Announcing Carousel 5.0.5

As [url="http://blog.trms.com/trms/2007/12/release-day.html"]mentioned on our blog[/url], Carousel 5.0.5 has been released today.

This release of Carousel brings a slew of stability improvements and other bug fixes. In particular, background audio playback, EDS bulletins, and the "simple" graphics manager are much more reliable. If you are using any of these features, we definitely recommend updating to Carousel 5.0.5.

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If you have any questions, please let us know!

Thank you
-John

Release Notes - Carousel v5.0.5

Bug - 2459: Poorly quoted strings cause error to be thrown when deleting media
Fixed code so that media is properly deleted.

Bug - 2412: Disable transitions on VIA hardware
Force cross-fade transition on minimal VIA/S3 graphics hardware.

Bug - 2413: Simple graphics manager crashes with "Object disposed exception"
Certain playback hardware caused the error in the simple graphics manager.

Bug - 2415: Installers throw an Adobe Flash error
Installers have been updated to include the latest version of Flash.

Bug - 2664: UI lets you delete a crawl zone that is still referenced by a channel
You can no longer delete a crawl zone that is "in use" by a channel. Previously, erratic display behavior would occur if the crawl zone was deleted.

Bug - 2673: Flash bulletins can erroneously accept video files
The web ui no longer lets you upload video files as a Flash bulletin. Files ending in ".swf" are the only format accepted by the Flash bulletin.

Bug - 2758: SimpleGraphicsManager has poor locking
Strange deadlocking could sometimes occur in the simple graphics manager. Locking has been improved to prevent deadlocks.

Bug - 2759: SimpleGraphicsManager does not obey monitor offset
Simply put, the simple graphics manager never did monitor offset correctly. This has been resolved, and you can offset the DisplayEngine in simple mode as expected.

Bug - 2770: Templates made with missing fonts are rendered poorly
If a template was created with a font that no longer exists on the server, the text would be rendered with a default font and get clipped, resulting in missing text. Now, the default font is still used, however the text is resized correctly to avoid clipping.

Bug - 2467: EDS doesn't update on a regular schedule
EDS bulletins now update their content every 15 minutes, in addition to every time an event "expires."

Bug - 2827: Background audio (still) doesn't fade up/down after several minutes/hours/cycles
Poor multi-threading code would sometimes cause the DisplayEngine to "forget" what background audio it should or shouldn't be playing.

Bug - 2828: AudioHelper becomes erratic if DisplayEngine quits unexpectedly
When communication between the AudioHelper and the DisplayEngine was unexpectedly severed, the Helper would become unresponsive. The Helper now detects the communication loss, and exits cleanly.

Bug - 2837: Overlay doesn't resize when changing font sizes
Overlay now "poofs" out and back in with the new font size.

Bug - 2396: Caption data not saved in weather crawl bulletins.
The web interface was "forgetting" to reload the caption for weather crawl bulletins.

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John Reilly
Development Lead
Tightrope Media Systems