Changelog

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Backstage 1.5.14 Release Notes

October 28, 2025

User Interface

  • Implemented persisted filters from URL for Video and Playlist libraries, maintaining applied filters when navigating back from details screens.

  • Enabled opening Video and Playlist details screens in new tabs by clicking on titles or the open in new window icon.

  • Added error details summary for bulk update operations in Video and Playlist modules.

Backstage 1.5.13 Release Notes

October 21, 2025

API Infrastructure

  • Enhanced background job processing for improved reliability and reporting.

  • Added bulk operations for Playlist Library, including delete and tag update functionalities.

  • Refactored image upload API to support uploading assets to both S3 and Bunny CDN storage.

  • Introduced Admin API for updating playlist types.

  • Added new Admin APIs for managing MRSS Importer configuration.

User Interface

  • Introduced redesigned Playlist Library interface aligned with MBS 2.0 design system.

  • Added support for bulk operations including tag updates and multi-playlist deletion.

  • Implemented comprehensive filters including Tags, Advanced Fields, Presets, PlaylistType, Status, Language, and Publish Date.

  • Enhanced search capabilities with full-text search across all fields.

  • Added option to reset all applied filters.

Backstage 1.5.12 Release Notes

September 30, 2025

API Infrastructure

  • Introduced background job-based Bulk Manage Tags API to efficiently handle large-scale tag operations.

  • Added support for deleting multiple media assets asynchronously using background jobs.

  • Implemented new API endpoint for bulk updating tracking information in a single request.

  • Enhanced API reliability with automatic exponential backoff and retry mechanisms for JWPlayer rate limit exceptions.

  • Updated Task Results and Import Results APIs to include filtering and pagination support.

User Interface

  • Introduced redesigned Video Library interface aligned with MBS 2.0 design system.

  • Added support for bulk operations including tag updates and multi-video deletion.

  • Implemented comprehensive filters including Tags, Advanced Fields, Presets, Status, Language, and Publish Date.

  • Enhanced search capabilities with full-text search across all fields.

  • Added option to reset all applied filters.

  • Added pagination and filtering support to Task Results and Import Results pages.

  • Resolved issues affecting virtual feed network selection and playlist display.

Backstage 1.5.11 Release Notes

September 23, 2025

Admin APIs

  • Enhanced Admin Media Listing API with support for multiple media types, statuses, languages, and search functionality.

  • Enhanced Admin Playlists Listing API with support for multiple playlist types, statuses, languages, and search functionality.

Import Management

  • Enabled importing thumbnails from external assets for both media and playlists from MRSS.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue with SQS task queue message creation when GUIDs contain special characters.

Backstage 1.5.10 Release Notes

September 9, 2025

Import Management

  • Enhanced Generic MRSS Importer with support for configuring new MRSS feeds via importer configuration.

  • Added support for importing Episode items and both Manual and Dynamic playlists from MRSS feeds.

  • Implemented revision strategy for updating existing items with revision count tracking.

  • Added support for accepting and respecting backstageID from MRSS items when creating assets.

Delivery APIs

  • Introduced internal Playlist Delivery API with custom parameter sorting and runtime filters.

  • Added internal Media Delivery API to fetch media by ID.

Media Management

  • Removed JWPlayer dependency blocking for media and playlist deletion.

  • External IDs for media and playlists now reset upon asset deletion.

Search Infrastructure

  • Integrated ElasticSearch for advanced search capabilities.

  • Added support for Algolia search.

Admin APIs

  • Added Admin API to list media items with filters and search.

  • Added Admin API to list playlists with filters and search.

  • Added Admin API to retrieve all tags by tenant and search by key.

  • Added Admin API to fetch all custom parameter keys/values by search key.

  • Added bulk tag management API for efficient media library updates.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue with playlist filter config audit logging.

  • Fixed issue with displaying hosting type in media details screen.

Backstage 1.5.9.1 Release Notes

September 2, 2025

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed create/update playlists placeholder issue with media metadata.

Backstage 1.5.9 Release Notes

August 12, 2025

API Infrastructure

  • Added CDN and Hosting Type support columns to Media table.

  • Enabled conditional publishing behavior based on CDN type configuration.

