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For information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github. |
Release 6.
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Summer 2017 — Migration tools, Player API, and AWS support
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Spring 2018 —New Media Player, Batch Ingest Rewrite, AWS Support
- Updated Media Player
- The media player within Avalon updated to MediaElement version 4
- Support dropped for Adobe Flash Player in modern browsers
- Batch Ingest Improvements
- Avalon's batch ingest functionality will be able to handle very large jobs
- Rewind functionality allows for bulk metadata changes to ingested items by way of
- Code changes for running Avalon in AWS
Release 7
Moving to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack
For more information on Release 7, please see our standalone road map: Avalon 7 Roadmap
Below are features originally planned for release 7; some of these will be edited or removed as Avalon is written to use Hyrax as its base.
- Spotlight integration and implementation
- Integrated Automated Test environments
- 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
- Structural Metadata Improvements
- move a master file to a different item
- Better local transcode support
- Descriptive metadata stored as RDF
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Full feature list yet to be determined.
- Publishing Out to External Media Sites
- Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
- Deeper integration with Hyrax Community
- Further gemification/shredding of core components
Technical work yet to be scheduled:
- Improve unit testing
- SAAS solution
- RDF
- Implement PCDM
- Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker. Improving installation experience.
- Scalability issues that may arise
- Automated functional testing
Unscheduled Features
- Facebook integration
- Reporting and metrics
- Collections based group management
- Collections based master file handling
- Internationalization
- Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
- Provenance metadata
- PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks
- Controlled Vocabularies
- Import media from other sources
- Image content/auxiliary items (how does Avalon fit with other initiatives?)
- Integration with oral history tools