--- title: Beta Releases slug: releases/beta-releases docTags: createdAt: 2025-03-11T07:09:39.136Z --- # 0.37.2 (beta) **NEW FEATURES**  - BCN-5715: Support for the 1920x1920x60p resolution on 4K-capable players - BCN-5560: The Diagnostic Web Server now has Network Packet Capture. **IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES** - **Device Setup and Provisioning**  - BCN-5823: All players setup for the BSN.cloud beta will now automatically update to OS 8.0.119 before provisioning begins.  - BCN-5748: Players setup with B-Deploy will now automatically update to OS 8.0.119. - BCN-5666: New Reprovisioning feature: update the provisioning package of a player through the DWS. - BCN-5445: Device Setups that are in use can no longer be deleted.  - BCN-5492: Players will now display a purple screen with a status indicator during setup. - BCN-5375: Applying a Partner URL no longer requires the player to reboot and have its autorun deleted. - **Presentations** - BCN-5428: The default **Image Mode** for the Video or Image zone and the Image zone is now **Scale to Fit**. - BCN-5622: The volume of video and Video In states in an interactive zone can now only be changed using the **Set Volume** command. - BCN-5107: Adding unsupported content to a non-interactive zone no longer causes the application to crash. - BCN-3911: The dimensions of an Asset can now be viewed in Asset Properties. - BCN-3430: Video states in interactive zones now have the options to **Loop media if no media end transition is specified** or **Hold last video frame if no media end transition is specified**. - BCN-5816: New **Enable Full Resolution Graphics** option in Presentation Settings for certain video modes larger than 1920x1200. See [this page](docId\:TJNw230KCx6i9tNihfCvD) for more details.  - BCN-4056: The Live Text state now has Advanced Commands. - BCN-5820: The application no longer crashes when a presentation contains an Audio Time Code event. - **Content**  - BCN-4855: A save menu with a **Save As** option is now available for Live Media Feeds, Live Data Feeds, Dynamic Playlists, as well as for the **Presentation** and **Schedule** tabs. - BCN-4871: Attempting to edit the Validity Date of a feed no longer causes the Validity Date settings to disappear.  - BCN-5605: Empty Dynamic Playlists, Live Data Feeds, and Live Media Feeds now contain instructional dialog. - **Publishing**  - BCN-4006: Players can now update their OS when publishing a presentation in the **Schedule** tab using **Option > BrightSign OS Update**. - BCN-4682: The **Enable Serial Debugging** and **Enable System Log Debugging** options in the **Options** pane of the **Schedule** tab are no longer enabled by default. - BCN-3648: Empty schedules can now be published to remove all scheduled content from a particular Group.  - **Permissions** - BCN-5704: The **Assign to Role** selection is no longer empty when adding a new user to a Control Cloud subscription. - BCN-5756: Users added to a Control Cloud network no longer disappear from **User Management** when the Network Administrator logs in.   - **Network**  - BCN-5721: Device Groups selected in the **Hierarchy** will no longer sometimes lose their delete icon when they appear under Device List. - BCN-5475: Players no longer disappear from the Device List if their Network Status changes. **OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES** - **Device Setup and Provisioning**  - BCN-5657: The “Back” button is now properly displayed in Device Setup in the browser client. - BCN-5292: When provisioning a player running OS 8.0.48 or earlier, it will now automatically update to OS 8.0.119 while performing Device Setup to prevent an erroneous Device Activation screen.  - BCN-5440: In Device Setup, the **Enable Serial Debugging** and **Enable System Log Debugging** options are no longer enabled by default. - BCN-5914: Provisioning a player by using **Apply Setup** no longer triggers an inaccurate success message if the setup failed. The player will also now update to the correct device setup immediately. - BCN-5445: Device Setups that are in use can no longer be deleted.  - BCN-4477: Improper error messages no longer display when saving a device setup to an SD card.  - BCN-5716: Custom **Limit Content Downloads** values now save correctly to Setup Files.  - BCN-5703: Enabled **Debugging** options in Device Setup now save correctly to Setup Files. - BCN-4446: There is now a **Save As To Library** option when editing a Device Setup in the Device Setup Library. - BCN-4446: A duplicate button has been added to Device Setups in the Device Setup Library.  - **Presentations** - BCN-5775: The **Scroll Speed** of scrolling text in a Ticker zone is now converted correctly when the presentation is saved then imported. - BCN-5652: Text in the **Name** field no longer disappears when adding a Data Feed to a presentation in Presentation Settings. - BCN-5543: The Device Web Page error indicator now functions properly when adding a Data Feed to a presentation in Presentation Settings**.