Showcase Release Notes
Release notes for different Showcase versions are shown below.
Showcase 1.14.14
Released on Feb 2, 2026 - Added support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, including updated PostgreSQL 16 and Ruby 3.2 - Added Windows server support - Updated web browser to CEF 142.0.17 - Added AltGr key support in the embedded browser - Added WebGL rendering support in the embedded browser
Showcase 1.13.0
Released on Aug 20, 2024 - Windows versions only. Linux versions coming soon. - Updated web browser to CEF 89.0.4389.114 - Fixed app scheduling & widget scheduling repetition - Updated Ruby to version 3.0.7 - Updated Ruby dependencies - Fixed URL overflow
Showcase 1.11.7
Released on Dec 2, 2021 - Fixed drag & drop not working after the latest Chrome/Edge updates
Showcase 1.11.6
Released on Oct 4, 2021 - Fixed PostgreSQL connections not working in Windows
Showcase 1.11.5
Released on Jul 7, 2021 - Fixed the licensing code to always choose the latest license file - Fixed blank browser error page on Windows - Fixed a crash when resizing a browser on Windows with more than one window per GPU - Fixed crashes in browser rendering on Windows - Fixed rendering crashes that mostly happened with Intel GPUs - Fixed bogus single-tap events that were triggered in some cases to wrong widgets - Optimized browser resizing performance on Windows - Optimized widget styling system, improves loading times
Showcase 1.11.4
Released on Aug 20, 2020 - Added automatic preview image support for PDF files, directories and various widgets - Fixed automatic preview images for videos and images in Windows - Fixed pinned widgets on the background layer not respecting their fixed size and location - Added support for percentage values for \"Initial size\" -attribute. For instance an image on a background layer with size \"100% 100%\" will fill the screen - Fixed crash when interacting with a widget while shutting down
Showcase 1.11.3
Released on May 4, 2020 - Added reference implementation of media server - Added watermark when the software license has expired - Added a new hardware-accelerated CEF rendering pipeline for Windows 10 - Added a new asynchronous texture uploading method - Fixed GPU affinity on Windows if the GPU areas are not rectangular - Fixed various performance issues in rendering
Showcase 1.11.2
Released on Apr 16, 2020 - Fixed crash caused when tapping an App switcher in hotspot relative coordinates - Fixed crash caused when shutting down Showcase while loading an app
Showcase 1.11.1
Released on Feb 6, 2020 - Optimized Cloud widget opening performance - Optimized performance in Sparkles effect - Fixed deadlock in video playback - Fixed finger menu simulation stability on low framerate - Fixed a crash when attempting to load corrupted mipmap images and avoid creating corrupted mipmaps if running out of disk space - Fixed a crash when closing video input widgets - Fixed focus issues in browser that caused the text cursor to disappear - Fixed some browser error dialogs to exclude useless username and password text fields - Changed logging to include Qt logs - Updated web browser to CEF 79.0.3945.88
Showcase 1.11.0
Released on Dec 17, 2019
- Added (de)select all button to import/export in the editor
- Improved app loading time by optimizing SQL performance
- Updated web browser to Chromium 78.0.3904.108
- Changed \"Export the whole Codice DB\" to be disabled default in the editor
- Changed the cache location for PDFs, mipmaps and video previews to %LocalAppData%\MultiTaction\cache (Windows) or ~/MultiTaction/cache (Linux)
- Improved cache management performance
- Fixed crash when changing apps or opening content from menus
- Fixed several race conditions causing widgets to open at wrong locations
- Fixed crash when opening a floating menu with a Codice marker
- Fixed Twitter cache sometimes not getting cleaned properly
- Fixed temporary files created during export not getting automatically deleted
- Fixed the server not launching on some computers that are part of Active Directory
- Fixed crash when using corrupt PDF files
- Removed support for Ubuntu 14.04
Known issues
- reCAPTCHA logins do not work in the web browser
Showcase 1.10.5
Released on Sep 23, 2019 - Fixed overwriting assets in media library sometimes not working properly - Fixed issues with non-ascii characters in filenames in Windows - Fixed regression causing vertical finger menu connector lines to disappear
Showcase 1.10.4
Released on Sep 9, 2019 - Fixed auto-generated preview images not being displayed on Linux - Moved temporary folder on Windows installations from C:/tmp to %TEMP% - Fixed web page popup links not rendering correctly in the browser - Enabled video autoplay by default in the web browser - Fixed incorrect clipping in the PDF flow causing rendering artifacts
Showcase 1.10.3
Released on Jun 19, 2019 - Fixed directory traversal vulnerability on Windows
Showcase 1.10.2
Released on Apr 15, 2019 - Updated web browser to Chromium 73.0.3683.75 with support for pens and audio panning - Fixed crash when entering invalid CSS strings for content-offset - Fixed licensing errors not being reported to Launcher in Linux - Fixed teasers not respecting their spawning area
Showcase 1.10.1
Released on Feb 18, 2019 - Fixed sparkles effect input handling - Fixed browser not being movable when unpinned
Known issues
- WebGL does not work under Ubuntu 18.04. As a workaround you can disable Chromium sandbox with a
--cef-no-sandboxcommand line argument. However, this will increase the web browser attack surface and for security reasons we don\'t recommend using it.
