Changelog (Archive)

November 2022

October 2022

September 2022

New features

• Background blurring in Live Producer

Improvements

• Improved iOS playback
• Improved loading of questions in the new Question & Answer tool
• Corrected time zone offset in analytics PDF

August 2022

New features

• Rewritten Question and Answer Tool – improved performance and added features such as sorting by votes and trash bin

Improvements

• Improved Split Tunnel efficiency and Peer-to-Peer CDN compatibility

June 2022

New features

• QR code for on-site participants

Improvements

• Simplified survey activation and removed legacy field types
• Improved compatibility of access tokens when using Microsoft Safe Links
• Improved framerate for Webcam encoding

April 2022

New features

• Create subtitles for recorded content using artificial intelligence
• Question voting is now available for all customers

Improvements

• Allow all users to choose event group during event creation
• Performance improvements
• Analytics updates
• Improved Word Cloud, e.g. full answers in tool-tip
• Improved participant tracking in conjunction with Single Sign-on
• Access control updates

March 2022

Improvements

• Performance improvements
• Event settings: Clearer options to manage public Q & A
• Analytics: Styling improvements, real-time updates
• Participant list: Also track across multiple concurrent sessions (tabs)
• Asset Management: Support custom thumbnails in grid view; moved asset preview to the top, better upload status indication
• Live Producer: Renamed ‘Auto Record’ to ‘Record’
• Localization updates

February 2022

Improvements

• Show survey in preview
• Better compatibility with Safari

January 2022

New features

• Permit moderation of public questions
• Allow direct event access from registration confirmation e-mail
• Allow to show freetext survey results as a Word Cloud

Improvements

• Show only questions in the Live column to organizers with the Speaker role
• Better refresh of votes and survey results in the admin section
• Live Producer: Start with camera enabled; show number of participants
• Searching for multiple terms now narrows down the search results, rather than expanding them
• Navigation updates
• Clarified add-on options on landing page
• Removed QA tool from projector view
• Resolved countdown using the wrong language
• Better resizing of survey results
• Resolved error messages in recording editor
• Access control updates
• Localization updates
• Allow changing asset languages within Asset Management

December 2021

New features

• Download of subtitles
• Analytics: Refreshed display of pie charts for better legibility

Improvements

• Moved event specific billing data from the organizations billing page to the event list
• Improved question tool layout for Chromium-based browsers
• Improved CSV question export
• Removed “dropdown” survey type
• Show the organization in the event settings

November 2021

Improvements

• Show tags in additional places
• Make attendee file download available regardless of event state
• Improved Excel exports
• Improved organization view for users with multiple organizational roles
• Alignment fixes

October 2021

Improvements

• Show red border in Questions widget when question/name is missing
• Support registration fields labels longer than 255 chars

September 2021

New features

• Add tags to events
• Admin titles for surveys

Improvements

• Include votes in questions export
• Fix offset in questions count
• Set max FPS to 30
• Make it possible to change the Event Group of an event

August 2021

New features

• Remote Speaker Moderation: Manually Spotlight a speaker
• Screensharing

Improvements

• Only Event Managers can start / stop events
• Attendee list XLS export repaired

July 2021

New features

• Remote speaker moderation: mute camera and microphone of speakers

Improvements

• Redundant streaming for in-browser encoding

May 2021

New features

• New default in-browser streaming for Webcast, Audiocast, Phone dial-in with Multiple remote Speakers
• Attach registration data to survey results + anonymity management features
• Live Producer: Full screen button for slides widget

Improvements

• Infrastructure updates
• Improve Public Question performance
• Finalize French version

January 2021

New features

• A new overview dashboard:
  After logging in, instead of a list of event, you will now be presented with a modern dashboard, with panels displaying relevant information about your SlideSync activity.
• New users, and landing page visitors, are now invited to subscribe to the SlideSync newsletter.

Improvements

• For mulitilingual events with a survey: the attendee language is now included in the survey results.
• Better performance for the Live Q&A questions list.
• Organizations role table now only show users with an organization-level role. Event-level roles are not shown there anymore, but in the event role table.

