Release Date: September 7th, 2021
8.2.0-RELEASE.347 includes updates for the Linux server, Mac and Windows clients.
Revision History
This section describes the revisions and its details in this release of Zoom.
| Release number | Date | Description |
| 8.2 | September 7th, 2021 | This is the first release in the 8.2 series |
New Features and Enhancements
- Authors can now receive notifications when their assets are modified
- Administrators can opt to avoid the auto resubmit of failed transcoding jobs when the Zoom service restarts
- Image transcoding via S3 has been enhanced
- R3D files can now be transcoded from S3
- Email alerts for transcoding errors has been added
- Transcode Trends & Export Transcode Reports have been added. Administrators can review information such as the total native media size, completion time, duration of videos and video transcoding speed
- A pause feature has been added to the transcoder to give administrators more control over the queue
- Users are now able to upload proxy files for their high-res assets irrespective of transcoding status
- A new feature has been added to the Adobe Premiere plugin which lets users create a Premiere sequence from an AI or human curated data timeline
- Users can now copy text from any metadata field to the clipboard when using the Creative Cloud plugins
- Search in the Creative Cloud plugins has been enhanced to include asset IDs
- The Search feature has been separated into its own tab in the Creative Cloud plugins
- Users can now browse to the parent folder of the active project from the Creative Cloud plugins
- Users can now associate multiple exports with a single project in the Creative Cloud plugins
- Advanced Search in the WebClient and Zoom Desktop can now be restricted to selected folders or projects
- The PDF viewer has been enhanced in the WebClient and Zoom Desktop
- Link and layer information for Creative Cloud projects are now visible in the WebClient and Zoom Desktop
- A Smart Copy/Links tab has been added to the Zoom Desktop which lets users see all connected assets
- Search in Directory has been added to the WebClient and Zoom Desktop
- Zoom Desktop now supports search with type-ahead to make it easy to locate assets within a folder
- Advanced Search in the WebClient and Zoom Desktop now supports Search by Author, Check-in Date and Comments
- Next and Previous buttons have been added to search results to supplement the current navigation tools
- The Zoom Desktop’s Settings have been enhanced with additional features and configuration options
- The Restore feature has been added to the Zoom Desktop
- Users can now sort using the metadata columns in the WebClient and the Zoom Desktop
- Some of the generic thumbnails have been updated
- The default placeholder for high-res assets has been updated
- Users can now mute notifications in collections
- Administrators can now set and enforce password policies for external users
- Zoom now supports changing the global WebClient URL for emails and link sharing
- Zoom now supports location-wise Archive On Ingest storage configuration
- The Zoom logs have been enhanced to record memory and Web Management Console/WebClient/Preview service access logs for the Zoom and Preview Servers
Fixed Issues
This section describes the issues that were fixed in this release of Zoom.
| Ticket Id | Description |
| ZS-11923 | Zoom database structure enhancements |
| ZS-11299 | Resurrect command fails when no DRM start date is present |
| ZS-11906 | Web Management Console: Highlighted users discrepancy when using refresh command |
| ZS-11881 | Unable to delete a user if email is assigned to multiple accounts |
| ZS-11710 | Error pulling users from LDAP on first attempt after deleting them |
| PNG-2024 | Markers may be added twice to a Premiere sequence when a user links to the XML sequence |
| PNG-2223 | Visual enhancements to the plug-in Export tool |
| PNG-2248 | Allow embedding SVG assets to an Illustrator project |
| PNG-2247 | Open project parent folder in the file chooser dialog while resolving offline links |
| WC-1353 | Collection users are able to download the asset when the download permission is not permitted to the user |
| WC-2451 | Downloading PDF with comments is not working when name contains special characters |
| WC-2459 | Compare view not showing older revision comments |
| ZS-11863 | Start and End dates are different for the completed jobs on the main job dashboard page and job details page |
| ZS-11421 | Size should be displayed in decimal values in the Job dashboard |
| FTS-92 | Enhancements to Curator indexing |
| ZS-11901 | The Search and Execute generated csv file is always showing first 1000 assets only although the count is greater |
| PNG-2249 | High-res assets are ingested again with a new asset ID if the user syncs after switching to Low Res and the low-res is also on the TPM |
| ZS-11882 | Enhancements to login error displayed when invalid credentials are detected |
| ZS-11967 | Formatting enhancements to Digital Rights Management emails |
| ZS-11948 | No values displayed for the current day in General Reports (Web Management Console) |
| PNG-2246 | Revised message when links are updated upon clicking Sync |
| ZS-11959 | Formatting enhancements to HTML email contents |
| EJH-438 | Queuing enhancements to the Zoom Job Hub |
| WC-2394 | Issues downloading S3 high-res |
| WC-2452 | File not found message when clicking on the activity panel depending on indexing status |
Known Issues
This section describes the known issues and any major pending issues associated with this release of Zoom.
