Brightcove Player v6.60.0-announcement

This announcement covers changes coming to the Brightcove Player Release and Pre-release feeds.

Summary

• The Brightcove Player Pre-release and Release feeds will be combined into a single feed.
• This feed will list:
  • Player versions that are made available.
  • Announcements of versions being promoted to pre-release.
  • Announcements of versions being promoted to full release.

About Player Versions, Pre-releases and Full Releases

The lifecycle of a player version (e.g. 6.60.0) can be outlined as follows:

• A version is made available.

  This means it's made available to our production systems and players can be created with this new version. However, this version is not surfaced in the Studio and no players are auto-updated.

  Today, versions are unannounced.

• A version is promoted to pre-release.

  When a version is promoted to pre-release, all players that are set to use the current pre-release are updated to that version. This is a small minority of players that have opted-in to pre-release updates.

  Today, this corresponds to a new item in the Brightcove Player Pre-release feed.

• A version is promoted to full release.

  When a version is promoted to full release, all unlocked players are updated to that version. This is a majority of players.

  Today, this corresponds to a new item in the Brightcove Player Release feed.

Not all versions are pre-released. Not all pre-releases become full releases. Similarly, there are situations where pre-release phase will be skipped, such as some high priority bug fixes.

The Future of the Brightcove Player Release Feed

Rather than maintaining separate feeds with duplicate information, we plan to roll all these events into a single feed. The main benefit of this will be that each version number will have a single entry in a single feed and will tell you exactly what changed from the previous version. And you'll still know when the current pre-release and full release are changed.

Going forward, this feed will include the following types of entries:

• A version is made available.

  Each version will have an entry in the feed; however, this will not indicate when a version has been promoted to pre-release or full release. This will indicate that the version is now available for manual usage.

  These entries will be in the format that is familiar today: a listing of features, fixes, maintenance, and other changes included in a version.

• A version is promoted to pre-release.

  These entries will take the form of short announcements that we have promoted an available version to pre-release status in our production systems and that all pre-release players have been updated.

• A version is promoted to full release.

  These entries will take the form of short announcements that we have promoted an available version to full release status in our production systems and that all unlocked, non-pre-release players have been updated.