** - BCN-5482: The application no longer crashes when changing the **Time to Display Each Line** of an RSS Feed in a Live Text State. - BCN-5188: Media states in saved interactive presentations are no longer rearranged when re-accessed by the user. - BCN-4988: Improved Event state labeling. - BCN-4255: Individual Touch Regions now have the capability of using Advanced Commands. - BCN-4753: Fixed an issue that causes the Zone Properties of a Ticker zone to be labeled as “State Properties”. - BCN-4858: The **Input specifies variable** option for UDP events now works. - BCN-5600: The **Volume** option for audio and video states in a non-interactive zone has been fixed. - BCN-3951 + BCN-3695: Empty zones now contain instructional dialog. - BCN-5432: The **Update Data Feed** command now has a dropdown list of all Data Feeds defined in Presentation Settings. - BCN-5399: The **Cut**, **Copy**, and **Paste** options in the **Edit** dropdown menu now work in the desktop client. - BCN-3983: The properties of newly added touch regions now display properly in **Touch Regions**. - BCN-5284: Accessing the Touch event authoring window now only opens the selected touch region properties while leaving the other regions’ properties collapsed. - BCN-3286: The **Script Plugin Name** and **Parser Plugin Name** fields must be the same as the name of the BrightScript subroutine for added plugins to work. - BCN-3286: Spaces within the **Script Plugin Name** and **Parser Plugin Name** fields now trigger an error message. - BCN-5851: Specifying the **Query String** of an HTML5 state now functions properly. - BCN-5813: Importing a *.bpf* with a custom autorun now correctly prompts a fatal error message. Custom autoruns are not yet supported in BrightAuthor\:connected, see [Unsupported Features](docId\:W61m_Am8nk2ftgGSY26GV) for a list of BrightAuthor features that are not yet supported in BrightAuthor\:connected. - BCN-5812: Duplicate data feed sources in a *.bpf*  no longer lose their configurations once the *.bpf*  file is imported into the application. - BCN-5811: Importing a *.bpf*  with a custom Device Web Page no longer fails. - BCN-5810: Importing a *.bpf*  with a Portrait **Orientation** no longer fails. - BCN-5542: Data feeds not references by a media state that are imported from a BrightAuthor *.bpf*  will now be visible in **Presentation Settings > Support Content > Data Feeds**.  - BCN-5808: Media selected in **Assets** are now properly deselected when the user clicks anywhere within the presentation canvas. - BCN-5799: A **Return to start after inactivity** option has been added to the Media List state. - BCN-3916: The Delete key now properly deletes selected elements in the Presentation canvas. - BCN-5765: Added a scrollbar to the **Library** dropdown in the **Presentation** tab when in **Local Content** mode. - BCN-5724: BLC400 commands now have the correct **Parameters**. - BCN-5723: Touch Region settings are now properly labeled as “Event Properties”. - BCN-4647: Fixed an issue that causes elements to be immovable in the Live Text canvas when the Zone Size is less than full-screen. - BCN-5767: When media is added to a zone, the zone types in **Zone Properties > Type** will now properly reflect the zone type that is compatible with the media added to the zone. - BCN-4399: Fixed an issue that causes Touch Regions to be improperly sized when viewed in the Touch event canvas. - BCN-4005: The background of the Touch event canvas now properly displays the content that the event is being added to. - BCN-4642: The z-ordering of elements in **Layers** in the Live Text canvas is now reflected properly in the canvas. - BCN-5755: Improved presentation playback from the browser client. - BCN-5650: Improved memory management during presentation playback.  - BCN-3647: Red error indicators now appear if two of the same media states have an identical **Name**. - **Content** - BCN-5589: Dragged and dropped media from Assets now show up correctly in the presentation canvas when using the desktop client.  - BCN-4359: The “Unsaved Changes” dialog box no longer appears at improper times.  - BCN-4637: New **Create New Folder** option in the Change Destination Folder when uploading content to BSN.cloud. - BCN-2892: The **Title** of Assets added to a Live Media Feed is now set to the asset’s filename by default. - **Permissions** - BCN-5709: Adding a second user to an existing Control Cloud Network no longer gives them access to user management controls. - BCN-5548: Fixed an issue that caused users to be unable to add customized Permissions to Custom Roles. - **Publishing** - BCN-5574: Saved BSN.cloud schedules now load correctly when accessed in **Local Content** Mode. - BCN-4882: Removed cursor hovering in the Transfer Monitor window when the progress of a transfer item is not expandable. - BCN-5559: When scheduling a presentation in the **Schedule** tab, the default Destination Type is now **Local System Storage** or the last destination used. - BCN-5291: Fixed an issue that causes players provisioned for Standalone or Simple File Network to not appear in the **Network** until content is published to it.  - **Network** - BCN-5555: Fixed Player Name inconsistencies. - BCN-5166: Fixed an error message that appears in the Remote DWS. - BCN-5594: Increased the player access token timeout from 15 minutes to 24 hours. - BCN-5523: Setting `recovery_url` to an empty string using the Remote DWS API now properly deletes the recovery URL.  - BCN-5472: The Remote DWS API `recovery_url` now correctly returns the recovery URL.  - BCN-5489: The Analyze Media File tool in the Diagnostic Web Server no longer misidentifies Remote Snapshot *.jpg*  files as video files. This tool only returns a result for audio and video files. - BCN-5918: Groups left unchecked in **Hierarchy** will no longer incorrectly appear in the Device List. - BCN-5947: When a player’s status changes, the player no longer occasionally disappears from the Device List when accessing the **Network** tab through **Dashboard**. - **Admin** - BCN-5562: “Application Preferences” text is now consistent within the **Admin** tab. - BCN-5303: Clicking **Apply Changes** in Application Preferences now triggers a confirmation message. # 0.53.0 (beta) **NEW FEATURES**  - The Control Cloud now allows network owners to create and assign additional users. **OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES**  - **Device Setup and Provisioning**  - BCN-5454: Fixed an issue that causes setup files to not publish to an SD card from the Device Setup Library if the Device Setup contains a wireless password. - BCN-5312: It is no longer possible to configure a player for Simple File Networking without setting a “URL for Web Folder” value. - BCN-4615: Enabled the Local Diagnostic Web Server password in Device Setup when using the browser client. - BCN-5192: Attempting to create a Simple File Network Device Setup for B-Deploy no longer causes an error.   - BCN-5090: The Local Diagnostic Web Server user name and password are now saved when the Device Setup is added to the Device Setup Library.   - **Presentations**  - BCN-5478: Specifying a **Time to Display Each Line** of 0 for an RSS feed in a Live Text state no longer causes the lines to refresh at an unreadable speed. - BCN-5386: Attempting to import a presentation while editing another presentation will no longer result in an incomplete import. - BCN-4339 + BCN-4350: When viewing **All Presentations**, the presentation directory is now based on the set content mode, either **Local Content** or **BSN.cloud Content**.  - BCN-4928: Clicking **Save As** after importing a presentation re-saves the presentation as the correct default filename. - BCN-5526: When a Set Variable command is added to a presentation the value of the variable is no longer assumed as the user variable. - BCN-5514: There is no longer a crash when a user attempts to **Double Click to Edit Zone Playlist** then click the **Presentation** tab. - BCN-5447: Images that are too large for a presentation zone no longer trigger a “Fail to upload” error. - BCN-5503: When adding assets that require a resize to a presentation, the resized asset is also added to the library.  - BCN-5469: Media no longer disappears from an Images Zone when the presentation is published to the Content Cloud for players set up with BSN.cloud Networking. - BCN-5486: A local presentation containing two HTML 5 states no longer fails to upload. - BCN-5117: The Media List state now works when populated from a URL feed. - BCN-4652: All references to **Local Site** input is now gone when in **BSN.cloud Content** mode. - BCN-4640: The search box in **Select Asset** now works. - BCN-3617: A duplicate button has been added to advanced commands for media states and events. - **Content**  - BCN-5409: Media thumbnails are no longer missing when media is uploaded to the Content Library when in **BSN.cloud Content** mode. - BCN-5358: It is no longer possible to create multiple Dynamic Playlists that have identical names. - BCN-5645: Improved handling of non-media type files. - **Permissions**  - BCN-5295: Users and Roles are now immediately visible after creating a BSN.cloud network. - **Publishing**  - BCN-5360: Changing the **Event Time** of a recurring presentation now has no effect on the **Start Date** or **End Date**. - BCN-5313: Opening a directory twice during Simple File Network publishing no longer triggers an "Invalid presentation directory" message to display. - BCN-5060: Fixed an error that arises when attempting to edit user permissions for a device group. - BCN-5218: A “Publish” option is now available in the Unsaved Changes dialog box that appears when editing the **Schedule** in **BSN.cloud Content** mode. - BCN-5217: A “Save” option is now available in the Unsaved Changes dialog box that appears when editing the **Schedule** in **Local Content** mode. - **Network**  - BCN-5481: Editing the properties of a group of players in **Device Group** no longer causes a crash. - BCN-5133: Communication between BrightAuthor\:connected and the WebSocket server has improved. - BCN-5123: The **Network** tab is now accessible when no user is signed in. - BCN-5522: Removed DNS lookup re-directs for some Internet Service Providers. - BCN-5170: Improvements to Network name validation and feedback to the user.