14-07-2025 Release

📦 Production Release Notes – July 14, 2025 Push

✅ Bug Fixes & Improvements

🔁 Review Dialog Update

The review dialog in Conference Admin now correctly refreshes its content when opened. Previously, users had to refresh the full schedule table to see newly processed files. This update ensures the latest file status is always visible.

⚙️ Optimization Script Error Resolved

A PowerPoint file with unusual XML formatting caused the optimization script to fail. We've updated the script to use a proper XML parser instead of regex, ensuring greater resilience and successful optimization for a broader range of files.

📄 Improved Messaging for Failed Review Processing

Some presentations that failed review processing were showing vague error messages like "???". The system now provides clearer messaging such as:

"The submission could not be processed for on-line reviewing. Please download to review."

Additionally, a new status, Processing Error, was added to improve visibility into issues affecting browser-based reviews.

🖼️ Fix for Optimization Resulting in Unexpected Slide Changes

Certain presentations containing duplicate media filenames (e.g., image7.png and image7.tif) were being mishandled during optimization. The process has been updated to avoid overwriting media with conflicting filenames, preserving the original appearance of presentations. In affected cases, optimization is skipped for those files to ensure accuracy.

📝 Support for .PPT Files (with Warnings)

Presentations submitted in .ppt format are now accepted for processing but will generate a clear warning message recommending conversion to .pptx. This allows reviews to proceed while still guiding users toward the preferred format.

📥 Session Import Error Handling Improved

When importing a conference schedule, missing session end times were causing processing errors. The import tool now detects and reports these issues gracefully, allowing the rest of the data to be processed without crashing.