The Public Cloud release notes for the Appspace 8.6 Aquarius platform contain valuable information on the latest features, enhancements, bug fixes, and resolved escalations available in each public cloud release.
For Appspace Cloud security compliance information and release cadence, please refer to our Appspace Trust and Cloud Architecture & Platform Release Cadence pages.
The following is the release management schedule as per our Release Calendar for Public Cloud:
- New Appspace functionality and major platform optimizations will now be released under a quartely release cycle, scheduled at 08:00 pm CST on Friday.
- Scheduled minor feature updates, cloud service optimizations, and bug and escalation fixes are typically scheduled at 08:00 pm CST time throughout the week, typically on a Tuesday or Friday.
- Critical updates including security patches or emergency fixes that support the reliability and availability of the Appspace platform will be deployed as necessary and as soon as it is administratively feasible.
- For Private Cloud release notes, please refer to the Appspace 8.x Release Notes for Private Cloud page.
- For previous Public Cloud release notes, please refer to the following:
27 Aug 2024, Tuesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.10
(Private Cloud Only Build)
FIXED BUGS
- AP-45518 – Conflict with recurring events when involving multi-resources from the Google Calendar provider.
23 Aug 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.9
(Private Cloud Only Build)
FIXED BUGS
- AP-46359 – The Employee App Reserve button does not display on resources with the in-person QR code rule.
7 Aug 2024, Wednesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.8
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10950 –Conflict with recurring events when involving multi-resources from the Google Calendar provider.
26 July 2024, Wednesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.7
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10893 – User unable to approve pending meeting reservations on private cloud.
17 July 2024, Wednesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.6
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10898 – Reservation missing from search listing.
3 July 2024, Wednesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.5
FIXED BUGS
- AP-44918 – Retrieving account configuration during an event sync, encounters duplicate dictionary keys, resulting in ArgumentException thrown.
28 June 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.4
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10811 – Cancelled reservation changes event status from “Cancelled” to “Conflict” during event sync.
27 June 2024, Thursday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.3
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10811 – Cancelled reservation changes event status from “Cancelled” to “Conflict” during event sync.
27 June 2024, Thursday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.3
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10811 – Cancelled reservation changes event status from “Cancelled” to “Conflict” during event sync.
21 June 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.2
NEW FEATURES & UPDATES
Platform
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Login Improvements: reCAPTCHA Integration | The integration with Google reCAPTCHA on all Appspace login pages significantly enhances security across the Appspace platform. This update aims to protect your accounts from unauthorized access and automated threats.
Google Recaptcha provides increased security by preventing automated attacks like bots and spam, ensuring only genuine users access accounts. It verifies login attempts to reduce unauthorized access, enhances user experience by blocking suspicious activity, and aids in detecting and preventing fraud, thereby contributing to the overall safety of your data and resources. |
14 June 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6.1
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43698 – Unable to edit posts in Communities.
- AP-43718 – Unable to update the Banner in Communities.
7 June 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.6
NEW FEATURES & UPDATES
Employee Communications
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Events Improvement | The Events directory page on the Employee App now allows users to filter events based on the event type (attendees) or duration. | |
| UI Update for Channels and Topics | The Channels and Topics settings pages have been updated with a new UI. |
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10142 – Unable to resize widgets or media zones effectively on the Advanced Channel.
- AE-10524 – Sizing issues with Advanced Channel widgets.
- AE-10530 – Booking a resource via Maps on the Employee App triggers the “Error Getting Available Resources” server error.
- AE-10621 – Unable to edit or preview Table Cards ver. 1.6.
- AE-10628 – The Media zone widget position and resolution changes after being saved.
- AE-10646 – Booking a resource via Maps on the Employee App triggers the “Error Getting Available Workspaces” server error.
5 June 2024, Wednesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.5.5
FIXED BUGS
- AP-44136 –SSO login redirect binding problem arises from the legacy assertion endpoint due to a change in URL encoding.
4 June 2024, Tuesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.5.4
FIXED BUGS
- AP-44073 – Reservation event sync errors due to attendees having the same email address.
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.5.3
FIXED BUGS
- AP-44058 – Unable to edit the title and description for Event posts from the pop-up modal window.
3 June 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.5.2
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10733 – High CPU usage when registering devices on the public cloud.
1 June 2024, Saturday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.5.1
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43623 – Unable to save descriptions in Communities.
- AP-43811 – Unable to save Reservation Rules with failure to list resources.