December 2020

Improvements

• Backend efficiency improvements: higher availability
• Attendees of SAML restricted events can now open several sessions simultaneously

November 2020

New features

• Attendee Q&A received many updates
  • Paginated view, useful when there are many questions
  • Attendees can order the questions chronologically (default) or by popularity (votes)
  • New button to hide already answered questions
  • Improved performance
  • Attendees cannot vote for their own questions anymore
• Surveys and Attendee Registration are now available to users of the Basic subscription
• New streaming languages: Greek, Hungarian and Romanian

Improvements

• Improved performance for the Attendee page

October 2020

New features

• Users with the Moderator role can now create / edit surveys

Improvements

• Platform-wide performance update

September 2020

New features

• Backup Stream recording
• Expiration Dates can be now set for events. Expired events are archived and can be restored
• New languages
  • Polish (English localization)
  • Japanese (English localization)
  • German sign language (German localization)

Improvements

• Question form and list design has been reworked

July 2020

New feature

• Custom sender name for invitation mails​

Improvements

• Live Streaming Improvements​
  • Bring attendees that paused the stream back to Live
  • Optional feature: prevent attendees from pausing the stream
• Current slide is now shown in the preview
• Event description is now shown in Pre/Post state on Template 4​ (audiocast only)
• Improve performance for questions pages​

June 2020

New features

• New languages (English localization)
  • Czech
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese
• Slidecast recording

Improvements

• SFA export improvement
  • Resolution will now match predefined settings
  • More than one file can be exported at the same time
  • SFA now works for exports bigger than 1 GB
• Q&A
  • Each column in the Questions Moderation tool is now independently scrollable 
  • The Question Moderation tool is now scrollable on touchscreen devices 
• Users with multiple organizations can now resend speaker invitations 

Bug Fixes

• It is impossible now for two email fields to appear in the registration interface
• It is possible to hide question votes if no vote is being cast

May 2020

New features

• New streaming languages available (English localization)
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
• Dial-in Q&A call number is now displayed on the event page before the event starts.

Improvements

• Q&A support for high question volume
• Survey UX: use toggles instead of true/false dropdown

April 2020

New features

• Sign-in to SlideSync through Microsoft Office 365

March 2020

Improvements

• Added full screen view to internal chat

February 2020

Improvements

• Media Asset Management: New uploader which supports up to 20 GB files

January 2020

Improvements

• Highlighting of back-office instructions

November 2019

Improvements

• Renamed menu label ‘Basics’ (‘Stammdaten’) to ‘Settings’ (‘Einstellungen’)
• Increased range of supported subtitle encodings. Now supporting files with UTF-8 order mark

October 2019

New features

• Custom Thumbnails for recorded videos
• Shareable download links for recorded videos

August 2019

New features

• All approved (‘live’) questions can now be displayed on attendee page in realtime
• Alpha version of our native Peer-to-Peer Enterprise CDN based on WebRTC technologies (opt-in required – please get in touch with us if you are interested in participating in this testing phase).

Improvements

• Media Asset Management: Improved status display when processing large video clips
• Live Transcoding and HTML 5 ingest are now available by default for all plans

​June 2019  

Improvements

• Enhanced upload for subtitle files (in the .vtt and .srt format) for video-on-demand content
• Improved layouts for the default templates
• Updated range of social networks

May 2019

New features

• Subtitling for on demand media (SRT / WebVtt formats)
• Attendees can now ask questions in advance (configurable)
• Downloadable live recordings
• Support for secondary (backup) streams with Phone Conference Ingest

Improvements

• Increased file size limit for uploads to 5 GB
• Improved usability of Single Sign-On activation
• Improved event and user search usability
• Support for further downloadable file formats

March 2019

New features

• Added functionality to list all published recodings in Assets Management
• Added french backend language 

Improvements

• Added Serbian frontend language with English localization
• Minor updates of pricing plan details on SlideSync landing page 
• Disabled page refresh on Event application form to prevent data loss
• Added search functionality to backend organizations view

February 2019

New features

• Support for multiple speakers within the HTML 5 publisher 

Improvements

• Decoupled telephone dial-in option from dial-in details 
• Improved quick event restart in publisher 
• Improved sizing of slides in fullscreen embedded mode 
• Improved projector view for multilingual events 

December 2018

New features

• Support phone conferences as a source for Audiocasts

Improvements

• Updated Live Dashboard user interface for Audiocast events with Phone Conference
• Improved Cookie notice and privacy policy links

