MCS Release Notes

MCS 1.3.0 is compatible with MCMs 6.3.19 and up

Advanced User Management

Operator Console

MCS support for Rocky Linux OS

Enhance the support filter by incorporating tags within the layout configuration, specifically under the following path: sources > channels > filter.

Add support for up to 16 metadata elements on 2110

Filter thresholds list by all applicable fields (enabled thresholds)

New Layout - QC Element

Tile Editor Enhancements - preview resolution, ratio adjustment

Enhance the Clock tile, and incorporate a UTC Date Layout that displays the date format as follows: "Monday, 17th July." (Required MCM 6.5.0 or higher)

Copy to Clipboard - individual text fields and status/configuration as tables

ESD-5864 - The Content Management (CM) system halted following the addition of a new source in the source path.

ESD-5828 - Content Matching Error: The system has exited due to a fault related to memory allocation (malloc).

ESD-5715 - It is not possible to configure a time zone within MCS.

ESD-5738 - The "add" or "merge" profile options for rescanning a source are not functioning properly.

ESD-5671 - Creating a new daylight savings DST offset configuration for a timezone via the GUI fails

ESD-5627 - Content Monitoring box is missing for 2110 sources

ESD-5596 - Widgets are not keeping settings in the Dashboard

ESD-5539 - MCS device connection: forbidden characters

ESD-5547 - The OTT audio component currently lacks essential options for channel mapping.

ESD-5467 - Layouts and Outputs failed to load after the upgrade

ESD-5447 - The bonding mode of the interface is not shown in MCS

ESD-5410 - Unable to create templates after update

ESD-4952 - Source config - Device select does not show the full device name

ESD-5349 - Source status search filter not working

ESD-5320 - Support .jpeg and .jpg extensions for JPEG images.

ESD-5314 - Sort entries in Layout Background / JPEG Tile dropdowns and MCM Files alphabetically

ESD-5233 - To revoke a session, select the option to log out all sessions associated with that user, rather than just the individual session you intended to revoke.

ESD-5078 - Detailed source status not working with the Apple Safari browser

ESD-5069 - Addressed Security Vulnerabilities

ESD-5019 - SRT Scan is introducing a new source when the "existing source" option is inactive.

ESD-4914 - ndi:// scan creates duplicates for existing sources

ESD-4855 - Mosaic preview bar, always jumping to the far left

ESD-4535 - MCM Files Sync Failures in 1+1 after restart

ESD-4051 - Creating a scan job with naming convention XXX_000Y emits the zeroes and creates a source named XXX_Y

ESD-5493, 5047, 3806 - Redis notification NIC gets set back to auto

ESD-3650 - 401 Refresh Token not available

Add the 'Video Bitrate' variant to the 'Other' object for the tile. (Required MCM 6.5.0 or higher)

Enhance severity classifications by adding a disabled status.

MCS 1.2.16 is compatible with MCMs 6.3.19 and up and the upcoming MCM 6.5.0.

Layouts and Outputs failed to load after the upgrade

MCS 1.2.16 is compatible with MCMs 6.3.19 and up and the upcoming MCM 6.5.0. The Operator Console feature is compatible with MCM 6.3.16 and up. The Kafka Agent configuration is compatible with MCM 6.3.17 and up.

Support 2022-6 with NMOS.

Support Oracle instance stats in MCS (with MCM 6.3.19)

Source config - Device select does not show the full device name

MCS 1.2.15 Is Compatible with MCMs 6.3.14 and up, and future coming MCM 6.5.0. Operator Console feature is compatible with MCM 6.3.16 and up. Kafka Agent configuration is compatible with MCM 6.3.17 and up.

Content matching latency measurement - Content matching latency measurement is supported only for TS-based sources.

The source status search filter is not working

MCS 1+1 sync issue on cloud cross-region deployment

Content matching does not support fractional FR conversions (like 25 to 30)

Content matching audio matching is limited to 4 audios.

Content matching capacity is limited to 60 source pairs.

MCS slowness - Issuing MCS commands takes more time than expected to reach MCM.

Addressing Security vulnerabilities (CVEs: 2023-0286, 2021-36159, 2021-22930, 2021-22931, 2021-3711, 2022-37434, 2021-42381, 2021-37701, 2021-39135, 2022-21824, 2021-44531, 2021-3712, 2022-0778, 2018-2503, 2022-37434)

Adding support for Kafka Agent and configuration which exist on the MCM but do NOT exist on the MCS

Layout editor hover icons preventing pressing the align button

ST-2038 Working Mode is missing for the SRT access type

Allow to use space on the Search bar

Source config - Device select does not show the full device name

Mosaic preview bar, always jumping to the far left

Stop all monitor ott show incorrect number of stopped variants

Unknown File Type when uploading MCM FW v2.0.2 to MCM Files on MCS v1.2.1

Operator Interface MVP

Image file upload limit

MCS Tile Editor the Video Crop Buttons Image (via CSS shading) doesn't match action

No scroll bar in HLS profile list

Smart recording is greyed out from MCS

Multichoice SRT output issue

Unable to open source profile in MCS

device version control graphical indicators for next and current images

Change default encoder settings

The elastic data format was updated and changed, see data on the changes

Security Note: please make sure to set up the password for the REDIS pipe (PIPE_REDIS_PASSWORD=)

Adding Source Status view

Adding Alarm details view

Adding Tagging to Layouts

Reflect custom size cropping in the GUI

Adding support for the NDI Discover server

Nielsen support for multiple audio

Logstash updates

Allow disabling the curator in the .env file when using an external Elasticsearch/Opensearch.

