Opencast News
In Review: 2023 Meeting of the Opencast German Speaking Community
September 25, 2023
Opencast 12.5
November 28, 2022
November 16, 2022
Opencast 11.12
November 28, 2022
November 16, 2022
Tobira v1.0 released, the new Opencast Video Portal
August 4, 2022
We are very happy to finally announce the first release of Tobira, the Opencast video portal!
Tobira aims to be a pleasant interface through which users interact with your Opencast content. It lets you present videos and series in a customizable, hierarchical page structure, but also makes it easy for users to search through all media.
Opencast 12.0
July 26, 2022
Released June 15th, 2022
Opencast 2022/2023 Roadmap Announced
July 26, 2022
Following the 2022 Opencast summit, the Board followed up on a number of projects, efforts, and plans institutions and individuals presented to integrate them into a roadmap we would like to share with the community.
Opencast 12 Release Schedule
April 28, 2022
We are happy to announce the dates of the milestones for the next Opencast release:
Cutting the release branch: May 18, 2022
Translation Week: May 23, 2022
Public QA phase: May 30, 2022
Release date: June 15, 2022
Looking forward to a successful release!
Opencast 11.6
April 28, 2022
It is my pleasure to announce that Opencast 11.6 has been released.
Opencast 10.12
April 28, 2022
Opencast 11.5
April 28, 2022
It is my pleasure to announce that Opencast 11.5 has been released.
Opencast 10.11
April 28, 2022
New Editor now part of Opencast
February 18, 2022
Opencast started including a new stand-alone video editor meant for inclusion via learning management systems, portals and other integrations.
While we started its development as a project separate from Opencast to kick-start development and get it off the ground quickly, we feel like it’s now mature enough to bring it in again and put it under the umbrella of the Opencast organization.
Opencast 10.10
February 18, 2022
Opencast 10.10 has been released. This is a maintenance release containing important bug fixes, and is a drop-in upgrade to Opencast 10.x.
Opencast 11.3
January 27, 2022
January 19, 2022.
Call for Proposals: Opencast Summit 2022
January 27, 2022
The Opencast Summit is dedicated to the use and management of educational videos with Opencast. While the focus of the event will be on Opencast, the community seeks participation from related domains and projects.
We are therefore inviting educational designers, service providers and others working with video in academic settings to share expertise and experience across the field and explore opportunities to collaborate in related projects.
Save the Date: Opencast Summit 2022
January 27, 2022
The Opencast Summit 2022 will take place from March 8-10, 2022. Due to the current situation, the Summit will take place online. The event will be hosted by Osnabrück University.
2021/2022 Crowd Funding: Thanks, Austria!
December 22, 2021
December 22, 2021
2021 Opencast Board Elections
November 23, 2021
Opencast is pleased to announce the election of three new board members.
Recordings of the 2021 Meeting of the German-speaking Community
November 23, 2021
2021 Meeting of the German-speaking community met Sept. 27-29.
Opencast 10.4 released
October 21, 2021
Announced October 19, 2021
2021 Opencast Summit Online at TU Graz
May 3, 2021
Review of the 2021 Opencast summit which was held using BigBlueButton integrated with Opencast.
Opencast.org gets redesign
May 3, 2021
New system, new design, happy editors: https://opencast.org/
Conclusion of the 2019/2020 Crowdfunding Campaign
May 3, 2021
Collective funding will provide Opencast with a stand-alone video editor early in 2021.
2021 Opencast Board Elections
May 3, 2021
Opencast elects three new board members.
Opencast 9 Release on December 15
December 21, 2020
Opencast 9 is planned for release on December 15. It brings a number of new features and stability improvements.
Opencast 8.9 and 7.9 Released
December 21, 2020
Opencast Chapter Editor
October 26, 2020
Now a new chapter editor allows for manual creation and editing of chapter markers and titles.
Opencast 8.7 Released
October 26, 2020
Opencast 9 Feature Freeze
October 26, 2020
Originally planned to be released on June 15th, Opencast 9 was unfortunately delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meeting of the German-speaking Community
October 26, 2020
Instead of gathering in lovely Innsbruck, Austria, the German-speaking community used BigBlueButton to hold their annual meeting this year.
Tobira: A Video Portal for Higher Education Institutions
October 26, 2020
Development on Tobia, a new video portal for Opencast, has begun.
BigBlueButton Integration
October 26, 2020
The ELAN e.V. has developed an integration between both tools, allowing recorded BigBlueButton events to be processed in Opencast.
Zoom Integration
October 26, 2020
Opencast Studio
October 26, 2020
Web-based Self-recording Studio
Opencast Webinars in Review
October 26, 2020
The community organized and hosted a number of technical webinars for both entry level and advanced technical people, with a wide range of topics (Opencast Studio, GPU encoding, LDAP etc.) covered.
Opencast 8.0 Released
February 5, 2020
With Opencast 8, the community has seen a new major release bringing several improvements to usability and features. For more information, take a look at the release notes.
December 2019: Opencast crowdfunding campaign 2019/2020
December 18, 2019
December 2019 update.
November 2019 Update to Opencast Crowdfunding Campaign 2019/2020
December 18, 2019
Phase one of the crowdfunding campaign has ended with the community identifying its favourite projects.
Opencast 7.5 and 6.7 Released
December 18, 2019
The maintenance releases Opencast 6.7 and Opencast 7.5 have been released.
Opencast crowdfunding campaign 2019/2020
December 18, 2019
The Opencast board is organising a crowdfunding effort to further develop Opencast.
2020 Opencast Summit
October 17, 2019
Join us February 5-7 at Ghent University, Belgium for the 11th Opencast summit.
Call for Proposals now open!
https://oc2020.ugent.be/
Opencast 7.1 Released
October 17, 2019
Opencast 7.1 has been released.
Opencast 8 Feature Freeze
October 17, 2019
The release branch for Opencast 8 has been cut on Oct 1, 2019.
Opencast 7.4 Released
October 17, 2019
If you are running Opencast 7 in production please upgrade.
Opencast 7.2 and 6.5 released
October 14, 2019
Opencast has released updates for both Opencast 6 and 7.
Opencast 8 release managers
July 15, 2019
Dolan and Rolf elected to be release managers for Opencast 8!
Opencast 7.0 Release
June 20, 2019
Opencast 7.0 is scheduled for release on June 13th, 2019.
Opencast Summit 2020: Save the date
April 10, 2019
The next international Opencast summit will be on Feb 5-7, 2020 at Ghent University, Belgium.
Opencast 6.4 and 5.5 Released
April 10, 2019