Product Release Notes

This is a historic look at all Beacon product revisions. Recent updates for all Brightcove products are now on this page: Product Release Notes.

Revisions

Changes / Updates Date
  • Live DVR
  • Evergent SVOD Trials
  • Thumbnail Scrubbing (All except Smart TV)
22 Mar 2023
  • New live events detail page layout
1 Mar 2023
  • Evergent Roku OIDC Connector
23 Feb 2023
  • Evergent TVOD - Buying and renting assets using Evergent
6 Feb 2023
  • New player layout for live and VOD players
26 Jan 2023
  • Stripe 3DS support on Beacon web apps
9 Jan 2023
  • Stripe TVOD
  • Biometric feature deprecated on iOS and Android
  • New series detail page layout
  • New movie detail page layout
16 Nov 2022
  • Evergent OIDC
17 Oct 2022
  • Web SEO
  • Roku Universal Search
7 Oct 2022
  • Audience Insights
  • Push Notifications
8 Sep 2022
  • Live DRM Supported on Samsung TV
7 Apr 2022
  • Beacon Studio UI GA
1 Apr 2022
  • TCL added to supported list for Roku and Android TV OS
2 Mar 2022
  • Evergent GA
  • Updated Android TV requirements description
  • Consent Management with One Trust
  • Nagra Forensic Watermarking
  • Web app keyboard navigation
  • French and Portuguese app translations
26 Feb 2022
  • Apple Sequence Universal Search and Deep Link data extraction - Limited Availability
28 Dec 2021
  • Multi-language apps released
  • New ingest workflow released
  • Offline playback released
7 Jul 2021
  • Cloud Playout
  • Live DRM VOD and Live
  • SSAI Ad targeting for VOD and Live
  • Beacon Store Buy and Rent
18 Mar 2021
  • Updated Live DRM and VOD Device Parameter targeting
  • Added Cloud Playout
2 Mar 2021
  • iOS supported version 13+
  • tvOS supported version 12+
12 Dec 2020
  • Auth0
  • AuthVOD
  • Web External links
  • RokuTrick play
  • Hero Image screen
  • Roku and 3rd party Auth limits
11 Sep 2020
  • Added Stripe Payment Partners
4 Jun 2020
  • Changed supported iOS version to 12+
15 Apr 2020
  • SSAI UX: SSAI ads UX now disables FF and displays ad locators.
  • Live Events: Automated workflow of Before, During and After states of live events.
  • Autostart: Live streams play in the Hero position
  • Biometric Login
  • Account Profiles
  • Changed Toshiba OS to FireTV OS for 2020 models
10 Mar 2020
  • Initial Release
31 Oct 2019