ZEN MASTER October 2023 RELEASE NOTES
The following updates will be included in the ZEN Master June 13, 2023 release.
Features
The following new features were implemented in this release: Incidents are now available to non-Admin users • Admins can mark incidents as public for all users. • Users can be designated as an Incident Manager allowing them access to all Incidents. o In previous iterations of ZEN Master, incidents were only available to Admin Users. o This update allows incident viewing privileges to be provided to Operations Users without the need to elevate Users to full Admins. o In addition, the new Incident Manager User Type allows a User to modify incidents including adding notes, annotations, closure, etc. o The new User type can be added to new, or existing Users:
Additional Improvements and Changes
The following additional improvements and changes were implemented in this release: • Exposed missing failover config options in Failover Channels: o Failover options are now available in Failover Channels: • Added optional PID Mapping column to Source and Target lists: o If a Source or Target uses a PID Map rule, the rule will be listed here. o This allows Users to sort and filter by PID Map rules and easily identify and find all sources and targets using a specific rule. • Added timestamps to Kafka event messages: o Timestamps, which were previously present in the Kafka entry metadata, are now added to the Kafka entry payload. • Live Events dashboard - Active/Locked Sources are highlighted. • Improved recovery time for Zixi Pull targets under some failure scenarios. • Added ZM assigned Broadcaster hostnames to Broadcaster details page. • ZECs are now available in Grids.
• Reverting changes from change tracking will now display a restart confirmation when necessary. • Added Segment Path setting to HTTP Targets: o ZEN Master is updated to support the functionality previously available in the Zixi platform. o The path to the destination can be formed in one of the following ways: ▪ Full path • //? ▪ Path in parameters • ? ▪ Flat path • /? • Any "/" in path should be replaced with "" ▪ See platform documentation for further information. o This option is available under the advanced section of the HTTP Target type: • UI Polish o Cosmetic Dark Mode update. o Improved sorting of Broadcaster by Streams in Broadcaster table. o Broadcaster/Clusters listing selection is now persistent. o Broadcasters list table rows setting no longer resets on navigation. o Added feature guide to Dashboard. o Trailing whitespaces in object names will now cause an error. o Clarified state column in Incidents list. o Proliferation of copy-to-clipboard buttons. o Fixed issue with filtering on Grid table view. o Editing an "unmanaged" Zixi Push Source will display a warning that a config change is required on the client. o API Key copy is only displayed once ZEN Master has retrieved the key from AWS. o General styling and UI cleanup.
Bug Fixes
The following issues were resolved: • Automatic PULLs of Inter-cluster Sources now pull from the Inter-cluster Source correctly. • IO servers will now maintain a fixed ed25519 host key after recovery. • Resolved rare issue where ZM will report a reconnection error on a Source/Target that did not reconnect. • Fixed a validation error preventing creation of audio only transcoding profiles. • Thumbnails constantly refreshing on Grid Groups page. • IO server redirection always redirecting to private ports. • Incorrect Nvidia/Cuda driver version on AWS AMIs for v16 Broadcasters. API The following updates were implemented in the ZEN Master API: • Page count is now returned in Failover Channel list API.