Concerto 3.0.0-rc2 is now available

[Brian Michalski]

Hi folks,

I'm excited to announce that the second release candidate for Concerto 3 is now available!
 
Following the feedback from our initial RC1 release, we focused on several bugfixes and missing features from Concerto 2:

• Portrait Support: Support for vertical displays, including templates and better content scaling.
• Native PDF Support: You can now upload PDF files directly as Graphic content. No .doc support yet, but I'm hopeful PDFs are a mainstream alternative now.
• Audio Opt-In: A new per-video setting allows you to enable audio for specific content on the player.
• Global Search: Searching across content and feeds powered by SQLite FTS5.

You can read the full release announcement and see the new features in action on our blog @ https://www.concerto-signage.org/blog/2026/05/19/concerto-3-rc2

If you’re running via Docker, you can pull the latest version now: docker pull concerto/concerto:3.0.0.rc2 or just check out the demo instance.

As always, please report any bugs or share your feedback on the GitHub Issue Tracker; I'm looking forward to releasing a final "3.0.0" version soon.

Thanks for all the great feedback that helped shape this release!

~Brian M