Build of r/19.x from Wed Dec 3 16:48:19 UTC 2025

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r/19.x/admin/releasenotes/deleted.txt

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         var pageToc = [
-          {title: "Opencast 18: Release Notes", url: "#_top", children: [
-              {title: "Opencast 18.4", url: "#opencast-184" },
-              {title: "Opencast 18.3", url: "#opencast-183" },
-              {title: "Opencast 18.2", url: "#opencast-182" },
-              {title: "Opencast 18.1", url: "#opencast-181" },
-              {title: "Opencast 18.0", url: "#opencast-180" },
+          {title: "Opencast 19: Release Notes", url: "#_top", children: [
+              {title: "Opencast 19.0", url: "#opencast-190" },
               {title: "Release Schedule", url: "#release-schedule" },
               {title: "Release Managers", url: "#release-managers" },
           ]},
@@ -91,75 +87,52 @@
 
 
 
-    <h1 id="opencast-18-release-notes">Opencast 18: Release Notes</h1>
-<h2 id="opencast-184">Opencast 18.4</h2>
-<p>Among other minor fixes, this minor release includes a bug fix related to the direct publication of live events. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7118">#7118</a>]</p>
-<p>This version also contains new releases of both the admin ui
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-admin-interface/releases/tag/18.x-2025-11-28">18.x-2025-11-28</a>) and the editor
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-editor/releases/tag/18.x-2025-11-28">18.x-2025-11-28</a>).</p>
-<h2 id="opencast-183">Opencast 18.3</h2>
-<p>This minor release includes a fix for the silence detection with newer FFmpeg versions. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7069">#7069</a>]</p>
-<p>This version also contains new releases of both the admin ui
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-admin-interface/releases/tag/18.x-2025-10-24">18.x-2025-10-24</a>) and the editor
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-editor/releases/tag/18.x-2025-10-24">18.x-2025-10-24</a>).</p>
-<h2 id="opencast-182">Opencast 18.2</h2>
-<p>This version contains two <strong>security fixes</strong>!
-One of them is a cross-site-scripting vulnerability in the
-Paella Player (see <a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-m2vg-rmq6-p62r">GHSA-m2vg-rmq6-p62r</a>).
-The other allowed accidental publishing in the Opencast Editor (see
-<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-x6vw-p693-jjhv">GHSA-x6vw-p693-jjhv</a>)
-It is advised to update to this version in a timely fashion</p>
-<p>This version also contains new releases of both the admin ui
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-admin-interface/releases/tag/18.x-2025-09-29">18.x-2025-09-29</a>) and the editor
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-editor/releases/tag/18.x-2025-09-29">18.x-2025-09-29</a>).</p>
-<h2 id="opencast-181">Opencast 18.1</h2>
-<p>Among other bug fixes, this version contains a <strong>security fix</strong>. Please see
-<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6979">#6979</a> and
-<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-hq8m-v68g-8cf8">GHSA-hq8m-v68g-8cf8</a>
-(once published) for details.</p>
-<p>As a minor feature, it is now possible to pass additional arguments to whisper.cpp
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6966">#6966</a>).</p>
-<p>This version also contains new releases of both the admin ui
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-admin-interface/releases/tag/18.x-2025-08-29">18.x-2025-08-29</a>) and the editor
-(<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast-editor/releases/tag/18.x-2025-08-29">18.x-2025-08-29</a>).</p>
-<h2 id="opencast-180">Opencast 18.0</h2>
+    <h1 id="opencast-19-release-notes">Opencast 19: Release Notes</h1>
+<h2 id="opencast-190">Opencast 19.0</h2>
 <h3 id="features">Features</h3>
 <ul>
-<li>JWT support has been improved by standardizing the JWT schema. This is the groundwork for further support
-  of JWT to ease the connection of external systems to Opencast. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6177">#6177</a>]</li>
-<li>Added the ability to configure S3 buckets for each organization. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6253">#6253</a>]</li>
-<li>Opencast now supports plugins with different modules on different distributions. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6303">#6303</a>]</li>
-<li>Various improvements to full-text search [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6498">#6498</a>]</li>
-<li>Added support for audio-only uploads [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/5856">#5856</a>]</li>
-<li>Added the mux WOH which is able to encode multiple tracks into one.
-  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6894">#6894</a>]</li>
+<li>Episodes in the search index can be filtered according to whether or not they are live. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7032">#7032</a>]</li>
+<li>Paella 8 is now included in Opencast as an alternative player [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7166">#7166</a>]</li>
+<li>A Matomo statistics provider has been added [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7134">#7134</a>]</li>
+<li>Default series ACLs can now be configured [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7041">#7041</a>]</li>
 </ul>
 <h3 id="breaking-changes">Breaking Changes</h3>
 <ul>
-<li>The animate service and workflow operation have been removed. Make sure to update your custom workflows, if you used
-  this operation. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6518">#6518</a>]</li>
-<li>All SoX related modules have been removed. Any workflows depending on this should switch to ffmpeg based normalization.
-  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6682">#6682</a>]</li>
-<li>The crop service is now a plugin and disabled by default. If you have used it in previous versions, you need to enable