- AP-43948 – When Default Attendance is set to Virtual, all attendees should be virtual except for the organizer.
- AP-43957 – Employee with Viewer permissions are able to create Pages and Stories.
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10660 – Recursive login issues on Appspace public cloud.
31 May 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.5
NEW FEATURES & UPDATES
Space Reservations
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| At The Office UI Improvements | The image placeholders for employees who have not set their profile images have been enhanced to display the user’s initials for better visual identification and visibility on the At The Office tab in Places. | The image placeholders for users display the initials of the person’s first name. |
| Conflict Reservation Improvements | The Reservations system incorrectly sends two confirmation emails to users for conflicted reservations in Reservable Neighborhoods.
This improvement updates the conflict resolution to only send one confirmation email to the user with the confirmed reservation, while the other user receives the conflicted notification email, ensuring accurate communication. |
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| New Reservations Setting – Default Attendance | Appspace introduces a new Reservations setting allowing administrators to set the default attendance for reservations to “Virtual”, providing a convenient option for organizations to streamline virtual attendees in remote environments. | The new “Default attendees to virtual” reservation setting is available in the Settings tab in Reservations. |
Employee Communications
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| User Profile Improvements | A new Events tab has been added to the User Profile in the Employee App, displaying events the user is attending or has organized. | User Profile includes a new Events tab displaying events the user is attending or has organized. |
| Preview Content Improvements | Events, Pages, and Stories on the Employee App’s Home screen display in a preview window when clicked, instead of directing the user to the card content page. | New display behavior for Events, Pages, and Stories on the Employee App when clicked from the Home screen. |
| Home Page Themes for Employee App | A new customization option for Home Page Themes allows administrators to configure the number of shortcuts to display per row on the Employee App mobile. | Limited Release |
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43285 – Neighborhood Zone is displayed as Unavailable in Reservations, even when there are available resources.
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-9653 – The user is unable to view or access the playlist channel page.
- AE-9813 – The user is unable to view pending or canceled card content in the playlist channel.
- AE-10014 – The user is unable to edit contents on the playlist channel.
- AE-10406 – The Zombie meeting (Unattended Meetings) rule does not work correctly.
- AE-10451 – Licenses assigned to the User Group are removed once SAML mappings are changed.
- AE-10459 – The user is unable to view the contents in the Edit tab of a channel.
- AE-10553 – Resource displays as Unavailable until selected and added to the reservation.
- AE-10570 – Room resources do not sync correctly with the calendar provider.
- AE-10625 – Device status discrepancy between results from API and the Device page.
- AE-10646 – Error getting available workspaces when accessing resources in Map view.
24 May 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.4.6
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AP-43955 – The core token will expire in 25 minutes if the user logs in directly to the Employee Apps.
28 May 2024, Tuesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.4.5
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10471 – Notifications are not sent to users when making reservations on non-provider resources.
23 May 2024, Thursday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.4.4
IMPROVEMENTS
- AP-43820 – Library service performance update.
20 May 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.4.3
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10664 – Performance issues with Appspace modules.
- AE-10681 – API errors during the Reservations migration process from an external database to Appspace.
17 May 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.4.2
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10359 – Reservations calendar provider mapping page hits the 300 building limit.
- AE-10379 – User permission issues on Advanced Channels.
- AE-10489 – Resource Capacity is hidden on the Employee App, when the capacity check setting is switched off.
- AE-10614 – Editing the common library permissions triggers the 500 Internal Server Error.
- AE-10664 – Performance issues with Appspace modules.
- AE-10669 – The Enable Scheduling Mode setting crashes the channel when being configured.
13 May 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.4.1
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43522 – Searching for attendees when creating a reservation triggers an internal server error.
- AP-43523 – Recursive login experienced on certain accounts.
