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title: ZEN MASTER January 2025 RELEASE NOTES
slug: zen-master-january-2025-release-notes
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createdAt: 2025-03-21T19:31:21.941Z
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The following updates will be included in the ZEN Master release for January 7, 2025.


Features
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The following new features were implemented in this release:

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o POIS support via ESAM agent


o Zixi Broadcaster and ZEN Master introduce support for POIS (Placement
Opportunity Information Service) for identifying and managing content
placement opportunities within audio and video streams, primarily for
advertising purposes.
o Zixi Broadcaster provides SCTE-35 replacement features that work in conjunction
with the Zixi ESAM Agent.
o The Zixi ESAM Agent has been updated to support POIS messaging and the POIS
Broadcaster interface.
o SCTE-35 replacement commands are logged locally via the ESAM Agent, and also
in ZEN Master.
Requires a 3rd party POIS Server, Zixi’s ESAM Agent, and Broadcaster v18.0.45862
or later.

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o "Target" thumbnails Grids


o Support for Target objects is now added to thumbnail grids:

### o Time zone selection


o For teams and environments spanning multiple time zones, ZEN Master provides
the ability for users to set a global time zone to assist with coordinating support
and incident management.
o It can now be set via the time zone picker at the top right of the console.
o When changed, all Date/Time data updates to the corresponding time in the
selected time zone:

## Additional Improvements and Changes


The following additional improvements and changes were implemented in this release:
o Separate Audio/PCR overlay controls on thumbnail Grids
o Users can now separately choose to display these overlays:
o Improved loading times for Channels and Live-Events pages
o Diagrams added to ZEC/Feeder/Receiver pages
o Support for S3 compatible storage
o Source monitoring will now report error concealment and PID mapping errors
o Traceroute on Sources is now available from ZEC/client Broadcaster to server
Broadcaster
o DPDK Improvements
o UI Improvements

## Bug Fixes


The following issues were resolved:
o CIDR pattern validation allowed some invalid values
o Repeating Network/IP updated events log messages when ISP has special characters in
the name
o Repeating TR-101 analysis stopped messages in Broadcaster events log
o Error configuring Zixi Push bonded Source
o SRT Push Sources will not go into error state until the first connection
o Unable to import AWS MediaConnect workflow
o Invalid parameters errors on some clone actions
o Various ESNI/ESAM/POIS bug fixes


API
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The following updates were implemented in the ZEN Master API:

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API Additions


o Return 'cloud\_id' with the Broadcaster list & get responses
o For Broadcasters managed and launched via ZEN Master, the corresponding
internal cloud instance\_id is included in the api responses.