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Avalon 6.

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Avalon 6.3 is a significant update including a new media player, rewritten batch ingest functionality, and support for cloud deployments.

Media Player Upgrade

Avalon's media player has been upgraded to the latest release of MediaElement.js. Highlights of this change include:

  • Adobe Flash Player no longer required for media playback
  • A loading indicator displays while media content is loaded into the player
  • Updated icons within the media player

Playlists

  • Tagging: tags can be created and associated with playlists, providing improved organizing, searching and sorting for users with large numbers of playlists
  • User preferences for sorting on the playlist index page are saved

Improved Batch Ingest Functionality

  • Replay batch ingests: update metadata for newly ingested items by updating spreadsheets
  • Ingests with large numbers of items run more successfully
  • System emails about batch ingest statuses are improved

AWS Support

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

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Please refer to Avalon's github repository for information about the current release.