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 These release notes list notable changes in each version of Blocks. The latest version can be [[blocks:downloads|downloaded here]]. See the [[http://pixilab.se/outgoing/blocks/PIXILAB-Blocks.pdf|Blocks Manual]] for more details. These release notes list notable changes in each version of Blocks. The latest version can be [[blocks:downloads|downloaded here]]. See the [[http://pixilab.se/outgoing/blocks/PIXILAB-Blocks.pdf|Blocks Manual]] for more details.
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 +=====PIXILAB Blocks 7.3=====
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 +Released on October 17, 2025, this version brings a few new features and several improvements and bug fixes.
 +
 +=== NEW FEATURES ===
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Configuration can be changed in Display Spot settings.
 +  * **3D**: Adds Appearance Zoom Time setting.
 +  * **Feed script API**: Adds refreshFeed method for updating feed displays.
 +  * **Camera Block**: Can downscale image (e.g., to speed up upload from mobile).
 +  * **Composition**: Can now be either shown or hidden after delay.
 +  * **Locator**: Located content can be "Constrained", allowing Stack/Scroller use inside
 +
 +=== MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES ===
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Can refresh screenshot in Settings dialog continuously.
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Screenshot now accessible using Media URL and Live Video (see manual).
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Can be rebooted from Display Spot settings.
 +  * **Server SSO**: Improved handling of expired SSO session.
 +  * **Serial data**: Fixed bug causing trailing zeroes when using sendBytes.
 +  * **Timeline**: Fixed a tag-switch-while-active bug
 +  * **Timeline**: Enable newly created PropTrack.
 +  * **Timeline**: Video at time 0 didn't appear immediately when timeline paused after being stopped
 +  * **Timeline API**: Made 1st param of gotoMarker optional and renamed it to just "name".
 +  * **Web Block**: Focus its iframe once loaded.
 +  * **Server Metrics**: Added some data-points and wiki documentation.
 +  * **WATCHOUT**: Reconnect WATCHOUT 6 aux timeline sync if cancelled by production software.
 +  * **Panorama**: Made negative auto-spin direction work as expected again.
 +  * **Display Spot**: Adds Sync Offset to compensate for varying signal propagation delays.
 +  * **API**: SimpleHTTP adds support for server-sent events (SSE). 
 +  * **Spot Parameter**: URL-decode value set using param-xxx URL query parameter.
 +  * **Synchronizer**: Force local sync if Offline Spot used, regardless of "local" setting.
 +  * **Attractor**: Deactivate by button sometimes failed on touch screen.
 +
 +=====PIXILAB Blocks 7.2=====
 +
 +Released on July 1, 2025, this version brings a few new features and several improvements and bug fixes.
 +
 +=== NEW FEATURES ===
 +  * **Magazine**: New block type with facing pages and animated page-turn effect.
 +  * **Caching**: New "General Content Caching" for reduced network traffic (requires separate license).
 +  * **Timeline**: New "Go to Time" command.
 +  * **Display Spot**: Sync Offset setting, to compensate for display propagation time differences.
 +  * **Schedule**: Now accessible from scripts through root level object.
 +
 +=== MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES ===
 +  * **Offline Spot**: Setting and licensing option previously known as "Block Caching"
 +  * **Slideshow**: Adds "Editor Scale" setting.
 +  * **Button**: Block picker now shows Schedule blocks as well.
 +  * **Panorama**: Mute behavior now works on the background video.
 +  * **MQTT**: Accepts path with leading slash (generally not recommended).
 +  * **Timeline**: Enter key opens cue for editing (e.g., child block).
 +  * **Timeline**: Audio could occasionally play after the timeline was discarded.
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Display Settings could occasionally fail to be applied.
 +
 +=====PIXILAB Blocks 7.1.1=====
 +
 +Released on May 16, 2025, this version brings a few new features and several improvements and bug fixes.
 +
 +=== NEW FEATURES ===
 +  * **Behavior**: Zoom using touch (pinch gesture) or scroll-wheel.
 +  * **Text Input**: Option to accept input only on Enter/Tab.
 +
 +=== MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES ===
 +  * **Editor Thumbnail & WebRenderer API**: Renders properly also with Chromium/Chrome version 134.
 +  * **PIXILAB Player 7**: Fixed a remote update problem caused by slow connection.
 +  * **PIXILAB Player 7**: Fixes a regression in b13 causing the player to fail to connect.
 +  * **Display Spot**: The 'playing' property is now correct also after interrupting content with "Pause without Stopping".
 +  * **Display Spot**: Changes to display dimensions/orientation sometimes failed to apply.
 +  * **MediaURL**: Video URL works again.
