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9.0.100
New Features
Support for Compressed Audio Output
Series 5 players now support sending compressed audio over both HDMI and SPDIF. This includes both AC3 and EAC3 formats and Dolby ATMOS.
OS-13820, OS-15516, OS-15767, OS-15814, OS-15836, OS-15912
HDCP Support
HS5/LS5/XT5 are now being manufactured with HDCP v1.4. More information about player support for HDCP can be found here.
OS-13682, OS-13715, OS-13728, OS-14317, OS-14319, OS-14231, OS-15329, OS-15771, OS-13738, OS-15328, OS-15903, OS-15569
Secure Store Support
Added support for the Secure Store feature on LS5/HS5/XT5.
OS-13665
Support for CEA 608/708 and DVB Subtitles (Beta)
This feature is being introduced as Beta on LS5/HS5/XT5/XC5.
OS-15426, OS-15696, OS-15817, OS-15863
Enhanced Synchronization Support
Series 5 players now support Enhanced Synchronization to +/- 1 frame when using roSyncManager.
OS-14297, OS-15882
Improvements
OS-13481: (XC5) Modified the player’s LED behavior to prevent situations where no LEDs are lit. The new behavior is such that when power is applied to the player, the error LED turns on and stays on (instead of turning off as it did previously) until the power LED turns on.
OS-13685: (XC5) Modified the system behavior so that the serial port does not send data to the console unless specifically enabled.
OS-14666: (Series 5) Added support for SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) streams.
OS-14889: (XT5) Updated extensions-kit, SDK, and source release documentation.
OS-15241: (XT5) Cleaned up unnecessary serial output that was being written during graphics startup.
OS-15276: (XC5) Reduce the verbosity in microcontroller (CEC) trace logs.
OS-15290: (XT5) Added support for audio on HDMI-2.
OS-15321: (LS5) Added support for IR transmit and receive.
OS-15376: (HD5/XD5/LS5/HS5/XC5) Enabled deinterlacing as part of the video decoder.
OS-15385: (XT5) Enabled hardware accelerated video on XT5.
OS-15423: (LS5) Improved EMI performance by reducing the μSD clock drive level.
OS-15428: (Series 5) Added support for GetStreamStatistics and VideoFramesPerSecond.
OS-15452: (HD5/XD5/HS5/LS5/XT5) Added temperature sensor support.
OS-15587: (XC5) Added support for USB modems including the Huawei E3372 USB modem.
OS-15609, OS-15648, OS-15843, OS-15926: Upgraded Supervisor to 2.1.10 and DWS to 1.12.0.
OS-15622: (XT5) Enabled configuration of input EDID.
OS-15627: (LS5) Improved EMI performance by enabling spread-spectrum clocking on Ethernet.
OS-15640: Changed the defaults for the BrightSign prompt command line tool, htmlplay. Node and bsjsobjects are now disabled by default which increases compatibility with web pages that use jQuery.
OS-15657: (XT5) Improved SSD support for the latest hardware.
OS-15671: (Series 5) Enabled WPA2 (AES) support with EAP-TLS.
OS-15681: (Series 5) Added support for USB modems including the Huawei E3372.
OS-15688: (XT5) Added support of formatting of blank/damaged SD cards.
OS-15712: (XT5) Improved Ethernet stability by adjusting the Ethernet PHY reset.
OS-15713: Re-instated IPv6 SLAAC support.
OS-15726: (HD5/XD5/LS5/HS5/XT5) Upgraded bootloader to 9.0.85.
OS-15733: (HD5/XD5/HS5/LS5/XT5) Added the ability to apply video transforms using HWZ video attribute through HTML.
OS-15758: (XT5) Improved configuration of voltage regulators on power supply.
OS-15791: (XC5) Reduced the verbosity of CEC messages to the kernel.
OS-15801: (Series 5) Fixed an issue where the mouse pointer is not shown until after first movement.
OS-15806: (XC5) Upgraded the bootloader to 9.0.91.
OS-15832: (XC5) Updated bootloader upgrade system.
OS-15841: Added a new registry setting to override "auto" video mode.
OS-15879: (XC5) Enabled disk error reporting.
OS-15914: (Series 5) Increased the system log buffer size to match Series 4.
Bug Fixes
OS-14593: (XC5) Fixed an issue in which the SSD is not seen by the PCI bus.
OS-14651: (LS5/HS5) Fixed a video playback issue related to video rectangle window size.
OS-14699: (Series 5) Fixed an issue with JavaScript serial port operation that would cause a crash when attempting to use @brightsign/serialport.
OS-15016, OS-15690: Added the ability for a player to force a reboot when encountering an out-of-memory condition so that it doesn’t get stuck indefinitely.
OS-15133: Fixed an issue with intermittent crashes triggered by rapid HtmlWidget creation/destruction.
OS-15161: (XC5) Fixed an issue in which crash dumps don’t contain a core dump.
OS-15294: (Series 5) Fixed an issue with intermittent lockup/restart during repeated video testing.
OS-15295: (WiFi) Applied correct WPA2 enterprise-specific option to the EAPTLS configuration.
OS-15378: (XD5) Fixed an issue in which a video container with multiple video streams may display a frame of the first stream even when the PreferredVideo filter has been set to another stream.
OS-15458: (Series 5) Fixed an issue in which touch input would work only in a portion of the screen by scaling touch input correctly in upscaled graphics modes.