10 May 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.4
NEW FEATURES & UPDATES
Space Reservations
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Provider Reservations with Conflict Setting Improvement | The Provider Reservations with Conflict setting option in Reservations now includes a new functionality when set to “Cancel“
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New functionality when the Provider Reservations with Conflict setting option is set to Cancel. |
| Enterprise Messaging Templates Update | The Enterprise Messaging Templates have been updated to display the Reservation Name, rather than the resource name for improved clarity. | |
| Places Improvement | Resource drop-down listings on the Employee App now display and sort resources (including zones) in alphabetical order for improved organization and accessibility. | |
| Import Provider Resources Improvements | Administrators will now be reminded to double-check their latest changes with a warning message just before clicking the Import button when managing providers, as resources excluded from the filter will not be in sync anymore. | Warning pop-up message displays as follows:
Update passport? Please make sure to double-check your latest changes, as excluded resources from the filter will drop out of sync. |
| Reservable Spaces in Neighborhoods Improvements | Zones listed within a building in Places are now displayed with the Zone resource type, providing clear identification for an improved user experience. | |
| Places Improvement | This improvement defaults the timezone in Places on the Employee App, to the timezone of the respective Building resource selected. | Limited Release |
Digital Signage
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Microsoft Teams Rooms Integration | Appspace offers an innovative solution for organizations leveraging on Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR), allowing them to seamlessly manage and showcase Appspace digital signage content on MTR devices.
With a focus on effortless integration, user-friendly functionality, and optimal screen utilization, Appspace empowers businesses to streamline messaging, improve communication, and enhance the overall end-user experience across their entire organization. |
Roadmap Feature
Limited Release |
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10382 – Meeting reservation gets canceled if checked in before the start time.
- AE-10401 – Conflict status displayed on meeting reservations without conflict.
- AE-10559 – User invitation times out and fails due to an error saving to the database.
- AE-10561 – Incorrect date range displayed when creating a Quick Post Event in Employee App.
24 May 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.3.6
(Private Cloud Only Build)
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43940 – Authentication token expires after 25 minutes when the user directly logs in to the Employee App.
20 May 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.3.5
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10664 – Performance issues with Appspace modules.
- AE-10681 – API errors during the Reservations migration process from an external database to Appspace.
17 May 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.3.4
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10664 – Performance issues with Appspace modules.
13 May 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.3.3
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10618 – Unable to load Library on Private cloud.
6 May 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.3.2
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43099 – Unable to change daily recurring reservations to yearly due to invalid recurrence pattern.
- AP-43180 – The Building Pass reservation sidebar start and end dates does not reflect the Date and Duration filters.
30 Apr 2024, Tuesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.3.1
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43099 – Unable to change daily recurring reservations to yearly due to invalid recurrence pattern.
- AP-43180 – The Building Pass reservation sidebar start and end dates does not reflect the Date and Duration filters.
26 Apr 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.3
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10432 – Loading issues on Appspace Private Cloud.
13 May 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.2.3
(Private Cloud Only Build)
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10618 – Unable to load Library on Private cloud.
30 Apr 2024, Tuesday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.2.2
(Private Cloud Only Build)
FIXED BUGS
- AP-43160 – Hybrid calendar provider events do not sync with Appspace.
20 Apr 2024, Saturday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.2.1
FIXED BUGS
- AP-41171 – Checkpoints not triggering on subsequent reservations of the resource.
19 Apr 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.2
NEW FEATURES & UPDATES
Digital Signage
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Device Management Modernization | Experience the revamped Device Management module in Appspace, designed to enhance efficiency and productivity. With its fresh UI/UX layout, navigating device management has never been smoother. Easily filter and sort devices, tailor details to your preferences, and efficiently execute actions on multiple devices simultaneously. It’s intuitive, sleek, and simplifies device management for seamless operations. | Roadmap Feature
Limited Release |
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-9983 – Typo correction for canceled reservation.
- AE-10380 – Zooming in using the mouse scroll displays duplicate resource titles in Map View.
- AE-10411 – High memory consumption by screenshots and screenshots-background services
12 Apr 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.1.3
FIXED BUGS
- AP-42704 – Validation of tokens causes massive performance issues.
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.1.2
(Private Cloud Only Build)
FIXED BUGS
- AP-42630 – Removal of the NewRelic monitoring tool from legacy projects.
- AP-42632 – Validation of tokens causes massive performance issues.
8 Apr 2024, Monday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.1.1
RESOLVED ESCALATIONS
- AE-10481 – Performance issues experienced resulting in “Error getting channels” and “Failed to get your network. Please try again.” error messages displayed.
- AE-10486 – Sync issues with O365 provider when syncing all resources except one.
5 Apr 2024, Friday
Aquarius build 8.6-ac.1
NEW FEATURES & UPDATES
Space Reservations
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Workplace Management Notifications
Spotlight Feature |
This release expands Workplace Management Notifications, such as check-in reminders, reservation status, and visitor management notifications to be accessible within the Employee App user inbox, or through push notifications on the Employee App (mobile). | Roadmap Feature |
| Streamlined Visitor Invitation Workflow | Organizations utilizing both Space Reservations and Visitor Management may now invite both employees and visitors within a single Streamlined Visitor Invitation Workflow, without having to toggle between separate systems or enter duplicate information. This workflow ensures a cohesive and unified experience for organizers by simplifying the process of organizing workplace meetings.
