ocPortal 7.1.6 released

Rishi Saravanan said

Hello,

I'm not sure if it's a bug introduced with this 7.1.6 upgrade, but I just discovered that that system is no longer able to automatically create a thumbnail when I upload a video to the site. However it still automatically generates thumbnails when added youtube videos or uploading images.

Chris Graham said

Yes, this is it.

It needs applying to themes manually too. In global.css:

Code


body .accessibility_hidden { /* {$,Contents should be made visible (or interpreted) for accessibly representation but hidden for normal visual display} */
   /* Shift it out of the viewport */
   position: absolute;
   top: -256000px;
   left: 0;
}


becomes:

Code


body .accessibility_hidden { /* {$,Contents should be made visible (or interpreted) for accessibly representation but hidden for normal visual display} */
   /* Shift it out of the viewport */
   position: absolute;
   top: -256000px;
   left: 0;
   display: block; /* stops browser bugs where it interacts with the layout flow incorrectly */
}


i.e. the display:block bit needs adding.

I'm pretty annoyed with Google causing this bug in an automatic update then completely ignoring the test case I reported to them months ago. Generally I really love Google Chrome, but I don't love organisations that ignore bug reports in their key products.

Chris Graham said

It's important that you apply the patch we posted in the recent security announcement, otherwise if things are fine I wouldn't worry (apart from the Google Chrome bug Rishi discusses above).

If you've been properly saving customised changes into the proper *_custom dirs they won't be overwritten and it's unlikely there'll be a conflict.

Regardless, the upgrade TAR can be extracted manually (i.e. going through the changes by hand) so long as you know what you're doing.

Chris Graham said

You'll need FFMPEG on the server, and correctly pointed to by the 'FFMPEG path' option. Also PHP will need to be able to call up system command, and sometimes PHP configurations prevent this.