KVS 6.0.0

13 September, 2022

Whats new in KVS 6.0.0

Admin panel general GUI enhancements:

  1. New admin panel design that also looks nicely on mobile devices. There are new colors, icons and same control look and feel across different browsers.
  2. Calendar controls for date and time picking.
  3. Updated selector controls now support displaying details of the selected items, highlighting selected items and more grouping options when displaying full lists, and indicating activated filters if results are filtered.
  4. Popups now support move and resize actions with 'memory' function. All popups are classified into different types and can be positioned differently, e.g. upload popup, list selector popup, preview popup and other.
  5. Instead of using browser built-in alert / confirmation dialogs KVS will now render its own custom popups with support for resize and reposition. Destructive actions will be highlighted for more attention.
  6. Progress bars will now show details of what they are actually doing right now in addition to progress %.

Admin panel grid enhancements:

  1. Named presets are now supported in most of grids. You can create as much presets as you want, with the needed set of filters, columns and sorting. Quickly switch between different grid views for different tasks.
  2. At any time it will be possible to reset to the default grid view by choosing the Default preset.
  3. Grid GUI will now display only the currently active filters. Each filter can be easily changed / removed without any additional clicks.
  4. Grid customize popup will support Ctrl+S combination for quick submit.
  5. Grid number of items per page can be quickly switched between multiple predefined numbers; also any custom number can be entered if needed.
  6. Grid item selectors will summarize the whole number of selected items at the top.
  7. Destructive actions are highlighted in grid menu.
  8. Each grid link will now produce its own menu with ability to open editor of the clicked object, or add it to the filter, or replace the current filter with filtering by this object. Not long ago we changed this from "editor" kind of link to "add to filter" kind of link and the new behavior turned out to be confusing for some.
  9. Grid header, grid pagination and batch actions will always be visible regardless of grid height, the scrolling will be applied to data items only.

Admin panel editor enhancements:

  1. All editor sections are not collapsible with 'memory' function.
  2. All selector controls (where applicable) are now capable to create new data on the fly, e.g. similar like it was possible to create new categories on the fly when editing a video, it will also be possible to create content source, or channel, or user. Also in import and massedit.
  3. Editor actions will always be visible regardless of editor height, the scrolling will be applied to editor content only.

Smarty template editor control introduced with rich-editing features:

  1. Smarty syntax highlight is fully supported (e.g. keywords, strings, variables, modifiers, numbers).
  2. HTML tags have basic highlight with only tag names highlighted.
  3. Line numbers are displayed on the side gutter.
  4. Smarty block match is highlighted: when you put cursor on the starting or ending tag KVS will highlight the whole block for clear scope understanding.
  5. Most common smarty syntax errors are highlighted, like for example missing of a closing tag.
  6. Fullscreen editing is now possible with quick save action - ability to quickly save template without editor reload; thus will be much easier to debug template changes without major distraction on page reload and scrolling.
  7. Smart tabulator function will allow quickly moving blocks around with Tab and Shift+Tab combinations.

Bunch of player enhancements:

  1. Better detection of adblocking plugins and also % of users with adblocking software will now be available in player stats.
  2. Adblock detection added to player API as another player event. This can now be used by theme developers to detect adblock without adding 3rd-party plugins (which can themselves be blocked by adblock).
  3. HLS support in VAST advertising.
  4. Pre-roll and post-roll VAST advertising can now be connected to video content sources via custom fields.
  5. Popunder advertising can be configured to skip several videos before the first trigger; also player stats will record the number of popunder activations.
  6. Embed codes will now allow multiple traffic tracking parameters.

Other enhancements:

  1. Albums editor finally changed to allow uploading multiple images with a single upload. Previously you had to either upload images one by one, or pack them into a ZIP file. Now you can simply select multiple files at once.
  2. Site debug function will now work much better: it will follow template layout and will only display blocks that are actually rendered with the current request (previously it would display all blocks configured on the page). Also it will list variables that were set in Smarty template and their actual values at the end of template rendering.
  3. Added support for coinpayments.net crypto billing.
  4. Video review section was extended by displaying up to 5 similar videos for the one that was recently uploaded. This should help easily identify potential duplicates and reject them.
  5. Upload max size limit will not be applied to admins anymore.
  6. IP limit in video file protection function will stop counting preview trailers. Previously it could be really hard to configure reasonable limit when using video previews on mouse over, because user can trigger many previews without actually viewing a single video. Now we changed this by not counting requests to video format with "_preview.mp4" postfix, and also to any formats that have more than 1 part and duration limit of less than 30 seconds.
  7. In Anti-spam settings we added an option to prevent applying blacklisted words to user feedbacks. Normally you would want to disallow users posting links into comments, so you can add a blacklisting regexp for it, but in feedbacks you would normally expect users to send you some links. Now you can make sure that none of such feedbacks will be considered as spam.
  8. In mass select GUI it is no more required to choose between IDs or URLs when specifying list of items to be selected, KVS will automatically identify when you specified an ID or URL.
  9. Added user donation (gift) stats.
  10. Video and album stats can now be grouped by content sources and channels to see aggregated stats for them.
  11. Theme search can now also search in theme JS and CSS files. Also search results are grouped by their type.
  12. KVS admin panel will now show warnings for content protection issues on storage servers and primary server if finds ones.
  13. Backup plugin was extended to allow deleting old backups from admin panel.
  14. Google ReCAPTCHA plugin will now support any number of aliases.
  15. Backend nextgen refactoring is on its way. In list blocks we added support for filtering by specifying direct object IDs that should be displayed or should not be displayed, support for text search and displaying related objects. Unfortunately at the moment we didn't yet switch commonly used categorization blocks to this new API, as we still need to put some work there. Will be definitely part of the next major update with these new features coming to all categorization.
  16. Site blocks to upload videos and albums can now allow specifying publishing date in future.
  17. Samsung Internet browser is added into the list of known browsers when configuring per-browser advertising.

Bugs that have been fixed:

  1. [MEDIUM] If initial player volume was set to muted, the volume adjustment by user would not be saved in user settings and every next video would still be in muted mode.
  2. [MEDIUM] When using search suggestions in extended format (videos + albums + other objects), search stats would contain partial search terms.
  3. [LOW] Grabbers in some cases did not evaluate if the given URLs are duplicate and this was only done after downloading video files.
  4. [LOW] FTP content uploader did not consider duplicate files if they were put into another directory.
  5. [LOW] Anti-spam blacklisted words did not allow regular expressions with commas.
  6. [LOW] Anti-spam blacklisted words could be tricked by spammers in some way.
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