Showcase 1.10.0
Released on Jan 31, 2019 - Added support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Added support for guest markers - Load audio-config.xml and audio-devices.xml automatically
Known issues
- WebGL does not work under Ubuntu 18.04. As a workaround you can disable Chromium sandbox with a
--cef-no-sandboxcommand line argument. However, this will increase the web browser attack surface and for security reasons we don\'t recommend using it.
Showcase 1.9.2
Released on Jan 22, 2019 - Disabled the loading screen when starting Showcase and switching applications from the editor - Added option to app switcher widget to use loading screen (disabled by default) - Added volume slider to video player widget - Added ability to adjust video volume from the editor
Showcase 1.9.1
Released on Nov 23, 2018 - Added support for up to 32 channels in the pulseaudio backend, previously the limit was 6 channels - Added warning dialog about expired licenses - Added capability to report licensing issues to Launcher - Added an option to play several separate video files in sync - The --cef-ignore-gpu-blacklist command-line argument is now enabled by default - The --minidump-upload-url command-line argument is now enabled by default - Fixes to YUVA/RGBA video playback - Fixed crash when closing a web browser with a session-id - Fixed crash in browser mouse emulation mode - Fixed crash when trying to open more channels than pulseaudio supports - Fixed crash in web browser when typing certain invalid URLs - Fixed video stream hints with Magewell capture cards - Fixed flickering windows in Windows with multiple Mosaic groups - Fixed initial text selection in the web browser address bar - Fixed crash in ImageWidget when using compressed mipmaps - Fixed crash in VideoWidget if closing widget quickly after opening - Fixed crash on exit when using raw-input with NativeTouch - Fixed crash on exit when there were running PDF tasks in the background - Fixed application return value if killed by the watchdog
Showcase 1.9.0
Released on May 31, 2018 - Added a utility tool for taking and restoring backups of Showcase data - Added automatic backup when Showcase is upgraded - Added new Text viewer widget for displaying custom text in Showcase - Added new Text style component for customizing how any text in Showcase is displayed - Added support for setting a size and location for a Codice detector widget - Added support for limiting which Codices a Codice detector accepts and an option to display custom content if any other Codice is placed on the detector - Fixed default menu bubbles not displaying content name and preview - Fixed possible crash when opening content from a menu - Fixed content launching upside down on third party displays when rotate towards hand is enabled - Fixed PDF flow edge pages ignoring touch interaction - Fixed rotating menu sometimes losing its rotation momentum instantly - Fixed personal space text input field sometimes showing placeholder text while typing - Exports now include used assets by default
Showcase 1.8.2
Released on May 18, 2018 - Fixed tapping on buttons when using TUIO - Fixed possible crash when touching a PDF book
Showcase 1.8.1
Released on May 9, 2018 - Fixed widgets losing momentum instantly when thrown on Windows - Fixed possible crash when dragging a widget - Fixed possible crash when closing a video - Improved license errors logging
Showcase 1.8.0
Released on Apr 17, 2018 - Added support for sharing web browser sessions between browsers - Added support for adding hotspots to images and videos - Added Snippets service for adding preconfigured text snippets to on-screen keyboard - Added physical keyboard focus slider to on-screen keyboard - Added option to lock a screensaver with PIN or Codice - Added Screensaver trigger widget for manually activating screensavers - Added option to close previous menu content when tapping a menu node - Added option to close menu content when menu is closed - Added option to close hotspot content when hotspot is closed - Added Screen wipe widget that closes all temporary content on screen - Added PDF navigation controls - Added mouse emulation mode for browser - Added support for configuring video stream quality - Added support for customizing video viewer preview image - Added option to automatically close a video after playing - Added support for navigating Finger menu content by rotating Codice - Added option to open Codice content when marker is lifted instead of placed - Added support for choosing Image movie playback mode - Added option to make floating content and teasers bounce at the screen edge - Added support for blurring background effects Particles, Sparkles and Champagne - Added default plugin location to streamline using custom plugins - Added a loading overlay while loading an app - Improved license errors logging - Menu bubbles overlay image is now configurable, and disabling cropping no longer hides the overlay image - Removed display of terminal window when running Showcase on Windows - Fixed automatic logging to a file when Showcase is run directly (not from Launcher) - Fixed crash reports not being uploaded when Showcase is run directly - Fixed long delay in Showcase client connecting to server on Windows - Fixed possible crash when editing Codice DB while Showcase is running - Fixed possible crash when exiting Showcase - Fixed finger menu physics simulation issues when app is running at low frame rate - Fixed uploading personal space content with visible name that contains only spaces - Fixed handling of UNC paths in Codice URLs when emailing personal space content - Fixed application hanging when launching a cloud with a lot of content - Fixed server start script assuming the working folder is the server folder - Fixed outdated asset preview in Editor media library after overwriting an asset - Standardized Showcase cache file locations