Mid October 2018

New features

• JavaScript API: Support for muted autoplay

Improvements

• Allow to specify telephone dial-in details for webcasts
• Mark questions as sent from “back-office” 
• Browse our homepage while being logged in – to see the event listing, please click on ‘Events’ instead of the SlideSync logo
• Added five additional frontend languages with English localization

Bugfixes

• Fixed recording trimming issue 
• Fixed collapsed slide widget in Live Dashboard
• Fixed slide fullscreen mode for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers  

August 2018

Improvements

• Moved question form below the player to be more visible

Bugfixes

• Fixed slide fullscreen mode for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge browsers 
• Fixed default language for attendees
• Fixed live preview for multilingual events 
• Fixed questions author name
• Added “Telephone dial-in” button to Preview and Layout editor pages
• Fixed orientation change on mobile devices for embedding

July 2018

New features

• Added new questions functionality for backend users
• Added additional functionality for Media Asset Management
• Changed organization members permission

Bugfixes

• Fixed event setup for trial users
• Removed user channels from backend
• Fixed slide widget view on iOS mobile devices
• Fixed localization in user profile pages
• Fixed state change issue on event page
• Fixed system test for Edge browser
• Fixed player start delay in Google chrome

June 2018

New features

• Added sub-organizations functionality (available by request)
• Added customizable registration fields

Improvements

• Improved user privacy settings

Bugfixes

• Fixed user unlock process
• Fixed iPhone scrolling issue
• Fixed asset activation

May 2018

New features

• Media Asset Management

Improvements

• GDPR compliance alignment

Bugfixes

• ​Fixed event page auto scrolling

April 2018

Improvements

• Improved user access to SlideSync home page
• Improved reference to internal IT helpdesk on event page
• Changed price comparison icon

Bugfixes

• Fixed embedding issues
• Fixed organization naming

March 2018

Improvements

• Improved attendee analytics for a time range

Bugfixes

• Fixed cookies notification for embeddings
• Fixed recordings trimming
• Prevented incorrect font rendering when extracting slides
• Fixed event calendar view

February 2018

New Features

• Retina images support for logo upload
• Added parent-level organization functionality

Bugfixes

• Fixed datepicker in event creation
• Fixed button styling in Live Producer
• Fixed localization issue on event registration page
• Fixed right-to-left text order issues on event public page (e.g. for Arabic language)
• Fixed slide navigation for Audiocast events on public page
• Fixed minor styling issues
• Fixed incorrect asset counter in Recordings Editor
• Fixed embed redirection issues

January 2018

New Features

• Customer logo is shown in analytics report

Improvements

• Improved slides flight direction on event public page
• Improved landing page
• Improved listing of team members: sorted alphabetically
• Improved bitrate selector usability

Bugfixes

• Fixed iOS playback issues
• Fixed localization issues for attendees reminder emails
• Fixed organization creation
• Fixed page background color
• Fixed embed issues
• Fixed time range selection for analytics reports
• Fixed sign up localization issues
• Fixed default setup for new users

December 2017

New Features

• Added support for custom favicon for event public page
• Updated landing page

Improvements

• Renamed ‘Beamer view’ to ‘Projector view”
• Changed default settings: enabled question and auto recording, disabled auto publishing

Bugfixes

• Fixed video size issues on public page
• Fixed permissions for users with multiple organizations
• Fixed event state change
• Fixed layout issue on public page

November 2017

New Features

• Added surveys for the Post events
• Added new permission to the event managers: to assign roles to the new user 

Improvements

• Improved analytics export

Bugfixes

• Fixed position of components after slideset activation
• Fixed backend layout issues
• Fixed language switch on public page
• Fixed Live Dashboard issues
• Fixed backend chat issues
• Prevented incorrect font rendering when extracting slides
• Fixed participants analytics

October 2017

New features

• Added event date in overview page
• Updated pricing page

Improvements

• SFA improvements
• Enabled MSE by default for Mozilla Firefox
• Enabled preview button in Live Producer
• Improved time selection on “Analytics” page
• Prevented invalid timezone for new users
• Published questions are shown in video fullscreen mode

