Support for Isochronous Stream of XML Documents (ISXD) Plug-in (ST 2067-202)

What's Changed

• Initial support for ST 2067-202 Isochronous Stream of XML Documents (ISXD) Plug-in by @fschleich in #400

Full Changelog: v5.0.1...v5.1.0-rc.1

Photon v5.0.1

• Added (back) nebula.netflixoss plugin to facilitate publication to Maven

Photon v5

Only minor changes since publication of v5.0.0 RC1 in March 2025.

Version 5 updates include:

• updated to Gradle v8.5
• migrated from JDK8 to JDK11
• migrated from java.io to java.nio
• migrated from javax to jakarta (where applicable)
• added S3 support via aws-java-nio-spi-for-s3
• consolidated ApplicationComposition, AbstractApplicationComposition and IMFCompositionPlaylistype into IMFCompositionPlaylist
• moved validation code into new package com.netflix.imflibrary.validation
• separated validations for (revisions of) applications, core constraints, cpl and plug-ins
• introduced interface ConstraintsValidator and factory ConstraintsValidatorFactory
• replaced use of SequenceTypeEnum with Strings for SequenceType/Namespace for easier extensibility
• renamed IMPAnalyzer.analyzePackage to IMPAnalyzer.analyzeDelivery to reflect actual scope
• consolidated MXF utility methods in new class MXFUtils
• moved some virtual track validation methods to ConstraintsValidatorUtils, some to core constraints validation classes, and deleted others

See also Photon v5 Developer Notes for high-level overview of the new architecture.

v5.0.0 Release Candidate 1

• updated to Gradle v8.5
• migrated from JDK8 to JDK11
• migrated from java.io to java.nio
• migrated from javax to jakarta (where applicable)
• added S3 support via aws-java-nio-spi-for-s3
• consolidated ApplicationComposition, AbstractApplicationComposition and IMFCompositionPlaylistype into IMFCompositionPlaylist
• moved validation code into new package com.netflix.imflibrary.validation
• separated validations for (revisions of) applications, core constraints, cpl and plug-ins
• introduced interface ConstraintsValidator and factory ConstraintsValidatorFactory
• replaced use of SequenceTypeEnum with Strings for SequenceType/Namespace for easier extensibility
• renamed IMPAnalyzer.analyzePackage to IMPAnalyzer.analyzeDelivery to reflect actual scope
• consolidated MXF utility methods in new class MXFUtils
• moved some virtual track validation methods to ConstraintsValidatorUtils, some to core constraints validation classes, and deleted others

v4.10.8

What's Changed

• Missing VideoLineMap element now reported for all applications by @cfadamp in #391
• MXF parsing: terminate strings on the first null character by @thomasheritage in #373

New Contributors

• @cfadamp made their first contribution in #391
• @thomasheritage made their first contribution in #373

Full Changelog: v4.10.7...v4.10.8

v4.10.7

What's Changed

• use main image sequence source duration for marker track duration by @pavlos in #392

Full Changelog: v4.10.6...v4.10.7

Adding IMSC 1.1 profile designators

What's Changed

• Adding IMSC 1.1 profile designators by @IMFTool in #344

Full Changelog: v4.10.5...v4.10.6

v4.10.5

What's Changed

• add marker track authoring capabilities to IMPAssembler by @pavlos in #390

Full Changelog: v4.10.4...v4.10.5

v4.10.4

What's Changed

• Refactoring 'J2KHeaderParameters' into its own class, to make it easier to validate HT constraints for outside applications.

Full Changelog: v4.10.3...v4.10.4

Inferring expected core constraints version for App2E2021 CPLs

What's Changed

• CoreConstrains.fromApplicationId() now supports the most recent "2021" Application Identification and returns the expected core constraints version (2020).
• Increased test coverage

Full Changelog: 4.10.2...v4.10.3