pangea family release schedule - docs.rferl.org · pangea family release schedule ... master format...

Release version: 7.08.0.10 Estimated CMS downtime: up to 30mins

1 | P a g e

Pangea Family Release Schedule

Table of Contents

PANGEA FAMILY RELEASE SCHEDULE ........................................................................................................................................... 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................................................... 1

NEW FEATURES – RESPONSIVE WEB SITES ................................................................................................................................... 2

NEW FEATURES – CMS & CORE APPS ........................................................................................................................................... 5

MULTIMEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT – MAM ............................................................................................................................... 6

CUMULATIVE BUG FIX REPORT .................................................................................................................................................... 8

RFE/RL DIRECT IMPROVEMENTS .................................................................................................................................................. 8

NEW KEYS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

KNOWN ISSUES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Inc.: Tue, 15-Mar, 2016 07:00 am CET 01:00 am EST

Voice of America: Wed, 16-Mar, 2016 10:00 am CET 04:00 am EST

Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc.: Wed, 16-Mar, 2016 11:30 am CET 05:30 am EST

Office of Cuba Broadcasting: Wed, 16-Mar, 2016 01:30 pm CET 07:30 am EST

LibertyNET: Wed, 16-Mar, 2016 02:00 pm CET 08:00 am EST

Direct Wed, 16-Mar, 2016 02:30 pm CET 08:30 am EST

Latest Pangea Release Schedule available at: http://support.pangea-cms.com

http://support.pangea-cms.com/


2 | P a g e

New Features – Responsive Web Sites

Pangea TV widget

As of Pangea version 7.08 Responsive Sites can now fully utilize the streaming TV widget. Note that the tube has

to be set up in advance and then can be used on the widget. The Pangea TV widget can be configured to be shown

all the time, for the specific period or up to the tube scheduler.

Setting up the widget in Pangea CMS:


3 | P a g e

Facebook comments

We’re proud to announce that the Responsive Sites could are now ready for Facebook commenting. This feature

is obviously enabled only for web visitor having a Facebook account. To process/moderate comments, go to

Facebook moderating tool available at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments

Feel free to contact our Support Team via the Pangea Digital Help Center to setup the Facebook commenting. Note

that the feature expects one localization key Forum.FacebookForumTitle

Login & Registration Feature

Yet another long-awaited feature - Login and Registration, for the time being just for the commenting. However,

we are planning to bring more benefits for Pangea members for the future. The registration is shared with the

Desktop site, so your users don’t need to proceed with the registration for Responsive site.

This feature comes in a bundle with the password recovery and

works very similar as on the Desktop Site.

There is no change in Pangea CMS, check Membership menu in

CMS (Administration | User management | Manage Membership

users) and to manage your users.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments


4 | P a g e

Login Promotion:

-- RFERL, OCB and MBN skins have the link as a part of the top navigation.

and on a comment:

-- VOA sites have the promotion only on the comment part of page


5 | P a g e

Embedded Backgrounders Support

We keep the promise from the previous release

notes and introducing the Embedded Supports to

the Responsive Design. Now, all embedded

backgrounders are being displayed on responsive

and new embedded backgrounders are available to

create in Pangea CMS. Embedded backgrounders

are built to provide more information on a specific

topic within an article. Embedded Backgrounders

can contain text or any embedded content (image.

Video, audio, etc).

Simplified views for all content on

responsive

We’ve developed simplified views to improve user

experience when consuming Pangea pages in

mobile applications.

New Features – CMS & core apps

Migrating to full HTTPS support

This is to inform you that our progress with HTTPS

implementation on Pangea CMS goes well. This version

brings some fixes on issues found during our internal

testing. We’re hoping to enable the full HTTPS on

Pangea CMS very soon. We’ll keep you posted.

Migration of the front-end web-sites to HTTPS is our next logical step. We will keep you posted.


6 | P a g e

Multimedia Asset Management – MAM

Here’s a short update on the improvements we have achieved in the Multimedia Asset Management (MAM)

Master Format changed

We have update it the Master Format, the new format is:

Resolution: 1920x1080

Frame Rate: 50i-25fps

o Previous can have notation as 1080i50

Interlaced, top field first

Video Codec: XDCAM EX, 35Mbps, not fixed-length GOP

Audio Codec: PCM 16BIT Signed Int, 48 KHz

Container: MXF OP1a

Bit depth: 8

Color Sampling: 4:2:0

1 Video Track, 4 Audio Tracks, each with 1 channel or if number is grater, keep all inputs don't throw

out anything; can be up to 8 per specifications

File Metadata should be removed (stored in DB)

Keep time code or insert it if missing

Video Edit Page updated

We have update the following information:

Type of Content, for video we have now

o Raw Video

o Final

Original sources

o Afghanistan

o Armenia

o Azerbaijan

o Balkan

o Belorussia

o English

o Georgia

o Kazakh

o Kyrgyzstan

o North Caucasus

o Mashaal Radio

o Moldova

o Radio Farda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDCAM


7 | P a g e

o Russia

o Current Time

o South Slavic

o Tajikistan

o Tatar-Bashkir

o Turkmenistan

o Ukraine

o Uzbekistan

Ingest – Watch Folder

Pangea MAM offers newly an option of ingesting files to the system by dropping in a folder

System will allow to setup multiple watch folders with following options:

o Location for the Watch Folder

o Metadata template (for folder ingest):

Media Type (Audio or Video)

Asset Type (Based on MediaType)

Source Type + Source (Based on MediaType)

Rules for Ingest:

o For files:

If name of the File in the Watch Folder is equal to the IDEC of asset that does not have a

file attached:

the system will ingest the file and match it with the asset

If name of the File in the Watch Folder is equal to the IDEC of asset that already has a

file attached:

the system will generate a text file in the Watch Folder with error message:

"Ingest Failed because Asset with IDEC 1234 already has file attached"

If the name of the File does not match any asset in the system, then do nothing

Date Modified of Asset will be updated with time of ingest

o For folders:

If name of the Folder in the Watch Folder is equal to the IDEC of project in MAM

the system will ingest files from the folder and

o create new assets from them. Following metadata will be taken from

Project:

Slug + Number

Description

Asset Type and Source will be taken from the Watch Folder

Template

o attach them to the project

System supports only 1 sub level of folders

o Watch Folder will support files with video and audio extensions that we support for upload


8 | P a g e

o After the File or Folder has been successfully ingested, it will be removed from the Watch

Folder

Ingest Status

Once a file is ingested the system will provide in real time

Progress bar with the % of the ingested file

This bar keeps into account upload and encoding processes

Bug Fix Report

Please visit the Pangea Help Center to see the status of tickets you opened.

RFE/RL Direct Improvements

RFE/RL Direct will be updated as part of the general Pangea update. For further details on the update feel free

and contact Aliona Huminskaya.

New Keys

New keys will be ready for translation in Pangea CMS early on Monday 14 Mar, to localize the keys navigate to

Settings | Site Localization.

Known Issues

After a time demanding debugging process we believe we’ve fixed together with Akamai engineers video upload

interruptions, timeouts and random logouts in CMS. We’d like to thank you this way for your support and

patience.

http://support.pangea-cms.com/

pangea family release schedule - docs.rferl.org · pangea family release schedule ... master format...

Documents