Bugfixes

• Fixed recordings editor bugs
• Fixed slides navigation on published recordings
• Fixed SFA bugs
• Removed unwanted “Telephone dial-in” button from public page in case of published recording
• Fixed analytics PDF export
• Fixed turbolinks issue
• Fixed self-sign in issue
• Fixed slideflow issue on event public page
• Fixed recordings creation created via recording editor
• Fixed questions export
• Fixed questions moderation
• Fixed layout issues on iOS
• Fixed media widget buttons behavior in Live Dashboard
• Fixed questions displaying into video fullscreen mode

September 2017

New features

• Added basic support for Chinese language

Improvements

• Improved slides widget usability

Bugfixes

• Fixed event state after assets upload
• Disabled section “Telephone Dial-in” for a webcast event
• Fixed survey issue
• Fixed sign in process

August 2017

Improvements

• Improved Analytics page for events without analytics data
• Usability improvements for asset upload
• Improved usability of player play button in Recordings Editor
• Improved labels in Live Producer

Bugfixes

• Fixed Recording Editor bugs
• Fixed registration with optional fields
• Fixed slide tooltip for the last slide in Recordings Editor
• Fixed title and description of the first slide in Recordings Editor
• Fixed slide title after slide replacement in Recordings Editor
• Fixed slide replacement issues in Live Producer
• Fixed slides upload for demo events
• Fixed resizing issues
• Fixed asset upload issues
• Fixed asset deletion

July 2017

New features

• Added event channel to the backend chat
• Added support for 1080p transcoding (available on request)
• Added switching of slideset in Recordings Editor
• Added possibility to add notes to event groups

Improvements

• Improved slide’s widget
• Added scrollbar to the bottom slide widget in Recordings Editor
• Show slide title on hover at the timeline and bottom drawer in Recordings Editor
• Added double-click to make slide details more obvious in Recordings Editor
• Added slide numbers to the top and bottom views in Recordings Editor
• Added participants tab to analytics page if Registration is enabled
• Added distribution type in PDF statistics
• Added resource label on user permissions page

Bugfixes

• Fixed slide widget’s width
• Prevented stretching the video in fullscreen mode
• Fixed updating asset’s language when event languages were changed
• Fixed restricted events with additional registration fields
• Fixed resizing issues
• Fixed deactivation / activation of the social network buttons
• Fixed sizing of large logos on phones
• Enabled multilingual slides with only one stream on public page
• Enabled multilingual recordings when having only one stream
• Fixed logo upload
• Fixed backend menu according to user role
• Fixed errors while adding roles to users
• Fixed event page after using browser’s “Back” button
• Disabled slide control when within backend chat
• Fixed redirecting users to the originally requested URL after sign-in
• Fixed hiding of deleted events on event groups

June 2017

New features

• Added a projector view that shows only the slides

Usability improvements

• Added display of remaining characters when typing a question
• Renamed button “Go to webcast” for audiocast events
• Prevented deleting an Organization by users

Bugfixes

• Fixed media upload for audiocasts via Recordings editor  
• Fixed borders (video / audiocast widgets)
• Fixes for asset management in Recordings Editor      
• Fixed player control panel height in Live state
• Fixed slideflow placement in fullscreen mode      
• Fixed preview for restricted events
• Prevent unset default language
• Fixed player resizing after using fullscreen mode in Chrome
• Fixed wrong player position in Recordings editor
• Fixed player controls height in live state
• Fixed right slide’s border for audiocasts
• Fixed wrong name of the button
• Fixed live preview when event has On Demand state
• Fixed activation/deactivation slideset via recording’s editor and Live Producer
• Fixed recordings publishing on public page
• Enabled full screen mode in projector view

May 29, 2017

New features

• Added confirmation dialog when stopping an event
• Added limitation number of characters for questions

Bugfixes

• Added borders to slidecast
• Fixed activation of second presentation
• Added full name of users to drop-down menu for invitation of team member

May 22, 2017

New features

• Added support for custom passwords expiration time at organization level
• Added means to make SFA downloadable

May 9, 2017

New features

• Added possibility to delete events automatically after a given time
• Added option “Mandatory name” for questions
• Added custom user password policy

Bugfixes

• Improved styling of slides list in recording editor
• Added big play button for audiocast on all devices
• Fixed invitation email
• Added custom registration field “location”
• Fixed slide timing for first slide, when event is On Demand
• Fixed video window height: additional fields can be shown without scrolling down
• Fixed problem with random password, which generated for new users while self signing up
• Fixed “Telephone dial-in” fields in event navigation

