ftrack Studio 4.2 beta release notes

Release notes for 4.2 beta 1 – 30 April, 2019

Below you can find the full release notes for the launch of this beta. If you have any questions at all, please get in touch with us. We’d be happy to talk you through things.

Migration notes

Developer notes:

Modifying UserSecurityRole deprecated
Adding and modifying UserSecurityRole directly is no longer supported. Instead the new actions add_user_security_role, remove_user_security_role, grant_user_security_role_project and revoke_user_security_role_project should be used.

add_user_security_role and remove_user_security_role accept user_id and role_id as parameters, while grant_user_security_role_project and revoke_user_security_role_project accept the additional parameters project_id or all_open_projects.

Projects relation removed from UserSecurityRole
The projects relation on UserSecurityRole has been removed and replaced by the user_security_role_projects relation which references the new object UserSecurityRoleProject.

Adding and removing security roles using legacy API
Support for adding and removing security roles to users and granting access to projects for users using legacy API has been removed. Please use new API instead.

Release notes

NEW
Overview, Timeline – Added support for filtering out events, tasks and milestones on Users and Projects timeline views.

CHANGED
Overview, Cross project views – Changed default sort order of Versions to be latest published.

NEW
Overview – Attributes can be changed for the card layout views for Project and User.

NEW
Overview – Added support for User and Project cross-project views.

CHANGED
Overview – Changed dashboards in Overview to have the new filter panel and new settings panel.

FIXED
Overview – Filter count on cross-project views are not correct.

NEW
Client review – Client review collaborator interface has been updated with new features and style. Some of the new features are timeline markers, improved annotation tools, note sorting by timecode, pdf support, support for mobile devices and more. Old interface can be re-activated via system settings if needed.

NEW
Web interface – Added support for private projects.

CHANGED
Web interface, System settings – The dialog for managing a users security roles have been updated with new look and design.

NEW
Web interface, Team page – A project access section have been added to the project team page and can be used to add and remove user access to the project.

FIXED
API – Some complex API queries may fail with internal server error.

FIXED
Web interface – Loading web interface can be slow when having many object types.

CHANGED
Client review – Updated design and messaging when visiting an expired review.

FIXED
API – Deleting a project using the API will sometimes fail randomly.

FIXED
Client review – Invitation email does not contain review description.

FIXED
Overview, Cross-project views – Cross project views with lots of asset versions is slow to load when sorting on date.

CHANGED
Client review, Export – Updated client review export with new design.

CHANGED
Export – Exports may no longer contain any non-thumbnail images.

CHANGED
Notification – Update notification emails to be more consistent when referring to collaborator updates in a review.

NEW
Local installation – Added support for MariaDB 10.3.

NEW
Theme – Added support for switching default theme in application from System Settings. Changing this setting will affect all users that has not already switched theme.

CHANGED
Cloud hosted, Encoding – The thumbnail of a multi page PDF will now only show the first page.

FIXED
Review, Cloud hosted – The review image generated when uploading images has the wrong name when being downloaded.

NEW
Events – Added entity_type attribute to update events which matches the API schemas.

NEW
Events – Added events for UserSecurityRole and UserSecurityRoleProject changes.

FIXED
Spreadsheet – Count summary in spreadsheet header has incorrect label.

NEW
API – Added support for exporting review session feedback from API with a delayed_job action.

FIXED
Upload, Web interface – Not possible to upload versions to a Milestone.

FIXED
Tasks page, Web Interface – Removing top item from spreadsheet results in server error.

FIXED
Lists, Sidebar, Web Interface – List category is not rendered correct in List sidebar.

FIXED
Event hub, Web Interface – Event hub not working if username contains certain characters.

CHANGED
Legacy API – Support for adding and removing security roles to users and granting access to projects for users using legacy API has been removed. Please use new API instead.

CHANGED
Legacy API – Support for bookings and phases in legacy API has been removed.

NEW
API – Added support for private projects. A project can either be private or open. All existing projects are open, which means they can be accessed by users who can access all projects or have explicit access to a project. Private projects are only visible to the user who created it, or users who are explicitly given access to it after the project has been created.

NEW
API – Added new permission to control who can grant users access to a project. The permission is automatically added on roles that are allowed to create new projects. The new permission does not allow giving users new roles, only grant access to projects for existing roles. This new permission make it possible for project managers to grant users access to a new project they have created without requiring access to system settings.

CHANGED
API – Adding and modifying UserSecurityRole directly is no longer supported. Instead the new actions add_user_security_role, remove_user_security_role, update_user_security_role, grant_user_security_role_project and revoke_user_security_role_project should be used.

add_user_security_role, update_user_security_role and remove_user_security_role accept user_id and role_id as parameters, while grant_user_security_role_project and revoke_user_security_role_project accept the additional parameters project_id or all_open_projects. update_user_security_role also takes the additional parameter new_role_id.

CHANGED
API – The projects relation on UserSecurityRole has been removed and replaced by the user_security_role_projects relation which references the new object UserSecurityRoleProject.

CHANGED
API – The is_all_projects attribute on UserSecurityRole has been deprecated and replaced by is_all_open_projects attribute. The old attribute will continue to be available for now.

NEW
API – Added support for Manager and ManagerType.

FIXED
Review, Web Interface – Non ascii characters are stripped from uploaded file names.

NEW
Web Interface, Review – Added setting to control if version numbers should be automatically detected from filename when uploading files in the web interface. The setting can be found in system settings under advanced settings.