Invitations are synchronized between both Space Reservations and Visitor Management, allowing any changes made to the reservation event or attendees to be automatically reflected on both sides, guaranteeing consistency and accuracy throughout the process. |
Roadmap Feature |
| Editable Checkpoints | Administrators can now configure checkpoints to be editable, allowing submitted Reservation Checkpoint answers to be changed by Organizers or Attendees anytime (or a configurable duration) before the start of the reservation.
In addition to the enhancement above, Attendees have the option of previewing their responses, while Organizers have the option of previewing all responses that have been submitted, before proceeding to make changes. This release also updates the current Checkpoint UI frame displayed to attendees for the following checkpoint types:
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Roadmap Feature |
| Reservable Spaces In Neighborhoods | The Reservable Spaces in Neighborhoods feature revolutionizes workspace bookings, by offering employees without any specific workplace preferences a streamlined and efficient workflow in making reservations. This eliminates the need to manually select a resource, as the system will automatically assign an available resource to an employee based on the desired duration and neighborhood (zone). | Roadmap Feature |
| Multi-Resource Reservation Improvements | Multi-Resource Reservations now support the combination of resources from multiple providers, allowing organizations the flexibility of including resources created in Appspace (locally) or imported from an external provider, such as Google or Microsoft, for a unified reservation. | Roadmap Feature |
| Resource-Level Admins | Resource-Level Admins revolutionize building administration within Appspace, providing organizations with unprecedented control and flexibility. Whether managing multi-floor buildings or complex organizational structures, this feature empowers Location Administrators to efficiently allocate access and permissions, optimizing resource management and enhancing overall operational effectiveness. | |
| Floor-Level Notifications | Floor-level Notifications aim to extend notification options to the floor level, empowering organizations to customize email notifications with greater precision, ensuring that communication is targeted and relevant to specific floors or departments within the building. | |
| Conflict Resolution Improvements | Improved Conflict Resolution enhances the user experience by providing clearer notifications and visual cues to users when encountering conflicting reservations.
We have implemented distinct visual cues to differentiate between conflicted meetings and cancellations. Conflicting reservations are now highlighted with a unique icon color, making them easily distinguishable from canceled events within the Appspace UI. |
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| Surface Sensor Information | Experience a new dimension of workspace reservation with the Surface Sensor Information feature. This innovative integration with surface sensors captures crucial environmental data, enriching the workspace reservation experience with insights into noise levels, light levels, temperature, and more. | Limited Release |
Employee Communications
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summaries and Captions
Spotlight Feature |
Introducing AI features for Pages and Stories, a powerful feature on our Employee App platform that harnesses advanced Large Language Models (LLM) to provide concise summaries and engaging captions, enhancing user experience and accessibility.
AI-Generated Summaries (TLDR) AI-generated summaries offer readers quick insights into articles, allowing them to choose between brief overview or a deeper dive into the full content. Publishers have the flexibility to customize and control the suggested summary to their preference. AI-Generated Captions AI-generated captions enhance content visibility and engagement through engaging notifications tailored to various platforms such as Enterprise Messaging, Email, and Digital Signage. Crafted for contextual relevance, these captions entice users to engage with the content, ultimately boosting engagement and user satisfaction. |
Roadmap Feature |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) Suggested Tags
Spotlight Feature |
Revolutionize content organization with AI-powered tag generation, guaranteeing precise and relevant labels for effortless content discovery. This feature streamlines content organization with enhanced precision with advanced algorithms, minimizing human error and ensuring accurate content categorization. | Roadmap Feature |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) Article Content Generation
Spotlight Feature |
Leveraging AI’s profound understanding of context and content, this feature empowers users to dynamically generate, modify, and enhance text within articles, offering unprecedented flexibility and creativity in content management.