April 24, 2017

New features

• Added password expiration after 12 month

Bugfixes

• Fixed recordings editor
• Fixed multilanguage events with slide sets
• Changed “Flash Player Settings” to “ Source selection” in Live Producer and added icons
• Fixed event title: completely displayed and correctly updated after changing
• Fixed thumbnails in Files page
• Fixed slide download from event public page
• Fixed issue with attendee limit
• Improved slidecast streaming
• Improved chat usability: auto scroll down chat when it is opened

April 10, 2017

New features

• Added possibility to select from multiple audio / video sources for in-browser encoding

Bugfixes

• Fixed Webcast button functionality: current state is shown in the new opened Live Dashboard window
• Fixed and enabled button “Start Webcast”  for streaming using the encoder
• Fixed Preview button
• Fixed deactivating of slides for multilingual events

April 3, 2017

Bugfixes

• Made registered attendees visible even if registration is disabled
• Fixed media assets name: the media name matches the filename
• Added information about amount of slides in asset details and navigation has been improved

March 28, 2017

New features

• Streams for new languages are now automatically created when a language is activated
• Implemented internal vs. external attendees statistics

Bugfixes

• Aligned horizontally video in video-only webcast and retains a certain minimum height
• Fixed public survey results
• Improved webcast start / stop button behaviour
• Fixed the position of the backend chat toggler in Questions page

March 20, 2017

New features

• Added multi-organisation support for users
• Implemented possibility to send reminder email to registered attendees

Bugfixes

• Fixed event policy: deleted events are not visible anymore
• Solved multiple active media assets
• Fixed sorting for device panel in analytics
• Fixed attendee pagination on statistic page 

March 13, 2017

Bugfixes

• Fixed Wirecast configuration profiles
• Fixed statistics for returning attendees
• Fixed country map on statistics page
• Fixed auto recording for event with multiple streams
• Added custom label for questions author on the live page
• Added attendee name for reminder email if present
• Added possibility to disable the sentry error dialogs
• Fixed broken public page after editing timings

February 27, 2017

New features​

• Improved date range picker for statistics
• Added recordings preview

February 20, 2017

New features

• Added a fallback for statistics if cookies are disabled

Bugfixes

• Fixed position of video errors, when data-slides-ratio is available too late
• Fixed no cookie warning message
• Fixed a bug that prevented auto recording to be enabled
• Fixed timeline in Edit Recordings (keeps resetting, loosing cutters)
• Fixed player page reloading issue

February 13, 2017

New features

• Added question push support for Slidecast
• Added statistics for Slidecast
• Attendees of restricted events now get logged out if another browser signs in with the same credentials

Improvements

• Added tooltips for survey buttons
• Improved video player resizing in video-only Webcasts, when questions are activated

February 6, 2017

New features

• Added archiving of statistic and event archived state
• Added telephone dial-in information and slides view without delay

Bugfixes

• Fixed layout issues when dragging elements on the event overview page
• Fixed layout issues when using the backend chat inside the Live Producer

January 24, 2017

Usability improvements

• Added pagination for attendees in the analytics

Bugfixes

• Fixed cookies for Internet Explorer 11 when SlideSync is embedded in an iframe
• Fixed quality highlight in video player

January 16, 2017

New features

• Added support for a custom logo in the emails
• Added live statistics to the event overview page
• Attendees can now request access for restricted events
• Added event registration limited to a certain group of email domains

Bugfixes

• Fixed overlapping questions and input field
• Fixed sorting of registrations fields in the registration page
• Fixed mobile layout resizing on orientation change
• Fixed iframe embedding resizing

January 2, 2017

New features

• Added option to send reminders after registration

Improvements

• Added time above backend chat messages, in addition to the date

Bugfixes

• Fixed error when deleting live events
• Fixed error in analytics PDF export
• Fixed message for unavailable pages
• Fixed registration shown again after correct registration password was entered

