Spring 2015 Release

tag: 2015.spring.0

###Spring 2014 Release

###Features

• Self-registration. Visitors to http://mediathread.ccnmtl.columbia.edu can now register for and immediately access a Mediathread Guest Sandbox. Once in the sandbox, guests can experiment with features on the 'student' level. This new self-registration was designed to ease the on-ramp for potential Mediathread users.
• Change password. Guest users can now recover and change their passwords.
• Item Visibility toggles. By default, students in a class are able to see each other's items and selections. Instructors can now choose to disallow the ability of students in a class to see each other's items in the Collections interface, as well as selections made by other students on individual items.
• Flowplayer5 upgrade to serve videos in the latest HTML5 standard.
• Instructors many now configure the "From Your Instructor" title via the Manage / Settings menu item.
• TinyMCE upgrade to resolve compatibility bugs with IE.
• TinyMCE word count feature turned on in the project, feedback and discussion spaces.

###Infrastructure

• Django 1.6 upgrade.
• Flowplayer Upgrade.
  • IMPORTANT: This release requires a Flowplayer5 installation alongside the Flowplayer Flash installation. Please review the README file for full configuration instructions.
• Formalized release notation as year.season.release. The initial release for a season is alway noted as 0, subsequent release increment that trailing number. For example, this release is tagged 2015.spring.0.

###Upgrading

• Complete a fresh source pull or merge the new code directly into a forked version of the Mediathread code base.
• make clean
• make