Release Notes

2025.3.1

Release date 13 March 2025

Versioning Convention Update

To provide clarity and transparency in our updates, starting this release Vantage Gateway will follow a structured versioning format:

YYYY.M.Version.Hotfix

  • YYYY = Year of release (e.g., 2025)
  • M = Month of release (e.g., 3 for March)
  • Version = Main release number within the month
  • Hotfix (optional) = A minor fix or patch for urgent issues

Examples:

  • 2025.3.1 → First main release in March 2025
  • 2025.3.2 → Second main release in March 2025
  • 2025.3.2.1 → A hotfix for version 2025.3.2

This versioning system ensures clear tracking of major updates while allowing for rapid fixes when needed.

Release Changes

👍

Added

  • Formatting support for burned-in STL subtitles

👍

Changed

  • Minor UI improvements

📘

Fixed

  • Incorrect timecode handling for external STL
  • Dolby Atmos transcoding in case of non-ABR outputs
  • Subtitle conversion issues for mp4-ttml and ismt formats

8.34

Release date 27 February 2025

👍

Added

  • Improved HTML entity conversion in WebVTT subtitle input

👍

Changed

  • cea-608 captions mapping in case of specifying more that 2 subtitle sources

📘

Fixed

  • Failure with low-bitrate AAC audio output
  • Closed captions from source are cut correctly with start/finish options
  • Prevent encoding fail in case of using set_video_duration and audio_codec copy
  • Minor UI issues

Check the latest API changes here.

8.33

Release date 23 January 2025

👍

Added

  • Fallback to retrieve the AWS S3 bucket’s region from the HTTP header
  • A new API parameter to change the timecode track mode.
  • Added qualify version to About page
  • Default Qualify templates
  • New API call ListDefaultQualifyTemplates to list pre-populated Qualify templates.
  • New Qualify version 2025.1.1
  • Ability to set AAC SBR/PS signaling for fMP4 intermediate repackage outputs
  • Support for CEA-608/708 track in apple_prores output
  • UI Usage report pages updated to support per-minute resources

📘

Fixed

  • Copy of the DNxHD video codec to the MXF OP1a format
  • IPCM audio decode
  • Packing of DV intermediate files into MP4 when Ludicrous Mode was used
  • Unexpected job failures with error like: [Download S3] Process follower: master process hung or died: status files are not updated for too long

Check the latest API changes here.