| Ticket Id | Description |
| ZS-11946 | Advance Search: Issues when using export to csv and export to xml |
| ZS-11944 | Search and Execute is not generating reports until it completes the operation |
| PNG-2205 | Same cached color is displaying for same type of data timeline when user |
| PNG-2251 | Unauthorized message while previewing files in the plug-in under certain circumstances |
| ZS-11939 | Administrators may receive multiple emails for the same critical server operation (e.g. Zoom service restart) |
| EJH-434 | Cleanup jobs should not be triggered when files are not present in the TPM |
| VAB8-32 | Users may not receive an email after using the Forgot Password feature in the Zoom Desktop |
| VABNG-3588 | Uploading a manual proxy is aborted with a mandatory metadata warning even in instances where metadata is not required |
| EJH-428 | The Asset Size values may not be displayed correctly in the Hub Dashboard for Mid-Res jobs |
| EJH-426 | Archive/Restore can fail for TPM files on a network/UNC path under certain circumstances |
| VABNG-3573 | The Zoom Desktop icons are not displayed under certain circumstances |
| ZS-11915 | Failed transcode emails are being resent for failed assets upon a Zoom service restart |
| VAB8-28 | A user’s favorite assets are not synchronizing between the Asset Browser and the Zoom Desktop |
| EJH-413 | S3 Uploads will fail if the incoming folder has trailing spaces |
| VAB8-146 | Notification setting in the Web Management Console may reset under certain circumstances |
| PNG-2285 | Preview issues for specific Creative Cloud releases |
| WC-2474 | Global comments are not displaying when comparing versions |
| PNG-2242 | Plug-in compatibility issue with InCopy and the Apple M1 processor |
| VABNG-3283 | Downloading an asset may file if it was resized beforehand |
| ZS-11903 | ERROR 500 when deleting jobs in the Hub Dashboard if the update time is empty |
| PNG-2258 | URL error when links have the special character % in the filename |
| PNG-2262 | Retain user selection in the asset list if switching resolution fails in the plug-in |
| EJH-420 | Bulk archiving notifications in the Zoom Client rather than notifying per asset |
| VAB8-158 | Sorting using the status column is not working in the Zoom Desktop |
| VAB8-166 | Zoom Desktop header is not visible while scrolling the collections from the Collection tab |
| VAB8-107 | The login screen may appear under certain circumstances while working in the Zoom Desktop |
| VAB8-101 | Issuing a search or browsing to a folder may show empty results if the Zoom Desktop client session was left active overnight |
| EJH-420 | Hub Dashboard GUI user interface may be distorted when reducing/resizing the web browser |
Third Party Issues
| Ticket Id | Description |
| ZC-1587 | Sorting of assets fails in Java 1.8 WorkAround: The user needs to add the following tag in zm.vmoption: -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true |
Environment and System Requirements
This section lists the environment, system requirements, certified components, and the third-party compatibility matrix associated with this release of Zoom.
Third-party Compatibility Matrix
| Server Operating Systems | CentOS 7 |
| Client Operating Systems | Windows 10 Pro, macOS Catalina 10.15.7, BigSur 11.2.2 (Apple M1) and 11.2 (Intel) |
| Browsers | Chrome – 91.0.4472.124, 92.0.4515.159 Safari – 14.0.3 (16610.4.3.1.4) |
| Adobe apps | Adobe Photoshop 22.4.3; Adobe Illustrator 25.4, 25.3.1; Adobe InDesign 16.3.2, 16.3; Adobe Premiere Pro 15.4; Adobe After Effects 18.4; Adobe InCopy 16.3 |
| Telestream Vantage | 7.2.166 |
| LibreOffice | LibreOffice_7.1.1.2 |
| HARMAN AIR | Harman Air- 33.1.1.259 |
| Perl | Perl (v5.26.1) |
| Evolphin Job Hub | v8.2-RELEASE-15-g21aa6dd |
Upgrade Zoom:
This release is compatible with 8.2.0-Release.1 and above.
For detailed information about the steps involved in upgrading Zoom to the latest version, see Zoom Server Upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1.
Documentation and Support
This section provides details about Zoom product documentation and the additional resources that you can use to learn more about Zoom.
| Release | Documentation and additional resources |
| Release 8.2 | help.evolphin.com |