MediaCore 0.8.1 Release Candidate 1

Major new features in 0.8.1

Improved HTML5 device support (including fixes for iPods and iPads)
Improved performance, especially when serving media files.
Automatic fetching of thumbnails, duration, and title, for YouTube, Vimeo, and Google Video items
Adds the option to use the JW Player HTML5 player

Minor features and improvements

Simplified database setup and automated migrations for when schema changes become necessary.
Automated tests for some key features, with more coverage coming.
Streamlined media edit interface.
Many small interface updates
Improved file serving efficiency, including support for apache's mod_xsendfile
Added ability to upload non-jpeg thumbnails
Fixed situation when uploading files or thumbnails for a media item that hasn't been 'saved' yet.
Reorganizes and formalizes how the best media-file/player combination is chosen to serve to a given browser, if a media object has more than one file associated. see
docs for details
All display options now also indicate how much extra bandwidth they add to the included files.
Adds the beginnings of internationalization and a German translation.
Uploader now accepts files with .avi, .mka, .mkv, .oga, .ogv, .webm extensions
Uploader no longer accepts files with .3g2, .divx, .dvx, .qt, .vob extensions

Bug Fixes

Fix bug with iphone-ipod-ipad being incorrectly identified as plain old Safari.
Fix JW Player to be able to use media URLs with query strings.
fixes a bug where .m4a files would be labelled as video files, because the old code passed the container to guess_media_type(), rather than passing the original file extension
Fixes an XSS vulnerability in the StaticURLParser
Hopefully this fixes an intermittent issue where the submit button wraps to the line below the text input.
Improve error message when saving media returns a 500 error
Fix media API to return proper category names
Fix google video embed ID parsing for some IDs
Fix pick_media_file_player when selecting files for iTunes, when combined with certain player settings
Fix non-relative links in base.css that were preventing icons from loading on some pages
Fix what 'Latest Episodes' are shown on the frontend podcast index to actually always show the latest episodes.
Fix frontend categories list not updating until server reboots. Closes #21
Fix incorrect escaping of Media.title
Fix Media.increment_views() to (hopefully) handle concurrency better
Fix issues with JWPlayer in some browsers, due to incompatibilities between Browser/MooTools/JWPlayer and their acceptance of the 'application/xhtml+xml' content type
Fix podcast feeds incorrectly treating unicode text as HTML
Improve reliability of FTP uploads to remote storage servers
Fix some IE javascript issues
Fix potential slug collisions when adding groups of tags.
Fix setting the duration on a new media file before saving the main form (admin media edit page)
Fix (admin Media page) adding new files on previously unsaved new media
Fix (admin Media page) adding thumbnails on previously unsaved new media
Fix (admin media page) removing a queued file upload not removing it from the sidebar list
Fix 500 errors when dealing with a client with no HTTP_USER_AGENT
Fix ajax validation problems when using Rich Text Editing
Fix the progress bar for image uploads
Fix random bullets appearing on the "share" box
Fix JWPlayer thumbnail display with embedded media

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