Showcase 1.7.2
Released on Mar 1, 2018 - Added two new plugin examples - Fixed graphical issues with video inputs - Fixed an issue with Tweet cloud sometimes not updating - Fixed sound effect files missing from exported apps - Fixed possible missing content the first time Codice content is launched - Fixed pinned widgets on background changing order when touched - Fixed frame lock issue when using sync cards
Showcase 1.7.1
Released on Dec 22, 2017 - Added support for running Editor over HTTPS on Windows - Added SiteManager to Showcase package - Fixed Editor scripts not updating dynamically when Showcase is updated
Showcase 1.7.0
Released on Dec 14, 2017 - Added support for scheduling widgets and apps - Added App switcher widget - Added Showcase licensing - Added instructions and template configurations for running Editor over HTTPS on Linux - Added option to show exit button in welcome screen - Added support for launching an app from welcome screen - Added support for closing a menu by tapping the root node - Added option to close hotspot content on next tap - Added an easier way to define visible name for content in content set editor - Added support for selecting initial app with --app command line parameter - Added label for content set root node selector - Added warning popup for trying to leave import page after uploading and not importing - Added touch feedback to touching widget in cloud - Removed widget type selection popup when there\'s only one available type - Removed Showcase launch script, the executable can be used directly - Increased maximum tap duration for activating widgets with taps - Exit Showcase popup now always stays fully in view - Fixed spaces not working in vector attributes in some browsers - Fixed crash in launching Showcase on Windows with capture cards - Fixed rare crash related to input on closing widget - Fixed crash in collecting widgets with Codice code 0 - Fixed widget overlay setting not updating dynamically when changed in the Editor - Fixed Showcase remote control thread busy-looping - Fixed browser keyboard not opening with the same orientation as the browser - Improved various help texts in the Editor
Showcase 1.6.3
Released on Nov 8, 2017 - Added Particles component from Launcher to Showcase - Added more configuration options to Awesome bg, including colors - Fixed Windows installation name when using the SDK version - Added support for adding Champagne to Screensaver - Improved error reporting when setting invalid Twitter image cache size
Showcase 1.6.2
Released on Oct 12, 2017 - Fixed crash when exiting Showcase - Adjusted text size in personal space widget
Showcase 1.6.1
Released on Oct 9, 2017 - Fixed Showcase not reconnecting to media server after connection is lost
Showcase 1.6.0
Released on Sep 28, 2017 - Added new Widget sounds component - Added new Interaction sounds component - Added new Size limit component - Added preview for sound files in the Editor - Added size limit for Twitter profile image cache - Added help texts to page headers in the Editor - Added more configuration options to Exit Showcase widget - Added option to set Rotating menu scale in the Editor - Fixed issues with defining colors by names in the Editor - Fixed button hit areas in Exit Showcase popup - Fixed text layout issues in Personal space help popup - Fixed a crash when exiting Showcase right after launching it - Changed Showcase exports to use .showcase file extension
Showcase 1.5.0
Released on Sep 20, 2017 - Added new menu component: Rotating menu - Added new menu item component: Menu nodes - Added option for visualization widget to Teaser menu - Added option for content location offset to Finger menu - Added Cornerstone demo applications to Showcase package - Fixed exported apps not including content viewers in theme
Showcase 1.4.0
Released on Sep 5, 2017 - Added Showcase API and custom plugin support - Added option to upload personal space items to a web server - Added more configuration options for Personal space in Editor - Fixed Showcase not installing Visual Studio runtime on Windows - Fixed breakpad missing from package dependencies on Linux - Fixed content sets with duplicate names breaking on import - Fixed app crashing when trying to launch a missing component from menu - Fixed upgrading Showcase on Windows leaving behind old files - Fixed menu bubble names not updating when set to blank
Showcase 1.3.2
