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AXIS for Roku 5.0 Released for Linear part 1
This release contains the EPG3, CH2 and CHD2 rows for channel schedule support.
What's new
- The EPG3 row for showing what's currently airing on a given list of channels
- The CH2 row for showing the upcoming schedule for a specified channel
- The CHD2 row for showing the upcoming schedule for the channel on the channel detail page
Release Notes
Other Notes
- Various bug fixes, see release notes for details
- Roku release version bought forward to 5.0 for feature parity across all reference apps
AXIS for Roku 1.1 Released for alignment with Roku certifications
This release contains elements for aligning AXIS with Roku certification
What's new
- User in-app registration (new account creation)
- User in-app sign in via email and password
- ED2 row design improvements
- Autoplay / Chainplay feature
Release Notes
Other Notes
Various bug fixes, see release notes for details
What's new
- Mobile Nav Bar menu type and Menu Icons
We introduce a new menu type called Mobile Nav Bar. It represents a menu at the bottom of the screen of mobile applications, consisting typically only of buttons with icons pointing to important pages like Home, Downloads, Search, Account and alike.
Menu entries can now have icons - allowing the operators to define additional visual aids in the navigation. This is crutial for the new Mobile Nav Bar entries for example.
- Presentation Manager usability improvements
Hover Overlays in List Asset Selector:
When an operator hovers over an asset in the autocomplete dropdown of list asset selector, he/she can now see more information about it within an overlay"Send to Top" Feature in Lists:
An Operator can now send an asset to the top of the list by choosing option "Send to top" in the dropdown menu.Help Center Link:
Presentation Manager now contains a link to AXIS Help Center in the top navigation bar.Additional updates
- Significant security improvements to AXIS Services REST API
- Support for Amazon ElastiCache Reader Endpoints
- Much better Amazon ECS deployment automation
- Terraform and Clean Dataset are now in much better shape
Release Notes
EPG 1 Channel Guide and CH1 / CHD1 Embedded Playback
This release contains the second part of Linear implementation for Responsive Web and TV applications.
What's new
- The EPG page and EPG1 Channel Guide row with channels' schedules throughout given time period
- The CH1 Row for a full-width stream of a specific channel Channel Detail Page support for showing the details of a specific channel.
- Text To Speech support on TV applications
Release Notes
Other Notes
- Application accessibility updates TB2, TB3 and TB4 rows restructure
- Rework of player components for better code reuse and optimisation
- UI/UX improvements
- Tools and libraries updates
Overview
This release contains the second part of our Linear implementation for Android and Android TV applications.
What's new
- The EPG1 Channel Guide row for displaying a fullscreen episode guide for a given list of channels on an EPG page
- The CH1 Row for a full-width stream of a specific channel
- Android support for the Channel Detail Page - for showing the details of a specific channel. Compatible with CHD1, EPG3, CHD2, and CH2 rows
Release Notes
Other Notes
- This release includes rework of player components for code reuse and optimisation
- This release includes rework for performance of season and episode lists
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AXIS Platform
AXIS 8.1
Overview
This release is focused on minor enhancements to the EPG and Live playback APIs in order to support new linear features in the next major releases of the reference apps. It also includes various improvements to monitoring, performance, security or general usability of both AXIS API and Presentation Manager.
It is a recommended upgrade for all customers on 8.x.
What's New
Enhanced EPG APIs
The API used by apps to load programme schedules was extended with an additional parameter to limit the amount of data returned not only by date, but also by count. Moreover, a brand new API endpoint was introduced to support loading detailed information about a particular schedule entry.
Improved data model for live playback
Live Channel assets used a simplified media file tracking data model that was insufficient to support live playback in different types of devices. This has been updated to use the richer media file data model of other playable asset types like movies, programs and similar.
Enhanced APM support
One of key AXIS Platform API components (ISL) was updated to support more granular transaction monitoring in New Relic, making it easier to identify bottlenecks or areas of user experience that may become sub-optimal during traffic spikes.
In a future release we will be migrating to DataDog as the default APM solution for the entire AXIS platform.
Changed
Default timezone setting was moved from Linear section to General
Various updates to EPG and Live Player row templates
Fixed
Presentation Manager
- In List editor, items that are in state that contains a hyphen (like Offered - More Offerable) don't get displayed in the preview
- In Page edit form, unchanged values of checkboxes prevent a Page to save due to validation errors
- In Offer edit form, when item type is changed, offer file type can no longer be updated
- On Asset Sub Types management page, the asset type badges are not centered
AXIS API
- Security patches
- Minor performance improvements
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iOS/tvOS
AXIS iOS/tvOS 5.1.0 released
Overview
Support for right-to-left (RTL) languages and RTL display is implemented on iOS and tvOS targets.
What's new
- RTL support for Arabic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian and Urdu
- This release now supports language switching through the OS and iOS 13 preferred language settings
Release notes
new
fixed
Android
AXIS Android 5.1.0 released
Overview
Support for Right-to-left (RTL) languages and RTL display is implemented throughout the Android, Android TV, Android Launcher and Fire TV variants.
What's new
- RTL support for Arabic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian and Urdu
What's fixed
- This release includes fixes for performance and memory issues on CS rows
- Various other minor issues are addressed, review release notes for details
Release notes
new
improved
fixed
AXIS Platform
AXIS Platform 8.0.0 released
Overview
A latest major release of the AXIS platform
What's new
- Dynamic Row Titles
- ISL containers - scale out time is down to ~3 min from the original ~14 min
- Removal of Active Directory
- Support for Amazon RDS
- Terraform-based environment provisioning
- Data fixes, bug fixes, optimizations
- Significant codebase updates and improvements
- Core Admin Tool and ESB Admin Tool can be installed and updated easily again
Release notes
new
fixed
improved
Web TV
AXIS Web TV 5.1.0 released
Overview
This release introduces RTL (right-to-left) support implementation
What's new
• RTL layout support by all row types;
• Added support for additional branded rows PB2, PB3, TB2, TB3, SB2, SB3
• added mouse support for WebTV targets
What's changed
• Extended Magic Remote support on LG WebOS
What's fixed
• Exit confirmation on SamsungTV
Release notes
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