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Current Release
- Features for Variations to Avalon Migration
Content ingest API- Playlists
- Adding clips of media items to playlists
- Edit, re-order and move playlist items to other playlists
- Create public or private playlists
- Access control enhancements:
- Accessibility phase 2 Section labels able to be searched
- Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
- Fedora 4 timeline (when and how)
Release 5.0.1: July 14, 2016 - Bug fix release - Inconsistencies in Avalon’s media player on some mobile device browsers
- Captions intermittently failed to appear on the media player when enabled
- Users would occasionally encounter error screens when searching
Release 5.1: July 22, 2016 - Feature improvements release - Added markers
- Various bug fixes
- Apostrophes in media objects causing a load failure
- Various smart phone display bugs
- Error handling for users clicking multiple times on upload
- Added variations import for playlists (feature for institutions importing playlists to avalon).
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Upcoming Releases
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Current and Previous Releases
Release 6
January 2017 - Replacing Fedora 3 with Fedora 4; feature parity with Release 5
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Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata
SAAS Preparation
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- Fedora 3- Fedora 4 Migration tool with reporting
- Preparation for SAAS Pilot
- Develop AWS infrastructure map
- Additional transcode engine support
- Zencoder or amazon elastic transcode decision
- Rework AWS Instance when Materhorn is removed
- Better local transcode support
- Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder
- Improvements to Playlists
- Faster loading between playlist items
- Track Scrubber: more granular scrubbing for playlist items and structural metadata segments
- Documentation & Transparency
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- d manual installation and upgrade instructions
- Move JIRA to Waffle/Github
- Fedora 4 Upgrade Path instructions
- Documented migration path from Variations
- Code style guide and standards
- Set RuboCop profile as part of build
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Contributions to IIIF Framework
Enable codeclimate against a repo
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- Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)
- Better developer install methods
Release 6.x
Spring 2017. Bug fixes and improvements to 6.0
- Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata
- Continued work on AWS integration/support
- Simplification of Development environment (e.g. nginx, ffmpeg transcoding)
Release 7
Move to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack
PCDM support
Exhibits Via Spotlight
- Spotlight integration and implementation
Strategy for QA
- Integrated Automated Test environments
Remove RTMP Support
- Investigate HLS on all platforms and its implications
- Create one player view in Avalon
- Re-implement media element customization against the main branch
- Adjust streaming security model
- Move to standard mediaelement
Better internal permissions setup
Gemification/Break interdependencies
- Streaming gem for another repo app
- Bulk metadata/editing gem
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- Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)
- Better developer install methods
- Better OVA
Structural Metadata Improvements
- move a master file to a different item
Better local transcode support
Release 8
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TBD - feature list in flux
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- Publishing Out to External Media Sites
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- Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
- Deeper integration with Hyrax Community
- Further gemification/shredding of core components
Technical work to schedule:
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- Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker. Improving installation experience.
- Scalability issues that may arise
- Automated functional testing
Unscheduled Features
- Collections based group management
- Collections based master file handling
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Technical metadata
- Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
- PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks
- Import media from other sources
- Image content/auxiliary items (how does Avalon fit with other initiatives?)
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