Released on Aug 10, 2017 - Fixed existing apps losing their settings when importing a new app - Added an option to use any content node type as a content set root - Fixed content set root always displaying an asset icon in the Editor - Fixed preview image field not closing after drag and drop in content set - Removed MIME attribute from asset content nodes - Added an attribute to set connection encryption method in email service - Added an attribute to ignore SSL errors in email service - Moved production_users.yaml under /etc/ in Linux - Fixed hotspots blocking input after it can no longer count as a single tap - Fixed server not launching in Windows if user has a space in their name - Fixed Showcase leaving a launcher config file behind when updated - Fixed missing package dependencies in Linux - Improved several error messages in logs - Updated various texts in the Editor
Showcase 1.3.0
Released on Jun 21, 2017 - Added Windows support - Added Twitter integration - Added an Exit Showcase component - Removed support for Canvus launcher - Added a button to clone widgets from a cloud - Fixed application crashing if \"Allow drag operations\" is disabled - Fixed possible crash when maximizing a widget - Fixed possible crash when launching content - Fixed welcome screen sometimes not being visible - Fixed browser closing after timeout while typing in the address bar - Fixed Postgresql breaking when uninstalling Showcase in Linux - Fixed image movie on background responding to touches - Updated various texts in the Editor
Showcase 1.2.0
Released on Apr 26, 2017 - Added support for running Showcase in table mode - Added support for launching and rotating contents towards user\'s hand - Added support for moving Codice content with marker - Added support for dismissing Codice content when marker is lifted - Added Screensaver component - Added Animated content component - Added support for emailing a widget by placing a marker on it - Added Data gathering service and a new database for content usage data - Added Theme defaults for setting default values for common attributes per theme - Added support for maximixing a widget and a new Maximization area component - Fixed pinned Cloud widget moving when moving a content widget out of screen - Fixed widgets on background showing toolbars and other decorations - Personal space can now be rotated - Fixed text in Personal space input field getting misaligned after running Canvus - Moved Personal space error popup so it doesn\'t block the cancel button - Updated Canvus fullscreen launcher graphic - Fixed excessive error logging from widget namebars - Fixed writing decimals to input fields with sliders - Fixed dragging an image to Background slot in the Editor structure creating a Sparkles widget instead of Image viewer - Fixed importing apps ignoring the the file version - Updated various component and attribute help texts in the Editor - Removed an extra breadcrumb link from Codice Content page - Renamed Floating menu to Finger menu in the Editor - Added limits for Stars animation particles count - Launching Showcase with a user that is not part of mt-showcase-server group now logs an error - Added more verbose error for trying to launch server with incompatible database
Showcase 1.1.0
Released on Mar 30, 2017 - Updated Cornerstone version to 2.3 - Added support for running Canvus 1.5
Showcase 1.0.2
Released on Mar 22, 2017 - Fixed crash when launching Canvus from Showcase fails - Fixed editor failing to launch a new app shortly after importing - Fixed origin point used when resizing browser - Fixed media library breaking with non-ASCII characters in file names - Fixed hotspot visualizations sometimes using wrong locations - Fixed PDF flow shrinking and moving too much when pinned - Fixed possible crash in sending email - Fixed possible crash in adding operators to widgets - Fixed possible crash in launching codice content - Fixed possible crash when generating new content - Fixed duplicate theme button becoming permanently disabled - Fixed duplicating a theme sometimes silently failing - Clicking the input popup when duplicating theme no longer dismisses it - Increased default email timeout values - Upgrading Showcase no longer requires restarting the pc
Showcase 1.0.1
Released on Feb 23, 2017 - Added support for video streams in video viewer - Added Codice lottery widget - Added support for setting \'Close after idle\' directly to widgets - Added logic to move widget fully inside view when pinned - Added support for editing email timeout settings - Added option to set background color for hotspot - Added missing help texts in Editor - Fixed issues with special characters in folder names - Fixed crash when deleting a structure - Fixed browsers opened from hotspot or codice appearing in wrong location - Fixed application crashing when Canvus couldn\'t be launched - Fixed PDF book viewer generating extra pages when PDF is renamed - Fixed deadlock when reloading application - Fixed internal error in Editor when deleting content - Fixed drag and drop in Editor not working in Firefox - Fixed missing named widgets when importing structures - Fixed overwriting files in media library - Fixed Sparkles preventing annotating on background with fingers - Improved exported file naming and fixed issues with special characters - Improved name generation in Editor when creating widgets from assets - Improved several help texts and attribute names in Editor - Improved error logging when launching Canvus fails - Improved error logging when sending email fails - Replaced colons in log file names - Clicking component shortcut now opens the component in theme view - Changed Canvus to open in fullscreen mode by default
Showcase 1.0.0
Released on Dec 30, 2016 - Initial release