Users can effortlessly modify the sentiment, style, and tone of text to match desired expressions or audience preferences. Additionally, they can easily adjust text length to meet various content requirements, whether shortening for brevity or expanding for detail. AI-Powered Text Generation Users can input prompts to generate or template new articles, streamlining content creation. They can also explore various styles and tones, adapting to diverse content needs and preferences, while showcasing creative flexibility. User Interaction Users can seamlessly navigate a user-friendly interface for text selection and modification. They can also preview and adjust changes made by AI in real-time, ensuring seamless integration and immediate feedback during the editing process. |
Roadmap Feature |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) Narration
Spotlight Feature |
Revolutionize your content interaction experience with AI-powered narration for articles and the all-new Appspace Media Player. These features transform how users engage with content, providing an auditory experience that makes information consumption more accessible and versatile.
AI-Powered Narration: Utilize advanced AI for Text-to-Speech conversion, enabling natural-sounding audio from articles. Enable accessible listening within the Appspace App, providing an alternative to reading, ideal for multitasking or users with visual impairments. Appspace Media Player: Users can create personalized listening playlists with Article Playlists, enabling seamless playback for a smooth, uninterrupted experience. Intuitive controls enhance the listening experience with user-friendly playback options. Intelligent Playlist Generation: Automated Catch-Up Playlists generate playlists to aid users in catching up on unread or unheard content from the previous week. Personalized Recommendations tailor playlists based on user interests, enhancing engagement. This feature maximizes time and engagement by providing relevant content for efficient consumption. |
Roadmap Feature |
| Employee App Communities
Spotlight Feature |
Introducing Communities on the Employee App, a significant leap forward within our Employee App platform, transforming the way employees collaborate, connect, share insights, and engage in meaningful discussions.
Communities enhance the overall digital workplace experience, aligning with efforts to integrate features from our Intranet product, offering a more rounded and dynamic platform that supports various forms of workplace communications, while addressing the need for user-driven collaboration spaces. Key Community Features:
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Roadmap Feature |
| Location-Based Content Publishing | Seamlessly publish content to the Employee App for employees with a designated Home Location, ensuring targeted communication, enhanced engagement, and streamline content delivery by eliminating the need for manual grouping of users based on their location, saving time, and effort. | |
| Home Page Themes for Employee App | Home Page Themes is an innovative feature that enhances the customization and functionality of the Employee App’s homepage, offering unprecedented control over the user experience.
The Home Page Themes management feature available on the console, allows administrators to create multiple themes for different locations, providing a tailored experience for various branches or departments within the organization. |
Limited Release |
Digital Signage
| Features | Description | Impact/Outcome |
| Device Management Modernization
Spotlight Feature |
Experience the revamped Device Management module in Appspace, designed to enhance efficiency and productivity. With its fresh UI/UX layout, navigating device management has never been smoother. Easily filter and sort devices, tailor details to your preferences, and efficiently execute actions on multiple devices simultaneously. It’s intuitive, sleek, and simplifies device management for seamless operations. | Roadmap Feature
Limited Release |
| Support for Neat Devices | Support for Neat devices for conferencing and digital signage. This will be an Appspace Built-in experience, controlled through Neat’s cloud management platform, Pulse.
Below is a list of our Neat reference devices:
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Roadmap Feature |
| Vimeo Card Enhancements | Support for displaying Vimeo Showcases enhances the Vimeo card by allowing organizations to quickly publish multiple engaging videos to their signage network, while having a more simplified Appspace content library with fewer cards to manage. | Roadmap Feature |
| Social Card Improvements | Social cards have been improved by allowing customers to specify a date range when displaying Facebook and Instagram posts, ensuring posts displayed are currently up-to-date without being restricted by the number of posts displayed. | |
| Persistent Device Registration | This feature tackles customer frustrations of re-registering devices by ensuring they retain their settings through updates and changes. By storing device identity on the platform, not on the device itself, we eliminate registration loss caused by volatile storage or partner updates.
This Persistent Device Registration enhancement guarantees device stability, simplifies management, and enhances the user experience for all customers.
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This feature is supported only on devices running Appspace App 2.70.2 and above with unique identifiers, such as:
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| Support for Samsung Tizen 7 / SSSP 10 | Support for Samsung Tizen 7 / Samsung Smart Signage Platform 10 on Appspace App for Devices. | Firmware Support |
| Support for macOS 14 Sonoma | Support for macOS 14 Sonoma on Appspace App for Devices. | Firmware Support |
| Support for BrightSign Series 5 Devices. | Support for the latest BrightSign Series 5 players running BrightSign OS 9 on Appspace App for Devices.
Below is a list of our BrightSign Series 5 reference devices:
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Firmware Support |