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# Release Notes for Flix 6.1

# Release Date

July 24, 2019

# Operating Systems

## Flix Server

Mac | Sierra (10.12) or higher 4GB of RAM
Linux | CentOS/RHEL 7 (recommended) or 6.10 and higher, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS A 64 bit processor @ 2GHz or higher 4GB of RAM

Note: Flix Server is currently not available on Windows. Other operating system versions may work with Flix, but have not been fully tested. If you have any problems with a particular operating system, please contact the Foundry Support Team here.

## Flix Client

Mac | Sierra (10.12) or higher 1GB of RAM
Windows | Windows 10 An SSE2 capable Intel Pentium 4 processor, or later 1GB of RAM

Note: Flix Client is currently not available on Linux. Other operating system versions may work with Flix, but have not been fully tested. If you have any problems with a particular operating system, please contact the Foundry Support Team here.

## Officially-Supported Third-Party Applications

Applications | Supported Versions
--- | ---
Adobe Photoshop | CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019
Adobe Premiere | CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019
Avid Media Composer | 8.9, 8.10, 2018.12.3**

Note: Older versions may work, but they haven’t been fully tested with Flix 6.1, so they cannot be listed as officially supported.
If you have any problems with a particular application's version, please contact the Foundry Support Team here.

# New Features

• ID 320159 - Avid Media Composer support.

• ID 357121 - Flix 5 Migration tool.

• ID 390887 - Hidden shows.

• ID 354971 - Annotation workflow using Photoshop.

• ID 384044 - Starred shows.

• ID 386981 - Autosave.

• ID 378356 - Added server troubleshooting tools.

# Feature Enhancements

## Creative

• ID 389340 - Exports/Publishes: Flix will automatically create missing directories if they don't already exist.

• ID 393085 - Added Preference to set default export path.

• ID 370199 - New sequence revision created by an import from editorial sends an email notification.

• ID 396855 - Total number of sequence revisions are displayed at the Revisions level.

• ID 385981 - Added Preference to set new panels in 'all' Premiere XML files as highlighted clips in your Premiere sequence.

• ID 390972 - Updated Open in Sketching App icon.

• ID 361002 - Preferences cleanup.

• ID 385622 - Added chips for the Publish Directory preference.

• ID 385292 - Publish Directory and Photoshop Executable paths set at the show or studio level support all supported operating systems.

• ID 385627 - Keyboard shortcut in Dialogue Workspace for next/previous panel changed to Tab/Shift+Tab.

• ID 385429 - Added Cmd/Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut for saving a sequence revision.

• ID 363039 - Aspect ratio, frame rate and show description are displayed at the show level.

• ID 367025 - Changed Filters icon on Panel Browser to funnel icon.

• ID 380725 - Added Preference option to swap Panel ID and Panel Index in Panel Browser.

• ID 380726 - Orange border is displayed on panels with annotations.

• ID 381372 - Renamed 'Admin Console' menu item to 'Management Console'.

• ID 385626 - Preference to hide Markers from panel browser.

• ID 390013 - Chips enhancements.

• ID 396437 - Added Marker Name format and Shot Number format to Panel Browser Preferences.

## Technical

• ID 394521 - Add an option to use a prefix or suffix for LDAP groups.

• ID 395076 - Added -db-downgrade CLI flag to roll back to an earlier database version.

• ID 396431 - Added log_file config option to specify server log directory.

• ID 384028 - Added LDAP User Self Auth option.

• ID 387857 - Display name of schema that is created when using --db-install.

• ID 388084 - Added logging to app helper.

• ID 378868 - Non-sensitive config data and system info logged at boot.

• ID 379525 - Added -config-file CLI flag to specify path to config file.

• ID 393453 - Added shared_storage config option to use shared network storage.

• ID 378067 - Added floating license support.

• ID 387993 - Added -import-from CLI flag to import assets from old assets directory to the current one.

• ID 396429 - Added font_directory config option to specify font directory.

• ID 396430 - Added db_backup_directory config option to specify location of database backups.

• ID 388099 - LDAP improvements.

• ID 389007 - Allow server log text in the Admin Console to be copied.

# Bug Fixes

• ID 395946 - Fixed missing panel revision metadata from contact sheet generated from export.

• ID 386987 - Fixed 'Last Revision' date at Sequence level.

• ID 389870 - Fixed import error message when importing a folder containing unsupported files.

• ID 390118 - Clear Local Asset Cache clears all the Assets folders.

• ID 388492 - Solved error when cancelling a publish.

• ID 375764 - Fixed panel selection not being retained when changing workspace.

• ID 389664 - Fixed issue where blank panels appear when copying from another window.

• ID 391238 - Fixed application crash when logging out without saving revision.

• ID 397853 - Fixed publish to Premiere error with animated panels.

• ID 392401 - Fixed copy/paste of more than 10 panels resulting in panels out of order.

• ID 393834 - Fixed subtitles to update with previous/next buttons.

• ID 390999 - Fixed [episode_tracking_code] appearing twice in Publish Directory chips.

• ID 396626 - Fixed crash when importing Photoshop file with vector layer masks.

• ID 393080 - Licensing: incorrect error message when attempting to start server with no license.

• ID 393684 - Licensing: impossible to shut down server when no/invalid license is found.

• ID 393175 - Fixed Image exporting fullres image instead of thumbnail.

• ID 374305 - Panel position index changes to NaN when click on breadcrumb revision.

• ID 389866 - Removed 'Cancel' button from the Panel Import.

• ID 389377 - Ginkgo flags aren't exposed when running Flix Server in terminal.

• ID 391662 - Fixed corrupt database backups.