We’re very pleased to announce the release of Carousel 5.1. This release represents a large effort to improve the scalability and reliability of Carousel, and we can’t wait to start building on this new foundation.

Here’s a quick overview of what’s new:

• Enhanced housekeeping features allow you to purge old bulletins in bulk by type, user, and zone.
• File downloading in the Display Engine has been optimized so that smaller files are downloaded first, saving the larger files for later. As a result the content is displayed in a more timely matter due to the prioritization by file size.
• Multiple tags may be added to Zones and Media.
• The Carousel Service is much more efficient when procuring data from the database, which allows Carousel to scale larger installations.
• All timezones are represented and can be assigned to various zones

For the full release notes, please visit our forums.

To request this update, please email our support team at support@trms.com. (Note that you must have a current System Assurance contract to receive this update.) In your email, please include the following items:

• Your name and organization
• Your current version of Carousel
• If you haven’t yet filled out a customer registration form, please head over to http://www.trms.com/registration and fill one out.

If you have any questions, please let us know!