -Fixed an issue where a busy Windows player could display the clock face on top of other bulletins in the zone. * Bug CSL-1584 | Rendering of Web Picture Blocks Can Tax the CPU -Web picture blocks are now cached in memory. This allows multiple requests to the same web picture block resource within a short period of time to be much quicker. * Bug CSL-1603 | Zone RSS Feeds Do Not Show Content -Fixed an issue where a zone's RSS feed wasn't accessible from anonymous http requests. * Bug CSL-1462 | Brightsign Clocks don't Respect \n Escape -Fixed an issue where BrightSign players were not respecting new lines on custom digital clock formats. * Bug CSL-44 | Offline Server with DNS Configured Causes Players to Fail to Connect -When a Carousel server does not have a DNS server connected your BrightSigns will now fail to connect once then connect and behave normally assuming the server address is correct. * Bug CSL-1571 | Carousel Services Don't Start Up on Reboot -Fixed an issue where the Carousel Render Service would fail to start if it was started before the SQL server or RabbitMQ service were ready to talk to it. * Bug CSL-1574 | Monitor Control Can Leave Players' Monitors on Longer Than Expected -Fixed an issue where players that control their monitors would leave the monitor on for one minute too long. * Bug CSL-1550 | Installer Can Fail the First Time on Cloud Based Servers -Improved the Carousel installer reliability when upgrading from an older Carousel version. * Bug CSL-1616 | Installer Fails With netFX 3 Error -Carousel has now severed all ties to the .NET 3.5 framework. Installing Carousel will no longer enable the .NET 3.5 Windows feature. * Bug CSL-677 | Database Backup Fails for Carousel Using Frontdoor Back up Tool -The Carousel database can now be backed up successfully using Frontdoor's Database Tools. * Bug CSL-1617 | BrightSign Serial Monitor Control can delay transitioning/playing of bulletins -Fixed an issue where monitor control codes with a pause in them would make the BrightSign player unresponsive. * Bug CSL-1700 | Deleted Channel IDs Remain in Database Causing UI Instability -Fixed an issue where the UI would become unresponsive or slow due to database tables not being cleaned up after deleting a channel. * Bug CSL-1692 | RSS Feeds Can Display Symbols Instead of Punctuation on Windows Players -Fixed an encoding issue with crawls on Windows players. * Bug CSL-1754 | Player Notifications Server Fails to Start After Restarting the Carousel Service -Fixed an issue where the player notifications server would not start after an update or the Carousel service being restarted. * Bug CSL-1770 | Linked bulletin creation fails with proper rights -Fixed an issue where users with admin rights to all zones were unable to create linked bulletins. * Bug CSL-1758 | Repeating Bulletins Continue to Display During Active Zone Alerts -Fixed an issue where repeating bulletins would continue to display while there was a zone alert active. * Bug CSL-1664 | External Authentications Do Not Use the Proxy Settings -Fixed an issue where creating an external authentication would fail if the server was set to use an http proxy. * Bug CSL-1600 | Creation of Facebook Bulletins Will Be Disabled If Facebook Cannot Be Accessed -Changes with Facebook have prevented Carousel from accessing Facebook content. The ability to create Facebook bulletins will be disabled whenever we are unable to access Facebook content. * Bug CSL-1766 | New Installations on Windows Server 2012 R2/Windows 10 or Later Deploy SQL Version 2016 -New Carousel installs on systems running Windows Server 2012 R2/Windows 10 or later now deploy SQL Server Express 2016 with SP2, along with SQL Studio Management 2017. These configurations no longer rely on .NET 3.5. On systems running older Windows version it will now deploy SQL Server Express 2014 with SP2. This change does not affect system upgrades or remote SQL deployments. * Bug CSL-1396 | BrightSign Series 4 Player Support with 4K Video and Graphics -Series 4 BrightSign player support, with 4K video and graphics. Series 3 (XD3, XT3, LS3, HD3, HS3), Series 2 (XD2), and XD, do not support 4K video or graphics.