🚀 Release Notes & System Updates

• 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

• Push Zone API File Uploading (Openstack swift/ S3 compatible)
• File Manager Folder Upload
• Horizon file manager

• Raw Logs
• Option to Retry Stuck / Failed Video Transcoding Jobs

• API v3
• Raw Logs
• Users can enable SSL on all CNAMES as a SAN via Let’s Encrypt

• Scheduled Playlist w/ Live stream ingest
• Added feature to convert Videos files to HLS when Transcoding
• Added feature to enable AES-128 Encryption for Video files when Transcoding to HLS
• Users can now add root domain as a CNAME

• BW Rollover Enabled
• Users can now view the Bandwidth Addon Purchase History and the rolled over bandwidth
• On-Hold Services can view Bandwidth Usage Report & Usage History now
• Enabled Prorated Bandwidth for new services

• Better content formatting with updated Transcoding v3.
• Keep track of all the happenings with Service Activity Log.
• Ticketing System Reactivated back on popular demand to resolve issues quickly.
• Stay updated on all affairs with the Activity Log.
• Enable full mode EmbedCode for DVR Playback URLs.
• DVR Status – Double-clicking on the cell will generate the PlaybackURL.
• Stay in charge with the option to Cancel Transcode Job In-Queue.
• Never give up with the Option to Retry a failed Transcode Job.