-  it in <code>etc/org.opencastproject.plugin.impl.PluginManagerImpl.cfg</code>. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6303">#6303</a>]</li>
-<li>The required Java version is now 21. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6472">#6472</a>]</li>
-<li>We switched to using the new default binary names used by Whisper.cpp. The default model directory is now
-  /usr/share/whisper.cpp/models [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6794">#6794</a>]</li>
+<li>Target tag behaviour has been unified across all workflow operation handlers. [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6648">#6648</a>]</li>
+<li>The Opencast presets module has been removed.  This previously allowed for org, and system wide presets to be
+  defined, but was undocumented and untested.  This change was discussed in <a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/issues/5615">5615</a>.
+  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6903">#6903</a>]</li>
+<li>The Opencast annotation service has been removed.  If you had <code>opencast-plugin-legacy-annotation</code> enabled in
+  <code>org.opencastproject.plugin.impl.PluginManagerImpl.cfg</code> then this affects you, otherwise it should not.  This change
+  was discussed in <a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/issues/5615">5615</a>.  The relevant database tables will be
+  automatically removed from your database systems by the upgrade script.  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6902">#6902</a>]</li>
 </ul>
 <h3 id="configuration-changes">Configuration Changes</h3>
 <ul>
-<li>Series, Editor and Login-Buttons in the PaellaPlayer are now disabled by default.
-  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6479">#6479</a>] [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6480">#6480</a>]
-  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6481">#6481</a>]</li>
-<li>The feature "Episode ID Roles" is now a core feature: enabled by default with no option to disable.
-  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6696">#6696</a>]
-  If you have not used this feature before, you'll need to perform an index rebuild. See <a href="../upgrade/">upgrade guide</a> for
-  details.</li>
-<li>The default workflows partial-publish and partial-preview have been modified to enable audio-only processing.
-  If you want to use this feature and use your own workflows, have a look at the required changes in the PR.
-  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/5856">#5856</a>]</li>
+<li>Default workflows are now in yaml [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6798">#6798</a>]</li>
+<li>The configuration key <code>video-source-flavor</code> for the Subtitle Timeshift Workflow Operation Handler changed to
+  <code>video-source-flavors</code> (plural). [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6901">#6901</a>]</li>
+<li>Configuring JWT authentication is now substantially simpler [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7189">#7189</a>]</li>
+<li>The editor now displays less metadata by default [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/7053">#7053</a>]</li>
+<li>The plugin <code>opencast-plugin-legacy-annotation</code> has been removed from <code>org.opencastproject.plugin.impl.PluginManagerImpl.cfg</code>.
+  [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6902">#6902</a>]</li>
+<li>
+<p>Target tag handling has changed with [<a href="https://github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/6648">#6648</a>]:</p>
+<p>All workflow operation handlers adapt the same method of
+handling target tags (if they support target tags).</p>
+<p>The chosen behaviour is that of the tag WOH:
+"If a target-tag starts with a '-', it will be removed from
+preexisting tags, if a target-tag starts with a '+', it will
+be added to preexisting tags. If there is no prefix, all
+preexisting tags are removed and replaced by the target-tags."</p>
+<p>This means that all WOH that did not support "+" and "-" now do.
+THIS CONSTITUTES A BEHAVIOUR CHANGE FOR SOME WORKFLOW OPERATION HANDLERS!
+In particular, some WOH were adding tags instead of replacing them,
+even though they were not prefaced with a "+". Adopters are advised
+to check their workflows.</p>
+</li>
 </ul>
-<p>For more details, please take a look at the <a href="../changelog/opencast-18/">full changelog</a>. If you want to update Opencast
+<p>For more details, please take a look at the <a href="changelog/opencast-19.md">full changelog</a>. If you want to update Opencast
 from a previous version, you should also read the <a href="../upgrade/">upgrade guide</a>.</p>
 <h2 id="release-schedule">Release Schedule</h2>
 <table>
@@ -171,19 +144,19 @@ <h2 id="release-schedule">Release Schedule</h2>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
-<td>June 19, 2025</td>
+<td>November 19, 2025</td>
 <td>Release Branch Cut</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td>July 24, 2025</td>
+<td>December 17, 2025</td>
 <td>Release of Opencast 18.0</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>
 <h2 id="release-managers">Release Managers</h2>
 <ul>
-<li>Dennis Benz (Osnabrück University)</li>
-<li>Jonas Dühring (elan e.V.)</li>
+<li>Greg Logan (Logan IT Enterprises)</li>
+<li>Lukas Gehrlein (ssystems Gmbh.)</li>
 </ul>
 
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r/19.x/admin/releasenotes/distributed-plugins.txt

@@ -6,5 +6,11 @@ please add the note to this directory as a single text file.
 
 You can use Markdown for formatting, but do not use a `.md` extension to prevent mkdocs from identifying that file.
 
+Important notes:
+- Please include a link to the PR which generated the release note.  This makes generating the X.0 release notes much
+easier.
+- If your PR contains database schema changes it must make that clear in the text file
+- If your PR contains index changes it must make that clear in the text file
+
 For details, see:
 https://docs.opencast.org/develop/developer/#proposal-log/#release-notes