OS-15543: (Series 5) Added source-specific multicast support for UDP/RTP streaming.
OS-15551: (Series 5) Chromium: Fixed a Chromium iframe memory leak issue by limiting the memory used for the 2D graphics cache.
OS-15598: (XT5) Fixed an issue with drop frame video modes.
OS-15606: (XT5) Fixed an error with HDMI-In EDID reading.
OS-15617: (Series 4) Fixed a Ticker regression on Series 4 players.
OS-15620: (Series 5) Fixed an issue with permissions for HTML-based USB serial ports access.
OS-15623: (Series 5) Addressed an issue where some USB devices were not being recognized via hotplug.
OS-15630: (Series 5) Addressed an issue where the default audio routing resulted in no audio being played during HTML video playback.
OS-15664: (Series 5) Fixed an issue where video playback would fail when the area was set to zero.
OS-15683: (Series 5) Fixed an issue where roVideoMode.GetMode() returns the current display WxHxRate value instead of “custom”.
OS-15686: Fixed a layering issue with certain CSS animations and Z-order when using HWZ with a negative z-index.
OS-15722: Fixed an issue where the player does not properly perform IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC).
OS-15731: Fixed an issue where the browser fails to hide an already playing video when the “hwz” attribute is set to “z-index:1”.
OS-15732: (Series 5) Fixed an issue with video playing and media ended events were not being appropriately emitted.
OS-15737: (XC5) Fixed an issue where crashdumps would lead to a continual reboot.
OS-15738: (Series 5) Fixed an issue in which starting a video without a keyframe (e.g., by joining a multicast stream that has already started) would result in a crash.
OS-15743: (HD5/XD5/LS5/HS5) Fixed an issue where text widgets would render incorrectly.
OS-15773: Fixed an issue where video playing in a browser at less than full-screen would flash a frame or two of the video at full-screen.
OS-15797: (XC5) Fixed an issue in which holding down the SVC button while powering up a player would perform a rescue boot instead of booting with the serial console enabled.
OS-15802: (Series 5) Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor does not correctly track touch movements.
OS-15845: Fixed an issue where @brightsign/networkstatus getRemoteLoginStatus() function would return null instead of returning an empty object.
OS-15858: (Series 5) Added support for the CH34x USB-to-serial driver and fixed a bug which could cause some peripherals to fail to enumerate correctly when connected to a BrightSign USB400.
OS-15869: (Series 5) Fixed an issue where a sequence of signed/unsigned extension installs may fail.
OS-15872: Fixed an issue where HDMI-2 audio output would be created on players that do not have multiple HDMI ports.
OS-15875: Fixed a regression in which getPresentNetworkInterfaces() would report an exception instead of the network interfaces.
OS-15878: Fixed an error where the fractional portion of the
roDiskMonitor.GetDiskError().timetimestamp was incorrect.OS-15895: (HD5/XD5) Fixed an issue where playing HDR content to an HDR screen would display a red screen.
OS-15929: (LS5/HS5) Fixed video decode errors and occasional crash.
Supervisor Updates (2.2.11)
BCN-14338: Added support for connecting USB modems through a USB700 hub.
BCN-14781: Added support for the upload and download of binary (non-text) files through the rDWS.
BCN-14773, BCN-14458: Added OS support to prevent unintentional password reset by the rDWS.
9.0.75
Improvements
OS-15063: (General) Added preliminary support for PTP timestamping with Intel 9260 WiFi cards.
OS-15385: (XT5) Added support for video playback without GPU.
OS-15396: Added support for opacity on ticker widgets.
OS-15420: (Series 5) Added support for adaptive bitrate switching with HLS.
OS-15421: (Series 5) Fixed an issue related to HLS adaptive bitrate where a change in the decoded video size would result in a playback failure.
OS-15427: (LS5) Added support for IR input/output or serial via USB-C.
OS-15449: (Series 5) Fixed an issue where video playback is not smooth when the video resolution changes.
OS-15462: (XC5/XD5/HD5) Added the ability to configure the IR transmit carrier frequency.
OS-15469: (XT5) Fixed an issue with HDMI input in which video playback would not restart if the cable is removed and reinserted.
OS-15475 / OS-15489: (LS5/HS5) Modified the long-press behavior of the RST button to help prevent a hard reset of the player when the user is intending to perform a factory reset.
OS-15476: (Series 5) Prevent fallback from hardware decode to software decode.
OS-15477, OS-15450: (HS5/LS5) Improved Ethernet configuration in the bootloader.
OS-15482: (Series 5) Improve HLS codec support and improve parsing of HEVC codecs.
OS-15490: (Series 5) Added a fix to prevent a long Reset press from putting board to sleep.
OS-15505: (XC5/XT5/XD5/HD5/LS5/HS5) Standardized naming convention for RTL8152 based USB Ethernet devices.
OS-15508: Upgraded DWS to version 1.9.0 (added option to format USB, SSD; added support for formatting unmounted/unformatted USB and SSD; fixed missing Snapshots and Video tab on LS445; fixed missing video mode information on INFO tab for LS445).
OS-15524: Reduced stream probe time for faster startup.
OS-15529: Improved streaming experience by reducing the timeout to 6 seconds for a media-ended event due to a stream stopping. Network timeout now generates mediaend event.
OS-15547: Set the minimum permitted firmware version on LS5/HS5 to 9.0.75 (OS) and 9.0.74 (rescue).
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