By Todd Dominey | Posted Monday, August 30, 2010 at 12:55 pm

SlideShowPro Director 1.5 (final) released

After a month and a half of extensive beta testing and feedback, we’re thrilled to announce that Director 1.5 is now final and ready to go! Nearly a thousand people tested the beta, and we received a massive amount of constructive feedback along the way. We greatly appreciate the support from everyone who participated.

Director 1.5 is a major (and free!) update to the content management system that not only provides integrated slideshow publishing (using the SlideShowPro Player) but also offers an entirely new HTML5 photo and video player for iPhones, iPads and Android devices. The HTML5 player runs in the web browser, so there’s no applications or plugins for the user to install. It runs in their web browser, is accessed through your own web site, and allows the same content from your Flash slideshow to be browsed with touch controls (including swipe!) using the largest amount of screen real estate possible. Director 1.5 gives publishers the ability to deploy rich, dynamic media content that is universally accessible across virtually every possible device that may access your web site.

If you are a SlideShowPro Director user that didn’t participate in the beta, you can catch up on what’s new in our updated wiki.

If you have a self-installation of SlideShowPro Director, you may upgrade using the application’s built-in updater. Simply sign-in to Director on your server and click the upgrade notice at the top. If your installation of Director is older (and doesn’t support auto upgrading), please see these upgrade instructions.

If you have a SlideShowPro Director hosting subscription, we plan on updating everyone’s installation this weekend (so disruptions, if any, are kept to a minimum). Subscribers should stay tuned to the hosting status blog for more information on the upgrade.