🚀 Release Notes & System Updates

Release Notes Overview:

• At 5centsCDN, we're thrilled to announce a series of significant enhancements aimed at optimizing your streaming experience. 

Product Improvements:

• Improved Video-on-demand (VoD) streaming performance, ensuring smoother playback and higher-quality content delivery. 

• We've fine-tuned our CDN Dashboard for faster loading times, providing you with swift and seamless access to critical insights and controls.

• Moreover, our Video Analytics system has undergone refinements, empowering you with even more accurate and insightful data to refine your content strategy and engage your audience effectively.

New Product Features:

• We're excited to introduce an array of new caching options to our HTTP > Pull Zone, providing you with even greater flexibility and control over your content delivery. These options range from 'Do Not Cache' for dynamic content to intervals of 10 seconds, 1 minute, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, and up to 4 and 12 hours for more static resources. This enhancement fine-tuned your caching strategy, ensuring optimal performance for your specific content needs.

• In addition, we've bolstered our URL Exporter functionality, now seamlessly compatible with Dropbox. This integration expands your options for managing and distributing your content. Furthermore, we've significantly ramped up download speeds, ensuring a swift and efficient process when exporting your URLs

User impact:

• Hooray! No user impact in this update 😀

Support:

• Reach out to our 24x7 Live Chat customer service team for assistance. For questions, concerns, or comments, please email our support team at support@5centscdn.com

Release Notes Overview:

• At 5centsCDN, innovation drives us, ensuring optimal solutions for our customers. Our product lifecycle management is dynamic, aligning with customer needs, market trends, and technological progress.

Product Updates/Announcements:
Retiring Adaptive Image Compression in Enterprise +

• The same functionality for Adaptive Image Compression and much more is now available under Image Optimization. Hence, we advise the customers to use the Image Optimizer for the same functionality.

Ready, Set, Deliver!

• Get notified when AAP (Application & API Protection) resources gets enabled on Akamai production via email.

Speedy CDN Control

• Your time matters: Our optimized CDN Dashboard loads faster, streamlining your content management experience like never before.

Security Level Up

• Upgrade your Livestreaming with advanced security - introducing the Livestream Secure Token feature in our Standard Plan.

User impact:

• Hooray! No user impact in this update 😀

Support:

• Reach out to our 24x7 Live Chat customer service team for assistance. For questions, concerns, or comments, please email our support team at support@5centscdn.com

Release Notes Overview

• We are delighted to share exciting news this month regarding our network expansion, CDN plans, and transcoding profiles.

Introducing our new PoP in Baghdad, Iraq

• We're thrilled to announce the launch of our latest Point of Presence (PoP) in Baghdad, Iraq. This means we've brought our top-notch CDN infrastructure closer to you, ensuring Speedy and Reliable Website & Application Performance in the region.

New plans alert. 📣

• We're excited to bring new CDN Plans with Image & Asset Optimization. New CDN Plans will be available to the users by the end of Q3.

New updates:

• LiveTranscode Profile - Users can now select the preset level encoders to trade-off between the Encoder Quality/Bitrate.

User impact:

• Hooray! No user impact in this update 😀

Support:

• Reach out to our 24x7 Live Chat customer service team for assistance. For questions, concerns, or comments, please email our support team at support@5centscdn.com

Release Notes Overview

• Enhanced functionality, improved performance, and bug fixes are a few of the features of the most recent update, while our security updates make sure that your information is always kept safe.

New updates:

• Introducing CriticalBackup, a cloud backup tool designed to protect your content in the event of accidental deletion, or deletion for XYZ reasons. Now that's all taken care of, you don't have to worry about it. Backing up your data on our cloud storage to your 3rd party storage provider is easy! Those who have enrolled in the Beta program can access Critical Backup.

• Pricing Update - Live Transcoding now bills by minutes. You don't need to pay more when you can only pay for the minutes you use.

Changes/Bugs update:

• Video Encoding - We have improved the UI/UX of the Active/Past Encoding Jobs. View detailed statistics on encoding jobs such as Encoder Details, Source Details, Output Details, and the encoding timeline.

• SuperEncoder - Improve the quality of your encoding with our latest optimizations and upgraded version of FFMPEG.

• Live Transcoder - Encode with the latest optimizations and FFFMPEG 6.0 for faster encoding.

• Multistreaming and Live Transcoding backends have been upgraded to fully cloud-based systems.

User impact:

• Hooray! No user impact in this update 😀

Additional notes:

• Users can now use the Video Manager API to integrate with their consoles/dashboards.

Support:

• Reach out to our 24x7 Live Chat customer service team for assistance. For questions, concerns, or comments, please email our support team at support@5centscdn.com

Release Notes Overview
Our most recent update provides enhanced functionality, improved performance, and bug fixes, while our security updates guarantee the safety of your information at all times.

New Features:

• SuperEncoder: With our latest enhancements, you can achieve encoding speeds up to 30 times faster than before.
• Video Encoding: Our latest video encoding enhancements include a redesigned job history page that provides detailed information and lets you easily preview source/output files.
• SimpleDNS: We've made an update to SimpleDNS that allows the user to select the preferred record type to load by default when you view the domain details page.

Changes/Bugs Update

• E+ - Image Optimization: Fixed the bugs for the incorrect statistics
• E+ - Edge Rules: We've added new behaviors such as Front-End Optimization, Enhanced Akamai Protocol, Resource Optimizer, Log Custom Details, Security Failover, Strict Header Parsing, and Script Management.
• Pricing Change: We've individually segregated the Video Encoding & Recording Minutes pricing. Now we call them 'Live Recording Minutes' & 'Video Encoding Minutes.'

