4.0.2 Released

We are pleased to announce the second patch to the 4.0 version of the Xibo CMS. The codename for this version is “Westphal”.

20D/Westphal 3 was a periodic comet with an orbital period of 61 years. It fits the classical definition of a Halley-type comet with (20 years < period < 200 years). It was originally discovered by the German astronomer J. G. Westphal on July 24, 1852.

Fixes and Features

This release is a bug release which contains 10 resolved issues.

• 3131: Widgets with only 1 element and 1 data slot don't page correctly
• 3120: Widget: RSS/Article static shows broken image link when the feed doesn't return an image
• 3116: Calendar Widget: Upgrade from v3 and effects targets
• 3112: Countdown: warning duration needs to be lower than the widget duration
• 3107: Display: save form show unexpected error when no default layout is set
• 3128: Dashboards: do not work on the player
• 3125: Settings: Default value for “Automatically apply Transitions? doesn't work when set to on
• 3124: Transitions: no transitions work after upgrading to v4
• 3121: RSS widget: add support for non-standard/other image enclosures
• 3126: Layouts with Ampersands (&) in name multiply!

Download:

Please use the links below to download this release:

• Xibo for Docker - Linux / Windows
• Xibo for Apache/Nginx / WAMP/IIS

Visit our Downloads page for all the latest releases.

Install / Upgrade

Instructions for installation/upgrade can be found here.

Please note: it is not currently possible to get PHP-ZMQ working on PHP8.1 under Windows/IIS.

Players

We recommend using player software of the same version as your CMS. The latest player software is available here.

Earlier versions of the player will connect to a v4 CMS in legacy mode.

The minimum versions of Xibo for webOS and Xibo for Tizen that will function with a v4 CMS are v3 R308.

Feedback

Xibo is built on feedback from our users, community and customers. Please let us know what you think of v4 in the comments.