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  • Structural Metadata: (examples - migrating from Variations to Avalon; importing new items with an existing structure file that is created outside of the system)

    • Navigation by structure (jump to point on the timeline)

    • Create structure (via resource description form and batch; structure can be added at the file level or what is now called a section)

      • includes segment label

      • hierarchy

      • time offset

    • Edit structure via resource description form

  • Dependency Simplification - Create a transcoding API to support use with alternative transcoding engines 

  • Wowza integration
  • Hydra 8

  • Accessibility Phase One

    • Navigation of web page elements with screen reader and tab key

    • Using player controls with keyboard

  • Add Notes field

  • Indexing Notes field

  • Canvas LTI integration improvements
    •  Avalon provides LTI urls for direct access to item or sections when used with a Course Management System
  • oEmbed support

 

Release 5: June 13, 2016 - Support IU MDPI/Large collection management. Support for moving from Variations to Avalon.  

  • Features for Variations to Avalon Migration
    • Playlists
      • Adding clips of media items to playlists
      • Edit, re-order and move playlist items to other playlists
      • Create public or private playlists
  • Content ingest API
  • Access control enhancements:
    • IP based access control

    • Leases for access control (Start/end dates for user and group access on items)

  • Accessibility phase 2 
    • Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
  • Section labels able to be searched
  • 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.