December 19, 2016

New features

• Added amount of current attendees to Live Producer

Improvements

• Added numbers to questions to help with sorting
• Changed backend chat styling

Bugfixes

• Fixed video upload
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts skipping two slides in Live Producer
• Fixed resizing issues on player page
• Recordings editor
  • Fixed slide preview not synchronized with changes in the timeline
  • Fixed on demand clips activation
• Questions module
  • Fixed sort order after reloading the page
  • Fixed moderators not allowed to publish a question
  • Removed “done” column from speaker view

December 12, 2016

Bugfixes

• Analytics
  • Fixed labels for Internet Explorer 11
  • Fixed old data reload after changing the time range
• Fixed downloadable files not listed on player page
• Fixed encoder configuration download for Open Broadcaster Software 
• Fixed recordings editor not showing a preview image for active slides
• Fixed external links opening in the SlideSync window

December 5, 2016

New features

• Added autoscrolling for new questions in the questions module

Usability Improvements

• Changed upload file size limit from 500MB to 5GB

Bugfixes

• Fixed an error in public page for events without slides
• Fixed an error that prevented speakers from seeing the progress of file uploads

November 28, 2016

New features:

• Added option to publish live questions to all attendees

Bugfixes

• Fixed social media buttons visibility
• Fixed full screen slide view aspect ratio
• Fixed slides view control bars visibility
• Analytics
  • Fixed location map disappearing
  • Fixed alignment of data points and ticks in weekly and monthly graphs
  • Fixed UTC offset calculation in timeline popups
• iPhone
  • Fixed first slide not loaded occasionally
  • Fixed audiocast controls and added big play button
• Removed error message when leaving player page

November 21, 2016

Bugfixes

• Fixed timezone and layout issues in the statistics

November 7, 2016

New features

• Added HLS delivery based on requesting IP

Bugfixes

• Fixed system test not accessible without login

October 31, 2016

Improvements

• Added first active slide to the edit layout page

Bugfixes

• Fixed SAML authentication requiring an email address
• Fixed footer not sticking to the bottom of the page
• Fixed wrong size of logos on mobile devices

October 24, 2016

New features

• Added “Single File Archive” export option to recordings editor

Bugfixes

• Fixed “Preview” button in recordings editor
• Added missing translations

October 17, 2016

New features

• Added support for secondary ingress
• Added survey widget to Live Producer dashboard

Bugfixes

• Fixed slidecasts not starting

October 10, 2016

New features

• Added “Revert to original” option to recordings editor
• Added support for multiple slidesets

October 4, 2016

Bugfixes

• Fixed not being able to drag questions

Improvements

• Changed styling and wording for recordings editor
• Removed languages that are not fully translated

September 12, 2016

New Features

• Access protection with signed links
• Backend chat
• Responsive embed codes
• Released pricing model
• Responsive slide images
• Signed event urls
• Support for presenters to control the slideshow
• Video trimming

July 11, 2016

New Features

• Analytics
  • World map of attendees
  • Export to PDF
• Countdown timer in Live Producer
• Toast for new questions in Live Producer
• Embed code
• EU cookie banner
• Multi-language slide sets
• More exact slide synchronization
• Updated system requirements

May 2, 2016

New Features:

• Bitrate selector for HTML 5 playback
• HTML 5 based playback for Android and MS Edge

April 25, 2016

New Features:

• Lookup of attendee locations
• Service status page

Improvements

• Support flexible opening / closing of Live Producer

Bugfixes

• Fixed keyframe interval for built-in publisher
• Fixed issue were slides were not shown on public page

April 18, 2016

Bugfixes

• Delayed slide set change
• Fixed multi-hour synchronization in Flash component
• Name in invitation mail now shows consistently
• Token link in restricted registration mail now works again
• Users invited via restricted registration can now be deleted again
• Memory leak in edit layout
• Going live for the first time in an audiocast raises JavaScript error on public page

April 11, 2016

Improvements

• Show name of inviting user in invites
• Height of slide controls and timeline is now set automatically

Bugfixes:

• Allow speakers to access analytics
• Fixed retraction of team member permissions
• Accessing recording preview from the Live Producer now works again
• Datetime and sharing widgets now resize correctly again in template 2
• Permissions error when changing date
• Fixed JavaScript error related to slides

April 4, 2016

New Features

• Anonymous questions

Improvements

• Improved speaker role detection

Bugfixes

• Show 403 Unauthorized errors for public pages instead of redirecting away from them
• Layout improvements for language switcher