Usage History:

• As requested, we have added SimpleDNS, Traffic Director, Web Application Firewall, Adaptive Image Compression, and Image Optimizer usage reports
• You can now track disk usage by date and resource per month, giving you greater visibility into your storage needs.

User Impact:

• Hooray! No user impact in this update 😀

Additional Notes:

• E+ mPulse: Adding more data for the website analytics (Reports Coming Soon)

Support:

• Reach out to our 24x7 Live Chat customer service team for assistance. For questions, concerns, or comments, please email our support team at support@5centscdn.com

• TrafficDirector enable/disable domain
• Enterprise+ Reports for Adaptive Image Compression & Image Optimization
• FailSave Multistreaming/LiveTranscoding
• Standard: SecureToken 3 Modes: Full Path (in query), Partial Path (In query), Partial Path (in path)
• LiveTranscoding b-frame insertion (Auto, Disable, 1,2,4,6)
• API: UserAgent/IPAccess for streams & zones
• New Origin POP: India
• New Edge POP: India (Standard & Volume)
• Option to register Enterprise+ beta from dashboard
• SimpleDNS: new TTL option: 10m
• UsageHistory: daily based disk usage view for resource

• Improved stream fallback handling
• Improved multi-streaming fallback handling
• Improved VideoPlayer Analytics to handle millions of requests per second
• Added more monitoring data to “Service Status” (Recording Cluster, Playlist Cluster, Video Analytics, etc)
• Introducing ConfigFreeze option for users (just pay $1/month and keep the configuration)
• Improved Global Search, now search from SimpleDNS, TrafficDirector, VideoManager
• Beta Release: Enterprise+

• Dropped support for Bradmax Player 🙁
• Transcode File notification response logging / resend from the control panel 🔔
• IP Access Security Module for Livestreams / Zones🔐
• UserAgent Security Module for Livestreams / Zones 🌐 📱
• SuperEncoder Beta Release 🤩

ADDED - Traffic Director: API & Docs
ADDED - SuperEncoder: Beta Release
ADDED - Transcoder V3: deep statistics for encoded videos available now from Transcoding > Video Encoding > Video Encoding Minutes
ADDED - VoD Transcode Profile: users can now specify the FPS & GOP for profiles

• Video Encoding: Experimental release of SuperEncoder (up to 20x video encoding speeds)
• TrafficDirector: HealthCheck Asia-Pacific Region
• Live Transcoding & Video Encoding: added options to specify output FPS & GOP (improved HLS segmentation)

SMIL File Rebuild (VoD Push Zone)

• Origin SSL Certificate Expiry Warning for Pull Zones
• SRT Ingest for Pull Streaming
• RTMP Auth for Push Streaming
• Enterprise EdgeRules New Behaviors: Quick Retry, Log Request Details
• History: Added VideoPlayer Analytics Usage for previous months

• Enterprise+ – Introducing a new plan with Adaptive Acceleration, Adaptive Image Compression, Image Manager, Application & API Protector, and much more for a Secure Adaptive Dynamic Acceleration for Websites & APIs

• Traffic Director API
• Livestream Transcoder – Added GOP settings

• 5centsCDN Player Skins v2
• Video Manager v2
• Traffic Director

• Video Manager v1
• SimpleDNS: Added new record type – * OPENPGPKEY, HINFO, SMIMEA, DNAME, LOC
• Video Encoding: Added Sprite Thumbnailer + VTT

• VideoPlayer & Analytics API
• SimpleDNS API
• CDN Logs API – Premium Plan Only
• VTT Thumbnails for VoD

• Alias names for zones
• Subtitle support in VoD Push Zone smil files
• Customizable skins/themes for 5centsCDN VideoPlayer

• Advanced Zone EdgeRules for Standard/Volume Plans
• SimpleDNS DNS Failover
• SRT Ingest
• Premium Network – CDN Logs

• 5centsCDN HTML5 Player with AdvancedVideoAnalytics
• Push/Pull Zones Alias option
• SRT Output (Custom Solution)
• Enterprise Plan – New Behaviors: breadcrumbs, cache tag, caching (with latest RFC support)
• Premium Network – New Behavior: WAF
• Premium Network – WAF, Prefetch

• Livestream Origin Server in Australia
• SimpleDNS w/ Dynamic URL
• Livestream LastSeen status
• Livestream advanced sorting option
• ScheduledPlaylist can now add HTTP(S) Video File URLs as playlists (mp4 files only)
• Volume/Premium Reports Advanced Analytics

• Enabled Feedback: Users can directly send feedback and feature requests from CDN Dashboard
• Improved ScheduledPlaylist reliability
• ScheduledPlaylist restarts will resume from the scheduled file rather than from start.
• SimpleDNS w/ Record Search

• SimpleDNS
• ScheduledPlaylist using in-house developed MediaServer
  • Users can now set the file-level start & stop
  • ScheduleOnTime comes with Repeat For future, to have
  • Users are now able to see the currently playing Scheduled Playlist file from the dashboard
• Enabled mp4 streaming for VoD Pull Zones

• Customers can now get the PlaybackURL’s with their CNAMEs
• Video File Encoders will now detect & reports file errors before File Transcoding
• Introducing Cloud Storage in the Asia region
• Backend Error from Multi-CDN partners can be viewed by clients from CDN Dashboard
• Advanced Zone EdgeRules for Premium Plans

• Max DVR Retention is increased to 90days
• Stream hard delete period reduced from 7 -> 2
• Thumbnail support for Livestreams & DVR
• Optimized CDN Dashboard loading times
• Added pagination on StreamsList & ZonesList pages
• Added Search option. Clients can now easily navigate to Streams, ScheduledPlaylist, Simulcast Platforms & Push/Pull Zones via Search