 +  * **Editor**: URL parameters recognized also by their camelCase form
 +  * **SSO Auth**: Made expired OIDC token renewal work.
 +
 +
 +=====PIXILAB Blocks 7.1=====
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 +Released on March 11, 2025, this version brings major enhancements to the Timeline block and many other new and enhanced functions
 +
 +====Timeline====
 +  * Block Track can override the block's display dimensions for mixed display formats on the same timeline.
 +  * Do and Property tracks can be disabled, causing their cues to be ignored.
 +  * Added "Loop" option for looping the entire timeline.
 +  * Added "Play Automatically" to start timeline playback when assigned to a Spot.
 +  * New "Desired Duration" setting added to block cues.
 +  * Cue duration (inherent or desired) indicated by a horizontal bar in the cue. Following cue snaps to end of this duration, minus its transition time.
 +  * Keyboard shortcuts; Home, End, PageUp, PageDown scroll. Press Shift to also jump time there.
 +  * Pressing a function key now jumps to a marker named likewise (e.g. "F8")
 +  * The //gotoMarker// function now finds next marker in the specified direction, regardless of its name, if the name specified is empty string.
 +
 +===Minor Timeline improvements and bug fixes===
 +  * Content of block cues now auto-scaled like in Slideshow.
 +  * Editing while Stopped mode doesn't activate timeline.
 +  * Accurate positioning of cues when snap-dragged.
 +  * Spot now considered "playing" while showing a playing timeline.
 +  * Auto-start timeline playback when any enclosing Attractor becomes active.
 +  * DO cues with digits/spaces in the path now work as expected.
 +  * Select to End command can now be used with multiple tracks selected.
 +  * Alt-clicking a cue selects that cue and following ones on that track.
 +  * Now possible to apply custom CSS class per track.
 +
 +
 +===Other New Features===
 +  * **Spot**: Adds volume fade rate setting.
 +  * **Manage**: Status adds live log view and log file download.
 +  * **Perspective Behavior**: New behavior for projection perspective correction.
 +  * **Live Video**: Adds "Internal Video Block" source, duplicating the video frame accurately.
 +  * **Speed Behavior**: Adds Factor, Offset and Minimum Fade Rate
 +  * **3D Block**: Adds support for Draco compression.
 +  * **Joystick and Slider**: Adds "Spring Back to Center" option.
 +  * **Display Spot**: Initial Volume setting added.
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Remote updating of player (player version 7 and later).
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Screenshot showing what's displayed in Spot Settings (player 7.1 and later).
 +
 +===Other Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes===
 +  * **Behaviors**: To trigger on "falsey" property value, set "at value" to //falsey//.
 +  * **Volume Behavior**: Can now also be applied to enclosing block(s).
 +  * **Attractor**: Adds "Transition Delay" setting.
 +  * **Scroller/Grid**: Indexed property Child Replication Scope updated when list changes.
 +  * **Panorama**: Made Appears/Disappears behaviors work for buttons.
 +  * **Custom CSS Transition**: Applies 'custom-transition-reverse' class in reverse.
 +  * **Display Spot**: "Numeric Keys as Inputs" now also work with keys on numeric keypad.
 +  * **Mirror**: New 'interface' setting specifies the name of NIC to use for link local backdoor
 +  * **Mirror**: New 'subnet' setting with explicit backdoor subnet in CIDR notation
 +  * **Subtitle**: Defaults to Roboto font also on Spot.
 +  * **Subtitle**: Faster language switching while playing inside Tag Selector.
 +  * **Scripting**: SimpleWebsocket now fires //finished// event if socket closed by peer.
 +  * **Scripting**: SimpleDB  adds support for custom JDBC driver
 +  * **Scripting**: SimpleDB  reconnects to db server automatically if connection dropped unexpectedly.
 + 
 +=====PIXILAB Blocks 7=====
 +
 +This major version of Blocks was released on October 22, 2024
 +
 +NEW FEATURES
 +  * **Timeline**: New block type (see chapter 10 in the [[http://pixilab.se/outgoing/blocks/PIXILAB-Blocks.pdf|Blocks 7 manual]]).
 +  * **PIXILAB Player**: Supports PIXILAB Player version 7, providing improved performance.
 +  * **Panorama**: Video can be used as the background (see Panorama in the manual).
 +  * **Panorama**: Allows use of most child block types – not just Button.
 +  * **Panorama**: Buttons and chile blocks can be placed "flat on the ground".
 +  * **Transition**: New Wipe transition.
 +
 +===Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes===
 +  * **Spot**: Avoid scaling jump when transitioning between blocks with different size.
 +  * **Scripting**: SimpleHTTP adds HEAD request and file download functionality.
 +  * **Feed**: Reloading a Spot now always reloads any Feed data as well.