Release 10.3 is now available for Content Manager, Designer, Player, Broadcast Server, Playback Audit Parser, Publish Automation EX, IAdea Android Players and AVNet Android Players

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Release 10.3

Scala Enterprise Content Manager Release 10.3

• Scala Enterprise Content Manager now ships with, and requires Java 7 Update 55.
• Scala Enterprise Content Manager now ships with, and requires Tomcat 7.0.53.
• The qualification date for Scala Advantage is June 1, 2014.

• Items can now be disabled in a Playlist.
• Individual users can now select the fields to be shown by Modal in the Media, Players and Playlists landing pages.
• Plan Generation (Manual and Automatic) can now be specified by Player groups.
• Maintenance jobs can now be resubmitted for failed players.
• A Health tab has been added to the Player's Properties page. This allows you to see the individual player's current Health and Error status. From the Player List Modal page, you can now select one or more Player(s) and see the Health and Errors of the selected player(s) by clicking the Health button.
• User can now set the number of days for errors to be cleared and deleted automatically. This can be set in the should be Player Health Settings>Configuration Tab. The default value is 7 days.
• Instorescreen/AVNet player is now supported.
• Users with IAdea Android Devices can now apply a firmware update via a Scala Maintenance Job.

Scala Designer Release 10.3

• "Open from Recent Folder," a new menu selection in the "Files" menu that allows users to open Scala Scripts from a recently used folder.
• "Add Page From Recent Media Location," a new main menu selection in the "Add" toolbar that allows users to add content from a recently used folder. 
• "Add Page From Recent Media Location," a new page menu selection in the "Add" toolbar that allows users to add content from a recently used folder.
• Text Box elements allow you to specify an area for text and to automatically adjust the font size of any text within. As more text is added to the box, the font size will automatically be reduced. When the minimum text size is reached, and text overflows out of the Text Box, Scala Designer will automatically trim the text accordingly when the user moves to another element.
• Text box elements can now reduce the size of their text if there is too much to fit at the originally specified size. This can be turned on or off in Designer.

• Webclips now reload when previously cached in Designer.
• Fixed an occasional crashing issue involving pages containing Clips which use an expression as its filename. 
• An unsaved script with an error, or multiple unsaved Scripts no longer causes a crash during autosave.

Scala Designer & Player Release 10.3

• 4k video can now be played on a wider range of hardware due to an improvement in software decode performance. 
• Player/Designer will now play an RTSP video/audio stream even if its RTSP server does not fully support the RTSP OPTIONS command. In previous versions, Player/Designer would treat this as an error and refuse to play the stream.
• Improved calculation of duration shown in Designer. 
• Image scaling in playback has been improved 

• Fixed a bug that prevented conditional playback settings from being copied and pasted.
• Corrected a blue screen issue with older AMD video drivers during video playback.
• Corrected a French-only visual layout bug.
• Fixed a rare bug with the Installer, which by default no longer creates a log file, that can cause slowness in the setup process.
• Fixed a bug in text elements containing multiple bound segments where occasionally undo did not work after deleting some of the text.
• Fixed a bug with libcef.dll that caused random crashes for Player/Designer systems configured to use a Proxy Auto Config file (aka, a ".pac" file) for proxy server configuration. 

• The current version of Python is now 2.7.7
• General cosmetic and usability improvements.  
• Fixed a corruption issue related to the dialing_statistics.xml file. 
• When using the Uniscribe text engine, implicit tabs are now used after running out of explicit tabs. 
• Implicit tabs now work correctly for Right-to-left text.
• Fixed issues with certain Player startup and shutdown configurations to clarify error messages.

Scala PC Player Release 10.3

• Authoring support is now available for transparent backgrounds.
• Text Box elements allow you to specify an area for text and to automatically adjust the font size of any text within. As more text is added to the box, the font size will automatically be reduced. When the minimum text size is reached, and text overflows out of the Text Box, Scala Designer will automatically trim the text accordingly when the user moves to another element.
• Text box elements can now reduce the size of their text if there is too much to fit at the originally specified size. This can be turned on or off in Designer.

• 4k video can now be played on a wider range of hardware due to an improvement in software decode performance.
• Player/Designer will now play an RTSP video/audio stream even if its RTSP server does not fully support the RTSP OPTIONS command. In previous versions, Player/Designer would treat this as an error and refuse to play the stream.
• Image scaling in playback has been improved.

• The current version of Python is now 2.7.7
• General cosmetic and usability improvements.
• Fixed a corruption issue related to the dialing_statistics.xml file.
• Corrected a blue screen issue with older AMD video drivers during video playback.
• Corrected a French-only visual layout bug.
• Fixed a rare bug with the installer, which by default no longer creates a log file, that can cause slowness in the setup process.
• When using the Uniscribe text engine, implicit tabs are now used after running out of explicit tabs.
• Implicit tabs now work correctly for Right-to-left text.
• Fixed issues with certain Player startup and shutdown configurations to clarify error messages.
• Fixed a bug in text elements containing multiple bound segments where occasionally undo did not work after deleting some of the text.
• Fixed a bug with libcef.dll that caused random crashes for Player/Designer systems configured to use a Proxy Auto Config file (aka, a ".pac" file) for proxy server configuration. 

Scala Android Player Release 10.3

• When installing the Android Player the user is allowed to specify a custom folder. 
• IAdea Android Players can now perform firmware updates.
• NetIC content cleanup has been optimized to reduce I/O access.
• Android Player now uses preemptive authentication.
• Fixed an issue with Android players getting stuck in a Subplaylist containing a future expiry date.

Scala Samsung Smart Signage Player Release 10.3

• HTML frames with transparent backgrounds are now supported.

• Samsung SSP automatically renews their license when connected to Content Manager.
• Fixed an issue with Samsung SSP players getting stuck in a Subplaylist containing a future expiry date.
• The Samsung SSP Player now reboots on a nightly basis, and the user is able to set the reboot time for the system.
• Installer now contains an option to override the nightly reboot feature.
• Nightly reboots for Samsung SSP players are offset by a random amount of time (0-10 minutes) thus spreading the load on the server.