Allow to configure the logstash index creation interval in the .env config file to match needs based on data volume.

Make logstash index creation interval configurable (currently hardcoded to 1 day)

Expose logstash pipeline files outside logstash container

Add additional output plugins into Logstash container. (Datadog, GCP Storage and GCP PubSub)

MCM upgrade of SW and FW via MCS not working as expected

Unable to batch import JPGs into MCS - in 1+1 redundancy only

MCS is not configuring MCM's NTP/DNS when MCM is first added or upgraded

PTP needs to be reconfigured upon system start-up

Cannot Add SNMP Agent to Keep Alive severity

The clock color works wrong

2110 - Audio-Only inputs have not been handled correctly in MCS

2110 sources bitrate is not shown in source status in MCS

Rescan of Source with Merge option breaks the ability to monitor

MCS uncompressed output missing config

in the encoder configuration layouts tab, when pressing the side arrow to go to the next output, no layouts appear

Unable to turn off SRT Low Latency via MCS

In MCS Tile Editor the Video Crop Buttons Image (via CSS shading) doesn't match the action

ELK stack upgrade to 8.x

Elastic data structure changed to nested

application_status.json: "path_match": "info"
channel_statistics.json: "path_match": "components"
channel_statistics.json: "path_match": "receivers"
content_matching.json: "path_match": "audio"
encoder_statistics.json: "path_match": "senders"
encoder_statistics.json: "path_match": "senders.networks"
system_keep_alive.json: "path_match": "image"

Security Note: please make sure to set up the password for the REDIS pipe (PIPE_REDIS_PASSWORD=)

Stop OTT streams with Errored Certificate (Compatible with MCM 6.3.8 and up)

Audio silence event (Compatible with MCM 6.3.8 and up)

MCS 1+1 issue around layout change for bridged sources

Add changeable Threshold to event 536 to MCS

Security Note: please make sure to set up the password for the REDIS pipe (PIPE_REDIS_PASSWORD=)

Delays on layout change

MCS imports st2022-6 sources as ST2110 type

ST2022-6 Audio mapping does not support > 8ch

Penalty box issues - Configuration validation was added

Sources under MCS penalty box control stayed in the penalty box after decay time ended.

Frozen sources in the penalty box and in Mosaic outputs

After the upgrade, the Main and backup MCS failed to run any schedules and no routes were able to be made

Issue with a video background on a mosaic in MCS

MCS GUI reporting wrong audio PIDS

Security Note: please make sure to set up the password for the REDIS pipe (PIPE_REDIS_PASSWORD=)

Add Nielsen channel configuration and thresholds in MCS

Add Format selection for TR-08 sender

Change default value "HLS Index Generation Interval" to 1 min - Requires MCM 6.3.3

MCS API 5.0/5.1 - Updating VLAN type interface over 5.0

Sources under MCS penalty box control stayed in the penalty box after decay time ended.

After the upgrade of MCMs to 6.3.1 and MCS to 1.1.1, the previews of outputs on MCS stopped working

Encoder filtering requires full name entering

Zixi - Subsequent Scans with the same host URL aren't added to MCS

MCS no longer allows colors for backgrounds in Mosaics - Requires MCM 6.3.3

Can't add mcm device with multiple license server entries

Unable to add a new MCM, Error: You must provide selection conditions in order to find a single row

Network error message when configuring CDI sender

Can't use 2 license server URLs in the MCS as in the MCM

Source configuration - Scan and monitoring issues

Device configuration Editing access for URL, UN and PW

Security Note: please make sure to set up the password for the REDIS pipe (PIPE_REDIS_PASSWORD=)

Added to the UI License Server URL option

Ability to upload mp3/jpg files through MCS that pushes to all devices

Security - support for TLS 1.2. note that TLS 1.0/1.1 is now disabled

Some UI improvement

KMS naming was updated - Changed Cipex KMS to ATD-C, API 5.0 use CPIX & 5.1 uses ATD-C. Backward compatibility with the old MCM version that uses API 5.0 was tested.

API 5.1 added

Fixed response to API/5.0/channels/command/monitoring/enable has changed in the latest version of MCS

Fixed issue with NMOS routes in "Primary Only" that rejected by MCS

Fixed issue with the restart of redundant MCS server causes sync of stale config

Fixed situation where the Main server is sending a channel update to one particular MCM, and then the Backup server is sending another update about a second later, and then back to the Main.

Fixed issue when a video takes minutes to appear in Mosaic

Fixed issue when duplicate layouts (copy entry button) don't work

Fixed issue with editing live HLS layout

Fixed issue with GUI flickering when a large number of windows opened

Fixed the issue of deleting an object in the tile editor resets the resolution parameter

Fixed Outputs Encoder Configuration issues

MCS 1.0.0 Compatible with MCM 6.0.7 and higher

Elastic search endpoint is configurable during installation - please refer to the MCS Installation chapter of MCS documentation for details.

Threshold Sets deleted after adding backup MCS

Audio Output doesn't work on Bridge with MCS

Improve the query response time

MCS - News scan task GUI Issue

Split left and Split right tiles are shown as a full image