We are pleased to announce the release of Xibo for Android v4 R404. This release will connect to a v4 content management system. It will connect to an earlier CMS in legacy mode. If you are upgrading your network from v1/v2/v3 we recommend upgrading your CMS first.
Fixes and Features
This release is a bug release which contains 8 resolved issues.
- Device: The "Heartbeat Interlock" error log message has been reduced to "info" level and a fault introduced instead (Fault code = 1005). The fault will clear once the hearbeat has been successful.
- Device: A potential fix for the SQLite error "Attempt to re-open an already-closed object"
- Device: disallow common mac address
00:90:4c:11:22:33
- Sony Bravia: fix the reboot command
- SSP: A fix for the SSP connector which caused multiple errors to be reported to the SSP if the last ad in the buffet failed
- Widget: attempt to catch errors with webview running out of memory and prevent those from crashing the whole application
- Widget: support substituting display tags in the Web Page widget URL using the format
[[tag]]
- XMR: A fix for the "Revert to Schedule" action
Download
Use the link to Download Xibo for Android v4 R404.
Visit our Downloads page for all the latest releases.
Install / Upgrade
Installation instructions can be found here.
Instructions for upgrading from an earlier release can be found here.
If you have a white label build of the application, the upgrade is available in your account.
Further guidance on updating your white label player can be found here
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