Announcing Carousel 5.2.5

Today we’re excited to announce the release of Carousel 5.2.5!

This release contains several usability and stability improvements. Specifically, touching on the Clone Tool, Interactive, Display Engine, and the updating of RSS, web picture and clock bulletins. Check out the release notes for the nitty-gritty.

To request this update, please email our support team at support@trms.com. In your email, please include the following items:

-Your name and organization
-Your current version of Carousel

If you haven't yet filled out a customer registration form, please head over to http:// www.trms.com/registration and fill one out.

Thank you!

Release Notes for Carousel 5.2.5

Bug 3916: Zone with only Interactive bulletins would flash between two different bulletins
Improved the way we stop showing an Interactive bulletin for zones with multiple bulletins including Interactive ones.

Bug 3841: RSS bulletins are not updating after initial page creation
Caching of the RSS data now allows the pages to re-render if the RSS data did not change, but the template layout changed.

Bug 3875: Clone Tool errors on import, deletes CarouselDisplayEngine folder
Added support for larger than 4GB channels. Large channel packages now use a .csxl extension instead of .csl.

Bug 3833: Display engine error running video bulletins
Fixed an error where the Display Engine would crash after running certain Quicktime videos after a period of time.

Bug 3800: Clone tool "pauses"
Revised event handling in the Clone tool while creating and extracting channel packages.

Bug 3910: Live streaming video and Interactive did not adjust to a scheduled crawl
Interactive and Live Stream bulletins scale as expected when a Crawl zone is added or removed.

Bug 3900: Clock background changes do not update in a timely manner
Resolved an issue where the Display Engine's caching of files could cause clock backgrounds not to update.

Bug 3890: Web Snapshot blocks don't update consistently
Web snapshots would eventually stop working due to a "memory error".

Bug 3857: Display Engine locks up while interactive continues to run
Resolved an issue where Interactive bulletins could get stuck and cause the Display Engine to stop displaying other bulletins.

Bug 3714: Improve DE " Not Licensed " Verbage
Detailed information is provided in the Display Engine splash screen when additional licenses for Channels or Players are needed or servers cannot be contacted.

Bug 3913: Web picture block sometimes didn't update
Resolved an issue where moving or copying a bulletin with a web picture would cause it not to update in the future.

Bug 3881: Zone syncing for triptych display loses sync
Fixed an issue where zone synchronization could get confused when there were different bulletin counts on the synchronized zones.

Bug 3837: Clock bulletins do not resize when a crawl is added
Clock bulletins now scale as expected when a Crawl zone is added or removed.