  • Enabled External Asset Publishing within CDN Service.

  • Introduced MBSInternal CDN Service for Emmy's.

  • Added LiveEvent AdBreak API for real-time ad break handling.

  • Implemented Global Event Emitter for MediaBackstage to streamline event-driven operations.

Delivery APIs

  • Added event emitters and consumers to support upserting records in Delivery Media and Delivery Playlist tables.

  • Implemented Media Delivery API for managing and serving media delivery data.

  • Implemented Playlist Delivery API for managing and serving playlist delivery data.

User Interface

  • Updated UI to support External Asset Publishing.

  • Integrated LiveEvent AdBreak API for dynamic ad break handling with AdBreak Countdown displaying duration of inserted ad breaks.

  • Fixed login issue where users could get stuck in "limbo" state if no state was found in storage.

Import Management

  • Added Generic MRSS Importer feature to support feed ingestion.

  • Refactored MRSS Importer to leverage media services for improved maintainability and performance.

Backstage 1.5.8 Release Notes

July 22, 2025

Media Management

  • Fixed S3Importer thumbnail video update issues with revisions.

  • Updated media type selection to use ID instead of index in Media Library.

  • Added clickable Backstage ID in import results that redirects to media details page.

API Performance

  • Implemented delivery API for playlists with new DeliveryMedia and DeliveryPlaylist tables to consolidate data and improve performance.

Backstage 1.5.7 Release Notes

July 14, 2025

User Interface

  • Resolved redirection loop issue during Backstage login.

Integrations

  • Enhanced Generic MRSS Exporter (Beta) with support for exporting videos, thumbnails, tags, titles, and descriptions.

  • Added image compression during thumbnail creation.

  • Fixed caption updates.

Backstage 1.5.6 Release Notes

July 8, 2025

User Interface

  • Improved border colors for better UI consistency.

  • Updated icon colors for visual clarity and theme alignment.

  • Enhanced header UI for documentation visibility.

Media

  • Resolved issues with VCH custom properties in LiveEvent VOD asset handling.

Integrations

  • Added Generic MRSS Exporter (Beta) with support for exporting videos, thumbnails, titles, and descriptions.

Backstage 1.5.5 Release Notes

July 1, 2025

User Interface

  • Enhanced dark theme with improved visibility and consistency across the application.

  • Added dark mode support to Analytics section.

  • Improved theming visibility for live events.

  • Corrected tab colors in both light and dark modes.

  • Resolved issues with dialog windows across the app.

Media

  • Automatic thumbnail selection from JWPlayer when no thumbnail is selected.

  • Added validation to prevent publishing LiveEvent VOD assets until VCH parameters are received.

  • Fixed missing TrailerID custom parameter during media publishing.

User Experience

  • Improved CSS for drag-and-drop functionality.

Backstage 1.5.4 Release Notes

June 25, 2025

User Interface

  • Improved dark and light mode implementations.

  • Enhanced sidebar functionality with improved navigation.

  • Added sidebar collapse toggle feature.

Data Management

  • Improvements to TableGrids and List components.

Backstage 1.5.3 Release Notes

June 9, 2025

Media

  • Enhanced media creation and update workflows to include default field definitions and merge custom parameters and tags. This ensures consistent handling of media metadata.

  • Added validation logic based on taxonomies defined in field definitions to ensure non-publishable items are effectively filtered out.

  • Added validation for mediaTypeId in VOD media details and incorporated default field definitions into live events.

  • Custom parameters and tags are now merged and set in both CDN payloads and media DTOs to ensure proper metadata handling.

  • Fixed an issue related to AI-generated tags and descriptions in the media details screen.

Playlist

  • Enhanced playlist creation and update workflows to include default field definitions and merge custom parameters and tags. This ensures consistent handling of playlist metadata.

  • Added validation logic based on taxonomies defined in field definitions to ensure non-publishable items are effectively filtered out.

  • Fixed the problem of placeholders appearing on the playlist screen for manually created playlists.

  • Resolved the issue of placeholder media items appearing in all media views by adding query-level conditions to exclude them.

Integrations

  • Updated the IPV Curator S3 importer to identify and associate media with the correct playlist by referencing the JWPlayer ID.

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