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February 10, 2025 - Lakeside Scout v2.1

New Features

NOTIFICATIONS:

Introduced many notifications to the system. These are generally events a user can subscribe to. They can be used to follow a title from beginning to end.

Full details can be found in our Notification section of our knowledge base.

If you'd like to just see the types of notifications that are available, what the reason for the notification is, and why you might want to subscribe to that notification you can do so here.

FILE DOWNLOAD IMPROVEMENTS:

Changed the way file downloads are handled and delivered to the end user. This change was made to make it easier to download individual components and also add extra security to file downloads.

Full details are located in the Lakeside Scout tools section of the knowledge base. Hi-resolution downloads are featured in their own article. Downloading the originals also have their own article.

  • Icon changes
    • Added a download button on every container, regardless of the current job state.
    • Added the ability to select which components you'd like to download when selecting download from the title level.

Creating a New Title

  • Added a new option to assign stakeholders as part of title creation.

Performance Improvements

  • Database
    • Optimize queries
    • Add additional keys
    • Restructured node.js clustering
    • Improved handling of granular data for an event
  • Core functionality
    • Replace polling to determine when title is ready for delivery
    • Rewrite fetching of job info for each email associated with job
    • Increase number of API servers
    • Updates libraries and frameworks
    • Rewrite component level errors
    • pdfspy speedups

Added new Edge component

  • Added a new component to support Lakeside Book Companies ability to print on the edge of book.

Updated Knowledge Base Articles

  • All knowledge base articles have been revised where appropriate with new descriptions and/or new screen grabs.
  • New articles have been added as needed to describe new features or functionality.

Backend Changes

  • Upgraded operating system on backends to the latest versions.
  • Hardened security.