Release Notes

What has changed and what new features or plugins did we add in the latest version of Play Digital Signage application.

VERSION 1.18.x

Released on 7. February 2020

Player starts with dark loader to prevent white flash on screens
Possibility to set custom user agent for web plugin requests
Updated Windows/Linux/Mac application internal browser to latest Chrome 80 (Electron v8.0.0)
Mac application is notarized (Catalina will no longer display warning)
Added .ttf and .otf font support
Added .heic image file support (automatically converted to .jpg files)
Eyedropper to pick color in the editor
If Windows registry editing is disabled and user enables auto-launch, the player will send warning to the user in the web portal
Dynamic UUID parameter in website plugin URL’s
Hebrew language option for weather plugin

VERSION 1.17.x

Released on 18. November 2019
Approved by Sander Sink

Added support for German, Spanish and Estonian language
Added support for CAPTIONS in youtube
Added Analytics (Proof of play)
Added support for Animated GIF
Added support for Changing names on slides

VERSION 1.16.x

Released on 18. September 2019
Approved by Lars Normark Holmgaard

Added Two-Factor Authentication supporting multiple authenticators.
Added support for HTML snippets in Website plugin
Added new function to count-down plugin to be able to do count-up also
Added support for Player unique hardware ID with relation to better support

VERSION 1.15.x

Released on 01. August 2019
Approved by Lars Normark Holmgaard

Changes to Clock plugin – Now possible to do transparent face
Changes to billing section – Now possible to update credit card
Changes to billing section – Initiate payment from transaction overview
Changes to library – Delete files directly from editor
Changes to library – Create slides based on images now has settings for how to insert the images plus the choosing a background color
Added remote settings management for players
Added additional information about player hardware
Added player download progress bar in screens page
Reworked user authentication
MediaRSS now is loaded asynchronously and not called back before first item is loaded

VERSION 1.14.x

Released on 07. May 2019
Approved by Lars Normark Holmgaard

Added new plugin Instagram Photo
Added new plugin Instagram#
Added Royalty Free Image Library
Added feature Selecting multiple files
Added new plugin Random quote
Added feature iMove items from one folder to another
Added feature remote clearing cache on most players
Added support for new file formats (webp, bmp, excel formats (Microsoft, Apple and OpenOffice formats), zip and eps.)
Added support for Request Desktop Site in Android

VERSION 1.13.x

Released on 10. November 2018
Approved by Justas Azna

Added support for Android native support
Added plugin, On this day
Added plugin, Quote of the day
Optimized counter and digital clock plugins
Added audio option for playlists

VERSION 1.12.x

Released on 1. November 2018
Approved by Sander Sink

Added new plugin Facebook Photo
Incorrect hour calculation bug fixed in the counter widget
Added support for preloading twitter content
Fixed a bug where RSS load failure caused infinite retry loop
Made it possible to use native webview in Android devices
Extension webviews have allowed transparency enabled
Player now hides the previous slide if in sub-playlist and background is transparent
Fixed a bug where audio was not played if scheduled in a sequence of playlists
Disabled pinch zoom on electron
Fixed a bug where a scheduled sequence playlist had no matching slides, next playlist was not triggered
Possible to pause audio for some slides

VERSION 1.11.x

Released on 04. September 2018
Approved by Sander Sink

Added new plugin count-down
Added new feature background music in a playlist
Added new feature guided tour for new users
Added a new function where a user can set the grid size

VERSION 1.10.x

Released on 07. August 2018
Approved by Lars Normark

Added new plugin MediaRSS
Added new plugin RSS Ticker
Added support for Raspberry PI

VERSION 1.09.x

Released on 14. May 2018
Approved by Lars Normark

Added new feature Screen Capture
Added design templates repository
Added design templates: Abstract, Company Presentation, Meet the teachers, Business, Hours and Meetings at the office
Added feature for cropping images
Added layering for ticker and video

VERSION 1.08.x

Released on 27. March 2018
Approved by Justas Azna

Added feature Teams
Added roles for team members

VERSION 1.07.x

Released on 15. Febuary 2018
Approved by Sander Sink

Added feature Slide Stash
Added feature Alerts

Future releases

Our roadmap is very dynamic so you should expect things can change in our future releases. Keep in mind most of the information is pulled from our internal system, so not everything makes sense 😉

Flipclock

Adding flipclock via web plugin http://flipclockjs.com/

Dashboard

Users should be able to add dashboard features to the dashboard – Activity in the team (Related to logs), Screen online / offline, Latest firmware and release notes, Notification center (Related to future to come notification center), Did you know that ****

Streaming video feed

As discussed on team meeting we need to investigate rather or not we should and/or can offer users to stream video.

Samsung SmartTV

Adding player functionality for Samsung SmartTV

Adding social media plugins for Business: LinkedIn

Listview for library

This one is not very important – It’s easy to find files and it’s limited what a user can do with files. The current need and/or use-case is deleting or finding, so perhaps we should add a search functionality instead of listview ??

Listview for Screens page

Some of our bigger customers have, over time, been asking for alternative views to offer more overview – This would involve creating a whole new view, with less information and multiple columns and rows.

Pause function – Seasonal use of Play Digital Signage

Not, that many customers ask for it, but one did ask if we could do a “pause” – They use screens only half of the year, and have to delete, add them .. Perhaps we could easily pause screens under some conditions.

Automatic image optimization for player

Some customers use way too big images in their playlists, these are re-sized down to 4k, but often times the 4k image is used in full HD player or even if the user uploads a full HD file and is using it only in a small region in the screen, the large image takes up player’s resources.

Emojis in editor

Add emojis to editor.

Flash Message

The customer is a retail shop selling clothes. From time to time the store manager needs to advertise special offers or display warnings on all screens. User a slide in a playlist marks it as “Flash” and enters a slide name like “Special offer 1”. The user can add the slide to slidestash and use it in other playlists if needed. When the user wants one or multiple flash slides displayed on his screens he can easily activate them either from his phone or tablet.

LG SmartTV

Adding player functionality for LG SmartTV

Facebook Likes

User can choose any Facebook page likes (Like the flip clock)

Listview for Groups

A simpler way to move screens between groups – This is for those with many groups and the need to move them around (Not that many when their signage network has been set up and is in play).

Plugin for CAP protocol

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

Slide duration progress bar

Lars proposed an idea where we could use the progress bar to indicate slide progress.

Grouping playlists

When having many playlists customer is having trouble managing them – In this case, the customer has 7 screens where 20 advertisers are on all 7 screens … so its like 140 playlists. The customer would instead be able to create a group called “Screen 1” where he/she would add 20 playlists.

Audit log

As a security-conscious account administrator, I would like to see the log of important events and who triggered them. You can see this feature in action in systems like DigitalOcean, AWS, gitlab and many more.

Jump over “online slides”

The player should skip a slide containing online elements like youtube and website if the internet connection is lost.

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