We are pleased to announce our third patch for the 2.3 version of Xibo. The codename for this version is “Wolf”.
14P/Wolf is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 8.74a (Julian years). Max Wolf (Heidelberg, Germany) discovered the comet on September 17, 1884. It is particularly interesting as its perihelion and orbital period change due to the influcence of Jupiter.
This release fixes 8 issues.
Weather Widget
DarkSky has been Xibo's source of weather data for several years, but unfortunately this has come to an end. DarkSky have been bought by Apple and have closed their doors to new API sign-ups, see 2180: Weather: DarkSky has been bought by Apple and is no-longer taking accounts.
Users of Xibo who already have a DarkSky API key will retain access until the end of 2021. Xibo in the Cloud users do not need to take action as this has been handled as part of your Cloud subscription.
We have chosen Open Weather Map API as our replacement to the DarkSky API. Open Weather Map offer a similar plan to DarkSky - please visit the website to get an API key. Enter your Open Weather Map API key on the Forecast/Weather module edit form.
Download
Please use the links below to download this release:
- Xibo for Docker Linux / Windows
- Xibo for Apache/Nginx / WAMP/IIS
You may use any v2 compatible Player with this release. At the time of writing these are the latest:
1.8 series Players will also function but please be aware that new v2 features will not be supported.
Changelog
- 2184: Layout permissions get removed if draft is discarded thanks to @TheJanzap
- 2182: savedreport media records stays after we delete all saved report for a report schedule
- 2178: Help Links: Edit and Delete links not working.
- 2177: Dataset View: Rows per page issue.
- 2174: DOOH user content is not sent to Players as its excluded from XMDS
- 2180: Weather: DarkSky has been bought by Apple and is no-longer taking accounts
- 2179: Option to return stats in the Display Timezone
- 2175: Scheduling: Show all Hourly repeats on the day view.
Future development
Our focus from now will be to move ahead with the development of Xibo version 3, which will be our Interactive Signage release!
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