Opencast News

In Review: 2023 Meeting of the Opencast German Speaking Community

September 25, 2023

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.

Save the Date: Meeting of the German-speaking Opencast Community

April 28, 2022

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

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.