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title: ZEN MASTER October 2023 RELEASE NOTES
slug: zen-master-october-2023-release-notes
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createdAt: 2025-03-21T18:43:37.642Z
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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.