EngageMedia and Unweb are pleased to announce the release Plumi 3.1, the latest version of the video sharing platform that is built on the Plone open source content management system.

You can download Plumi 3.1 as a compressed tar file from Plone.org or via SVN.

Plumi 3.1 features the following improvements:

• Rebuilt the transcoding engine to fix a variety of issues encountered in the version released with Plumi 3
• Upgraded to the latest version of FlowPlayer
• Translated the /publish page into Indonesian
• Videos should appear in listings based on date of first publication
• Users look up for non-logged in users returns no results
• Redesign the Callout template
• Create new “Featured” state for workflow
• Videos triggering retranscode after editing metadata
• Add ability to feature a call out
• Callouts items should be removed from the front page once the due date is up
• Member video’s RSS feed needs a filter like RSS2 feed does
• Add “processing” state to workflow with listing
• Add callout portlet to right nav
• Enlarge size of download links in video/view page
• “Read more” link on featured news/events
• Change date stamp in video listings to be the “effective date”
• Front page RSS feed links to random front page content
• Replaced custom transcode daemon integration with collective.transcode.star

If you’d like to get involved in Plumi development please make contact at irc.freenode.net #plumi or join the discussion or announcement lists.

A working version of Plumi 3.1 can be seen at http://engagemedia.org and http://demo.plumi.org

Thanks to the developers, testers and coordinators who made this release possible!