Zoom 7.1 Release Notes

New Features

• Zoom Sketch plugin: A new Zoom Sketch plugin allows users to access the power of the Zoom repository inside the Sketch app. Click here to know the steps to install the plugin.
• Exporting from Zoom Adobe plugin: Assets may now be exported using Zoom Adobe plugin in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and Sketch.
• Web session check: Number of active web sessions allowed simultaneously for each user are now configurable.
• Cinema 4D sequence files: Zoom now recognizes sequence files rendered by Cinema 4D and optimizes their check-in, linking, and updating by only ingesting the first frame in the repository and keeping the rest on a network share.
• VIdeoLX 2.0: Zoom 7.1 is equipped to work with the latest VideoLX 2.0 that supports proxy generation using Evolphin’s own transcoder. However, Zoom NonStop (HADR) is not supported with VideoLX.

Usability Enhancements

• The licensing model introduced in 7.0 has been updated to have separate license counts for web-based clients’ users and collection-only users. Each of these has a bunch of licenses for read-only and read-write access. Licenses are consumed based on the activity being performed by the user.
• SSL communication between Zoom machines now has additional security using hostname verification. To know the changes needed for your SSL setup, click here.
• Assets may now be downloaded as a zip file in the Web Client. For more details, click here.
• In the Web Client, users may now resolve chosen comments on an asset in a collection. This will hide these comments out of the default view. For more details, click here.
• The search box in Web Client now suggests global results spanning asset names, collection names, and also asset names within collections. For more details, click here.
• In the Web Client, Video playback during scrubbing is smoother now.
• Zoom users can now update their profile picture and Zoom password in the Web Client.
• At each server start, Zoom will now automatically check for system media converters and accordingly add any that are missing and also update existing ones if these are outdated.
• The project template and their categories are now displayed alphabetically in the Zoom Adobe plugin.
• In the Zoom Adobe Plugin using proxy-based high-resolution asset management, if the user tries to link to a low-res asset that is not already checked out, then the Zoom plugin implicitly performs a checkout and completes the linking process.
• Spatial comments may now be added on successive pages of multi-page assets (like pdf) in the Zoom Adobe Plugin.
• Zoom Adobe Plugin now has the delink feature to remove checked-out assets from working copy. To delink, right-click on a checked-out asset in the All tab under Browse and select Delink.
• In Zoom Adobe Plugin, the number of notifications displayed may now be configured. The user may also successively fetch more notifications, if available.
• The notifications displayed in Zoom Adobe Plugin may be dismissed now to remove from the view in the list.
• The asset search results in Zoom Adobe Plugin are now displayed page-wise with 50 results per page.
• Zoom Adobe plugin now displays an invalid character error message when the user tries to check-in a file with invalid characters in its name. Special characters, /:>|<*?\”, are not allowed.
• Asset Browser shows the difference in size between revisions of an asset now. It is the delta size of revision, that is the amount of data stored for that revision.
• Smart-link and smart copy assets may now be looked up from the command line using the new Zoom API command, getlist.
• Smart-link may now be created for smart copies of assets. Smart-links may also be archived now.
• In Adobe Premiere Pro using Zoom Adobe plugin, smart-links may be linked to the project now, if the Zoom admin disables copying of smart-links from the Web Management Console and then restarts the Zoom MAM server.
• Smart-link or smart copies of assets would now expire when their source expires.
• Zoom now supports Vantage 7.1 as a media converter.

Major Fixes

• The Zoom Server will not crash now if an incompatible Zoom Client tries to connect to it. Zoom Clients will send their compatible Zoom versions in the header message when communicating with Zoom Servers.
• Zoom servers are more secure now as type whitelisting is implemented for XML. Any blacklisted type in Zoom’s XML files will result in related functionality to stop working with appropriate logging that asks the user to correct the configuration. This will prevent unwanted remote code execution on the server.
• On the Zoom Client, the login prompt is shown only once per Zoom Server configured for its working copies in the Z-settings.
• Asset Browser now shows the correct modified date for the latest revision of the asset.
• Zoom property file, zoom.properties, is not case sensitive for keys or values now.
• Zoom auto-checkout user will not receive any server activity notification emails now.
• If any path set for auto-checkout is invalid, Zoom auto-checkout keeps on working for other valid paths.
• For the Curator, the limit on the number of search results fetched has been removed.
• Configuration failure email is not sent now whenever Curator settings are changed from the Web Management Console.
• External process logging in Zoom is now being printed to their assigned log files only.
• The re-sync button is only available for assets that need to be re-synced in the Zoom Adobe Plugin.
• While browsing assets in an Adobe application using Zoom Adobe plugin, the sort option chosen by the user is now maintained even if the user browses away from the root level.
• In the Web Client, if sharing is disabled for a collection, then the user will not be allowed to send any sharing invitation email for that collection.
• While adding a comment on an asset in the Web Client, it is saved successfully now after resizing the text.
• No error is logged if SMTP settings are missing at Client Proxy start now. Only a warning is logged if any module tries to send an email when SMTP settings are not there.
• Zoom user credentials used by Hot Folder are now encrypted before saving in the config file.
• Fixed randomly missing rotated log files so that all logs are available now.
• When doing first check-in for Adobe Indesign or After Effects files using the Zoom Adobe plugin, the files’ thumbnails are now shown in the Asset Browser.
• Fixed the failure to sync error for some specific files in Adobe Indesign using the Zoom Adobe plugin.
• Multiple selected projects may now be associated with a single transcoder machine when using VideoLX, instead of only one project or all of them.
• In the Web Client, a PNG file may now be cropped correctly without any extra white area appearing in the result. This works in a Zoom setup not running on HADR. For a HADR setup, the user should upgrade the media converters in Zoom. Contact support to get updated system media converters.
• In Adobe Premiere Pro using Zoom Adobe plugin, linked hires assets are not automatically checked-out now while using VideoLX.

Zoom 7.1 builds have been tested against the following: